Author: Roger Zelazny
Publisher: Hard Case Crime
ISBN: 9780857683632
Category : Art dealers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Published posthumously. Includes an afterword by Trent Zelazny, the author's son (p. 253-256).
The Dead Man's Brother
Author: Roger Zelazny
Publisher: Hard Case Crime
ISBN: 9780857683632
Category : Art dealers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Published posthumously. Includes an afterword by Trent Zelazny, the author's son (p. 253-256).
Publisher: Hard Case Crime
ISBN: 9780857683632
Category : Art dealers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Published posthumously. Includes an afterword by Trent Zelazny, the author's son (p. 253-256).
The Family Herds
Author: P.H. Gulliver
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113624753X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This is Volume VI of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Gender and the Family. Originally published in 1955, this is a study of two pastoral tribes in East Africa, The Jie and the Turkana.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113624753X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This is Volume VI of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Gender and the Family. Originally published in 1955, this is a study of two pastoral tribes in East Africa, The Jie and the Turkana.
Sex, Wives, and Warriors
Author: Philip Francis Esler
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 0227679911
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Suggesting new ways to read Old Testament narrative and giving reasons why we should, Esler, with the aid of Mediterranean anthropology, sets out an approach that helps us to interpret a selection of narratives with a cultural understanding close to that of an ancient Israelite. Interpreted in this way, these narratives allow us to refresh the memory that links us with pivotal stories in Jewish and Christian identities and how they foster our capacity for intercultural understanding.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 0227679911
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Suggesting new ways to read Old Testament narrative and giving reasons why we should, Esler, with the aid of Mediterranean anthropology, sets out an approach that helps us to interpret a selection of narratives with a cultural understanding close to that of an ancient Israelite. Interpreted in this way, these narratives allow us to refresh the memory that links us with pivotal stories in Jewish and Christian identities and how they foster our capacity for intercultural understanding.
The Dead Man's Secret; Or, The Adventures of a Medical Student
Author: Charlotte M. Brame
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Man in Adaptation
Author: Yehudi A. Cohen
Publisher: AldineTransaction
ISBN: 1412852358
Category : Adaptability (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Publisher: AldineTransaction
ISBN: 1412852358
Category : Adaptability (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
The Bedtrick
Author: Wendy Doniger
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226156443
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 631
Book Description
"Somehow I woke up one day and found myself in bed with a stranger." Meant literally or figuratively, this statement describes one of the best-known plots in world mythology and popular storytelling. In a tour that runs from Shakespeare to Hollywood and from Abraham Lincoln to Casanova, the erudite and irrepressible Wendy Doniger shows us the variety, danger, and allure of the "bedtrick," or what it means to wake up with a stranger. The Bedtrick brings together hundreds of stories from all over the world, from the earliest recorded Hindu and Hebrew texts to the latest item in the Weekly World News, to show the hilariously convoluted sexual scrapes that people manage to get themselves into and out of. Here you will find wives who accidentally commit adultery with their own husbands. You will read Lincoln's truly terrible poem about a bedtrick. You will learn that in Hong Kong the film The Crying Game was retitled Oh No! My Girlfriend Has a Penis. And that President Clinton was not the first man to be identified by an idiosyncratic organ. At the bottom of these wonderful stories, ancient myths, and historical anecdotes lie the dynamics of sex and gender, power and identity. Why can't people tell the difference in the dark? Can love always tell the difference between one lover and another? And what kind of truth does sex tell? Funny, sexy, and engaging, The Bedtrick is a masterful work of energetic storytelling and dazzling scholarship. Give it to your spouse and your lover.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226156443
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 631
Book Description
"Somehow I woke up one day and found myself in bed with a stranger." Meant literally or figuratively, this statement describes one of the best-known plots in world mythology and popular storytelling. In a tour that runs from Shakespeare to Hollywood and from Abraham Lincoln to Casanova, the erudite and irrepressible Wendy Doniger shows us the variety, danger, and allure of the "bedtrick," or what it means to wake up with a stranger. The Bedtrick brings together hundreds of stories from all over the world, from the earliest recorded Hindu and Hebrew texts to the latest item in the Weekly World News, to show the hilariously convoluted sexual scrapes that people manage to get themselves into and out of. Here you will find wives who accidentally commit adultery with their own husbands. You will read Lincoln's truly terrible poem about a bedtrick. You will learn that in Hong Kong the film The Crying Game was retitled Oh No! My Girlfriend Has a Penis. And that President Clinton was not the first man to be identified by an idiosyncratic organ. At the bottom of these wonderful stories, ancient myths, and historical anecdotes lie the dynamics of sex and gender, power and identity. Why can't people tell the difference in the dark? Can love always tell the difference between one lover and another? And what kind of truth does sex tell? Funny, sexy, and engaging, The Bedtrick is a masterful work of energetic storytelling and dazzling scholarship. Give it to your spouse and your lover.
