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The book provides an extensive range of coverage, as well as theoretic perspectives on the historical development of African prose, literature of the absurd, and other aspects of literary theory.

The work begins with a four-chapter section surveying theoretical aspects of the African short story.

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Mohiniyattam dance is a semeiotic system replete with controversy, embodied gender ideals, and cultural information. Tradition and Transformation in Mohiniyattam Dance: An Ethnographic Historyexamines the emergence of Mohiniyattam dance in relation to its historical and cultural context with a particular focus on the semiotics of femininity.

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Hebrew tradition presents Haggai and Zechariah as prophetic figures arising in the wake of the Babylonian exile with an agenda of restoration for the early Persian period community in Yehud. This book investigates uses of the Hebrew tradition in the early Persian period as represented by the prophetic corpora of Haggai and Zechariah 1-8.

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In this volume, Xin Ren presents the tradition of law in China as an exception to the Western model of social control. She considers the Maoist concept of revolutionary justice and the tradition of conformist acculturation in China.

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This book compares and contrasts the ideas of some of the leading twentieth-century critics of rationalism: Gadamer, Hayek, Kolnai, MacIntyre, Oakeshott, Polanyi, Ryle, Voegelin, and Wittgenstein. This book provides important insights into this major intellectual trend of the past century.

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This book tells the story of the battles that flared over Baltimores attempts to use hon to construct a citywide local tradition and their consequences for the future of local culture in the United States.

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"Traditional Building Materials".

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This book provides a historically, socially, and culturally-contextualized portrayal of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as a complementary and alternative medical profession in the United States.

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With contributions by some of the best and most significant contemporary Korean philosophers, this important volume provides an overview of the different debates, problems, figures and periods that make up traditional Korean Buddhist and Confucian thought. The book highlights ...

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With contributions by some of the best and most significant contemporary Korean philosophers, this important volume provides an overview of the different debates, problems, figures and periods that make up traditional Korean Buddhist and Confucian thought. The book highlights ...

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This volume describes the traditional vocal and instrumental music of the Lao-speaking people living in Northeast Thailand. Beginning with a description of the cultural and historical contexts of this music, Miller continues with an overview of Northeast Thai music, its instruments, concepts, and certain proto-musical genres.

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Explores the Pentateuch's literary influence on other biblical texts.

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Explores the Pentateuch's literary influence on other biblical texts. After demonstrating this independence, this study explores its implications on the composition of biblical texts and the process of canonization.

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By examining both tragedy and the theoretical responses to tragedy, this study demonstrates that the definition of tragedy depends on the meaning perceived by an audience rather than on a structured stimulus independent of response;

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This book examines Whiteheads process aesthetics focusing the penumbral beauty of darkness and the tragic beauty of perishability, while establishing parallels with the Japanese sense of evanescent beauty. It clarifies how both traditions develop a religio-aesthetic vision of tragic beauty and its reconciliation in the supreme ecstasy of peace.

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This book examines Whitehead's process aesthetics focusing the penumbral beauty of darkness and the tragic beauty of perishability, while establishing parallels with the Japanese sense of evanescent beauty. It clarifies how both traditions develop a religio-aesthetic vision of tragic beauty and its reconciliation in the supreme ecstasy of peace.

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