Representations of Muslims have never been more common in the Western imagination than they are today. Building on Orientalist stereotypes constructed over centuries, the figure of the wily Arab has given rise, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, to the "Islamist" terrorist. In Idols in the East, Suzanne Conklin Akbari explores the premodern background of some of the Orientalist types still pervasive in present-day depictions of Muslims—the irascible and irrational Arab, the religiously deviant Islamist—and about how these stereotypes developed over time.
Idols in the East contributes to the recent surge of interest in European encounters with Islam and the Orient in the premodern world. Focusing on the medieval period, Akbari examines a broad range of texts including encyclopedias, maps, medical and astronomical treatises, chansons de geste, romances, and allegories to paint an unusually diverse portrait of medieval culture. Among the texts she considers are The Book of John Mandeville, The Song of Roland, Parzival, and Dante's Divine Comedy. From them she reveals how medieval writers and readers understood and explained the differences they saw between themselves and the Muslim other. Looking forward, Akbari also comes to terms with how these medieval conceptions fit with modern discussions of Orientalism, thus providing an important theoretical link to postcolonial and postimperial scholarship on later periods. Far reaching in its implications and balanced in its judgments, Idols in the East will be of great interest to not only scholars and students of the Middle Ages but also anyone interested in the roots of Orientalism and its tangled relationship to modern racism and anti-Semitism.
Автор: Conklin Sarah Jane Название: Nesting Grounds ISBN: 0228817064 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780228817062 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2837.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The Hummingbird will build her nest,
The size? A ping pong ball.
Secured to twigs with spider silk,
This moss lined nest won't fall.
Sarah Jane has created 20 luminous oil paintings depicting 10 familiar birds nesting, and put them together in Nesting Grounds. Each bird has 2 devoted paintings: The female in her nest and the nest with eggs. Additionally, the clutches in each nest increases incrementally from one to ten-the Sparrow having one egg up to the Wood Duck having ten. A 4-line verse accompanies each image describing the nesting ground unique to each bird. This artistically rendered book is ideal for artists and birders of all ages, and is a wonderful introduction to the nesting grounds of common birds. Birds featured in Nesting Grounds: Sparrow, Hummingbird, Robin, Cardinal, Plover, Goldfinch, Snow Bunting, Nuthatch, Chickadee, Wood Duck. Sarah Jane delights in her natural surroundings. She is
inspired by the scenic beauty where she has lived, including her birthplace St. John's, Newfoundland. She draws immense enjoyment from watching birds visiting her back yard in Fall River, Nova Scotia.
To see more of Sarah Jane's paintings, visit her website: www.sarahjaneconklin.ca
Автор: Conklin Wendy Название: No Way! Amazing Acrobatics (Grade 7) ISBN: 1493836110 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781493836116 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1930.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Welcome to the world of extreme acrobatics! From parkour traceurs to Cirque du Soleil performers, students will be engaged as they read about these amazing feats. Featuring TIME content, this high-interest nonfiction reader builds literacy skills.
Описание: Revised edition of the most complete history of the New York Yankees in the 1960s. Yankee Pride chronicles how the New York Yankees won consecutive American League pennants during the first five years of the 1960s, then fell from glory starting in 1965, and landed in the American League cellar in 1966, going from league best to looking up at the rest in just two seasons. The story follows how the Yankees returned to respectability in the last three years of the decade, winning on pitching and defense rather than the power hitting that had been so synonymous with Yankee baseball in the team's glory days.Yankee Pride takes you year-by-year, month-by-month, even game-by-game, as the entire decade of triumph and struggle unfolds before your eyes. It includes player profiles of Mantle, Maris, Ford, Stottlemyre, Murcer and more, and includes over 200 photographs. Enjoy the memories.
Автор: Conklin Alice L Название: In the Museum of Man ISBN: 0801437555 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801437557 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 18533.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In the Museum of Man offers new insight into the thorny relationship between science, society, and empire at the high-water mark of French imperialism and European racism. Alice L. Conklin takes us into the formative years of French anthropology and social theory between 1850 and 1900; then deep into the practice of anthropology, under the name of ethnology, both in Paris and in the empire before and especially after World War I; and finally, into the fate of the discipline and its practitioners under the German Occupation and its immediate aftermath.Conklin addresses the influence exerted by academic networks, museum collections, and imperial connections in defining human diversity socioculturally rather than biologically, especially in the wake of resurgent anti-Semitism at the time of the Dreyfus Affair and in the 1930s and 1940s. Students of the progressive social scientist Marcel Mauss were exposed to the ravages of imperialism in the French colonies where they did fieldwork; as a result, they began to challenge both colonialism and the scientific racism that provided its intellectual justification. Indeed, a number of them were killed in the Resistance, fighting for the humanist values they had learned from their teachers and in the field. A riveting story of a close-knit community of scholars who came to see all societies as equally complex, In the Museum of Man serves as a reminder that if scientific expertise once authorized racism, anthropologists also learned to rethink their paradigms and mobilize against racial prejudice—a lesson well worth remembering today.
Автор: Conklin Alice Название: A Crown for a Princess ISBN: 1640881999 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781640881990 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2240.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Faith and Daniella are best friends. Their play time is spent walking by the lake, searching for frogs in the marsh, and letting their imaginations soar by watching the clouds. When Faith needs to be comforted, the girls have fun by trying on the princess gowns. Now they know the true joy--God's gift to them is A Crown for a Princess.
