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Das Heimatland ihrer Eltern und Grosseltern kennen in der Diaspora geborene Tibeterinnen und Tibeter meist nur aus Erzählungen. In den letzten Jahrzehnten wurde dem Leid der tibetischen Flüchtlinge sehr viel Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt und in Bildbänden, Filmen, Studien...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-15
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This book deals with the subject of identity and identification within contemporary cultural studies and includes a selection of papers from the 14th International ‘Culture & Power’ Conference held in Ciudad Real, Spain, in 2010. The volume contributes to contemporary...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-15
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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...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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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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In diesem Band sollen Annäherungen an das Phänomen der deutschen Jugendsprache aus unterschiedlicher Sichtweise vorgenommen werden. Ein solcher multiperspektivischer Ansatz erscheint geeignet, der Vielschichtigkeit und Sperrigkeit des sich einer monosemischen Definition...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-05
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How socio-cultural factors influence the development of Intercultural Communication Competence is an essential part of developing the skills to work and interact with a rapidly globalizing world. Building upon the work of Edward Hall, Geert Hofstede and Stella...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-05
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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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Judaism and Emotion breaks with stereotypes that, until recently, brandedJudaism as a rigid religion of laws and prohibitions. Instead, authors from different fields of research discuss the subject ofJudaism and emotion from various scholarly perspectives; they present...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-11-04
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As American literary and cultural scholars reconsider the foundations of U.S. relations with other nations, Ruins, Revolution, and Manifest Destiny: John Lloyd Stephens Creates the Maya locates in Stephens’s immensely popular nineteenth-century travel narratives (1841,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-11-04
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The volume is a collection of essays focussing on the cultural construction, perception and representation of public and private spaces in 20th and 21st century Italian culture. Through the study of a variety of spaces, this book provides an exploration of the notions...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2013-11-04
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Sovereign Stories examines contemporary Native American writers’ engagement with various forms of cultural, political, and artistic sovereignty. The author considers literature’s ability to initiate vital discussions about tribal autonomy in modern America and suggests...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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The thesis addresses the question of human consciousness in its oscillation between conditioning and transcendence: the impact of cultural worldviews on the individual’s lifeworld and their gradual transcendence as a form of spiritual practice. At the centre of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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Human dignity as a shared heritage of humanity functions as an anthropological key to the understanding of the person. Historically it became the fundament for modern constitutions and rights. Although found almost on every lip the meaning of human dignity remains...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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Each of us, waking in the morning, has to open the world we have woken into. We have to endow meaning to people, objects and tasks, have to secure a place in the chaos of time passing. When opening their eyes during the palpable reality of a dream, a person will dream...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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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
Parution :
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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New biotechnologies have propelled the question of what it means to be human – or posthuman – to the forefront of societal and scientific consideration. This volume provides an accessible, critical overview of the main approaches in the debate on posthumanism, and...
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Springer
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2013-10-11
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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...
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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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