Kolejny, jubileuszowy, numer „Orbis Linguarum” został przygotowany przez pracowników Instytutu Filologii Romańskiej i Instytutu Filologii Germańskiej UWr. Przeważają w nim teksty...więcej »
Książka, którą oddajemy w ręce czytelników, prezentuje wyniki badań kulturoznawców i socjologów. Nie ogranicza się bynajmniej do opisania historii sztuk cyrkowych, ale u...więcej »
No judgement of taste is innocent - we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu’s Distinction brilliantly illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world, focusing on the t...więcej »
The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twentieth century. It is out of this background that ...więcej »
Homi K. Bhabha’s 1994 The Location of Culture is one of the founding texts of the branch of literary theory called postcolonialism. While postcolonialism has many strands, at its heart lies t...więcej »
Książka dotyczy pracy uznanej za pierwszą polską monografię etnograficzną, zatytułowanej Okolica Za-dniestrska Między Stryiem i Łomnicą czyli Opis Ziemi i dawnych klęsk, lub odmian tey Okolicy; tud...więcej »
Mary Douglas is an outstanding example of an evaluative thinker at work. In Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo, she delves in great detail into existing arguments tha...więcej »
`Professor Douglas writes gracefully, lucidly and polemically. She continually makes points which illuminate matters in the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of science and help to show the...więcej »
Jako podstawę do rozważań na temat etnodizajnu mogłam wybrać twórczość ludową dowolnego regionu etnograficznego Polski. Jednak wziąwszy pod uwagę, że pierwsze wyraźne przejawy fascynacji ręk...więcej »
The end of the Cold War, which occurred early in the 1990s, brought joy and freedom to millions. But it posed a difficult question to the world's governments and to the academics who studied them: ...więcej »
The book brings flexible creative thinking through the analysis of the elements of the font, the grid, etc, including a more detailed design method through the interviews with famous designers. Mag...więcej »
Author, psychiatrist and scholar, painter, world traveler, and above all visionary dreamer, Carl Jung was one of the great figures of the twentieth century. A comprehensive compilation of his work ...więcej »
In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a b...więcej »
What do walking, weaving, observing, storytelling, singing, drawing and writing have in common? The answer is that they all proceed along lines. In this extraordinary book Tim Ingold imagines a wor...więcej »
The Psychology of Fashion offers an insightful introduction to the exciting and dynamic world of fashion in relation to human behaviour, from how clothing can affect our cognitive processes to the ...więcej »
In his 1997 work Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond marshals evidence from five continents and across 13,000 years of human history in an attempt to answer the question of why that history unfold...więcej »
Debt is one of the great subjects of our day, and understanding the way that it not only fuels economic growth, but can also be used as a means of generating profit and exerting control, is central...więcej »
A key theme of Gayatri Spivak's work is agency: the ability of the individual to make their own decisions. While Spivak's main aim is to consider ways in which "subalterns" – her te...więcej »
In Outline of a Theory of Practice, Bourdieu questions the preeminent ideas of social anthropologists such as Levi-Strauss who stressed the structural principles governing human action rather than ...więcej »
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