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This book constructs a suggestive, dramatic and colourful portrait of migrants’ everyday life in 1950s and early 1960s Australia, by focusing on important aspects such as health, sexuality, self-beautification, love, and morality. The book considers two columns edited...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-07-08
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This book is intended for readers who go beyond universal models of translation. Working from Galicia to the rest of Europe and the United States, the editors have focused on collecting contributions which address translation quality assessment and translation...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-07-08
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In the context of the current wave of global environmental concern, this book considers measures aimed at solving environmental problems, investigating the example of ecological migration. The term «ecological migration» refers to the organized migration of people...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-07-08
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Spirits without Borders is an ethnographic study of the transnational and multicultural expansion of Vietnam's Mother Goddess Religion and its spirit possession ritual. The work explores how and why the ritual spread from Vietnam to the US and back again and the impact...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-07-04
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This classic study was originally written by Edward Stewart in 1972 and has become a seminal work in the field of intercultural relations. In this edition, Stewart and Milton J. Bennett have greatly expanded the analysis of American cultural patterns by introducing new...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2011-06-24
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Corpus begins with the argument that traditional disciplines are unable to fully apprehend the body and embodiment and that critical study of these topics urgently demands interdisciplinary approaches. The collection's 14 previously unpublished essays grapple with the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-06-20
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This book is concerned with the three-way relationship between neoliberalism, women's education, and the spatialization of the state, and analyses this through an ethnography lens of women's education programs in India.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-06-06
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Everything we know about solving the world's problems is wrong. Out: Plans, experts and above all, leaders. In: Adapting - improvise rather than plan; fail, learn, and try againIn this groundbreaking new book, Tim Harford shows how the world's most complex and important...
Editeur :
Abacus
Parution :
2011-06-02
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In literature and popular imagination, the Bauls of India and Bangladesh are characterized as musical mystics: orange-clad nomads of both Hindu and Muslim backgrounds. They wander the countryside and entertain with their passionate singing and unusual behavior, and they...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-06-01
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The films of Aki and Mika Kaurismäki are part of a globalising Finnish cinema, challenging conventional parameters at every turn. This work examines the films that the Kaurismäkis produced, individually and in collaboration, between 1981 and 1995 – films which mobilise...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-05-27
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Making Knowledge presents the work of leading anthropologists who promote pioneering approaches to understanding the nature and social constitution of human knowledge. The book offers a progressive interdisciplinary approach to the subject and covers a rich and diverse...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-05-16
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Theorist Clifford Geertz's influence extends far beyond Anthropology. This volume reflects the breadth of his influence, looking at Geertz as a theorist rather than as an anthropologist. To date there has been no impartial, comprehensive, and authoritative work...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-05-09
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Contributors offer an in-depth look at the dynamics of cultural and political change in Pakistan and the Pakistani Diaspora. Moving past static viewpoints, this volume demonstrates the multidirectional nature of the flow of ideas and people that create the social...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-05-09
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A Companion to the Anthropology of Education presents a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the field, exploring the social and cultural dimension of educational processes in both formal and nonformal settings. Explores theoretical and applied approaches...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-05-03
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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Anläßlich des 800. Geburtstages der heiligen Elisabeth von Thüringen wurde 2007 in Marburg ein wissenschaftliches Symposion durchgeführt, das Elisabeths karitatives Wirken in den Kontext der großen religiösen Bewegungen jener Zeit stellte. Die Subjektivierung der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-04-26
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This is the first book-length study of the French Caribbean presence in Africa, and serves as a unique contribution to the field of African Diaspora and Colonial studies. By using administrative records, newspapers, and interviews, it explores the French Caribbean...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-04-25
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Conflict is ubiquitous and inevitable, but people generally dislike it and try to prevent or avoid it as much as possible. So why do clashes of right and wrong occur? And why are some more serious than others? In Moral Time, sociologist Donald Black presents a new...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-04-14
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In its new Second Edition, the innovative and ever-popular Investigating Culture has been updated and revised to incorporate new teacher and student feedback. Carol Delaney and Deborah Kaspin provide an expanded introduction to cultural anthropology that is even more...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-04-06
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This book is about South-North, North-South relations between Africa and Europe, presenting the personal narratives of musicians in different locations across Africa and Europe, and those of the people who constitute their networks within the wider artistic, cultural,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-04-04
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A provocative sociological account of human relations with non-human animals, providing an innovative theorization of the social relations of species in terms of complex systemic relations of domination, looking at ways Other animals are constitutive of human social...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-04-01
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