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The end of two illusions : Islam after the West
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ISBN: 0520976320 Year: 2022 Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press,

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Dismantling the myths that divide Islam and the West, this cutting-edge work of critical thinking proposes new ways to reread Islamic and world histories. Extending from the front-page news coverage of our daily lives back into the deepest and most revelatory histories of the last two hundred years and earlier, Hamid Dabashi's The End of Two Illusions is a daring, provocative, and groundbreaking work that dismantles the most dangerous delusions manufactured between two vastly fetishized abstractions: "Islam" and "the West." With this book, Dabashi shows how the civilizational divides imagined between these two cosmic binaries have defined their entanglement--in ways that have nothing to do with the lived experiences of either Muslims or the diverse and changing communities scarcely held together by the myth of "the West." Through detailed historical and contemporary analysis, The End of Two Illusions untangles the motivations that produced this global fiction. Dabashi demonstrates how "the West" was an ideological commodity and civilizational mantra invented during the European Enlightenment, serving as an epicenter for the rise of globalized capitalist modernity. In turn, Orientalist ideologues went around the world manufacturing equally illusory abstractions in the form of inferior civilizations in India, China, Africa, Latin America, and the Islamic world. The result was the projection of "Islam and the West" as the prototype of a civilizational hostility that has given false explanations and flawed prognoses of our contemporary history, with weaponized Islamophobia on one side and militant Islamism on the other as its most palpable manifestations. Dabashi argues it is long past time to dismantle this dangerous liaison, expose and overcome its perilous delusions, and reimagine the world beyond its shimmering mirage. The End of Two Illusions is the most iconoclastic work of critical thought and scholarship to emerge in recent memory, clearing the way toward a far more liberating imaginative geography of the world we share.


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Exploitation
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ISBN: 0691214514 Year: 1996 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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What is the basis for arguing that a volunteer army exploits citizens who lack civilian career opportunities? How do we determine that a doctor who has sex with his patients is exploiting them? In this book, Alan Wertheimer seeks to identify when a transaction or relationship can be properly regarded as exploitative--and not oppressive, manipulative, or morally deficient in some other way--and explores the moral weight of taking unfair advantage. Among the first political philosophers to examine this important topic from a non-Marxist perspective, Wertheimer writes about ordinary experience in an accessible yet philosophically penetrating way. He considers whether it is seriously wrong for a party to exploit another if the transaction is consensual and mutually advantageous, whether society can justifiably prohibit people from entering into such a transaction, and whether it is wrong to allow oneself to be exploited. Wertheimer first considers several contexts commonly characterized as exploitive, including surrogate motherhood, unconscionable contracts, the exploitation of student athletes, and sexual exploitation in psychotherapy. In a section outlining his theory of exploitation, he sets forth the criteria for a fair transaction and the point at which we can properly say that a party has consented. Whereas many discussions of exploitation have dealt primarily with cases in which one party harms or coerces another, Wertheimer's book focuses on what makes a mutually advantageous and consensual transaction exploitive and analyzes the moral and legal implications of such exploitation.


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Why People Obey the Law
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ISBN: 1400828600 Year: 2006 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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People obey the law if they believe it's legitimate, not because they fear punishment--this is the startling conclusion of Tom Tyler's classic study. Tyler suggests that lawmakers and law enforcers would do much better to make legal systems worthy of respect than to try to instill fear of punishment. He finds that people obey law primarily because they believe in respecting legitimate authority. In his fascinating new afterword, Tyler brings his book up to date by reporting on new research into the relative importance of legal legitimacy and deterrence, and reflects on changes in his own thinking since his book was first published.


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On justification : economies of worth
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ISBN: 1400827140 Year: 2006 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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A vital and underappreciated dimension of social interaction is the way individuals justify their actions to others, instinctively drawing on their experience to appeal to principles they hope will command respect. Individuals, however, often misread situations, and many disagreements can be explained by people appealing, knowingly and unknowingly, to different principles. On Justification is the first English translation of Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thevenot's ambitious theoretical examination of these phenomena, a book that has already had a huge impact on French sociology and is likely to h.

