A Material Life

Author : Michael Brian Schiffer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134637249

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The Material Life of Human Beings by Michael Brian Schiffer Pdf

In this ground-breaking work, the distinguished anthropological theorist, Michael Brian Schiffer, presents a profound challenge to the social sciences. Through a broad range of examples, he demonstrates how theories of behaviour and communication have too often ignored the fundamental importance of objects in human life. In The Material Life of Human Beings, the author builds upon the premise that the most important feature of human life is not language but the relationships which take place between people and objects. The author shows that artifacts are involved in all modes of human communication - be they visual, auditory or tactile. By creatively folding elements of postmodernist thought into a scientific framework, he creates new concepts and models for understanding and analysing communication and behavior. Challenging established theories within the social sciences, Michael Brian Schiffer offers a reassessment of the centrality of materiality to everyday life.

Author : Teren Sevea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108477185

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Miracles and Material Life by Teren Sevea Pdf

Sevea reveals a universe of miracle-workers in Islamic Malaya, connecting the supernatural to material life, socioeconomic activities and production.

Author : Anna Gatmon, PhD
Publisher : She Writes Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781631522574

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Living a Spiritual Life in a Material World by Anna Gatmon, PhD Pdf

Living a Spiritual Life in a Material World shows us how spiritual fulfillment and material gratification can enhance each other, and offers tools to integrating them and experiencing the peace, purpose, and prosperity we all seek. Based on her doctoral research, Anna Gatmon developed the Four Keys to Spiritual-Material balance, a unique approach to manifesting a life in which the sacred and the mundane are creatively balanced. Gatmon's message is universal and as relevant to the materially minded as it is to the spiritually oriented, regardless of faith and denomination. It's a practical formula which reveal how to live a spiritually fulfilling life without having to give up material needs and pleasures. THE FOUR KEYS TO SPIRITUAL-MATERIAL BALANCE Key #1: Expansive Presence - Connect with a more enlightened you Key #2: Attentive Listening - Access your inner wisdom Key #3: Inspired Action - Manifest your dreams, goals, and purpose Key #4: Faith-Filled Knowing - Embrace daily miracles BENEFITS OF PRACTICING THE FOUR KEYS • Change your outlook and mood within minutes • Shift from feeling alone to feeling connected • Make intuitive decisions with clarity and confidence • Have a greater impact on daily situations • Experience the excitement of realizing your unique calling • Create ongoing spiritual-material abundance • Lead a balanced and gratifying physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual life.

Author : George W. Boudreau,Margaretta M. Lovell
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Material culture
ISBN : 0271081155

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A Material World by George W. Boudreau,Margaretta M. Lovell Pdf

A collection of essays that examine early American cultural, political, and social history through a material lens, exploring the meanings of objects ranging from artworks and domestic furnishings to Penn's Treaty Tree.

Author : Malcolm Holzman
Publisher : Images Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1864702117

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A Material Life by Malcolm Holzman Pdf

"This book is by New York architect Malcolm Holzman. It explores his relationships with and thoughts about the various building materials he has used throughout his career. Chapters cover glazed tile, glass, metal, wood, clay, materials appropriated from other sources, sustainable materials, and the use of art in architecture. It is heavily illustrated with examples of the various materials."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:943937646

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Capitalism and Material Life, 1400-1800 by Anonim Pdf

Author : AiR
Publisher : AiR Institute of Realization
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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HOW TO LIVE A SPIRITUAL LIFE IN A MATERIAL WORLD? by AiR Pdf

Most of us are lost in the material world and only turn to Spirituality when suffering comes our way. We don't realize that a Spiritual life can liberate us from all misery and suffering. Some people do take the road less traveled, the Spiritual path, and go on a quest to Realize the Truth. But is it even possible to live a Spiritual life in this material world, surrounded by worldly pleasures? Of course, it is! Spirituality is not really about renunciation, but Realization. This book shows the way to that inner voyage of eternal happiness.

Author : Margaret M. Lock,Judith Farquhar
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Body, Human
ISBN : 0822338459

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Beyond the Body Proper by Margaret M. Lock,Judith Farquhar Pdf

A theoretically sophisticated and cross-disciplinary reader in the anthropology of the body.

