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path of ethics, only then will we see glory and comforts akin to heaven.In the coming days we will definitely see such an atmosphere. Its foundation stone is being laid down by that means which is called awakening of the worldwide
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globe. We look to have an embedded belief in our own rightness. We do not clearly accept other populace cultures or morals. We demand them to change to be more like us. It is a deliver about which we necessary to be gentle when living in
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. This was one of the factors that enabled religious and political hegemony of Western culture. These were common definitions of differences between these two religions. Edward Freeman, for example, defined the west as progressive, legal
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Globalization, State and Human Rights
bring prosperity, yet oftern simply amounts to plundering and profiteering. Negative effects include cultural assimilation via cultural imperialism, the export of artificail wants, and the destruction or inhibition of authentic local and
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Riding The Waves Of Culture: Understanding Diversity In Global Business
Riding The Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business
As U.S. organizations continue to explore overseas business opportunities, they will be challenged to adapt to the new markets local characteristics, legislation, fiscal regime, sociopolitical environment and cultural system. Riding the Waves of Culture shows international managers how to build the skills, sensitivity, and cultural awareness needed to establish and sustain management effectiveness across cultural borders. This revised edition is updated with new research and statistics.
Rate Points :4.5
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Customer ReviewsA Great Introduction to Intercultural Understanding
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :1
At last from Europe, a clear, concise, readable explanation of the critical dimensions of international management. It places culture in a perspective that allows for applications internationally and within the diversity of single nations.
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :11
This is a shorter, and more condensed version of the authors earlier book Building Cross Cultural Competence. In this book, the authors target managers and business people who are looking to understand cultural differences and how to deal with them in a variety of circumstances and situations. Each chapter begins with am introduction to one of the dimensions, a discussion of how the differences manifest themselves and concludes with tips on how to deal, and how to do business, with the different culture explored in that chapter.
The authors use the same six dimensions of culture introduced in their earlier work (universalism vs. particularism individualism vs communitarism specificity vs. diffusion achieved status vs. ascribed status inner direction vs. outer direction and sequential time vs. synchronous time), but they present these dimensions in a much more accessible and simple manner with more emphasis on what each dimension actually means for business people and how it affects business-related situations.
This book has become the reference for business people and managers in the area of culture. Simple and very well written without losing credibility this is a book that will enlighten and guide any manager in dealing with people from other cultures. While in some ways it is a western-centric book (targeted to Western - especially US - managers), it remains very useful for managers from other cultures since the authors have attempted to keep the examples and discussion culturally neutral.
Essential reading for executives - and politicians
Rating Point :4 Helpful Point :0
This book is deservedly already an international management classic, and should be required reading for anybody who needs to interact with other nationalities and cultures. Hofstede got there first with his classifications of cultural dimensions, but Hampden-Turner & Trompenaars are arguably more compelling, and - more importantly - the book is both highly readable and replete with case studies. It gives American and Northern European business people insights into why their assumptions about what motivates people from other parts of the world are wrong, and why so many US-centered initiatives founder on the rocks of unrecognized cultural differences. Send a copy to the White House!
This is a Book that will Expand your Horizons
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :3
This book was used as the core text in a Master Level course I took in Global Leadership.
It frankly is one of the best books I have ever read which surprises me even, given that it was used in this context from a primarily academic point of view. I did not expect this book to be as readable and as practical as I found it to be.
First, its important to note the books own disclaimer from the earliest pages. This is not a book that assumes nor is it designed to explain to the reader how other cultures think and function to where a reader will come away with a complete grasp of other cultures. Frankly, that is a nearly impossible task. If youre looking for a book on cultural etiquette that will catalog and recount all the possible missteps and misunderstandings that can occur when different cultures meet, this is not your book.
What this book does is break cultural elements into general categories and through the use of an extensive database of about 50,000 managers from around the world, it demonstrates how different cultures, defined primarily by national boundaries, approach universal challenges and compares them by use of a sliding scale between two identified extremes.
This is done for 7 different cultural elements. An example and the first element explored, would be the tendency toward Universalism versus Particularism. Universalism is the tendency of people within a specific culture to appeal to concepts of social justice, absolute values or the like and guide their individual decisions on that basis. This is a fairly high tendency with the United States for example. Particularism, on the other hand, is the tendency to define such choices more on the basis of ones relationship to the people involved rather than principles that apply in every situation. Russia and Venezuela (interestingly enough, both nations which seem perpetually at odds with the US and criticized by Americans for being "corrupt") are examples of nations that score higher in this realm.
While it can be a little dry to read through these elements, the authors do a good job of balancing data and theory with illustrations from real life and a continuing scenario that is returned to several times illustrating these elements in the context of a multi-national firms managers meeting.
The primary value of this book for me has been the ability to suspend and step outside of my own biases, prejudices and stereotypes and from a more objective position, see and understand how different cultures approach situations. When that can be achieved then there is a better chance of coming up with a solution that will make sense and achieve a desired end, than when the noise common to cross-cultural or multi-cultural situations is left to reign free.
The authors are European and management consultants in the field. As a revision to a prior edition, this most recent book has expanded the value of the base concepts by including 2 additional chapters. One looks at South Africa which is a case study of multiculturalism within a single nation and it helps to identify what is no doubt true in other nations as well, namely that even with the measurements and objective evaluations of the earlier chapters, it is still important to do your homework and recognize that cultural nuances exist within the country by other factors such as ethnic group.
Illustrating this point even further is the final chapter which focuses upon the differences found within management task roles in the same firm and the same country. This is a little anticlimatic in some ways as it serves to diminish the value of the generalizations drawn earlier in the book, but it does serve to reinforce the warning of assuming too high a level of familiarity and thus moving from confidence into arrogance.
This book should be required reading not only for the business community moving toward multi-nationalism or transnationalism, but also for diplomatic personnel, world travellers or anyone wanting to raise their cultural IQ and sensitivity to different situations.
5 Stars. Buy this one to keep in your professional reference library.
Bart Breen
Outstanding research results in clear & useful guide
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :2
I was surprised to have my horizons expanded greatly though I had initially expressed skepticism at another book on diversity. On the contrary, this one contains real, practical, appropriate cultural nuances and advice on particulars for many national and cultural traditions. I heartily suggest it as a cornerstone of a modern cultural analysis of the factors that can contribute to enhancing diversity. Even though a bit dated, their research still is valuable. I cannot wait for the next edition!
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As U.S. organizations continue to explore overseas business opportunities, they will be challenged to adapt to the new markets local characteristics, legislation, fiscal regime, sociopolitical environment and cultural system. Riding the Waves of Culture shows international managers how to build the skills, sensitivity, and cultural awareness needed to establish and sustain management effectiveness across cultural borders. This revised edition is updated with new research and statistics.
More than an encyclopedia of cultures and customs, this essential guide:
- Describes successful and failed cross-cultural business transactions of multinational organizations such as AT&T, Heineken, Motorola and Volvo
- Offers techniques managers can use to anticipate and mediate some of the difficult dilemmas of international management
- Uses country-by-country graphs, examples, and other comparisons to illustrate how different cultures regard and respond to various management approaches
- Includes a CD-ROM of graphs, charts, and exercises to help readers evaluate their effectiveness as a global manager
Rate Points :4.5
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Price :$39.95USD
Lowest Price :$21.17USD
Customer ReviewsA Great Introduction to Intercultural Understanding
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :1
At last from Europe, a clear, concise, readable explanation of the critical dimensions of international management. It places culture in a perspective that allows for applications internationally and within the diversity of single nations.
David C. Wigglesworth, Ph.D. is an international/intercultural human resource, management, and organization consultant and president of D.C.W Research Associates International in Kingwood, Texas, USA. He can be reached at dcwigg@earthlink.net
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :11
This is a shorter, and more condensed version of the authors earlier book Building Cross Cultural Competence. In this book, the authors target managers and business people who are looking to understand cultural differences and how to deal with them in a variety of circumstances and situations. Each chapter begins with am introduction to one of the dimensions, a discussion of how the differences manifest themselves and concludes with tips on how to deal, and how to do business, with the different culture explored in that chapter.
