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  • Beyond Nature and Culture

    par Philippe Descola ...
    Traduit par Janet Lloyd ...
    "Gives to anthropological reflection a new starting point and will become the compulsory reference for all our debates in the years to come." —Claude Lévi-Strauss, on the French editionBeyond Nature and Culture has been a major influence in European intellectual life since its French publication in 2005. Here, finally, it is brought to English-language readers. At its heart is a question central ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Portuguese

    An Essential Grammar

    par Amelia P. Hutchinson, Janet Lloyd, Cristina Sousa ...
    Collections series Routledge Essential Grammars
    This new edition of Portuguese: An Essential Grammar is a practical reference guide to the most important aspects of modern European Portuguese. Combining traditional and function-based grammar, the book sets out the complexities of Portuguese in short, readable sections. Explanations are clear, free from jargon and substantiated by examples. Throughout, the emphasis is on Portuguese as used by ... En savoir plus

    $90.99 CAD

  • Pericles of Athens

    par Vincent Azoulay ...
    Traduit par Janet Lloyd ...
    The definitive biography of the legendary "first citizen of Athens"Pericles has the rare distinction of giving his name to an entire period of history, embodying what has often been taken as the golden age of the ancient Greek world. "Periclean" Athens witnessed tumultuous political and military events, and achievements of the highest order in philosophy, drama, poetry, oratory, and architecture. ... En savoir plus

    $30.79 CAD

  • The Chimera Principle

    An Anthropology of Memory and Imagination

    par Carlo Severi ...
    Traduit par Janet Lloyd ...
    Available in English for the first time, anthropologist Carlo Severi’s The Chimera Principle breaks new theoretical ground for the study of ritual, iconographic technologies, and oral traditions among non-literate peoples. Setting himself against a tradition that has long seen the memory of people “without writing”—which relies on such ephemeral records as ornaments, body painting, and masks—as ... En savoir plus

    $26.99 CAD

  • The Tyrant-Slayers of Ancient Athens

    A Tale of Two Statues

    par Vincent Azoulay, Janet Lloyd ...
    This investigation relies on a rash bet: to write the biography of two of the most famous statues in Antiquity, the Tyrannicides. Representing the murderers of the tyrant Hipparchus in full action, these statues erected on the Agora of Athens have been in turn worshipped, outraged, and imitated. They have known hours of glory and moments of hardships, which have transformed them into true icons of ... En savoir plus

    $35.19 CAD

  • The Birth of Critical Thinking in Republican Rome

    par Claudia Moatti ...
    Traduit par Janet Lloyd ...
    In this classic work, now appearing in English for the first time, Claudia Moatti analyses the intellectual transformation that occurred at the end of the Roman Republic in response both to the political crisis and to the city's expansion across the Mediterranean. This was a period of great cultural dynamism and creativity when Roman intellectuals, most notably Cicero and Varro, began to explore ... En savoir plus

    $138.99 CAD

  • The Gardens of Adonis

    Spices in Greek Mythology - Second Edition

    par Marcel Detienne ...
    Traduit par Janet Lloyd ...
    Collections series Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
    Rich with implications for the history of sexuality, gender issues, and patterns of Hellenic literary imagining, Marcel Detienne's landmark book recasts long-standing ideas about the fertility myth of Adonis. The author challenges Sir James Frazer's thesis that the vegetation god Adonis-- whose premature death was mourned by women and whose resurrection marked a joyous occasion--represented the ... En savoir plus

    $60.49 CAD

  • The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece

    par Claude Calame ...
    Traduit par Janet Lloyd ...
    The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece offers the first comprehensive inquiry into the deity of sexual love, a power that permeated daily Greek life. Avoiding Foucault's philosophical paradigm of dominance/submission, Claude Calame uses an anthropological and linguistic approach to re-create indigenous categories of erotic love. He maintains that Eros, the joyful companion of Aphrodite, was a ... En savoir plus

    $42.89 CAD

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    The Archaeology of Ancient Greek Secret Cults

    Modifié par Michael B. Cosmopoulos ...
    Written by an international team of acknowledged experts, this excellent book studies a wide range of contributions and showcases new research on the archaeology, ritual and history of Greek mystery cults.With a lack of written evidence that exists for the mysteries, archaeology has proved central to explaining their significance and this volume is key to understanding a phenomenon central to ... En savoir plus

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Social Construction of Reality

    A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

    par Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann ...
    A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced "a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally" (George Simpson, American Sociological Review ).In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

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  • Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea

    Why the Greeks Matter

    par Thomas Cahill ...
    Collections series The Hinges of History
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization takes us on a journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago.“A triumph of popularization: extraordinarily knowledgeable, informal in tone, amusing, wide ranging, smartly paced.” —The New York Times Book Review**In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $10.99 CAD Maintenant $7.99 CAD

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  • We Have Never Been Modern

    par Bruno Latour ...
    With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno Latour asks, what would the world look like? His book, an anthropology of science, shows us how much of modernity is actually a matter of faith. What does it mean to be modern? What difference does the ... En savoir plus

    $36.29 CAD