What is it to be human? What are our specifically human attributes, our capacities and liabilities? Such questions gave birth to anthropology as an... Læs mere
Devoted to his native village of Cookham-on-Thames, Stanley Spencer painted not only landscapes and portraits with loving detail but also the 'memory-feelings' which he felt were a 'sacred' part of his consciousness. This book deals with his life and work.
Focusing on the lives and works of eminent figures such as Levi and Nietzsche, anthropologist Nigel Rappaport shows how we can avoid the structures of ideology and institution through the formulation of 'life projects'.
Transcendent Individual argues for a reappraisal of the place of the individual in anthropological theory and ethnographic writing.
The significance that people grant to their affiliations as members of nations, religions, classes, races, ethnicities and genders is evidence of the vital need for a cosmopolitan project that originates in the figure of Anyone - the universal and yet individual human being.
This book offers the professional a rich source of ideas about the designed landscape, what these mean to us and how they acquired that significance. Key essays from landscape architects are presented with the authors current reflections.
Focusing on the lives and works of eminent figures such as Levi and Nietzsche, anthropologist Nigel Rappaport shows how we can avoid the structures of ideology and institution through the formulation of 'life projects'.
Rapport argues that anthropology should demonstrate a commitment to a liberal agenda through a reappraisal of the place of the... Læs mere