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Images of Power: Balinese Paintings Made for Gregory Bateson ...

Images of Power: Balinese Paintings Made for Gregory Bateson ...

Hildred Geertz

Images Of Power is a book that will appeal to anyone interested in the arts of Bali and Southeast Asia, Balinese religion and kingship, and issues of meaning in bicultural situations.
Religious Narrative, Cognition and Culture: Image and Word ...

Religious Narrative, Cognition and Culture: Image and Word ...

Armin W. Geertz

Armin W. Geertz Religionis about communication. It is a quintessential tool in harnessing our fundamental drives of sociality and meaningseeking. We have evidently thrived as a species on realizing and materializing our virtual worlds.
There's Only One David Beckham

There's Only One David Beckham

Stafford Hildred

This is the story of one of the most popular men in England - as told by theeople who have met him throughout his brilliant career.
Arise Sir Jamie Oliver: The Biography

Arise Sir Jamie Oliver: The Biography

Stafford Hildred

Here is the intimate story behind the devoted husband and father of two, television celebrity, political animal, and talented chef.
Martin Shaw: The Biography

Martin Shaw: The Biography

Stafford Hildred

Based on a series of interviews and recollections from famous friends, relatives and co-stars of both stage and screen, this is a portrait of the notoriously reluctant but hugely popular star.
Martin Shaw - The Biography

Martin Shaw - The Biography

Stafford Hildred

Based on a series of interviews and recollections from famous friends, relatives and co-stars of both stage and screen, this is a revealing and honest portrait of the notoriously reluctant but hugely popular star.
Sir David Jason - A Life of Laughter

Sir David Jason - A Life of Laughter

Stafford Hildred

David Jason is Britain's best-loved star.
Martin Clunes: The Biography

Martin Clunes: The Biography

Stafford Hildred

Martin Clunes has been a familiar face on British television for almost two decades.
Jamie Oliver: The Biography

Jamie Oliver: The Biography

Stafford Hildred

Jamie Oliver is one of Britain's most popular chef's and personalities.
Roger Daltrey: The biography

Roger Daltrey: The biography

Stafford Hildred

Drawing on interviews with Daltrey himself, as well as his friends and fellow musicians, this is the most complete and revealing biography of one of rock's most powerful and enigmatic personalities.
The Invention of Prophecy: Continuity and Meaning in Hopi ...

The Invention of Prophecy: Continuity and Meaning in Hopi ...

Armin W. Geertz

"Especially effective as a critique and displacement of largely misconceived and widely accepted interpretations of Hopi myth and Hopi political factionalism.
The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays

The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays

Clifford Geertz

In this compilation of essays written over a fifteen-year period, the distinguished anthropologist explains his view of culture and its symbolic dimensions 'One of the most articulate cultural anthropologists of this generation.
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 ...
Textual, Comparative, Sociological, and Cognitive Approaches

Textual, Comparative, Sociological, and Cognitive Approaches

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Introduction by PETER ANTES, ARMIN W. GEERTZ, and RANDI R. WARNE It is particularly fitting at the threshold of a new millennium to reflect back on what has transpired in academic approaches to the study of religion over the last two ...
Cliff: An Intimate Portrait of a Living Legend

Cliff: An Intimate Portrait of a Living Legend

Stafford Hildred

Fifty years ago he was just the boy Harry Webb, performing in a local youth club. Now he is Sir Cliff Richard, the first rock star to be knighted, with a massive international fan base and a top ten hit in each of the last six decades.
Roy Keane: The Biography

Roy Keane: The Biography

Stafford Hildred

This book reveals the inside story of the World Cup fiasco, Keane's glittering career from humble beginnings playing for local Irish clubs, to the glory of captaining Manchester United, plus the inside stories on his life off the pitch.
NVMEN, the Academic Study of Religion, and the IAHR: Past, ...

NVMEN, the Academic Study of Religion, and the IAHR: Past, ...

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One such contribution is the compact and informative contribution (chapter 13) by Armin W. Geertz & Russell T. McCutcheon. Originally an introduction to a collection of papers presented at another IAHR World Congress held outside Europe, ...
The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion

The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion

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In Religious Narrative, Cognition and Culture: Image and Word in the Mind of Narrative, edited by Armin W. Geertz and Jeppe Sinding Jensen. Sheffield: Equinox, 9–29. Genette, Gérard. 1990. Narrative Discourse Revisited. Ithaca, NY: Cornell ...
Who Owns Native Culture?

Who Owns Native Culture?

Michael F. Brown

Drafts of the entire book were evaluated critically by Sylvia Kennick Brown, Clifford Geertz, Robert Jackall, Stuart Kirsch, and William L. Merrill, as well as three anonymous readers for Harvard University Press. Special thanks are due Stuart ...
Origins of Religion, Cognition and Culture

Origins of Religion, Cognition and Culture

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Introduction. Armin. W. Geertz. It has often been said that the origins of religion, cognition and culture are beyond the ken of modern man. And yet, it is the most interesting, challenging and provocative of topics in the natural and human ...
Religious Narrative, Cognition and Culture: Image and Word ...

Religious Narrative, Cognition and Culture: Image and Word ...

Armin W. Geertz

In Syncretism in the Study of Religion, edited by Anita Maria Leopold and Jeppe Sinding Jensen, 160–184. London: Equinox. Berner, Ulrich. 2004. “The Concept of 'Syncretism': An instrument of Historical Insight/Discovery?” In Syncretism in ...
Patterns for America: Modernism and the Concept of Culture

Patterns for America: Modernism and the Concept of Culture

Susan Hegeman

ings of Ruth Benedict (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959), 92; Margaret M. Caffrey, Ruth Benedict: Stranger in this Land (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989), 172–77. 6. Caffrey, Ruth Benedict, 188. Clifford Geertz has recently argued that ...
Winston County, Alabama Cemeteries, Volume 2

Winston County, Alabama Cemeteries, Volume 2

Robin Sterling

Troy Martin Martin, Billy C., 23 Mar 1940 – 29 Mar 1980; SS Hildred B. Martin Martin, Carrye S., 20 Mar 1909 – 8 May 1986; ... SS Billy C. Martin Martin, Jack J., 18 Aug 1934 – 23 Aug 2000; SS Sadie Jeanette Martin Martin, Jeanette Batchelor, ...
Perspectives on Method and Theory in the Study of Religion: ...

Perspectives on Method and Theory in the Study of Religion: ...

International Association for the History of Religions. Congress

Adjunct Proceedings of the XVIIth Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Mexico City, 1995 International Association for the History of Religions. Congress Armin W. Geertz, Russell T. McCutcheon, Scott S. Elliott.

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