The authors use the same six dimensions of culture introduced in their earlier work (universalism vs. particularism individualism vs communitarism specificity vs. diffusion achieved status vs. ascribed status inner direction vs. outer direction and sequential time vs. synchronous time), but they present these dimensions in a much more accessible and simple manner with more emphasis on what each dimension actually means for business people and how it affects business-related situations.
This book has become the reference for business people and managers in the area of culture. Simple and very well written without losing credibility this is a book that will enlighten and guide any manager in dealing with people from other cultures. While in some ways it is a western-centric book (targeted to Western - especially US - managers), it remains very useful for managers from other cultures since the authors have attempted to keep the examples and discussion culturally neutral.
Essential reading for executives - and politicians
Rating Point :4 Helpful Point :0
This book is deservedly already an international management classic, and should be required reading for anybody who needs to interact with other nationalities and cultures. Hofstede got there first with his classifications of cultural dimensions, but Hampden-Turner & Trompenaars are arguably more compelling, and - more importantly - the book is both highly readable and replete with case studies. It gives American and Northern European business people insights into why their assumptions about what motivates people from other parts of the world are wrong, and why so many US-centered initiatives founder on the rocks of unrecognized cultural differences. Send a copy to the White House!
This is a Book that will Expand your Horizons
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :3
This book was used as the core text in a Master Level course I took in Global Leadership.
It frankly is one of the best books I have ever read which surprises me even, given that it was used in this context from a primarily academic point of view. I did not expect this book to be as readable and as practical as I found it to be.
First, its important to note the books own disclaimer from the earliest pages. This is not a book that assumes nor is it designed to explain to the reader how other cultures think and function to where a reader will come away with a complete grasp of other cultures. Frankly, that is a nearly impossible task. If youre looking for a book on cultural etiquette that will catalog and recount all the possible missteps and misunderstandings that can occur when different cultures meet, this is not your book.
What this book does is break cultural elements into general categories and through the use of an extensive database of about 50,000 managers from around the world, it demonstrates how different cultures, defined primarily by national boundaries, approach universal challenges and compares them by use of a sliding scale between two identified extremes.
This is done for 7 different cultural elements. An example and the first element explored, would be the tendency toward Universalism versus Particularism. Universalism is the tendency of people within a specific culture to appeal to concepts of social justice, absolute values or the like and guide their individual decisions on that basis. This is a fairly high tendency with the United States for example. Particularism, on the other hand, is the tendency to define such choices more on the basis of ones relationship to the people involved rather than principles that apply in every situation. Russia and Venezuela (interestingly enough, both nations which seem perpetually at odds with the US and criticized by Americans for being "corrupt") are examples of nations that score higher in this realm.
While it can be a little dry to read through these elements, the authors do a good job of balancing data and theory with illustrations from real life and a continuing scenario that is returned to several times illustrating these elements in the context of a multi-national firms managers meeting.
The primary value of this book for me has been the ability to suspend and step outside of my own biases, prejudices and stereotypes and from a more objective position, see and understand how different cultures approach situations. When that can be achieved then there is a better chance of coming up with a solution that will make sense and achieve a desired end, than when the noise common to cross-cultural or multi-cultural situations is left to reign free.
The authors are European and management consultants in the field. As a revision to a prior edition, this most recent book has expanded the value of the base concepts by including 2 additional chapters. One looks at South Africa which is a case study of multiculturalism within a single nation and it helps to identify what is no doubt true in other nations as well, namely that even with the measurements and objective evaluations of the earlier chapters, it is still important to do your homework and recognize that cultural nuances exist within the country by other factors such as ethnic group.
Illustrating this point even further is the final chapter which focuses upon the differences found within management task roles in the same firm and the same country. This is a little anticlimatic in some ways as it serves to diminish the value of the generalizations drawn earlier in the book, but it does serve to reinforce the warning of assuming too high a level of familiarity and thus moving from confidence into arrogance.
This book should be required reading not only for the business community moving toward multi-nationalism or transnationalism, but also for diplomatic personnel, world travellers or anyone wanting to raise their cultural IQ and sensitivity to different situations.
5 Stars. Buy this one to keep in your professional reference library.
Bart Breen
Outstanding research results in clear & useful guide
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :2
I was surprised to have my horizons expanded greatly though I had initially expressed skepticism at another book on diversity. On the contrary, this one contains real, practical, appropriate cultural nuances and advice on particulars for many national and cultural traditions. I heartily suggest it as a cornerstone of a modern cultural analysis of the factors that can contribute to enhancing diversity. Even though a bit dated, their research still is valuable. I cannot wait for the next edition!
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Difference And Repetition
Difference and Repetition
This brilliant exposition of the critique of identity is a classic in contemporary philosophy and one of Deleuzes most important works. Of fundamental importance to literary critics and philosophers,Difference and Repetition develops two central concepts--pure difference and complex repetition--and shows how the two concepts are related. While difference implies divergence and decentering, repetition is associated with displacement and disguising. Central in initiating the shift in French thought away from Hegel and Marx toward Nietzsche and Freud, Difference and Repetition moves deftly to establish a fundamental critique of Western metaphysics.
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Customer ReviewsThe brilliance of Deleuze
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :14
Difference and Repetition is the most brilliant work of philosophy I have read. However the book does rely on a huge amount of background knowledge which took my over a year and a half to compile. My advice for any reader attempting to read D&R is to read Manuel DeLandas Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy. All of the obscure references to mathematical and scientific concepts are throuroughly explicated in DeLandas book. I can honestly say that if it were not for Intensice Philsosophy and Virtual Science I would not have been able to comprehend the key philosophical concepts deployed in D&R such as singlarities as pre-individual attractors and the nature of the virtual.
D&R is a work which may require intense effort from the reader, as none of the concepts are adequately explained by deleuze himself. But the challenge is most rewarding as the book gives you the concepts to think about a world without pre established identities and stabilities. Only now is science beginning to comprehend the universe as inherently random and dynamical which gives rise to complex self organizing systems.
A classic of modern philosophy and a brilliant achievement by an author who thought outside all contemporary philosophical trends to overthrow the father of philosophy: Plato.
Much worth the effort, if a 19 year old Undergraduate can make sense of this book then anyone with enough time, patience and conceptualisation should be able to master this brilliant work.
Deleuze wasnt messing around here, seriously.
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :44
Many people consider this to be the cornerstone of Deleuzes body of work, and in many ways it is. In many ways it is also invaluable, and perhaps the most significant piece of philosophy to emerge in the last half-century (though I dont think so, but I also dont think were ready for this book yet, so I await Deleuzes Kojeve eagerly). Difference and Repetition is a front to back masterpiece, and on every page Deleuzes colossal creative genius is on full display. But, that doesnt mean youll like it--in fact, I bet you (in your heart of hearts) wont. And Im not challenging anyone--I dont even like it. Even stronger: I cant really fathom how it is POSSIBLE to like it. Let me tell you why, if you havent already tried the beast a few times (in which case you know already).
D&R runs at a pace and a level of sophistication that perhaps no one in the world besides Deleuze himself could completely follow. It is assumed that not only are you familiar with the ins and outs of some of the most obscure aspects of people like Kant, Leibniz, and Bergson--but that you also be familiar with Deleuzes take on those aspects (which I just dont see how you could grasp in any way but superficially from this book). Its also assumed that you have experience in differential calculus and its theoretical underpinnings (granted mostly from Leibniz and Structuralism, but come on, who can really explain what a "singular point" is without it?). And to top all of that off, it is, very apparently (I wont say really) unwieldy and circulates between all of the above mentioned and more and much more in the snap of a finger. No doubt part of the books affect and greatness, but, no doubt, more than part of the reason why no one can (under)stand it.
Im not kidding when I say this: D&R is indisputably the most difficult piece of philosophy Ive ever read. It will run off 15-20 dense pages at a time that are not just prolix and turgid, but sometimes senselessly so. Yeah, you wrestle with it about three or four times, you have your moments of lucidity, little chunks here and there that are admittedly shining examples of what sort of a writer Deleuze was and would become. But I repeat: you think Kant, Heidegger, Whitehead, Derrida, Jameson, and Hegel are difficult? I swear before everything holy and unholy this book that you might buy today is infinitely more difficult than anything any of them ever wrote.
