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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...
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Springer
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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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-02
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This book explores changes in eating habits in African, Latin American and Asian cities. It reveals—through studies on city dwellers’ food practices and representations—the inadequacy of an analytical approach to these changes in terms of Westernization,...
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QUAE
Parution :
2020-12-18
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With fascinating examples from around the world, this inspiring "manifesto" shows how to account for cultural diversity in reshaping economic and political development.
Around the world, the realities of underdevelopment are harsh and galling, and current strategies...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-12-15
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Das Forschungsfeld der Transkulturalität und Interkulturalität reicht von literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Fragen über philosophische und ästhetische Ansätze.In diesem Sammelband setzen sich Vertreterinnen und Vertreter unterschiedlicher Disziplinen mit der Frage...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-12-07
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Nürnberg, Frankfurt und Regensburg erscheinen in Reisebeschreibungen römisch-katholischer Geistlicher als interkonfessionelle Stadträume. Die spezifisch konfessionellen Wahrnehmungen der Reisenden eröffnen vielfältige Perspektiven auf Raum als kulturell und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-12-07
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Wie gehen wir am besten mit Altern, Sterben und Tod um? Dies ist eine zentrale ethische Frage des 21. Jahrhunderts: Hier werden die Erkenntnisse verschiedener Wissenschaften dazu in einem Handbuch zusammengefasst. Es vermittelt grundlegende Kenntnisse über...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-12-06
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This volume presents both a historical exploration of ethnography and a thematic discussion of major trends that, over different periods, have oriented and re-oriented research practice. As it overviews ethnography from different geographic and thematic perspectives, it...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-04
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The subtitle says it all: how and why Bollywood found it worthwhile to explore the reality of the millennial women who are thriving in India - small part of the demographics but very influential. Advertising discovered women asThe Hindi film Heroine is a brand and brand...
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OUP India
Parution :
2020-11-30
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In den Texten dieses Bandes, entstanden zwischen 1955 und 2005, entfaltet Schweppenhäuser seine dialektische Kulturtheorie. Ein zentrales Motiv ist die Kritik der „Scheinemanzipation“:In dieser usurpiert „das Medium; den kulturellen Zweck, den...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-11-27
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The richness of Africa’s heritage at times stands in stark contrast to the economic, health, political and societal challenges faced. Development is essential but in what forms? For whom? Following whose agendas? At what costs? This book explores how heritage can...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-27
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The study of the reciprocal relationship between the Bible and popular culture has blossomed in the past few decades, and the time seems ripe for a broadly-conceived work that assesses the current state of the field, offers examples of work in that field, and suggests...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-11-24
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This book studies how people negotiate difficult heritage within their everyday lives, focusing on memory, belonging, and identity. The starting point for the examination is that temporalities lie at the core of understanding this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-21
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This volume provides a unique perspective on elderly working-class West Indian migrants in the UK, particularly examining how they negotiate their sense of belonging. Utilizing the life span gaze and including elements of oral history and narrative, this ethnography...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-19
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Prousts Romanwerk reiht sich in die Tradition abendländischer Hochkultur ein und wird vornehmlich als elitäres Bildungsprodukt rezipiert. Der Autor und sein Werk führen jedoch längst ein Eigenleben im Rezeptionsfeld postmoderner und populärer Medienkulturen des 20. und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-11-19
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In Israel, where the Orthodox rabbinate wields historically sanctioned influence over the legal definitions of marriage and parenthood, same-sex parenthood raises important questions such as what constitutes belonging to the national collective, who has the authority to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-17
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This is an edited collection of essays drawn from collaborative events organized jointly by The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. The book focuses on how literary and cultural perspectives from different humanities academic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-11-17
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The unifying theme of contributions gathered in this book is identity, which is an especially topical issue in contemporary society, culture, and art.The monograph presents many of the diverse ways of reflecting on identity, along with the broad interdisciplinary impact...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-11-17
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Unpacking assumptions about corseting, Rebecca Gibson supplements narratives of corseted women from the 18th and 19th centuries with her seminal work on corset-related skeletal deformation. An undergarment that provided support and shape for centuries, the corset...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-16
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In this timely analysis of the economics of access that surround contemporary female celebrity, Hannah Yelin reveals a culture that requires women to be constantly ‘baring all’ in physical exposure and psychic confessions. As famous women tell their story, in their ‘own...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-10
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