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Metaphor and Literalism in Buddhism
Soonil Hwang studies the doctrinal development of nirvana in the Pali Nikaaya and subsequent tradition and compares it with the Chinese aagama and its traditional interpretation. He clarifies early doctrinal developments of Nirvana and traces the word and related terms back to their original metaphorical contexts, elucidating diverse interpretations and doctrinal and philosophical developments …
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- 9780203001936
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- 300
Morality Made Visible: Edward Westermarck’s Moral and Social Theory
While highly respected among evolutionary scholars, the sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher Edward Westermarck is now largely forgotten in the social sciences. This book is the first full study of his moral and social theory, focusing on the key elements of his theory of moral emotions as presented in The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas and summarised in Ethical Relativity. Ex…
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- 9781351169158
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Laying the Foundation : Digital Humanities in Academic Libraries
Laying the Foundation: Digital Humanities in Academic Libraries examines the library's role in the development, implementation, and instruction of successful digital humanities projects. It pays special attention to the critical role of librarians in building sustainable programs. It also examines how libraries can support the use of digital scholarship tools and techniques in undergraduate edu…
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- 9781557537515
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- Charleston Insights in Library, Archival, and Information Sciences
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- 027.709 73 LAY
Law’s anthropology : from ethnography to expert testimony in native title
Anthropologists have been appearing as key expert witnesses in native title claims for over 20 years. Until now, however, there has been no theoretically-informed, detailed investigation of how the expert testimony of anthropologists is formed and how it is received by judges. This book examines the structure and habitus of both the field of anthropology and the juridical field and how they hav…
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- 9781921862434
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- 346.940 432 089 991 5 BUR l
Law as Reproduction and Revolution : An Interconnected History
This sweeping book details the extent to which the legal revolution emanating from the US has transformed legal hierarchies of power across the globe, while also analyzing the conjoined global histories of law and social change from the Middle Ages to today. It examines the global proliferation of large corporate law firms—a US invention—along with US legal education approaches geared towar…
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- 9780520382725
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- 340.09 DEZ l
Latining America : black-brown passages and the coloring of Latino
Claudia Milian proposes that the economies of blackness, brownness, and dark brownness summon a new grammar for Latino/a studies that she names “Latinities.â€_x009d_ Milian argues that this ensnared economy of meaning startles the typical reading practices deployed for brown Latino/a embodiment. Latining America keeps company with and challenges existent models of Latinidad, demanding …
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- 978-0-8203-4436-2
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- 305.868 073 MIL l
Latin American immigration ethics
Following an extended period of near silence on the subject, many social and political philosophers are now treating immigration as a central theme of the discipline. For the first time, this edited volume brings together original works by prominent philosophers writing about immigration ethics from within a Latin American context. Without eschewing relevant conceptual resources derived from Eu…
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- 978-0-8165-4426-4
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- 170.98 LAT
Morality Made Visible: Edward Westermarck’s Moral and Social Theory
While highly respected among evolutionary scholars, the sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher Edward Westermarck is now largely forgotten in the social sciences. This book is the first full study of his moral and social theory, focusing on the key elements of his theory of moral emotions as presented in The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas and summarised in Ethical Relativity. Ex…
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Landscapes of Music in Istanbul : A Cultural Politics of Place and Exclusion
Everyday articulations of music, place, urban politics, and inclusion/exclusion are powerfully present in Istanbul. This volume analyzes landscapes of music, community, and exclusion across a century and a half. An interdisciplinary group of scholars and artists presents four case studies: the rembetika, the music of the Asiks, the Zakir/Alevi tradition, and hip-hop, in Beyoglu, Üsküdar, t…
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- 978-3-8394-3358-4
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- 780 LAN
Landscape Biographies : Geographical, Historical and Archaeological Perspecti…
Landscape Biographies explores the long and complex histories of landscapes from personal and social perspectives. As an essential part of human life-worlds, landscapes have the potential to absorb something of people's lives, works, and thoughts. But landscapes also shape their own life-histories at different timescales, transcending human life-cycles and generating their own temporalities and…
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- 978 90 4851 780 0
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