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The Future of Diversity: Academic Leaders Reflect on ...

The Future of Diversity: Academic Leaders Reflect on ...

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... Language and Thought (Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987); Bradd Shore, Culture in Mind: Cognition, Culture, and the Problem of Meaning (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996); Bradd Shore,  ...
Being Humans: Anthropological Universality and Particularity ...

Being Humans: Anthropological Universality and Particularity ...

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The Life and Times of a False Dichotomy Bradd Shore I affirm, that If we consult History, both Ancient and Modern, and take a view of what has past in the World, we shall find that Human Nature since the fall of Adam has always been the ...
Foundations for Sociorhetorical Exploration: A Rhetoric of ...

Foundations for Sociorhetorical Exploration: A Rhetoric of ...

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This approach can be found clearly presented in the work of cultural anthropologists like Geertz, stephen tyler, and Bradd shore.17 These individuals are not only heavily indebted to the hermeneutical approach but also to the shift from the ...
Myths and Mythologies: A Reader

Myths and Mythologies: A Reader

Jeppe Sinding Jensen

Bradd Shore is Professor of Anthropology at Emory University in Georgia, USA. He did fieldwork in Western Samoa on kinship and social control. He also published the work Sala'ilua: A Samoan Mystery about ethnopsychology of Polynesia.
Welcome to Middle Age!: (And Other Cultural Fictions)

Welcome to Middle Age!: (And Other Cultural Fictions)

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FOUR Status Reversal: The Coming of Aging in Samoa Bradd Shore It seems apparent that the modern ethnographic record on Samoa, surely among the most frequently scrutinized of anthropology's favored field sites, begins with the ...
Culture in Mind: Cognition, Culture, and the Problem of Meaning

Culture in Mind: Cognition, Culture, and the Problem of Meaning

Bradd Shore

... Like Gilson, Freeman's account of Samoan politics emphasizes the extraordinary power of a ranking chief's pronouncement. For Freeman, decision making in a fono follows strict precedence of rank, with the actual decision in the hands of ...
Sexual Meanings: The Cultural Construction of Gender and ...

Sexual Meanings: The Cultural Construction of Gender and ...

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Sexuality and gender in Samoa: conceptlons and MISSED CONCEPTIONS Bradd Shore Introduction In anthropology, sexuality and gender have emerged as a "problem." More specifically, the issue appears to focus on the feminine, its nature ...
Off the Beaten Path: A Hiking Guide to Vancouver's North Shore

Off the Beaten Path: A Hiking Guide to Vancouver's North Shore

Norman D. Watt

With a total of 31 North Shore hikes (15 in West Vancouver and 16 in North Vancouver), plus two in the Pemberton area, this is the most comprehensive collection of North Shore hiking trails to be found anywhere.
The Farther Shore: A Natural History of Perception, 1798-1984

The Farther Shore: A Natural History of Perception, 1798-1984

Don Gifford

A work of extraordinary erudition and clarity, The Farther Shore shows how technology has transformed civilization, and how it has profoundly altered the ways we perceive virtually everything.
The Other Shore: Plays

The Other Shore: Plays

Xingjian Gao

The Chinese University Press is the first publisher of his work in the English language. Indeed, "The Other Shore" is one of the few works by the author available in English today.
Deep Classics: Rethinking Classical Reception

Deep Classics: Rethinking Classical Reception

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2 The Sigh of Philhellenism* Joshua Billings The paradigmatic scene of philhellenism takes place on or near a shore. The shore could be in the Crimea, or Egypt, or Naxos, or Troy, or Lemnos – any place, indeed, except Greece. There is a ...
Ebony

Ebony

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... ROOM House Party Plan WITH MEALS also available McGUIRE'S LAKE SHORE ACRES Fishing, Swimming. Tennis. 10 miles north of South Haven on U.S. 31, one mile from Glenn Michigan on Lake Shore Rd. Write C. H. or D. F. McGuire, ...
Eddie Shore and that Old-Time Hockey

Eddie Shore and that Old-Time Hockey

C. Michael Hiam

This is an action-packed and full-throated celebration of the "mighty Eddie Shore" — and also of the sport of hockey as it was gloriously played in a bygone age. From the Hardcover edition.
Eddie Shore and That Old-Time Hockey

Eddie Shore and That Old-Time Hockey

C. Michael Hiam

This is an action-packed and full-throated celebration of the "mighty Eddie Shore" — and also of the sport of hockey as it was gloriously played in a bygone age. From the Hardcover edition.
Cottages and Mansions of the Jersey Shore

Cottages and Mansions of the Jersey Shore

Caroline Seebohm

A nostalgic study of the architecture of the New Jersey shore combines personal accounts, historical anecdotes, and photographs that document a wide array of great mansions, quaint cottages, and unusual bungalows of the region.
Joyce Wieland's 'The Far Shore'

Joyce Wieland's 'The Far Shore'

Johanne Sloan

Here, Wieland specialist Johanne Sloan offers a fascinating new perspective on The Far Shore, making it more accessible by discussing Wieland's utopian fusion of art and politics, the importance of landscape within Canadian culture, and the ...
Wild Shore: Exploring Lake Superior by Kayak

Wild Shore: Exploring Lake Superior by Kayak

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Illustrated throughout with the author's striking photos, "Wild Shore" will be a welcome book to those who love the beauty of Lake Superior, to adventures, and to armchair travelers everywhere.
Tartan Tragedy: A Jemima Shore Mystery

Tartan Tragedy: A Jemima Shore Mystery

Antonia Fraser

A Jemima Shore Mystery Antonia Fraser. glimpsed in the Railway Hotel. The image vanished. She went on, 'And then we can talk.' Captain Stuart seemed a harmless enough crank, Scottish style. 'Aye,it willbe a pleasure totalk to you,' said  ...
Genealogies of West Virginia Families

Genealogies of West Virginia Families

West Virginia Historical Society

Wise's Eastern Shore of Virginia is a history of the counties of Accomack and Northampton; however, genealogists will be drawn to the book's numerous references to families prominent on the Eastern Shore and to the extensive lists of early ...
The Long Green Shore: Text Classics

The Long Green Shore: Text Classics

John Hepworth

Written in 1947 but not published until 1995, John Hepworth's debut novel is a gripping account of Australian soldiers fighting in New Guinea at the end of World War II. The product of Hepworth's own experience, The Long Green Shore ...
The Jersey Shore Thrill Killer: Richard Biegenwald

The Jersey Shore Thrill Killer: Richard Biegenwald

John E. O'Rourke

Investigators later linked him to nine murders and convicted him of five. Former New Jersey state trooper John O'Rourke narrates the chilling story of the Jersey Shore Thrill Killer.
Skinny Quilts and Table Runners II: 15 Designs from ...

Skinny Quilts and Table Runners II: 15 Designs from ...

Eleanor Levie

15 Designs from Celebrated Quilters Eleanor Levie. WAKING UP, down the shore by Eleanor Levie Yours truly, this book's editor, loves to sleep in, given. 7 6 PROJECT NAME WAKING UP, DOWN THE SHORE by Eleanor Levie ❇
Stranger on the Shore (Mirabelle Harbor, Book 4)

Stranger on the Shore (Mirabelle Harbor, Book 4)

Marilyn Brant

STRANGER ON THE SHORE is Book 4 in Marilyn Brant's Mirabelle Harbor series, but this story and all of the contemporary romances in this series can be enjoyed as stand-alone novels.
Crimson Shore

Crimson Shore

Douglas Preston

A secret chamber.

who called from an unknown number?