But dont take my word for it. Try it, and be honest with yourself. Dont just get it so you can say "oh, come on, its not that bad." Try and explain it, try and give accounts for your explanations, try and tie it all together, or not. Until I see a lucid exposition of this book (like Hollands for AO), I refuse to believe that anyone really likes it or understands its SPIRIT (not of course the letter, which anyone can get, and parrot). Yet--undoubtedly worth every minute of your time. Such is the enigma of Deleuze...
The Crux of Thought
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :15
It took me reading Deleuzes books on Kant, Bergson, Nietzsche, Foucault and his collaborations with Guattari in Thousand Plateaus and Anti-Oedipus to finally get through this book . Difference and Repetion explains all the others, but is incredibly dense and in no way an introduction to his thinking. If youre familiar with his project, however, then this brings the rest of his readings into focus.
Its in this book that Deleuze gets as close as he ever comes to replying to Hegel, and in that sense its here that he contends with the master and the dialectic--a battle or contest characteristic of his French compatriots (see Vincent Descombes fantastic book: Modern French Philosophy and Michael Hardts summary of the early Deleuzian projects: Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy). Difference and repetition are such an alternative to the dialectic that theyre difficult to grasp without a serious grounding in metaphysics (see his books on Kant and Hume especially), Spinoza, and Bergson.
Deleuze wants to show that there is a materiality of expression that is also a movement within time, an unfolding that is also a becoming ( and in this sense in contrast to Being). This movement image (which founds his analysis in the Cinema books) grounds for Deleuze a transcendental empiricism, which is to say a non-conceptual and material, positive and affirmative idea of thought. Read his books on Kant and Hume first for an overview of his critique of representation.
I think this book is stunning, and i hope to read it over and over. The first three chapters are incredible, and amount to nothing short of a complete undoing of representational thought, or what he characterizes as a logic of the same.
Grounding a Philosophy of Difference
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :17
This is (arguably) the most important work written by Deleuze for a reason that seems to me is often obscured or merely forgotten: it is (maybe) the only work that seeks to lay the foundation for a systematic treatment of difference and by ex-tension (or in-tension) repetition. It does not seek to derive difference and repetition (simply) from identity and the in-dividual. It seeks to think of difference and repetition in themselves. And this is what is important here: thinking (and not some petty play of figures and words in the frontal attacks or soul mating with particular thinkers) in its rhizomatic form rather than its arborescent one.
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :19
Difference and repetition struck me as nothing Ive ever read before has struck me. The fun thing about "reading" it, is that, when you think about it, the act of reading itself makes understanding parts of this work more clear. Reading this becomes a "machinic" activity as it were: immediate, affective, with its own unpredictability, with many gaps, moments of insight, despair, and so on. It seems contradictory, because I think it is the most rigorous and analytic of all of Deleuzes works. But it is immensely dense, as other reviewers also say.
It is certainly the crucial work in his oeuvre. Really if you have tried it a few times, you will notice that many ideas of his later work are based on the crucial notions of this grand exploration. Anti-Oedipe is such a delight to read and easy to understand after this one.
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This brilliant exposition of the critique of identity is a classic in contemporary philosophy and one of Deleuzes most important works. Of fundamental importance to literary critics and philosophers,Difference and Repetition develops two central concepts--pure difference and complex repetition--and shows how the two concepts are related. While difference implies divergence and decentering, repetition is associated with displacement and disguising. Central in initiating the shift in French thought away from Hegel and Marx toward Nietzsche and Freud, Difference and Repetition moves deftly to establish a fundamental critique of Western metaphysics.
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Customer ReviewsThe brilliance of Deleuze
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :14
Difference and Repetition is the most brilliant work of philosophy I have read. However the book does rely on a huge amount of background knowledge which took my over a year and a half to compile. My advice for any reader attempting to read D&R is to read Manuel DeLandas Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy. All of the obscure references to mathematical and scientific concepts are throuroughly explicated in DeLandas book. I can honestly say that if it were not for Intensice Philsosophy and Virtual Science I would not have been able to comprehend the key philosophical concepts deployed in D&R such as singlarities as pre-individual attractors and the nature of the virtual.
D&R is a work which may require intense effort from the reader, as none of the concepts are adequately explained by deleuze himself. But the challenge is most rewarding as the book gives you the concepts to think about a world without pre established identities and stabilities. Only now is science beginning to comprehend the universe as inherently random and dynamical which gives rise to complex self organizing systems.
A classic of modern philosophy and a brilliant achievement by an author who thought outside all contemporary philosophical trends to overthrow the father of philosophy: Plato.
Much worth the effort, if a 19 year old Undergraduate can make sense of this book then anyone with enough time, patience and conceptualisation should be able to master this brilliant work.
Deleuze wasnt messing around here, seriously.
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :44
Many people consider this to be the cornerstone of Deleuzes body of work, and in many ways it is. In many ways it is also invaluable, and perhaps the most significant piece of philosophy to emerge in the last half-century (though I dont think so, but I also dont think were ready for this book yet, so I await Deleuzes Kojeve eagerly). Difference and Repetition is a front to back masterpiece, and on every page Deleuzes colossal creative genius is on full display. But, that doesnt mean youll like it--in fact, I bet you (in your heart of hearts) wont. And Im not challenging anyone--I dont even like it. Even stronger: I cant really fathom how it is POSSIBLE to like it. Let me tell you why, if you havent already tried the beast a few times (in which case you know already).
D&R runs at a pace and a level of sophistication that perhaps no one in the world besides Deleuze himself could completely follow. It is assumed that not only are you familiar with the ins and outs of some of the most obscure aspects of people like Kant, Leibniz, and Bergson--but that you also be familiar with Deleuzes take on those aspects (which I just dont see how you could grasp in any way but superficially from this book). Its also assumed that you have experience in differential calculus and its theoretical underpinnings (granted mostly from Leibniz and Structuralism, but come on, who can really explain what a "singular point" is without it?). And to top all of that off, it is, very apparently (I wont say really) unwieldy and circulates between all of the above mentioned and more and much more in the snap of a finger. No doubt part of the books affect and greatness, but, no doubt, more than part of the reason why no one can (under)stand it.
Im not kidding when I say this: D&R is indisputably the most difficult piece of philosophy Ive ever read. It will run off 15-20 dense pages at a time that are not just prolix and turgid, but sometimes senselessly so. Yeah, you wrestle with it about three or four times, you have your moments of lucidity, little chunks here and there that are admittedly shining examples of what sort of a writer Deleuze was and would become. But I repeat: you think Kant, Heidegger, Whitehead, Derrida, Jameson, and Hegel are difficult? I swear before everything holy and unholy this book that you might buy today is infinitely more difficult than anything any of them ever wrote.
But dont take my word for it. Try it, and be honest with yourself. Dont just get it so you can say "oh, come on, its not that bad." Try and explain it, try and give accounts for your explanations, try and tie it all together, or not. Until I see a lucid exposition of this book (like Hollands for AO), I refuse to believe that anyone really likes it or understands its SPIRIT (not of course the letter, which anyone can get, and parrot). Yet--undoubtedly worth every minute of your time. Such is the enigma of Deleuze...
The Crux of Thought
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :15
It took me reading Deleuzes books on Kant, Bergson, Nietzsche, Foucault and his collaborations with Guattari in Thousand Plateaus and Anti-Oedipus to finally get through this book . Difference and Repetion explains all the others, but is incredibly dense and in no way an introduction to his thinking. If youre familiar with his project, however, then this brings the rest of his readings into focus.
Its in this book that Deleuze gets as close as he ever comes to replying to Hegel, and in that sense its here that he contends with the master and the dialectic--a battle or contest characteristic of his French compatriots (see Vincent Descombes fantastic book: Modern French Philosophy and Michael Hardts summary of the early Deleuzian projects: Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy). Difference and repetition are such an alternative to the dialectic that theyre difficult to grasp without a serious grounding in metaphysics (see his books on Kant and Hume especially), Spinoza, and Bergson.
