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This book concerns building an idealized image of the society in which the Holocaust occurred. It inspects the category of the bystander (in Polish culture closely related to the witness), since the war recognized as the axis of self-presentation and majority politics...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-03-16
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This book analyses the presence and impact of Irish drama in Galicia, a minorised cultural context where Ireland has historically been viewed as a recognisable, often inspirational, «other». Through interviews with theatre practitioners and the examination of key...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-03-11
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A new, fully revised edition of this bestselling textbook in linguistic anthropology, updated to address the impacts of globalization, pandemics, and other contemporary socio-economic issues in the study of language Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-03-10
Collection :
Primers in Anthropology
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This book seeks to find creative and transformative relationship among roots and routes and create a new dynamics of awakening so that we can overcome the problems of closed and xenopbhobic roots and rootless cosmopolitanism. The book draws upon multiple philosophical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-03-01
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This book offers a novel approach to innovations in theories of communication and social development. It proposes that "the man is the message". It argues that communication is woven into the fabric of people’s daily lives, and a scholar with a keen eye, an...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-03-01
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A Social History of Sheffield Boxing combines urban ethnography and anthropology, sociological theory and place and life histories to explore the global phenomenon of boxing. Raising many issues pertinent to the social sciences, such as contestations around state...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-20
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Revisionist in approach, global in scope, and a seminal contribution to scholarship, this original and thought-provoking book critiques traditional notions about Anglo-Indians, a mixed descent minority community from India. It interrogates traditional notions about...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-17
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In Search of Lost Futures asks how imaginations might be activated through practices of autoethnography, multimodality, and deep interdisciplinarity—each of which has the power to break down methodological silos, cultivate novel research sensibilities, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-16
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Der Band geht wissenshistorischen Beziehungen von Literatur und Ökonomie nach, indem er die kulturwissenschaftlich noch kaum diskutierten Begriffsfelder Kredit und Bankrott fokussiert. Finanzpolitische Diskussionen bilden den hochaktuellen wie tiefenhistorischen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-02-09
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Der historischen Ritualforschung ist die Eigenschaft des Menschen, Gruppen zu formen und in diesen kollektive Identität zu entwickeln, seit langem bekannt. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die kulturellen Praktiken Prozession und Heiltumsweisung auf ihre Bedeutung für...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-01-22
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Sprache im Sinne der Wirklichkeitsstrukturierung oder gar -konstruierung steht im Mittelpunkt des sogenannten linguistic turn. Auf der anderen Seite istSprache selbst aber auch ein Kulturartefakt. Sie entwickelt sich als Produkt der menschlichen Evolution und ist als...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-01-21
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Ist ‚gutes Leben‘ im Kapitalismus möglich? Diese Frage verhandeln Angestelltenromane seit ihrer Entstehung zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die vorliegende Studie analysiert das Spektrum zwischen Müssen und Muße, Lust und Frust, Arbeit und freier Zeit vor dem Hintergrund...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-01-21
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The Great War set in motion all of the subsequent violence of the twentieth century.The war took millions of lives, led to the fall of four empires, established new nations, and negatively affected others. During and after the war, individuals and communities struggled...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-01-21
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To do ethnography, a researcher must have rapport with research subjects. But what is rapport? Ethnography and ethnographic methods have increasingly become a feature of social inquiry in general and sociolinguistics in particular, and rapport is generally considered a...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-01-18
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The migration crisis of recent years has elicited a double response: on the one hand, many states have responded by tightening border controls, in an attempt to restrict population movements, while on the other hand many citizens have responded by welcoming new...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-01-14
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Through an examination of three wooden boat workshops on the East coast of the United States, this volume explores how craftspeople interpret their tools and materials during work, and how such perception fits into a holistic conception of practical skill. The author...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-11
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This collection brings together leading thinkers on human beings in urban spaces and inequalities therein. The contributors eschew conceptual confusion between equality — of opportunity, of access, of the right to compete for whatever goal one chooses to pursue — and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-05
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A Social History of Sheffield Boxing combines urban ethnography and anthropology, sociological theory and place and life histories to explore the global phenomenon of boxing. Raising many issues pertinent to the social sciences, such as contestations around state...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-04
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This book focuses on the Chinese context to investigate how informal institutions (Confucian culture and its dimensions, religion, political connections) in China affect accounting behaviors.This book tries to show that cultural influence and religious impacts in China...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-01-04
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This book explores five cases of monument and public commemorative space related to World War II (WWII) in contemporary China (Mainland), Hong Kong and Taiwan, all of which were built either prior to or right after the end of the War and their physical existence still...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-02
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