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Welche Rolle spielt die Gruppensprache bei der kollektiven Identitätskonstruktion in der Migration? Das Beispiel der Wolgadeutschen in Argentinien, die nach über 250 Jahren seit der ersten Auswanderung die ursprüngliche Sprache und Kultur aufrecht erhalten haben, eignet...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-07-17
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Drawing on international case studies, the contributors extrapolate a systematization of the ways in which siblingship is conceived on the basis of shared parentage, shared childhoods, and reciprocal care. They explore what makes these relations worth maintaining and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-07-17
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Die 68er-Generation, die einst mit ihren in den Nationalsozialismus verstrickten Eltern abrechnete, wird nun von ihren eigenen Kindern vor Gericht gestellt.Die Studie untersucht ausgewählte Texte von Joachim Bessing, Sophie Dannenberg, Jess Jochimsen, Bettina Röhl,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-07-11
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Colonization has imposed drastic changes on indigenous societies in North America. This process has reverberated through cultural conceptions and constructions of social roles, particularly affecting the roles of elders and the old. This book charts these changes by...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-07-04
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Trauma and Resilience in American Indian and African American Southern History explores the dual process of a refusal to remember, that is, the force of active forgetting, and the multiple ways in which Native Americans and African Americans have kept alive memories of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-07-03
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Tweening the Girl challenges the argument that the tween market began in the mid-1990s. It was actually during the 1980s that young girls were given the label «tweens» and were heralded by marketers, and subsequently the news media, as one of «capitalism’s most valuable...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-07-01
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What is it that police and policing actually do?What are the effects? How are these effects mediated and experienced by different people at different times and in different contexts? This volume draws attention to the centrality of police and policing to the project of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-06-25
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This book focuses on yoga’s transcultural dissemination in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In the course of this process, the term “yoga” has been associated with various distinctive blends of mental and physical exercises performed in order to achieve some...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-06-22
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What happens when prophecies fail? Timothy Jenkins' re-reading of Leon Festinger's classic work on "cognitive dissonance" seeks to answer this question by studying a 50s doomsday group. This volume explores the relations between anthropology and...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2013-06-20
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Through his ethnographic study of the fishermen and their religious beliefs, Webster speaks to larger debates about religious radicalism, materiality, economy, language, and the symbolic. These debates also call into question assumptions about the decline of religion in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-06-19
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Why do elderly choose to move away from their children so as to not receive their support? Using a number of case studies, contributors explore social support as a tool of mutuality, or maintaining relatedness and sharing feelings, rather than preventing or patching up...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-06-18
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Die Arbeit expliziert die Bemächtigung des Menschen über das Pferd als die Basis der anthropologisch, kultursoziologisch und kulturhistorisch relevanten Mensch-Pferd-Beziehung. An die grundsätzliche Erörterung der Nutzung des Pferdes als Zug- und Reittier schließt sich...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-06-06
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This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to Tibet, its culture and history. A clear and comprehensive overview of Tibet, its culture and history. Responds to current interest in Tibet due to continuing publicity about Chinese rule and growing interest...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-06-05
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Peoples of Asia
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Although humans slumber for approximately one third of our lives, sleep itself is vastly understudied. This volume provides a comparative frame through which we can understand the myriad ways in which sleep reflects and embodies culture as contributors examine aspects...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-06-05
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The historical importance and archaeological potential of deliberately discarded watercraft has not been a major feature of maritime archaeological enquiry. While research on the topic has appeared since the 1970s as books, chapters, and articles, most examples have...
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Springer
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2013-06-05
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The basic questions of this book concern the contemporary role and importance of the presidency in the European Union. How has the presidency – initially quite a modest function – been able to gain such a significant role for the EU proceedings? It managed to initiate...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-06-05
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A decade after the approval of the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), the concept has gained wide acceptance at the local, national and international levels. Communities are recognizing and celebrating their Intangible...
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Springer
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2013-06-04
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Weimar and Work: Labor, Literature, and Industrial Modernity on theWeimar Left analyzes writing about work that was published in communist and anarchist newspapers during theWeimar Republic. By discussing texts that have been almost completely neglected, this book’s...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-06-03
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The Distinguished, Intellectual, Virtuous, Academic Sistas (D.I.V.A.S.) is a group of Black women who formed a bond with one another as doctoral students as a means of support on their journey through the academy.The acronym defines the women individually and as an...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-06-01
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