Divination on stage

Divination on stage
Author: Folke Gernert
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2021-02-08
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 3110695758

Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional world and analyses the fictionalisation of physiognomic lore as a practice of divination in early modern Romance theatre from Pietro Aretino and Giordano Bruno to Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca and Thomas Corneille.

Ethnicities and Global Multiculture

Ethnicities and Global Multiculture
Author: Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2007
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780742540644

Arguing that ethnicity and multiculturalism are essential for understanding globalization, this book offers sustained treatments of their reach beyond a limited national context. It proposes ethnicities and global multiculture as alternative, wide-angle perspectives on cultural diversity.

Development Theory

Development Theory
Author: Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2001-03-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780761952930

This study is a critical commentary connecting issues of development with the latest thinking in sociology, critical theory and social science. It addresses questions such as the connections with globalization, and culture and modernity.