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Social sciences --- Economics --- Justification (Theory of knowledge) --- Philosophy. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Abjection. --- Acquiescence. --- Ad hominem. --- Ambiguity. --- Anecdote. --- Antinomy. --- Apathy. --- Arbitrariness. --- Attempt. --- Calculation. --- Common good. --- Competition (economics). --- Concurrence. --- Consciousness. --- Consideration. --- Conspiracy of silence (expression). --- Controversy. --- Criticism. --- Critique. --- Deliberation. --- Denunciation. --- Determination. --- Divine law. --- Division of labour. --- Double Movement. --- Economics. --- Etiquette. --- Eugenics. --- Explanation. --- Externality. --- Externalization. --- False consciousness. --- Fraud. --- Hedonism. --- Holism. --- Honour. --- Household. --- Hypocrisy. --- Hypothesis. --- Impasse. --- Impossibility. --- Impulsivity. --- Individualism. --- Information asymmetry. --- Institution. --- Know-how. --- Legitimacy (political). --- Liberalism. --- Medium of exchange. --- Michael Polanyi. --- Morality. --- Multitude. --- Necessity. --- Obedience (human behavior). --- Obscenity. --- Obsolescence. --- Occam's razor. --- Opportunism. --- Paternalism. --- Political philosophy. --- Politique. --- Prejudice. --- Pride. --- Principle. --- Public morality. --- Public opinion. --- Public sphere. --- Relativism. --- Religion. --- Requirement. --- Result. --- Rhetoric. --- Science. --- Scientism. --- Self-control. --- Self-deception. --- Self-interest. --- Self-love. --- Slavery. --- Social criticism. --- Social science. --- Sociology. --- Sovereignty. --- State of nature. --- Superiority (short story). --- Synderesis. --- Synecdoche. --- The Philosopher. --- Theory of Forms. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Torture. --- Uncertainty. --- Union Movement. --- Uniqueness. --- Utilitarianism. --- Value (ethics). --- Wealth. --- Writing. --- Émile Durkheim.

Enemy in the Mirror
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ISBN: 0691058431 069105844X 1282753819 9786612753817 1400823234 140081152X 9781400823239 9780691058443 9780691058436 Year: 2001 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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A firm grasp of Islamic fundamentalism has often eluded Western political observers, many of whom view it in relation to social and economic upheaval or explain it away as an irrational reaction to modernity. Here Roxanne Euben makes new sense of this belief system by revealing it as a critique of and rebuttal to rationalist discourse and post-Enlightenment political theories. Euben draws on political, postmodernist, and critical theory, as well as Middle Eastern studies, Islamic thought, comparative politics, and anthropology, to situate Islamic fundamentalist thought within a transcultural theoretical context. In so doing, she illuminates an unexplored dimension of the Islamist movement and holds a mirror up to anxieties within contemporary Western political thought about the nature and limits of modern rationalism--anxieties common to Christian fundamentalists, postmodernists, conservatives, and communitarians. A comparison between Islamic fundamentalism and various Western critiques of rationalism yields formerly uncharted connections between Western and Islamic political thought, allowing the author to reclaim an understanding of political theory as inherently comparative. Her arguments bear on broad questions about the methods Westerners employ to understand movements and ideas that presuppose nonrational, transcendent truths. Euben finds that first, political theory can play a crucial role in understanding concrete political phenomena often considered beyond its jurisdiction; second, the study of such phenomena tests the scope of Western rationalist categories; and finally, that Western political theory can be enriched by exploring non-Western perspectives on fundamental debates about coexistence.

