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The open access volume “Skill and Scale in Transnational Mediumship” presents ethnographic inquiries into new communities of practice and enskilment that revolve around techniques of mediumship, spirit possession, and trance rituals in a globally...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2026-01-30
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Wie verändern sich die kulturellen und politischen Bedingungen von Protest im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung? Am Beispiel der Anonymous-Operationen #OpTrump und der White Rose Society zeigt diese Ethnografie, wie sich Anonymous als fluides und deutungsoffenes...
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Springer VS
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2026-01-30
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Die Anforderungen in der Arbeitsgesellschaft haben sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten tiefgreifend gewandelt – mit weitreichenden Folgen für Menschen mit Behinderungen. Insbesondere Menschen mit psychischen Belastungen finden sich zunehmend in Werkstätten...
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Springer VS
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2026-01-28
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Body modification practices express identity, conform to social norms, and convey cultural values that express cultural, social, and individual meanings. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology ofBody Modification provides a comprehensive understanding...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-01-23
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The Times and Financial Times Book of the YearA revelatory model that explains how we buy, sell, work and live.'Absolutely brilliant.' Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow___Meet the business anthropologists seeking to explain how we buy, sell, work and...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2021-06-08
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Built from stories and memories shared by self-defined David Bowie fans, thisbook explores how Bowie existed as a figure of renewal and redemption,resonating in particular with those marginalized by culture and society. SeanRedmond and Toija Cinque draw on personal...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-07-08
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Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped civilisation from the beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of mankind. Wars...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-09-30
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This book offers a novel approach to the new science of conservation biogeography by examining the role of this science and its integration with social science research in advancing new knowledge about sustainable environmental management. It offers a new perspective...
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Springer
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2026-01-16
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This book addresses the pressing challenges of the twenty-first century—an era marked by crises and uncertainty—by advocating for anthropology’s vital role in fostering compassionate intercultural dialogue and promoting harmonious coexistence between...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-10
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Oceania, particularly in Vanuatu, gardens are the evidence of an ancestral rural tradition in which food plants are at one and the same time an indispensable resource, the symbols of a community and the objects of baiter or trade. The ni-Vanuatu devote themselves with...
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IRD Éditions
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2026-01-05
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Guides illustrés
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This book shows how racial perception goes beyond the limits of sight. Drawing on Semiotic Cultural Psychology, it challenges the dominant visuocentric paradigm that equates race with visually apprehended phenotypic traits. Through an in-depth case study of a...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-01-05
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This book examines questions surrounding body adornments and its link to identity in archaeology, looking at theoretical and interpretive frameworks that are relevant to the study of different categories of personal ornaments. Identity is a crucial topic in archaeology...
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Springer
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2026-01-02
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Die sich neu formierende und sich dabei stark ausdifferenzierende Designwissenschaft hat das Potential, eine „revolutionäre“ Disziplin zu sein: Gespeist unter anderem vom Material Turn und vom Design Turn behandelt sie ein Feld, das künstlerische...
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J.B. Metzler
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2026-01-01
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This book addresses the timely research field of Afropean identity politics and provides a first account of the lived experience of Afroczechs and Africans in Czechia. Against the background of country-specific evasive politics on race and a discourse of colonial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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Has the revolution that led from the economy of the gift, characteristic of most precapitalist societies, to the economy of modern societies been accomplished in all spheres of life, as tacitly assumed by those who claim to apply the model of the profit-optimizing agent...
Editeur :
Polity
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2025-12-23
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This book deals with anthropological ideas, which it confronts with what seems to be a difficulty in anthropology: the human being, each singular human being, taken in themselves. Following this line of reading, the authors take us from Benedict to Radcliffe-Brown or...
Editeur :
Naima
Parution :
2025-12-18
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While still widespread, the pernicious belief that modern Western science is synonymous with ‘science proper’ – the culturally engrained conviction that it constitutes an incomparably effective means of interrogating natural reality – has been called into question in...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2025-11-27
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The ecological crisis at a planetary scale has heightened our awareness of the geological impact of human activities and the possibility of human species extinction. Within the heightened consciousness of hubris and vulnerability encoded in the Anthropocene discourse,...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-11-25
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Pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1986, Sentimenti velati di Lila Abu-Lughod è oggi considerata un’etnografia classica nell’ambito dell’antropologia. Tra la fine degli anni Settanta e l’inizio degli anni Ottanta del secolo scorso, Abu-Lughod visse per circa due anni in...
Editeur :
Rosenberg & Sellier
Parution :
2025-11-24
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Terreni di confronto
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I migranti sembrano riscuotere interesse mediatico e scientifico solo quando attraversano i confini europei e finché sono inseriti in percorsi istituzionalizzati di richiesta di protezione internazionale. Ma sono migliaia le persone che escono ogni anno dal sistema di...
Editeur :
Rosenberg & Sellier
Parution :
2025-11-24
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Terreni di confronto
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