"It is common for survivors of ethnic cleansing and even genocide to speak nostalgically about earlier times of intercommunal harmony and brotherhood. After being driven from their Anatolian homelands, Greek Orthodox refugees insisted that they had 'lived well with the Turks', a…
D'après le site Web de l'éd.: Utopian Dreams offers one writer's attempt to retreat from the 'real world' - which is making him emptier and angrier by the day - and seek out the alternatives to modern manners and morality. Instead of cynicism, loneliness and depression, is it po…
"This book examines a group of twelve ancient Egyptian tombs (c. 2300 BCE) in the elite Old Kingdom cemetery of Elephantine at Qubbet el-Hawa in modern Aswan. It develops an interdisciplinary approach to the material--drawing on methods from art history, archaeology, anthropolog…
This volume examines the diversity of networks and communities in the classical and early Hellenistic Greek world, with particular emphasis on those which took shape within and around Athens. In doing so it highlights not only the processes that created, modified, and dissolved …
Contient : One site, many more meanings : the community of Saint-Maurice d'Agaune and its relic collection / Julia M.H Smith, pp. 59-76.
Community translation
by Taibi, Mustapha, Ozolins, Uldis
fromBloomsbury advances in translation
An insightful and engaging exploration of social theory and its role in enacting social change, this unique text demonstrates how the work of social theorists and sociological thinking can be used to develop ideas for alternative societies.
"This book traces a unique story of social theory: one which focuses on its role in offering ideas for alternative societies. In charting this story, Matt Dawson argues that the differences in alternatives offered by social theorists not only demonstrate the diversity in, and va…
"The center of the world : regional writing and the puzzles of place-time" is a study of literary regionalism. It focuses on the fiction of the United States and considers the place of the genre in world literature. Regionalism is usually understood to be a literature bound to t…