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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...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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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...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-22
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Im Jahre 1896 erwarb die Nationalgalerie in Berlin als erstes Museum einer europäischen Metropole – noch vor Paris – Werke der französischen Impressionisten. Ihr Direktor Hugo von Tschudi setzte sich damit bis zu seiner Demission 1909 über die wilhelminische...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-22
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This textbook discusses and systemises several selected topics of philosophical anthropology. The problem of man cannot be grasped through only one main principle or aspect (as the principle of his or her «humanity»). The chapters of this book rather outline several...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-22
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Kinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana, Cuba is an ethnographic analysis of gender, kinship, and love in contemporary Cuba. The book documents how low-income Havana residents negotiate their social relations through gendered caring practices over the life...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-21
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This multidisciplinary collection of nine previously unpublished essays presents new research in three interlocking domains: tribal history with a special emphasis on Native women in the Southeast, language revitalization efforts and the narrative knowledge inherent in...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-04-19
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The serial killer has become an obsession ever since Jack the Ripper became a media sensation, embedding a new and horrifying type of murderer into our cultural consciousness – one who kills darkly and in the dark. All popular media – print, radio, television, and so on...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2016-04-19
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This groundbreaking anthology examines the phenomenon of crime and our historical understanding – and misunderstanding – of the criminal mind through the lens of the humanities, unpacking foundational concepts in criminology and criminal investigative analysis through...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2016-04-19
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About 9,000 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany settled in Australia between 1933 and 1945, a small fraction of the hundreds of thousands who fled. Although initially greeted with a mixed reception as «enemy aliens», some of these refugees remained and made a significant...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-15
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Die Monografie umreißt die polonistische Textsortenforschung in ihren wichtigsten Strömungen und Entwicklungslinien. Teil I führt in den theoretischen Kontext ein und stellt das Begriffsinstrumentarium der Forschungsdisziplin vor. Es wird dabei eine integrative...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-15
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Die Monographie bietet einen Überblick über verschiedene Raumkonzepte der modernen Literaturforschung. Es werden Orte und Unorte, historische und gegenwärtige Regionen, mentale Räume der Kultur und Bildung, der Natur und Landschaften, die sich mit den Phänomenen der...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-15
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Charles Dickens, celebrated novelist and journalist, believed that his greatest ability as a writer was to make people laugh. Yet, to date, humor has been strangely marginalized in journalism, communication and media studies. This innovative book draws together the work...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2016-04-14
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The author studies ethnic stereotypes in the history of English from the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics. He views an ethnic stereotype as an idealised cognitive model (ICM) which consists of a cluster of metonymic submodels (such as BODY, CUISINE, NAME, etc.)....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-08
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Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this book examines how contemporary secularism in France is positioned as a guarantor of women’s rights. Selby argues that the complex “fetishization” of headscarves in public, governmental, and feminist French discourse...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-04-06
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A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health presents a collection of readings that utilize a medical anthropological approach to explore the interface of humans and the environment in the shaping of health and illness around the world. Features the latest...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-04-05
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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The term «house of art» designates the cultural phenomenon and creative mode in modernity associated with an artist’s residence as his own creation and as his product of a need to create which is unfulfilled in the painter’s, writer’s or composer’s actual field. This...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-01
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The contributions in this volume reflect discussions and controversies during the Princeton University Conference on Polish-Jewish Studies (April 18–19, 2015).The debates examined the politics of history in Poland, as well as the scholarly and pedagogical need to move...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-01
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Cultural Animal Studies sind ein neuer interdisziplinärer Forschungsbereich, der sich ausgehend vom angloamerikanischen Sprachraum auch in der deutschen Wissenschaftslandschaft etabliert. Dabei handelt es sich nicht nur um ein thematisches Feld sondern um ein neues...
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J.B. Metzler
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2016-03-29
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Der erste Band der Wiener Konferenz (2013) anlässlich des 90. Geburtstages von Nikita Il’ic Tolstoj († 1996) zur traditionellen Volkskultur und zur Sprachgeschichte der Slavia Orthodoxa, den beiden Hauptsträngen der Forschungsarbeit des bedeutenden Moskauer Philologen,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-03-24
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Die Autoren untersuchen den Wandel des Bildes des Zweiten Weltkrieges, der sich in der Erinnerungskultur in den letzten 25 Jahren in Polen und in Deutschland vollzogen hat. Ihre Perspektive öffnet den Blick auf das Zusammenspiel der Veränderungen, die sich aus dem...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-03-24
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