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The main focus of this monograph on whistled speech is the result of a worldwide inquiry primarily based on the author’s unprecedented fieldwork and laboratory experience.The different questions raised by the origin and the evolution of whistled forms of languages are...
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Springer
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2015-02-19
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This interdisciplinary study promotes the thesis that some contemporary Chinese ink artists succeed in using principles of traditional Chinese aesthetics to convey the union of self with nature, others and the universe. The investigation is a case study of the writings...
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Springer
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2015-02-12
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Winner of the 2016 Grawemeyer Award in Religion
Global health efforts today are usually shaped by two very different ideological approaches: a human rights-based approach to health and equity-often associated with public health, medicine, or economic development...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-01-28
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50 Great Myths of Human Sexuality seeks to dispel commonly accepted myths and misunderstandings surrounding human sexuality, providing an enlightening, fascinating and challenging book that covers the fifty areas the author’s believe individuals must understand to have...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-01-20
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This book complements available one-make books on domestic synchronous clocks. It is also a history of science book that sets British domestic synchronous clocks, their manufacturers and technology in their social context.Part I covers the historical background, British...
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Springer
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2015-01-20
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This volume represents a selection of papers presented at the 2013 Edinburgh Seventh Century Colloquium, showcasing the latest scholarship from a rising generation of academics. The volume traverses the globe from Iran to the Atlantic and from Sweden to the Sahara and...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-01-19
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Why does the 1974 war in Cyprus remain so dominant in Greek-Cypriot cinema? How has this event shaped the imagination of contemporary filmmakers, and how might one define the new national cinema that has emerged as a result? This book explores such questions by...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-01-19
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Food has, for most of our species history, been intensely political: who gets to eat what, how often, and through what means? The scale of polity in question has shifted over time, from very local institutions dividing up grain piles to an international community...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-12-31
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Chechens: Culture and Society is an ethnography that elaborates the lived experiences of Chechens, focusing primarily on relationships and socio-cultural norms within the context of the current conflict in the Chechen Republic.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-16
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From brutal Nazi killers to Hanukkah heroes in the ’hood, tough Jews refute images of doomed Holocaust victims, wandering Jews of exile before them, and the post-war ‘nice Jewish boys’ who followed. They foster belligerent responses to polemics of fear and self-hatred,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-12-09
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This is the first book-length study of the groundbreaking work of Rey Chow, whose work has transformed the fields of postcolonialism, cultural studies, film, ethnicity and gender. It describes and explains the features and the breadth of Chow's interventions and...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-12-09
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Den Nachbar verstehen. Seine Mentalität. Seine Andersartigkeit. Die eigenen Vorurteile überwinden. All das ist nicht nur eine Aufgabe im zwischenmenschlichen Bereich. Sie gilt auch für die Nachbarschaft unterschiedlicher Nationen. Völkerverständigung bedarf einer...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-05
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For over half a century, the Middle East has been major migration corridor for domestic workers from Asia and Africa. This book Illuminates the multidimensionality of these workers' lives as they engage in finding a balance between acting and being acted upon, struggle...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-04
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Die Autorinnen und Autoren nehmen paradigmatische Analysen von spezifischen Produktionen des Classical Hollywood aus genuin philosophischer Perspektive vor. Leitfragen weisen sie je kulturellen, generischen und/oder autorspezifischen Kontexten zu, wobei sowohl...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2014-12-02
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Neue Perspektiven der Medienästhetik
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Visual Anthropology in Sardinia explores the technique, style and methodology of documentary films about Sardinia, investigating how such films construct different experiences and identities, and reflecting on the advantages of the medium of documentary film over...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-02
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Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are home to more than 90,000 transnational adoptees of Scandinavian parents raised in a predominantly white environment. This ethnography provides a unique perspective on how these transracial adoptees conceptualize and construct their sense...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-26
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Today, there is new appeal in the analysis of ethnicity, not merely as innate and fixed identities or fragmented and lost identities, but rather as wounded and then creatively reclaimed. Kearney discusses international examples of cultural wounding and healing and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-26
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The volume investigates the visualization of both ritual and decorative aspects of auspiciousness and protection in the form of celestial characters in art and architecture. In doing so, it covers more than two and a half millennia and a broad geographical area,...
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Springer
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2014-11-26
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Based upon Ajit Maan's groundbreaking theory of Internarrative Identity, this collection focuses upon redefining self, slave narrative, the black Caribbean diaspora, and cyberspace to explore the interconnection between identity and life experience as expressed through...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-25
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This collection of essays examines the relationship between the media and cosmopolitanism in an increasingly fragmented and globalizing world.This relationship is presented from multiple perspectives and the essays cover, amongst other themes, cosmopolitanization in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-11-25
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