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In its new Second Edition, the innovative and ever-popular Investigating Culture has been updated and revised to incorporate new teacher and student feedback. Carol Delaney and Deborah Kaspin provide an expanded introduction to cultural anthropology that is even more...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-04-06
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This book is about South-North, North-South relations between Africa and Europe, presenting the personal narratives of musicians in different locations across Africa and Europe, and those of the people who constitute their networks within the wider artistic, cultural,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-04-04
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A provocative sociological account of human relations with non-human animals, providing an innovative theorization of the social relations of species in terms of complex systemic relations of domination, looking at ways Other animals are constitutive of human social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-04-01
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A Companion to the Anthropology of Education presents a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the field, exploring the social and cultural dimension of educational processes in both formal and nonformal settings. Explores theoretical and applied approaches to...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-03-29
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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A Companion to Cultural Resource Management is an essential guide to those wishing to gain a deeper understanding of CRM and heritage management. Expert contributors share their knowledge and illustrate CRM's practice and scope, as well as the core issues and realities...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-03-29
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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Accessible and clearly written, Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology introduces readers to the study of language in real-life social contexts around the world through the contemporary theory and practice of linguistic anthropology. A highly...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-03-21
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Primers in Anthropology
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Corporations engage young people and musicians in brand-building activities. These activities unfold in media-dense social spaces. Social networking sites, the user-generated content of web 2.0, live music events, digital cameras and cell phones are all used in...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-03-07
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Dieser Band versammelt die Beiträge der Tagung «Helvetische Merkwürdigkeiten. Wahrnehmung und Darstellung der Schweiz in der Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte seit dem 18. Jahrhundert». Im Zentrum der Beiträge stehen bildliche und narrative Entwürfe, die von jeher das Bild...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-07
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Which are the aspects of cognition not yet focused on as such by brain research? How can one deal with them? This book sheds light on the other sides of cognition, on what they mean for forms and figurations of subjective, cultural and social understanding. In examining...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-07
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Warum interessieren sich chinesische Intellektuelle und Kulturschaffende auch heute noch für den Mythos? Karneval der Götter ergründet diese Frage bezugnehmend auf Theorien zu ästhetischen und diskursiven Konstruktionen (post-)moderner nationaler Identität. Die Autorin...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-07
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During the twentieth century Macedonia had a very turbulent history. Essentially, the region became the apple of discord among the Balkan states. Ethnic identity formation among immigrants from Macedonia to Canada followed the political developments in the Balkans. This...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-03
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Ritualizing the Disposal of the Deceased traces mortuary behavior from the early fossil record to modern religious contexts in diverse cultural settings. By using archival and ethnographic evidence from Buddhist traditions, the author highlights the disparity between...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-03-03
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This book undertakes a detailed reading of Robert Kroetsch’s The Studhorse Man, examining this Canadian novel in its transnational historical and socio-cultural context. Key subject headings are biology and culture, sex and gender, eugenics and contraception, writing...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-03-03
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Liminality, if interpreted as a concern with borders and states of in-betweenness, is a widespread theme in Irish literature and culture, which is perhaps not surprising considering the colonial and postcolonial background of Ireland. The liminal, from the Latin word...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-03
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Leisure activities undertaken in nature are immensely popular. This book examines the new serious leisure concept of nature challenge activity (NCA), exploring how NCA unfolds in an aesthetically appealing natural environment with implications for consumption and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-03-01
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This new Companion traces the development of cognitive anthropology from its beginnings in the late 1950s to the present, and evaluates future directions of research in the field. In 29 contributions from leading anthropologists, there is an overview of cognitive and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-02-25
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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What role have translations from Hindi literary works played in shaping and transforming our knowledge about India? In this book, renowned scholars, translators and Hindi writers from India, Europe, and the United States offer their approaches to this question. Their...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-02-21
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Der von Edward Said angeregte Orientalismus-Diskurs über den westlichen Blick auf den Orient weist auf die überwiegend durch Stereotype und Vorurteile geprägte Betrachtungsweise des Okzidents hin. Dabei geht Said stillschweigend von einem männlichen Diskurs aus,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-02-21
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This book contributes to the debate on what Europe means by demonstrating the complexities and contradictions inherent in the concept. They are seen most clearly when Europe is viewed from a long historical perspective. During the closing decades of the twentieth...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2011-02-21
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A Companion to the Anthropology of IndiaA Companion to the Anthropology of India offers a broad overview of the rapidly evolving scholarship on Indian society from the earliest area studies to views of India’s globalization in the twenty-first century. Contributions by...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-02-10
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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