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Review: Hubert Steinke, Irritating Experiments: Haller’S Concept And The European Controversy On Irritability And Sensibility, 1750-90 (Amsterdam And New York, 2005), Andre Wakefield
Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research
Reviewed work: Hubert Steinke. Irritating Experiments: Haller's Concept and the European Controversy on Irritability and Sensibility, 1750-90. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2005. 354 pp. $97.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-420-1852-5.
Natural History And Indigenous Worldviews, Paul Faulstich
Natural History And Indigenous Worldviews, Paul Faulstich
Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research
Beliefs about the relationship between humans and the natural environment are expressed through worldviews. A worldview is a mechanism system or complex of ideas through which the world makes cultural sense. As deeply seated belief systems, worldviews illuminate the ecological priorities and concepts of various peoples.
The (No) Work And (No) Leisure World Of Women In Assi, Banaras, Nita Kumar
The (No) Work And (No) Leisure World Of Women In Assi, Banaras, Nita Kumar
CMC Faculty Publications and Research
In the riverside neighborhood (mohalla) of Assi, in the south of Banaras, families of the following professions are to be found: the preparation and retail of foods such as: milk, sweets, tea, paan, peanuts and snacks; clerical work in offices or shops; private professional work, such as priesthood, teaching, boating, cleaning toilets; and crafts, such as masonry, weaving, making and maintaining jacquard machines, carpentry, and goldsmithy. All this work is done by men in the public sphere. In Banaras, the observable and articulated sphere of activity called "work" (kam) largely exists for men only. Men are …
Remembering Danzig And Reclaiming Gdańsk, Jesse Lorber
Remembering Danzig And Reclaiming Gdańsk, Jesse Lorber
CGU Theses & Dissertations
This thesis will highlight a number of traumatic memories chronologically in the history of this city. The Versailles Conference will be the beginning of the tale of these two cities in the first chapter, Danzig before 1945. The history of the interwar years reveals a severe rift between Poland and Weimar Germany over the Free city of Danzig. German memory would remember the city 's nazification, the invasion by Germany and even the relative safety during the war as traumatic through a general feeling that Nazism had been forced upon German Danzigers, resulting in their own versions of victimhood.