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Examines in depth the reception history of Daphnis and Chloe in literature, beginning with its Renaissance rediscovery and working through its various transformations in English, French, Spanish, and other literatures. At the same time, the author launches an exploration of the idyllic romance tradition in fiction and drama.

Modern conceptualization of the multidimensional nature of anxiety, panic, and fear are examined from a variety of perspectives, including theories of emotion and cognition, neuropsychology, and conditioning. Carroll E. Izard and Eric A. Youngstrom open with a review of Differential Emotions Theory. In the second chapter, Jeffrey A. Gray and Neil McNaughton summarize and update Gray''s neuropsychological theory of anxiety. Susan Mineka and Richard Zinbarg consider what modern conditioning theory contributes to the understanding of emotion, and Richard J. McNally offers an overview of the application of experimental cognitive paradigms to fear, panic, and anxiety.The volume concludes with a new version of David H. Barlow''s theory of emotional disorders. Barlow, Bruce F. Chorpita, and Julia Turovsky draw from work on emotion, neurophysiology, attributions, learning, ethology, attention, and child development to describe how the inappropriate activation of fear (e.g., a panic attack) can trigger events that may eventually become a clinical anxiety disorder.Perspectives on Anxiety, Panic, and Fear confirms that anxiety, panic, and fear are complex phenomena requiring a multidimensional approach that ranges from neuroanatomy to conditioning.

The Dogrib Indians are one of the Dene people of Western Canadian Subarctic; they speak a language belonging to the widespread Athapaskan family, whose southern relatives include the Navajos and Apaches of the southwestern United States. This study draws on the author’s field studies from 1959 to 1974 to present an ethnographic description of Dogrib religion. The first part of the book introduces three prophets who came to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s. Though they developed from the same tradition and had the same aims, their prophetic styles contrasted dramatically with one another. Helm situates the prophetic movement in relation to tribal and Christian traditions and shows the determining importance of the prophets personalities in shaping their teachings.The second part of the book examines the traditional Dogrib concept of power (ink’on), drawing on information given over the course of the years by Vital Thomas, a religious leader who collaborated closely with Helm. This firsthand material, told in Thomas’s own words, is noteworthy for its personal perspective and for the understanding it provides of the differing sources and uses of power. This concept of power is so pervasive in daily life that it forms the key for understanding the dynamics of Dogrib culture. The book concludes with a brief autobiography related by Vital Thomas.Prophecy and Power among the Dogrib Indians is important for documenting the prophet movement among the Dene people in the late twentieth century and for situating it historically in the context of Dogrib traditional culture.June Helm is a professor of anthropology at the University of Iowa. She is the editor of the Subarctic volume of the Smithsonian's Handbook of North American Indians.

Building on empirical democratic theory and scholarship in comparative state politics, this title follows the tradition of prominent cross-national studies to develop this intranational analysis of democratic processes. It provides an empirical demonstration of the validity and reliability of the measures.

Argues that there is something about Witz that makes it quintessential to the plight of modern culture. This title views Witz as a historical subject developing over time and transcending the lifespans and intentions of the authors who have wirtten with or about it.

Written by a boy about a boy: much the same boy, two boys in one, one white boy, one black boy. Each boy sees all around him giants and dragons where most folk see only windmills.

European enslavement of American Indians began with Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World. Although central to the process of colony-building in what became the United States, this phenomena has received scant attention from historians. Indian Slavery in Colonial America examines the complicated dynamics of Indian enslavement.

The widespread Lakota, or Western Sioux, recorded many different events in their winter counts, but all include 'the year the stars fell', the spectacular Leonid meteor shower of 1833-34. This work offers information on the important collection of Lakota winter counts at the Smithsonian, a core resource for the study of Lakota history and culture.

Focuses on great authors who have by birth or choice (or both) found themselves outside the mainstream of their culture but who have still wished to address it: Goethe, Freud, Wilde, Heine, Nietzsche, and Isaac Bashevis Singer, among others. This title reveals their efforts to come to terms with their real or imagined sense of difference.

The western frontier was officially pronounced closed in 1890, the year Harvey Fergusson was born in Albuquerque. He spent his life reopening it in a series of novels stretching from the classic Wolf Song to the belatedly acclaimed Grant of Kingdom and The Conquest of Don Pedro. In this first full biography and critical study, Robert F. Gish sees Fergusson as a modern frontiersman in love with the outdoors, women, and writing. The scion of New Mexico family prominent in business and politics, Fergusson moved restlessly from one new frontier to another, always seeking to recreate in his life and work the adventure and freedom enjoyed by his ancestors. After a strenuous open-air life by the Rio Grande he went east to raise a ruckus us a journalist and then to Hollywood as a screenwriter, all the while testing his sexual mettle. Finally freelance writing was the only frontier available to one of his imaginative energy.FergussonΓÇÖs early novel Wolf Song is still considered one of the best ever written about the mountain man. Gish shows the writer embracing the gloriously masculine and atavistic role of a ΓÇ£lone riderΓÇ¥ even as he scorned ΓÇ£the worship of the primitive.ΓÇ¥ Fergusson struck up a friendship with H. L. Mencken and Theodore Dreiser (who influenced his literary style) and played a part in the development of Taos and Santa Fe as meccas for artists and writers.Based on extensive research, including FergussonΓÇÖs diaries and correspondence, FrontierΓÇÖs End goes a long way toward reconciling the regional with the mainstream in American literature in the person of a serious novelist whose importance is finally being recognized.

