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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...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-05
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Throwim Way Leg is a book of wonder and excitement, struggle and sadness, a love letter to Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya. 'In New Guinea Pidgin,' Tim Flannery explains, 'throwim way leg means to go on a journey. It describes the action of thrusting out your leg to...
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Penguin
Parution :
2014-02-27
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Written in an engaging and jargon-free style by a team of international and interdisciplinary experts, Modern Environments and Human Health demonstrates by example how methods, theoretical approaches, and data from a wide range of disciplines can be used to resolve...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-02-27
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After the EU-accession of Eastern and Central European countries, the nations and ethnicities in this region face a re-definition of their cultural, social and political roles. Ethnic Minorities of Central and Eastern Europe in the Internet Space deals with the identity...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-02-11
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Mircea Eliade: From Magic to Myth addresses a series of topics that have been neglected in scholarship. First and foremost, the book looks at the early Romanian background of some of Eliade’s ideas, especially his magical universe, which took on a more mythical nature...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-02-05
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Die unsichtbaren Kami sind auch im modernen Japan allgegenwärtig.Die vom Shinto verehrten Geistwesen der Natur prägen bis heute das Selbstverständnis der Japaner.Die Autorin stellt heraus, dass sich die religiösen Muster des Shinto auf das ungewöhnliche Weltbild der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-02-05
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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...
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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...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-02-01
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This book is written to satisfy the individual’s desire for intellectual stimulation, to sow in the mind the seed of new ideas, and involve the reader in productive debates. It covers culture, history and the future, raising questions, presenting arguments and engaging...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-30
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The Convergence Crisis tells the story of an impending paradigm shift in advertising. Beginning in the early 1840s with the birth of the first advertising agency and momentum spurred by industrial systems, the book provides a historical overview of significant events...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-01-30
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This volume is a critical introduction to the poetry of Irish writer Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill. Writing poetry exclusively in Irish but allowing and overseeing translations of her work into several languages, primarily English, Ní Dhomhnaill is the first Irish-language poet...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-30
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Europa und Fernsehen – wie passt das zueinander? Die zwei Begriffe werden im Alltag üblicherweise nicht zusammen gedacht. Wenn das ProjektEuropa jedoch auch zukünftig erfolgreich sein soll, werden die Bürger inEuropa mehr miteinander überEuropa kommunizieren müssen....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-22
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The book offers an interdisciplinary but very grounded look at the question of memory politics in contemporary Poland. It describes the conflicting ways in which two groups of people – the former anti-communist activists and the former officers of the repressive regime...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-22
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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
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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Central-Eastern Europe, in the mid-20th century, was a scene of Holocaust, mass killings, war, deportations and forced resettlements under the competing totalitarian invasions and afterwards. It was also the area where churches, politicians and citizens were engaged in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-10
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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
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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...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-01-07
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