Meaning, Life and Culture : In Conversation with Anna Wierzbicka
Helen Bromhead;Zhengdao Ye;Helen Bromhead;Zhengdao Ye
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Meaning, Life and Culture : In Conversation with Anna Wierzbicka
2020
This book is dedicated to Anna Wierzbicka, one of the most influential and innovative linguists of her generation. Her work spans a number of disciplines, including anthropology, cultural psychology, cognitive science, philosophy and religious studies, as well as her home base of linguistics. She is best known for the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach to meaning—a versatile tool for exploring'big questions'concerning the diversity and universals of people's experience in the world.In this volume, Anna Wierzbicka's former students, old and current colleagues, ‘kindred spirits'and ‘sparring partners'engage with her ideas and diverse body of work. These authors cover topics from the grammar of action verbs to cross-cultural pragmatics, and over 30 languages from around the world are represented.The chapters in Part 1 focus on the NSM approach and cover four themes: lexico-grammatical semantics, cultural keywords, semantics of nouns, and emotion. In Part 2, the contributors connect with a meaning-based approach from their own intellectual perspectives, including syntax, anthropology, cognitive linguistics and sociolinguistics.The deep humanistic perspective, wide-ranging themes and interdisciplinary nature of Wierzbicka's research are reflected in the contributions. The common thread running through all chapters is the primacy of meaning to the understanding of language and culture .
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Linguistic universals - Language and culture - Intercultural communication - SemanticsContent provider:
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Trauma and Identity in Contemporary Irish Culture
Melania Gallego;Melania Gallego
The last two centuries of Irish history have seen great traumas that continue to affec...
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Trauma and Identity in Contemporary Irish Culture
2020; Vol. 00094
The last two centuries of Irish history have seen great traumas that continue to affect Irish society. Through constructing cultural trauma, Irish society can recognize human pain and its source/s and become receptive to the idea of taking significant and responsible measures to remedy it. The intention of this volume is to show the mediating role of the literature and film scholar, the archivist, the social media professional, the historian, the musician, the artist and the poet in identifying Irish cultural trauma past and present, in illuminating Irish national identity (which is shifting so much today), in paying tribute to the memory and suffering of others, in showing how to do things with words and, thus, how concrete action might be taken. Trauma and Identity in Contemporary Irish Culture makes a case for the value of trauma and memory studies as a means of casting new light on the meaning of Irish identity in a number of contemporary Irish cultural practices, and of illuminating present-day attitudes to the past. The critical approaches herein are of a very interdisciplinary nature, since they combine aspects of sociology, philosophy and anthropology, among other fields. This collection is intended to lead readers to reconsider the connections between trauma, Irish cultural memory, identity, famine, diaspora, gender, history, revolution, the Troubles, digital media, literature, film, music and art.
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English literature--Irish authors--History and criticismContent provider:
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Before Official Multiculturalism : Women’s Pluralism in Toronto, 1950s-1970s
Franca Iacovetta;Franca Iacovetta
For almost two decades before Canada officially adopted multiculturalism in 1971, a la...
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Before Official Multiculturalism : Women’s Pluralism in Toronto, 1950s-1970s
2022; Vol. 00053
For almost two decades before Canada officially adopted multiculturalism in 1971, a large network of women and their allies in Toronto were promoting pluralism as a city- and nation-building project. Before Official Multiculturalism assesses women as liberal pluralist advocates and activists, critically examining the key roles they played as community organizers, frontline social workers, and promoters of ethnic festivals. The book explores women's community-based activism in support of a liberal pluralist vision of multiculturalism through an analysis of the International Institute of Metropolitan Toronto, a postwar agency that sought to integrate newcomers into the mainstream and promote cultural diversity. Drawing on the rich records of the Institute, as well as the massive International Institutes collection in Minnesota, the book situates Toronto within its Canadian and North American contexts and addresses the flawed mandate to integrate immigrants and refugees into an increasingly diverse city. Before Official Multiculturalism engages with national and international debates to provide a critical analysis of women's pluralism in Canada.
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Women social workers--Ontario--Toronto--History--20th century - Immigrants--Services for--Ontario--Toronto--History--20th century - Community activists--Ontario--Toronto--History--20th century - Cultural pluralism--Ontario--Toronto--History--20th century - Social integration--Ontario--Toronto--History--20th centuryContent provider:
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Kinship with strangers : adoption and interpretations of kinship in American culture / Judith S. Modell.
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El camino hacia las sociedades inclusivas.
Olivero Guidobono, Sandra;Olivero Guidobono, Sandra
La interdisciplinariedad, es decir la vinculación entre diversas disciplinas sobre un ...
