Author: Friedrich Max Müller
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Category : Comparative linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Essays on literature, biography, and antiquities
Author: Friedrich Max Müller
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Category : Comparative linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Category : Comparative linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Antiquities
Author: Cynthia Ozick
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0593318838
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
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From one of our most preeminent writers, a tale that captures the shifting meanings of the past and how our experience colors those meanings In Antiquities, Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven elderly trustees of the now-defunct (for thirty-four years) Temple Academy for Boys, is preparing a memoir of his days at the school, intertwined with the troubling distractions of present events. As he navigates, with faltering recall, between the subtle anti-Semitism that pervaded the school's ethos and his fascination with his own family's heritage--in particular, his illustrious cousin, the renowned archaeologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie--he reconstructs the passions of a childhood encounter with the oddly named Ben-Zion Elefantin, a mystifying older pupil who claims descent from Egypt's Elephantine Island. From this seed emerges one of Cynthia Ozick's most wondrous tales, touched by unsettling irony and the elusive flavor of a Kafka parable, and weaving, in her own distinctive voice, myth and mania, history and illusion.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0593318838
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
From one of our most preeminent writers, a tale that captures the shifting meanings of the past and how our experience colors those meanings In Antiquities, Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven elderly trustees of the now-defunct (for thirty-four years) Temple Academy for Boys, is preparing a memoir of his days at the school, intertwined with the troubling distractions of present events. As he navigates, with faltering recall, between the subtle anti-Semitism that pervaded the school's ethos and his fascination with his own family's heritage--in particular, his illustrious cousin, the renowned archaeologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie--he reconstructs the passions of a childhood encounter with the oddly named Ben-Zion Elefantin, a mystifying older pupil who claims descent from Egypt's Elephantine Island. From this seed emerges one of Cynthia Ozick's most wondrous tales, touched by unsettling irony and the elusive flavor of a Kafka parable, and weaving, in her own distinctive voice, myth and mania, history and illusion.
Catalog
Author: Indiana State Library
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Catalog, 1903
Author: Indiana State Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Catalog. Supplement, Oct. 1, 1906
Author: Indiana State Library
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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General Catalogue
Author: Belfast Library and Society for Promoting Knowledge
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Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Languages : en
Pages : 736
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The Scottish Review
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Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Languages : en
Pages : 496
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The Academy
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Confronting the Sacred: Durkheim vindicated through philosophical analysis, ethnography, archaeology, long-range linguistics, and comparative mythology
Author: Wim van Binsbergen
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9078382333
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
With Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912) the soci0logist ?mile Durkheim formulated the most influential social-science theory of religion to date. Pivotal are the paired concepts ?sacred / profane?, the notion of ?collective representations?, and the hypothesis that through such religious symbols, society compels its members to venerate herself i.e. to submit to the social as an irreducible instance in its own right. Having grappled with this Durkheimian inheritance for half a century, the anthropologist of religion and intercultural philosopher Wim van Binsbergen in this book traces his own steps in confront_ing Durkheim's sacred, through theoretical criticism, through ethnographic application (to popular Islam in the segmentary social organisation of the highlands of Northwestern Tunisia), and by state-of-the-art long-range methods of linguistic and comparative mythological analysis. Thus, much to his surprise, he demonstrates the continued validity of Durkheim's insights in religion.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9078382333
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
With Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912) the soci0logist ?mile Durkheim formulated the most influential social-science theory of religion to date. Pivotal are the paired concepts ?sacred / profane?, the notion of ?collective representations?, and the hypothesis that through such religious symbols, society compels its members to venerate herself i.e. to submit to the social as an irreducible instance in its own right. Having grappled with this Durkheimian inheritance for half a century, the anthropologist of religion and intercultural philosopher Wim van Binsbergen in this book traces his own steps in confront_ing Durkheim's sacred, through theoretical criticism, through ethnographic application (to popular Islam in the segmentary social organisation of the highlands of Northwestern Tunisia), and by state-of-the-art long-range methods of linguistic and comparative mythological analysis. Thus, much to his surprise, he demonstrates the continued validity of Durkheim's insights in religion.
The Athenaeum
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 868
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 868
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