Allgemeines, Lexika
'Die Schöne und das Biest'
'Faciatis incendio concremari'
'Keine Hungersnot in Afrika' hat keinen besonderen Nachrichtenwert
'My Mother was the Earth. My Father was the Sky.'
'Ocak' und 'Dedelik'
'Wie schön sind deine Zelte, Jakob, deine Wohnungen, Israel!' (Num 24,5)
'Zu einer Zeit, als Bäume und Gräser noch sprechen konnten...'
(Im)migrations, Relations, and Identities
(Im)migrations, Relations, and Identities
(Re)Considering Blackness in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian (Con)Texts
(Re)Considering Blackness in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian (Con)Texts critically interrogates the issue of Blackness in Brazil under the lens of cultural studies - broadly defined to include utterances on transnationalism and cosmopolitanism. From a multidisciplinary perspective, this collection of scholarly articles queries the notions of national and racial identity and ambivalence, through critical analysis of contemporary (mid-twentieth century to the present) Brazilian cultural materiality, including literature, religion, film/video and theatrical production, and cultural anthropological manifestations. The book's purpose is to understand how multiethnic nations, such as Brazil, negotiate issues of Blackness in contemporary contexts. All of the contributing authors are leading Brazilian scholars in the areas of race, gender, theatre, music, literature, film, and religion studies. By concentrating on how these disciplines and ideologies relate to matters concerning Blackness in the construction of identities in Brazil, this book will be of significant value to scholars in the areas of Brazilian studies, Latin American studies, interdisciplinary studies, cultural studies, and African Diaspora studies.
(Re)Considering Blackness in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian (Con)Texts
(Re)Considering Blackness in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian (Con)Texts critically interrogates the issue of Blackness in Brazil under the lens of cultural studies - broadly defined to include utterances on transnationalism and cosmopolitanism. From a multidisciplinary perspective, this collection of scholarly articles queries the notions of national and racial identity and ambivalence, through critical analysis of contemporary (mid-twentieth century to the present) Brazilian cultural materiality, including literature, religion, film/video and theatrical production, and cultural anthropological manifestations. The book's purpose is to understand how multiethnic nations, such as Brazil, negotiate issues of Blackness in contemporary contexts. All of the contributing authors are leading Brazilian scholars in the areas of race, gender, theatre, music, literature, film, and religion studies. By concentrating on how these disciplines and ideologies relate to matters concerning Blackness in the construction of identities in Brazil, this book will be of significant value to scholars in the areas of Brazilian studies, Latin American studies, interdisciplinary studies, cultural studies, and African Diaspora studies.
A Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Cyclic Myths
The cyclic myth is a temporal schema of the unity of man and the cosmos. It identifies man with the periodic becoming and perpetual regeneration in nature, and guarantees personal duration against the flux of time. It has imprints on every sphere of human experience in Chinese and Western cultures. The author first traces the origin, formation, abstraction and presentation of the cyclic myth in Chinese mythology, ritual, philosophy and literature, and confirms that the cyclic ontology is the core of Chinese culture. He then adumbrates the transmutation of the cyclic mentality in the linear eschatology of the Western culture and its impact in literature from Dante, Milton, Defoe, Sterne, Goethe, Shelley and Yeats to Joyce and Beckett. The author concludes with the assertion that the cyclic myth is an informing structure of literary works and an index of cultures.
A Culture of Tough Jews
A New Beginning
A Small Town in Syria
Abfall
Die Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes «Abfall» gehen zurück auf eine interdisziplinäre Vortragsreihe des Collegium generale der Universität Bern im Wintersemester 2001/02. Dabei ist es gelungen, nicht nur Natur- und Technikwissenschaften, sondern auch Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften und die Theologie zu Wort kommen zu lassen. Die gesammelten Arbeiten über Abfall bzw. zur Vermüllung unseres Planeten zeigen in ihrer Zusammenschau nicht nur die historische Tiefe der Problematik und alte wie neue Lösungen und Lösungsansätze, sondern auch Gemeinsamkeiten in den Wissenschaftstraditionen.
Access and use of construction information in institutions in Kenya
The study of housing is intricate and involves different subjects that generate abundant information when harnessed, processed and put together, this information can be beneficial to different public, but more so to different key construction professionals. Housing information was found to be scattered and therefore not easily accessible by those who need it in Nairobi county. This publication attempts to highlight and guide those who need construction information on how housing information in related public institutions can be found and are used by key professionals.
Adaptation et innovation
Africa's Last Romantic
Agricultural Knowledge and Knowledge Systems in Post-Soviet Societies
This volume addresses the crucial role of knowledge and innovation in coping with and adapting to socio-economic and political transformation processes in post-Soviet societies. Unique are the bottom up or micro-sociological and ethnographic perspectives offered by the book on the processes of post-Soviet transformations in Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus. Three thematic fields form the structuring frame: cultures of knowledge production and sharing in agriculture; local governance arrangements and knowledge production; and finally, the present situation of agricultural advisory services development.
Al-Ah¿al - Dichter der Umaiyaden
Alles fließt
An Encyclopedia of American Culture