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 Margaret Henderson, "Postfeminism in Context: Women, Australian Popular Culture, and the Unsettling of Postfeminism " English | ISBN: 1138894656 | 2019 | 244 pages | PDF | 2 MB Postfeminism in Context studies the representation of women in Australian popular culture over the past three decades to locate postfeminism in a specific time and place.  Xisha Ma, "Popular Religion and Shamanism " English | ISBN: 9004174559 | 2011 | 502 pages | PDF | 4 MB Popular Religion and Shamanism addresses two areas of religion within Chinese society; the lay teachings that Chinese scholars term folk or "popular" religion, and shamanism. Each area represents a distinct tradition of scholarship, and the book is therefore split into two parts. Part I: Popular Religion discusses the evolution of organized lay movements over an arc of ten centuries. Its eight chapters focus on three key points: the arrival and integration of new ideas before the Song dynasty, the coalescence of an intellectual and scriptural tradition during the Ming, and the efflorescence of new organizations during the late Qing.  Pliny the Elder and the Matter of Memory: An Encyclopaedic Workshop by Anna Anguissola English | August 4, 2021 | ISBN: 0367349884 | PDF | 154 pages | 5 MB The Roman official and intellectual Pliny the Elder's Natural History constitutes our primary source on the figural arts in Classical antiquity. Since the Middle Ages, Pliny's encyclopaedia has enraptured the imaginations of its readers with anecdotes and narratives about the lives and accomplishments of the great artists of the Greek past. This book explores the ways in which materials and artistic processes are constructed in Natural History.  Francisco Martínez, "Peripheral Methodologies: Unlearning, Not-knowing and Ethnographic Limits " English | ISBN: 135017307X | 2021 | 198 pages | PDF | 13 MB How does peripherality challenge methodology and theory-making? This book examines how the peripheral can be incorporated into ethnographic research, and reflects on what it means to be on the periphery - ontologically and epistemologically. Starting from the premise that clarity and fixity as ideals of modernity prevent us from approaching that which cannot be easily captured and framed into scientific boundaries, the book argues for remaining on the boundary between the known and the unknown in order to surpass this ethnographic limit. Peripheral Methodologies shows that peripherality is not only to be seen as a marginal condition, but rather as a form of theory-making and practice that incorporates reflexivity and experimentation. Instead of domesticating the peripheral, the authors engage in (and insist on) practicing expertise in reverse, unlearning their tools in order to integrate the empirical and analytical otherwise.  On Old Age: Approaching Death in Antiquity and the Middle Ages By Christian Krötzl, Katariina Mustakallio 2011 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 2503532160 | PDF | 11 MB [center]  Elizabeth Fenton, "Old Canaan in a New World: Native Americans and the Lost Tribes of Israel " English | ISBN: 1479866369 | 2020 | 272 pages | PDF | 13 MB Were indigenous Americans descendants of the lost tribes of Israel?  Kyriaki Topidi, "Normative Pluralism and Human Rights: Social Normativities in Conflict " English | ISBN: 1138056596 | 2018 | 306 pages | PDF | 3 MB The complex legal situations arising from the coexistence of international law, state law, and social and religious norms in different parts of the world often include scenarios of conflict between them. These conflicting norms issued from different categories of 'laws' result in difficulties in describing, identifying and analysing human rights in plural environments.  Isabelle Charleux, "Nomads on Pilgrimage: Mongols on Wutaishan (China), 1800-1940 " English | ISBN: 9004296018 | 2015 | 472 pages | PDF | 10 MB [center]  Moving Objects: A Cultural History of Emotive Design by Damon Taylor English | Sep 17, 2020 | ISBN: 1350088617 | 248 pages | PDF | 24 MB Moving Objects deals with emotive design: designed objects that demand to be engaged with rather than simply used. If postmodernism depended upon ironic distance, and Critical Design is all about questions, then emotive design runs hotter than this, confronting how designers are using feelings in what they make.  Michael Lowy, "Morning Star: Surrealism, Marxism, Anarchism, Situationism, Utopia" English | 2010 | ISBN: 0292723571, 0292718942 | 176 pages | PDF (conv) | 33.5 MB An expanded edition of revered theorist Michael Löwy's Morning Star: Marxism and Surrealism (previously published in French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and Greek), this masterwork collects the author's essays on the ways in which surrealism intersected with a variety of revolutionary political approaches, ranging from utopian ideals to Marxism and situationism. Taking its title from André Breton's essay "Arcane 17," which casts the star as the searing firebrand of rebellion, Löwy's provocative work spans many perspectives. These include surrealist artists who were deeply interested in Marxism and anarchism (Breton among them), as well as Marxists who were deeply interested in surrealism (Walter Benjamin in particular). Probing the dialectics of innovation, diversity, continuity, and unity throughout surrealism's international presence, Morning Star also incorporates analyses of Claude Cahun, Guy Debord, Pierre Naville, José Carlos Mariátegui and others, accompanied by numerous reproductions of surrealist art. An extraordinarily rich collection, Morning Star promises to ignite new dialogues regarding the very nature of dissent. |
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