Extreme Collecting

Extreme CollectingBy exploring the processes of collecting, which challenge the bounds of normally acceptable practice, this book debates the practice of collecting difficult objects, from a historical and contemporary perspective; and discusses the acquisition of objects related to war and genocide, and those purchased from the internet, as well as considering human remains, mass produced objects and illicitly traded antiquities. The aim is to apply a critical

Oil revenue vastly exceeds Hajj revenues-once a major source of Saudi income-but the Hajj continues to play an enormous role in the religious

Mauro Carbone begins with the point that Merleau-Ponty's often misunderstood notion of "flesh" was another way to signify what he also called "Visibility

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finds a letter he deems to be suspicious

It examines the effect that this has on us and how theatre and performance can try to counteract that effect

Despite the patriotic and collectivistic tint of the official dream metaphor

social science study using multi-sited ethnography and qualitative interviews with patients and medical professionals that analyses breast cancer experiences and how they are shaped by the interaction with biomedical

He explores the themes of the feminization of the Torah

Tanika Sarkar provides an account of gender prescriptions and proscriptions and their operation among various Indian religious communities

but few would suspect the engineer to have it in his possession

Brokenhearted

this book addresses all forms of racism from an historical