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This book is the result of direct observation of the author born in Toraja, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. It provides a short description of many aspects of Toraja geography, government system, religion, population, education, health and medical care, language, social...
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Editions L'Harmattan
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2016-06-15
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Nomino ergo sum
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Transforming Culture offers a discussion and exploration of American work culture that can serve as a guide for organizational-culture change through the description and explanation of a model for change used at GM. The book describes the model, discusses culture-change...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-11
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The book provides key insights in experiencing lives and attitudes of the increasing number of people who reside beyond national boundaries and strategically create their life-paths. It is a brief but comprehensive introduction to the latest theoretical developments...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-06-10
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In this broad ranging study, Gretchen Woertendyke reconfigures US literary history as a product of hemispheric relations. Hemispheric Regionalism: Romance and the Geography of Genre, brings together a rich archive of popular culture, fugitive slave narratives,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-06-02
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An ideology is sweeping Europe and the world which threatens democracy and the rule of law. The post-national ideology, which posits that nation-states are no longer capable of running their own affairs in a modern, interdependent economy, confuses the constitution of...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2016-05-19
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Mobilität und Migration rücken Interkulturalität in den Fokus öffentlicher und wissenschaftlicher Aufmerksamkeit. Der Band geht der Frage nach, inwiefern das Land Luxemburg aufgrund seiner kulturellen, sozialen und sprachlichen Besonderheiten ein Labor für...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-05-13
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Die beiden mitteldeutschen Epen «Graf Rudolf» und «Herzog Ernst» spielen zwar in den neuesten Darstellungen der Geschichte der deutschen Regionalliteratur eine Rolle, aber ihre Einordnung in Gattungen lässt Fragen offen. Zur Diskussion stehen ihre Verbindung zur...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-05-13
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Dinge verraten etwas über Gesellschaften und ihre Mitglieder. Sie
repräsentieren Wissen und Geschichte(n), verdichten Identitätserfahrungen und
markieren sowohl Zugehörigkeiten wie auch Abgrenzungen.Dinge weisen über sich
hinaus, sie tragen Bedeutungen in sich, die im...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-05-11
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Partnerships among a variety of institutions – for profit, not-for-profit, and non-profit – are a relatively recent organizational development. Such partnerships link businesses, government, and social agencies. The primary reason for these relationships is to achieve...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-05-10
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This volume examines the importance of establishing egalitarian relationships in fieldwork, and acknowledging the impact these relationships have on scholarly findings and theories. The editors and their contributors investigate how globalization affects this...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-04
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Mark Vernon offers penetrating insights on the idea of friendship, using philosophy and modern culture to ask about friendship and sex, work, politics and spirituality. He also explores how notions of friendship may or may not be changing because of the internet, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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A pioneering volume comparing the great historical empires, such as the Roman, Mughal and Ottoman. Leading interdisciplinary thinkers study tributary empires from diverse perspectives, illuminating the importance of these earlier forms of imperialism to broaden our...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
Collection :
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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In the last few decades the people of the African diaspora have intensified their struggles against racial discrimination and for equality. This account of these social movements include action in Latin America, the Indian Ocean World, Europe, Canada and the United...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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Why do people routinely risk their health by smoking cigarettes?Why do some females make walking a struggle by donning high heels? In a fully updated edition, the author attempts to answer such questions by explaining the discipline that endeavors to understand the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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The Funk Era and Beyond is the first scholarly collection to discuss the significance of funk music in America. Contributors employ a multitude of methodologies to examine this unique musical genre's relationship to African American culture and to music, literature, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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Migration involves change of geographical place, social relations and cultural habits. This volume brings together contributions from an international group of scholars including studies of ritual change and social transformation in Singapore, Germany and the US. In...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-29
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Masculinities and the Nation in the Modern World sheds new light on the interrelationship between gender and the nation, focusing on the role of masculinities in various processes of nation-building in the modern world between 1800 and the 1960s.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-29
Collection :
Global Masculinities
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Lyombe Eko carries out an historical and cultural survey of the regulation of visual depictions of explicit human sexual conduct from their earliest appearance on the clay tablets of the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in ancient Mesopotamia, to the tablet...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-29
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This textbook offers a brief overview of the main philosophical schools of the two most significant cultures in ancient Asia, from where these thoughts have spread widely – it concerns ancient India and China. Most important philosophical concepts of that region like...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-22
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This textbook offers a brief overview of the basic approaches to the scientific scrutiny of religion. To remain uninterested in examining religion is more difficult than examining any other object of research. In relation to issues of religion, we cannot stand as...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-22
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