The Greek Sense of Theatre: Tragedy and Comedy, 3 edition

J Michael Walton, "The Greek Sense of Theatre: Tragedy and Comedy, 3 edition"


English | ISBN: 1138857319, 1138857335 | 2015 | 184 pages | PDF | 2 MB

In this updated and extended edition of The Greek Sense of Theatre, scholar and practitioner J.Michael Walton revises and expands his visual approach to the theatre of classical Athens. From the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides to the old and new comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, he argues that while Greek drama is seen now as a performance-based rather than a strictly literary medium, more attention should still be paid to the nature of stage image and masked acting as part of this conception.

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Guardians of the Transcendent: An Ethnography of a Jain Ascetic Community

Guardians of the Transcendent: An Ethnography of a Jain Ascetic Community (Anthropological Horizons) by Anne Vallely


English | Nov. 30, 2002 | ISBN: 0802035450 | 320 Pages | PDF | 15.49 MB

Itinerant white-robed ascetics represent the highest ethical ideal among the Jains of rural Rajasthan. They renounce family, belongings, and desires in order to lead lives of complete non-violence. In their communities, Jain ascetics play key roles as teachers and exemplars of the truth; they are embodiments of the lokottar – the realm of the transcendent. Based on thirteen months of fieldwork in the town of Ladnun, Rajasthan, India, among a community of Terapanthi Svetambar Jains, this book explores the many facets of what constitutes a moral life within the Terapanthi ascetic community, and examines the central role ascetics play in upholding the Jain moral order. Focussing on the Terapanthi moral universe from the perspective of female renouncers, Vallely considers how Terapanthi Jain women create their own ascetic subjectivities, and how they construct and understand themselves as symbols of renunciation. The first in-depth ethnographic study of this important and influential Jain tradition, this work makes a significant contribution to Jain studies, comparative religion, Indian studies, and the anthropology of South Asian religion.

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Beyond Nature-Nurture: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Bates

Michael Tomasello, Dan Isaac Slobin, "Beyond Nature-Nurture: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Bates"


2004 | pages: 370 | ISBN: 0805850279 | PDF | 20,4 mb