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Inspired by the Rhetoric Culture Project, this volume focuses on
the use of imagery, narrative, and cultural schemes to deal with
predicaments that arise during the course of life. The contributors
explore how people muster their resources to understand and deal
with emergencies such as illness, displacement, or genocide. In
dealing with such circumstances, people can develop new rhetorical
forms and, in the process, establish new cultural resources for
succeeding generations. Several of the contributions show how
rhetorical cultural forms can themselves create emergencies. The
contributors bring expertise from a variety of disciplines,
including anthropology and communications studies, underlining the
volume's wider relevance as a reflection on the human condition.
Inspired by the Rhetoric Culture Project, this volume focuses on
the use of imagery, narrative, and cultural schemes to deal with
predicaments that arise during the course of life. The contributors
explore how people muster their resources to understand and deal
with emergencies such as illness, displacement, or genocide. In
dealing with such circumstances, people can develop new rhetorical
forms and, in the process, establish new cultural resources for
succeeding generations. Several of the contributions show how
rhetorical cultural forms can themselves create emergencies. The
contributors bring expertise from a variety of disciplines,
including anthropology and communications studies, underlining the
volume's wider relevance as a reflection on the human condition.
Michael Carrithers guides us through the complex and sometimes conflicting information that Buddhist texts give about the life and teaching of the Buddha. He discusses the social and political background of India in the Buddha's time, and traces the development of his thought. He also assesses the rapid and widespread assimilation of Buddhism and its contemporary relevance.
The Jains have exerted an influence on Indian society and religion
out of proportion with their relatively small numbers. The Assembly
of Listeners: The Jains in Society is the first book to address the
sociology of the Jains and to discuss the notion of the "community"
based on religious affiliation in India. Topics covered include
Jain ideals and identity; women in the Jains community; popular
Jainism; Jain reform and Jain identity in the UK. This collection
is an important theoretical addition to the studies of Indian
society, which has previously focused mainly on caste and class
politics as the fundamental social units. With much recent
fieldwork providing unique information on the ethnography of the
Jains, this study will prove indispensable to any scholar
interested in this little known but highly influential social
group.
The Jains have exerted an influence on Indian society and religion
out of proportion with their relatively small numbers. The Assembly
of Listeners: The Jains in Society is the first book to address the
sociology of the Jains and to discuss the notion of the "community"
based on religious affiliation in India. Topics covered include
Jain ideals and identity; women in the Jains community; popular
Jainism; Jain reform and Jain identity in the UK. This collection
is an important theoretical addition to the studies of Indian
society, which has previously focused mainly on caste and class
politics as the fundamental social units. With much recent
fieldwork providing unique information on the ethnography of the
Jains, this study will prove indispensable to any scholar
interested in this little known but highly influential social
group.
A lecture given by Marcel Mauss in 1938, brings about this compilation of comments on his speculation that notions of the person, rather than being primarily philosophical or psychological, have a complex social and ideological origin. Societies ranging from Ancient Greece, India, and China to modern Africa and Papua New Guinea are discussed.
Why Humans Have Cultures examines three basic questions: what unity
underlies human cultural diversity? What are the origins of that
diversity? How can we understand it? The author argues that it is
the ways in which people interact--rather than technological
advances--that have been of crucial importance in human history. In
this thought-provoking book, Carrithers draws on ancient and
contemporary examples to show how this perspective forms a solid
foundation for the study of culture, society, and history.
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