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«Generation» ist in Frankreich und Deutschland ein inflationär gebrauchter Alltagsbegriff. Als Modewort lenken «génération Macron» oder «Generation beziehungsunfähig» Aufmerksamkeit auf scheinbar bedeutsame gesellschaftliche Gruppierungen oder Phänomene. Der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-08-13
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This edited collection expands scholarly and popular conversations about dark tourism in the American West. The phenomenon of dark tourism—traveling to sites of death, suffering, and disaster for entertainment or educational purposes—has been described and, on occasion,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-12
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Mirrorlands is a journey through space and time to the meeting points of Russia and China, the world's largest and most populous countries. Charting an unconventional course southeast through Siberia, Inner Mongolia, the Russian Far East and Manchuria, anthropologist...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2019-08-01
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Michael Staack’s multi-year ethnography is the first and only comprehensive social-scientific analysis of the combat sport ‘Mixed Martial Arts’. Based on systematic training observations, the author meticulously analyses how Mixed Martial Arts practitioners conjointly...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-07-25
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The first anthropological account of the Irish diaspora in Europe in the 21st century, this book provides a culture-centric examination of the Irish diaspora. Focusing less on an abstract or technical definition of Irish self-identification, the author allows...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-22
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This edited book explores languages and cultures (or linguacultures) from a translation perspective, resting on the assumption that they find expression as linguacultural worldviews. Specifically, it investigates how these worldviews emerge, how they are constructed,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-12
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting
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______________________________The huge word-of-mouth bestseller – completely updated for 2019THE LONDON THAT TOURISTS DON’T SEELook beyond Big Ben and past the skyscrapers of the Square Mile, and you will find another London. This is the land of long-forgotten tube...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2019-07-11
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For scholars of ancient Indian religions, the wandering mendicants who left home and family for a celibate life and the search for liberation represent an enigma. The Vedic religion, centered on the married household, had no place for such a figure. Much has been...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-07-11
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This book explores different forms of mediated offence in the context of Trump's America, Brexit Britain, and the rise of far-right movements across the globe. In this political landscape, the so-called ‘right to offend’ is often seen as a legitimate weapon against a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-03
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Through a thick ethnography of the Fez medina in Morocco, a World Heritage site since 1981, Manon Istasse interrogates how human beings come to define houses as heritage. Istasse interrogates how heritage appears (or not) when inhabitants undertake construction and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-03
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Death Across Cultures:Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures, explores death practices and beliefs, before and after death, around the non-Western world. It includes chapters on countries in Africa, Asia, South America, as well as indigenous people in Australia and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-07-01
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This edited volume constructs a ‘cosmopolitics’ of climate change, consulting small-scale sustainable communities on whether the world is ending and why, and how we can take action to prevent it. By comparing scientific and indigenous accounts of the same phenomenon,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-29
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One of the country’s most eminent sociologists, J.P.S. Uberoi inaugurated a unique approach in the study of Indian sociology and social anthropology. He makes a case for a form of independent Indian sociology in relation to the principal philosophies and sociological...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2019-06-28
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This book brings together multidisciplinarity, desirability and possibility of consilience of borderline studies which are topically diverse and methodologically innovative. It includes contemporary tribal issues within anthropology and other disciplines. In addition,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-06-25
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This book explores how there is latitude for people to make their own choices and how the chances to assert independence change over time in a Muslim, Arab, tribal culture. The book first gives a brief overview of day-to-day life in the Dhofar region of southern Oman,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-21
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This book studies and disaggregates the "crisis of the suburbs" in Paris through the stories of inhabitants in 4000sud: a French suburban neighborhood. These stories have become pressing in the aftermath of the recent wave of terrorist attacks in France. The French...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-21
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Compiling various strands of the dis/enchantment with development discourse in contemporary South Asia, with specific focus on the cases from India, this edited book brings together anthropologists, sociologists, economists, and historians to refresh the understanding...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-18
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Der Grazer Musiker, Komponist und Musikpädagoge Jakob Stolz (1832-1919) wäre heute gänzlich vergessen, wenn nicht seinem jüngsten Sohn Robert Stolz als Komponist und Dirigent eine der bedeutendsten Karrieren des 20. Jahrhunderts beschieden gewesen wäre. Dieses Buch...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-06-12
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It is often claimed that humans are rational, linguistic, cultural, or moral creatures. What these characterizations may all have in common is the more fundamental claim that humans are normative animals, in the sense that they are creatures whose lives are structured...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-06-11
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An exemplary investigation into music and sustainability, Singing and Survival tells the story of how music helped the Rapanui people of Easter Island to preserve their unique cultural heritage. Easter Island (or Rapanui), known for the iconic headstones (moai) that dot...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-06-10
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