Defining the Fringe of Contemporary Australian Archaeology
This collection draws on the wealth of work currently being undertaken by contemporary archaeologists in Australia, contextualising the fringe dwellers that operate on the periphery of accepted academia.
The relationship of mind to matter still eludes understanding. This volume shows how process philosophy can help. Twelve chapters by prominent specialists discuss the link between process thinking and scientific research on the problems of mind and experience.
Practical Action
This book presents a dynamic model of practical action that challenges the one imposed by the cognitive sciences. Integrating Wittgenstein, pragmatism, and interactionist sociology, it reveals a radically contextual conception of human individual and collective behaviour.
Religion in Early Assam
This volume offers a fresh approach to religion in Early Assam, bringing together archaeology, history, and heritage. It reconstructs the sacred landscape of the Prāgjyotiṣa and Kāmarūpa kingdoms, illustrating implications for Assam’s history and identity.
Art as Adventure
This title gathers insights from artists and art historians about journeys to places and methods of practice that challenge perceived taxonomies. It offers various perspectives on how artist-travelers have embraced and contextualized the experiences encountered on their travels.
Ismail engages with problematic issues arising when translating and interpreting classical Arabic texts, which represent a challenging business for many scholars, especially with regards to religious works.
This publication explores phenomenological structural sociology, specifically the use of phenomenological structuralism in an effort to resolve the structure/agency problematic of the social sciences within structurationist sociological theory.
The Wor(l)ds of Neapolitan Arts and Crafts
The terminologies of the numerous trades examined in this bilingual volume—including pizza and pastry making, and the art of presepio (crib), lute-making and coral dealing, among others—represent an important component of the cultural heritage of Naples and the Campania region.
Essays on Shakespeare
Dahiya highlights new aspects of several of Shakespeare’s plays, such as the role of women and the lower classes in the Roman tragedies. She also emphasizes the role of the early Shakespeare teachers at the first Indian College of Western Education.
Jennings traces the theory of Radical Dependence through its various forms in Berkeley’s philosophical works, showing how this idea unifies Berkeley’s various phases of philosophical development.
The mysterious petroglyphs of Northumberland are more than ancient art. They are a prehistoric star atlas, depicting the night sky 4,500 years ago with stunning accuracy. This book decodes their messages and provides a field guide to interpreting the rocks for yourself.
Poetry and Philosophy as Handlung
Poetry and Philosophy as Handlung offers verbal “doings” where sentences show both complicity and dissonance. Through this tactical sequence, time and place emerge, capturing the era’s peculiar aroma in a text that remains open to its own immediate future.
Our lives are a mosaic of routine practices. But what must we know to accomplish them? This book proposes six bodies of knowledge and skill—from affordances to causes—that explain the hidden architecture of our everyday actions, each introduced in its own chapter.
Making a case for existentialist design ethics, this book reveals an unsettling reality: there is no exit for designers but to accept their freedom and responsibility. It lays the ground for a radical transformation of how we conceive design, ethics, and the role of designers.
“The two most powerful films of Shakespeare plays were made not in Great Britain but in the Soviet Union.” This book reveals director Grigori Kozintsev’s vision as he takes a text from stage to film, offering new ways to view Shakespeare and understand the challenging King Lear.
A Linguistic Analysis of Diplomatic Discourse
D’Acquisto explores the language used by the United Nations Resolutions on the Question of Palestine. She reviews the English verbal system’s role in relation to modality in the institutional language of the UN and the different pragmatic purposes of its normative text types.
Voices of Identities
The contributions here represent the proceedings of the Annual Congress of the Austrian Society for Musicology in 2014, and open multiple perspectives on the identity-relevant implications of every kind of vocal music from the last days of the Habsburg Empire to the present day.
Life Histories of Women Panchayat Sarpanches from Haryana, India
After a constitutional amendment reserved political seats for women in rural Haryana, who are the women who ran for office? What barriers do they face? Ten elected women Sarpanches share their own life stories, reflecting on their journeys and the difference they are making.
Pābūjī: Rajput warrior, celibate ascetic, and hero of a medieval epic still performed in India. This accessible book explores the history and myths behind his exciting, humorous, and miraculous adventures, analysing the legendary tale.
The Solidarity Economics in Ecuador
Solidarity economics introduces an outlook that emphasises the human being, ethics, and the environment. This collection of papers illustrates the pragmatic approach of researchers in Ecuador, providing answers to local problems like corruption, poverty, and income distribution.
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