Meskipun setiap buku mempunyai penulisnya, informasi dan pendapat yang termuat di dalamnya tidak pernah sepenuhnya bersifat pribadi.Hal itu terjadi bukan hanya saja karena informasi dan pendapat tersusun di atas landasan pengetahuan yang telah di-publik-kan dalam bentuk buku atau media tulis dan tutur lainnya,tetapi juga karena proses perolehan informasi dan perumusan pendapat itu sendiri berla…
Adorno's study of Alban Berg is a unique document. Itself now a part of music history, it is a personal account, by a pre-eminent philosopher and aesthetician, of the life and musical works of his mentor, friend and composition teacher. Shortly after Berg's death in 1935, Adorno contributed several analyses to the first Berg biography. Thirty years later he incorporated these chapters and sever…
The eighteen essays collected in this volume have been selected and ordered to give what Lévi-Strauss terms "a bird's-eye view of the problems of modern ethnology." As representative examples, these essays introduce readers to the methods of structural anthropology while affording a glimpse into the mind of one of the foremost anthropologists of our time. "Structural Anthropology, Volume II…
If we are material beings living in a material world -- and all the scientificevidence suggests that we are -- then we must find existential meaning, if there is such a thing, inthis physical world. We must cast our lot with the natural rather than the supernatural. ManyWesterners with spiritual (but not religious) inclinations are attracted to Buddhism -- almost as akind of moral-mental hygien…
This textbook is a systematic guide to the extensive field of spirituality. Kees Waaijman charts the multiform phenomenon of the spirituality of ordinary people, the great spiritual traditions and the force of counter-movements. From the foundation of this survey he answers questions What exactly is spirituality? What forms can a scholarly approach take? Finally, the book provides methodic acce…
Sixteen women anthropologists analyze the place of women in human societies, treating as problematic certain questions and observations that in the past have been ignored or taken for granted, and consulting the anthropological record for data and theoretical perspectives that will help us to understand and change the quality of women's lives. The first three essays address the question of huma…