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Islamic fundamentalism --- Rationalism --- Islamic countries --- Politics and government --- Islamic fundamentalism. --- Rationalism. --- #SBIB:031.IO --- #SBIB:321H91 --- #SBIB:316.331H330 --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Religion --- Belief and doubt --- Deism --- Free thought --- Realism --- Fundamentalism, Islamic --- Islamism --- Islam --- Religious fundamentalism --- Niet-specifieke politieke en sociale theorieën vanaf de 19e eeuw: islam, Arabisch nationalisme --- Godsdienst en politiek: algemeen --- -Muslim countries --- Politics and government. --- Islamic countries - Politics and government --- Alterity. --- Ambiguity. --- Anachronism. --- Anathema. --- Anthropomorphism. --- Anti-Oedipus. --- Anti-Western sentiment. --- Anti-imperialism. --- Antinomy. --- Apologetics. --- Assassination. --- Authoritarianism. --- Clash of Civilizations. --- Communitarianism. --- Criticism. --- Critique of ideology. --- Critique. --- Deductive reasoning. --- Deism. --- Demagogue. --- Despotism. --- Dialectical materialism. --- Dichotomy. --- Dictatorship. --- Disadvantage. --- Disenchantment. --- Emotivism. --- End of history. --- Ethnocentrism. --- Excommunication. --- False consciousness. --- False god. --- God. --- Great Satan. --- Hannah Arendt. --- Heresy. --- Heterodoxy. --- Hostility. --- Hypocrisy. --- Ideology. --- Idolatry. --- Impediment (canon law). --- Imperialism. --- Infidel. --- Injunction. --- Inner-worldly asceticism. --- Irrationality. --- Irreligion. --- Islam. --- Islamic extremism. --- Islamism. --- Islamization of knowledge. --- Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani. --- Jihadism. --- Legitimation crisis. --- Manichaeism. --- Materialism. --- Militarism. --- Modernity. --- Nihilism. --- Obscurantism. --- Oppression. --- Orientalism. --- Overreaction. --- Paradox. --- Political Order in Changing Societies. --- Political alienation. --- Political aspects of Islam. --- Political decay. --- Political philosophy. --- Political prisoner. --- Politics. --- Postmodern philosophy. --- Postmodernism. --- Prejudice. --- Protest vote. --- Qutb. --- Radicalism (historical). --- Radicalization. --- Rashid Rida. --- Reactionary. --- Rebuttal. --- Reformism. --- Religion. --- Seditious conspiracy. --- Separate spheres. --- Separation of church and state. --- Sharia. --- Skepticism. --- Social criticism. --- Sovereignty. --- Spiritual crisis. --- Superstition. --- The End of Ideology. --- Truism. --- Vagueness. --- Vulnerability. --- Wahhabism. --- Yellow Peril.


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Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders
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ISBN: 0691057419 069122837X Year: 2000 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University,

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Conservatism was born as an anguished attack on democracy. So argues Don Herzog in this arrestingly detailed exploration of England's responses to the French Revolution. Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders ushers the reader into the politically lurid world of Regency England. Deftly weaving social and intellectual history, Herzog brings to life the social practices of the Enlightenment. In circulating libraries and Sunday schools, deferential subjects developed an avid taste for reading; in coffeehouses, alehouses, and debating societies, they boldly dared to argue about politics. Such conservatives as Edmund Burke gaped with horror, fearing that what radicals applauded as the rise of rationality was really popular stupidity or worse. Subjects, insisted conservatives, ought to defer to tradition--and be comforted by illusions. Urging that abstract political theories are manifest in everyday life, Herzog unflinchingly explores the unsavory emotions that maintained and threatened social hierarchy. Conservatives dished out an unrelenting diet of contempt. But Herzog refuses to pretend that the day's radicals were saints. Radicals, he shows, invested in contempt as enthusiastically as did conservatives. Hairdressers became newly contemptible, even a cultural obsession. Women, workers, Jews, and blacks were all abused by their presumed superiors. Yet some of the lowly subjects Burke had the temerity to brand a swinish multitude fought back. How were England's humble subjects transformed into proud citizens? And just how successful was the transformation? At once history and political theory, absorbing and disquieting, Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders challenges our own commitments to and anxieties about democracy.

