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What is depression? An “imagined sun, bright and black at the same time?” A “noonday demon?” In literature, poetry, comics, visual art, and film, we witness new conceptualizations of depression come into being. Unburdened by diagnostic criteria and pharmaceutical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-21
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Wie gestaltet sich für Pfarrpriester unter dem Einfluss der Nutzung von Technologien zur digitalen Vernetzung die Wahrnehmung von und der Umgang mit Raum, Zeit und sozialen Beziehungen? Diese Frage versucht der Autor in dieser empirischen Arbeit zu beantworten, indem er...
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Springer VS
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2021-09-17
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This is a book about the power of the imagination to move persons from the Global South as they reinvent themselves.This ethnography focuses on Caribbean Rastafari who have undertaken a spiritual repatriation to Ethiopia over several decades particularly, though not...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-14
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This book discusses the colonial history of Tribe-British relations in India. It analyses colonial literature, as well as cultural and relational issues of pre-literate communities. It interrogates disciplinary epistemology through multidisciplinary engagement. It...
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Springer
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2021-09-11
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This book examines the portrayal of the Palestinian-Israeli ‘conflict’ by looking at the language used in its reporting and how this can, in turn, influence public opinion. The book explores how language use helps frame an event to elicit a particular interpretation...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-28
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This book shares graduate student experiences, lessons, and life learnings from research with Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic. The results of graduate student research are often disseminated in a thesis or dissertation, but their personal experiences building...
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Springer
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2021-08-26
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Ritual Studies have achieved prominence since the 1980s, when interest in ritual as an object of inquiry was established, bridging over a number of humanities and social science disciplines. Both connected with religious studies and independent of it; overlapping with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-24
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What follows when state institutions name historically oppressed languages as official?What happens when bilingual education activists gain the right to coordinate schooling from upper-level state offices? The intercultural bilingual school system in Ecuador has been...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-08-17
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Dieses Buch handelt von Grenz- und Fremdheitskonstruktionen in iranischen Europa- und Russlandreiseberichten des 19. Jahrhunderts. Mittels einer textanalytischen Herangehensweise und anhand der theoretischen Fokussierung auf zwei Konzepte, nämlich die «kulturelle und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-08-16
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This book proposes another unique basis for the origins of religion from disturbances in brain function. It proposes the novel idea that near-death and out-of-body experiences (ND/OBE) engendered “a sense of the divine” in ancient man.As the author points out, key...
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Springer
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2021-08-10
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What does the practice of religion look like in Latin American today? In this book, which examines religious practice in three Latin American cities-- Lima, Perú; Córdoba, Argentina; and Montevideo, Uruguay-- Gustavo Morello reveals the influence of modernity on average...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-07-30
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A reconciliation movement spread across Australia during the 1990s, bringing significant marches, speeches, and policies across the country. Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians began imagining race relations in new ways and articulations of place, belonging, and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-07-26
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This edited book set in the context of North East India explores issues concerning symbols, meanings, representations, and social implications of materiality and visuality, as well as the dynamics of power, social reproduction, ideological dominance and knowledge...
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Springer
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2021-07-16
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The rapid expansion of the halal industry and its markets has occurred not only in the heavily Islamic regions of Southeast Asia and the Middle East, but also in more unexpected countries such as Turkey, Japan, and South Korea, plus many others around the world. Yet...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-07-13
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This book explores how small businesses respond to the law. By detailing the intricate ways in which businesses come to comply with or violate legal regulations, it shows a very different picture of compliance that completely changes the way we think about how...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-07-12
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Krieg und koloniale Landnahme haben das kulturelle Gedächtnis Namibias geformt. Mit der Unabhängigkeit im Jahr 1990 begann die Gründergeneration der SWAPO, das schwierige Erbe des Landes nach seinen eigenen Vorstellungen umzugestalten. Doch jede Generation und jede...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-07-01
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This book discusses and theorizes Achille Mbembe’s necropolitics, the politics of death, in the specific context of North America. It works to characterize and analyze the particularities and relational differences of American and Canadian necropowers vis-à-vis...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-25
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The Shikoku pilgrimage, a 1400 kilometre, eighty-eight temple circuit around Japan's fourth largest island, takes around forty days by foot, or one week by car. Historically, Buddhist ascetics walked it without ceasing, creating a tradition of unending pilgrimage that...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-06-17
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This book provides new insights into an intense and long-standing debate on women, gender, and masculinity with an explicit focus on ethnographic writing. The six contributors to this book investigate and discuss the multiple connections between ethnographic writing and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-07
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»Hauptsache offen!« ist eines der maßgeblichen Schlagwörter der Gegenwartskunst. Gemeint ist eine explizite Öffnung zum Betrachter und zu außerkünstlerischen Bereichen – beispielsweise Politik – sowie Forderungen nach Prozesshaftigkeit, Form- und Absichtslosigkeit....
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-05-31
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