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Culture --- Popular culture --- Mass media and culture --- Study and teaching --- Mass media and culture. --- Study and teaching. --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- #SBIB:309H040 --- #SBIB:316.7C120 --- Populaire cultuur algemeen --- Cultuursociologie: algemene en theoretische werken --- Cultural studies --- Culture and mass media --- Culture - Study and teaching --- Popular culture - Study and teaching

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The aim of this enterprise is to assemble together in one volume works on various syntactic aspects of Arabic and Hebrew, in the hope that it will spur further comparative work within the Semitic family at the level of richness achieved in other language families such as Germanic and Romance. Although a substantial amount of work on the syntax of Arabic and Hebrew already exists in various forms, volumes of the type we have attempted are still practically non-existent. Moreover, apart from some notable exceptions, existing studies rarely take a systematic within-family comparative stance towards the phenomena they discuss, although cross-references between studies on Arabic and Hebrew are not uncommon. Obviously, we would ideally have preferred the volume to include papers on numerous other Semitic languages, including the languages of the Ethio­ Semitic branch as well as numerous spoken varieties of Arabic that have yet to be explored. Unfortunately, this was not possible due to circumstances beyond our control. We very much hope that the existence of this volume will make more inclusive volumes on the syntax of the Semitic languages only a matter of time.

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Recent droughts in Africa and elsewhere in the world, from China to Peru, have serious implications for food security and grave consequences for local and international politics. The issues do not just concern the plight of African peoples, but also our global ecological future. Global climatic changes become manifest initially in regions that are marginal or unstable. Africa's Sahel zone is one of the most sensitive climatic regions in the world and the events that have gripped that region beginning in the 1970's were the first indicator of a significant shift in global climatic conditions. This work aims to bring archaeology with the domain on contemporary human affairs and to forge a new methodology for coping with environmental problems from an archaeological perspective. Using the later prehistory of Africa as a comparison, the utility of this methodological strategy in interpreting culture change and assessing long-term response to current, global climatic fluctuations is examined and understood.

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'Re-imagining Cultural Studies' restores Williams to a central position in relation to the formation and development of cultural studies. This book is a reappraisal of the Williams approach.

Social evolution --- Historical materialism --- Culture --- Socialism and culture --- Study and teaching --- Williams, Raymond, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Historical materialism. --- Social evolution. --- Williams, Raymond. --- Social Change --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Culture. --- Williams, Raymond --- Political and social views. --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Cultural evolution --- Cultural transformation --- Culture, Evolution of --- Social aspects --- Uilʹi︠a︡ms, R. --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Dialectical materialism --- History --- Marxian historiography --- Evolution --- Social change --- Philosophy --- Culture - Study and teaching --- Williams, Raymond, - 1921-1988 - Criticism and interpretation --- Williams, Raymond, - 1921-1988

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Drawing on the theoretical work of Jacques Lacan, Marshall W. Alcorn Jr. formulates a systematic explanation of the function and value of desire in writing instruction. Alcorn argues that in changing the subject matter of writing instruction in order to change student opinions, composition instructors have come to adopt an insufficiently complex understanding of subjectivity. This oversimplification hinders attempts to foster cultural change. Alcorn proposes an alternative mode of instruction that makes effective use of students' knowledge and desire. The resulting freedom in expression - personal as well as political - engenders the recognition, circulation, and elaboration of desire necessary for both human communication and effective politics. Responding to James Berlin's reconception of praxis in the classroom, Theresa Ebert's espousal of disciplined instructions, and Lester Faigley's introduction of a postmodern theory of subjectivity, Alcorn follows both Lacan and Slavoj Žižek in insisting desire be given free voice and serious recognition. In composition as in politics, desire is the ground of agency. Competing expressions of desire should generate a dialectic in social-epistemic discourse that encourages enlightenment over cynicism and social development over authoritarian demands. With clarity and personal voice, Alcorn explains how discourse is rooted in primitive psychological functions of desire and responds to complex cultural needs. In its theoretical scope this book describes a new pedagogy that links thought to emotion and the personal to the social.

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