Vital Relations

Author : Jean Dennison
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469676982
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vital Relations written by Jean Dennison and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2024-04-10 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relationality is a core principle of Indigenous studies, yet there is relatively little work that assesses what building relations looks like in practice, especially in the messy context of Native nations' governance. Focusing on the unique history and context of Osage nation building efforts, this insightful ethnography provides a deeper vision of the struggles Native nation leaders are currently facing. Exploring the Osage philosophy of moving to a new country as a framework for relational governance, Jean Dennison shows that for the Osage, nation building is an ongoing process of reworking colonial constraints to serve the nation's own ends. As Dennison argues, Osage officials have undertaken deliberate changes to strengthen Osage relations to their language, self-governance, health, and land—core needs for a people to thrive now and into the future. Scholars and future Indigenous leaders can learn from the Osage Nation's past challenges, strategies, and ongoing commitments to better enact the difficult work of Indigenous nation building.

Author : Susan McKinnon
Publisher : School for Advanced Research Press
ISBN 13 : 9781938645013
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vital Relations written by Susan McKinnon and published by School for Advanced Research Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 150 years, theories of social evolution, development, and modernity have been unanimous in their assumption that kinship organizes simpler, "traditional," pre-state societies but not complex, "modern," state societies. And these theories have been unanimous in their presupposition that within modern state-based societies kinship has been relegated to the domestic domain, has lost its economic and political functions, has retained no organizing force in modern political and economic structures and processes, and has become secularized and rationalized. Vital Relations challenges these notions. It will be of interest to anyone who wishes to gain a different perspective on the concept of modernity itself, and on the place of kinship and "family" in modern life.

Author : Susan McKinnon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781938645068
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vital Relations written by Susan McKinnon and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940100417X
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Energies, Forces and the Shaping of Life: Vital, Existential written by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of life consists in a constructive becoming (see Analecta Husserliana vol. 70). Though caught up in its relatively stable, stationary intervals manifesting the steps of its accomplishments that our attention is fixed. In this selection of studies we proceed, in contrast, to envisage life in the Aristotelian perspective in which energia, forces, and dynamisms of life at work are at the fore. Startling questions emerge: `what distinction could be drawn between the prompting forces of life and its formation? Or, is this distinction a result of our transcendental faculties?' The answers to these questions reveal themselves, as Tymieniecka proposes, at the phenomenologically ontopoietic level of life's origination where transcendentality surges.

Author : Kristina M. Lyons
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478009209
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vital Decomposition written by Kristina M. Lyons and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Colombia, decades of social and armed conflict and the US-led war on drugs have created a seemingly untenable situation for scientists and rural communities as they attempt to care for forests and grow non-illicit crops. In Vital Decomposition Kristina M. Lyons presents an ethnography of human-soil relations. She follows state soil scientists and peasants across labs, greenhouses, forests, and farms and attends to the struggles and collaborations between farmers, agrarian movements, state officials, and scientists over the meanings of peace, productivity, rural development, and sustainability in Colombia. In particular, Lyons examines the practices and philosophies of rural farmers who value the decomposing layers of leaves, which make the soils that sustain life in the Amazon, and shows how the study and stewardship of the soil point to alternative frameworks for living and dying. In outlining the life-making processes that compose and decompose into soil, Lyons theorizes how life can thrive in the face of the violence, criminalization, and poisoning produced by militarized, growth-oriented development.

Author : National Educational Association (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1120 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the National Educational Association written by National Educational Association (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : National Education Association of the United States
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1118 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of Proceeding and Addresses written by National Education Association of the United States and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1866-70 include Proceedings of the American Normal School Association; 1866-69 include Proceedings of the National Association of School Superintendents; 1870 includes Addresses and journal of proceedings of the Central College Association.

Author : National Educational Association (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1120 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of Proceedings, and Addresses written by National Educational Association (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barbara Dancygier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107782775
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Figurative Language written by Barbara Dancygier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively introduction to figurative language explains a broad range of concepts, including metaphor, metonymy, simile, and blending, and develops new tools for analyzing them. It coherently grounds the linguistic understanding of these concepts in basic cognitive mechanisms such as categorization, frames, mental spaces, and viewpoint; and it fits them into a consistent framework which is applied to cross-linguistic data and also to figurative structures in gesture and the visual arts. Comprehensive and practical, the book includes analyses of figurative uses of both word meanings and linguistic constructions. • Provides definitions of major concepts • Offers in-depth analyses of examples, exploring multiple levels of complexity • Surveys figurative structures in different discourse genres • Helps students to connect figurative usage with the conceptual underpinnings of language • Goes beyond English to explore cross-linguistic and cross-modal data

Author : Benjamin C. Parris
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501764519
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vital Strife written by Benjamin C. Parris and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vital Strife examines the close yet puzzling relationship between sleep and ethical care in early modernity. The plays, poems, and philosophical essays at the heart of this book—by Jasper Heywood, William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, John Milton, and Margaret Cavendish—explore the unconscious motions of corporeal life and the drowsy forms of sentience at the boundaries of human thought and intentionality. Benjamin Parris shows how these writers, although trained under the Renaissance humanist paradigm of attentive care, begin to dissolve the humanist coupling of virtue with vigilance by giving credence to the vital power of sleep. In contrast to humanist thinkers who equated sleep with carelessness, these writers draw on the ancient Stoic principle of oikeiôsis—the process of orienting the living being toward its proper objects of care, beginning with itself—in asserting the value of sleep, while underscoring insomnia's threat to the ethical flourishing of persons and polity alike. Parris offers an important revaluation of Stoic philosophy, which has too often been misconstrued as renouncing feeling and sympathetic connection with others. With its striking new account of the reception of Stoicism and attitudes toward sleep and sleeplessness in early modern thought, Vital Strife reveals the period's mounting concern with the regenerative nature of physical life and its elaboration of a newfound ethics of care.