A pervasive force that evades easy analysis, globalization has come to represent the export and import of culture, the speed and intensity of which has increased to unprecedented levels in recent years. The Cultures of Globalization presents an international panel of intellectuals who consider the process of globalization as it concerns the transformation of the economic into the cultural and v…
Guerrilla Warfare by the revolutionary Che Guevara has become the guidebook for thousands of guerrilla fighters in various countries around the world. Guevara intended it to be a manual on guerrilla warfare, as inspiration for revolutionary movements in Latin America, Africa and Asia, stressing the need for an underpinning political motivation to guerrilla methods, organisation and supply. Guev…
In this major work, Zygmunt Bauman seeks to classify the meanings of culture. He distinguishes between culture as a concept, culture as a structure and culture as praxis and analyzes the different ways in which culture has been used in each of these settings. For Bauman, culture is a living, changing aspect of human interaction which must be understood and studied as a universal of human life. …
Buku ini menuturkan Tradisi Lisan milik masyarakat Lamaholot, Flores Timur yang tidak banyak dikenal umum. Tradisi Lisan termasuk Khazanah sastra yang penting sebagai bagian utama dari budaya sastra masyarakat. Di sini diungkapkan isi suatu cerita asal-usul yang mengandung maksud legitimasi leluhur dalam hubungan dengan kekuasaan dalam masyarakat itu. Cerita yang dianggap sacral ini memiliki…
Ó Murchú, Diarmuid. The God Who Becomes Redundant. Cork / Dublin, The Mercier Press, 1986. 20.4cm. x 13.8cm. 168 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Out of print. Includes for Example: Homo Religiosus: Origin and Destiny/ How the Religious Story began to Unfold/ The Human Capacity for Belief/ Sacred Dance and Ritual Play/ Cherishing our Sa…
The Manggarai people of eastern Indonesia believe their land can talk, that its appetite demands sacrificial ritual, and that its energy can kill as well as nurture. They tell their children to avoid certain streams and fields and view unusual environmental events as omens of misfortune. Yet, far from being preoccupied with the dangers of this animate landscape, Manggarai people strive to make …
'Certainly one of the most promising theological statements of our time.' --The Christian Century 'Not for the timid, this brilliant book calls for nothing short of the overthrow of patriarchy itself.' --The Village Voice