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This book analyses the ways of conceptualising and interpreting the interaction between physical and metaphysical worlds in Polish folklore. A linguistic and anthropological analysis offered in this study focuses primarily on myth, ritual and symbol as reflected in language (dialect lexis, phraseology, speech acts). Employing the methodology and analytical tools of cognitive linguistics (preconceptual image schemas, cognitive scene, profiling of concepts, development of cognitive paths), the author reconstructs mental patterns at the heart of mythical thinking, linguistic actions and symbolic meanings, which reflect universal conceptual schemas and may serve as models for intercultural studies.

Folklore --- [2nd --- Agade --- Cognitive --- edition] --- extraterrestrial --- Four natural elements --- języku --- kulturze --- Linguistic --- Linguistic stereotypes --- Ludowe --- Masłowska --- Mediating --- Metaphysical worlds --- obcowania --- Otherworld --- Perspective --- Polish --- Polish folk --- polskiej --- Preconceptual image schemas --- reality --- revised --- stereotypy --- świata --- Symbolic thinking --- Wydawnictwo --- zaświatów

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Exemplary Bodies: Constructing the Jew in Russian Culture since 1880's explores the construction of the Jew's physical and ontological body in Russian culture as represented in literature, film, and non-literary texts from the 1880's to the present. With the rise of the dominance of biological and racialist discourse in the 1880's, the depiction of Jewish characters in Russian literary and cultural productions underwent a significant change, as these cultural practices recast the Jew not only as an archetypal "exotic" and religious or class Other (as in Romanticism and realist writing), but as a biological Other whose acts, deeds, and thoughts were determined by racial differences. This Jew allegedly had physical and psychological characteristics that were genetically determined and that could not be changed by education, acculturation, conversion to Christianity, or change of social status. This stereotype has become a stable archetype that continues to operate in contemporary Russian society and culture.

Jews in popular culture --- Human body in popular culture --- Body, Human, in popular culture --- Body image --- Russian literature --- Social aspects --- History and criticism. --- Russia (Federation) --- Intellectual life. --- Ethnic relations. --- Image, Body --- Imagery (Psychology) --- Mind and body --- Person schemas --- Personality --- Self-perception --- Human body --- Popular culture --- Literature --- Literary criticism --- Russian studies --- Jewish studies --- Film studies

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Offering an innovative perspective on early modern debates concerning embodiment, Alanna Skuse examines diverse kinds of surgical alteration, from mastectomy to castration, and amputation to facial reconstruction. Body-altering surgeries had profound socio-economic and philosophical consequences. They reached beyond the physical self, and prompted early modern authors to develop searching questions about the nature of body integrity and its relationship to the soul: was the body a part of one's identity, or a mere 'prison' for the mind? How was the body connected to personal morality? What happened to the altered body after death? Drawing on a wide variety of texts including medical treatises, plays, poems, newspaper reports and travel writings, this volume will argue the answers to these questions were flexible, divergent and often surprising, and helped to shape early modern thoughts on philosophy, literature, and the natural sciences. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Surgery --- Mind and body. --- Body image. --- History. --- Image, Body --- Imagery (Psychology) --- Mind and body --- Person schemas --- Personality --- Self-perception --- Human body --- Body and mind --- Body and soul (Philosophy) --- Mind --- Mind-body connection --- Mind-body relations --- Mind-cure --- Somatopsychics --- Brain --- Dualism --- Philosophical anthropology --- Holistic medicine --- Mental healing --- Parousia (Philosophy) --- Phrenology --- Psychophysiology --- Self --- Surgery, Primitive --- Medicine --- Psychological aspects --- Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, British History after 1450, History

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This book analyses the social and ethical implications of the globalization of emerging skin-whitening and anti-ageing biotechnology. Using an intersectional theoretical framework and a content analysis methodology drawn from cultural studies, the sociology of knowledge, the history of colonial medicine and critical race theory, it examines technical reports, as well as print and on-line advertisements from pharmaceutical and cosmetics companies for skin-whitening products. With close attention to the promises of ‘ageless beauty’, ‘brightened’, youthful skin and solutions to ‘pigmentation problems’ for non-white women, the author reveals the dynamics of racialization and biomedicalization at work. A study of a significant sector of the globalised health and wellness industries, Wellness in Whiteness will appeal to social scientists with interests in gender, race and ethnicity, biotechnology and embodiment.

Body image. --- Body image in women. --- Beauty, personal. --- Blacks --- Whites --- Skin --- Race identity. --- Bleaching --- Psychological aspects. --- Cutis --- Integument (Skin) --- Beauty, Personal --- Body covering (Anatomy) --- Race identity of whites --- Racial identity of whites --- Whiteness (Race identity) --- Race awareness --- Black identity --- Blackness (Race identity) --- Negritude --- Race identity of blacks --- Racial identity of blacks --- Ethnicity --- Beauty --- Complexion --- Grooming, Personal --- Grooming for women --- Personal beauty --- Personal grooming --- Toilet (Grooming) --- Hygiene --- Beauty culture --- Beauty shops --- Cosmetics --- Women --- Image, Body --- Imagery (Psychology) --- Mind and body --- Person schemas --- Personality --- Self-perception --- Human body --- Ethnic identity --- Psychology --- Race identity of white people --- Racial identity of white people --- White people --- Race identity of Black people --- Racial identity of Black people --- White persons --- Ethnology --- Caucasian race --- Black persons --- Negroes --- Black people

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"A magnum opus from one of Piaget's most important students. This books seeks to synthesize Piaget's psychology with findings in modern neuroscience to explain cognitive development"--

Cognition. --- Developmental psychology. --- Task analysis. --- Analysis, Task --- Evaluation --- Development (Psychology) --- Developmental psychobiology --- Psychology --- Life cycle, Human --- cognitive development --- endogenous --- mental --- or executive attention --- working memory --- mental processes in infancy --- task analysis of symbolic processes --- processing complexity --- theory of constructive operators --- neoPiagetian theory --- constructivism --- consciousness --- schemes or schemas --- cognitive neuropsychology --- intelligence --- developmental stages --- schemes --- theory of development --- epistemology --- dialectics --- abstraction --- dialectical constructivism --- reality resistances --- overdetermination --- mental attention --- causal theories --- equilibration --- accommodation --- constructivist learning --- functional invariants --- misleading versus facilitating situations --- learning paradox --- reflective abstraction --- mediation --- Piagetian conservation --- affect and emotion processes --- sensorimotor stages --- mental-attention in infancy --- emergence of symbolic function --- task analysis of infancy tasks --- cognitive versus affective schemes --- signals versus symbols --- consciousness in infants --- M-power versus M-demand trade-off --- theory of mind --- object permanence --- semiotics --- signalic versus symbolic function --- iconic versus indexical function --- distal versus proximal object --- chimpanzees' symbols --- intentionality --- types of schemes --- scheme learning --- sensorimotor versus symbolic executives --- hierarchical reinforcement learning --- operative schemes --- figurative schemes --- executive schemes --- resistances --- expectancies --- automatic or effortless attention --- type-1 versus type-2 thinking --- facilitating versus misleading situations --- mental flow --- automatic inhibition --- internal field factor --- mental or effortful attention --- affects a --- COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Developmental Psychology --- NEUROSCIENCE/Neuropsychology