Deleuze wants to show that there is a materiality of expression that is also a movement within time, an unfolding that is also a becoming ( and in this sense in contrast to Being). This movement image (which founds his analysis in the Cinema books) grounds for Deleuze a transcendental empiricism, which is to say a non-conceptual and material, positive and affirmative idea of thought. Read his books on Kant and Hume first for an overview of his critique of representation.
I think this book is stunning, and i hope to read it over and over. The first three chapters are incredible, and amount to nothing short of a complete undoing of representational thought, or what he characterizes as a logic of the same.
Grounding a Philosophy of Difference
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This is (arguably) the most important work written by Deleuze for a reason that seems to me is often obscured or merely forgotten: it is (maybe) the only work that seeks to lay the foundation for a systematic treatment of difference and by ex-tension (or in-tension) repetition. It does not seek to derive difference and repetition (simply) from identity and the in-dividual. It seeks to think of difference and repetition in themselves. And this is what is important here: thinking (and not some petty play of figures and words in the frontal attacks or soul mating with particular thinkers) in its rhizomatic form rather than its arborescent one.
What is therefore central in this work is idea, and (therefore) perception. In simple terms, Deleuze has managed to provide us with some foundational links with the philosophies of mind, language and time (and moreover besides). He has given to the philosophy of difference a central and unifying role (across such and other disciplines) to play.
In this sense difference and repetition are not only (simply) linked between them (in the sense that one leads to the other), but also linked with other important notions usually discussed and developed in other (philosophical) disciplines. Let me provide some brief indications.
Chapter 1 is concerned with difference, not as mere diversity, otherness or negation, bur rather as general or specific difference, where the latter refers to the moment when difference is reconciled with the concept in general. In this manner, Deleuze sees difference as a concept of reflection in relation to representation that involves movement. He further discusses the notion of eternal return and questions the adoption of a meta-viewpoint for thinking about difference and repetition - the latter being the relation between originals and simulacra.
In chapter 2, Deleuze lays out the relation between (the dualities) repetition and sensing, habit, and difference, under the guise that "difference inhabits repetition", in that it "lies between two repetitions" (p.76). He also makes the distinction between natural and artificial signs, hence the distinction between two types of difference, one being the expression of the other. In parallel, he distinguishes active from passive synthesis (relative to time) in that "the activity of thought applies to a receptive being, to a passive subject" (p.86). Finally drawing on Bergson, he distinguishes the real centre from where emanates a series of perception-images from a virtual centre from where emanates a series of memory-images.
Chapter 3 is for Deleuze the most important (sic) because the thinking of difference and repetition is based on a dogmatic image of thought characterised by eight postulates, each with a dual form, the artificial and the natural.
In Chapter 4, this duality underlies the development of the notion of idea in that it is problematic, hence dialectical, an "n-dimensional, continuous, defined multiplicity" (p.182) in a perplication as the distinctive and coexistent state of ideas. Each idea is thus linked with difference and representation in that "the representation of difference refers to the identity of the concept as its principle" (p.178). In this manner he makes the claim for the superiority of problematic-questioning approach over the (traditional) hypothetico-apodictic approach because questions are imperatives.
Chapter 5 starts with the claim that "difference is not diversity. Diversity is given, but difference is that by which the given is given, that by which the given is given as diverse" (p.222). Difference is therefore (a given) intensity expressed as extensity. There is depth that unites intensity and extensity. Therefore, depth is the intensity of being from where emerge at once extensity and the qualities of being. In this manner Deleuze accepts a dual condition of difference: one natural and one artificial.
In the concluding chapter Deleuze argues that representation is a site of transcendental illusion which comes in four interrelated forms relative to thought, sensibility, idea and being. Hence the problematic of grounding representation and his argument (or Idea) for groundlessness, and the justification of the use of (systems of) simulacra as sites for the actualisation of ideas. Hence that of difference and repetition where the former is not only located between the levels and degrees of the latter, but also has two faces, namely, habit and memory.
Overall, despite the difficulty of the text itself as it takes for granted knowledge of the philosophies of some other thinkers (e.g. Bergson), it is a central text in the philosophy of difference and for just this reason, a text one must have read!
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Difference and repetition struck me as nothing Ive ever read before has struck me. The fun thing about "reading" it, is that, when you think about it, the act of reading itself makes understanding parts of this work more clear. Reading this becomes a "machinic" activity as it were: immediate, affective, with its own unpredictability, with many gaps, moments of insight, despair, and so on. It seems contradictory, because I think it is the most rigorous and analytic of all of Deleuzes works. But it is immensely dense, as other reviewers also say.
It is certainly the crucial work in his oeuvre. Really if you have tried it a few times, you will notice that many ideas of his later work are based on the crucial notions of this grand exploration. Anti-Oedipe is such a delight to read and easy to understand after this one.
And I think it is good for those who want to approach Deleuzes thought, to start with the Anti-Oedipus and Mille Plateaux, then read some of the smaller and intensive works (What is philosophy, Leibniz et le Baroque). Then try this book. You will get many references and want to read all others once again.
It is clearly in this work that you will find the first monstrous and frontal attack against Hegels dialectic. The fun thing is that this is a complete "anti-work". Every conceivable concept of modern philosophy (from the concept of "common sense", "history", or "being") gets an "anti", with which Deleuze consistently builds his grand idea of the immediate, the pre- or non-representational and the virtual--against any metaphysics. It is moreover his first, and I think also his last work where he builds his philosophy in a consistent manner.
After this one, I think he started exploring fragments of his thought more deeply, in his other works, which are derivatives so to speak. This is his goodbye to classic French philosphy (strong tradition of exploring the "history of philosophy") and his entre into his own experimentation with the concepts he just developed.
To conclude, just some practical notes. The problem with the book is that, unlike his other works, you have to read all of it (because it is so consistent). This makes it a project for months, or even years. Good luck.
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Finding Forrester
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Finding Forrester could have been a shallow variant of The Karate Kid, congratulating itself for featuring a 16-year-old black kid from the South Bronx whos a brilliant scholar-athlete. Instead, director Gus Van Sant plays it matter-of-fact and totally real, casting a nonactor (Rob Brown) as Jamal, a basketball player and gifted student whose writing talent is nurtured by a famously reclusive author. William Forrester (Sean Connery) became a literary icon four decades earlier with a Pulitzer-winning novel, then disappeared (like J.D. Salinger) into his dark, book-filled apartment, agoraphobic and withdrawn from publishing, but as passionate as ever about writing. On a dare, Jamal sneaks into Forresters musty sanctuary, and what might have been a condescending clich--homeboy rescued by wiser white mentor--turns into an inspiring meeting of minds, with mutual respect and intelligence erasing boundaries of culture and generation.
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Finding Forrester could have been a shallow variant of The Karate Kid, congratulating itself for featuring a 16-year-old black kid from the South Bronx whos a brilliant scholar-athlete. Instead, director Gus Van Sant plays it matter-of-fact and totally real, casting a nonactor (Rob Brown) as Jamal, a basketball player and gifted student whose writing talent is nurtured by a famously reclusive author. William Forrester (Sean Connery) became a literary icon four decades earlier with a Pulitzer-winning novel, then disappeared (like J.D. Salinger) into his dark, book-filled apartment, agoraphobic and withdrawn from publishing, but as passionate as ever about writing. On a dare, Jamal sneaks into Forresters musty sanctuary, and what might have been a condescending clich--homeboy rescued by wiser white mentor--turns into an inspiring meeting of minds, with mutual respect and intelligence erasing boundaries of culture and generation.
Comparisons to Van Sants Good Will Hunting are inevitable, but Finding Forrester is more honest and less prone to touchy-feely sentiment, as in the way Jamal and a private-school classmate (Anna Paquin) develop a mutual attraction that remains almost entirely unspoken. The film takes a conventional turn when Jamal must defend his integrity (with Forresters help) in a writing contest judged by a skeptical teacher (F. Murray Abraham), but this ethical subplot is a credible catalyst for Forresters most dramatic display of friendship. Its one of many fine moments for Connery and Brown (a screen natural), in a memorable film that transcends issues of race to embrace the joy of learning. --Jeff Shannon
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IL AIY is David Byrnes breathtaking 1989 documentary on Candombl, the African-influenced spirit cult of the Bahia region of Brazil.
