Charles Stewart

Demons and the Devil

The Travels Of Mizra Abu Taleb Khan In Asia, Africa, And Europe V2

In present-day Greece many people still speak of exotikNB--mermaids, dog-form creatures, and other monstrous beings similar to those pictured on medieval maps. Challenging the conventional notion that these often malevolent demons belong exclusively to a realm of folklore or superstition separate from Christianity, Charles Stewart looks at beliefs about the exotikNB and the Orthodox Devil to demonstrate the interdependency of doctrinal and local religion. He argues persuasively that students who cling to the timeworn folk/official distinction will find it impossible to appreciate the breadth and coherence of contemporary Greek cosmology. Like the medieval cartographers' fantasies, which were placed on the "edges" of the physical world, Greek demons cluster in marginal locations--outlying streams, wells, and caves. The demons are near enough to the community, however, to attack humans--causing illness or death, according to Stewart's informants. Drawing on an unusual range of sources, from the author's fieldwork on the Cycladic island of Naxos to Orthodox liturgical texts, this book pictures the exotikNB as elements of a Greek cognitive map: figures that enable individuals to navigate the traumas and ambiguities of life. Stewart also examines the social forces that have by turns disposed the Greek people to embrace these demons as indicative of links with the classical past or to eschew them as signs of backwardness and ignorance.

Moral Imagination in Modern Greek Culture

Renowned scholars give the term "creolization" historical and theoretical specificity by examining the very different domains and circumstances in which the process takes place.

History, Ethnography, Theory

Creolization

Jeffery A. Jenkins

The Speaker of the House of Representatives is the most powerful partisan figure in the contemporary U.S. Congress. How this came to be, and how the majority party in the House has made control of the speakership a routine matter, is far from straightforward. Fighting for the Speakership provides a comprehensive history of how Speakers have been elected in the U.S. House since 1789, arguing that the organizational politics of these elections were critical to the construction of mass political parties in America and laid the groundwork for the role they play in setting the agenda of Congress today. Jeffery Jenkins and Charles Stewart show how the speakership began as a relatively weak office, and how votes for Speaker prior to the Civil War often favored regional interests over party loyalty. While struggle, contention, and deadlock over House organization were common in the antebellum era, such instability vanished with the outbreak of war, as the majority party became an "organizational cartel" capable of controlling with certainty the selection of the Speaker and other key House officers. This organizational cartel has survived Gilded Age partisan strife, Progressive Era challenge, and conservative coalition politics to guide speakership elections through the present day. Fighting for the Speakership reveals how struggles over House organization prior to the Civil War were among the most consequential turning points in American political history.

The House and the Rise of Party Government

Fighting for the Speakership

Elements of Natural History;: I. Mammalia. II. Birds. III. Amphibia. IV. Fishes

‏ مکتوباب المتأخرين و حل مشکلات خط شکسته

The history of Bengal from the ninth century to the Battle of Plassey (1757), published in 1813.

From the First Mohammedan Invasion Until the Virtual Conquest of that Country by the English AD 1757

The History of Bengal

Print of "The Fugitive Blacksmith" 1905 edition.

The Fugitive Blacksmith

To which are Prefixed, Memoirs of Hyder Aly Khan, and His Son Tippoo Sultan

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Oriental Library of the Late Tippoo Sultan of Mysore

"Contents" -- "Preface to the Paperback Edition" -- "List of Figures" -- "Transliteration" -- "Preface" -- "1. Historical Consciousness and the Ethnography of History" -- "2. Dreaming and Temporality in Greece" -- "3. Dreaming of Buried Icons in the Kingdom of Greece" -- "4. An Epidemic of Dreaming" -- "5. A Cosmology of Discovery" -- "6. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Emery" -- "7. Dreaming Life, Living the Dream" -- "8. Buried Objects: Dreaming, Excavating, and Imagining the Past" -- "9. Affective History" -- "10. Conclusion: Agency and Imagination in Historical Change" -- "Appendix: Sample Dream Texts" -- "References

Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece

The History of Bengal, from the First Mohammedan Invasion Until the Virtual Conquest of that Country by the English, A.D. 1757

