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The area around the German city of Kaiserslautern – or K-Town in American parlance – is home to approximately 50,000 Americans who live within the Kaiserslautern Military Community, the largest organized settlement of American citizens outside the U.S.A. This book...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-11-25
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Adolf Bastian etablierte die Ethnologie als akademisches Fach. Die Biographie seiner frühen Lebensphase war bislang ethnologiegeschichtlich ein Desiderat. Archivalische Quellen beleuchten Einflüsse auf sein Denken aus dem protestantischen Bremer Bürgertum und seiner...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-11-25
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Offering a dialogue between anthropology and literature, culture, and media, this book presents fine-grained ethnographic vignettes of monsters dwelling in the contemporary world. These monsters hail from Aboriginal Australia, the Pacific, Asia, and Europe, and their...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-11-19
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Based on the author's fieldwork and readings of media, government reports, and historical and contemporary records, this book explores how Muslim migrants in Europe contribute to a changing European landscape, focusing on Muslim Moroccan migrants.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-11-19
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The quadrennial summer Olympic Games are renowned for producing the world's biggest single-city cultural event. This mega-event attracts a live audience of millions, a television audience of billions, and generates incredible scrutiny before, during, and after each...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-11-12
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Diese Studie verfolgt eine Synthese von medienästhetischer und diskursanalytischer Perspektive. Dabei wird das Genre der TV-Kriegsserie als eine symbolische Form verstanden, durch die eine Gesellschaft über sich selbst reflektiert, indem sie ihre Vergangenheit in...
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Springer VS
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2014-11-10
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This edited volume aims at exploring a most relevant but somewhat neglected subject in archaeological studies, especially within Latin America: maroons and runaway settlements. Scholarship on runaways is well established and prolific in ethnology, anthropology and...
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Springer
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2014-11-10
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Class-based self-perception is a rising issue worldwide. Through observation in kindergartens in Fiji, Brison examines how schools instil these ideas in Suva children. Teachers have different goals depending on the social background of the families while students create...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-11-06
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This book investigates nationalisms and the emergence of national identities among the Indigenous peoples across North America. It examines the many difficulties which the Native communities have had to face in order to assert themselves as nations, as well as looking...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-11-06
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The purpose of this volume is to identify and analyze the mechanisms and processes through which concepts and institutions of transcultural phenomena gain and are given momentum. Applied to a range of cases, including examples drawn from ancient Greece and modern India,...
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Springer
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2014-11-04
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Mashup hat sich als Begriff eingebürgert für auditiv, visuell, audiovisuell „vermischte“ Neuarrangements, Collagen, Bricolagen in der Musik, in Videos, in Computerspielen, in der (aktuellen Medien-)Kunst, in der Architektur. Es handelt sich um eine Verbindung...
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Springer VS
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2014-10-28
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Global Health involves, among many things the intensified travelling of people, resources, technologies, knowledge, standards, and ideas. This book describes what happens when innovations are transferred to new settings: What work is needed to make them work, but also...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-10-23
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The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory is the first scholarly book from the humanities on the subject of the Grenada Revolution and the US intervention. It is simultaneously a critique, tribute, and memorial. It argues that in both its...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-23
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This book examines in detail the basic trajectory of the cultural transformation and brings to light the extrinsic conditions and intrinsic mechanisms involved. It focuses on the period from after the Opium Wars to the New Culture Movement, as the New Culture Movement...
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Springer
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2014-10-22
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Vom Tafelbild über den Film bis zum 3D-Bild. Bilder überfluten uns in allen Bereichen der Gesellschaft, der Umgang mit digitalen Bildern wird immer wichtiger. Seit dem Pictorial oder Iconic Turn haben sich auch die Kulturwissenschaften des Themas angenommen und eine...
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J.B. Metzler
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2014-10-20
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South-North Dialogues on Queer Epistemologies, Embodiments and Activisms is composed of research presented at the fourth international Queering Paradigms Conference (QP4), held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In line with the QP project ethos of bringing together diverse...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-10-16
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This book provides insightful sociological analyses of Japanese demography and families, paying attention not only to national average data, but also to regional variations and community level analyses. In analyzing Japanese family issues such as demographic changes,...
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Springer
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2014-10-14
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Die Miniserie Holocaust, deren Ausstrahlung 1978 in den USA ca. 100 Millionen Zuschauer verfolgten, erreichte in West-Deutschland ein Jahr später etwa ein Publikum von 16 Millionen. Der Band leitet die Entstehung von Marvin J. Chomskys Holocaust aus der Tradition der...
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Springer VS
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2014-10-09
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The book explores migration and queerness as they relate to ethnic/racial identity constructions, immigration processes and legal status, the formation of trans/national and trans/cultural partnerships, and friendships. It explores the roles that religious...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-02
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Winner of the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities
Three understandings of the nature of religion--religion as experience, symbolic meaning, and power--have dominated scholarly discussions, in succession, for the past hundred years. Proponents of each of these three...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-10-01
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