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Japanese Robot Culture examines social robots in Japan, those in public, domestic, and artistic contexts. Unlike other studies, this book sees the robot in relation toJapanese popular culture, and argues that theJapanese ‘affinity’ for robots is the outcome of a complex...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-17
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The book focuses on different uses of the concepts of utopia, dystopia, and anti-utopia.The author analyses literature, cinema, and rock music, as well as scientific and legal motifs in utopian fiction. He also considers the functions of Jewish characters in early...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-16
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This volume explores recent developments in the practice of hospitality, as well as the curious, precarious relationship between guests and their hosts. Drawing from personal interactions with an aging innkeeper called Herr Klaus and modern Airbnb hostess Gretchen,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-15
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The book provides a compilation of idiosyncratic manifestations of information society in techno-economic, political and cultural spheres.The contributors focus on the increasing complexity within information societies. To manage this complexity, societies develop...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-15
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This book utilizes personal narratives and survey data from over 500 respondents to explore the diversity of experiences across Asian and Pacific Islander LGBT communities within the United States. Additionally, the authors document and celebrate many of the everyday...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-12-14
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Nostalgie boomt – als kulturelles Phänomen wie als Forschungsgegenstand. Was aber ist und wie wirkt Nostalgie? Dieses Buch zeigt auf, wieNostalgie die Zeit anzuhalten sucht und unsere Wahrnehmung steuert. Eng verknüpft mit dem Aufkommen neuer Medientechnologien und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-14
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The book, through textual analyses, brings concepts of Senghorian Negritude and Emersonian ideas into a cross-cultural dialogue, and thus opens up a completely new perspective in research on the history of ideas. It synthesizes the diverse cultural, literary,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-13
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Jean Baudrillard's classic text was one of the first to focus on the process and meaning of consumption in contemporary culture. Originally published in 1970, the book makes a vital contribution to current debates on consumption. The book includes Baudrillard's most...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2016-12-13
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The author researches selected synonyms of ‘skinny’ and ‘fatty’ in the history of the English language from the perspective of cognitive linguistics.The method employed in grouping the analytical material has been dictated by the nature of the processes of semantic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-12
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This volume explores how Pagans negotiate local and global tensions as they craft their identities, both as members of local communities and as cosmopolitan “citizens of the world.” Based on cutting edge international case studies from Pagan communities in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-10
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The study presents a chronotope of linguistic and cultural changes that took place in England and Wales between the 4th and 8th centuries. It encompasses the areas of South Wales and Eastern England and describes the cultural practices of preliterate Anglo-Saxon and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-02
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Reflecting the currently growing eco-movement, this book presents to western readers Tao Yuanming, an ancient Chinese poet, as a representative of classical oriental natural philosophy who offered lived experience of “dwelling poetically on earth.” Drawing on Derrida’s...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-11-25
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China is home to one of the largest and oldest societies in the world, and presently contains fifty-six ethnic groups. Among them is the Zhuang, the largest of the minority populations, which partakes in a very long history of preliterate oral traditions. This volume...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-11-24
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There is a widespread perception that life is faster than it used to be. We hear constant laments that we live too fast, that time is scarce, and that the pace of everyday life is spiraling out of our control. The iconic image that abounds is that of the frenetic,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-24
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This book argues that the breaking and re-making of frames of analysis underlie the history of theorizing in anthropology. Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew J. Strathern note that this mode of analysis risks fabricating over-essentialized dichotomies between viewpoints. The...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-23
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Warum müssen Minderheiten geschützt und gefördert werden? Welche Minderheiten in Europa gibt es? Weshalb bedarf es wirksamer Minderheitenschutzsysteme auf verschiedenen Akteursebenen? Unter welchen Voraussetzungen können Minderheiten wirksam geschützt werden? Diesen und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-11-23
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In Zeiten hoher Forderungen nach Optimierung und Leistungssteigerung scheint der Mensch im 21. Jahrhundert erneut in der Krise. Als Seismograf und Motor kritischer, kultureller Selbstbeschreibung wird in diesem Zusammenhang die TV-Serie auf ihr Einwirken auf...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-11-17
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In this volume, leading public anthropologists examine paths towards public engagement and discuss their experiences with engaged anthropology in arenas such as the media, international organizations, courtrooms, and halls of government. They discuss topics ranging from...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-15
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This book compiles a collection of case studies analysing drivers of and responses to change amongst contemporary hunter-gatherers. Contemporary hunter-gatherers’ livelihoods are examined from perspectives ranging from historical legacy to environmental change, and from...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-11-15
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This book explores how modern concepts of time constrain our understanding of temporal diversity. Time is a necessary and pervasive dimension of scholarship, yet rarely have the cultural assumptions about time been explored. This book looks at how anthropology--a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-14
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