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«The Scandinavian Invasion offers an important and timely interrogation of Nordic Noir. Putting the concept under a microscope in a series of diverse chapters, it reveals that Nordic Noir is still teeming with vigorous life as it has emerged, proliferated and travelled...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-12-08
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This book focuses on a single artefact, the Barochan Cross, a ninth century stone sculpture in Renfrewshire, Scotland. Exploring the changing stories, meanings, locations, uses and feelings of the sculpture, Tim Edensor adopts a broad temporal frame across twelve...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-05
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With its unique geography and its historical significance as an important town along the Ancient Tea Horse Road, Benzilan Town has come to represent the fusion and transformation of ethnic cultures in the border of the Han and Tibetan cultures in northwestern Yunnan...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-11-30
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Against easy framings of hijras that render them marginalized, Saria shows how hijras makes the normative Indian family possible. The book also shows that particular practices of hijras, such as refusing to use condoms or comply with retroviral regimes, reflect not...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-11-28
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This book presents an original study on how contemporary artists are exploring urban spaces through mapping. Despite a long history of representations of cities in maps, and the relationships that can be envisaged between art maps and cities in the contemporary...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-25
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Nach der letzten Auswanderungswelle der deutschsprachigen Bevölkerung Anfang der 1990er-Jahre wurde der Erhalt von Deutsch als Minderheiten- und Kultursprache in Rumänien als gefährdet eingeschätzt. Der Band stellt – aus historischer wie aktueller Perspektive –...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-11-23
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In diesem Buch wird eine Ethnografie des Selbst vorgelegt, die anhand gegenwärtiger spiritueller Praktiken im Libanon durch eine bestimmte Emotionskultur verkörpert wird. Es erzählt von einer radikalen Subjektivierung, die als Teil und Effekt gesellschaftlicher...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-11-22
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This book examines queer activism and queer social movements (QSMs) in Indonesia and Malaysia, broadly engaging with these topics on three different levels: macro (global and national discourses), meso (organizational level – activities), and micro (individual – the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-14
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«The Disney Corporation has recently found itself embroiled in the so-called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ legislation debates in Florida. Disney, as both filmmaker and global conglomerate, remains a powerful force in representations of diversity in American culture. The essays in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-11-09
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This book is grounded in an extended analogy between the 19th century story of the Underground Railroad in North America, transporting fugitive slaves to safety in the North, and the 21st century routes and trails of migrant passages to and within Europe. It begins as a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-07
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«Beyond the narrow application to the pop-cultural zombie, Simon Bacon’s editorial definition of the concept of being «undead» generates discussions in each chapter that creatively engage with the full agenda of critical debates in studies of horror and the gothic. With...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-11-07
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To Be Real: Truth and Racial Authenticity in African American Standup Comedy examines Black standup comedy over the past decade as a stage for understanding why notions of racial authenticity--in essence, appeals to "realness" and "real Blackness"--emerge as a cultural...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-11-04
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Woran wird der Wert der Konversation gemessen? Gibt es wertvollere und minderwertige Typen der Konversation? Welche Rolle kommt den Inhalten, den Personen und den Umständen zu? Prägen Zeiten und Epochen die je ihnen eigenen Konversationen? Konversationsnormen aus...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-10-31
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This work focuses on the relationship between childhood socialization, masculinities, and young men’s coming of age in contemporary Jamaica. The author elucidates social, cultural, and historical dimensions of young men’s lifeworlds and theorizes on the potential...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-10-27
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Looking at the past from an anthropological perspective, this book deploys and analyses a variety of anthropological concepts to understand the history of Cocos Malay society. Around 400 Cocos Malays reside on their remote Indian Ocean atoll, the Cocos Islands....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-25
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This book details a significant and largely untold history of the demand for cheap, fashionable clothing for young working-class women.This is an interdisciplinary fashion and business history analysis that investigates the design, manufacture, retailing and consumption...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-17
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The second and expanded edition of this award-winning book provides the most up-to-date and important efforts for improving the quality of life in communities around the world. It focuses on community improvements in relation to the interdisciplinary field of clinical...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-10-13
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This study addresses the corporate cultural practices of German companies in the host country Indonesia from the perspective of Indonesian employees, managers and German expatriates. The focus is on the intercultural challenges that arise in the practice of daily...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-10-13
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This book makes an analysis of prostitution in Cambridge in the Victorian period based on different social and cultural discourses as well as on archival materials concerning institutions devoted to the control and regulation of promiscuity and venereal disease. Among...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-10-13
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