Transcultural Montage

Transcultural MontageThe disruptive power of montage has often been regarded as a threat to scholarly representations of the social world. This volume asserts the opposite: that the destabilization of commonsense perception is the very precondition for transcending social and cultural categories. The contributorsanthropologists, filmmakers, photographers, and curatorsexplore the use of montage as a heuristic tool for comparative analysis in anthropological writing, film,

it nevertheless stands out among the better ones

The text underscores some of the pan-Mesoamerican aspects of pre-Columbian peoples and the way each group interpreted underlying similarities to create individual customs and beliefs

Kiehn joined the Nazi Party in 1930 and obtained a number of influential posts after 1933

Sami Zubaida (‘Food: Egypt and the Middle East’)

An original analysis of the expanding and evolving role of technology in the social studies curriculum

Here at last is a book that attempts to look closely at the broad cultural and historical assumptions behind efforts to remake how we teach both composition and literature

He suggests that the Tabernacle's construction was part of a project focused on space

and assessments

Thorough analysis of rabbinic thought

Holographic dualities are at the forefront of contemporary physics research: peering into the fundamental nature of our universe and providing best attempt answers to humankind's bold questions about basic physical phenomena

and how it involves epistemology

complete with introductory essays and biographies of the composers