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Raising the Dust explores the relationship between human and ecological health through the lens of African traditional medicine, as practiced in the south of Malawi. The book employs an ethnographic methodology using the primary methods of semi-structured interviews and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-19
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This book explores how structures of social inequality are linked to the social connections that people hold. The authors focus upon occupational inequalities where they see, for example, that the typical friendship patterns of people from one occupation are often very...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-18
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This book studies the relationship between pukaras and their surrounding landscape, focusing on the architectural and settlement variability registered in both contexts. It is the outcome of a symposium held at the XIX National Congress of Argentine Archaeology (San...
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Springer
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2018-04-18
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Bündnisse für Wohnen gelten auf bundes-, landes- und kommunalpolitischer Ebene als neue Governance-Formen, um Lösungen für aktuelle wohnungspolitische Herausforderungen zu entwickeln und zugleich privatwirtschaftliches und zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement in den...
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Springer VS
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2018-04-18
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Quartiersforschung
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This open access book deals with contestations “from below” of legal policies and implementation practices in asylum and deportation. Consequently, it covers three types of mobilization: solidarity protests against the deportation of refused asylum seekers, refugee...
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Springer
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2018-04-18
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IMISCOE Research Series
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This book presents the results of an interdisciplinary project that examined how law, policy and ecological dynamics influence the governance of regional scale water based social-ecological systems in the United States and Australia. The volume explores the obstacles...
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Springer
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2018-04-18
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This book critically examines the term ‘religion’ (shukyo) as a social category within the sociological context of contemporary Japan. Whereas the nineteenth-century construction of shukyo has been critically studied by many, the same critical approach has not been...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-17
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Focussing on patterns of intergenerational stability, this book traces the unequal structures of opportunity in India. The author addresses questions and approaches towards social mobility (or the lack thereof) through interactions between social class, caste, and...
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OUP India
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2018-04-17
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Disclosing Childhoods offers a critical account of knowledge production in childhood studies. The book argues for the need to be reflexive about the knowledge practices of the field and to scrutinize the role of researchers in disclosing certain childhoods rather than...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-17
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This book argues that public relations is not merely an organizational tool, but a powerful influence on social and political life. From carefully considered communication by multinational corporations, to government campaigns that manage public opinion, to the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2018-04-17
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Wir befinden uns in einer Situation, in der das soziologische Wissen resystematisiert und überprüft wird. Die Soziologie der Mitgliedschaft wird in diesem Kontext fortgeführt. Die Evolution des Mitgliedschaftscodes und seine Interpretation ist der harte Kern der Theorie...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2018-04-17
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This book explores the emerging concept of cultural DNA, considering its application across different fields and examining commonalities in approach. It approaches the subject from four different perspectives, in which the topics include theories, analysis and synthesis...
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Springer
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2018-04-17
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Wie vielfältige gesellschaftliche Kontexte in Deutschland zeigen, kommt es zunehmend zu Protesten, mit denen Politik, Planung, Verbände und Unternehmen umgehen müssen. In diesem Buch werden erstmalig Konflikte um die Gewinnung mineralischer Rohstoffe untersucht. Dazu...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2018-04-16
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Sense and Sadness is an innovative study of music modality in relation to human emotion and the aesthetics of perception. It is also a musical story of survival through difficulty and pain. Focusing on chant at St George's Syrian Orthodox Church of Aleppo, author Tala...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-04-16
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Ethnography familiarizes readers with ethnographic research and writing traditions through detailed discussions of ethnography's history, exploratory design, representational conventions, and standards of evaluation.
Responding to the proliferation of ethnography both...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-04-16
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Dr L.M. Singhvi (1931–2007) was an eminent Indian jurist, a distinguished parliamentarian, a celebrated statesman, an able administrator, a brilliant scholar, a prolific writer, and a diplomat par excellence. He was India’s second longest-serving high commissioner to...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2018-04-16
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“What is colour?”,“What is the precise meaning of the statement ‘the stock exchange closes at a 5% drop this evening’?”, “How are TV viewers defined?”, or “How can images produce meaning?” Such everyday questions are examined in this book. To make our analysis intuitive...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2018-04-16
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Exploring the roles of Muslim guards and guides in Jewish cemeteries in Morocco, Cory Thomas Pechan Driver suggests that these custodians use performances of ritual and caring acts for Jewish graves for multiple reasons. Imazighen [Berbers] stress their close ties with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-16
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Fierce warriors and skilled craftsmen, the Celts were famous throughout the Ancient Mediterranean World. They were the archetypal barbarians from the north and were feared by both Greeks and Romans. For two and a half thousand years they have continued to fascinate...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-04-14
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Fierce warriors and skilled craftsmen, the Celts were famous throughout the Ancient Mediterranean World. They were the archetypal barbarians from the north and were feared by both Greeks and Romans. For two and a half thousand years they have continued to fascinate...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-04-14
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