While menopause is a universal fact of life, the physiological and psychological effects for women are not the same in all cultures. In this comparative and cross-cultural ethnographic study, Beyene examines the concept and experience of menopause among Greek and Mayan peasant women, uncovering some startling information. Available research and experience thus far suggests that non-Western, nonindustrialized women often do not have the same psychological or physiological reactions to menopause as Western, industrialized women do.By comparing the reproductive histories of one group of peasant women to another, the author makes it possible to isolate historical, cultural and environmental factors relating to variations or similarities in response to menopause. Her findings underscore the plasticity of the human aging experience, particularly among women. The book presents a biocultural view linking the experience of menopause to diet and fertility patterns, and provides new insights and hypotheses on the reproductive cycle and aging in women.
Preface Acknowledgments1. Sleeping and DreamingRosette's Dream Rosette's First Analysis The Story of Rosette's Mother Rosette's Answer Early Thoughts on Sleep and Dreams Common Notions About Sleep and Dreams Research on Dreams2. Freud and DreamingExploring Dreams Freud's Notions of Dream Function3. Sleep and Dream ResearchThe Discovery of REM Sleep REM Sleep and Dreaming The Sleep Cycle Dream Time and Real Time4. Explorations of DreamingREM and Non-REM Dreaming Dreaming and REM-Sleep Activity5. Daytime Events, Sleep and DreamingStudies of Presleep Experience Vagaries of Our Lives6. Our Bodies, Our DreamsThirst Exercise Sleeping Pills and Alcohol The Mentrual Cycle Illness7. Things That Go Bump In The NightEnvironmental Effects on Dream Content Learning While Asleep8. Dream Recall and Dream Recall FailureInvestigations of Repression Salience Interference Arousal Retrieving Dreams9. Dream DeprivationREM Deprivation Dream Substitution10. The Adaptive Function of DreamsDreams and the Mastery of Stress Dreams and Compensation Dreams and Avoidance Disruption and Avoidance A Summing UpNotes Index
This book presents multi-faceted images of religious experience in the Marathi-speaking region of India. In addition to Irawati Karve's classic, "On the Road," about her pilgrimage to Pandharpur, there are three essays by Karve that appear in English for the first time. Here is possession by gods and ghosts, an actual sermon by an inspired saint in the traditional bhajan style, and an autobiographical account of the religious nationalism of the militant R.S.S. These are engaging, true-to-life accounts of the lives of individual Hindus.Essays and imaginative literature, a poem, and a short story interplay the ideas, concepts, personalities, practices, rituals, and deities of Hinduism in a surprisingly coherent manner.
Addressed to readers who have found liberal theology empty or who believe that one cannot be religious and fully rational and empirical at the same time.
Mokashi is a Marathi novelist of the post-independence generation of "Realists." This is a vivid account of his day-by-day experience on the Warkari pilgrimage from Alandi to Pandharpur on foot.Pilgrimage is one of the most visible and pervasive features of Hinduism. Every year the Warkaris carry palanquins, called palkhis, bearing sandals representing the feet of their saints from various towns to Pandharpur in Maharashtra-to the Temple of Vitoba.Mokashi accompanied the oldest and most revered of the palanquin processions, the palkhi of Jnaneshwar Maharaj, on its two-week journey. His account is the only sustained view of the pilgrimage in any language.
Challenges conventional assumptions about the family and the modern Middle East.
The emergence of New Confucian Humanism as a major intellectual and spiritual tradition in the Chinese cultural area since the Second World War is a phenomenon vitally important and intriguing to students of history, philosophy, and religion. The Confucian vision, rooted in the Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Japanese civilizations, has been sustained through more than two millennia of constant social change and holds special meaning for both industrial and socialist East Asia today. Indeed, as a living force defining our humanity and exploring our human potential for authentic self-realization, it addresses evolving concerns of East Asian civilizations with profound implications for the post-modernized world.This book, by a leading scholar and thinker of the New Confucian Humanism, offers a panoramic view of the core values of the Confucian intellectual from historical and comparative cultural perspectives. Grounded in sound sinological scholarship, it brilliantly interprets the Confucian project: the formation of a moral community and the embodiment of the Mandate of Heaven in ordinary human existence through authentic self-realization. In the words of the eminent Princeton sinologist, Fritz Mote, through Tu Wei-ming's thought-provoking ideas, "we are shown what has constituted the life-blood of Confucianism throughout its history, and are led to understand how it still lives. We are made to see where it resides in the world today, especially within the consciousness of modern East Asians (whether or not so identified by them) and increasingly, in the awareness of philosophers and historians of thought everywhere."Like Professor Tu's earlier book, Confucian Thought: Selfhood as Creative Transformation, this book will stir modern minds and evoke powerful responses from scholars in ethics, religion, history, and philosophy as well as those in East Asian studies.
Portelli offers a new and challenging approach to oral history, with an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective. Examining cultural conflict and communication between social groups and classes in industrial societies, he identifies the way individuals strive to create memories in order to make sense of their lives, and evaluates the impact of the fieldwork experience on the consciousness of the researcher. By recovering the value of the story-telling experience, Portelli's work makes delightful reading for the specialist and non-specialist alike.
Practicing psychologists explore the mutual impact of Buddhist teachings and psychology in their lives and practice.
This revised edition of the classic text explores the complexity of what learning to teach means.
Explores the underlying assumptions of environmental studies and the need for a new paradigm for understanding our world.
An introduction to the thought of three major philosophers of twentieth-century Spain.
Sheds light on one of the most important religious thinkers in the modern Muslim world.
Identifies gender issues affecting students, faculty, and leaders in higher education, applying critical perspectives to suggest needed change.
Uses psychoanalytic theories of learning to explore contemporary issues in education.
Challenges the unexamined belief that sports stadiums, events, and teams in cities are always beneficial to the comunities.
Applies Foucault's ideas to a cultural studies framework.
Explores the work of Guo Xiang, a Neo-Taoist thinker who developed a radical philosophy of freedom and spontaneity.
The first sustained examination of the process by which justices elect to leave the United States Supreme Court.
Explores how religious believers can-and why they should-engage the work of Sigmund Freud, despite his well-known dismissal of faith.
Argues that higher education needs to abandon the "culture wars" if it hopes to address the major crises of the century.
A demographic and ethnographic exploration of how the aging Japanese society is affecting the family.
Explores the ideological underpinnings of school choice and other market-based education reforms.
Documents how even progressive foundations serve to reinforce the political status quo.
Explores the complex nature of truth in Wittgenstein's philosophy.
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