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This open access book presents fresh ethnographic work from the regions of Africa and Melanesia—where the popularity of charismatic Christianity can be linked to a revival and transformation of witchcraft. The volume demonstrates how the Holy Spirit has become an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-10-29
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This book investigates post-industrial American cities as sites of struggle where political identities are mobilized and new modes of citizenship are articulated.This interdisciplinary analysis gleans insights from anthropology, literary criticism, cultural studies,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-10-26
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This book, based on an empirical form of narration, outlines a short-medium term analysis of the social impact of austerity politics on urban life.. Set in Exarchia, a radical and anti-authoritarian neighbourhood located within the city centre of Athens, Greece, this is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-25
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This book analyses the language practices of young adults in Mongolia and Bangladesh in online and offline environments. Focusing on the diverse linguistic and cultural resources these young people draw on in their interactions, the authors draw attention to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-25
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This book is a collection of studies of corrections and repair in conversation, by Gail Jefferson, co-founder of the field of Conversation Analysis and one of its foremost researchers. Throughout her career, Jefferson explored the almost hidden, subterranean world of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-10-20
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In the Handbook of Culture and Memory, Brady Wagoner and his team of international contributors explore how memory is deeply entwined with social relationships, stories in film and literature, group history, ritual practices, material artifacts, and a host of other...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-10-16
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This book highlights the diversity and richness of non-Mainland China and Taiwan-oriented gender issues from a unique Taiwanese perspective, in contrast to previous studies that have often placed Taiwanese gender issues under the huge umbrella of Mainland Chinese,...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-10-15
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This interdisciplinary work discusses the construction, maintenance, evolution, and destruction of home and community spaces, which are central to the development of social cohesion. By examining how people throughout the world form different communities to establish a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-13
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'A pioneering study ... richly, empathetically and affectionately respectful of the human-animal bond' Sunday TimesWhy do humans love animals? The bestselling author of In Defence of Dogs and Cat Sense gives us the answers.Keeping pets is expensive, time-consuming, and...
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Penguin
Parution :
2017-09-28
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What happens to transnational norms when they travel from one place to another? How do norms change when they move; and how do they affect the place where they arrive? This book develops a novel theoretical account of norm translation that is located in between theories...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-22
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What happens to transnational norms when they travel from one place to another? How do norms change when they move; and how do they affect the place where they arrive? This book develops a novel theoretical account of norm translation that is located in between theories...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-22
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This book is about a divided nation and polarized nationhood. Its principal purpose is to examine division and polarization as forms of imagining that are configured within culture and framed by history.This is what bivocality signifies—two distinct discursive voices...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-20
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This book by eminent author Jasbir Jain explores the many ways the diaspora remembers and reflects upon the lost homeland, and their relationship with their own ancestry, history of the homeland, culture and the current political conflicts. Amongst the questions this...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-09-13
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This book is the first full-length monograph to focus on Punchdrunk, the internationally-renowned theatre company known for its pioneering approach to immersive theatre. With its promises of empowerment, freedom and experiential joy, immersive theatre continues to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-06
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This book gives a comprehensive introduction to intercultural communication in the era of globalization. The reader is introduced to essential concepts in the field, different theories and methods of analysing communication, the importance of verbal and nonverbal...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-09-06
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Weird, decadent, degenerate, racially mixed, superstitious, theocratic, effeminate, and even hyper-literate, Byzantium has long been regarded by many as one big curiosity. According to Voltaire, it represented "a worthless collection of miracles, a disgrace for the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-09-01
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What makes a colour work?What do colours mean to artists or cultures? Why does grey make a colour stand out?What colour are the oceans? Why is the yellow of lemons something to treasure? Award-winning illustrator Marion Deuchars takes us on a journey through colour,...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2017-08-31
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This book details the current neoliberal restructuring of cities and its impact on the rise and spread of resistance and uprisings in different cities throughout the world. Through close ethnographic study the authors illuminate the strategies adopted for everyday life...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-31
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This volume addresses how black, middle class, second generation Caribbean immigrants are often overlooked in contemporary discussions of race, black economic mobility, and immigrant communities in the US. Based on rich ethnography, Yndia S. Lorick-Wilmot draws...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-29
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This book offers the first comprehensive and in-depth exploration of the way Chinese humor fits into broader discourses on Chinese identity and modernity in an increasingly globalized world throughout the period of modern China. It brings together the expertise of...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-08-28
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