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Conservadurismo --- Democracia. --- Gran Bretaña --- Gran Bretaña --- Gran Bretaña --- Gran Bretaña --- Condiciones sociales --- Condiciones sociales --- Política y gobierno --- Política y gobierno --- Absurdity. --- Anti-Jacobin. --- Aristocracy. --- Atheism. --- Charles James Fox. --- Civility. --- Credential. --- Criticism. --- Deference. --- Dehumanization. --- Despotism. --- Disgust. --- Effeminacy. --- Enthusiasm. --- Equal opportunity. --- False consciousness. --- Farce. --- Freedom of speech. --- George Canning. --- Hairdresser. --- Hannah More. --- Hatred. --- Homosexuality. --- Honour. --- I Wish (manhwa). --- Indictment. --- Injunction. --- Insubordination. --- Invective. --- Irony. --- Jeremiad. --- Jews. --- Joseph Priestley. --- King Mob. --- Legislation. --- Literacy. --- Literature. --- Maria Edgeworth. --- Mary Hays. --- Mary Shelley. --- Mary Wollstonecraft. --- Masculinity. --- Misogyny. --- Monarchy. --- Mr. --- Mrs. --- Multitude. --- Newspaper. --- Nobility. --- Novelist. --- Pamphlet. --- Pamphleteer. --- Parody. --- Paternalism. --- Patriarchy. --- Patriotism. --- Persecution. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Pity. --- Poet laureate. --- Poetry. --- Political philosophy. --- Politician. --- Politics. --- Prejudice. --- Printing press. --- Proscription. --- Prose. --- Public opinion. --- Publication. --- Racism. --- Radicalism (historical). --- Rationality. --- Reflections on the Revolution in France. --- Religion. --- Resentment. --- Ridicule. --- Robert Southey. --- Samuel Johnson. --- Sedition. --- Sensibility. --- Skepticism. --- Slavery. --- Sneer. --- Social order. --- Social status. --- Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. --- Stupidity. --- Suggestion. --- Superiority (short story). --- Tailor. --- Tax. --- Thomas Paine. --- Tories (British political party). --- Whigs (British political party). --- William Cobbett. --- Workhouse. --- Writer. --- Writing.


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Capitalism and the Jews
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ISBN: 9780691144788 0691144788 9786612458040 069115306X 9786612936135 1400834368 1282936131 1282458043 9781400834365 9781282458048 9781282936133 Year: 2010 Publisher: Princeton, N.J.

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The unique historical relationship between capitalism and the Jews is crucial to understanding modern European and Jewish history. But the subject has been addressed less often by mainstream historians than by anti-Semites or apologists. In this book Jerry Muller, a leading historian of capitalism, separates myth from reality to explain why the Jewish experience with capitalism has been so important and complex--and so ambivalent. Drawing on economic, social, political, and intellectual history from medieval Europe through contemporary America and Israel, Capitalism and the Jews examines the ways in which thinking about capitalism and thinking about the Jews have gone hand in hand in European thought, and why anticapitalism and anti-Semitism have frequently been linked. The book explains why Jews have tended to be disproportionately successful in capitalist societies, but also why Jews have numbered among the fiercest anticapitalists and Communists. The book shows how the ancient idea that money was unproductive led from the stigmatization of usury and the Jews to the stigmatization of finance and, ultimately, in Marxism, the stigmatization of capitalism itself. Finally, the book traces how the traditional status of the Jews as a diasporic merchant minority both encouraged their economic success and made them particularly vulnerable to the ethnic nationalism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Providing a fresh look at an important but frequently misunderstood subject, Capitalism and the Jews will interest anyone who wants to understand the Jewish role in the development of capitalism, the role of capitalism in the modern fate of the Jews, or the ways in which the story of capitalism and the Jews has affected the history of Europe and beyond, from the medieval period to our own.

