Douglas Understanding Everyday Life

Jack D. Douglas: Everyday Life: Reconstruction of Social Knowledge, Transaction Publishers (Viva) ,2010 ,London ISBN: 0202363597

Contents: Part One: Absolutist Sociologies and Phenomenological Sociologies 1. Understanding Everday Life Jack , 2. Alfred Schutz and the Sociology of Cmmon-sence Knowldege; Paperback

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Duss, Carolin: Theories of Witchcraft in Practice: F.G. Bailey s The Witch-Hunt, GRIN VERLAG, März 2010, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 364056636X
To most people growing up in a Western cultural setting, magic, sorcery and witchcraft hold a certain fascination. There always seems to be something mysterious, extraordinary, even risky to the named issues, probably because we just don't face them in everyday life.Anthropology shares this fascination for the following reasons: cross-cultural prevalence, frequent cultural prominence, paradoxical attributes, no doubt the attraction of the exotic, and the potential for testing theories about belief and social action (Levine 1982: 259). In this paper, I will focus mainly on the subject of witchcraft without disregarding important links to magic and sorcery. Central questions are: What is witchcraft Under what circumstances does witchcraft appear Why do people accuse others of it or confess to witchcraft themselves How does witchcraft relate to the social structure, economics, politics and personal affairs of the members of a society There have been different answers to those questions since the first papers on magic, sorcery, and witchcraft have been written in the late 19th and early 20th century. In chapter 2, I will therefore present a historical overview of the most important approaches in general which are also especially important for this study. Theories by Frazer, Tylor, Malinowski, Evans- Pritchard and Douglas will be sketched out. Beforehand I will try to discern the concepts of magic, witchcraft and sorcery in chapter 1 and name their most important aspects. This differ-entiation is important to do, since the meanings of the named terms have changed over the decades and there is still a bit of disaccord or confusion in the use and understanding of them today. In chapter 3, I will give a resume of the monography 'The Witch-Hunt; or: a Triumph of Morality' by F.G. Bailey which is based on his fieldwork in an Indian village in 1953. He uses several anthropological approaches to explain and interpret the exceptional events that have taken place, drawing on functional, structural and psychological theories. Also in chapter 3, I will point out how Bailey provides empiric examples for theories stated by great anthropolo- gists over the decades. Lastly, I will draw a conclusion and try to answer the questions I posed above.

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Witmer, Helen Leland (Ed.): Teaching Psychotherapeutic Medicine. An Experimental Course for General Physicians. Introductory Chapter by Geddes Smith. Third Printing (First Printing 1947). Cambridge, Harvard University Press. 1952.,
Umschlag stark berieben und bestossen, Einriss, papierbedingt gebräunt. - Beiträge von Walter Bauer, Douglas D. Bond, Henry W. Brosin, Donald W. Hastings, M. Ralph Kaufman, John M. Murray, Thomas A. C. Rennie, John Romano and Harold G. Wolff. The twenty-five representative physicians from Minnesota and nearby states (most of them in general practice) studied for two weeks, with seven psychiatrists and two internists, the meaning and value of the patient-physician relationship, the natural history of the personality, the significance of psychoneurotic behavior, and the ways in which everyday practice can be made more helpful and more rewarding by simple psychotherapy-in brief, the art of helping people whose trouble is emotional as well as physical. Meantime, by these methods, they treated patients who came to outpatient service with the everyday complaints that are ordinarily so hard to handle-headache, indigestion, backache, vague and persistent pains, fatigue, nervousness. They exchanged information about their experience with these patients and asked many questions which the instructors answered, sometimes at length. They came to feel, as a result of this course, that with greater understanding of human emotions and the physical expressions of emotional tension they could give better medical care to patients and get greater satisfaction in the practice of medicine. This running account, based on verbatim recording, contains all the principal teaching material of the course and much of the discussion. There are chapters on History-taking; the Patient-Physician Relationship; Normal Personality Development; the Meaning of a Psy-choneurosis; the Diagnosis of Psychoneurosis; Anxiety; Psychotherapy; Common Psycho-pathology; Life Situation, Emotions, and Disease; and discussions of various Clinical Problems including: A Patient with Backache, A Patient with Diverticula and Depression, A Patient with Disabling Pain, A Patient Facing Old Age, etc. -

Gr. 8°. IX, 464 Seiten. Originalleinen mit Umschlag (= A Commonwealth Fund Book).

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Lex Hixon (Author) & Neil Douglas-Klotz (Frwd) Illustrator: NA: The Heart of the Qur'an: An Introduction to Islamic Spirituality, Quest Books/ Theosophical Publishing House 2003 ISBN: 9780835608220

New Softcover 13 x 21 cm. "Neither as Christians or Jews, nor simply as intellectually responsible individuals,"says Hixon, "have members of Western civilization been sensitively educated or even accurately informed about Islam." As tensions between America and the Middle East grow, we should promote cross-cultural understanding, not violence. This new edition, with a new foreword and commentary by Neil Douglas-Klotz, allows the reader to drink from the illuminating fountain of the Holy QuraEUR anaEUR"the foundation of Islamic culture. First published in 1988, HixonaEUR s poetic meditations on over nine-hundred passages from the QuraEUR an show that they are not relics from the past but exist in a timeless present, communicating as vividly as when they were first uttered. Through clear and accessible language, Hixon illustrates how the teachings of Islam can be applied to contemporary everyday life issues such as love, relationships, justice, work, and self-knowledge. In addition to the selections themselves, the book contains readable, lively introductions to the tradition of Islam, its basic precepts, and what it says about other religions. As the first such work in English to be written by a Muslim, The Heart of the QuraEUR an continues to show that Islam is among the great wisdom traditions of humanity. Printed Pages: 270. 2nd edition

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