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This edited volume proposes to revisit the development of recreational and professional sporting activities in the French capital between 1854 and 2024. It comprises fifteen chapters surveying the rich and multifaceted history of athletic practices in Paris, and...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-01-07
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This provocative book presents a methodological proposal for teaching ethnographic fieldwork, applying interdisciplinary tools inspired from performance theory, acting, experiential anthropology and existential psychotherapy. At the same time, it constitutes a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-02
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«Fascinating, humanist, and beautifully written, Alien Sightings attends to the relationships and lifeworlds in which UFO sightings occur, analysing the intellectual and cultural trends patterning their expression. Through attention to the form, interpretation, and...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-12-30
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«Both a fascinating historically informed account of flying saucers in military and popular imagination, from their arrival in the 1940s until the present, and a satisfying intellectual account of how categories and objects change simultaneously. Jenkins authoritatively...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-12-30
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This book offers new readings and interpretations of the non-normative narratives of ‘freak show’ performers in the Victorian period as they have been reimagined by contemporary fictions, museum exhibitions and other aspects of the heritage experience. The growth of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-24
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ICHESS started in 2018, the last five sessions of ICHESS have all been successfully published. ICHESS is to bring together innovative academics and industrial experts in the field of Humanities Education and Social Sciences to a common...
Editeur :
Atlantis Press
Parution :
2024-12-20
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This book explores the articulation between macro-social historical transformations and the opportunities and constraints that the resultant political and property regimes presented for villagers. It builds on ethnographic analyses of rural Eastern Europe by adding an...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-15
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This book aims to provide comprehensive ethnographic documentation of pastoralist childhood and child learning, based on the author’s long-term fieldwork in pastoralist Maasai society in southern Kenya. It conveys a timely account of the developmental niche in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-11
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This volume delves into the study of the American West from a Spanish perspective. Starting from the premise that the West as a geographical space and as a concept is undergoing a profound revision and that its impact, both in the USA and internationally, is...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-12-09
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This book offers an innovative study of UNESCO's religious heritage and nomination mechanisms. In particular, it shows how these processes can easily become instruments of power politics, undermining the neutrality and impartiality of the nomination processes.This is...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-07
Collection :
Culture and Religion in International Relations
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The 2nd International Conference on Culture and Sustainable Development (ICOCAS) 2024 adopts the theme “The Urgency of Humanities in Current Cultural Dynamics.” This international seminar remains committed to the global goals...
Editeur :
Atlantis Press
Parution :
2024-12-06
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been playing the authoritarian’s game for some time now. Under the polarizing, tense and uncertain conditions of this regime, segments of society in Turkey are still actively resisting to the onslaught of authoritarian measures,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-12-05
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«Jenkins weaves astrobiology, philosophy and theology into a rich tapestry that will be our vade-mecum for extra-terrestrial contact. The stakes are high, poised between being welcomed into the interstellar community and abandoning hope as we peer into abysses of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-12-05
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«Theoretically insightful and descriptively rich, UFO Reports is deeply thoughtful and thought provoking. Jenkins demonstrates how UFO advocates and sceptics alike exist within a shared universe of meaning that is utterly rationalist and yet profoundly occult. As such,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-12-05
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«Flying saucers come from outer space – except, as Timothy Jenkins observes in this persuasive and enjoyable volume, they also come from the pages of nineteenth-century occult texts. Jenkins ably traces the connections between Madame Blavatsky’s messages from spirit...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-12-03
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In this book, anthropologist and geologist Christoph Antweiler shows that geology is a special, namely historical, natural science and is therefore relevant for a historically informed anthropology. He argues that we do not only need a geologically informed cultural...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-11-25
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«Jenkins’ meticulously researched essay will change how you think about UFOs. The interesting question is not whether flying saucers are real or fake, but rather, in what sociotechnical world were such sightings plausible? A fascinating exploration of military...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-11-25
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Großsein ist großartig. Körpergröße ist ungeheuer wichtig. Wer groß ist, erscheint kompetent, verdient mehr Geld, nimmt bevorzugte Positionen in der Gesellschaft ein. Wer auf andere herabschauen kann, wirkt nicht nur auf seine Mitmenschen dominant, sondern ist zu allem...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-11-21
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