Product Description: This volume develops a unique framework to understand India through indigenous and European perspectives, and examines how it copes with the larger challenges of a globalized world. Through a discussion of religious and philosophical traditions, cultural developments as well as contemporary theatre, films and media, it explores the manner in which India negotiates the trials of globalization...read more

Product Description: This intriguing book engages with the concept of the body in its cultural context by acknowledging and demonstrating that the human body is understood differently in Western and Indian cultures. The contributors go on to show that any attempt to put forward a single concept of the body within Indian culture would be misleading...read more

Product Description: Challenging the idea that rituals are static and emotions irrational, the volume explores the manifold qualities of emotions in ritual practices. Focusing explicitly on the relationship between emotions and rituals, it poses two central questions...read more

Product Description: This fascinating volume offers a transdisciplinary and transcultural approach to understanding the senses by exploring themes in anthropologies of sound, sight, smell, taste, touch, and movement as expressed through aesthetic, perceptual, religious, and spiritual experiences...read more

Product Description: In pädagogischen Prozessen sind Dinge mit Menschen in vielfältiger Weise verwoben: von der räumlichen Sozialisation bis zum Erlernen von intelligenten Technologien. Der Band spürt diesen Verwicklungen von Menschen und Dingen in ihrer erziehungswissenschaftlichen Bedeutung nach...read more

Product Description: English summary: Life and death are inextricably intertwined. In order to lead a fulfilling life, it is essential to face up to its finite nature. The art of living and the art of dying have therefore been related since time immemorial...read more

Product Description: Unter dem Leitthema 'Die Bildung der Gefühle' werden in diesem Sonderheft der ZfE Gefühle als kulturelle Dispositionen in den Blick genommen, die gelernt, anerzogen und sozialisiert werden. Die institutionellen Kontexte, in denen eine solche Bildung und Erziehung von Gefühlen stattfinden, sind vielfältig...read more

Product Description: In this interdisciplinary anthology, essays study the relationship between the imagination and images both material and mental. Through case studies on a diverse array of topics including photography, film, sports, theater, and anthropology, contributors focus on the role of the creative imagination in seeing and producing images and the imaginary...read more

Product Description: Die Biowissenschaften haben in den letzten Jahren Erkenntnisse gewonnen, die im Kontext von Bildung und Erziehung auf großes Interesse gestoßen sind. In wie weit die Neuro- und die Verhaltenswissenschaften für die Erziehungswissenschaft theoretisch und empirisch relevant sind, ist bislang ungeklärt...read more

Product Description: " Educational anthropology constitutes a new and important field of education. It deals with central educational concepts from an anthropological perspective. As historical and cultural anthropology it takes into account the historicity and culturality of education...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Mimesis, the notion that art imitates reality, has long been recognized as one of the central ideas of Western aesthetics and has been most frequently associated with Aristotle. Less well documented is the great importance of mimetic theories of literature, theater, and the visual arts during the Renaissance and the Enlightenment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Die thematisch breit gefächerte Reihe umfasst Schriften zur Kunst- und Bildwissenschaft, Kulturgeschichte und Philosophie.