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On Monday 23 April 1906 the Missionaries of Africa, also known as the White Fathers, arrived from Upper Volta, today known as Burkina Faso, in Navrongo to begin their missionary activities in northern Ghana. The small group consisted of three missionaries and a...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2014-04-01
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Questo è il primo libro che esplora sistematicamente le strategie discorsive e le metodologie antropologiche adottate da Pier Paolo Pasolini nei suoi film. L’analisi delle intersezioni tra discorso antropologico, documentario e finzione rivela i modi attraverso cui il...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-04-01
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Drawing on ethnographic research spanning ten years, Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli offers a new perspective on the practice of asceticism in India today. Her work brings to light the little known and often marginalized lives of female Hindu ascetics (sadhus) in the...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-04-01
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The concept of this volume is that the paradigm of European national languages (official orthography; language standardization; full use of language in most everyday contexts) is imposed in cookie-cutter fashion on most language revitalization efforts of Native American...
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Springer
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2014-03-31
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The early United States was a culture of the episode. In Episodic Poetics, Matthew Garrett merges narrative theory with social and political history to explain the early American fascination with the episodic, piecemeal plot.
Since Aristotle's Poetics, the episode has...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-03-18
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A Companion to Urban Anthropology BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGYA Companion to Urban Anthropology “The city is becoming the basic currency of human – and non-human – life: a pile of interconnections which makes a series of difficult wholes. This volume navigates...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-03-17
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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The book is a selection of essays from the author’s work since the early 1980s. It presents an analysis of political and cultural trends based upon a series of case studies drawn from the North West of England, covering mainly the years between the Third Reform Act...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-12
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Einer der großen Stoffe der Weltliteratur wird hier zu seinen Ursprüngen zurückverfolgt. Die Spannweite reicht vom archaischen Totenkult über christliche Exegese im barocken Predigtexempel bis hin zu da Ponte/Mozarts Don Giovanni. Dabei wird deutlich, wie sich der Stoff...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-05
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This book provides an insider view of Haida language, history, and culture, and offers a perspective on Haida culture that comes not only from external research but also from intimate knowledge and experiences the author has had as a Haida Nation citizen. The book’s...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-02-05
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Language, Nation, and Identity in the Classroom critiques the normalizing aspects of schooling and the taken-for-granted assumptions in education about culture, identity, language, and learning. The text applies theories of postmodernism, postcolonialism, and other...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-02-01
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The present volume is a collection of papers presented at the international conference “Linguistic Awareness and Dissolution of Diglossia” held in July 2011 at Heidelberg University.The aim is to reevaluate and compare the processes of dissolution of diglossia in East...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-01-21
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A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion presents a collection of original, ethnographically-informed essays that explore the variety of beliefs, practices, and religious experiences in the contemporary world and asks how to think about religion as a subject of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-01-14
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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Der Generationenvergleich in diesem Buch stellt anhand qualitativer Interviews mit Vertretern der Geburtsjahre 1930 bis 1988 ostdeutsche Selbstwahrnehmungen dar. Dies geschieht im Hinblick auf ihre generationellen Eigenheiten in den Einstellungen zur DDR und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-10
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The book focuses on the presentation of some basic figures of memory that are present in the twenty-six novels by the Yiddish writer Sholem Asch. This study shows how memory is crystallized in the experience of surrounding landscapes and nature, and particularly in the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-10
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Evil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people are acting under extreme duress. Today it more frequently reveals itself in the everyday insensitivity to the suffering of others, in the inability or refusal to understand them and in the casual turning...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-01-07
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The study of ancient metals in their social and cultural contexts has been a topic of considerable interest in archaeology and ancient history for decades, partly due to the modern dependence on technology and man-made materials.The formal study of Archaeometallurgy...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-01-07
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This book coincides with an increase in the programming of live art elements in many galleries and museums. Traditional art history has, however, been wary of live art’s interdisciplinarity and its tendency to encourage increased formal and conceptual risk taking....
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-12-19
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According to Max Weber, charisma is opposed to bureaucratic order. This collection reveals the limits of that formula. The contributors show how charisma is a part of cultural frameworks while retaining its ecstatic character among American and Italian Catholics, Syrian...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-12-18
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Since the 1950s, the study of early attachment and separation has been dominated by a school of psychology that is Euro-American in its theoretical assumptions. Based on ethnographic studies in a range of locales, this book goes beyond prior efforts to critique...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-18
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Terror was central to the Nazi regime, and the Nazi concentration camps were places of horror where prisoners were dehumanized and robbed of their dignity and where millions were murdered. How did prisoners cope with the brutal and degrading conditions of life within...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-12-17
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