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El camino hacia las sociedades inclusivas.
2023
La interdisciplinariedad, es decir la vinculación entre diversas disciplinas sobre un objeto de estudio, posibilita un conocimiento y una comprensión más acabada e integral de la sociedad y de su complejidad. Este monográfico presenta trabajo de especialistas en diversas ramas de las Ciencias Sociales que tienen como objetivo común debatir sobre las desigualdades, las discriminaciones y la exclusión de diversos colectivos en distintos ámbitos, con el propósito de tender puentes hacia el diálogo constructivo y crítico, ofreciendo mecanismos y herramientas que posibiliten la conformación de sociedades cada vez más inclusivas y seguras.
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Minorities - Group identity - Multiculturalism - Cultural pluralismContent provider:
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Cultural Dynamics in a Globalized World : Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Depok, Indonesia, November 7-9, 2016: Topics in Arts and Humanities
Melani Budianta;Manneke Budiman;Abidin Kusno;Mikihiro Moriyama;Melani Budia...
The book contains essays on current issues in arts and humanities in which peoples and...
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Cultural Dynamics in a Globalized World : Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Depok, Indonesia, November 7-9, 2016: Topics in Arts and Humanities
2020
The book contains essays on current issues in arts and humanities in which peoples and cultures compete as well as collaborate in globalizing the world while maintaining their uniqueness as viewed from cross- and interdisciplinary perspectives. The book covers areas such as literature, cultural studies, archaeology, philosophy, history, language studies, information and literacy studies, and area studies. Asia and the Pacifi c are the particular regions that the conference focuses on as they have become new centers of knowledge production in arts and humanities and, in the future, seem to be able to grow signifi cantly as a major contributor of culture , science and arts to the globalized world. The book will help shed light on what arts and humanities scholars in Asia and the Pacifi c have done in terms of research and knowledge development, as well as the new frontiers of research that have been explored and opening up, which can connect the two regions with the rest of the globe.
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Humanities--Congresses - Globalization--Congresses - Arts and society--CongressesContent provider:
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Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean : Spaces, Mobilities, Imaginaries
Thomas Galoppin;Elodie Guillon;Max Luaces;Asuman Lätzer-Lasar;Sylvain Lebre...
Ancient religions are definitely complex systems of gods, which resist our understandi...
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Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean : Spaces, Mobilities, Imaginaries
2022
Ancient religions are definitely complex systems of gods, which resist our understanding. Divine names provide fundamental keys to gain access to the multiples ways gods were conceived, characterized, and organized. Among the names given to the gods many of them refer to spaces: cities, landscapes, sanctuaries, houses, cosmic elements. They reflect mental maps which need to be explored in order to gain new knowledge on both the structure of the pantheons and the human agency in the cultic dimension. By considering the intersection between naming and mapping, this book opens up new perspectives on how tradition and innovation, appropriation and creation play a role in the making of polytheistic and monotheistic religions.Far from being confined to sanctuaries, in fact, gods dwell in human environments in multiple ways. They move into imaginary spaces and explore the cosmos. By proposing a new and interdiciplinary angle of approach, which involves texts, images, spatial and archeaeological data, this book sheds light on ritual practices and representations of gods in the whole Mediterranean, from Italy to Mesopotamia, from Greece to North Africa and Egypt. Names and spaces enable to better define, differentiate, and connect gods.
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Gods--History--To 1500Content provider:
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Disseminating Jewish Literatures : Knowledge, Research, Curricula
Susanne Zepp;Ruth Fine;Natasha Gordinsky;Kader Konuk;Claudia Olk;Galili Sha...
The multilingualism and polyphony of Jewish literary writing across the globe demands ...
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Disseminating Jewish Literatures : Knowledge, Research, Curricula
2020
The multilingualism and polyphony of Jewish literary writing across the globe demands a collaborative, comparative, and interdisciplinary investigation into questions regarding methods of researching and teaching literatures. Disseminating Jewish Literatures compiles case studies that represent a broad range of epistemological and textual approaches to the curricula and research programs of literature departments in Europe, Israel, and the United States. In doing so, it promotes the integration of Jewish literatures into national philologies and the implementation of comparative, transnational approaches to the reading, teaching, and researching of literatures. Instead of a dichotomizing approach, Disseminating Jewish Literatures endorses an exhaustive, comprehensive conceptualization of the Jewish literary corpus across languages. Included in this volume are essays on literatures in Arabic, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish, as well as essays reflecting the fields of Yiddish philology and Latin American studies. The volume is based on the papers presented at the Gentner Symposium funded by the Minerva Foundation, held at the Freie Universität Berlin in June 2018.
