Tag: Connection

Love in the Time of Ethnography Essays on Connection as a Focus and Basis for Research


Free Download Lucinda Carspecken, "Love in the Time of Ethnography: Essays on Connection as a Focus and Basis for Research "
English | ISBN: 1498543170 | 2017 | 246 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Love in the Time of Ethnography explores love – variously defined – as an important facet of human life and a worthy focus of study. The authors look at love in association with an Alevi and Sunni couple in Turkey, organizers of Mexican American and immigrant youth movements, Christian missionaries in China, an elderly man with dementia, two women "coming home" to queer identity, a White researcher working with Black women in the US, the common ground between Dōgen’s Zen teachings and Habermas’s critical theory, an Albanian Sufi community in Michigan and interactions between humans and the natural world. It also includes theoretical writing on the place of love in social analysis, whether this involves relationships between researchers and participants or the nature of human connection itself. The authors argue that social research is an affective process as well as a cognitive one, and that fellow feeling is an essential component of making sense of the world.

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Curious Minds The Power of Connection [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CLWC9DH5 | 2023 | 10 hours and 18 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 287 MB
Author: Perry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett
Narrator: Daniel Henning

Curious about something? Google it. Look at it. But is curiosity simply information seeking? According to this exhilarating, genre-bending book, what’s left out of the conventional understanding of curiosity are the wandering tracks, the weaving concepts, the knitting of ideas, and the thatching of knowledge systems-the networks, the relations between ideas and between people. Curiosity, say Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett, is a practice of connection: it connects ideas into networks of knowledge, and it connects knowers themselves, both to the knowledge they seek and to each other. Investigating what happens in a curious brain, they offer an accessible account of the network neuroscience of curiosity. The book performs the very curiosity that it describes, inviting listeners to participate-to be curious with the book and not simply about it.

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Qigong For Peace, Vitality, Connection


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Last updated 9/2023
Duration: 13h 59m | Video: .MP4, 1280×720 30 fps | Audio: AAC, 48 kHz, 2ch | Size: 18.1 GB
Genre: eLearning | Language: English
Discover How Qigong Can Help You Break Free from Anxiety, Cultivate Calm, and Find Deep Connection

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I Feel Love MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World [Audiobook]


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English | June 06, 2023 | ASIN: B0BY3H1GZG | M4B@128 kbps | 14h 56m | 816 MB
Author: Rachel Nuwer | Narrator: Jennifer Cole
The unlikely story of how the psychedelic drug MDMA emerged from the shadows to the forefront of a medical revolution-and the potential it may hold to help us thrive.

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Greek and Latin Love The Poetic Connection


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English | ISBN: 3110630591 | 2021 | 300 pages | PDF | 2 MB
It is often claimed that the kind of love that is variously deemed ‘romantic’ or ‘true’ did not exist in antiquity. Yet, ancient literature abounds with stories that seem to adhere precisely to this kind of love. This volume focuses on such literature and the concepts of love it espouses. The volume differs from and challenges much existing classical scholarship which has traditionally privileged the theme of sex over love and prose-genres over those of poetry. By conversely focusing on love and poetry, the present volume freshly explores central poets in ancient literature, such Homer, Sappho, Terence, Catullus, Virgil, Horace and Ovid, alongside less canonized, such as the anonymous poet of

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