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Michaels, Eric Philip (1948-1988)
No full textEric Philip Michaels (1948-1988), anthropologist, was born on 11 February 1948 at Philadelphia, United States of America, one of three children of Jewish parents Abraham Michaels, engineer, and his wife Enid Hope, née Olenick. Describing himself at the end of his life as a ‘gifted child’ and a ‘troubled’ adolescent of affluent parents, in the 1960s Eric lived on a hippie commune near Taos, New Mexico. He also spent time in New York. After majoring in English at Temple University, Philadelphia (BA, 1973), he attended the University of Texas at Austin (MA, 1979; Ph.D., 1982), where he studied anthropology. For his doctoral thesis he examined Christian fundamentalist media protest groups in Texas. Early in the 1980s he collaborated with the Chilean video artist, Juan Downey, in a study of the Yanomami people of Brazil. Immersed in the American traditions of visual and cultural anthropology, and advocating ‘handing over the camera’, he stressed the potential for radical inversion of the usual subject-object relations in anthropology..
Merce Cunningham and his Technique
No full textThis thesis approaches the personal life, artistic creation and dance technique of American dancer and choreographer Mercier Philip Cunningham. The first part focuses on the artist?s life stages during his evolution in dance from the beginnings of his choreographic work, and seeks the origins for the establishment of his own dance company ? Merce Cunningham Dance Company. A chronological overview of his extensive repertoire is also incorporated. The second part deals with collaboration, connection and interaction among the dance, music, design and film fields during the artistic work of Merce Cunningham. Following the author?s experience with Cunningham technique, the final part is directed to an understanding of this dance technique, its principles and specific elements used in contemporary dance world
Introduction of A Time for Recommitment: Building the New Relationship between Christians and Jews
No full textA founding officer and secretary-treasurer of The Council of Centers on Christian-Jewish Relations, Dr. Philip A. Cunningham, addressed the assembly at the July 2009 Berlin ICCJ conference before the ceremony at which representatives from twenty-three countries signed the 'A Time for Recommitment' document
Beyond realism and postmordernism: towards a post-Christian morality in the works of Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis and Martin Amis
No full textThis thesis evaluates and re-evaluates the relationship between the works of Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis and Martin Amis through a detailed examination of their published works, and attempts to locate this relationship in the context of the central moral uncertainties of post-1945 British fiction. Most previous critical studies of these authors have tended to discuss the relationship between Kingsley Amis and Martin Amis in terms of an opposition between the father's realism and the son's postmodernism, and have debated Philip Larkin's influence upon Martin Amis only tangentially. Against this trend, this thesis argues that these three authors share a commitment to literature as a public, moral act, and, in particular, that their works share the intention of articulating a number of closely related secular 'human values' which map out a potential post-Christian morality in British society. The thesis also examines a common tension within their oeuvres inimical to such hopes - the fear that the possibilities of rational self-scrutiny and of becoming 'less deceived' have been discredited by the history of the twentieth century, and that this history instead evidences the dominance of irrational and self-destructive tendencies in the human. These fears, it is further claimed, are implicated in the works of all three authors in a tendency towards the construction of Edenic myths, deterministic simplifications, and despairing devaluations of the value of human life. Overall, this thesis makes the case for the significance of the common concerns of Martin Amis, Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin's works in the context of contemporary literary studies: their efforts to create in art an unpretentiously 'public space' for the address of burning moral and existential issues, and their unresolved struggles with the question of what it might mean to live a good life in a society which no longer possesses religion as a common moral language
Philip Chol Gai
No full textabstract: In 1987, Philip escaped the war before it reached his village. He was tending to the cattle and the goats when he saw smoke and fire coming from the war.
“Lost Boys Found” is an ongoing, interdisciplinary project that is collecting, recording and archiving the oral histories of the Lost Boys/Girls of Sudan. The collection is a work-in-progress, seeking to record the oral history of as many Lost Boys/Girls as are willing, and will be used in a future book.Age: 26Region: Upper NileThis picture and bio was donated to the Lost Boys Found project from The Arizona Lost Boys Cente
Merce Cunningham Dance Company - 'Antic Meet' with John Cage 'Concert for piano and orchestra'
No full textTwo performances with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company as part of their Legacy Tour. November 2010 Clermont-Ferrand, France; October 2011 Barbican Centre, London (part of the final MCDC UK performances).
Both occasions featured the dance 'Antic Meet', revived from the 1960s, with live performances of John Cage 'Concert for piano and orchestra' with Philip Thomas (piano) and MCDC musicians including Takehisa Kosugi, David Behrman, John King, Ian Mitchell
Interview with Philip Gerard
No full textInterview with Philip Gerard, author and professor of creative writing at UNCW. Here, he discusses his background and education, the founding and structure of UNCW's MFA in Creative Writing program, and the concerns of memoir and creative nonfiction
Cunningham, Dr. A. M. Orchard
No full textDr. A. M. Cunningham Orchard, Newport; photograph of tree with frui
Cunningham, Dr. A. M. Orchard
No full textDr. A. M. Cunningham Orchard, Newport; photograph of tree with frui
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