Words In Motion

Author : Carol Gluck,Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822391104

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Words in Motion by Carol Gluck,Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Pdf

On the premise that words have the power to make worlds, each essay in this book follows a word as it travels around the globe and across time. Scholars from five disciplines address thirteen societies to highlight the social and political life of words in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The approach is consciously experimental, in that rigorously tracking specific words in specific settings frequently leads in unexpected directions and alters conventional depictions of global modernity. Such words as security in Brazil, responsibility in Japan, community in Thailand, and hijāb in France changed the societies in which they moved even as the words were changed by them. Some words threatened to launch wars, as injury did in imperial Britain’s relations with China in the nineteenth century. Others, such as secularism, worked in silence to agitate for political change in twentieth-century Morocco. Words imposed or imported from abroad could be transformed by those who wielded them to oppose the very powers that first introduced them, as happened in Turkey, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Taken together, this selection of fourteen essays reveals commonality as well as distinctiveness across modern societies, making the world look different from the interdisciplinary and transnational perspective of “words in motion.” Contributors. Mona Abaza, Itty Abraham, Partha Chatterjee, Carol Gluck, Huri Islamoglu, Claudia Koonz, Lydia H. Liu, Driss Maghraoui, Vicente L. Rafael, Craig J. Reynolds, Seteney Shami, Alan Tansman, Kasian Tejapira, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Author : David Olsher,Talbot F. Hamlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0194344592

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Words in Motion by David Olsher,Talbot F. Hamlin Pdf

Words in Motion is a practical writing text in which students learn to enjoy writing as a process of creating, sharing, and revising while working together in pairs and groups. Students are given the opportunity to experience many different types of writing including letters, reviews, and stories.

Author : Carrie B. Sheely
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : English language
ISBN : 9781474795364

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Motion Words by Carrie B. Sheely Pdf

Author : David Olsher,Talbot F. Hamlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:717452729

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Words in Motion by David Olsher,Talbot F. Hamlin Pdf

Author : Cheryl Pallant
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-11
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781476668246

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Writing and the Body in Motion by Cheryl Pallant Pdf

Based upon the author's lifetime practices as a dancer, poet and teacher, this innovative approach to developing body awareness focuses on achieving self-discovery and well-being through movement, mindfulness and writing. Written from a holistic (rather than dualistic) view of the mind-body duality, discussion and exercises draw on dance, psychology, neuroscience and meditation to guide personal exploration and creative expression.

Author : Barbara Tversky
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780465093076

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Mind in Motion by Barbara Tversky Pdf

An eminent psychologist offers a major new theory of human cognition: movement, not language, is the foundation of thought When we try to think about how we think, we can't help but think of words. Indeed, some have called language the stuff of thought. But pictures are remembered far better than words, and describing faces, scenes, and events defies words. Anytime you take a shortcut or play chess or basketball or rearrange your furniture in your mind, you've done something remarkable: abstract thinking without words. In Mind in Motion, psychologist Barbara Tversky shows that spatial cognition isn't just a peripheral aspect of thought, but its very foundation, enabling us to draw meaning from our bodies and their actions in the world. Our actions in real space get turned into mental actions on thought, often spouting spontaneously from our bodies as gestures. Spatial thinking underlies creating and using maps, assembling furniture, devising football strategies, designing airports, understanding the flow of people, traffic, water, and ideas. Spatial thinking even underlies the structure and meaning of language: why we say we push ideas forward or tear them apart, why we're feeling up or have grown far apart. Like Thinking, Fast and Slow before it, Mind in Motion gives us a new way to think about how--and where--thinking takes place.

Author : Kathryn Babayan,Michael Pifer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319728650

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An Armenian Mediterranean by Kathryn Babayan,Michael Pifer Pdf

This book rethinks the Armenian people as significant actors in the context of Mediterranean and global history. Spanning a millennium of cross-cultural interaction and exchange across the Mediterranean world, essays move between connected histories, frontier studies, comparative literature, and discussions of trauma, memory, diaspora, and visual culture. Contributors dismantle narrow, national ways of understanding Armenian literature; propose new frameworks for mapping the post-Ottoman Mediterranean world; and navigate the challenges of writing national history in a globalized age. A century after the Armenian genocide, this book reimagines the borders of the “Armenian,” pointing to a fresh vision for the field of Armenian studies that is omnivorously comparative, deeply interconnected, and rich with possibility.

Author : United States Information Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Documentary films
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127911795

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United States Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Motion Pictures and Filmstrips, Selected and Available for Use Abroad: Education Section, 1958, Education and Productivity by United States Information Agency Pdf

Author : Iratxe Redondo,Juan Manuel Machimbarrena,Joana Jaureguizar,Sebastian Wachs
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832515112

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Risks of “Cyber-relationships” in Adolescents and Young People by Iratxe Redondo,Juan Manuel Machimbarrena,Joana Jaureguizar,Sebastian Wachs Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1118 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : PRNC:32101075720423

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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain. Parliament Pdf

Author : Angus Fletcher
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674263482

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Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare by Angus Fletcher Pdf

Theirs was a world of exploration and experimentation, of movement and growth--and in this, the thinkers of the Renaissance, poets and scientists alike, followed their countrymen into uncharted territory and unthought space. A book that takes us to the very heart of the enterprise of the Renaissance, this closely focused but far-reaching work by the distinguished scholar Angus Fletcher reveals how early modern science and English poetry were in many ways components of one process: discovering and expressing the secrets of motion, whether in the language of mathematics or verse. Throughout his book, Fletcher is concerned with one main crisis of knowledge and perception, and indeed cognition generally: the desire to find a correct theory of motion that could only end with Newton's Laws. Beginning with the achievement of Galileo--which changed the world--Time, Space, and Motion identifies the problem of motion as the central cultural issue of the time, pursued through the poetry of the age, from Marlowe and Shakespeare to Ben Jonson and Milton, negotiated through the limits and the limitless possibilities of language much as it was through the constraints of the physical world.

Author : A. D. Aleksandrov,A. N. Kolmogorov,M. A. Lavrent’ev
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 1120 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-07
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780486157870

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Mathematics by A. D. Aleksandrov,A. N. Kolmogorov,M. A. Lavrent’ev Pdf

Major survey offers comprehensive, coherent discussions of analytic geometry, algebra, differential equations, calculus of variations, functions of a complex variable, prime numbers, linear and non-Euclidean geometry, topology, functional analysis, more. 1963 edition.

Author : Michigan. Legislature. House of Representatives
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1148 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2883699

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Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Michigan by Michigan. Legislature. House of Representatives Pdf

Author : Mrs. Harriette Lucy Robinson Shattuck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Parliamentary law and practice
ISBN : OSU:32435066367418

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Advanced Rules for Large Assemblies by Mrs. Harriette Lucy Robinson Shattuck Pdf

Author : Glen Phelan
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Force and energy
ISBN : 9781450927925

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Bridges: Forces and Motion in Sports by Glen Phelan Pdf

Readers learn about different kinds of force and their roles in individual, team, and water sports.