Author: William R. Pinch
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: india, british, monks, peasants
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1996-06-18
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0520200616
ISBN-13: 9780520200616

In this compelling social history, William R. Pinch tackles one of the most important but most neglected fields of the colonial history of India: the relation between monasticism and caste. The highly original inquiry yields rich insights into the central structure and dynamics of Hindu society--insights that are not only of scholarly but also of great political significance.Perhaps no two images are more associated with rural India than the peasant who labors in an oppressive, inflexible social structure and the ascetic monk who denounces worldly concerns. Pinch argues that, contrary to these

Author: Adela Pinch
Publisher: Stanford University Pre
Keywords: hume, austen, emotion, epistemologies, fits, passion, strange
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1997-03-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0804725489
ISBN-13: 9780804725484

This book contends that when late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writers sought to explain the origins of emotions, they often discovered that their feelings may not really have been their own. It explores the paradoxes of representing feelings in philosophy, aesthetic theory, gender ideology, literature, and popular sentimentality, and it argues that this period’s obsession with sentimental, wayward emotion was inseparable from the dilemmas resulting from attempts to locate the origins of feelings in experience.The book shows how these epistemological dilemmas became gendered by s

Author: Dorothy Pinch
Publisher: Fireside
Keywords: horsemanship, happy
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 1998-12-21
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0684852152
ISBN-13: 9780684852157

For you to enjoy me (and for me to enjoy you, too) there are some important facts about me which you should know before you try to handle or ride me. "I am a Horse. "My name in Latin is Equus. From this name comes the word ’equine’ which means something to do with a horse, and the word ’equestrian,’ which means one who rides a horse." With this, Happy Horsemanship starts you and your child on a most wonderful journey. Told from the point of view of the horse, this little gem introduces every aspect of riding and caring for horses -- from body to mind, from tack to r

Author: Geraldine Pinch
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: traditions, ancient, egypt, goddesses, gods, mythology, guide, egyptian
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2004-04-08
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0195170245
ISBN-13: 9780195170245

From stories of resurrected mummies and thousand-year-old curses to powerful pharaohs and the coveted treasures of the Great Pyramids, ancient Egypt has had an unfaltering grip on the modern imagination. Now, in Egyptian Mythology, Geraldine Pinch offers a comprehensive introduction that untangles the mystery of Egyptian Myth.Spanning Ancient Egyptian culture--from 3200 BC to AD 400--Pinch opens a door to this hidden world and casts light on its often misunderstood belief system. She discusses the nature of myths and the history of Egypt, from the predynastic to the postpharaonic period. She e

Author: Geraldine Pinch
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Keywords: egypt, ancient, magic
Number of Pages: 191
Published: 1994
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0292765592
ISBN-13: 9780292765597

The Egyptians were famous in the ancient world for their knowledge of magic. Religion, medicine, technology, and what we would call magic coexisted without apparent conflict, and it was not unusual for magical and "practical" remedies for illness, for example, to be used side by side. Everyone resorted to magic, from the pharaoh guarding his country with elaborate magical rituals to the expectant mother wearing amulets to safeguard her unborn child. In this book, Geraldine Pinch examines the connections between myth and magic and the deities--such as the goddess Isis, and the protective lion

Author: Geraldine Pinch
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: short, introductions, introduction, egyptian, myth
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2004-07-08
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0192803468
ISBN-13: 9780192803467

Egyptian myths articulated the core values of one of the longest lasting civilizations in history, and myths of deities such as Isis and Osiris influenced contemporary cultures and became part of the Western cultural heritage. Egyptian Mythology: A Very Short Introduction explains the cultural and historical background to the fascinating and complex world of Egyptian myth, with each chapter dealing with a particular theme.To show the variety of source material for Egyptian myth, each chapter features a particular object--such as the obelisk known as Cleopatra’s Needle, a golden statue of

Authors:Trevor Pinch, Richard Swedberg,
Publisher: The MIT Pre
Keywords: technology, science, studies, inside, meets, sociology, material, world, economic, living
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2008-11-30
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0262162520
ISBN-13: 9780262162524

Although social scientists generally agree that technology plays a major role in the economy, economics and technology have yet to be brought together into a coherent framework that is both analytically interesting and empirically oriented. This book draws on the tools of science and technology studies and economic sociology to reconceptualize the intersection of economy and technology, suggesting materiality—the idea that social existence involves not only actors and social relations but also objects—as the theoretical point of convergence.The contributors take up general concerns