Struggles for Home Prof A. R. East

Struggles for Home Prof A. R. EastBased on anthropological studies across the globe, this book explores the social practice of home making amongst people whose lives are characterized by movement and violence. Social scientific and policy understandings of home and migration tend to focus on territory, culture and nation, often carrying implicit 'sedentarist' assumptions of a naturalised link between people and particular places. This book challenges such views, drawing attention

author of The Architecture of Petra (OUP

” In the postwar era

Disorders of memory including Alzheimer's and amnesia are examined along with exceptional memory skills

flogging was banned as a punishment in the navy

this book reads the Medusa-effect on the philosophy of the modern research university as rooted in an audiocentric fantasy

By looking at the history of the body and medicine it considers how the French people mobilised for the war effort and how their ultimate defeat had cultural and social consequences which led to the fin-de-siècle spirit

both upon earth and beyond

Sir Walter Scott eventually admitted that this extraordinary historical novel was among his first attempts to publish his prose fiction

and cultures

" or "the immune system fights cancer" without considering their assumptions

that literature and the work of reading

he agrees to the stranger’s demands