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Gender Ideology and Psychological Reality An Essay on Cultural Reproduction
ISBN: HB: 9780300070071, Yale University Press, June 1998
232 pp., 21x14 cm
Why do members of a society espouse culturally constituted beliefs that are at odds with their personal interests and experiences? In this book Melford Spiro, a psychological anthropologist, answers this question by investigating ideologies of gender...
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£22,50
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Real Shakespeare Retrieving the Early Years, 1564-94
ISBN: PB: 9780300072822, Yale University Press, September 1997
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
In an account of the first 30 years of Shakespeare's life, Eric Sams controverts all orthodox editions, biographics and reference books. He reveals how, in conventional Shakespeare scholarship, the playwright's youth has been concealed within a web o...
PB:
£12,95
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John Smibert Colonial America's First Portrait Painter
ISBN: HB: 9780300042580, Yale University Press, November 1995
294 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 284 black&white illus., 26 colour plates
John Smibert was the first portrait painter of distinction to attempt to carve out an existence in colonial America. This text is both a catalogue raisonne of Smibert's work and a discussion of his life and career.
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£85,00
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Prehistoric Art in Europe
ISBN: PB: 9780300052862, Yale University Press, May 1992
508 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 442 colour and black&white illus.
Until around 10,000 BC art in Europe appears to have been in advance of the rest of the world and throws light on the total history of early man. The great masterpieces of cave-painting at Lascaux are well known, and one tradition of early sculpture...
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£35,00
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Interpreting Lacan
ISBN: PB: 9780300039351, Yale University Press, September 1983
320 pp., 21.6x14 cm, black&white illus.
To assimilate a writer as allusive as Lacan is to enter into an entire culture. However firm their grounding in Freud, readers of Lacan must learn to rethink psychoanalysis with a speculative breadth sometimes exceeding that of Freud himself. This bo...
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£20,00
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