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In this autobiographical reflection, the distinguished anthropologist Philippe Descola looks back on his intellectual career and examines both the central themes of his work and the key questions that have shaped anthropological debates over the past forty years. A...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-10-19
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This book recounts the understanding of three Vietnamese children and their mothers’ experiences as they navigate being newcomers to Canada. It explores the cultural, traditional, familial, intergenerational, personal, social, institutional, political, historical,...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-09-28
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Cultural understandings of soil are diverse and often ambiguous.Cultural framing of soils is common worldwide and is highly consequential. The implications of what place the earth has in people's world view and everyday life can be in line with or in conflict with...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-09-22
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Volume III of Archerian Studies, which we now deliver to our readers, focuses on the question of culture. Despite the numerous motifs which were introduced to the discourse pertaining to Margaret S. Archer’s concept, we see that some repeat here constantly. We hope that...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-09-14
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This book reveals the history of the Vatican’s ethnographic collections by exploring the imperial, scientific, technological, and religious agendas behind its collecting and curating practices in the early twentieth century. It focuses on two principal contributors: the...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-09-12
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This book collects contributions which showcase the impact of new augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies considered jointly in the fields of cultural heritage and innovative design. AR is an alternative path of analysis and communication if...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-09-01
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This book deploys a long-term account of political corruption in Britain to explain the phenomenon of corruption as it resides within the state and the contemporary problem of corruption denial among members of the political class. It aims to satisfy the concern about...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-08-30
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This book summarizes China's ten-year experience of cultural heritage protection by providing case analysis of both successful and unsatisfying practices. It is written with an academic perspective and based on the author's real practice. The first part highlights the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-08-28
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This Handbook is a collection of contributions of more than 300 researchers who have worked to grasp the Anthropocene, this new geological epoch characterised by a modification of the conditions of habitability of the Earth for all living things, in its biogeophysical...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-08-21
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This book provides a detailed and comprehensive description of the Gitano community of Mexico City. The ethnographic study showcases the interplay between cultural reproduction, economic reproduction, and the Gitano / non-Gitano opposition. The first part of the book...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-08-21
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This book mines the space where aesthetic expression meets lived experience for Irish artists Rita Duffy, Mairéad McClean, Paula McFetridge and Ursula Burke. Portrait essays woven with photographs, document each artist’s coming of age in Ireland and Northern Ireland, in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-08-19
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What makes a people so persistently guard its ethnic name, even at the expense of reconstructing its cultural entities? The Nu in northern Myanmar originated from the Anung and Nusu branches of the Chinese Nu people in the Nujiang River valley. In Myanmar’s contemporary...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-08-18
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This book presents important concepts from medical and socio-cultural anthropology to health professionals working with organ transplantation involving indigenous populations. Written by an anthropologist and a nephrologist working at the Brazilian Amazon region, it...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-08-12
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In diesem Buch wird das Verständnis von Interkulturalität und interkultureller Kompetenz bei einem Automobilkonzern erforscht. Dafür wurden Experteninterviews mit Führungskräften des gehobenen Managements durchgeführt. Die Interviews wurden mit der Qualitativen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-08-09
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Offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the theory of material entanglement and entrapment, enriched with vivid examples from everyday life Entangled explores how archaeological evidence can help provide a better understanding of the direction of human...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2023-08-08
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Der Sturm auf das Kapitol bildet den Höhepunkt einer populistischen Konfrontations- und Mobilisierungsstrategie, die darauf ausgelegt war, Zustimmung durch eine Politik der Herab- und Feindsetzung zu akkumulieren. In der aktualisierten, 2. Auflage geht es weiterhin...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-08-04
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Giftmorde zeichnen sich durch die praktische Unsichtbarkeit der Tatwaffe und damit durch eine besondere Heimlichkeit aus. Anders als bei vielen anderen Morden ist so nicht nur die Täterschaft, sondern schon die Tat selbst besonders schwierig festzustellen. Gerichte sind...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-07-31
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What is the value of conversation measured by? Are there more valuable and inferior types of conversation?What role do the contents, the people, and the circumstances play? Do times and epochs shape their own conversations? Conversation norms from handbooks as well as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-07-27
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This book offers in-depth ethnographic analyses of key informants’ interviews on the ecological urbanism and ecosystem services (ES) of selected green infrastructure (GI) in Yoruba cities of Ile-Ife, Ibadan, Osogbo, Lagos, Abeokuta, Akure, Ondo, among others in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-07-22
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This book presents a substantive yet accessible introduction to the modern thought of Jainism. It examines the life and thought of some of the most influential 19th and 20th-century Jain ascetic leaders that remain little known in the Western world. The book's first...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-07-07
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