Franz Baermann Steiner

Franz Baermann Steiner
Author: Jeremy Adler
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2021-12-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1800732716

Franz Baermann Steiner (1909-52) provided the vital link between the intellectual culture of central Europe and the Oxford Institute of Anthropology in its post-Second World War years. This book demonstrates his quiet influence within anthropology, which has extended from Mary Douglas to David Graeber, and how his remarkable poetry reflected profoundly on the slavery and murder of the Shoah, an event which he escaped from. Steiner’s concerns including inter-disciplinarity, genre, refugees and exile, colonialism and violence, and the sources of European anthropology speak to contemporary concerns more directly now than at any time since his early death.

Taboo

Taboo
Author: Franz Steiner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136543406

Scholars have been trying to explain taboo customs ever since Captain Cook discovered them in Polynesia over 200 years ago. The subject has been treated at length, but none of the theories has more than a limited validity, so numerous are the taboos recorded and so diverse the societies in which they occur. This book contains chapters on: · Taboo as a Victorian invention · The complicated taboos in the Pentateuch · Taboos in Polynesia Originally published in 1956.

Selected Writings

Selected Writings
Author: Franz Baermann Steiner
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781571817136

Presents 18 pieces by anthropologist Steiner (1909-52). They include deaccessions of labor and economics; a section from his dissertation on slavery; unpublished lectures on Aristotle, Simmel, and kinship; a selection of aphorisms; and extracts from his poetic cycle Conquests. In the introduction, Alder (German, King's College, London) and Fardon (West African anthropology, School of Oriental and African studies, London) relate his work to current concerns. Apparently only two volumes are planned. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Mediterranean as a Source of Cultural Criticism

The Mediterranean as a Source of Cultural Criticism
Author: Andrea Benedetti
Publisher: Mimesis
Total Pages: 588
Release: 2019-11-26T00:00:00+01:00
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 8869772896

The essays contained in this volume explore the historical trajectories along which the Mediterranean has been conceptualized as a cultural, religious and economical resource and how these various aspects are intertwined. While staying clear of a merely “imagological” or “representational” point of view, the authors consider the interplay between culturally shaped attributions (for example the longstanding desire for a Mediterranean “Otherness” as expressed in German literature), their testing in empirical encounters, and the effect these encounters produce on both sides. Although focused particularly on 19th and 20th century culture, this volume offers a timely contribution to conceptualising the challenges of the 21st century. The conjunction of both provinciality and universality, the connectivity and fragmentation of the Mediterranean continues to be at the basis of the European matrix of all possible (hi)stories.

The Flight from the Enchanter

The Flight from the Enchanter
Author: Iris Murdoch
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2010-07-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1453200975

A charismatic businessman casts a dark spell over others in this psychologically suspenseful novel by the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Black Prince. Mischa Fox’s name is known throughout London, though he himself is rarely seen. Enigmatic and desired, vicious yet sympathetic, he is a model of success, wealth, and charisma. When Fox turns his entrepreneurial gaze on a small feminist magazine known as the Artemis, his intoxicating influence quickly begins to affect the lives of those involved with the paper: the fragile editor, Hunter; generous Rosa, who splits her time and affections between her brother and two other men; innocent Annette, whose journey from school to the real world ends up being more fraught than she could have foreseen; and their circle of friends and acquaintances, all of whom find themselves both drawn to and repulsed by Fox. Told with dark humor, keen wit, and intense insight into the seductive nature of power, The Flight from the Enchanter is an intricate and dazzling work of fiction from the author of The Sea, The Sea and Under the Net, “one of the most significant novelists of her generation” (The Guardian).

Am stürzenden Pfad

Am stürzenden Pfad
Author: Franz Baermann Steiner
Publisher: Wallstein Verlag
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2000
Genre: German poetry
ISBN: 9783892444114

Comparative Criticism: Volume 16, Revolutions and Censorship

Comparative Criticism: Volume 16, Revolutions and Censorship
Author: E. S. Shaffer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1994-10-27
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521471992

This 1994 book addresses literary theory and criticism, comparative studies in terms of theme, genre movement and influence, and interdisciplinary perspectives.