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This book brings together diverse perspectives from the newest generation of scholars from Canada and China to better understand China in the 21st century. It examines China's socio-political structure, its particular relationship with Canada, and interaction with the...
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Springer
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2015-11-07
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Im Alltag wissen wir über vieles so gut Bescheid, dass wir im Allgemeinen richtig „funktionieren“ können. Dieses Vorwissen ist aber kein methodisch erarbeitetes und kritisch reflektiertes Wissen über Zusammenhänge oder Gründe und Motive, schon gar nicht über...
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Springer VS
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2015-11-04
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This book explores the environment and cultural context of Colombian political novels published between 1951 and 1987. Challenging the label of «novelas de la violencia», the author analyses them as products of their own historical time and takes into account their...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-11-03
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The book addresses different areas of corpus-based translation studies, including corpus-based study of translation features, translator’s style, norms of translation, translation practice, translator training and interpreting. It begins by tracing the development of...
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Springer
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2015-10-31
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The book explores the growing tension between indigenous education, the teaching and learning of native knowledge, cultural heritage and traditions and the dynamics of globalization from the Asian perspective. It brings together a distinguished and multidisciplinary...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-10-23
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Over the last decades Clifford Geertz’ interpretive anthropology has played an important role in the field of socio-cultural anthropology. The study presents the critical reception of his thoughts in Western countries and Polish anthropology. Interpretive anthropology...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-10-23
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Found in many different religious cultures, the practice of making votive offerings into fire dates back to the earliest periods of human history. Throughout the tantric world, this kind of ritual offering practice is known as the homa. With roots in Vedic and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-10-22
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This book reprints an ancient Chinese work from the late Warring States period (3rd century BC) that contains stories and anecdotes exemplifying the carefree nature of the ideal Taoist sage. Chuang Tzu’s philosophy represents the main current of Taoist teachings, and...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-10-15
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It’s exhausting, being Irish. The constant self-flagellation is enough to put anybody off their breakfast.Why are we so hard on ourselves? Is it the post-colonial overhang following centuries of oppression at the hands of a litany of foreign invaders? Or is it...
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Transworld Digital
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2015-10-08
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This work examines the valley of the Urubamba River in terms of vertical zonation, Incan impact on the environment, plant use, the history of exploration and the notion of discovery, the idea of land reform, and cultural contact with the European world. Winding its path...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-10-05
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??This volume focuses on contemporary Confucianism, and collects essays by famous sinologists such as Guy Alitto, John Makeham, Tse-ki Hon and others. The content is divided into three sections – addressing the “theory” and “practice” of contemporary Confucianism, as...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-10-02
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The Forest People is an astonishingly intimate and life-enhancing account of a hunter-gatherer tribe living in harmony with nature -- and an all-time classic of anthropology.For three years, Colin Turnbull lived with an isolated group of Pygmies deep in the forest of...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2015-10-01
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Bringing together boxing writers from different cultural and disciplinary perspectives, this book offers a vital and original contribution to the understanding of this enduringly fascinating and controversial sport. This collected volume investigates what is at stake in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-09-30
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*A SCOTSMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR* Stranded at Schiphol airport, Ben Coates called up a friendly Dutch girl he'd met some months earlier. He stayed for dinner. Actually, he stayed for good. In the first book to consider the hidden heart and history of the Netherlands...
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John Murray Business
Parution :
2015-09-24
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This volume investigates the material production and expression of colonial experiences in Africa. It combines archaeological, historical, and ethnographic sources to explore the diverse pathways, practices, and projects constructed by Africans in their engagement with...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-09-19
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?Genres unterliegen stets Transformationsprozessen und stehen in Wechselbeziehungen zu anderen Genres - nicht nur intramedial, sondern in einer medienpluralisierten globalen Gesellschaft immer stärker auch medienübergreifend. Daher lassen sich anhand generischer...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-09-11
Collection :
Neue Perspektiven der Medienästhetik
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Factory, mine and mill. Industry, toil and grime. Its manufacturing roots mean we still see the North of England as a hardworking place. But, more than possibly anywhere else, the North has always known how to get dressed up, take itself out on the town and have a good...
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Ebury Digital
Parution :
2015-09-10
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Recognized as a finalist for the CAE 2018 Outstanding Book Award!Part historic ethnography, part linguistic case study and part a mother’s memoir, Kisisi tells the story of two boys (Colin and Sadiki) who, together invented their own language, and of the friendship they...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-08-13
Collection :
New Directions in Ethnography
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A Companion to Heritage Studies BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY A Companion to Heritage Studies “This Companion provides a gateway to heritage studies for students and scholars alike. Taken together, the essays testify to how exciting and dynamic this field has...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-08-10
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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Die AutorInnen dieses Sammelbandes widmen sich zum einen empirischen Erhebungen zur kulturellen Infra- und Angebotsstruktur der Städte Hagen und Smolensk in Form halbstandardisierter mündlicher und schriftlicher Bürger- und Besucherbefragungen. Zum anderen befassen sie...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-08-10
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