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Remapping the Humanities
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Manipulating the Sacred
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The Pretended Asian
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The World of Obituaries
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The Survival of Images
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Remapping the Humanities An innovative collection demonstrating the rich potential for interdisciplinary learning found within the network of university-based humanities centers. |
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Manipulating the Sacred The first art historical study of Yoruba-descended African Brazilian religious art based on an author's long-term participation in and observation of private and public rituals. |
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The Pretended Asian A new look at the amazing career of Frenchman George Psalmanazar, who came to England at the start of the eighteenth century and successfully posed as a native of the island of Formosa. |
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The World of Obituaries It examines obituaries published from 1938 to 1998 in three cultures—Egypt, Iran, and the United States—to analyze how women and men are represented in their death notices and how these representations have changed over time. |
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The Survival of Images In The Survival of Images, Louis Rose offers an engaging exploration of these changes as they occurred in three key areas of inquiry at the turn of the century: art history, classics, and the emerging field of psychoanalysis. |
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Cultural Memory and the Construction of Identity Building on research in the field, their contributions clearly show that cultural memory has become the creative invention of the past in service of both the present and an imagined future. |
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Languages of Visuality A major contribution to the ongoing debate among visualists and verbalists, Languages of Visuality addresses the processes of textualization of images and visualization of texts. |
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Playing by the Rules Apart from the debate as to whether sport and politics should mix in the first place, John Wilson considers the process whereby sport has become a public policy domain, just like energy, health, transportation, and agriculture. |
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Interdisciplinarity Whether the context is a short-ranged instrumentality or a long-range reconceptualization of the way we know and learn, the concept of interdisciplinarity is an important means of solving problems and answering questions that cannot be satisfactorily addr |
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Universities and the Myth of Cultural Decline Herron recommends that universities undertake to promote a new cultural literacy. Based on a collaborative enterprise open to all, its focus is the effective sharing of information and experience. |
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