Jauhar

The Mughal emperor Humayun (1508-56) ruled over parts of modern-day India, Afghanistan and Pakistan during his eventful reign. He came to the throne at the age of twenty-two in 1530 and thereafter faced a series of challenges to his control. Throughout this time he was served by his water-bearer, Jauhar, who later wrote these memoirs of his master and his campaigns. This translation from Persian to English was first published in 1832 by Charles Stewart (1764-1837), who had been a professor of oriental languages at the East India College, Haileybury. Jauhar gives a valuable eyewitness narrative of events during a fraught period of Indian history, also providing an insight into Humayun's character. The work begins with an account of his victory over Bahadur Shah and the conquest of Gujarat in the 1530s. It goes on to describe battles with Sher Shah Suri and other campaigns until his death.

Written in the Persian Language, by Jouher, a Confidential Domestic of His Majesty

The Tezkereh Al Vakiat; Or, Private Memoirs of the Moghul Emperor Humayun

HISTORY, ETHNOGRAPHY, THEORY

CREOLIZATION

Στο βιβλίο αυτό, ο ιστορικός ανθρωπολόγος Charles Stewart υποστηρίζει ότι ο ορισμός μας για την ιστορία θα πρέπει να διευρυνθεί. Η κίνηση αυτή είναι ζωτικής σημασίας σε ένα παγκόσμιο περιβάλλον όπου εναλλακτικές ιστορικές πρακτικές απαιτούν να επανεκτιμήσουμε διάφορα συστήματα σκέψης παρά να τα απορρίψουμε ως κατώτερα είδη γνώσης. Οι κάτοικοι της Νάξου, και συγκεκριμένα της ορεινής Κορώνου, έχουν μακρά εμπειρία με όνειρα με αγίους οι οποίοι υποτίθεται ότι τους κατηύθυναν να σκάψουν σε αναζήτηση θαμμένων αντικειμένων. Αυτά τα όνειρα ώθησαν τους κατοίκους του χωριού να γίνουν μαζί αρχαιολόγοι και ιστορικοί προσπαθώντας να αποκαλύψουν ένα παρελθόν που θα άλλαζε το μέλλον τους. Όνειρα και ιστορική συνείδηση διαμόρφωσαν εντέλει μια άλλη σχέση παρελθόντος-παρόντος-μέλλοντος και ανέδειξαν όψεις και του συλλογικού ασυνειδήτου στη σύγχρονη Ελλάδα. Αυτή η εθνογραφία της ιστορικής συνείδησης προσφέρει μια νέα εικόνα για το πώς οι άνθρωποι μπορούν να φαντασιωθούν το παρελθόν, συνειδητά και ασυνείδητα, στην καθημερινή τους ζωή. Στην έκδοση περιλαμβάνεται σχετικό φωτογραφικό υλικό. ΕΓΡΑΨΑΝ ΓΙΑ ΤΟ ΒΙΒΛΙΟ Όποιος έχει ποτέ αναρωτηθεί πώς η μελέτη του παρελθόντος επηρεάζει τη συνείδησή μας, και την αντίληψη του εαυτού μας ως ηθικών όντων, δεν θα μετανιώσει που διάβασε αυτό το πλούσιο και θαυμάσιο βιβλίο. Mark Mazower, ιστορικός-συγγραφέας Στο εξαιρετικό αυτό βιβλίο ο Charles Stewart μάς προσφέρει έναν εντελώς νέο τρόπο προσέγγισης των ονείρων εντός του κοινωνικού τους πλαισίου και ταυτόχρονα μας αφηγείται μια καθηλωτική ιστορία. Times Literary Supplement

Όνειρα και ιστορική συνείδηση στην Ελλάδα

The story of a silent partnership second to none tested by time and distance in a foreign land. people put in peril and animals mistreated by a Mexican pharaoh. humanitarian lessons learned and the arrogant burned. the story of an innocent mans journey home with the help of good people and smart critters...

Diamond Lyn

Comprising the Characters of the Whole Genera, and of the Most Remarkable Species, Particularly Those that are Natives of Britain; with the Principal Circumstances of Their History and Manners

Charles Stewart

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