An examination of how concepts of "the savage" facilitated technological approaches to modernist design Attempting to derive aesthetic systems from natural structures of human cognition, designers looked toward the "savage mind"--a way of thinking they associated with a racializ…
"An examination of how concepts of "the savage" facilitated technological approaches to modernist design"--
The foundations of European civilization as we know it today were laid in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. "The faces of the other: Religious rivalry and ethnic encounters" in the Later Roman World traces the roots of the attitudes and argumentation about religious or e…
The foundations of European civilization as we know it today were laid in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. "The faces of the other: Religious rivalry and ethnic encounters" in the Later Roman World traces the roots of the attitudes and argumentation about religious or e…
The foundations of European civilization as we know it today were laid in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. This book traces the roots of the attitudes and argumentation about religious or ethnic otherness in modern Western culture.
The foundations of European civilization as we know it today were laid in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. "The faces of the other: Religious rivalry and ethnic encounters" in the Later Roman World traces the roots of the attitudes and argumentation about religious or e…
Although Greek and Roman authors wrote ethnographic texts describing foreign cultures, ethnography seems to disappear from Byzantine literature after the seventh century C.E.-a perplexing exception for a culture so strongly self-identified with the Roman empire. Yet the Byzantin…
This explores the modes and motivations of Byzantine ethnographic writing, shedding new light on how Byzantines distinguished themselves from foreign cultures.