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Jewish literature--History and criticism--Congresses - Multilingualism and literature--CongressesContent provider:
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The Voice of the Past : Oral History
Paul Thompson;Joanna Bornat;Paul Thompson;Joanna Bornat
Oral history gives history back to the people in their own words. And in giving a past...
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The Voice of the Past : Oral History
2017
Oral history gives history back to the people in their own words. And in giving a past, it also helps them towards a future of their own making. Oral history and life stories help to create a truer picture of the past and the changing present, documenting the lives and feelings of all kinds of people, many otherwise hidden from history. It explores personal and family relationships and uncovers the secret cultures of work. It connects public and private experience, and it highlights the experiences of migrating between cultures . At the same time it can bring courage to the old, meaning to communities, and contact between generations. Sometimes it can offer a path for healing divided communities and those with traumatic memories. Without it the history and sociology of our time would be poor and narrow. In this fourth edition of his pioneering work, fully revised with Joanna Bornat, Paul Thompson challenges the accepted myths of historical scholarship. He discusses the reliability of oral evidence in comparison with other sources and considers the social context of its development. He looks at the relationship between memory, the self and identity. He traces oral history through its own past and weighs up the recent achievements of a movement which has become international, with notably strong developments in North America, Europe, Australia, Latin America, South Africa and the Far East, despite resistance from more conservative academics. This new edition combines the classic text of The Voice of the Past with many new sections, including especially the worldwide development of different forms of oral history and the parallel memory boom, as well as discussions of theory in oral history and of memory, trauma and reconciliation. It offers a deep social and historical interpretation along with succinct practical advice on designing and carrying out a project, The Voice of the Past remains an invaluable tool for anyone setting out to use oral history and life stories to construct a more authentic and balanced record of the past and the present.
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History--Methodology - Oral historyContent provider:
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Comprehending Antisemitism Through the Ages: A Historical Perspective
Armin Lange;Kerstin Mayerhofer;Dina Porat;Lawrence H. Schiffman;Armin Lange...
This volume traces the history of antisemitism from antiquity through contemporary man...
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Comprehending Antisemitism Through the Ages: A Historical Perspective
2021; Vol. 00003
This volume traces the history of antisemitism from antiquity through contemporary manifestations of the discrimination of Jews. It documents the religious, sociological, political and economic contexts in which antisemitism thrived and thrives and shows how such circumstances served as support and reinforcement for a curtailment of the Jews'social status. The volume sheds light on historical processes of discrimination and identifies them as a key factor in the contemporary and future fight against antisemitism.
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Antisemitism--HistoryContent provider:
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Great Lives From History : American Women
Trigg, Mary K.;Trigg, Mary K.
Great Lives from History: American Women covers prominent individuals from colonial ti...
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Great Lives From History : American Women
2016
Great Lives from History: American Women covers prominent individuals from colonial times through the present offering a fascinating perspective on important women from U.S. history.
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Women--United States--BiographyContent provider:
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Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World : Approaching Religious Transformations From Archaeology, History and Classics
Valentino Gasparini;Maik Patzelt;Rubina Raja;Anna-Katharina Rieger;Jörg Rüp...
The Lived Ancient Religion project has radically changed perspectives on ancient relig...
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Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World : Approaching Religious Transformations From Archaeology, History and Classics
2020
The Lived Ancient Religion project has radically changed perspectives on ancient religions and their supposedly personal or public character. This volume applies and further develops these methodological tools, new perspectives and new questions. The religious transformations of the Roman Imperial period appear in new light and more nuances by comparative confrontation and the integration of many disciplines. The contributions are written by specialists from a variety of disciplinary contexts (Jewish Studies, Theology, Classics, Early Christian Studies) dealing with the history of religion of the Mediterranean, West-Asian, and European area from the (late) Hellenistic period to the (early) Middle Ages and shaped by their intensive exchange. From the point of view of their respective fields of research, the contributors engage with discourses on agency, embodiment, appropriation and experience. They present innovative research in four fields also of theoretical debate, which are “Experiencing the Religious”, “Switching the Code”, „A Thing Called Body“ and “Commemorating the Moment”.
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Religions - Archaeology and religion - History, Ancient - Religion--History - Religion (General)Content provider:
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The Shavuot Anthology
Philip Goodman;Philip Goodman
Back by popular demand, the classic JPS holiday anthologies remain essential and relev...
