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Living Mantra is an anthropology of mantra-experience among Hindu-tantric practitioners. In ancient Indian doctrine and legends, mantras perceived by rishis (seers) invoke deities and have transformative powers. Adopting a methodology that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-09-15
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Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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Are painkillers mundane medications safe for use to ease human suffering? Or are they drugs of abuse that cause addiction and death? Do they ameliorate pain, or do they cause it? This book explores growing interest among medical practitioners media outlets about the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-09-15
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A Population History of India provides an account of the size and characteristics of India's population stretching from when hunter-gatherer homo sapiens first arrived in the country - very roughly seventy thousand years ago - until the modern day. It is a period during...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-09-13
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Recent discussions of self-realization have devolved into unscientific theories of self-help. However, this vague and often misused concept is connected to many important individual and social problems. As long as its meaning remains unclear, it can be abused for...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-11
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This book contains research findings from three major study areas, natural sciences, social sciences, and public policy and management. The focus area extends over geographical zones ranging from mountainous area of Mount Gagau in the Taman Negara National Park, down to...
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Springer
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2018-09-11
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This innovative volume explores the link between local and regional eating cultures and their mediatization via transnational TV cooking shows, glocal food advertising and social media transfer of recipes. Pursuing a global and interdisciplinary approach, it brings...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-10
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Breathes life into conversations about feminism' PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE'Very funny, very clever, very thoughtful and very relevant' DOLLY ALDERTONWhy do we find it so hard to say 'No'?How can feminism be more inclusive?What can rom-coms tell us...
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Virago
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2018-09-06
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The Realness of Things Past proposes a new paradigm of historical practice. It questions the way we conventionally historicize the experiences of non-modern peoples, western and non-western, and makes the case for an alternative. It shows how our standard analytical...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-08-14
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Mit Vehemenz durchdringen die Anforderungen der Sicherheit die Begegnungsräume von Nachbarschaft und Community. Im Fluss alltäglicher Kommunikation perpetuieren sie Verunsicherung, Krise und Angst; zwischen Ermächtigung und Kontrolle, Fiktion und Realität macht sich...
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Springer VS
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2018-08-06
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From the award-winning author of The Whisperers, Orlando Figes Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia is a dazzling history of Russia's mighty culture.Orlando Figes' enthralling, richly evocative history has been heralded as a literary masterpiece on Russia, the...
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Penguin
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2018-08-02
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'This book is brilliant. Utterly, utterly brilliant. Apart from the epilogue, which is idiotic' Jeremy Clarkson'F*cking brilliant' Sarah KnightAN EXHILARATING JOURNEY THROUGH THE MOST CREATIVE AND CATASTROPHIC F*CK-UPS OF HUMAN HISTORYIn the seventy thousand years that...
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Wildfire
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2018-07-26
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?This book explores the opportunities and challenges associated with the legal protection of World Heritage sites in the Pacific Islands. It argues that the small Pacific representation on the World Heritage List is in part due to a lack of strong legal frameworks for...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-20
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Dance and the Arts in Mexico, 1920–1950 tells the story of the arts explosion that launched at the end of the Mexican revolution, when composers, choreographers, and muralists had produced state-sponsored works in wide public spaces. The book assesses how the “cosmic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-18
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This volume examines gender and mobility in Africa though the central themes of borders, bodies and identity. It explores perceptions and engagements around ‘borders’; the ways in which ‘bodies’ and women’s bodies in particular, shape and are affected by mobility, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-10
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This book is the first to bring together an interdisciplinary collection of essays on surrogacy and egg donation from three socially, legally and culturally distinct countries - India, Israel and Germany. It presents contributions from experts in the field of social and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-09
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Dieses Handbuch bietet einen Überblick über Sound in den Kultur-, Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften. Ausgehend von der Beobachtung, dass Sound ein soziales und damit auch ein historisches Phänomen ist, greifen die Autorinnen und Autoren die Vielfalt von Sound in...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-07-09
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Der Band versammelt bisher verstreute Aufsätze von Günter Dux zur Geschichte des Geistes und des Subjekts. Sie sollen, das ist die Intention des Bandes, einer Entwicklung zugerechnet werden, von der Dux sagt, dass sie eine Logik aufweise. Als Geist versteht Dux, anders...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2018-06-29
Collection :
Gesammelte Schriften
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How can we think of life in its dual expression, matter and experience, the living and the lived? Philosophers and, more recently, social scientists have offered multiple answers to this question, often privileging one expression or the other – the biological or the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-06-22
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An empirical account of one of India’s largest indigenous populations, this book tells the story of the Gonds—who currently face displacement and governmental control of the region’s forests, which has crippled their economy. Rather than protesting and calling for state...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-13
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This book is a new introduction to the history and practice of economic anthropology by two leading authors in the field. They show that anthropologists have contributed to understanding the three great questions of modern economic history: development, socialism and...
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Polity
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2018-06-11
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