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Discusses how new ways of thinking about language have uncovered previously 'legitimated' linguistic and social inequalities.

Bauman examines several major themes and arguments in the first decade of critical legal scholarship, predominantly in the U.S. in the period dating roughly from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s.

Crime and punishment have concerned humanity since the beginning of social life. Their manifestations in ancient Rome remains a fascinating topic, as the law of most European countries today is derived from ancient Roman law. Richard A. Bauman tells the history of punishment from the Roman Republic to the late Empire, shedding light on some decisive aspects of Roman history. He assesses punishment according to its innate humanity and cruelty, ...

Bauman examines several major themes and arguments in the first decade of critical legal scholarship, predominantly in the U.S. in the period dating roughly from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s.

This volume offers insights into the current 'public-square' debates on Indian Christianity. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork as well as rigorous analyses, it discusses the myriad histories of Christianity in India, its everyday practice and contestations and the process of its indigenisation. It addresses complex and pertinent themes such as Dalit Indian Christianity, diasporic nationalism and conversion. The work will interest scholars and ...

In Aristotle's Logic of Education, Richard Bauman makes a contribution to both the history of logic and the philosophy of education. He argues that Aristotle, in the course of laying out his system of syllogistic inference, intends to guide the way science is taught, rather than how scientific research is conducted. The teacher is supposed to proceed by the method of demonstration from the appropriate necessary premises. Dr. Bauman contends th...

Political Trials in Ancient Greece, first published in 1990, explores the relationships between historical process, constitution, law, political machinations and foreign policy, concentrating on fifth and fourth century Athens and on Macedonia. Richard Bauman¿s original account contributes significant details to our knowledge of such towering figures as Aeschylus, Pericles, Thucydides, Alcibiades, Socrates, Demosthenes and Aristotle, as well a...

A leader in the psychology of diabetes adds a fourth revolutionary component to diabetes control: a mind-body program that lowers blood sugar levels and reduces the disease's damaging side effects.

Bauman delineates not only the influential and manipulative role of Roman women in the business of government, law and public affairs in general, but also the emergence of women's political and liberationist movements.

Discusses how new ways of thinking about language have uncovered previously 'legitimated' linguistic and social inequalities.

This will be essential reading for all who have an interest in Mozart's operas, whether as student, scholar or opera-lover.

Unlike most works in constitutional theory which focus on the role of the courts, this book addresses the role of legislatures in a regime of constitutional democracy. It offers theoretical perspectives as well as case studies of several types of legislation from the United States and Canada.

Amid the spiritual and intellectual turmoil of seventeenth-century England, the Quakers emerged and grew into a distinct and enduring religious movement. This book offers a fresh and striking insight into early Quaker history through a study of their distinctive ways of speaking, which, together with their use of silence, served as a specific identifying feature of the movement. Using the combined perspectives of the ethnography of speaking, s...

Wir leben in einer Welt des Übergangs von der »festen« zur »flüssigen« Moderne. Unsicherheit und Ungewissheit prägen den Alltag vieler Menschen, denen ohne stabile gesellschaftliche Formen und Institutionen ein Bezugsrahmen sowohl für ihr Handeln als auch für langfristige Lebenspläne fehlt und die sich gezwungen sehen, ihr Leben aus einer endlosen Abfolge von kurzfristigen Projekten und Episoden zusammenzuflicken. Konzepte wie »Karriere« oder ...

»Ich shoppe, also bin ich ...« - so fasst Zygmunt Bauman den Wandel unserer Gesellschaft zusammen, die sich von einer Gesellschaft der Produzenten in eine Gesellschaft der Konsumenten transformiert. In dieser Verbrauchergesellschaft werden die Individuen selbst zur Ware, sie müssen sich auf dem Markt als Konsumgut bewerben und verkaufen. Sie sind zugleich Konsument, aber auch Handelsartikel und Vermarkter, Ware und Verkäufer. In einer solche...

This first ethnographic study of a folklife festival focuses on festivalparticipants -- the dancers, musicians, storytellers, and artisans at a publicdisplay of folk culture. These essays investigate the contention by supporters ofthese events that this form of folkloric representation is as intellectuallylegitimate as scholarly research.

Drawing on his work in Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, North America, Ghana, and Fiji, linguistic anthropologist and folklorist Richard Bauman presents a series of ethnographic case studies that offer a sparkling look at intertextuality as communicative practice. A fascinating perspective on intertextuality: the idea that written and spoken texts speak to one another, e.g. through genre or allusions. Presents a series of ethnographic case studies ...

Based on a corpus of Texan oral narratives collected by the author over the past fifteen years, this study presents an analysis of the literary qualities or orally performed verbal art, focusing on the significance of its social context. Although the tales included are all from Texas, they are representative of oral storytelling traditions in other parts of the United States, including tall tales, hunting stories, local character anecdotes, ac...

Classic case studies surveying the use, role and function of language and speech in social life.