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This volume brings together Ron Eyerman’s most important interventions in the field of cultural trauma and offers an accessible entry point into the origins and development of this theory and a framework of an analysis that has now achieved the status of a research...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-09
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What’s with the men in menstruation? This is the question Men in Menstruation: A Social Transaction sets out to answer. From earliest times men have been puzzled and perplexed by the menstrual cycle and have constructed elaborate taboos, superstitions, and practices...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2019-04-04
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Reporter Chang Frick grew up dark-haired in a nation of blonds. Ostracized as a child, in adulthood he set out to expose the hypocrisy of Swedish society. When he revealed the cover-up of mass sexual assaults on teen girls at a 2015 music festival, he provoked a chain...
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Hurst
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2019-04-01
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Providing an ethnographic account of the everyday life of a household of artisans in the Telangana state of southern India, Chandan Bose engages with craft practice beyond the material (in this case, the region's characteristic murals, narrative cloth scrolls, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-03-30
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'Horizon is magnificent; a contemporary epic' Robert Macfarlane, author of UnderlandFrom the author of the classic Arctic Dreams comes a vivid recollection of his travels around the world and the encounters that shaped an extraordinary life. Taking us nearly from pole...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2019-03-28
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Drawing on ethnographic encounters with self-identified gay men in Iran, this book explores the construction, enactment, and veiling and unveiling of gay identity and same-sex desire in the capital city of Tehran. The research draws on diverse interpretive, historical,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-27
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Der Band liefert eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme bestehender Subjektkonzeptionen der kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Forschung. Zudem werden Konzepte entwickelt um Subjektivität im Kontext aktueller theoretischer Debatten (u.a. Mediensoziologie, Cultural Studies,...
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Springer VS
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2019-03-26
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In this ethnographic examination of women’s mosques in the Maldives, anthropologist Jacqueline H. Fewkes probes how the existence of these separate buildings—where women lead prayers for other women—intersect with larger questions about gender, space, and global Muslim...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-19
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This ethnography takes the reader into the Australian suburbs to learn about food, eating and bodies during the highly political context of one of Australia’s largest childhood obesity interventions. While there is ample evidence about the number of people who are...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-18
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This book relates stories of everyday life revolving around small-scale urban gardens in Central Havana and focusing particularly on that of Marcelo, a seventy-four-year-old revolutionary and gardener. The urban gardens are contested spaces: though monitored and...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-03-15
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This book asks a critical question for our times: why do an increasing number of people support, admire and aspire to be outlaws? Outlaw motorcycle clubs have grown, spread and matured. Popular culture glamorizes them; law enforcement agencies fight them and the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-09
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Noch immer bildet die Siedlungs- und Sozialform des Dorfes einen zentralen Bezugspunkt für individuelle und kollektive Erfahrungen und Imaginationen – und zwar auch unter den Bedingungen industrie- und mediengesellschaftlich geprägter Moderne. Das Handbuch präsentiert...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-03-08
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Unter dem Wissen der Moderne, dass die gesellschaftlichen Lebensformen vom Menschen selbst geschaffene Lebensformen darstellen und an Bedingungen gebunden sind, die sich zum System entwickelt haben, muss der Begriff der Gerechtigkeit von dem Problemgehalt der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-03-08
Collection :
Gesammelte Schriften
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The essays in this volume discuss the various approaches to New Materialism in Sociology and Philosophy. They raise the questions of what New Materialism consists of and whether it in fact should be considered a radical change in Social Theory. Are the ideas of a...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-02-27
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Explore the latest research in anthropological genetics and understand the genome’s role in cultural and social development A Companion to Anthropological Genetics illustrates the role of genetic analysis in advancing the modern study of human origins, populations,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-02-27
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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This two-volume handbook provides readers with a comprehensive interpretation of globality through the multifaceted prism of the humanities and social sciences. Key concepts and symbolizations rooted in and shaped by European academic traditions are discussed and...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-02-26
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This two-volume handbook provides readers with a comprehensive interpretation of globality through the multifaceted prism of the humanities and social sciences. Key concepts and symbolizations rooted in and shaped by European academic traditions are discussed and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-02-21
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This book examines the social practice of mistrust through the lens of social anthropology. In focusing on the citizens of the Caucasus, a region located at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, Mühlfried counters the postcolonial discourse that routinely treats these...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-02-20
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This book approaches the subject of AIDS pedagogy by analysing the complex links between representation or discourse, ideology, power relations and practices of self, understood from the perspective of embodiment. While there is a fairly large amount of literature...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-02-18
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This volume focuses on the implementation of the 2011 UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL approach), designed to foster the integration of heritage management in regional and urban planning and management, and strengthen the role of heritage in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-02-07
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