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Technik, so vermuteten wir lange, beherrsche uns, weil ihre Entwicklung einer eigendynamischen Logik folgt, die uns als außergesellschaftliches Faktum erschien, die gesellschaftliche Entwicklung bestimmt.Technik, so behaupteten wir später, sei maßgeblich Resultat...
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Springer VS
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2014-09-29
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Pastoralist traditions have long been extraordinarily important to the social, economic, political, and cultural life of western India. The Marathi-language oral literature of the Dhangar shepherds is not only one of the most important elements of the traditional...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-09-19
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With the rise of smartphones and the proliferation of applications, the ways everyday media users and creative professionals represent, experience, and share the everyday is changing. This collection reflects on emergent creative practices and digital ethnographies of...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-09-16
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In Beiträgen, die sich mit dem Bevölkerungsrückgang in der Bundesrepublik beschäftigen, liegt der Fokus regelmäßig auf Frauen und ihrer „Fertilität“, also der Potenz oder auch Entscheidung, Kinder (nicht) zu bekommen. Im Zusammenhang mit den sogenannten Neuen...
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Springer VS
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2014-09-12
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On the History of Rock Music follows the development of rock music from its origins up to the present time. It focuses on the relationship between the sound, improvisations and rhythms in particular styles, and gives specific attention to the development of rhythm. The...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-09-10
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Biblical Representations of Moab: A Kenyan Postcolonial Reading employs critical theories on colonial, anticolonial, and postcolonial ethnicity and African cultural hermeneutics to examine the overlap of politics, ethnicity, nationality, economics, and religion in...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2014-09-10
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This volume is a collection of essays on the process of obtaining a PhD degree at a Finnish university. The contributors share the common background of coming to Finland from abroad especially for the purpose of taking up PhD studies. They hail from different countries...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-09-10
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'Interesting and provocative... It gives you a sense of how briefly we've been on this Earth' Barack ObamaWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything...
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Vintage Digital
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2014-09-04
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Analyzing a wide body of cultural texts, including literature, film, and other visual arts, Gender, Empire, and Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections is a diverse collection of essays on gender in Portuguese colonialism and Lusophone postcolonialism.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-04
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Zwar ist erst zum Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts explizit von Fans die Rede. Doch schon lange davor lassen sich Beispiele finden, die aus heutiger Sicht ebenfalls als Fantum bezeichnet werden können. Thomas Schmidt-Lux beschreibt diese Entwicklung von Fans und Fanobjekten...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2014-09-03
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Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition aims to bring cognitive linguistics and linguistic anthropology closer together, calling for further investigations of language and culture from cognitively-informed perspectives against the backdrop of the current trend of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-08-28
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Die gegenwärtige verstärkte Migrationsdynamik sowie die damit einhergehende Diversifizierung der Weltgesellschaft statuieren eines: Unsere Lebenswelten sind so vielfältig wie nie zuvor geworden. In dieser Hinsicht werden Begriffe wie Integration, Inklusion oder...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-08-27
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Culture is seen as a source for the development of society. Task of cultural policy is therefore to create and support structures that promote mobilization of creativity of the people and thus ensure welfare, innovation and pluralism. Such relationships have been...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-08-20
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The essays collected in this volume look at the way that Mozambican and Angolan literary works seek to narrate, re-create and make sense of the postcolonial nation. Some of the studies focus on individual works; others are comparative analyses of Angolan and Mozambican...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-08-18
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The Church and wider society in Northeast India have witnessed a number of shifts in ethnic identity and the resultant inter-ethnic conflicts since the 1980s are threatening the peaceful co-existence of various ethnic groups. Caught up in the throes of such ethnic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-08-18
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This volume brings together interviews on the topic of the postcolonial nation and its narrations with prominent writers from Angola and Mozambique. The interviewees offer personal insights into the history of post-independence Angola and Mozambique and into the role of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-08-18
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Dandys gelten weithin als elegante, eitle „Salonlöwen“, die in der Welt der Reichen und Schönen zu Hause sind und nichts anderes im Sinn haben, als es dort zu Ansehen und Prominenz zu bringen. Bei genauerer Analyse erweist sich diese Beschreibung als viel zu...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2014-08-14
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This cutting-edge volume is the first to address the burgeoning interest in drugs and Africa among scholars, policymakers, and the general public. It brings together an interdisciplinary group of leading academics and practitioners to explore the use, trade, production,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-07
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The swimming pool frequently appears in film not merely as a setting but as a dynamic site where social, political, cultural and aesthetic forces converge. What is it about this space that has so fascinated filmmakers and what kinds of cinematic investigations does it...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-07-25
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With studies of China, India, West Africa, South America and Europe, this book provides a global perspective on food consumption in the modern world. Combing ethnographic, historical and comparative analyses, the volume celebrates the contributions of Jack Goody to the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-07-23
Collection :
Consumption and Public Life
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