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Os ensaios reunidos neste livro abordam o tema do a priori, tal como ele ocorre no pensamento de Kant. Sendo este reconhecidamente o mais central e o mais óbvio dos temas da filosofia kantiana, ele é também, apesar disso, e talvez precisamente por isso, um dos menos estudados e dos menos compreendidos na sua amplitude e nas suas implicações, pelo que, apesar da muito familiar ocorrência e insistente invocação, ele continua sendo uma das expressões mais problemáticas e ambíguas do vocabulário kantiano. Kant conferiu a esse termo um significado técnico e uma função estratégica, como meio de superar a simples oposição entre o conhecimento puramente racional (analítico, a-priori) e o conhecimento empírico (sintético, a-posteriori), introduzindo uma nova modalidade de conhecimento formulado em juízos sintéticos a-priori, e assim capazes de garantir a universalidade e a necessidade e ao mesmo tempo a objetividade e o progresso efetivo do conhecimento.
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Almost forty years after the publication of Hobsbawm and Ranger’s The Invention of Tradition, the subject of invented traditions—cultural and historical practices that claim a continuity with a distant past but which are in fact of relatively recent origin—is still relevant, important, and highly contentious. Invented Traditions in North and South Korea examines the ways in which compressed modernity, Cold War conflict, and ideological opposition has impacted the revival of traditional forms in both Koreas. The volume is divided thematically into sections covering: (1) history, religions, (2) language, (3) music, food, crafts, and finally, (4) space. It includes chapters on pseudo-histories, new religions, linguistic politeness, literary Chinese, p’ansori, heritage, North Korean food, architecture, and the invention of children’s pilgrimages in the DPRK. As the first comparative study of invented traditions in North and South Korea, the book takes the reader on a journey through Korea’s epic twentieth century, examining the revival of culture in the context of colonialism, decolonization, national division, dictatorship, and modernization. The book investigates what it describes as “monumental” invented traditions formulated to maintain order, loyalty, and national identity during periods of political upheaval as well as cultural revivals less explicitly connected to political power. Invented Traditions in North and South Korea demonstrates that invented traditions can teach us a great deal about the twentieth-century political and cultural trajectories of the two Koreas. With contributions from historians, sociologists, folklorists, scholars of performance, and anthropologists, this volume will prove invaluable to Koreanists, as well as teachers and students of Korean and Asian studies undergraduate courses.
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Annotation A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society, Southwestern Lore is about as representative as such a miscellany could be. Bad men, razorbacked hogs, Mexican sheep-herders, treasure hunters, African Americans, cowboys both gringo and Mexican, plant life, songs, oil field, Indians--all find representation in the volume.
Superstition. --- Folk beliefs --- Traditions --- Folklore --- Religion
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Originally published in 1977. In this major work, an overview of the structure of historical writing, Maurice Mandelbaum clarifies some of the problems concerning the nature of history as a discipline, of what constitutes explanation in history, and whether historical knowledge is as reliable as other forms of knowledge. The work is divided into three parts. The first part provides an analytic account of different types of historical inquiry. The second treats at length the nature of causal explanation in everyday life and in science and considers the relation between causes and laws. The final part analyzes the concept of objectivity and estimates both the extent to which the inquiries of historians can be said to be objective and the limits of that objectivity in some types of historical accounts.
History --- Philosophy. --- History of philosophy, philosophical traditions
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The book discusses traditional Lithuanian calendar festivals, their development, rituals, and customs. It also focuses on the ways rural communities celebrated Christmas, St John’s Day, and St George’s Day, paying special attention to ancient rituals that are still practiced today. The reader will also find answers to the following questions: What is the difference between Shrovetide and other calendar festivals? Why can Easter, which reached Lithuania with Christianity, reveal the customs of early Lithuanians no worse than other traditional rural festivals of pre-Christian origin? The book is dedicated to everyone interested in traditional Lithuanian culture and customs.
Customs --- Traditions --- Lithuanian culture --- Calendar --- Ancients rituals
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This extraordinary book provides a snapshot of socialism throughout the Kádár regime in Hungary (1956-1989) and captures the essence of the world behind the ‘iron curtain’ in a stunning, and often stark, collection of photographs. Unfinished Socialism is a visually stunning anthropological study containing 450 photographs, many previously unpublished, which portray life in Hungary from every angle: from the May Day March to pop music and from the homeless to sport. With an introduction that will help the reader understand and appreciate the true meaning of the photographs, this political, social and cultural study of the Kádár years transports the reader back to a time of great significance in Hungary’s long and turbulent history.
Hungary --- Politics and government --- Anthropology. --- Customs. --- traditions.
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Biblical Figures --- Jewish Traditions --- Midrash --- Spirituality
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Professionals and Marginals in Slavic and Jewish Cultural Traditions is the annual publication of the Slavic & Jewish Cultures: Dialogue, Similarities, Differences's project for 2022. It includes papers from the international conference of the same name held in Moscow on December 1-3, 2021. The book includes twelve articles by Russian and Israeli scholars who work on the social and cultural role of professionals and marginals in various ethno-confessional traditions. The question of the perception of professionals in culture falls under the opposition "one's own/another's," where belonging to "one's own" or a "foreign community or class" becomes a defining marker. Traditionally, "social strangers," to which representatives of various professions belong, were assigned a special role in calendar, magical, and occasional rites. Thus, professionals and social marginals were not considered outcasts: society assigned them a particular place and role, delegating special cultural functions to them. Like previous publications in this series, Professionals and Marginals in Slavic and Jewish Cultural Traditions is notable for the large amount of field and archival material that it makes publically available for the first time.
History --- Jewish Cultural Traditions --- marginals --- Slavic Cultural Traditions --- professionals --- social strangers --- ethno-confessional dimensions
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Superstition --- Trials (Witchcraft) --- Occultism --- Witchcraft --- Folk beliefs --- Traditions --- Folklore --- Religion
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