Background
Mason, Peter was born on August 21, 1952 in England. Arrived in The Netherlands, 1977.
(Leithart's Heroes of the City of Man analyzes some of the...)
Leithart's Heroes of the City of Man analyzes some of the grand classics of ancient literature—Theogeny, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Aeneid, and four prominent Greek dramas from Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes, commenting on each, section-by-section.
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( An era has ended. The political movement that most galv...)
An era has ended. The political movement that most galvanized evangelicals for more than a quarter-century, the Religious Right, is fading away. What lies ahead is unclear. Into this uncertainty, former White House insiders Michael Gerson and Peter Wehner call evangelicals toward a new kind of political engagement -- a kind that is better both for the church and the country, a kind that cannot be co-opted by either political party, a kind that avoids the historic mistakes of both the Religious Right and the Religious Left. A product of the authors' own wrestling with the complicated relationship between religion and politics, City of Man assesses the past, surveys the present, and deals with questions central to evangelicals' future political role, including: * How can religious people exercise influence while maintaining their integrity? * What tone should they be known for? * How should they think about the role and purpose of government? * Which causes and issues, both at home and abroad, ought to be a part of their agenda? Incisive, bold, and marked equally by pragmatism and idealism, Gerson and Wehner's book charts a new political future not just for civic-minded Christians and "e;values voters,"e; but for the nation as a whole.
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( When European travelers went overseas in the sixteenth ...)
When European travelers went overseas in the sixteenth century, they encountered unfamiliar lands, peoples, and sights. These travelers had to re-present these encounters to Europeans for whom they stood for the unfamiliar -- the "exotic." But the exotic, according to Peter Mason, is not something that exists prior to its "discovery." Rather, he points out, it is the very act of "discovery" that produces the exotic as such. In Infelicities Peter Mason explores the texts, paintings, drawings, photographs, and museum displays in which the exotic has been represented from the early modern period to the present. He describes the unique iconography that Europeans developed to represent the exotic and the means they employed to display it once artifacts were brought to Europe. In both instances, the exotic object is taken out of its original context and given a meaning and significance it never had; this new meaning and significance, Mason argues, are derived from the imposition of European cultural values and the need to recontextualize the object in a European setting. To differentiate the "exotic" from the "other," Mason says that in understanding the "other" there is engagement and interchange; in encountering the "exotic" it is a one-sided effort at understanding: the exotic object never gives up its meaning. The title of the book, Infelicities, comes from philosopher J. L. Austin, who used the term to refer to what happens when something goes wrong on the occasion of an act of utterance. For Mason, this "doctrine of infelicities" seems applicable to European encounters with the exotic and the efforts to represent thoseencounters.
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( In the Mammoth Room of Charles Willson Peale's Philadel...)
In the Mammoth Room of Charles Willson Peale's Philadelphia museum, the reconstructed skeleton of a mammoth stands beside that of a mouse. This juxtaposition, write Florike Egmond and Peter Mason, is symbolic of the two approaches to history which they seek to reconcile. In The Mammoth and the Mouse: Microhistory and Morphology, Egmond and Mason aim to rescue morphology from abstraction and microhistory from the taint of triviality. They explore the theoretical relationship between the microhistorical method of paying careful attention to revealing details and the morphological method of looking for homologies among cultural artifacts or texts from different places and times. Drawing on both textual and visual material, the authors offer a series of microhistorical examinations of a surprising variety of phenomena, among them a legal dispute between spouses in sixteenth-century Holland, a curious ritual punishment for capital offenses, and the reassembly of the Peale mammoth skeleton for public display in 1800. Along the way, they offer an extended commentary on structuralism, post-structuralism, microhistory, and new historicism. "The book succeeds very well, both as a theoretical statement and as an exercise in the method espoused. The authors have made an important advance in the direction of scholarship. The greatest success of the book is in its work of methodological synthesis, its ability to stretch beyond disciplinary boundaries to illustrate new possibilities of morphological analysis that is neither history nor anthropology exactly but a nearly seamless merging of the two. The scholarship is quite up-to-date and superbly employed." -- Edward Muir, Northwestern University
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Mason, Peter was born on August 21, 1952 in England. Arrived in The Netherlands, 1977.
Master of Arts in Humanities, University Oxford, 1978. Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology, University Utrecht, 1990.
Interpreter Branch Council Aid to Refugees, 1975-1977. Editorial officer CEDLA, Amsterdam, 1980-1986. Visiting lecturer Center Archaeology, Leiden, The Netherlands, 1990-1991.
Consultant Fundacion America, Santiago, Chile, since 1997. Freelance translator and editor, 1997-1980, 86-90, 91-97. International editorial adviser Journal History Collections, since 1999.
Visiting lector Catholic Pontific University, Chile, 2001.
(Leithart's Heroes of the City of Man analyzes some of the...)
( In the Mammoth Room of Charles Willson Peale's Philadel...)
( When European travelers went overseas in the sixteenth ...)
(In a deceptively simple tale, a creeping mouse alerts a c...)
(Anthropology's major concern has always been the encounte...)
( An era has ended. The political movement that most galv...)
Children: Nada, Hannah, Oliver.