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This book explores the cognitive and communicative processes involved in the use of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) within cross-cultural specialized contexts where non-native speakers of English – i.e. Western experts and non-Western migrants – interact. The book...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-15
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Hadrian’s Wall was inscribed as a World Heritage Site (WHS) in 1987 and, with the German Limes, became one of the first two parts of the transnational ‘Frontiers of the Roman Empire’ (FRE) WHS in 2005. The World Heritage Site of Hadrian's Wall is unusual, although not...
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Springer
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2013-11-13
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Nachdem die Kulturwissenschaft sich als eigenständige, wenngleich nicht unumstrittene akademische Disziplin etabliert hat, scheint es an der Zeit, einen vergleichenden Blick auf die fachimmanente Entwicklung mit ihren in Europa unterschiedlichen Traditionen zu werfen....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-05
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Subaltern Writings focuses on one of the most important Brazilian novelists of the first half of the twentieth century, Graciliano Ramos, and critically examines two of his novels, Caetés and Angústia. The analysis is based on the premise that the reader must bring to...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-11-04
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Verschwörungstheorien genießen in der Bevölkerung große Popularität. In den Wissenschaften haben sie hingegen einen eher schlechten Ruf – den Leitmedien gelten sie als Ausdruck überzogenen politischen Misstrauens oder gar kollektiver Paranoia. Der vorliegende Band...
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Springer VS
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2013-10-19
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The artificial shaping of the skull vault of infants expresses fundamental aspects of crafted beauty, of identity, status and gender in a way no other body practice does. Combining different sources of information, this volume contributes new interpretations on...
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Springer
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2013-10-16
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Each year 300,000 pilgrims embark on a pilgrimage to the remote Indian village of Gugudu. Like many villages in South India, Gugudu is populated mostly by non-Muslims. Yet these pilgrims are coming to mark Muharram, which is observed by Shi'i Muslim communities across...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-10-10
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Der Band versammelt die wichtigsten Texte, die zur Begründung der neueren deutschsprachigen Kultursoziologie als eigenständiger Richtung der Soziologie nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg führten.
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Springer VS
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2013-10-06
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The hunt for beneficial owners is on. Like an elephant, the beneficial owner hides in the jungle of complex legal structures, waiting to be discovered by eager prosecutors. But what lies behind this metaphor? What is a Beneficial Owner? Is beneficial ownership a right?...
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Springer
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2013-10-02
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The study of pre-Hispanic societies focuses not only on their most remarkable aspects—their technological developments, military exploits, political events, and economic achievements—but also on the everyday phenomena through which their ideology ...
Editeur :
Cacciani, S.A. DE C.V.
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2013-10-01
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Der vorliegende Band stellt einen neuen Zugang für das Verständnis der Modernisierung Chinas seit den 1990er Jahren vor. Die Umstellung von der Plan- zur Marktwirtschaft verstehen wir nur dann angemessen, wenn wir die sozial-strukturellen Veränderungen der chinesischen...
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Springer VS
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2013-10-01
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Der Band ist eine Einführung in die Praxis, Wissenschafts- und Wissensthemen im Fernsehen zu präsentieren. Dinge neu zu erfahren, Einblicke in ungekannte Zusammenhänge zu erhalten oder an Orte zu gelangen, an denen noch nie zuvor jemand war, reizt Menschen seit...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2013-10-01
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Praxiswissen Medien
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The analysis of social distinction cannot indefinitely remain confined to logics of reasoning that are markedly ethnocentric. Rather than just applying the consecrated schemes of Veblen or Bourdieu, Daloz provides new foundations in this book for understanding 21st...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-09-25
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This book addresses a rich corpus of contemporary narratives by authors who have come to Italy as migrants. It traces the figurative commonalities that emerge across these diverse texts, which together suggest the shape and substance of what might be termed ‘migrant...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-24
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This collection of new essays by scholars from across Europe focuses on the key theoretical and historical questions within the rapidly growing field of Iberian studies, which is taken by the authors to mean the methodological consideration of the Iberian peninsula as a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-24
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A Legacy of Shame is the first in-depth study of shame in French narratives of the Second World War and the Nazi Occupation of France. Wartime shame continues to be a recurrent theme in literature and film and is an ongoing topic of cultural and political debate and yet...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-16
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Because oral history interviews are personal interactions between human beings, they rarely conform to a methodological ideal. These reflections from oral historians provide honest and rigorous analyses of actual oral history practice that address the complexities of a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-09-11
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Morgan Spurlock's terrifying yet hilarious expose on the fast food industry, Don't Eat This Book.Praise forMorgan Spurlock: 'Valid, entertaining and funny as hell' - Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food NationA tongue-in-cheek - and burger in hand - look at the legal,...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-09-10
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How are time-honored tenets of faith, different ritual sensibilities, and newly emerging eschatological imaginaries articulated with other normative registers and moral susceptibilities in disputes? This book examines such questions through cases in Europe, the United...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-08-20
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What impact has technology had on cultural meanings, values, and symbols? This anthropological exploration shows how technologies produce novel and sometimes jarring realignments among cultural institutions.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-08-20
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