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How can the examination of action groups, such as the one discussed in this book, help to initiate a discussion of environmental conflicts as societal conflicts? In this work, which is an ethnographic study of a protest born in Istanbul during the late 1990s, the author...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-05-31
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This book reconstructs the perceptions about mixed marriages across generations, starting from a detailed analysis of the statistical background and a description of this phenomenon in the historical past, and then focusing on the case history of families. As ethnic and...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-05-29
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As a theory, sociobiology is opposed to socio-ecology, a discipline hampered since its birth. The indictment of the ideological intentions of the first has obscured the notion that the growing domination of the image of the “selfish gene” has obstructed the necessary...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2017-05-26
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The Theory of Social Pulsation is a new social theory elaborated from the social phenomenology and philosophy of sciences’ standpoint. It represents an innovative interpretation of social phenomena postulated as active states of social actors including individuals,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2017-05-26
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This book explores mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion involved in practices of community building through an ethnographic study of a neighborhood restaurant in Amsterdam. It presents important insights into the advantages and empowering effects of professional, top...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-24
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The end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic Ð at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary apocalypse are subjects of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic studies show, human cultures have approached them in very...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-05-23
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In this book leading cultural anthropologist Anton Blok sheds new light on the lives and achievements of pioneers who revolutionized science and art over the past five centuries, demonstrating that adversity rather than talent alone was crucial to their success. Through...
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Polity
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2017-05-23
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Die Zeit tritt uns in der Geschichte in vielfältiger Form entgegen.Die Unterschiede sind nicht nur oberflächlich; sie reichen bis in ihre kategoriale Struktur. Wir können nicht sicher sein, dass wir fremde Zeiten überhaupt verstehen. Weshalb dachten sich die Arunta die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-05-15
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Gesammelte Schriften
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This book provides a unique insight into the lived realities of hate crime in Ireland and its treatment within the criminal justice system. The significance of the Irish case is contextualised within the European and global policy contexts and an overview of hate crime...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-15
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The photographer Luigi Ghirri (1943–1992) was one of the most significant Italian artists of the late twentieth century. This volume – the first scholarly book-length publication on Ghirri to appear in English – introduces his photographic and critical work to a broader...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-05-08
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This collection of new writing on contemporary Greek cinema builds and expands on existing work in the field, providing a coherent analysis of films which, despite their international importance, have so far received limited critical attention. The volume maps key...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-05-01
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This volume provides a balanced picture of change and continuity within Dayak societies from an anthropological perspective by exploring diverse ways in which certain kinds of knowledge, performances and practices continue within the context of rapid and profound...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-04-27
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The definitive reference on the anthropology of death and dying, expanded with new contributions covering everything from animal mourning to mortuary cannibalism Few subjects stir the imagination more than the study of how people across cultures deal with death and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-04-26
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This volume is concerned with the hitherto neglected role of the humanities in the histories of the idea of race. Its aim is to begin to fill in this significant lacuna. If, in the decades following World War II and the Holocaust – years that witnessed European...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-04-24
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Der Band wird von zwei Zielen bestimmt: Zum einen, Weltbilder, die für Epochen spezifisch sind, in ihren Inhalten zu bestimmen und zum andern, die Gründe zu eruieren, weshalb sie sich an Strukturen gebunden bilden. Dabei tritt zutage, was der Titel verspricht: Es gibt...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-04-20
Collection :
Gesammelte Schriften
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This new book examines whether television can be used as a tool not just for capitalism, but for democracy. Throughout television’s history, activists have attempted to access it for that very reason. New technologies—cable, satellite, and the internet—provided brief...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-04-18
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Das Buch erforscht den Präteritums- und Perfektgebrauch in der Fremdsprache Deutsch. Zu diesem Zweck wurden zwei neue Korpora erhoben, die aus schriftlichen Erzählungen deutscher und griechischer Lernender bestehen. Auf Grundlage einer Lernerspachenanalyse konnte...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-04-18
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This volume examines the significance of spiritual kinship—or kinship reckoned in relation to the divine—in creating myriad forms of affiliations among Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Rather than confining the study of spiritual kinship to Christian godparenthood...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-04-17
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Der Band widmet sich der aktuellen Frage nach der Wiederkehr von Religion in der Gegenwartsliteratur und beleuchtet das Potenzial wechselseitiger Annäherung und Abgrenzung von Literatur(wissenschaft) und Theologie. Was sind die Facetten und Dynamiken solcher Begegnungen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-04-07
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The sway of Islam in political life is an unavoidable topic of debate in Turkey today. Secularists, Islamists, and liberals alike understand the Turkish state to be the primary arbiter of Islam's place in Turkey--as the coup attempt of July 2016 and its aftermath have...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-04-03
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