A study of the literary image of the bird in both British Romantic and contemporary Native American literature.

Depicts the subjective self in its true complex duality. This work argues that the key to depicting both aspects of the self simultaneously and thus modelling it more holistically than before is to visualise the self iconically as a logical space in which its metaphorical and categorical objects are projected, ordered, and reorderable.

Argues that in thinking about society and politics, one needs to start from the proposition that every human being contains within himself or herself the potentiality of the human species and therefore wrong to regard cultural differences as innate. This title shows, the epithets "incommensurable" and "incompatible" fall to pieces under scrutiny.

Bring together leading thinkers from East and west in order to examine the situation of human rights in Europe, especially east-central Europe, after the fall of communism. This book focuses on the promotion and protection of human rights practices in nations. It presents a balanced and cautious overview of the future of human rights in Europe.

Prior to widespread literacy, the Kiowa people recorded their history in pictorial calendars, marking an entry for each summer and each winter. One Hundred Summers presents a recently discovered calendar, created by the Kiowa master artist Silver Horn, covering the period from 1828 to 1928.

Considers the images of Jews presented in standard Catholic teaching of that era, the attitudes of the lower clergy and faithful toward Argentina's Jewish citizens, and the response of the politically influential Church hierarchy to the national debate on accepting Jewish refugees from Europe.

Looks at the ways sports and games are metaphorically used to defend and subvert, to praise and mock both class and political power structures in nineteenth-century France. This book examines what shaped these games of the nineteenth-century and how they appeared as allegory in French literature, newspapers, historical studies, and game manuals.

A collection of poems, which encompass the facets of Valentine's day: the traditional hearts and candy, the brilliance and purity of love, the quiet beauty of friendship, and the bittersweetness of longing.

It is hard to love the high, cold plains of the American West. They are vast and harsh. And perhaps because they are so hard to love, prairies challenge the imaginative mind and the adventurous heart. This book reveals how writers and photographers in the country have met that challenge and given the genius of the prairie a vision and a voice.

Questions the efficacy of the national and global responses to Katrina's central victims, African Americans. This collection of polemical essays explores the extent to which African Americans and others were, and are, disproportionately affected by the natural and manmade forces that caused Hurricane Katrina.

According to W. Scott Olsen, there are two reasons for flying. The first is just to get somewhere. The second has nothing to do with destination. It is this second reason, expressing our deepest curiosity and our longings for infinity, grace, and clarity, that Never Land explores.

Contained in this volume are memorable glimpses of the 77 men and women who have led the American Anthropological Association during the past century.

Addresses questions such as why women occupy only few positions at the highest levels of political power. This work examines women's access to power through appointive channels in Western European parliamentary and parliamentary-type systems, tracing women's participation from 1968 to 1992 in fifteen countries.

Examining Paul de Man's work from the 1960s, this book concentrates on his interest in Romantic literature and criticism. Following de Man's strong readings of the works of Holderlin, Rousseau, and Wordsworth, it connects his interpretations of these and other writers with his earlier critical works and his later deconstructive writings.

A collection of interviews that showcases twelve leading Native artists and activists who have challenged and helped reshape prevailing expectations about Native cultures and identities during the late twentieth century. It discusses the effects of the American Indian Movement, religious freedom, and obligations to past cultural traditions.

Describes urban planning and development from the end of World War II to 1973. This book shows how the approaches to planning shifted during a period that saw Omaha change from a hub of food processing and transportation to a postindustrial center dominated by insurance and by educational, medical, and other services.

Shows how people from Asia, Europe, and the Americas contributed to the visual character of the mountain cemeteries, and how the sepulchral garden functioned as an open-air gallery of public sculpture, at once a site for relaxation, learning, and social ritual.

A collection of essays that explores the natural and human history of sites in the American Southwest, the caves of southern France, the Kansas grasslands, and the forests of the Pacific Northwest.

Louise Pound (1872-1958) was a distinguished literary scholar, renowned athlete, accomplished musician, and devoted women's sports advocate. She is perhaps best remembered for her groundbreaking work in the field of linguistics and folklore and for her role as the first woman president of the Modern Language Association. Readers of varied interests will find her story compelling.

In what ways do individuals influence the course of their lives? How do people construct a life path within the opportunities and constraints afforded by their world? This book investigates the specific ways in which personal characteristics and contextual variables play a role in shaping individual lives.