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Ghanian philosophical studies.. 3, Beyond cultures : perceiving a common humanity
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ISBN: 156518193X 9781565181939 Year: 2004 Publisher: Accra: The Ghana academy of arts and sciences,

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Encyclopedia of Japanese pop culture.
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ISBN: 0834803801 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York Weatherhill

Beneath the Crust of Culture : Psychoanalytic Anthropology and the Cultural Unconscious in American Life
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ISBN: 1417558687 9781417558681 9042008180 9789042008182 9401200890 Year: 2004 Publisher: Leiden; Boston : BRILL,

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In this book, the author presents a pioneering interpretation of culture as constituting a dynamic relationship between the visible "crust" and the elusive "core" of social life. He meticulously maps the role of the unconscious in shaping much of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He crosses and transcends disciplinary boundaries in studies of September 11, 2001, the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, the execution of Timothy McVeigh, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the 1999 Worcester, Massachusetts fire, and the eruption of hypernationalism and xenophobia in nations and workplaces - all as cultural phenomena with a psychodynamic core. He shows how the experience of loss in the face of massive social change often leads to equally massive defence against the experience of mourning. Beneath the Crust of Culture will be of interest not only for behavioural and social science professionals, but also for a lay public interested in understandings of culture deeper than the surface of the news and of official pronouncements.

Workers and narratives of survival in Europe : the management of precariousness at the end of the twentieth century
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ISBN: 0791460851 0791485110 1423739841 9781423739845 9780791460856 9780791485118 Year: 2004 Publisher: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press,

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Workers and Narratives of Survival in Europe explores the growing problem of job uncertainty in Europe at the end of the twentieth century. The management of professional precariousness is reconsidered against the backdrop of far-reaching social, economic, and political changes in Europe in recent decades, including: the instability of the traditional family; the emergence of new forms of parenthood; globalization of the economic sphere; attempts to impose a uniform pattern of culture; and the breakdown of borders with former Communist countries. The contributors utilize extensive field studies in both Western and Central Europe to understand the meaning of professional uncertainty, as perceived by its victims, and the strategies they develop to face it.

School-based mental health services : creating comprehensive and culturally specific programs
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ISBN: 1591470188 Year: 2004 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] American Psychological Association

Imaginative horizons : an essay in literary-philosophical anthropology
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ISBN: 0226118746 0226118738 9786612738395 0226118754 1282738399 9780226118734 9780226118741 9780226118758 9781282738393 6612738391 Year: 2004 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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How do people make sense of their experiences? How do they understand possibility? How do they limit possibility? These questions are central to all the human sciences. Here, Vincent Crapanzano offers a powerfully creative new way to think about human experience: the notion of imaginative horizons. For Crapanzano, imaginative horizons are the blurry boundaries that separate the here and now from what lies beyond, in time and space. These horizons, he argues, deeply influence both how we experience our lives and how we interpret those experiences, and here sets himself the task of exploring the roles that creativity and imagination play in our experience of the world.

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