Spirituality of the Third World

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Peter J. Ucko

Theory in Archaeology: a world perspective examines important questions about the diversity in theory and practice in archaeology which are facing the discipline in the 1990s. For example, what is the relationship between theory and practice? How does 'World' archaeological theory differ from 'European' archaeological theory? Is it possible to be a good archaeological practitioner without theory? This unique book includes contributions from many different parts of the world - Africa, Indonesia, India, Australia, Canada, South America, Japan, and many other countries - to give the first truly global perspective on archaeological theory. It examines the nature of material culture studies and looks at the problems of ethnicity, regionalism and nationality. It also considers one of the fundamental questions in archaeology: whether empirical facts can be found and recorded through 'objective' research, or whether the past is in fact only the relativistic creation of a particular age or society. The diverse range of authors brings together very different perceptions of the past and also sheds new light on the dynamics of nationalism, providing a framework for considering such immediate questions as the disintegration of the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. The book's scope and interest should guarantee an international readership amongst students and academics alike.

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Allan Combs, Mark Germine, Ben Goertzel

"This book presents a collection of essays that all share a common concern with time, process and consciousness. The chapters represent a variety of different perspectives and the authors span the disciplines of psychology, mathematics, physics and psychiatry. As a whole, the collection presents a coherent view of mind as a complex, evolving, self-organizing system." "It fills a gap in the rapidly expanding field of consciousness studies by bringing the latter into focus from the perspective of another fast-growing field of inquiry, the sciences of complexity. It contains original chapters by several prominent theorists, including the late David Bohm, creator of the holographic paradigm in physics, in an essay on consciousness and meaning, which has not been previously published."--Jacket.

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dir. François Chenet

La gerbe d'études ici réunies parcourt le spectre des diverses positions doctrinales professées par la philosophie indienne classique sur la question des rapports entre pensée, langage et réalité, non sans jeter par là un précieux éclairage comparatiste. En instaurant une mise en miroir réciproque des approches de la réflexion philosophique occidentale sur le langage et de celles nées sur le sol de l'Inde, ce recueil voudrait contribuer à la mise à jour des options fondatrices de chacune des traditions philosophiques.

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Jože Krašovec

"This unique volume is perhaps the most comprehensive scholarly work of our time on the translation and interpretation of the Bible." "At its core are papers presented to an international symposium in Ljubljana in September 1996 to mark the publication of the new Slovenian version of the Bible, a landmark in Slovene identity and cultural life. In addition, its distinguished editor, Joze Krasovec, has commissioned a wide range of contributions devoted to translations of the Bible in many languages, including Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish and the Scandinavian languages."--BOOK JACKET.