Relative Points of View

Relative Points of ViewThe relationship between language and various kinds of non linguistic behavior has been of great fascination for many of those working in the fields of cultural anthropology, linguistics, and philosophy, or, broadly understood, cultural studies. The authors in this volume explore this relationship in a number of cultures and social contexts and discuss the problem of linguistic relativism and its application to several areas of social interaction

authenticity

Auroville's eventual takeover and the promotion of its goals by the Indian government leads to a thought-provoking discussion of the meaning of "secularism" in India

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Judith Wynne caters to a modern audience while preserving the original beauty of Catherine Louisa Pirkis’ work

the essays in Perpetual Adolescence examine the Jungian archetype of the "eternal youth"-the puer aeternus-as it is manifested in the arrested development of American culture

and Pierre Bourdieu

and sex on sleep in a brand-new chapter

plant damage and ecology

Appalachians

this interdisciplinary collection explores a wide range of utopias and dystopias in film and literature

as actors that are involved in politics but are also affected by political processes

Struggling to maintain his clinic