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The Jews of Andhra Pradesh is an engaging and thought-provoking ethnography devoted to the Bene Ephraim--a Dalit group in India that has embraced Jewish tradition. Egorova and Perwez offer a nuanced and theoretically-informed account which explores how the story of the...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-04-29
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Things make us just as much as we make things. And yet, unlike the study of languages or places, there is no discipline devoted to the study of material things. This book shows why it is time to acknowledge and confront this neglect and how much we can learn from...
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Polity
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2013-04-25
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The book is a study of the most recent American fiction, published at the turn of the 21th century, which demonstrates a renewed interest in the matters of history. Using the concepts of memory and experience, the author points at the ways in which subjective history...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-04-24
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Die Arbeit ist ein Beitrag zur Historisierung der Körper, vornehmlich des weiblichen Körpers, zu Körpervorstellungen und -praktiken sowie deren Wandel im deutschen und im tschechischen Turnmilieu. Der besondere Reiz dieser Thematik besteht in ihrer Mehrdimensionalität,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-04-24
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What do we know about ordinary people in our towns and cities, about what really matters to them and how they organize their lives today? This book visits an ordinary street and looks into thirty households. It reveals the aspirations and frustrations, the tragedies and...
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Polity
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2013-04-24
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This book provides a long-overdue account of online technology and its impact on the work and lifestyles of professional employees. It moves between the offices and homes of workers in the knew "knowledge" economy to provide intimate insight into the personal, family,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-23
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The idea of long-term European dominance is characteristic of most evolutionary theories of human culture and society in the nineteenth century. It was commonly believed that there was a natural progression from Antiquity through Feudalism to Capitalism which could not...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-23
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In this ambitious new book, Henrietta Moore draws on anthropology, feminism and psychoanalysis to develop an original and provocative theory of gender and of how we become sexed beings. Arguing that the Oedipus complex is no longer the fulcrum of debate between...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-22
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How adequate are our theories of globalisation for analysing the worlds we share with others? In this provocative new book, Henrietta Moore asks us to step back and re-examine in a fresh way the interconnections normally labeled 'globalisation'. Rather than beginning...
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Polity
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2013-04-22
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The modern world is faced with a terrifying new ‘disease’, that of ‘obesity’. As people get fatter, we have come to see excess weight as unhealthy, morally repugnant and socially damaging. Fat it seems has long been a national problem and each age, culture and tradition...
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Polity
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2013-04-22
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This is a book for those looking for different answers to some of today's most fundamental questions. What is a consumer society? Does being a consumer make us less authentic or more materialistic? How and why do we shop? How should we understand the economy? Is our...
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Polity
Parution :
2013-04-17
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Nowhere has Western public distrust towards Islam been as strong as in the Netherlands. This book provides a thorough discussion of Dutch multicultural society seen through the lens of literature. The literary work of four important contemporary writers – Kader Abdolah,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-04-17
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Many families leave their children for years to be looked after by young people about whom they know next to nothing, from places they have barely heard of. Who are these au pairs, why do they come and what is their experience of this arrangement? Do they, for their...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-16
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At the 25th International Colloquium of the Corpus Vitrearum, which took place in one of the greatest of all museums, The Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the researchers of many countries discussed stained glass collections for the first time. The present conference...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-04-11
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Während rund vier Jahrhunderten verfolgten geistliche und weltliche Gerichte angebliche Hexen, unter aktiver Mitwirkung der Bevölkerung. Aber nicht nur Erwachsenen machte man vom 15. bis ins frühe 18. Jahrhundert den Prozess. Auch zahlreiche Kinder, deren genaue Anzahl...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-04-11
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This book explores the concept of displacement in the fiction produced by the Chilean writer Isabel Allende between 1982 and 2000. Displacement, understood in the author’s analysis to encompass social, geographical, linguistic and cultural phenomena, is argued to play a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-04-11
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CONCISE DICTIONARY OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGYCONCISE DICTIONARY OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY “The Concise Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology will provide invaluable assistance to anthropological researchers both old and new. It provides an...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-04-10
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The Muslim-majority nations of Malaysia and Indonesia are known for their extraordinary arts and Islamic revival movements. This collection provides an extensive view of dance, music, television series, and film in rural, urban, and mass-mediated contexts and how pious...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-03-20
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Why are we so obsessed with cars? Shiny objects of desire, cars never cease to fascinate us. As symbols of freedom they return again and again in art and film, even if real freedom is sometimes only achieved in the final explosive crash – the climax of the sheer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-03-20
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Have humans always waged war? Is warring an ancient evolutionary adaptation or a relatively recent behavior--and what does that tell us about human nature? In War, Peace, and Human Nature, editor Douglas P. Fry brings together leading experts in such fields as...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-03-15
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