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Economic order --- Jewish religion --- Capitalism --- Jews --- Jewish businesspeople --- Nationalism --- Communism --- History --- -Jews --- -Jewish businesspeople --- -Communism --- 330.940089924 --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Bolshevism --- Communist movements --- Leninism --- Maoism --- Marxism --- Trotskyism --- Collectivism --- Totalitarianism --- Post-communism --- Socialism --- Village communities --- Jewish businessmen --- Businesspeople --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Market economy --- Economics --- Profit --- Capital --- Electronic information resources --- -Electronic information resources --- E-books --- AA / International- internationaal --- 338.313 --- 18 --- 323.1 --- Kapitalisme. --- Godsdienst --- Taalgebruik. Vragen rond nationaliteit, ras en taal. --- Taalgebruik. Vragen rond nationaliteit, ras en taal --- Kapitalisme --- Capitalism. --- Jewish businesspeople. --- Communism. --- Nationalism. --- History. --- Geschichte. --- Jews - History --- Adolf Hitler. --- Agudat Yisrael. --- Andrei Markovits. --- Anti-capitalism. --- Austria-Hungary. --- Backwardness. --- Bolsheviks. --- Bourgeoisie. --- Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. --- Center for Jewish History. --- Central Europe. --- Chaim Grade. --- Class conflict. --- Criticism of capitalism. --- Cultural capital. --- Democratic Leadership Council. --- Derek Penslar. --- Division of labour. --- Doctors' plot. --- Eastern Europe. --- Economic development. --- Economic history. --- Economics. --- Economist. --- Ernest Gellner. --- Ethnic group. --- Ethnic nationalism. --- False consciousness. --- For Marx. --- Friedrich Hayek. --- Germans. --- Harvard University. --- Haskalah. --- Hostility. --- Ideology. --- Immigration. --- Income. --- Industrial society. --- Industrialisation. --- Intellectual. --- International Monetary Fund. --- Jewish Bolshevism. --- Jewish history. --- Jewish identity. --- Jewish question. --- Jews. --- Joseph Schumpeter. --- Judaism. --- Labor Zionism. --- Labor theory of value. --- Legal fiction. --- Lev Kamenev. --- Liberalism. --- Lithuania. --- Marxism. --- Menasseh Ben Israel. --- Mensheviks. --- Middle class. --- Miklós Horthy. --- Milton Friedman. --- Modernity. --- Moneylender. --- Montesquieu. --- Nation state. --- Nations and Nationalism (book). --- Nazi Party. --- Nazism. --- New antisemitism. --- Nobility. --- Pale of Settlement. --- Peasant. --- Pogrom. --- Politics. --- Prejudice. --- Princeton University Press. --- Radicalism (historical). --- Romanticism. --- Rothschild family. --- Scholasticism. --- Self-interest. --- Simon Dubnow. --- Social science. --- Social theory. --- Sociology. --- Soviet Union. --- Sovietization. --- Stalinism. --- Tax. --- The Rothschilds (musical). --- Tradesman. --- Usury. --- Welfare. --- Western Europe. --- Working class. --- World War I. --- World War II. --- Zionism.


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Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas
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ISBN: 9781400851775 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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Sherpas are portrayed by Westerners as heroic mountain guides, or "tigers of the snow," as Buddhist adepts, and as a people in touch with intimate ways of life that seem no longer available in the Western world. In this book, Vincanne Adams explores how attempts to characterize an "authentic" Sherpa are complicated by Western fascination with Sherpas and by the Sherpas' desires to live up to Western portrayals of them. Noting that diplomatic aides at world summit meetings go by the name "Sherpa," as do a van in the U.K. built for rough terrains and a software product from Silicon Valley, Adams examines the "authenticating" effects of this mobile signifier on a community of Himalayan Sherpas who live at the base of Mount Everest, Nepal, and its "deauthenticating" effects on anthropological representation. This book speaks not only to anthropologists concerned with ethnographic portrayals of Otherness but also to those working in cultural studies who are concerned with ethnographically grounded analyses of representations. Throughout Adams illustrates how one might undertake an ethnography of transnationally produced subjects by using the notion of "virtual" identities. In a manner informed by both Buddhism and shamanism, virtual Sherpas are always both real and distilled reflections of the desires that produce them.