Author : Bridie McGreavy,Justine Wells,George F. McHendry, Jr.,Samantha Senda-Cook
Publisher : Springer
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319657110

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Tracing Rhetoric and Material Life by Bridie McGreavy,Justine Wells,George F. McHendry, Jr.,Samantha Senda-Cook Pdf

This volume brings together three areas of scholarship and practice: rhetoric, material life, and ecology. The chapters build a multi-layered understanding of material life by gathering scholars from varied theoretical and critical traditions around the common theme of ecology. Emphasizing relationality, connectedness and context, the ecological orientation we build informs both rhetorical theory and environmentalist interventions. Contributors offer practical-theoretical inquiries into several areas - rhetoric’s cosmologies, the trophe, bioregional rhetoric’s, nuclear colonialism, and more - collectively forging new avenues of communication among scholars in environmental communication, communication studies, and rhetoric and composition. This book aims at inspiring and advancing ecological thinking, demonstrating its value for rhetoric and communication as well as for environmental thought and action.

Author : Sandra R. Joshel,Lauren Hackworth Petersen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521191647

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The Material Life of Roman Slaves by Sandra R. Joshel,Lauren Hackworth Petersen Pdf

The Material Life of Roman Slaves retrieves and represents the physical environment and lives of Roman slaves.

Author : Tim Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134787609

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Material Concerns by Tim Jackson Pdf

Material Concerns offers new perspectives on key environmental issues - pollution prevention, ecological economics, limits to sustainability, consumer behaviour and government policy. The first non-technical introduction to preventative environmental management, Material Concerns offers realistic prospects for improving the quality of life.

Author : J. Ritchie Garrison
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1572332069

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Landscape and Material Life in Franklin County, Massachusetts, 1770-1860 by J. Ritchie Garrison Pdf

This innovative study draws on anthropology, archaeology, art history, folklore, and history to illuminate the rich texture of a historic landscape and the complex process by which it changed over a ninety-year period between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Focusing on Franklin County in the upper Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts, a landscape that shares many characteristics with greater New England and with the rural North, Garrison describes the region's town plans, agricultural patterns, dwellings, barns, outbuildings, fences, and transportation networks--and how they changed. He demonstrates that the transformation of this rural landscape was a dynamic process, a complex interaction between tradition and innovation, driven by people's shifting expectations about material life. Garrison's carefully researched, narrative study begins with the lives of individual inhabitants and from them generates a larger picture. Who lived in Franklin County, what they thought and wrote about, what choices they made and what principles they lived by, what buildings and crops they raised and with what tools and methods, how they organized their homes, family life, farms, and workspaces, what they did with their leisure time, how they spent their money or manifested their social status--these are the topics of his investigation. His study provides insight into the changing values that accompanied the transition from an agrarian to an industrial society and raises questions about the nature of tradition and the character of American -folklife.- The Author: J. Ritchie Garrison is associate director of the Museum Studies Program and assistant professor of history at the University of Delaware.

Author : Michael Brian Schiffer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134637256

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The Material Life of Human Beings by Michael Brian Schiffer Pdf

In this ground-breaking work, the distinguished anthropological theorist, Michael Brian Schiffer, presents a profound challenge to the social sciences. Through a broad range of examples, he demonstrates how theories of behaviour and communication have too often ignored the fundamental importance of objects in human life. In The Material Life of Human Beings, the author builds upon the premise that the most important feature of human life is not language but the relationships which take place between people and objects. The author shows that artifacts are involved in all modes of human communication - be they visual, auditory or tactile. By creatively folding elements of postmodernist thought into a scientific framework, he creates new concepts and models for understanding and analysing communication and behavior. Challenging established theories within the social sciences, Michael Brian Schiffer offers a reassessment of the centrality of materiality to everyday life.

Author : Julie Hill
Publisher : Random House
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781409040231

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The Secret Life of Stuff by Julie Hill Pdf

Wouldn't you like: - Products that don't damage the environment? - A better way of life without agonising about your 'footprint'? - To really know your stuff? Climate change? Biofuels? Nuclear power? Landfills? Recycling? Renewable energy? Environmental issues can feel overwhelming. But, in fact, it is simple; it all comes down to one thing - stuff. Our use of the Earth's resources - whether a crisp packet or a cargo ship, a T-shirt or a wind turbine - has an inescapable impact on our future. In The Secret Life of Stuff, Julie Hill uncovers the origins and the true cost of what we use. Her inventory of over-consumption may shock but it is the first step towards overcoming waste. The misuse of stuff is not your fault, it's a product of history. But it is only by understanding what has gone wrong, that everyone - politicians, business people and us as consumers - can create a new and better material world.

Author : Asha Vishnu
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 8170994101

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Material Life of Northern India by Asha Vishnu Pdf