Tahitians: Mind and Experience in the Society Islands

Anthropology, Psychology, Tahitian Studies, Pacific Islands Studies, Cultural Studies

Tahitians: Mind and experience in the Society Islands

Levy, Robert I.

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This seminal work in several fields—person-centered anthropology, comparative psychology, and social history—documents the inner life of the Tahitians with sensitivity and insight. At the same time Levy reveals the ways in which private and public worlds interact. Tahitians is an ethnography focused on private but culturally organized behavior resulting in a wealth of material for the understanding of the interaction among historical, cultural, and personal spheres. "This is a unique addition to anthropological literature. . . . No review could substitute for reading it."—Margaret Mead, American Anthropologist

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

University of Chicago Press

Anthropology

Translation of Rayer's major work on Kidneys and Urinary Diseases along with critical essays.

Pierre Rayer's Traite des Maladies des Reins et les Alterations de la Secretion Urinaire

Levy, David B.

Science & Math

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Mesocosm is a study of Hinduism in its most fully realized form as a symbolic system for organizing the life of a particular kind of city—what the author terms an "archaic" city. The work is a detailed description and analysis of the symbolic world of Bhaktapur, a unicultural city in the Kathmandu Valley, a city which is perhaps the last surviving example of a type of organization once widespread in the ancient world.Robert Levy views Bhaktapur as a structured "mesocosm," mediating between the microcosm of individual self-conception and the macrocosm of the culturally conceived larger universe. The city is a bounded entity, grounded on a minutely divided and interrelated sacrilized space. It uses that space, roles assigned by an elaborate caste system, a semantically differentiated pantheon, and the tempos and forms of the festival year and rites of passage to construct a "civic dance," a web of communication and instruction which deeply affects the experience of Bhaktapur's citizens. Levy investigates the meaning of the community to the people who live there and suggests how the religious forms that have challenged Hinduism in South Asia—Christianity and, above all, Islam—are profoundly antithetical to Hinduism as the organizing principle for cities such as Bhaktapur. Mesocosm is a groundbreaking contribution to anthropology, social and religious history, and Indian and Nepalese studies.

Mesocosm: Hinduism and the Organization of a Traditional Newar City in Nepal

History

Asia

University of California Press

Essays in the History of Nephrology is the second in a five-volume series in Medical Humanities, which attempt to make physicians more compassionate, caring, empathetic and better devoted to the calling of enhancing longevity and quality of life, doing no harm, and eliminating pain, while simultaneously striving for the ideal physician as a well rounded, multi-facted, versatile, diversely talented practitioner with a wide breadth of intellectual interests: in other words, "a Renaissance man." The ten essays in this volume deepen our understanding of the research of Richard Bright, Sir Robert Christison, Pierre Rayer, Sir William Osler, and others. They apply the methods of the discipline of history, drawing on primary and secondary sources, as it relates to the uncovering the modern evolution from the 18th to 20th centuries of major breakthroughs, turning points, paradigm shifts, and widening of areas of knowledge in the evolution of nephrology in the field of medicine.

Essays in the History of Nephrology

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Tahitians: Mind and experience in the Society Islands

Tahitians: Mind and Experience in the Society Islands

Tahitians: Mind and Experience in the Society Islands

Pierre Rayer's Traite des Maladies des Reins et les Alterations de la Secretion Urinaire

Mesocosm: Hinduism and the Organization of a Traditional Newar City in Nepal

Essays in the History of Nephrology