Ny etc 1973 harper row (2 risultati)
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Da: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.Chris Fessler, Bookseller
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purple full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. vg+ / near fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. top edge of first 50 pages were partially untrimmed, had to be opened with a knife (looks a little rough), otherwise contents free of markings. price clipped dus…twrapper in vg+ / near fine cond. crease on front, scratch & 1cm edge tear on rear. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first u.s edition so stated. first printing (#1 in # line ~ at rear of book). xi+547p. bibliography. index of authors. index of subjects. index of principal movements, tribes & persons. religion. social science. world history. psychology. candombles. doukhobors. ghost dance. peyote colt. ras tafari. tenskwatawa. umbanda. yoruba. zulu. ~ In conditions of extremity men ask themselves: 'What is to be done?' 'What shall we do to be saved?' There are several possible answers. Two are both primary and primitive: the recourse to magic; and the belief in a new world order imposed from above, 'a millennium' as it is called in Christendom. These two responses to social distress and cultural shock are seen most vividly where 'ThirdWorld' peoples have felt the impact of the expanding West, where they have encountered modernity and interpreted it either as magic or as the millennium, or which, by magic or by faith in a millennium, they have sought to dispel. Yet magic does not work and the millennium does not come. In this study, Bryan Wilson shows what happens when magic proves inadequate and when prophecy fails. The two basic responses change, and men in the Third World find other modes of adjustment to the alien culture that has engulfed them. Using insights drawn from his earlier studies of sects in Western Christendom, the author shows how changing social needs give rise to these new religious responses: he examines newly arising religious movements from Papua to Brazil, and from the American Indian frontier to the West Coast of Africa. Rejecting both simple chronology and cultural peculiarities as an adequate guide to these movements, he seeks to make sense of them from a sociological perspective and provides theoretical unity and coherence to the study of fascinatingly diverse religious phenomena, ranging from Hau Hau to Mau Mau and from Peyotism to Pentecostalism. Students of social change ~sociologists, historians, political scientists and anthropologists~will find much of importance in this work, which will command no less attention from social psychologists and students of religion.
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Da: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.Chris Fessler, Bookseller
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EUR 90,53
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olive tan clothhardbound folio ~ 2º. very large("coffee table" size book), international or priority shipping will cost extra. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipp…ed. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~ first u.s. edition so stated. first printing (nap). ~ Please Note: book is larger than scanner so the photos are a bit cropped. color illustrated endpapers. glossy full color photo frontis. 208p. glossary of arabic and nuba words. further reading list. approximately 90 full and double~page glossy photo plates. b&w photo illustrations. world history. photography. african history. anthropology. art history. ~ The Nuba of the Kordofan in the Sudan~ specifically the Mesakin and Korongo Nuba~ are perhaps the most remarkable tribal group in Africa to have survived the enormous changes which have overcome the rest of the Continent. Well away from trade routes, remote in the arid mountains of the central Sudan from the disruptions of alien cultures and the meretricious ideas of Western man, these fragile groups of noble men have clung to their traditional culture with a rare and stubborn devotion, which has so far preserved them from the Arabization of so many of the people of that vast, but sparsely inhabited, area. Over a period of ten years, Leni Riefenstahl has lived on and off with the Mesakin Nuba, sometimes for several months at a time. Here she presents her remarkable record of the everyday rhythms of life; of eating, sleeping, building, gathering food and taking their leisure; of the great cycles of birth, marriage and death; and of the remarkable central factor of their culture and religion: the wrestling contest. It is, alas, a commonplace to represent a tribal group, whose life has evolved in an inspired and intimate harmony with their environment, as being on the brink of extinction. For all their physical magnificence, the Mesakin Nuba are indeed a fragile stem of the human race. But there will be perhaps no people in the world doomed to extinction as an ethnic entity who will have been survived, for so long as our civilization lasts, by a more devoted record such as Leni Riefenstahl has brought out from Africa. It was during Gerrneny's blighted and momentous 1930's that Leni Riefenstahl sprang to international fame as a film director. She was born in 1902, and her first devotion was to creative dancing. This led to her participation in silent films, and soon she was herself making ~ and starring in~ her own talkies, such as The Mountain (1929). These tensely romantic productions were widely admired, not least by Adolf Hitler who, having attained power in 1933, commissioned Riefenstahl to make a documentary on the Nuremberg Rally in 1934. Riefenstahl's refusal to submit to Goebbels' attempt to subject her visualisation to his strictly propagandist requirements led to a battle of wills which came to a head when Riefenstahl made her film of the 1936 Olympic Games, Olympia. This, Goebbels attempted to destroy; and it was only saved by the personal intervention of Hitler. With two of the most remarkable documentaries of the 1930's to her credit, Riefenstahl continued making films of her devising, unconnected with the rise of Nazi Germany, until 1941, when war conditions made it impossible to continue. Her acquaintance with the Nazi leadership led to her arrest at the end of the Second World War: she was tried twice, and acquitted twice. Her reputation was in eclipse, and she was half forgotten~ although to a whole generation of Germans her name had been a household word. During the 1950's she turned from moving pictures to photography, in which she soon began to excel through her unique vision and perfectionism. In the noble tribesmen of the arid areas of eastern and n.
