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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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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This pivot includes a series of inside ethnographic accounts and stories about managerial practices and processes, providing a critical account of managerial and HR practices. It seeks to advance thinking in the theoretical areas of strategy-as-practice (SasP),...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-12-12
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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...
Editeur :
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...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
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...
Editeur :
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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Headless relative clauses have received little attention in the linguistic literature, despite the many morpho-syntactic and semantic puzzles they raise. These clauses have been even more neglected in the study of Mesoamerican languages.
Headless Relative Clauses in...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-12-01
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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...
Editeur :
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...
Editeur :
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...
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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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