| Description |
1 online resource (280 pages) |
| Series |
Challenges of Life: Essays on philosophical and cultural anthropology ; v. 4 |
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Challenges of life.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Preface / Melville, Gert / Ruta, Carlos -- Contents -- General Aspects -- There is no "Being Itself" Beyond Beings -- The Progressive Oblivion of an Original Metaphysics / Gianneschi, Horacio A. -- The Beyond: Death, Aesthetics and Phenomenology / Casares, Santiago González -- Beyonds, Factishes, and Fetishes / Lazzari, Axel C. -- Beyond the Self Circle / Ruta, Carlos Rafael -- Spirit World as the Beyond from an Anthropological Perspective / Ludueña, Gustavo A. -- Beyond the Species, or the 'Beyond' of Human Life? / Jer, Sandra Baquedano -- Historical Structures -- The Question of Beyond / San Martín, Jaime I. Araos -- Ideas -- Presences -- Practices / Vogt-Spira, Gregor -- The Horror of Flawlessness / Sonntag, Jörg -- Living with Demons / Breitenstein, Mirko -- Transcendences in the Italian Renaissance / Burucúa, José Emilio -- Cultural Identities -- The Mission as "Beyond" and Beyond the Mission / Wilde, Guillermo -- Expelling Demons and Attracting Demons in Jewish Magical Texts / Bohak, Gideon -- Many Paths, Many Souls: Traditional Chinese Views of the Other World / Kleeman, Terry -- Liberation through Realizing the Emptiness of Dependent Origination / Mathes, Klaus-Dieter -- Here, There, and "Beyond" -- Japanese Views on the Afterlife / Kleeman, Faye -- Can the Metaphysical Be Rationally Proven? / Shavit, Uriya -- Ontological Thresholds in Contemporary Shamanisms / Wright, Pablo -- The Beyond as Partner of the Here and Now -- About the Authors |
| Summary |
How have different civilizations throughout different epochs mastered fundamental challenges of life? The series analyses the basic questions of cultural anthropology. All epochs and the most significant civilizations worldwide, as well as different epistemological aspects including historical sciences, sociology, ethnology, art, literature and philosophy are brought together |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ethnohistory.
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ethnohistory.
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HISTORY / General.
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Ethnohistory
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ruta, Carlos
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| ISBN |
9783110530773 |
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3110530775 |
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