Hermes' Dilemma and Hamlet's Desire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hermes' Dilemma and Hamlet's Desire write by Vincent Crapanzano. This book was released on 1992. Hermes' Dilemma and Hamlet's Desire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In essays that question how the human sciences, particularly anthropology and psychoanalysis, articulate their fields of study, Crapanzano addresses nothing less than the enormous problem of defining the self in both its individual and collective projections.
Healing Dramas
Healing Dramas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Healing Dramas write by Raquel Romberg. This book was released on 2010-01-01. Healing Dramas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this intimate ethnography, Raquel Romberg seeks to illuminate the performative significance of healing rituals and magic works, their embodied nature, and their effectiveness in transforming the states of participants by focusing on the visible, albeit mostly obscure, ways in which healing and magic rituals proceed. The questions posed by Romberg emerge directly from the particular pragmatics of Puerto Rican brujería (witch-healing), shaped by the eclecticism of its rituals, the heterogeneous character of its participants, and the heterodoxy of its moral economy. What, if any, is the role of belief in magic and healing rituals? How do past discourses on possession enter into the performative experience of ritual in the here and now? Where does belief stop, and where do memories of the flesh begin? While these are questions that philosophers and anthropologists of religion ponder, they acquire a different meaning when asked from an ethnographic perspective. Written in an evocative, empathetic style, with theoretical ruminations about performance, the senses, and imagination woven into stories that highlight the drama and humanity of consultations, this book is an important contribution to the cross-cultural understanding of our capacity to experience the transcendental in corporeal ways.
Advocacy after Bhopal
Advocacy after Bhopal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Advocacy after Bhopal write by Kim Fortun. This book was released on 2009-05-04. Advocacy after Bhopal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 1984 explosion of the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India was undisputedly one of the world's worst industrial disasters. Some have argued that the resulting litigation provided an "innovative model" for dealing with the global distribution of technological risk; others consider the disaster a turning point in environmental legislation; still others argue that Bhopal is what globalization looks like on the ground. Kim Fortun explores these claims by focusing on the dynamics and paradoxes of advocacy in competing power domains. She moves from hospitals in India to meetings with lawyers, corporate executives, and environmental justice activists in the United States to show how the disaster and its effects remain with us. Spiraling outward from the victims' stories, the innovative narrative sheds light on the way advocacy works within a complex global system, calling into question conventional notions of responsibility and ethical conduct. Revealing the hopes and frustrations of advocacy, this moving work also counters the tendency to think of Bhopal as an isolated incident that "can't happen here."
Diasporas and Exiles
Diasporas and Exiles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diasporas and Exiles write by Howard Wettstein. This book was released on 2002-10-07. Diasporas and Exiles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Rarely have I encountered a collection of essays that coheres so well around an overarching theme. This will be an important resource."—Hillel J. Kieval, author of Languages of Community
Death of the Father
Death of the Father - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death of the Father write by John Borneman. This book was released on 2004. Death of the Father available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Death of the Father' is a comparative examination of the crises in symbolic identification and national traumas that have resulted from the defeat and/or implosion of regimes in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and Communist Eastern Europe.