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The Shavuot Anthology
2018
Back by popular demand, the classic JPS holiday anthologies remain essential and relevant in our digital age. Unequaled in-depth compilations of classic and contemporary writings, they have long guided rabbis, cantors, educators, and other readers seeking the origins, meanings, and varied celebrations of the Jewish festivals. The Shavuot Anthology elucidates Shavuot's teachings, customs, stories, and lore for a modern generation. In this in-depth compendium, writings by Flavius Josephus and Philo of Alexandria, Talmud and midrash, medieval literature by Moses Maimonides, poetry by Judah Halevi and Abraham ibn Ezra, prose by Abraham Joshua Heschel and Ahad Ha'am, and stories by Martin Buber and Sholom Aleichem appear alongside art and dramatizations, arts and crafts, culinary arts and humor, children's stories and games, and programs and projects.
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Shavuot - Shavuot--Literary collectionsContent provider:
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Approaches to Psychic Trauma : Theory and Practice
Bernd Huppertz;Bernd Huppertz
Approaches to Psychic Trauma: Theory and Practice covers the many developments in the ...
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Approaches to Psychic Trauma : Theory and Practice
2018
Approaches to Psychic Trauma: Theory and Practice covers the many developments in the relatively new field of trauma therapy. It examines the nature of the wide variety of treatments available for traumatized people, describing elements they have in common and those that are specific to each treatment. Originating with the editor's clinical experience working with patients from the former German Democratic Republic, contributors then discuss alternative therapies including ego psychology, self psychology, object-relations theory, attachment theory, psychoanalysis, and art therapies. Case studies further illustrate the application and practice.Approaches to Psychic Trauma presents a diversity of theories and tools centering on trauma and history, and through the microcosm of individual personalities one may have a close-up view of how historical events, as well as personal narratives and reactions to them, consciously and unconsciously affect the individual.
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Psychic trauma--Treatment - Post-traumatic stress disorder--TreatmentContent provider:
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From Dust to Digital : Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme
Maja Kominko;Maja Kominko
Much of world's documentary heritage rests in vulnerable, little-known and often inacc...
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From Dust to Digital : Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme
2015
Much of world's documentary heritage rests in vulnerable, little-known and often inaccessible archives. Many of these archives preserve information that may cast new light on historical phenomena and lead to their reinterpretation. But such rich collections are often at risk of being lost before the history they capture is recorded. This volume celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library, established to document and publish online formerly inaccessible and neglected archives from across the globe. From Dust to Digital showcases the historical significance of the collections identified, catalogued and digitised through the Programme, bringing together articles on 19 of the 244 projects supported since its inception. These contributions demonstrate the range of materials documented — including rock inscriptions, manuscripts, archival records, newspapers, photographs and sound archives — and the wide geographical scope of the Programme. Many of the documents are published here for the first time, illustrating the potential these collections have to further our understanding of history.
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Archival materials--Digitization - Digital preservation - Cultural property--ProtectionContent provider:
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Dictionary of American History
Kutler, Stanley I.;Kutler, Stanley I.
Part of an integrated online collection of primary documents, secondary reference sour...
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Dictionary of American History
2003
Part of an integrated online collection of primary documents, secondary reference sources, and journal articles covering all areas of U.S. history from pre-colonial times to the present day.
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Doing Anthropology in Wartime and War Zones : World War I and the Cultural Sciences in Europe
Reinhard Johler;Christian Marchetti;Monique Scheer;Reinhard Johler;Christia...
World War I marks a well-known turning point in anthropology, and this volume is the f...
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Doing Anthropology in Wartime and War Zones : World War I and the Cultural Sciences in Europe
2010
World War I marks a well-known turning point in anthropology, and this volume is the first to examine the variety of forms it took in Europe. Distinct national traditions emerged and institutes were founded, partly due to collaborations with the military. Researchers in the cultural sciences used war zones to gain access to »informants«: prisoner-of-war and refugee camps, occupied territories, even the front lines. Anthropologists tailored their inquiries to aid the war effort, contributed to interpretations of the war as a »struggle« between »races«, and assessed the »warlike« nature of the Balkan region, whose crises were key to the outbreak of the Great War.
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Anthropology--Research--Europe--20th century - World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects - Ethnology--Research--Europe--20th centuryContent provider:
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Brunvand, Jan Harold;Brunvand, Jan Harold
1998; Vol. 01551
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Folklore--North America--EncyclopediasContent provider:
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Memory and Popular Film
Paul Grainge;Paul Grainge
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) op...