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This book is a report of cross-national research on the civil-military cultural differences in democratic societies, particularly centred on the attitudes of national elites, here considered as being mainly composed of professionals. The research studies the question: What are the differences between the values, opinions and attitudes of military officers and those of professionals belonging to other categories? What is the effect of these differences on society in each country, and on the national security sector? What are the current trends of this gap?Researchers investigated a sample of cadets at military academies and their generational peers at civilian universities (future elites). An expert survey was also employed to sample present elites, both civilian and military.The report is divided into three parts: the first describes the methodological aspect of the research; the second part, taking a comparative international approach, analyses the results of the research with respect to the main survey themes; the third part continues the volume by examining specific national themes in the context of the results of the cross-national comparison developed in the preceding part. In a final chapter, the data of the expert survey has been compared with the data that emerged from the survey of future elites, to glean elements for a general summary and evaluation on the cultural gap.*The first cross-national research outside the U.S. on civil/ military cultural differences.*A significant comparison of the attitudes of present and future elites on security matter.*A deep understanding of national specificities of the 13 participating countries on the military issues
Manufacturer: Elsevier Science
Price: $120.00 USD
Cultural Overstretch Differences between Old and New Member States of the EU and Turkey RoutledgeEuropean Sociological Association Studies in European Societies
Binding: Hardcover
Studio: Routledge
Within a few years the European Union will be enlarged from fifteen to twenty-eight member states, including Turkey. Cultural Overstretch investigates whether the new countries culturally fit into the European Union. Interpreting the European treaties and the European Law, Gerhards describes in a first step what he calls 'The value script of the European Union'. Using survey data from twenty-eight countries the author examines in a second step whether citizens support the value script of the European Union and whether there are significant differences between old and new member states and candidate countries. The book also highlights cultural differences by referring to modernization theory and forecasts in the concluding chapter the political consequences of a possible cultural overstretch of the European Union.
Manufacturer: Routledge
Price: $160.00 USD
How to Develop Multi-cultural Skills?
no fixed formula of maintaining the physical distance as it depends again on the cultural background of the people. It differs from country to country and from culture to culture.OCULESICS:It is all about the eye contact with
Dating A Filipina: The Cultural Differences
In the first place, men and women were created differently from each other and even if you marry a woman from your own country, it still takes effort to make a relationship work. When a foreigner dates a Filipina lady whose background is
Coaching Skills Training: How Abnormal Psychology May be Explained by Cultural Differences
stomach and burning sensations (Ebigno, 1986).SchizophreniaThere is some suggestion that British psychiatry is insensitive to cultural differences. Cochrane and Sashidharan (1995) found that African-Caribbean immigrants were up to 7
Are We Really One World? German Au Pairs and Cultural Differences
seeking to expose their children to Mandarin. Despite global connections between countries and the politcally correct phrase "we are all one world" cultural differences exist across Europe, Asia and South America - top areas au pair
noticed and used to enhance the communication with online customers. How can your company notice those cultural differences? There are basically two ways to do that. The first is from second-hand sources, by doing research on
Cultural Differences Between the Military and Parent Society in Democratic Countries Volume 4 Conflict Management Peace Economics and Development
Binding: Hardcover
Studio: Elsevier Science
This book is a report of cross-national research on the civil-military cultural differences in democratic societies, particularly centred on the attitudes of national elites, here considered as being mainly composed of professionals. The research studies the question: What are the differences between the values, opinions and attitudes of military officers and those of professionals belonging to other categories? What is the effect of these differences on society in each country, and on the national security sector? What are the current trends of this gap?Researchers investigated a sample of cadets at military academies and their generational peers at civilian universities (future elites). An expert survey was also employed to sample present elites, both civilian and military.The report is divided into three parts: the first describes the methodological aspect of the research; the second part, taking a comparative international approach, analyses the results of the research with respect to the main survey themes; the third part continues the volume by examining specific national themes in the context of the results of the cross-national comparison developed in the preceding part. In a final chapter, the data of the expert survey has been compared with the data that emerged from the survey of future elites, to glean elements for a general summary and evaluation on the cultural gap.*The first cross-national research outside the U.S. on civil/ military cultural differences.*A significant comparison of the attitudes of present and future elites on security matter.*A deep understanding of national specificities of the 13 participating countries on the military issues
Manufacturer: Elsevier Science
Price: $120.00 USD
Cultural Overstretch Differences between Old and New Member States of the EU and Turkey RoutledgeEuropean Sociological Association Studies in European Societies
Binding: Hardcover
Studio: Routledge
Within a few years the European Union will be enlarged from fifteen to twenty-eight member states, including Turkey. Cultural Overstretch investigates whether the new countries culturally fit into the European Union. Interpreting the European treaties and the European Law, Gerhards describes in a first step what he calls 'The value script of the European Union'. Using survey data from twenty-eight countries the author examines in a second step whether citizens support the value script of the European Union and whether there are significant differences between old and new member states and candidate countries. The book also highlights cultural differences by referring to modernization theory and forecasts in the concluding chapter the political consequences of a possible cultural overstretch of the European Union.
Manufacturer: Routledge
Price: $160.00 USD
How to Develop Multi-cultural Skills?
no fixed formula of maintaining the physical distance as it depends again on the cultural background of the people. It differs from country to country and from culture to culture.OCULESICS:It is all about the eye contact with
Dating A Filipina: The Cultural Differences
In the first place, men and women were created differently from each other and even if you marry a woman from your own country, it still takes effort to make a relationship work. When a foreigner dates a Filipina lady whose background is
Coaching Skills Training: How Abnormal Psychology May be Explained by Cultural Differences
stomach and burning sensations (Ebigno, 1986).SchizophreniaThere is some suggestion that British psychiatry is insensitive to cultural differences. Cochrane and Sashidharan (1995) found that African-Caribbean immigrants were up to 7
Are We Really One World? German Au Pairs and Cultural Differences
seeking to expose their children to Mandarin. Despite global connections between countries and the politcally correct phrase "we are all one world" cultural differences exist across Europe, Asia and South America - top areas au pair
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Art Poster, Indian Cultural Objects - 18.75 X 27.5
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Cultural Differences In Business : Coaching Across Cultures New Tools for Leveraging National Corporate and Professional Differences
Coaching Across Cultures New Tools for Leveraging National Corporate and Professional Differences
Binding: Paperback
Rating: 5.0
Review: 4
Studio: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Combining two of the hottest topics in business today, this expert executive and team coach breaks new ground with the first book to bridge the gap between coaching and interculturalism.
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Cultural Differences in Web Site Design
. Colours are also important. They play a significant role in a website’s design but more than that, they mean different things to different cultures. Red, for instance, signifies danger in North America while other cultures use the
Cultural Differences in Standard Work Schedules
you need to be aware of cultural differences in how business is carried out in other countries. One of the first things you should not overlook is that some cultures have a different definition for their standard work week. Unfortunately,
Small Business Outsourcing and Cultural Differences
At present, you need to outsource some or most of your works offshore. However, More than 50% of businesses have reported that cultural differences are the top most problem they face when outsourcing their projects to offshore locations.
Music in Cultural Differences - Multicultural Marketing
are watching for entertainment, any music will definitely give you a cultural shock. That shock makes you realize that the background noises to the other local shows sounds different too. If you leave the television on while putting your
Riding The Waves of Culture Understanding Diversity in Global Business
Binding: Hardcover
Rating: 4.5
Review: 17
Studio: McGraw-Hill
As U.S. organizations continue to explore overseas business opportunities, they will be challenged to adapt to the new market's local characteristics, legislation, fiscal regime, sociopolitical environment and cultural system. Riding the Waves of Culture shows international managers how to build the skills, sensitivity, and cultural awareness needed to establish and sustain management effectiveness across cultural borders. This revised edition is updated with new research and statistics. More than an encyclopedia of cultures and customs, this essential guide: Describes successful and failed cross-cultural business transactions of multinational organizations such as AT&T, Heineken, Motorola and Volvo Offers techniques managers can use to anticipate and mediate some of the difficult dilemmas of international management Uses country-by-country graphs, examples, and other comparisons to illustrate how different cultures regard and respond to various management approaches Includes a CD-ROM of graphs, charts, and exercises to help readers evaluate their effectiveness as a global manager
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Cultural Differences And International Business Communication
Romans do.The most important and worrying variables in the international scene of business are the cultural differences that most international business executives fail to comprehend resulting in most international business slip-ups.
