Notwithstanding the challenges of a limited population size and the struggle to fund such costly forms of screen production as high-end film and television, both of these New Zealand screen industries have been the site of significant expectation, achievement and cultural influence.
At a time dominated by the disappearance of Future, as claimed by the French anthropologist Marc Auge, Utopia and Religion seem to be two different ways of giving back an inner horizon to mankind.
This volume seeks to recover a specific historical moment within the tradition of anthropologists trained in the United States under Franz Boas, arguably the father of modern American anthropology.
This book examines the cultural production of Catalan intellectuals in Cuba through a reading of texts and journeys that show the contrapuntal relationship between transcultural identities and narratives of nationhood.
This book explores the constitutional debates of the Year 3 of the French Revolution (also known as Year 1 of the French Republic) and the drafts for the Declaration and the Constitution of 1793.
It was not so long ago that the dominant picture of Kant's practical philosophy was forma-listic, focusing almost exclusively on his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals and Critique of Practical Reason.
Es werden Grundsatzfragen des Handelns im Alltag von Bauingenieuren insbesondere im Hinblick auf den derzeitigen Stellenwert und die Wahrnehmung moralischer Verantwortung erörtert.
This book focuses on Luis Frois, a 16th-century Portuguese Jesuit and chronicler, who recorded his impressions of Japanese gardens, cities and building practices, tea-drinking rituals, Japan's unification efforts, cultural traditions, and the many differences between Europe and Japan in remarkable manuscripts almost lost to time.
This book analyzes a large number of typical tulou buildings and compact communities in detail, and painstakingly studies the way of life practiced in these communities, their defense systems, building techniques, spatial features, antithetical couplets culture, and historical origins.
El presente trabajo intenta explicitar a partir de cada uno de sus artículos la intima relación existente entre la producción de indumentaria y los acontecimientos políticos, económicos, sociales y culturales que atraviesan cada período estudiado.
This book introduces a ten-year-long design research project in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD), China, based on international cooperation studios, design workshops, a Ph.
El libro que se presenta al lector, no pretende contemplar la historia de Bogotá en su totalidad, simplemente se contenta con presentar algunas pinceladas sobre el largo recorrido de la ciudad a través de 450 años, deteniéndose en algunos pocos edificios, ciertas manzanas y unas pocas instituciones, sin pretender haber agotado el tema en ninguno de los apuntes que conforman esta recapitulación, conformada por diversos trabajos realizados por el autor en el doble ejercicio de su actividad profesional del Arquitecto Restaurador y de su indeclinable interés por la historia de la Arquitectura.
The book discusses how division affect the fabric of cities, and people's sense of identity and agency, and are reflected in physical features, architecture, and urban planning.
This book shows, for the first time, the indispensable role of the Burford Masons, a group of master masons from the historic quarries around Burford, Oxfordshire, in creating some of the foremost buildings of the 17th and early 18th centuries.
This book shows, for the first time, the indispensable role of the Burford Masons, a group of master masons from the historic quarries around Burford, Oxfordshire, in creating some of the foremost buildings of the 17th and early 18th centuries.