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Memory and Popular Film
2003
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. One of the first books to put memory at the centre of analysis when exploring the relationship between film culture and the past. Provides a sustained, interdisciplinary perspective on memory and film from early cinema to the present, drawing from film studies, American studies and cultural studies. Adopts a resolutely cultural perspective and unlike psychoanalytic or formalist approaches to memory, explores questions of culture , power and identity. Contributes to the growing debate about the status and function of the past in cultural life and discourse, discussing issues of memory in film, and of film as memory. Considers such well known films as Forrest Gump, Pleasantville, and Jackie Brown.
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Motion pictures--Social aspects--United States - Motion pictures--United StatesContent provider:
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Ethics
Roth, John K.;Roth, John K.
A Sense of Place : Birmingham's Black Middle-class Community, 1890-1930
Feldman, Lynne B.;Feldman, Lynne B.
A Sense of Place : Birmingham's Black Middle-class Community, 1890-1930
1999
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African Americans--Alabama--Birmingham--History - Middle class--Alabama--Birmingham--HistoryContent provider:
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Well-Being : Positive Development Across the Life Course
Marc H. Bornstein;Lucy Davidson;Corey L.M. Keyes;Kristin A. Moore;Marc H. B...
This volume derived from original presentations given at a conference in Atlanta, Geor...
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Well-Being : Positive Development Across the Life Course
2003
This volume derived from original presentations given at a conference in Atlanta, Georgia, under the auspices of the Center for Child Well-Being. Scholars, practitioners, public health professionals, and principals in the child development community convened to address a science-based framework for elements of well-being and how the elements might be developed across the life course. Integrating physical, cognitive, and social-emotional domains, Well-Being is the first scientific book to consider well-being holistically. Focusing on a set of core strengths grouped within these three domains, the book also includes a fourth section on developmental strengths through adulthood that broadly examines a continuum of health and development, as well as transitions in well-being. This volume takes a developmental perspective across the life course, describing foundational strengths for well-being--the capacities that can be actively developed, supported, or learned. These foundational strengths--problem solving, emotional regulation, and physical safety--are the positive underpinnings of early child health and development, as well as ongoing well-being across the life course. Working together and blending their respective disciplinary perspectives and expertise, 53 experts in psychology, sociology, child development, and medicine have contributed to the book.
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Child development - Quality of life - Developmental psychology - HealthContent provider:
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The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America
James Darsey;James Darsey
This expansive volume traces the rhetoric of reform across American history, examining...
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The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America
1997
This expansive volume traces the rhetoric of reform across American history, examining such pivotal periods as the American Revolution, slavery, McCarthyism, and today's gay liberation movement. At a time when social movements led by religious leaders, from Louis Farrakhan to Pat Buchanan, are playing a central role in American politics, James Darsey connects this radical tradition with its prophetic roots.Public discourse in the West is derived from the Greek principles of civility, diplomacy, compromise, and negotiation. On this model, radical speech is often taken to be a sympton of social disorder. Not so, contends Darsey, who argues that the rhetoric of reform in America represents the continuation of a tradition separate from the commonly accepted principles of the Greeks. Though the links have gone unrecognized, the American radical tradition stems not from Aristotle, he maintains, but from the prophets of the Hebrew Bible.
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Political oratory--Social aspects--United States - Rhetoric--Social aspects--United States - Radicalism--United States - Prophecy--Social aspects--United States - Social problems--United StatesContent provider:
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The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America
James Darsey;James Darsey
This expansive volume traces the rhetoric of reform across American history, examining...
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The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America
1999
This expansive volume traces the rhetoric of reform across American history, examining such pivotal periods as the American Revolution, slavery, McCarthyism, and today's gay liberation movement. At a time when social movements led by religious leaders, from Louis Farrakhan to Pat Buchanan, are playing a central role in American politics, James Darsey connects this radical tradition with its prophetic roots.Public discourse in the West is derived from the Greek principles of civility, diplomacy, compromise, and negotiation. On this model, radical speech is often taken to be a sympton of social disorder. Not so, contends Darsey, who argues that the rhetoric of reform in America represents the continuation of a tradition separate from the commonly accepted principles of the Greeks. Though the links have gone unrecognized, the American radical tradition stems not from Aristotle, he maintains, but from the prophets of the Hebrew Bible.
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Radicalism--United States - Prophecy--Social aspects--United States - Social problems--United States - Political oratory--Social aspects--United States - English language--United States--Rhetoric - Rhetoric--Social aspects--United StatesContent provider:
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America's Alternative Religions
Timothy Miller;Timothy Miller
This is a single-volume source of reliable information on the most important alternati...
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America's Alternative Religions
1995
This is a single-volume source of reliable information on the most important alternative religions, covering for each such essentials as history, theology, impact on the culture , and current status. The chapters of the book were written by experts who study the movements they have written about.
