Ulysses' Sail : An Ethnographic Odyssey of Power, Knowledge, and Geographical Distance /

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What do long-distance travelers gain from their voyages, especially when faraway lands are regarded as the source of esoteric knowledge? Mary Helms explains how various cultures interpret space and distance in cosmological terms, and why they associate political power with information about strange...

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Autor principal: Helms, Mary W. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1988]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Voyages and travels > Religious aspects.
Social distance.
Power (Social sciences)
Intercultural communication.
Acculturation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales)
Distance sociale.
Electronic books.
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