Anthropological history, from Norbert Elias to the French histoire culturelle and microhistory, conducts a diachronic and developmental study of classic anthropological themes: symbols and ceremonies, body perceptions, folk culture, and the like
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The Conceptual and Anthropological History of Bat Mitzvah
Two Lexical Paths and Two Jewish Identities
Hizky Shoham
Anton Jansson, Kai Vogelsang, and Nele Kuhlmann
); originally published in French by Gallimard in 1999. 7 Ulrich Bröckling, Das unternehmerische Selbst: Soziologie einer Subjektivierungsform (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2007). 8 For example, Pat O’Malley, “Risk and Responsibility,” in Foucault and
Scandinavianism
Mapping the Rise of a New Concept
Ruth Hemstad
concept of the new Swedish Crown Prince Carl Johan, former French Marshal Jean Bernadotte, was that of the “Scandinavian Peninsula,” whose natural borders, it was alleged, would ensure peace in the North. 4 The Swedish Scandinavian policy was a means to
Pivots and Levers
Political Rhetoric around Capitalism in Britain from the 1970s to the Present
Neil Foxlee
the bloody revolution of France,” the Epithet suggests one of the reasons for our being warned; and that, not less clearly, and more forcibly, than if the argument had been stated at length. —Richard Whately Using the example of political debate
Conceptualizing Compassion in Communication for Communication
Emotional Experience in Islamic Sermons (Bengali waʿẓ maḥfils)
Max Stille
for the French “mode,” as it is misleading in the context of emotion research. 103 Let us add that also in the mawlid genre, the women’s “voice” is important, particularly the voice of Ā mina, see Katz, Birth of the Prophet , 125. 104 Gérard Genette
Ekaterina Smirnova
case in English, they are combined in words like the French expérience or the Italian esperienza . Similarly, until the middle of the twentieth century, Russian-speaking people denoted both concepts by the same word опыт (opyt). When and through what
Beyond Metaphor
Corporeal Sociability and the Language of Commerce in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
Joseph D. Bryan
social ranks, depopulate the countryside, and spread dissolute moeurs . Yet, eighteenth-century French and British writers addressed the social ramifications of luxury and commerce through the physical body. In his first two “Discourses,” Jean
Boris Maslov
Literary History as a Challenge to the History of Concepts The history of the concept of liberty has a very familiar plotline. Presaged in Greco-Roman antiquity, triumphantly proclaimed at the time of the American and French Revolutions, and
Modernity, Ḥadātha, and Modernité in the Works of Abdallah Laroui
Conceptual Translation and the Politics of Historicity
Nils Riecken
works of the contemporary Moroccan historian and intellectual Abdallah Laroui (1933– ) and his translation and conceptualization of modernity (Arabic ḥadātha , French modernité ). His take on modernity forms part of a wider history and politics of
Conceptual History of the Near East
The Sattelzeit as a Heuristic Tool for Interrogating the Formation of a Multilayered Modernity
Florian Zemmin and Henning Sievert
networks of communication, established the relation between Arabic and Turkish on the one hand, and, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, French terms on the other. These terms will guide one to alternative terms, insofar as these were