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  • From an interview with Jorge Luis Borges, in Habitus 03, conducted in 1984 at the University of Buenos Aires by philosophy professors Tomas Abraham, Alejandro Russovich, and Enrique Man.

    jorge luis borges | the destiny of borges « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

  • 'Habitus' means clothing, and cloth is woven from single threads.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • Certainly it is more important and has a wider circulation than Habitus.

    Such Jews are not hipsters 2009

  • The ideas may be incoherent, but they are disseminated far more widely and exercise a far greater influence in the culture than the diasporic claims of Habitus and Aviv and Schneer.

    Such Jews are not hipsters 2009

  • ISOM: But one of the things that everybody talks about now, and they're probably right, is the body Habitus.

    CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2008 2008

  • NewPages Blog: Job :: Habitus - Brooklyn, NY skip to main

    Job :: Habitus - Brooklyn, NY Denise 2007

  • Habitus: A Diaspora Journal, the new magazine of international Jewish literature, Brooklyn, NY, is looking for a part-time Managing Editor with a record of success to assist with marketing, distribution, production, and administration.

    Job :: Habitus - Brooklyn, NY Denise 2007

  • Habitus can be defined as a system of durably acquired schemes of perception, thought and action, engendered by objective conditions but tending to persist even after an alteration of those conditions.

    Habitus Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • He sees Habitus as the key to reproduction because it is what actually generates the regular practices that make up social life.

    Habitus Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • He sees Habitus as the key to reproduction because it is what actually generates the regular practices that make up social life.

    Archive 2005-10-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

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