This historical overview of Mexico explores at every opportunity what it is that makes contemporary Mexico the fascinating and vibrant melange of cultures that it is. Embracing an exuberant array of ethnic diversity including Amerindian, African-Amer...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 14-Nov-2016, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University Press of America, ISBN-13: 9780761868002)
This updated textbook describes the history of Latin America and sets a mood that allows the reader to get a genuine sense of the languages, cultures, and civilizations of this complex and colorful land. Each chapter offers lists of gener...Daugiau...
Four couples from the southwest search for Spanish treasure in northern Mexico. They meet strangers from another world dwelling within four dimensions, Tarahumara people with a magical philosophy of life, local bandits, narcos, sus-picious police and...Daugiau...
The Earth came into existence. Centuries later, a supremely competent Android appeared. Her gods created her, then she re-created herself, created her own world, and liberally populated it with Androids. But she knows not how to administer her marvel...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
The volume draws from Charles S. Peirces pragmatic philosophy, contemporary arts and sciences, and Buddhist philosophy in developing the concepts of interconnectedness, self-organization, and co-participation of the knowing subject with respect to...Daugiau...
Serija: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]
(Išleidimo metai: 17-Aug-2010, Hardback, Leidėjas: De Gruyter Mouton, ISBN-13: 9783110245578)
The volume draws from Charles S. Peirces pragmatic philosophy, contemporary arts and sciences, and Buddhist philosophy in developing the concepts of interconnectedness, self-organization, and co-participation of the knowing subject with respect to c...Daugiau...
The idea of complementing borders is appropriately ambiguous with respect to Latin America. People inhabiting cultural borders do not belong to either of the two sides, yet they are contained within the complementation that emerges when two or m...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Apr-2005, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Markus Wiener Publishing Inc, ISBN-13: 9781558763500)
Offers the authors reflections on Capoeira and Candomblé, combining personal experiences with anecdotes, historical facts, and research as well as religious and philosophical interpretations, both Western and non-Western. The result is informative a...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Apr-2005, Hardback, Leidėjas: Markus Wiener Publishing Inc, ISBN-13: 9781558763494)
Capoeira is a unique music-dance-sport-play activity created by African slaves, and Candomble is a hybrid religion combining Catholic and African beliefs and practices. Together, they make up a coherent form of life in Brazil. This study involves th...Daugiau...
Serija: Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication
(Išleidimo metai: 19-Apr-2003, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9780802037046)
Preferring organic topological knowing to postmodernisms fragmented surface knowing, Merrell (foreign languages and literatures, Purdue U.) presents an intriguing, multidisciplinary case for viewing human sensation and cognition in terms of qual...Daugiau...
Merrell (Latin American literature and culture and semiotic theory, Purdue U.) writes about the diverse Mexican culture for students and others who expect to come into contact with citizens of Mexican and Latin America in the US, and secondarily for...Daugiau...
Explores Mexicos diverse cultures, and the cultures of Latin America including AmerIndian, African-American, European, and ethnically diverse groups, beginning with the conquest and colonization. This historical overview of Mexico focuses on u...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 09-Aug-2000, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang GmbH, ISBN-13: 9783631360293)
This study begins with a meditation on Michel Foucaults small book on Rene Magrittes painting, Ceci nest pas une pipe (1926). It then proceeds to a critique of the notion of textuality and the twentieth century obsession with language....Daugiau...
