Authors:Richard A. Shweder, Byron Good,
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: colleagues, geertz, clifford
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2005-03-15
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0226756106
ISBN-13: 9780226756103

Clifford Geertz is the most influential American anthropologist of the past four decades. His writings have defined and given character to the intellectual agenda of a meaning-centered, nonreductive interpretive social science and have provoked much excitement and debate about the nature of human understanding.As part of the American Anthropological Association’s centennial celebration, the executive board sponsored a presidential session honoring Geertz. Clifford Geertz by His Colleagues compiles the twelve speeches given then by a distinguished panel of social scientists along with a c

Authors:Richard A. Shweder, Byron Good,
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: colleagues, geertz, clifford
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2005-03-15
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0226756092
ISBN-13: 9780226756097

Clifford Geertz is the most influential American anthropologist of the past four decades. His writings have defined and given character to the intellectual agenda of a meaning-centered, nonreductive interpretive social science and have provoked much excitement and debate about the nature of human understanding.As part of the American Anthropological Association’s centennial celebration, the executive board sponsored a presidential session honoring Geertz. Clifford Geertz by His Colleagues compiles the twelve speeches given then by a distinguished panel of social scientists along with a c

Authors:Joao Biehl, Byron Good, Arthur Kleinman,
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: subjectivity, ethnographic, studies, investigations
Number of Pages: 477
Published: 2007-04-11
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0520247930
ISBN-13: 9780520247932

This innovative volume is an extended intellectual conversation about the ways personal lives are being undone and remade today. Examining the ethnography of the modern subject, this preeminent group of scholars probes the continuity and diversity of modes of personhood across a range of Western and non-Western societies. Contributors consider what happens to individual subjectivity when stable or imagined environments such as nations and communities are transformed or displaced by free trade economics, terrorism, and war; how new information and medical technologies reshape the relation one h

Authors:Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Paul E. Brodwin, Byron J. G
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: systems, health, amp, medical, care, studies, comparative, human, experience, anthropological, perspective, pain
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1994-11-14
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0520075129
ISBN-13: 9780520075122

Chronic pain challenges the central tenet of biomedicine: that objective knowledge of the human body and mind is possible apart from subjective experience and social context. Sufferers, finding that chronic pain alters every aspect of life, often become frustrated and distrust a profession seemingly unable to explain or effectively treat their illness. The authors of this innovative volume offer an entirely different, ethnographic approach, searching out more effective ways to describe and analyze the human context of pain.How can we analyze a mode of experience that appears to the pain suffer

Author: George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: chillon, dream, prisoner, parisina, siege, corinth, lara
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2004-03-05
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0766185028
ISBN-13: 9780766185029

1900. Byron is regarded as the ultimate Romantic and whose name has become synonymous with brooding passion. Although his private life was considered shocking, his poetry was immensely popular and influential, especially in Europe. Partial Contents: Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte; Lara: A Tale; Hebrew Melodies; The Siege of Corinth; Parisina; Domestic Pieces-1816; Monody on the Death of the Right Honorable R.B. Sheridan; The Prisoner of Chillon; The Dream; and Occasional Pieces 1814-1816. See other Byron works available from Kessinger Publishing.

Author: George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: vision, judgment, faliero, marino, rimini, blues, francesca
Number of Pages: 388
Published: 2004-03-05
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0766184986
ISBN-13: 9780766184985

1900. Byron is regarded as the ultimate Romantic and whose name has become synonymous with brooding passion. Although his private life was considered shocking, his poetry was immensely popular and influential, especially in Europe. Partial Contents: Francesco of Rimini; Stanzas to the Po; Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa; The Blues: A Literary Eclogue; Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: An Historical Tragedy; The Vision of Judgment; and Occasional Pieces. See other Byron works available from Kessinger Publishing.

Author: George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: deformed, transformed, foscari, sardanapalus, earth, heaven
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2004-03-05
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0766184994
ISBN-13: 9780766184992

1900. Byron is regarded as the ultimate Romantic and whose name has become synonymous with brooding passion. Although his private life was considered shocking, his poetry was immensely popular and influential, especially in Europe. Contents: Heaven and Earth, A Mystery; Sardanapalus, A Tragedy; The Two Foscari, An Historical Tragedy; The Deformed Transformed, A Drama. See other Byron works available from Kessinger Publishing.