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Rapid industrialization, urbanization, and marketization have led to startling social changes in reform-era China. Mindful of the many forms of social theory that relate modernity to individualism, this volume addresses social and cultural change through the lens of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-12-18
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?This brief is the proceedings of two roundtables and forums organized by Eszter Bánffy, Peter Biehl, Douglas Comer, and Christopher Prescott and sponsored by the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) and the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) held at the...
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Springer
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2012-12-15
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Mit der Arbeit wird in Form einer integrativen geschichtswissenschaftlichen Darstellung erstmals eine interdisziplinäre Studie vorgelegt, in der versucht wird, den Stand der Forschung über die Herkunft der Kurden durch Erkenntnisse der Evolutionären Anthropologie,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-14
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Political Oratory and Cartooning An Ethnography of Democratic Processes in Madagascar “Insightful, detailed, and substantial, this book has much to say to students of language and followers of politics, not to mention those of us passionate about both and how they...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-12-13
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New Directions in Ethnography
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A Companion to Paleoanthropology presents a compendium of readings from leading scholars in the field that define our current knowledge of the major discoveries and developments in human origins and human evolution, tracing the fossil record from primate and hominid...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-12-12
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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This book aims to contribute to the debate on European cultural policy and cultural diplomacy as well as to fill in the gap that exists in this under-researched field. Europe is still struggling in formulating its common cultural policy that will present Europe as a...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-07
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The rapid increase in adoption of modern 'connective' technologies like the mobile phone has reshaped the social landscape of Africa. This book examines the myriad possibilities that the post-global moment offers African societies to develop and to relate, offering...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-12-05
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The formation of new countries after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European block necessarily brings about an increased awareness of national identity and has given rise to more urgent attempts to define national literary and cultural facts. Among the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-05
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What role does race, geography, religion, orthography and nationalism play in the crafting of identities?What are the origins of Singlish? This book offers a thorough investigation of old and new identities in Asia's most global city, examined through the lens of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-11-29
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Die Beiträge dieses Bandes befassen sich mit dem sogenannten Slawenoserbischen, der Schriftsprache der Serben im späten 18. und in den ersten Jahrzehnten des 19. Jahrhunderts, sowie mit dem Werk, Leben und Zeitalter des Sprachreformers Sava Mrkalj, dessen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-28
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?Ethics and Rock Art: Images and Power addresses the distinctive ways in which ethical considerations pertain to rock art research within the larger context of the archaeological ethical debate. Marks on stone, with their social and religious implications, give rise to...
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Springer
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2012-11-28
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Walter Benjamins (1892-1940) Faszination für das Spiel durchzieht nahezu sein ganzes Leben. Schon in seiner Habilitationsschrift Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels, die er 1916 während seiner Studienzeit entwarf und 1925 abschloss, fasst er das barocke Theater als ein...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-19
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The contentious relationship between modernism and totalitarianism is a key element in the architectural history of the twentieth century. Post-war historiography refused to admit any overlap between the high modernism of the 1920s and the architecture of National...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-16
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Ilija Trojanow, born in Bulgaria in 1965 and brought up in East Africa, established his name as an international writer with the novel Der Weltensammler or The Collector of Worlds (2006), about the cross-cultural Victorian adventurer Sir Richard Francis Burton. Since...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-16
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This volume contains selected papers from an international conference of the same name held at Queen Mary, University of London, on 10-11 November 2010. The contributions from scholars working in the fields of modern political and cultural history, political science,...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-16
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Academic literature rarely gives an account of the ethical challenges and emotional pitfalls the researcher is confronted with before, during and after being in the field. Giving personal accounts, the authors explore some of the challenges one can face when engaging in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-11-13
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While a number of published works approach the shared concerns of Ireland and Scotland, no major volume has offered a sustained and up-to-date analysis of the cultural connections between the two, despite the fact that these border crossings continue to be politically...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-12
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Sachsen liegt im Herzen Europas, direkt an der Grenze zu den Staaten in Mittel- und Osteuropa, die durch einen mehr als 20 Jahre anhaltenden gesellschaftlichen Umgestaltungsprozess gekennzeichnet sind. Die durch ihre deutschen Minderheiten und Erinnerungskulturen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-09
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How do Amazonian native young people perceive, question, and negotiate the new kinds of social and cultural situations in which they find themselves? Virtanen looks at how current power relations constituted by ethnic recognition, new social contacts, and cooperation...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-11-09
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Die Wende von 1989 bzw. 1991 hat die Religionsgemeinschaften in den ehemals kommunistischen Staaten Südosteuropas auf die Bühne der politischen Öffentlichkeit zurückgebracht. Sie wurden aufgewertet, aber nicht unbedingt in spiritueller, sondern in institutioneller,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-05
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