Product Description: The Land of Remorse (La Terra del Rimorso, first Italian edition 1961) is a classic work by Ernesto De Martino, the founding figure of Italian cultural anthropology and ethnopsychiatry. Based on fieldwork conducted in the Salentine peninsula of Southern Italy in 1959, the study deals with the phenomenon of Apulian tarantism, a form of possession related to the belief in the bite of a mythical tarantula and its ritual cure in the tarantella dance...read more

How do people make sense of their experiences? How do they understand possibility? How do they limit possibility? These questions are central to all the human sciences. Here, Vincent Crapanzano offers a powerfully creative new way to think about human experience: the notion of imaginative horizons. For Crapanzano, imaginative horizons are the blurry boundaries that separate the here and now from what lies beyond, in time and space. These horizons, he argues, deeply influence both how we experience our lives and how we interpret those experiences, and here sets himself the task of exploring the roles that creativity and imagination play in our experience of the world. (view table of contents)

Examines the prevalance of fundamentalism and literalism in both the secular and religious life in America. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book discusses in richness and depth the problems that postmodern ideas and writings are currently going through. Writing and rewriting are central to the questions postmodern critique raises. Co-published with the Center for Advanced Studies.

Product Description: Treating subjects as diverse as Roman carnivals and Balinese cockfights, circumcision, dreaming, and spirit possession in Morocco, transference in psychoanalysis, self-characterization in teenage girls' gossip, Alice in Wonderland, and Jane Austen's Emma, dialogue models in hermeneutics, and semantic vertigo in Hamlet's Elsinore, these essays look critically at the inner workings of interpretation in human sciences and literary study...read more

Portrays, in narrative self-portraits, the whites of South Africa--English and Afrikaner--who constitute the ruling seventeen percent of the population and analyzes the effects of power on those who wield it

Product Description: First Edition. Full Number Line. Same day shipping. Vincent Crapanzano; The Hamadsha, a study in Moroccan Ethnopsychiatry.