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The bond between humans and horses is deep. For humans, horses provide freedom. Riding on horses and horse-drawn chariots or carts has allowed humans to go farther and faster than they could on their own. Horses (now high-horsepower cars) are our wings. As a result,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-08-05
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This book argues for – and carries out – what the author terms Heightened Performative Autoethnography (HPA). The common theme throughout the volume involves resisting oppressive and hegemonic spaces within paradigms, and hence seeking epistemological liberation. The...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-08-05
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Playing for Change – performing for money and for social justice – introduces a critical pedagogy of arts-based community learning and development (A-CLD), a new discipline wherein artists learn to become educators, social workers, and community economic development...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-08-05
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The book investigates relations between the ‘East’ and ‘West’ which have been forming and evolving from the Enlightenment until the present times. On the basis of material covering a selection of American, British and Turkish literature, as well as examples of Western...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-08-05
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The book is about the evolution and transformation of knowledge and knowledge systems in the context of cultural contact.The articles take Korea as an example and deal with the configuration, dissemination and consolidation of knowledge in certain contexts of the past...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-08-05
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The book offers the very first critical biography on Norman Manea, a widely respected writer and multiple Nobel Prize Nominee. It follows two main objectives: an aesthetic interpretation of his literature and a contextualization of his ethical discourse. Manea's...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-08-05
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Korea, geographically situated at cultural crossroads, has a long history of creative engagement with knowledge from outside sources. This volume discusses processes of knowledge integration – of interpretive adaptation, dissection, selection and re-assemblage, of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-08-05
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This book describes how Guyanese Hindus recreate Indian ethnic identity in contemporary Guyana and examines how Hindu traditions have been transformed in this multi-religious and multi-ethnic society. By illustrating the exchange and consumption of clothing, the book...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-29
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Now updated and expanded, People and Nature is a lively, accessible introduction to environmental anthropology that focuses on the interactions between people, culture, and nature around the world. Written by a respected scholar in environmental anthropology with a...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-07-28
Collection :
Primers in Anthropology
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How are media and communications transforming armed conflicts?How are conflicts made visible in the media in different national and transnational settings?How does the media serve as a means by which various actors manage and communicate conflict?
These are some of the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-07-28
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This book presents the legal institutions involved in cultural heritage protection from a Polish point of view. Its authors set out the legal framework of cultural management in the context of private and public law. They analyse the Anglo-Saxon concept of trusts,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-07-22
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The body is a rich object for aesthetic inquiry. We aesthetically assess both our own bodies and those of others, and our felt bodily experiences--as we eat, have sex, and engage in other everyday activities--have aesthetic qualities.The body, whether depicted or...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-07-14
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This book challenges the ways we think about human agency by looking at the creativity, ethics, and capacities for social transformation that are embedded in simple actions of “doing”. Stemming from ethnographic research with families in the United Kingdom as part of a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-13
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The twenty-first century workplace compels Americans to be more flexible, often at a cost to their personal well-being. InThe Disrupted Workplace, Benjamin Snyder examines how three groups of American workers construct moral order in a capitalist system that demands...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-07-08
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In a rapidly urbanizing India, what is the future of nature conservation? How does the march of development impact the conflict between nature and people in India’s cities? Exploring these questions, Nature in the City examines the past, present and future of nature in...
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OUP India
Parution :
2016-07-07
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The march towards a ‘new India’ began with its entry onto the global stage as a rising economic power, impelled by liberalization policies and the forces of globalization.The success of India’s information technology (IT) industry symbolizes these larger developments,...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2016-07-07
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The book contributes to a recontextualization of authenticity by investigating how this value is created, reenacted, and assigned. Over the course of the last century, authenticity figured as the major parameter for the evaluation of cultural heritage. It was adopted in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-07-01
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What is a human? Are humans those with human DNA, those in possession of traits like rationality, or those made in the image of God? The debate over what makes human beings unique has raged for centuries. Many think that if society accepts the wrong definition of what...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-07-01
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Die Autorin stellt Herman Wirth (1885–1981) vor, der in den 1930er Jahren ein bekannter und umstrittener Gelehrter war. Der zirkumpolare Norden galt ihm als Quelle aller Kultur. Von dort trug die nordische Rasse die urmonotheistische Hochkultur in die Welt. Urschrift,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-06-17
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Dieses Buch interpretiert das Werk der Schriftstellerin, Übersetzerin und selbsternannten pädagogischen Theoretikerin Therese Huber «neu» und betrachtet es in einem gesellschaftshistorischen, kulturell orientierten Bezugsrahmen. Die Autorin zeigt auf, dass die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-06-16
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