Culture of the Far East in Northern California
Author | : Wilder Bentley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Civilization, Oriental |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Wilder Bentley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Civilization, Oriental |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Dr Christina H Lee |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2012-10-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1409483681 |
Bringing to bear the latest developments across various areas of research and disciplines, this collection provides a broad perspective on how Western Europe made sense of a complex, multi-faceted, and by and large Sino-centered East and Southeast Asia. The volume covers the transpacific period--after Magellan's opening of the transpacific route to the Far East and before the eventual dominance of the region by the British and the Dutch. In contrast to the period of the Enlightenment, during which Orientalist discourses arose, this initial period of encounters and conquest is characterized by an enormous curiosity and a desire to seize--not only materially but intellectually--the lands and peoples of East Asia. The essays investigate European visions of the Far East--particularly of China and Japan--and examine how and why particular representations of Asians and their cultural practices were constructed, revised, and adapted. Collectively, the essays show that images of the Far East were filtered by worldviews that ranged from being, on the one hand, universalistic and relatively equitable towards cultures to the other extreme, unilaterally Eurocentric.
Author | : Europa Publications |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 1724 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781857431339 |
A unique survey of each country in the region. It includes an extensive collection of facts, statistics, analysis and directory information in one accessible volume.
Author | : W Penn Handwerker |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2016-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1315417723 |
In this provocative and important book, renowned anthropologist W. Penn Handwerker shows that individual choices, from the fatal to the mundane, are fundamentally questions of culture—what it is, where it comes from, and the complex ways it changes and evolves.
Author | : Stith Thompson |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780520033597 |
As interest in folklore increases, the folktale acquires greater significance for students and teachers of literature. The material is massive and scattered; thus, few students or teachers have accessibility to other than small segments or singular tales or material they find buried in archives. Stith Thompson has divided his book into four sections which permit both the novice and the teacher to examine oral tradition and its manifestation in folklore. The introductory section discusses the nature and forms of the folktale. A comprehensive second part traces the folktale geographically from Ireland to India, giving culturally diverse examples of the forms presented in the first part. The examples are followed by the analysis of several themes in such tales from North American Indian cultures. The concluding section treats theories of the folktale, the collection and classification of folk narrative, and then analyzes the living folklore process. This work will appeal to students of the sociology of literature, professors of comparative literature, and general readers interested in folklore.