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This volume focuses on the gradual emergence of modern Indian philosophy through the cross-cultural encounter between indigenous Indian and Western traditions of philosophy, during the colonial period in India, specifically in the 19th and early 20th centuries.This...
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Springer
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2015-05-13
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A period of great change for Europe, the thirteenth-century was a time of both animosity and intimacy for Jewish and Christian communities. In this wide-ranging collection, scholars discuss the changing paradigms in the research and history of Jews and Christians in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-05-05
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The New Middle Ages
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Galizien ist eine historische Landschaft zwischen Polen und der Ukraine, die stark von der österreichischen Teilungszeit geprägt ist. Obwohl sie als administratives Gebiet nur bis 1918 Bestand hatte, wirktGalizien in vielfältiger Weise bis heute nach. Dieses Buch setzt...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-05-04
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This volume comprises some twenty articles, speeches and conversations of Fei Xiaotong from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. Their central connecting theme is how civilizations could co-exist against a backdrop of rapid globalization. Fei proposes his concept of...
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Springer
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2015-04-30
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This book reveals how a privatization of fish resources has paved the way for a wide-reaching concentration and change in ownership. It is a thought-provoking contribution to the debate on the future of European fisheries and the possible solutions to overfishing in...
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Springer
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2015-04-29
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A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East presents a comprehensive overview of current trends and future directions in anthropological research and activism in the modern Middle East. Named as one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles of 2016 Offers...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-04-22
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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This volume is about the social identities of young Indigenous people in contemporary Australia, based on fieldwork in the rural community of Yarrabah, in Queensland.This case study of Yarrabah is based on seventeen ethnographic interviews with women and men in their...
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Springer
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2015-04-20
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This project provides an in-depth study of the role of worker-activist leaders in industrial strikes in China, a country where labor rights face significant challenges from state and industry suppression and by current lack of formal organization.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-15
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This book breaks with convention and provides an overview of Chinese history in the form of special topics. These topics include the major issues of “A Scientific Approach to the Origins of Chinese Civilization,” “Ancient Chinese Society and the Change of Dynasties,”...
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Springer
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2015-04-15
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Ernst Lichtenhahn ist ohne Übertreibung ein Doyen der schweizerischen Musikforschung. Als einer der wenigen Musikwissenschaftler im deutschsprachigen Raum hat er unterschiedliche sprachkulturelle und disziplinäre Forschungstraditionen zusammengeführt. In seinem...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-26
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Die Heldengalerie des Qianlong-Kaisers stellt die erste umfassende Dokumentation und Analyse eines in der chinesischen Kunstgeschichte zahlenmäßig absolut einmaligen, nicht mehr übertroffenen Bildprogramms dar. Hiermit wird erstmals eine systematisch vergleichende...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-03-26
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There has been a widespread fascination with age-dissimilar couples in recent years. This book examines how the romantic relationships of these couples are understood. Based on qualitative research, McKenzie investigates notions of autonomy, relatedness, contradiction,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-03-23
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What is the place of pluralism in the context of a dominant religion? How does the perception of religion as “tradition” and “culture” affect pluralism? Why do minorities’ demands for recognition often transform into exclusion? Through her ethnography of a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-18
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Transcultural Teens provides readers with a window onto the cultural and linguistic creativity of the housing projects, or cité, that ring Paris, showing how young people of Algerian Arab origins play with language in fascinating ways that subvert commonly held notions...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-03-17
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New Directions in Ethnography
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Dispelling widespread views that female same-sex desire is virtually absent from Italian literature and cultural production in the modern era, this groundbreaking study demonstrates that narratives of lesbianism are significantly more numerous than has been previously...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-16
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This book is the first case study on Wenda Gu that systematically investigates the cultural and artistic context of his life and works, examining selected images of his artwork spanning from the late 1970s to the early 21st century. It is the first monograph to provide...
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Springer
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2015-03-11
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The Pharmaceutical Studies Reader is an engaging survey of the field that brings together provocative, multi-disciplinary scholarship examining the interplay of medical science, clinical practice, consumerism, and the healthcare marketplace. Draws on anthropological,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-03-02
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology
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At first glance, no two experiences could be further apart than genocide and music. Yet real, live culture usually goes beyond rational divisions. It is now fairly commonly known that art is not absent from the sites of mass killings. Both victims and prosecutors engage...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-02
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Vor dem Hintergrund aktueller gesellschaftlicher Entwicklungen, aber auch angesichts der Ausdifferenzierungen des theoretischen Feldes stellen sich der Hermeneutischen Wissenssoziologie neue Probleme und Herausforderungen, die mit der Infragestellung des Subjektkonzepts...
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Springer VS
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2015-02-24
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A familiar, beloved, and yet misunderstood character in the Japanese folktale tradition is the animal-woman, an earthly animal that assumes the form of a female human. In order to articulate the characteristics that make Japanese Animal-Wife tales unique, this...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-02-20
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