Binding: Paperback
Rating: 5.0
Review: 4
Studio: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Combining two of the hottest topics in business today, this expert executive and team coach breaks new ground with the first book to bridge the gap between coaching and interculturalism.
Manufacturer: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Price: $35.00 USD
Cultural Differences in Web Site Design
. Colours are also important. They play a significant role in a website’s design but more than that, they mean different things to different cultures. Red, for instance, signifies danger in North America while other cultures use the
Cultural Differences in Standard Work Schedules
you need to be aware of cultural differences in how business is carried out in other countries. One of the first things you should not overlook is that some cultures have a different definition for their standard work week. Unfortunately,
Small Business Outsourcing and Cultural Differences
At present, you need to outsource some or most of your works offshore. However, More than 50% of businesses have reported that cultural differences are the top most problem they face when outsourcing their projects to offshore locations.
Music in Cultural Differences - Multicultural Marketing
are watching for entertainment, any music will definitely give you a cultural shock. That shock makes you realize that the background noises to the other local shows sounds different too. If you leave the television on while putting your
Riding The Waves of Culture Understanding Diversity in Global Business
Binding: Hardcover
Rating: 4.5
Review: 17
Studio: McGraw-Hill
As U.S. organizations continue to explore overseas business opportunities, they will be challenged to adapt to the new market's local characteristics, legislation, fiscal regime, sociopolitical environment and cultural system. Riding the Waves of Culture shows international managers how to build the skills, sensitivity, and cultural awareness needed to establish and sustain management effectiveness across cultural borders. This revised edition is updated with new research and statistics. More than an encyclopedia of cultures and customs, this essential guide: Describes successful and failed cross-cultural business transactions of multinational organizations such as AT&T, Heineken, Motorola and Volvo Offers techniques managers can use to anticipate and mediate some of the difficult dilemmas of international management Uses country-by-country graphs, examples, and other comparisons to illustrate how different cultures regard and respond to various management approaches Includes a CD-ROM of graphs, charts, and exercises to help readers evaluate their effectiveness as a global manager
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Cultural Differences And International Business Communication
Romans do.The most important and worrying variables in the international scene of business are the cultural differences that most international business executives fail to comprehend resulting in most international business slip-ups.
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Cultural Anthropology Duke : Imagining Transgender An Ethnography of a Category
The Mexico Reader History Culture Politics The Latin America Readers 
Binding: Paperback
Rating: 5.0
Review: 4
Studio: Duke University Press
The Mexico Reader is a vivid introduction to muchos Méxicos—the many Mexicos, or the many varied histories and cultures that comprise contemporary Mexico. Unparalleled in scope and written for the traveler, student, and expert alike, the collection offers a comprehensive guide to the history and culture of Mexico—including its difficult, uneven modernization; the ways the country has been profoundly shaped not only by Mexicans but also by those outside its borders; and the extraordinary economic, political, and ideological power of the Roman Catholic Church. The book looks at what underlies the chronic instability, violence, and economic turmoil that have characterized periods of MexicoÂ's history while it also celebrates the countryÂ's rich cultural heritage. A diverse collection of more than eighty selections, The Mexico Reader brings together poetry, folklore, fiction, polemics, photoessays, songs, political cartoons, memoirs, satire, and scholarly writing. Many pieces are by Mexicans, and a substantial number appear for the first time in English. Works by Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes are included along with pieces about such well-known figures as the larger-than-life revolutionary leaders Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata; there is also a comminiqué from a more recent rebel, Subcomandante Marcos. At the same time, the book highlights the perspectives of many others—indigenous peoples, women, politicians, patriots, artists, soldiers, rebels, priests, workers, peasants, foreign diplomats, and travelers. The Mexico Reader explores what it means to be Mexican, tracing the history of Mexico from pre-Columbian times through the countryÂ's epic revolution (1910–17) to the present day. The materials relating to the latter half of the twentieth century focus on the contradictions and costs of postrevolutionary modernization, the rise of civil society, and the dynamic cross-cultural zone marked by the two thousand-mile Mexico-U.S. border. The editors have divided the book into several sections organized roughly in chronological order and have provided brief historical contexts for each section. They have also furnished a lengthy list of resources about Mexico, including websites and suggestions for further reading. Lively and insightful, The Mexico Reader will appeal to all interested in learning about Mexico—aficionados, travelers and scholars.
Manufacturer: Duke University Press
Price: $26.95 USD
On Longing Narratives of the Miniature the Gigantic the Souvenir the Collection
Binding: Paperback
Rating: 5.0
Review: 3
Studio: Duke University Press
Miniature books, eighteenth-century novels, Tom Thumb weddings, tall tales, and objects of tourism and nostalgia: this diverse group of cultural forms is the subject of On Longing, a fascinating analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of the world. Originally published in 1984 (Johns Hopkins University Press), and now available in paperback for the first time, this highly original book draws on insights from semiotics and from psychoanalytic, feminist, and marxist criticism. Addressing the relations of language to experience, the body to scale, and narratives to objects, Susan Stewart looks at the "miniature" as a metaphor for interiority and at the "gigantic" as an exaggeration of aspects of the exterior. In the final part of her essay Stewart examines the ways in which the "souvenir" and the "collection" are objects mediating experience in time and space.
Manufacturer: Duke University Press
Price: $21.95 USD
Binding: Paperback
Rating: 5.0
Review: 4
Studio: Duke University Press
The Mexico Reader is a vivid introduction to muchos Méxicos—the many Mexicos, or the many varied histories and cultures that comprise contemporary Mexico. Unparalleled in scope and written for the traveler, student, and expert alike, the collection offers a comprehensive guide to the history and culture of Mexico—including its difficult, uneven modernization; the ways the country has been profoundly shaped not only by Mexicans but also by those outside its borders; and the extraordinary economic, political, and ideological power of the Roman Catholic Church. The book looks at what underlies the chronic instability, violence, and economic turmoil that have characterized periods of MexicoÂ's history while it also celebrates the countryÂ's rich cultural heritage. A diverse collection of more than eighty selections, The Mexico Reader brings together poetry, folklore, fiction, polemics, photoessays, songs, political cartoons, memoirs, satire, and scholarly writing. Many pieces are by Mexicans, and a substantial number appear for the first time in English. Works by Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes are included along with pieces about such well-known figures as the larger-than-life revolutionary leaders Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata; there is also a comminiqué from a more recent rebel, Subcomandante Marcos. At the same time, the book highlights the perspectives of many others—indigenous peoples, women, politicians, patriots, artists, soldiers, rebels, priests, workers, peasants, foreign diplomats, and travelers. The Mexico Reader explores what it means to be Mexican, tracing the history of Mexico from pre-Columbian times through the countryÂ's epic revolution (1910–17) to the present day. The materials relating to the latter half of the twentieth century focus on the contradictions and costs of postrevolutionary modernization, the rise of civil society, and the dynamic cross-cultural zone marked by the two thousand-mile Mexico-U.S. border. The editors have divided the book into several sections organized roughly in chronological order and have provided brief historical contexts for each section. They have also furnished a lengthy list of resources about Mexico, including websites and suggestions for further reading. Lively and insightful, The Mexico Reader will appeal to all interested in learning about Mexico—aficionados, travelers and scholars.