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Sherpa (Nepalese people) --- Ethnology --- Sherpa. --- Nepal --- Nepal. --- Moeurs et coutumes. --- Sherpas --- Bhotia (Tibetan people) --- Cộng hòa dân chủ liên bang Nepal --- Demokratische Bundesrepublik Nepal --- Federacia Demokratia Respubliko Nepalo --- Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal --- Federale Democratische Republiek Nepal --- Federativnai͡a Demokraticheskai͡a Respublika Nepal --- Federatyvna Demokratychna Respublika Nepal --- Kingdom of Nepal --- Kongeriget Nepal --- Nepā --- Nepal Adhirajya --- Nepāla --- Nepālas Federālā Demokrātiskā Republika --- Nepalgo Errepublika Demokratiko Federala --- Nepali Demokraatlik Liitvabariik --- Nepalia --- Nepalin demokraattinen liittotasavalta --- Nepalo --- Nepāru --- Ni-po-erh --- Nibo'er --- Nīpāl --- República Federal Democrática de Nepal --- República Federal Democràtica del Nepal --- République démocratique fédérale du Népal --- Respublika Nepal --- Sambandslýðveldið Nepal --- Sanghiya Loktāntrik Ganatantra Nepāl --- Savezna Demokratska Republika Nepal --- Namche Bazar (Népal) --- Lo Manthang (Népal) --- Mustang (Népal) --- Gyasumdo (Népal) --- Dolpā (Népal) --- Teraï --- Asie du Sud --- Aphorism. --- Attack dog. --- Avalokitesvara. --- Baksheesh. --- Bardo Thodol. --- Bhutan. --- Bodhi. --- Bodhicitta. --- Bodhisattva. --- Buddhahood. --- Buddhism and Hinduism. --- Buddhism. --- Buddhist cosmology. --- Buddhist philosophy. --- Buddhist texts. --- Butter lamp. --- Butter tea. --- Cannibalism. --- Cargo cult. --- Cretinism. --- Criticism of capitalism. --- Crossbreed. --- Dalai Lama. --- Deity. --- Doonesbury. --- Ethnography. --- Exorcism. --- Externality. --- False consciousness. --- Great Goddess. --- Heart Sutra. --- Hermann Broch. --- Heterotopia (space). --- Hillbilly. --- Himalayan Trust. --- Hungry ghost. --- Hypothyroidism. --- Impediment (canon law). --- Impermanence. --- Impossibility. --- Jargon. --- Jean Baudrillard. --- Kalachakra. --- Kathmandu. --- Khumbu. --- Madame Bovary. --- Mahayana. --- Marshall Sahlins. --- Mary Douglas. --- Michael Tobias. --- Mimesis. --- Mohan Lal (Zutshi). --- Monastery. --- Mongols. --- Mountain pass. --- Mountaineering. --- Mudra. --- Nagarjuna. --- Orientalism. --- Ownership (psychology). --- Padmasambhava. --- Perfection of Wisdom. --- Physician. --- Quentin Skinner. --- Racism. --- Religion. --- Rinpoche. --- Sa?sara. --- Severity (video game). --- Shamanism. --- Shangri-La. --- Sherpa people. --- Snow Lion. --- Sonam (actress). --- Spirit King. --- Sutra. --- Tantra. --- Tengboche. --- Thangka. --- The Monastery (TV series). --- Thick description. --- Thomas Carlyle. --- Three Jewels. --- Tibet House. --- Tibetan Buddhism. --- Tibetan culture. --- Tibetan diaspora. --- Tibetan literature. --- Tibetan people. --- Transnationalism. --- Tulku. --- University of Arizona Press. --- Vajradhara. --- Vajrasattva. --- Vajrayana. --- Vihara. --- Vulture Peak. --- Wilderness medicine (practice). --- Yaksha. --- Yogi.

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