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ISBN: 9781571811653 - Models and Mirrors Models and Mirrors
Don Handelman

ISBN10: 1571811656  ISBN13: 9781571811653
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Oct 1998
Ritual is one of the most discussed cultural practices, yet its treatment in anthropological terms has been seriously limited, characterized by a host of narrow conceptual distinctions. One major reason for this situation has been the prevalence... More

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ISBN: 9781859737804 - Nationalism and the Israeli State Nationalism and the Israeli State
Don Handelman

ISBN10: 1859737803  ISBN13: 9781859737804
Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd Berg Publishers
Edition: illustrated edition
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Apr 2004
National festivals, Military parades, Patriotic memorials. Such public events and tributes naturally bring to mind the idea of nationalism. But what is the cultural logic behind them? How does a country such as Israel facilitate state... More

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ISBN: 9781845457716 - Religion, Politics, and Globalization Religion, Politics, and Globalization
Galina Lindquist, Don Handelman

ISBN10: 1845457714  ISBN13: 9781845457716
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 30 Jan 2011
While social scientists, beginning with Weber, envisioned a secularized world, religion today is forthrightly becoming a defining feature of life all around the globe. The book as a whole explores the connections between religion and politics... More

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ISBN: 9781859737859 - Nationalism and the Israeli State Nationalism and the Israeli State
Don Handelman

ISBN10: 1859737854  ISBN13: 9781859737859
Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd Berg Publishers
Edition: illustrated edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Apr 2004
National festivals, Military parades, Patriotic memorials. Such public events and tributes naturally bring to mind the idea of nationalism. But what is the cultural logic behind them? How does a country such as Israel facilitate state... More

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ISBN: 9780195108453 - God Inside-out God Inside-out
Don Handelman, David Dean Shulman

ISBN10: 0195108450  ISBN13: 9780195108453
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Jul 1997
This book offers a new exploration of the mythology of the Hindu god Siva, who spends his time playing dice with his wife, to whom he habitually loses. The result of the game is our world, which turns the god inside-out and changes his internal... More

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ISBN: 9780195108446 - God Inside-out God Inside-out
Don Handelman, David Dean Shulman

ISBN10: 0195108442  ISBN13: 9780195108446
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Apr 1997
Siva, a Hindu god, plays dice with his wife, to whom he habitually loses. The result of the game is our world, which turns the god inside-out and changes his internal composition. This book aims to show the logic implicit in this theology of play... More

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ISBN: 9780521350693 - Models and Mirrors Models and Mirrors
Don Handelman

ISBN10: 0521350697  ISBN13: 9780521350693
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 23 Feb 1990
In this comparative study of public events, Professor Handelman investigates rituals as epistemological phenomena in their own right. He argues that any public event - including both ritual and related occasions - must first be comprehended... More

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ISBN: 9781845452827 - The Manchester School The Manchester School
T M S Evens, Don Handelman Evens, T M S Handelman, Don

ISBN10: 1845452828  ISBN13: 9781845452827
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 15 Sep 2006
Pioneered by Max Gluckman to demonstrate the way in which social practice and structure together constitute and are themselves constituted by the situational flow of social life, the extended case method became diagnostic of the Manchester School... More

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ISBN: 9781845450519 - Ritual in Its Own Right Ritual in Its Own Right
Handelman Don, Lindquist Gali Handelman, D Lindquist, G

ISBN10: 1845450515  ISBN13: 9781845450519
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 10 Jan 2005
Historically, canonic studies of ritual have discussed and explained ritual organization, action, and transformation primarily as representations of broader cultural and social orders. In the present, as in the past, less attention is given to the... More

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ISBN: 9780195665505 - Siva in the Forest of Pines Siva in the Forest of Pines
Don Handelman, David Sau Shulman

ISBN10: 0195665503  ISBN13: 9780195665505
Publisher: OUP India
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 05 Feb 2004
A god wanders into a forest of Himalayan pine trees. Human beings encounter this god and the meeting changes both parties. The god becomes more alive and emerges as the dancer - Nataraja - the most salient of his forms in south India. More