This work looks at the tradition and popular appeal of the ancient symbol of the swastika. In a micro-historical investigation, embracing archaeology, symbolic anthropology and the history of art, it shows how the swastika first became connected to a race theory in the 19th cent…
Senatorische Körper in der späten römischen Republik. Der turnende Marius: Körper und Status in Rom und Griechenland ; Die Wertschätzung des alters als Geringschätzung des Körpers ; Die normative Funktion römischer Kleidung ; Piso, Gabinius, und die Ambivalenz aristokratischer K…
Enter an ethnographically surreal work located in a fictive Latin American country: The Magic of the State focuses on the theater of spirit possession at a Spirit Queen's enchanted mountain where the dead - Blacks and Indians, Europe's fetishized others - pass into the bodies of…
Enter an ethnographically surreal work located in a fictive Latin American country: The Magic of the State focuses on the theater of spirit possession at a Spirit Queen's enchanted mountain where the dead - Blacks and Indians, Europe's fetishized others - pass into the bodies of…
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"The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on the subject of their feelin…
"The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on the subject of their feelin…
"The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on the subject of their feelin…
By collectively concentrating on the theme of political symbolism in modern Europe, the con-tributors to this volume have cho-sen to honor a revered teacher and colleague by developing a set of variations on one of his primary scholarly concerns. The essays deal with familiar do…
Looking at the neglexted issue of race and ethnicity brings new perspectives to the study of the ancient world; now, Gary L. Byron's exciting work is the first to classify and offer theoretical insights about the symbolic usages of Egyptians, Ethiopians and Blacks in Christian a…
