Author: Michael Friedman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: physics, philosophy, science, relativistic, theories, space, time, foundations
Number of Pages: 385
Published: 1983-01
List price: $41.00
ISBN-10: 0691072396
ISBN-13: 9780691072395

Author: Kristin Thompson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: armor, glass, breaking
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 1988-08-01
List price: $52.50
ISBN-10: 0691014531
ISBN-13: 9780691014531

"Classical works have for us become covered with the glassy armor of familiarity," wrote Victor Shklovsky in 1914. Here Kristin Thompson "defamiliarizes" the reader with eleven different films. Developing the technique formulated in her Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible (Princeton, 1981), she clearly demonstrates the flexibility of the neoformalist approach. She argues that critics often use cut-and-dried methods and choose films that easily fit those methods. Neoformalism, on the other hand, encourages the critic to deal with each film differently and to modify his or her analytical assump

Author: Robert Poulin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: second, parasites, ecology, evolutionary
Number of Pages: 342
Published: 2006-12-11
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0691120846
ISBN-13: 9780691120843

Parasites have evolved independently in numerous animal lineages, and they now make up a considerable proportion of the biodiversity of life. Not only do they impact humans and other animals in fundamental ways, but in recent years they have become a powerful model system for the study of ecology and evolution, with practical applications in disease prevention. Here, in a thoroughly revised and updated edition of his influential earlier work, Robert Poulin provides an evolutionary ecologist’s view of the biology of parasites. He sets forth a comprehensive synthesis of parasite evolutiona

Author: Mircea Eliade
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: vol, lvi, series, bollingen, immortality, freedom, yoga
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 1970-04-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0691017646
ISBN-13: 9780691017648

In this landmark book the renowned scholar of religion Mircea Eliade lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of Yoga, exploring how its guiding principle, that of freedom, involves remaining in the world without letting oneself be exhausted by such "conditionings" as time and history. Drawing on years of study and experience in India, Eliade provides a comprehensive survey of Yoga in theory and practice from its earliest foreshadowings in the Vedas through the twentieth century. The subjects discussed include Patañjali, author of the Yoga-sutras; yogic techniques, such as concentratio

Author: Vincanne Adams
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: sherpas, virtual, snow, tigers
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1995-10-30
List price: $46.00
ISBN-10: 0691001111
ISBN-13: 9780691001111

Sherpas are portrayed by Westerners as heroic mountain guides, or "tigers of the snow," as Buddhist adepts, and as a people in touch with intimate ways of life that seem no longer available in the Western world. In this book, Vincanne Adams explores how attempts to characterize an "authentic" Sherpa are complicated by Western fascination with Sherpas and by the Sherpas’ desires to live up to Western portrayals of them. Noting that diplomatic aides at world summit meetings go by the name "Sherpa," as do a van in the U.K. built for rough terrain and a software product from Silicon Valley,

Authors:Mircea Eliade, Willard R. Trask, Wendy Doniger,
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: bollingen, series, world, mythology, princeton, mythos, archaic, techniques, ecstasy, shamanism
Number of Pages: 648
Published: 2004-01-19
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0691119422
ISBN-13: 9780691119427

First published in 1951, Shamanism soon became the standard work in the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. Writing as the founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Romanian émigré--scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) surveys the practice of Shamanism over two and a half millennia of human history, moving from the Shamanic traditions of Siberia and Central Asia--where Shamanism was first observed--to North and South America, Indonesia, Tibet, China, and beyond. In this authoritative survey, Eliade illuminates the magico-religious life of societies that give prima

Author: Olav Velthuis
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: prices, princeton, studies, sociology, art, cultural, contemporary, symbolic, meanings, market, talking
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-07-05
List price: $52.50
ISBN-10: 0691121664
ISBN-13: 9780691121666

How do dealers price contemporary art in a world where objective criteria seem absent? Talking Prices is the first book to examine this question from a sociological perspective. On the basis of a wide range of qualitative and quantitative data, including interviews with art dealers in New York and Amsterdam, Olav Velthuis shows how contemporary art galleries juggle the contradictory logics of art and economics. In doing so, they rely on a highly ritualized business repertoire. For instance, a sharp distinction between a gallery’s museumlike front space and its businesslike back space saf