Manufacturer: Duke University Press
Price: $26.95 USD
On Longing Narratives of the Miniature the Gigantic the Souvenir the Collection
Binding: Paperback
Rating: 5.0
Review: 3
Studio: Duke University Press
Miniature books, eighteenth-century novels, Tom Thumb weddings, tall tales, and objects of tourism and nostalgia: this diverse group of cultural forms is the subject of On Longing, a fascinating analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of the world. Originally published in 1984 (Johns Hopkins University Press), and now available in paperback for the first time, this highly original book draws on insights from semiotics and from psychoanalytic, feminist, and marxist criticism. Addressing the relations of language to experience, the body to scale, and narratives to objects, Susan Stewart looks at the "miniature" as a metaphor for interiority and at the "gigantic" as an exaggeration of aspects of the exterior. In the final part of her essay Stewart examines the ways in which the "souvenir" and the "collection" are objects mediating experience in time and space.
Manufacturer: Duke University Press
Price: $21.95 USD
Canvas Print, Indian Cultural Objects - 12 X 18
Canvas Print, Indian Cultural Objects - 12 x 18
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Cultural Anthropology News : Sacred Planet
Postmodernism as an Artistic Space. the Photographic World of Chezhin the Artist
but in the movement/change of time. What is important for him is the nature of man and the human body - not anatomy or anthropology as such, but man in his different dimensions, self-knowledge, and self-realizations (whether with a ruler or
The Widening Genetic Gap
be reduced to genes. This leaves evolutionists unanswered. Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, a co-author on one Nature paper is reported as saying:We cannot see in this why we
Sacred Planet
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scared planet : I found this video boring. I was looking for a nature show but I could hardly keep my eyes open. Love Robert Redford though.
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Trepanning the Light Fantastic: Cevin Soling Gives you a Hole in the Head
the people were alive and most lived many years with a hole. There are theories as to why it was done, but it still persists as an anthropological riddle in the situations where it wasn’t done in response to head trauma. In addition, there
Pathologies of Power Health Human Rights and the New War on the Poor California Series in Public Anthropology 4
Binding: Paperback
Rating: 4.5
Review: 21
Studio: University of California Press
Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life-and death-in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times. With passionate eyewitness accounts from the prisons of Russia and the beleaguered villages of Haiti and Chiapas, this book links the lived experiences of individual victims to a broader analysis of structural violence. Farmer challenges conventional thinking within human rights circles and exposes the relationships between political and economic injustice, on one hand, and the suffering and illness of the powerless, on the other. Farmer shows that the same social forces that give rise to epidemic diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis also sculpt risk for human rights violations. He illustrates the ways that racism and gender inequality in the United States are embodied as disease and death. Yet this book is far from a hopeless inventory of abuse. Farmer's disturbing examples are linked to a guarded optimism that new medical and social technologies will develop in tandem with a more informed sense of social justice. Otherwise, he concludes, we will be guilty of managing social inequality rather than addressing structural violence. Farmer's urgent plea to think about human rights in the context of global public health and to consider critical issues of quality and access for the world's poor should be of fundamental concern to a world characterized by the bizarre proximity of surfeit and suffering.
Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Caste in India
Bates http://www.csas.ed.ac.uk/fichiers/BATES_RaceCaste&Tribe.pdf31 Cultural Anthropology Felix M Keesing, The aborigines have an intricate classification system that defines kinship relations and regulates marriages, men
Intercultural Communication and Globalization
differing cultural/national backgrounds, endeavour to communicate or work together. It draws on areas within academia such as cultural anthropology, sociology and business studies to provide it with a basic framework. Notable academics
but in the movement/change of time. What is important for him is the nature of man and the human body - not anatomy or anthropology as such, but man in his different dimensions, self-knowledge, and self-realizations (whether with a ruler or
The Widening Genetic Gap
be reduced to genes. This leaves evolutionists unanswered. Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, a co-author on one Nature paper is reported as saying:We cannot see in this why we
Sacred Planet
Binding: DVD
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Review: 11
Studio: Walt Disney Home Entertainment
scared planet : I found this video boring. I was looking for a nature show but I could hardly keep my eyes open. Love Robert Redford though.
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Price: $14.99 USD
Trepanning the Light Fantastic: Cevin Soling Gives you a Hole in the Head
the people were alive and most lived many years with a hole. There are theories as to why it was done, but it still persists as an anthropological riddle in the situations where it wasn’t done in response to head trauma. In addition, there
Pathologies of Power Health Human Rights and the New War on the Poor California Series in Public Anthropology 4
Binding: Paperback
Rating: 4.5
Review: 21
Studio: University of California Press
Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life-and death-in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times. With passionate eyewitness accounts from the prisons of Russia and the beleaguered villages of Haiti and Chiapas, this book links the lived experiences of individual victims to a broader analysis of structural violence. Farmer challenges conventional thinking within human rights circles and exposes the relationships between political and economic injustice, on one hand, and the suffering and illness of the powerless, on the other. Farmer shows that the same social forces that give rise to epidemic diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis also sculpt risk for human rights violations. He illustrates the ways that racism and gender inequality in the United States are embodied as disease and death. Yet this book is far from a hopeless inventory of abuse. Farmer's disturbing examples are linked to a guarded optimism that new medical and social technologies will develop in tandem with a more informed sense of social justice. Otherwise, he concludes, we will be guilty of managing social inequality rather than addressing structural violence. Farmer's urgent plea to think about human rights in the context of global public health and to consider critical issues of quality and access for the world's poor should be of fundamental concern to a world characterized by the bizarre proximity of surfeit and suffering.
Manufacturer: University of California Press
Price: $18.95 USD
Caste in India
Bates http://www.csas.ed.ac.uk/fichiers/BATES_RaceCaste&Tribe.pdf31 Cultural Anthropology Felix M Keesing, The aborigines have an intricate classification system that defines kinship relations and regulates marriages, men
Intercultural Communication and Globalization
differing cultural/national backgrounds, endeavour to communicate or work together. It draws on areas within academia such as cultural anthropology, sociology and business studies to provide it with a basic framework. Notable academics
In Griot Time
In Griot Time
Djelimady Tounkara is only one of the memorable people you will meet in this dramatic narrative of life among the griot musicians of Mali. Born into families where music and the tradition of griot story-telling is a heritage and a privilege, Djelimady and his fellow griots -- both men and women -- live their lives at the intersection of ancient traditions and the modern entertainment industry. During the seven months he spent living and studying with Djelimady, Banning Eyre immersed himself in a world that will fascinate you as it did him. Eyre creates a range of unforgettable portraits. Some of the people who stride through his pages are internationally known, musicians like Salif Keita, Oumou Sangare, and Grammy winner Ali Farka Toure. But the lesser-known characters are equally fascinating: Adama Kouyate, Djelimadys dynamic wife Moussa Kouyate, the Tounkara familys own griot Yayi Kanoute, the flamboyant jelimuso (female griot) who failed to take America by storm Foutanga Babani Sissoko, the mysterious millionaire who rebuilt an entire town and whose patronage is much sought after by the griots of Bamako. But the picture Eyre draws is not just a series of portraits. Out of their interactions comes a perceptive panorama of life in Mali in the late twentieth century. The narrative gives us a street-level view of the transformation of musical taste and social customs, the impact of technology and the pressures of poverty, at a crucial time in Malis history. In individual after individual, family after family, we see the subtle conflicts of heritage and change. Even the complications of democracy -- with democracy, mango vendors think they can charge anything they want,Djelimady points out -- are woven into an unforgettable saga of one man, his family, his profession, and the world of Malian music.
Rate Points :5.0
Binding :Paperback
Label :Temple University Press
Manufacturer :Temple University Press
ProductGroup :Book
Studio :Temple University Press
Publisher :Temple University Press
EAN :9781566397599
Price :$24.95USD
Lowest Price :$17.40USD
Customer Reviewsmusical biography/ travel writing at its best
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :2
Due to the low profile of African music in the States, this subject matter is so esoteric that any work on the subject would certainly be welcome. But thankfully, this is the work of a seasoned music journalist, whose charisma opens nearly every possible door to the life of Malis great musicians. The book starts as Eyre shows up unannounced to meet Djelimady Tounkara, perhaps Malis greatest living griot artists. As Eyre is taken under Djelimadys wing as an understudy, he finds opportunities to meet other great and colorful elements in Malis music world, including a musician who shunned his royal upbringing to a humble music life (Salif Keita), and a mysterious millionaire patron of the arts who worked his way up from humble roots (Babani Sissoko).
