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Bringing together a range of illustrative case studies coupled with fresh theoretical insights, this volume is one of the first to address the complexities and contradictions in the relationship between migration, time, and capitalism. While temporal reckoning has long...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-05-08
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Islam and China are topics of relevance and contention in today’s economic, political and religious climate. In this work, Tiffany Cone makes an important contribution to these contemporary discourses through an ethnographic case study of Islamic leadership and the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-05-08
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In the Shadows of Naga Insurgency is a fine-grained critique of the Naga struggle for political redemption, the state’s response to it, and the social corollaries and carry-overs of protracted political conflict on everyday life. Offering an ethnographic underview,...
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OUP India
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2018-05-08
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Race is one of the most elusive phenomena of social life. While we generally know it when we see it, it's not an easy concept to define. Social science literature has argued that race is a Western concept that emerged with the birth of modern imperialism, whether in the...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-05-01
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In almost every military intervention in its history, the US has made cultural mistakes that hindered attainment of its policy goals. From the strategic bombing of Vietnam to the accidental burning of the Koran in Afghanistan, it has blundered around with little...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-05-01
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Humanity is at a crossroads. We face mounting inequality, escalating political violence, warring fundamentalisms and an environmental crisis of planetary proportions. How can we fashion a world that has room for everyone, for generations to come? What are the...
Editeur :
Polity
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2018-04-27
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Why It Matters
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Raising the Dust explores the relationship between human and ecological health through the lens of African traditional medicine, as practiced in the south of Malawi. The book employs an ethnographic methodology using the primary methods of semi-structured interviews and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-19
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Exploring the roles of Muslim guards and guides in Jewish cemeteries in Morocco, Cory Thomas Pechan Driver suggests that these custodians use performances of ritual and caring acts for Jewish graves for multiple reasons. Imazighen [Berbers] stress their close ties with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-16
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How does the simple act of running make us human? As a form of enskilled movement that shapes how we perceive our surroundings, running enacts a mindful bodily engagement with the world, an engagement that generates our very minds through perceptual learning. Thomas F....
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-04-10
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Choreographies of the Living explores the implications of shifting from viewing art as an exclusively human undertaking to recognizing it as an activity that all living creatures enact. Carrie Rohman reveals the aesthetic impulse itself to be profoundly trans-species,...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-04-09
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This volume is an adda of great minds, spanning generations and multiple nationalities. While one discusses creativity and aesthetics through Indian classical music, another recounts the pleasure of a simple walk. Another questions how it would be if Rabindranath Tagore...
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OUP India
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2018-04-04
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This ethnographic study of a mixed-occupancy housing estate near the centre of London refocuses the scholarly conversation around social housing in the UK after the 1980 Housing Act. As well as examining the long-term consequences of ‘Right to Buy,’ such as shortages in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-30
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This book proposes that romantic relationships—filtered through various socio-cultural sieves—can lead to the development of affective kin bonds, which underlie our sense of personhood and belonging. Sirisena argues that the process resembles an attempt to make...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-03-15
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Als anthropologische Konstanten werfen Traum und Schlaf ein bezeichnendes Licht auf unterschiedliche Kulturen bzw. Gesellschaften und historische Epochen. Gleichzeitig hat der Gegenstand ‚Traum‘ nichts von seiner Ungreifbarkeit und Rätselhaftigkeit verloren. Unter dem...
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J.B. Metzler
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2018-03-14
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Die Ordnung und Neuordnung von Phänomenen in der empirischen Forschung hin zu Typen und einer sie umfassenden Typologie stellt in der Regel eine – kreative – Anstrengung dar. Im Gegensatz zu Typisierungen im Alltag sind beim wissenschaftlichen, systematischen Typisieren...
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Springer VS
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2018-03-09
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This book studies the three concepts of translation, education and innovation from a Nordic and international perspective on Japanese and Korean societies. It presents findings from pioneering research into cultural translation, Japanese and Korean linguistics, urban...
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Springer
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2018-03-08
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This volume addresses the fraught relationship between market and society in times of social and economic crisis, exploring how they interact in key social, cultural, and political arenas on a global scale. The contributors examine the neoliberal market in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-07
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Taking Care of the Future examines the moral dimensions and transformative capacities of education and humanitarianism through an intimate portrayal of learners, volunteers, donors, and educators at a special needs school in South Africa and a partnering UK-based...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-06
Collection :
Anthropological Studies of Education
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In der Rechtstheorie hält sich beharrlich die Frage nach der Legitimation der gesellschaftlichen Ordnung, nach der Legitimation des Rechts insbesondere. Auf der Suche nach ihrer Bestimmung sieht sich Dux mit der immer noch vorherrschenden Überzeugung in der Rechts- und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-02-21
Collection :
Gesammelte Schriften
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Filtered through black womanist perspectives, Zora Neale Hurston: The Breath of Her Voice breaks new ground through innovation and imagination, by fusing interpretive methods in ethnographic writing and literary studies. Intrinsically referencing contemporary...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2018-02-16
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