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The theory of media events developed by dayan and katz is extended in an analysis of franklin roosevelt's first eight fireside chats. Roosevelt's fireside chats were structured in both form and content by the new mode of publicness initiated by the culture industries in the 20th century. Roosevelt employed the idioms of mass culture to close the perceptual gap between him and his mass audience.
*discusses the theories about their age, construction, and purpose. *covers the archaeological and cultural history of the sphinx and the pyramids. “when we find something new at giza, we announce it to the world.
*discusses the theories about their age, construction, and purpose. *covers the archaeological and cultural history of the sphinx and the pyramids. “when we find something new at giza, we announce it to the world.
In his book, “religion and cultural memory: ten studies,” german egyptologist jan assmann says, “the west lives not from day to day, but in the light of a memory that.
In my years of travel and travail through mountains, deserts, michelin- starred restaurants, backyard barbecues, culinary schools, canyons, parks, summits, and walk-in refrigerators, i have learned one thing: cooking matters.
The red sphinx picks up right where the the three musketeers left off, continuing the stories of cardinal richelieu, queen anne, and king louis xiii–and introducing a charming new hero, the comte de moret, a real historical figure from the period.
Archaeoastronomy (also spelled archeoastronomy) is the interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary study of how people in the past have understood the phenomena in the sky, how they used these phenomena and what role the sky played in their cultures.
Willis regier is not only very learned but also creative in making fiction, even poetry, out of the myth of the sphinx and the histories of that myth. —gregory nagy, author of plato's rhapsody and homer's music: the poetics of the panathenaic festival in classical.
With pet rocks, afros, and starsky and hutch, the ’70s was perhaps the cheesiest decade of the century — and the dangers of the ’80s and ’90s have made those years seem innocent by comparison.
Reading the sphinx unearths a buried cultural history haunted by egyptian ghosts, lynn parramore examines issues of western identity, inheritance, gender, and sexuality through the interlocking stories of nineteenth-century collectors, conjurers, artists, travelers, and psychic explorers as they encounter egyptian antiquity.
A cultural history of the material world, in rilke’s terms, can be no tautology. On the contrary, it opens on to questions of personal identity and meaning that go well beyond the realm marked out by burckhardt and his followers; even further than aby warburg believed possible.
The traditional rendition of a sphinx as a lion with a human head largely disappeared from islamic art with the advent of the mongols in the middle of the 13th century. A new sphinx-like figure did, however, appear later in the form of buraq, muhammad’s winged creature, with the body of a horse and the face of a woman.
During the 1950s, the united states was the world’s strongest military power. Its economy was booming, and the fruits of this prosperity–new cars, suburban houses and other consumer goods.
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