Kauṭilya's Arthaśástra
Author: Kauṭalya
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Primera traducción al inglés del libro Arthashastra, antiguo tratado indio sobre arte de gobernar, política económica y estrategia militar, escrito en sánscrito. Probablemente sea el trabajo de varios autores a lo largo de los siglos, Kautilya, también identificado como Vishnugupta y Chanakya, se acredita tradicionalmente como el autor del texto. Este último era un erudito en Takshashila, el maestro y guardián del emperador Chandragupta Maurya. Sin embargo, los estudiosos han cuestionado esta identificación. Compuesto, ampliado y redactado entre el siglo II a. C. y el siglo III d. C., el Arthashastra fue influyente hasta el siglo XII, cuando desapareció. Fue redescubierto en 1904 por R. Shamasastry, quien lo publicó en 1909.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Primera traducción al inglés del libro Arthashastra, antiguo tratado indio sobre arte de gobernar, política económica y estrategia militar, escrito en sánscrito. Probablemente sea el trabajo de varios autores a lo largo de los siglos, Kautilya, también identificado como Vishnugupta y Chanakya, se acredita tradicionalmente como el autor del texto. Este último era un erudito en Takshashila, el maestro y guardián del emperador Chandragupta Maurya. Sin embargo, los estudiosos han cuestionado esta identificación. Compuesto, ampliado y redactado entre el siglo II a. C. y el siglo III d. C., el Arthashastra fue influyente hasta el siglo XII, cuando desapareció. Fue redescubierto en 1904 por R. Shamasastry, quien lo publicó en 1909.
The Lushei Kuki Clans
Author: John Shakespear
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kuki (Indic people)
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kuki (Indic people)
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Sexual Hospitality in the Hebrew Bible
Author: Thalia Gur-Klein
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317545672
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
A woman's life in the ancient world was constrained by her social and economic status. As a daughter she was firmly under the aegis of her father and brothers, who would later allocate the woman to another man as his wife. The power of fathers and husbands extended to using their wives and daughters as sexual gifts to gain favour. Yet, alongside this, woman had certain socio-economic rights notably concerning inheritance and property - which they could use to protect themselves. 'Sexual Hospitality in the Hebrew Bible' examines sacred sexuality and ritual fecundity from patronymic marriage - where the husband claims exclusive rights over his wife's sexuality and attributes her offspring to his line and kin - to metronymic conjugal systems which allow a woman to remain in her home where the male consort joins her and her kin. Ranging across abstention, promiscuity, and holy offering, the sexual lives of women in biblical times reveal not only restriction but also female agency and resistance.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317545672
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
A woman's life in the ancient world was constrained by her social and economic status. As a daughter she was firmly under the aegis of her father and brothers, who would later allocate the woman to another man as his wife. The power of fathers and husbands extended to using their wives and daughters as sexual gifts to gain favour. Yet, alongside this, woman had certain socio-economic rights notably concerning inheritance and property - which they could use to protect themselves. 'Sexual Hospitality in the Hebrew Bible' examines sacred sexuality and ritual fecundity from patronymic marriage - where the husband claims exclusive rights over his wife's sexuality and attributes her offspring to his line and kin - to metronymic conjugal systems which allow a woman to remain in her home where the male consort joins her and her kin. Ranging across abstention, promiscuity, and holy offering, the sexual lives of women in biblical times reveal not only restriction but also female agency and resistance.
A Companion to the Anthropology of Death
Author: Antonius C. G. M. Robben
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119222362
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
A thought-provoking examination of death, dying, and the afterlife Prominent scholars present their most recent work about mortuary rituals, grief and mourning, genocide, cyclical processes of life and death, biomedical developments, and the materiality of human corpses in this unique and illuminating book. Interrogating our most common practices surrounding death, the authors ask such questions as: How does the state wrest away control over the dead from bereaved relatives? Why do many mourners refuse to cut their emotional ties to the dead and nurture lasting bonds? Is death a final condition or can human remains acquire agency? The book is a refreshing reassessment of these issues and practices, a source of theoretical inspiration in the study of death. With contributions written by an international team of experts in their fields, A Companion to the Anthropology of Death is presented in six parts and covers such subjects as: Governing the Dead in Guatemala; After Death Communications (ADCs) in North America; Cryonic Suspension in the Secular Age; Blood and Organ Donation in China; The Fragility of Biomedicine; and more. A Companion to the Anthropology of Death is a comprehensive and accessible volume and an ideal resource for senior undergraduate and graduate students in courses such as Anthropology of Death, Medical Anthropology, Anthropology of Violence, Anthropology of the Body, and Political Anthropology. Written by leading international scholars in their fields A comprehensive survey of the most recent empirical research in the anthropology of death A fundamental critique of the early 20th century founding fathers of the anthropology of death Cross-cultural texts from tribal and industrial societies The collection is of interest to anyone concerned with the consequences of the state and massive violence on life and death
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119222362
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
A thought-provoking examination of death, dying, and the afterlife Prominent scholars present their most recent work about mortuary rituals, grief and mourning, genocide, cyclical processes of life and death, biomedical developments, and the materiality of human corpses in this unique and illuminating book. Interrogating our most common practices surrounding death, the authors ask such questions as: How does the state wrest away control over the dead from bereaved relatives? Why do many mourners refuse to cut their emotional ties to the dead and nurture lasting bonds? Is death a final condition or can human remains acquire agency? The book is a refreshing reassessment of these issues and practices, a source of theoretical inspiration in the study of death. With contributions written by an international team of experts in their fields, A Companion to the Anthropology of Death is presented in six parts and covers such subjects as: Governing the Dead in Guatemala; After Death Communications (ADCs) in North America; Cryonic Suspension in the Secular Age; Blood and Organ Donation in China; The Fragility of Biomedicine; and more. A Companion to the Anthropology of Death is a comprehensive and accessible volume and an ideal resource for senior undergraduate and graduate students in courses such as Anthropology of Death, Medical Anthropology, Anthropology of Violence, Anthropology of the Body, and Political Anthropology. Written by leading international scholars in their fields A comprehensive survey of the most recent empirical research in the anthropology of death A fundamental critique of the early 20th century founding fathers of the anthropology of death Cross-cultural texts from tribal and industrial societies The collection is of interest to anyone concerned with the consequences of the state and massive violence on life and death