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Anthony D. Buckley
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Levi-Strauss, Sartre, Marx, Otto, Kuhn
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Negotiating Identity: Rhetoric, Metaphor, And Social Drama In Northern Ireland
by Anthony D. Buckley (Goodreads Author), Mary Catherine Kenney — published 1995 — 2 editions |
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Border Crossing: Mumming In Cross Border And Cross Community Contexts: Proceedings Of A Conference Held At The Academy Of Irish Cultural Heritages, University Of Ulster, Derry, 9 13 June 2003
by Anthony D. Buckley (Goodreads Author) , Seamus O Cathain , Séamus Mac Mathúna — published 2007 |
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A Gentle People: a study of a peaceful community in Ulster
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Symbols
by Anthony D. Buckley (Goodreads Author), Rhonda Paisley — published 1994 |
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Collecting Oral History
by Anthony D. Buckley (Goodreads Author), Linda-May Ballard, Clifford Harkness — published 1983 |
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Yoruba Medicine
— published 1985 — 2 editions |
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Yoruba Medicines
by Dennis M. Warren, Anthony D. Buckley (Goodreads Author) , J. Akintunde Ayandokun — published 1973 |
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I’m reading more Foucault at the moment than I had really intended – I’m almost finished Discipline and Punish, which I’m finding really amazing. But this was interesting too as I haven’t really read a lot of commentary on Foucault. Most of what I...
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The Moral Imagination: From Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling
by Gertrude Himmelfarb
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| This bundle of essays has the broad theme of morality. Each deals with a specific writer, all but one of whom inhabitanted the British Isles. The exception is the final essay on Lionel Trilling, an American, whose book The Liberal Imagination provide...more | |
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Mary Roach's latest book examines what happens to food from the time we put it in our mouths to the time it comes out the other end. It contains all the elements of her trademark style - cheeky humor, a gung-ho attitude towards the disgusting, and...
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Meticulously research, this provides a reservoir of source material to follow up. The highly readable themes cohere nicely. There are revelations of our near working class history in every chapter, signposts to hundreds of other destinations. Obvi...
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| Lévi-Strauss’s mammoth study of kinship, originally published in 1947, is a major tour-de-force, an encyclopaedic work of great theoretical insight, and perhaps the best work ever written on the topic. I decided to return to it, oddly, not because I...more | |
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Building off of Johan Huizinga’s account (read my review), Roger Caillois, in Man, Play and Games, introduces an expanded and more exhaustive account of play. Huizinga put forward the thesis of showing how culture and play interact, support and em...
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| Caillois’s celebrated book arose out of a more general mid-20th century interest in play beginning with Huizinga’s famous Homo Ludens (1938) but including the massively influential studies of childhood play by Piaget. Caillois criticises Huizinga, co...more | |
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| Over the years, I have found this rather technical book to be very useful. It gives an account of the complexity of human actions. It starts with the following connundrum. “Suppose that John does each of the following things (all at the same time): (...more | |
“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.”
― H.L. Mencken
― H.L. Mencken
“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions
“The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.”
― George Orwell
― George Orwell
“If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.”
― H.L. Mencken
― H.L. Mencken
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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