Page-Barbour Lectures Series

14 primary works • 14 total works

University of Virginia Press

Moments of Freedom: Anthropology and Popular Culture

by Johannes Fabian

2.67 · 6 Ratings · published 1998 · 3 editions

Johannes Fabian was one of the first anthropologis…

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Mad Travellers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses

by Ian Hacking

3.74 · 149 Ratings · 15 Reviews · published 1998 · 14 editions

Thus begins the recorded case history of Albert Da…

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The Moral Architecture of World Peace: Nobel Laureates Discuss Our Global Future

by Helena Cobban

3.67 · 12 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2000 · 3 editions

In November 1998, eight visionary recipients of th…

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The Conversation of Humanity

by Stephen Mulhall

4.10 · 10 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2007 · 3 editions

Based on the author's Page-Barbour lectures, deliv…

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In and Out of the West: Reconstructing Anthropology

by Maurice Godelier

3.20 · 5 Ratings · published 2008 · 3 editions

Is anthropology simply a continuation of colonial …

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A Many-Colored Glass

by Freeman Dyson

3.89 · 112 Ratings · 12 Reviews · published 2007 · 7 editions

Freeman Dyson's latest book does not attempt to br…

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Fatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy

by Robert B. Pippin

3.68 · 38 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2012 · 8 editions

The crime melodramas of the 1940s known now as fil…

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Dialect Diversity in America: The Politics of Language Change

by William Labov

3.69 · 70 Ratings · 13 Reviews · published 2012 · 6 editions

The sociolinguist William Labov has worked for dec…

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The Significance of Territory

by Jean Gottman

4.60 · 5 Ratings · published 1973 · 4 editions

Over her thirty-year study of the concept of terri…

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The Legitimacy of the Business Corporation in the Law of the United States, 1780-1970

by James Willard Hurst

4.00 · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1970 · 4 editions

This study, which is based on a series of lectures…

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Structural Intuitions: Seeing Shapes in Art and Science

by Martin Kemp

4.67 · 3 Ratings · published 2015 · 2 editions

"All great achievements of science must start from…

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Philosophy as Poetry

by Richard Rorty

4.40 · 146 Ratings · 25 Reviews · published 2016 · 5 editions

Undeniably iconoclastic, and doggedly practical wh…

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Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate

by Daniel Mendelsohn

3.90 · 736 Ratings · 102 Reviews · published 2020 · 21 editions

In this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist…

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Hope without Optimism

by Terry Eagleton

3.62 · 376 Ratings · 58 Reviews · published 2015 · 27 editions

In his latest book, Terry Eagleton, one of the mos…

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Page-Barbour Lectures Series

Shelve Moments of Freedom: Anthropology and Popular Culture

Shelve Mad Travellers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses

Shelve The Moral Architecture of World Peace: Nobel Laureates Discuss Our Global Future

Shelve The Conversation of Humanity

Shelve In and Out of the West: Reconstructing Anthropology

Shelve A Many-Colored Glass

Shelve Fatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy

Shelve Dialect Diversity in America: The Politics of Language Change

Shelve The Significance of Territory

Shelve The Legitimacy of the Business Corporation in the Law of the United States, 1780-1970

Shelve Structural Intuitions: Seeing Shapes in Art and Science

Shelve Philosophy as Poetry

Shelve Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate

Shelve Hope without Optimism