Author: Raymond Federman
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 9780932511317
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This book consists of a set of letters from an unidentified writer to an unidentified recipient. The novel ends mysteriously, and so continues to vibrate in our imagination. To Whom it May Concern will join that short list of books we treasure most deeply, those few statements that remind us of who we are, and of what we are capable.
To Whom it May Concern
Author: Raymond Federman
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 9780932511317
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This book consists of a set of letters from an unidentified writer to an unidentified recipient. The novel ends mysteriously, and so continues to vibrate in our imagination. To Whom it May Concern will join that short list of books we treasure most deeply, those few statements that remind us of who we are, and of what we are capable.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 9780932511317
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This book consists of a set of letters from an unidentified writer to an unidentified recipient. The novel ends mysteriously, and so continues to vibrate in our imagination. To Whom it May Concern will join that short list of books we treasure most deeply, those few statements that remind us of who we are, and of what we are capable.
American Law Reports Annotated
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1620
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1620
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School & Society
Author: James McKeen Cattell
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 848
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School and Society
Author: James McKeen Cattell
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 846
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 846
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The Anthropology of Sibling Relations
Author: E. Alber
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137331232
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Drawing on international case studies, the contributors extrapolate a systematization of the ways in which siblingship is conceived on the basis of shared parentage, shared childhoods, and reciprocal care. They explore what makes these relations worth maintaining and how they contribute to community processes and to material and emotional survival.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137331232
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Drawing on international case studies, the contributors extrapolate a systematization of the ways in which siblingship is conceived on the basis of shared parentage, shared childhoods, and reciprocal care. They explore what makes these relations worth maintaining and how they contribute to community processes and to material and emotional survival.
Getting an Heir
Author: Ann Waltner
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824879953
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The need for heirs in any traditional society is a compelling one. In traditional China, where inheritance and notions of filiality depended on the production of progeny, the need was nearly absolute. As Ann Waltner makes clear in this broadly researched study of adoption in the late Ming and early Ch'ing periods, the getting of an heir was a complex, even paradoxical undertaking. Although adoption involving persons of the same surname was the only arrangement ritually and legally sanctioned in Chinese society, adoption of persons of a different surname was a relatively common practice. Using medical and ritual texts, legal codes, local gazetteers, biography, and fiction, Waltner examines the multiple dimensions of the practice of adoption and identifies not only the dominant ideology prohibiting adoption across surname lines, but also a parallel discourse justifying the practice.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824879953
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The need for heirs in any traditional society is a compelling one. In traditional China, where inheritance and notions of filiality depended on the production of progeny, the need was nearly absolute. As Ann Waltner makes clear in this broadly researched study of adoption in the late Ming and early Ch'ing periods, the getting of an heir was a complex, even paradoxical undertaking. Although adoption involving persons of the same surname was the only arrangement ritually and legally sanctioned in Chinese society, adoption of persons of a different surname was a relatively common practice. Using medical and ritual texts, legal codes, local gazetteers, biography, and fiction, Waltner examines the multiple dimensions of the practice of adoption and identifies not only the dominant ideology prohibiting adoption across surname lines, but also a parallel discourse justifying the practice.
Reprint and Circular Series of the National Research Council
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Category : Research
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Category : Research
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Eda Morton and her cousins, or, School-room days [by L.M.M. Bell].
Author: M. M. Bell
Publisher:
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Category : Cousins
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Publisher:
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Category : Cousins
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Ugliness and Judgment
Author: Timothy Hyde
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691243557
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgment When buildings are deemed ugly, what are the consequences? In Ugliness and Judgment, Timothy Hyde considers the role of aesthetic judgment—and its concern for ugliness—in architectural debates and their resulting social effects across three centuries of British architectural history. From eighteenth-century ideas about Stonehenge to Prince Charles’s opinions about the National Gallery, Hyde uncovers a new story of aesthetic judgment, where arguments about architectural ugliness do not pertain solely to buildings or assessments of style, but intrude into other spheres of civil society. Hyde explores how accidental and willful conditions of ugliness—including the gothic revival Houses of Parliament, the brutalist concrete of the South Bank, and the historicist novelty of Number One Poultry—have been debated in parliamentary committees, courtrooms, and public inquiries. He recounts how architects such as Christopher Wren, John Soane, James Stirling, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe have been summoned by tribunals of aesthetic judgment. With his novel scrutiny of lawsuits for libel, changing paradigms of nuisance law, and conventions of monarchical privilege, he shows how aesthetic judgments have become entangled in wider assessments of art, science, religion, political economy, and the state. Moving beyond superficialities of taste in order to see how architectural improprieties enable architecture to participate in social transformations, Ugliness and Judgment sheds new light on the role of aesthetic measurement in our world.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691243557
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgment When buildings are deemed ugly, what are the consequences? In Ugliness and Judgment, Timothy Hyde considers the role of aesthetic judgment—and its concern for ugliness—in architectural debates and their resulting social effects across three centuries of British architectural history. From eighteenth-century ideas about Stonehenge to Prince Charles’s opinions about the National Gallery, Hyde uncovers a new story of aesthetic judgment, where arguments about architectural ugliness do not pertain solely to buildings or assessments of style, but intrude into other spheres of civil society. Hyde explores how accidental and willful conditions of ugliness—including the gothic revival Houses of Parliament, the brutalist concrete of the South Bank, and the historicist novelty of Number One Poultry—have been debated in parliamentary committees, courtrooms, and public inquiries. He recounts how architects such as Christopher Wren, John Soane, James Stirling, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe have been summoned by tribunals of aesthetic judgment. With his novel scrutiny of lawsuits for libel, changing paradigms of nuisance law, and conventions of monarchical privilege, he shows how aesthetic judgments have become entangled in wider assessments of art, science, religion, political economy, and the state. Moving beyond superficialities of taste in order to see how architectural improprieties enable architecture to participate in social transformations, Ugliness and Judgment sheds new light on the role of aesthetic measurement in our world.
Lexical Reconstruction
Author: Isidore Dyen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521203694
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
In this book, lexical reconstruction is used to provide links between cultural and social anthropology and linguistics in Athapaskan languages and dialects.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521203694
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
In this book, lexical reconstruction is used to provide links between cultural and social anthropology and linguistics in Athapaskan languages and dialects.