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How can the concept of nostalgia illuminate the culturally specific
ways in which societies understand the contested relationship
between the past, present, and future? The word nostalgia was
invented in the late seventeenth century to describe the
debilitating effects of homesickness. Now widely defined as a sense
of longing for a lost past, initially it was more closely linked
with dislocation in space. By exploring some of its many textual,
visual and musical manifestations in the tumultuous period between
c. 1350 and 1800, this volume resists the assumption that nostalgia
is a distinctive by-product of modernity. It also forges a fruitful
link between three lively areas of current scholarly enquiry:
memory, temporality, and emotion. The contributors deploy nostalgia
as a tool for investigating perceptions of the passage of time and
historical change, unsettling experiences of migration and
geographical displacement, and the connections between remembering
and forgetting, affect and imagination. Ranging across Europe and
the Atlantic world, they examine the moments, sites and communities
in which it arose, alongside how it was used to express both
criticism and regret about the religious, political, social and
cultural upheavals that shaped the early modern world. They
approach it as a complex mixed feeling that opens a new window into
individual subjectivities and collective mentalities.
First published in 1977, The Russian Peasant 1920 and 1984 is a
significant contribution to history.
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This comprehensive study of farming methods and agrarian
organization in Russia before the time of Peter the Great shifts
the emphasis from the great estates to the basic production unit,
the peasant family farms, and uses archaeological and enthnographic
materials to supplement the documentary evidence. The methods of
production and the farm implements used are described in detail and
Professor Smith argues that features inherent in peasant farming
account for Russian backwardness during this period. Part I
classifies and describes the range of agrarian activities carried
on in Muscovy - arable farming, hayfields, livestock, and gathering
from the forest - and presents a model of a hypothetical farm unit;
Part II examines three regions -Moscow, Toropets and Kazan - which
stretch across central European Russia; and Part III provides a
chapter on the relationship between peasant farming and the state.
"The Self Possessed" is a multifaceted, diachronic study
reconsidering the very nature of religion in South Asia, the
culmination of years of intensive research. Frederick M. Smith
proposes that positive oracular or ecstatic possession is the most
common form of spiritual expression in India, and that it has been
linguistically distinguished from negative, disease-producing
possession for thousands of years.
In South Asia possession has always been broader and more
diverse than in the West, where it has been almost entirely
characterized as "demonic." At best, spirit possession has been
regarded as a medically treatable psychological ailment and at
worst, as a condition that requires exorcism or punishment. In
South (and East) Asia, ecstatic or oracular possession has been
widely practiced throughout history, occupying a position of
respect in early and recent Hinduism and in certain forms of
Buddhism.
Smith analyzes Indic literature from all ages-the earliest Vedic
texts; the Mahabharata; Buddhist, Jain, Yogic, Ayurvedic, and
Tantric texts; Hindu devotional literature; Sanskrit drama and
narrative literature; and more than a hundred ethnographies. He
identifies several forms of possession, including festival,
initiatory, oracular, and devotional, and demonstrates their
multivocality within a wide range of sects and religious
identities.
Possession is common among both men and women and is practiced
by members of all social and caste strata. Smith theorizes on
notions of embodiment, disembodiment, selfhood, personal identity,
and other key issues through the prism of possession, redefining
the relationship between Sanskritic and vernacular culture and
between elite and popular religion. Smith's study is also
comparative, introducing considerable material from Tibet,
classical China, modern America, and elsewhere.
Brilliant and persuasive, "The Self Possessed" provides careful
new translations of rare material and is the most comprehensive
study in any language on this subject.
Written by a well-established teacher of the practice, this guide
to the mind-body therapy Zero Balancing is aimed at bodyworkers and
all complementary medicine practitioners who work with qi. Zero
Balancing uses hands-on conscious touch to address the relationship
between energy and the structures of the body and clears blocks in
energy flow to allow greater postural alignment and vitality.
Rooting the esoteric aspects of qi and energy in a practical
bodywork approach, the book is essential reading for any
practitioner wishing to develop their awareness skills and access
the world of energy medicine.
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