Throughout his study, Eyre remains humble, admitting that there is a whole host of young musicians in Mali half his age more advanced than he in this study. At one point he likens studying with Djelimady to "reaching into a rushing stream of water hoping to pull out a fish before it slithered away forever." Though Eyre is upfront about his preference to study music "stripped of its context," he doesnt skimp on highlighting the importance of politics, religion, and history surrounding the music.
His approach to viewing Africa is refreshing where international aid workers "looked around and saw sickness and suffering, good people held down by backwardness... I looked around and saw a cultural lodestone, musical diamonds and gold everywhere. I wanted the Malians to give me the hard lessons." Its hard not to agree with Eyres perception of Malis musical greatness in fact, in the 60s and 70s, the government mandated that the bands they subsidized all maintain deep roots to Malian tradition- unlike many other African countries, whose musical identities have been whitewashed by Western influences.
Of course Id recommend this book to anyone interested in studying African music, but it should also be compelling for anyone interested in a "cultural exchange" with the remote and exotic city of Bamako, Mali, which happens to not be all that far from Timbuktu.
Wake up and hear the music!
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :14
Banning Eyre has obviously spent a great deal of time loving and learning the music and culture of Mali. His book takes you straight to the heart of what the people and their music are all about. Effortlessly, he guides you on an excursion to this unique land. Youll taste the food, feel the heat and hear the music! In fact, you can hear the music in the companion CD. I love both the book and the CD!
V.S. Naipaul fans: you will love this book!
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :19
"In Griot Time" is a MAJOR travel literature event! Readers of V. S. Naipauls travel nonfiction will delight in this new book written by a former student of Naipaul, Banning Eyre of National Public Radio and Boston Phoenix fame. This astonishingly good book rivals and even surpasses Naipaul in the very areas Naipaul excels. Eyres writing recalls Naipauls best, with a fresh new vibrance, mature with a quiet, intelligent masculinity, reflecting Eyres years of magazine and newspaper work. The Canadian Eyre masterfully takes the best of his teachers legacy, then expands it, using his relative youth and considerable musical and literary skills to show us a fascinating view of travel and Malian culture not just as a writer, as an outsider, but also as a working musician and student of Malian styles, a view requiring a stamina and persona more reminiscent of Hemingway than Naipaul. Eyre is truly an exciting and important new voice in travel literature. NOT TO BE MISSED. Ive read and loved all of Naipauls books--and "In Griot Time" is even better if such a thing is possible! Thank you, Banning Eyre! Note: Im an old friend of the author, and have read his writing from his early teenage days on. He was good to begin with, and Ive watched him get better and better over the years. Im also a long-time fan of V.S. Naipauls works and consider him one of the great masters of 20th-century literature. Imagine my utter joy when I read "In Griot Time," and found Eyre has grown into everything Naipaul is and more! Now I can say "I knew him when..." :)
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Djelimady Tounkara is only one of the memorable people you will meet in this dramatic narrative of life among the griot musicians of Mali. Born into families where music and the tradition of griot story-telling is a heritage and a privilege, Djelimady and his fellow griots -- both men and women -- live their lives at the intersection of ancient traditions and the modern entertainment industry. During the seven months he spent living and studying with Djelimady, Banning Eyre immersed himself in a world that will fascinate you as it did him. Eyre creates a range of unforgettable portraits. Some of the people who stride through his pages are internationally known, musicians like Salif Keita, Oumou Sangare, and Grammy winner Ali Farka Toure. But the lesser-known characters are equally fascinating: Adama Kouyate, Djelimadys dynamic wife Moussa Kouyate, the Tounkara familys own griot Yayi Kanoute, the flamboyant jelimuso (female griot) who failed to take America by storm Foutanga Babani Sissoko, the mysterious millionaire who rebuilt an entire town and whose patronage is much sought after by the griots of Bamako. But the picture Eyre draws is not just a series of portraits. Out of their interactions comes a perceptive panorama of life in Mali in the late twentieth century. The narrative gives us a street-level view of the transformation of musical taste and social customs, the impact of technology and the pressures of poverty, at a crucial time in Malis history. In individual after individual, family after family, we see the subtle conflicts of heritage and change. Even the complications of democracy -- with democracy, mango vendors think they can charge anything they want,Djelimady points out -- are woven into an unforgettable saga of one man, his family, his profession, and the world of Malian music.
Rate Points :5.0
Binding :Paperback
Label :Temple University Press
Manufacturer :Temple University Press
ProductGroup :Book
Studio :Temple University Press
Publisher :Temple University Press
EAN :9781566397599
Price :$24.95USD
Lowest Price :$17.40USD
Customer Reviewsmusical biography/ travel writing at its best
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :2
Due to the low profile of African music in the States, this subject matter is so esoteric that any work on the subject would certainly be welcome. But thankfully, this is the work of a seasoned music journalist, whose charisma opens nearly every possible door to the life of Malis great musicians. The book starts as Eyre shows up unannounced to meet Djelimady Tounkara, perhaps Malis greatest living griot artists. As Eyre is taken under Djelimadys wing as an understudy, he finds opportunities to meet other great and colorful elements in Malis music world, including a musician who shunned his royal upbringing to a humble music life (Salif Keita), and a mysterious millionaire patron of the arts who worked his way up from humble roots (Babani Sissoko).
Throughout his study, Eyre remains humble, admitting that there is a whole host of young musicians in Mali half his age more advanced than he in this study. At one point he likens studying with Djelimady to "reaching into a rushing stream of water hoping to pull out a fish before it slithered away forever." Though Eyre is upfront about his preference to study music "stripped of its context," he doesnt skimp on highlighting the importance of politics, religion, and history surrounding the music.
His approach to viewing Africa is refreshing where international aid workers "looked around and saw sickness and suffering, good people held down by backwardness... I looked around and saw a cultural lodestone, musical diamonds and gold everywhere. I wanted the Malians to give me the hard lessons." Its hard not to agree with Eyres perception of Malis musical greatness in fact, in the 60s and 70s, the government mandated that the bands they subsidized all maintain deep roots to Malian tradition- unlike many other African countries, whose musical identities have been whitewashed by Western influences.
Of course Id recommend this book to anyone interested in studying African music, but it should also be compelling for anyone interested in a "cultural exchange" with the remote and exotic city of Bamako, Mali, which happens to not be all that far from Timbuktu.
Wake up and hear the music!
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :14
Banning Eyre has obviously spent a great deal of time loving and learning the music and culture of Mali. His book takes you straight to the heart of what the people and their music are all about. Effortlessly, he guides you on an excursion to this unique land. Youll taste the food, feel the heat and hear the music! In fact, you can hear the music in the companion CD. I love both the book and the CD!
V.S. Naipaul fans: you will love this book!
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :19
"In Griot Time" is a MAJOR travel literature event! Readers of V. S. Naipauls travel nonfiction will delight in this new book written by a former student of Naipaul, Banning Eyre of National Public Radio and Boston Phoenix fame. This astonishingly good book rivals and even surpasses Naipaul in the very areas Naipaul excels. Eyres writing recalls Naipauls best, with a fresh new vibrance, mature with a quiet, intelligent masculinity, reflecting Eyres years of magazine and newspaper work. The Canadian Eyre masterfully takes the best of his teachers legacy, then expands it, using his relative youth and considerable musical and literary skills to show us a fascinating view of travel and Malian culture not just as a writer, as an outsider, but also as a working musician and student of Malian styles, a view requiring a stamina and persona more reminiscent of Hemingway than Naipaul. Eyre is truly an exciting and important new voice in travel literature. NOT TO BE MISSED. Ive read and loved all of Naipauls books--and "In Griot Time" is even better if such a thing is possible! Thank you, Banning Eyre! Note: Im an old friend of the author, and have read his writing from his early teenage days on. He was good to begin with, and Ive watched him get better and better over the years. Im also a long-time fan of V.S. Naipauls works and consider him one of the great masters of 20th-century literature. Imagine my utter joy when I read "In Griot Time," and found Eyre has grown into everything Naipaul is and more! Now I can say "I knew him when..." :)
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