Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature, Paperback - John D. Niles

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This seminal collection of essays critiquing ethnography as literature is augmented with a new foreword by Kim Fortun, exploring the ways in which ...

Returning to print for the first time since the 1980s, Metamorphoses of Science Fiction is the origin point for decades of literary and theoretical...

Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Chr...

Reducere. DescriptionHomo Americanus is a powerful investigation into the origins and dynamics of Americanism. Drawing from many long-forgotten or suppressed...

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Ground-breaking work of philosophy and Russian Literature: translated into English for the first timePublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Valery Podoro...

Reducere. Author Claude "Paradise" Gray was raised in the South Bronx. He was cofounder of the X Clan, whose 1990 album To the East, Blackwards is an Afrocen...

Publisher: Associated University PressesAuthor(s): John D. HowardNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 1984Dimensions: 166 x 240 x 26Cover type: Ha...

Publisher: Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoAuthor(s): AristotleNumber of pages: 80Publication date: 2006Dimensions: 141 x 216 x 5Cover type: Paperba...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Antonello (University of Pisa, Italy) BoschiIllustration(s): 42 Line drawings, black and white; 76 Halfto...

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Evie is a fourteen-year-old girl who comes to the realization that she is extremely overweight following a number of events in her life that cause ...

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This book is the result of 45 years of part-time research into the Shropshire Speake families. It describes the history of the author's family thro...

Veteran Poetics: British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare, 1790–2015 - Kate McLoughlin

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DescriptionStudy of the future is an important new field in anthropology. Building on a philosophical tradition running from Aristotle through Heid...

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Pilger tackles the injustices and double standards inherent in the politics of globalization and exposes the terrible truth behind the power and we...

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Trevor's monstrous little brother lives in the barn behind the house. The boy's only six years old, but he towers over his older brother, and posse...

Prison literature has played an essential role in generating the "experimental shift" in Arabic literature since the 1960s. Taleghani's groundbreak...

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The Academic Archive: Vol 2; Pretty Purdie: Bernard Purdie; Bob James Calling; Two Brothers With Beats: Mr. Walt and Evil Dee; Old School: First Ph...

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Reducere. John Roemer points out that there are two views of equality of opportunity that are widely held today. The first, which he calls the nondiscriminat...