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In der Rechtstheorie hält sich beharrlich die Frage nach der Legitimation der gesellschaftlichen Ordnung, nach der Legitimation des Rechts insbesondere. Auf der Suche nach ihrer Bestimmung sieht sich Dux mit der immer noch vorherrschenden Überzeugung in der Rechts- und...
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Springer VS
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2018-02-21
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Gesammelte Schriften
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Filtered through black womanist perspectives, Zora Neale Hurston: The Breath of Her Voice breaks new ground through innovation and imagination, by fusing interpretive methods in ethnographic writing and literary studies. Intrinsically referencing contemporary...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2018-02-16
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Can small indigenous communities survive as distinct cultural entities in northeast India, an area characterized by mind-boggling ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity? What are the choices that such minority groups have, and how do they resist further...
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OUP India
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2018-02-15
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This book examines the future of birthing practices, particularly by focusing on epidural analgesia in childbirth. It describes historical and cultural trajectories that have shaped the way in which birth is understood in Western, developed nations. In setting out the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-02-13
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Was macht uns eigentlich zum Menschen? Wer darüber nachdenkt, landet heute unweigerlich bei den Menschenaffen. Alexandra Tischel sucht die Antwort auf die Grundfrage des Menschseins nicht allein in der Wissenschaft. Sie geht neue Wege und entdeckt, was die Literatur...
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J.B. Metzler
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2018-02-06
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This book follows the life and work of Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847) from his childhood in Anstruther to the end of his ministerial career in Glasgow in 1823. He became a theologian, minister and Scottish reformer and is best remembered for his involvement in the...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2018-02-06
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Nach dem Krieg zunächst verfemt, gewann Ernst Jünger erneut an Popularität, die Lübke, Heuss und Kohl vielleicht sinnfälliger einte als Carlo Schmid, Joschka Fischer oder Heiner Müller, die sich ebenfalls emphatisch auf ihn bezogen und seinen intellektuellen Einfluss...
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J.B. Metzler
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2018-02-03
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A sparkling new translation of the classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and artThe Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects: "the first is Talleyrand, and the second is everything else," wrote Italo Calvino when the book first appeared in 1983....
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Penguin
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2018-01-25
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Focusing on the 1950s and early 1960s, Culture Writing argues that this period in Britain, the United States, France, and the Caribbean was characterized by dynamic exchanges between literary writers and anthropologists on both sides of the Atlantic. As the British and...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-01-19
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This book focuses on various concepts of space and their historical evolution. In particular, it examines the variations that have modified the notions of place, orientation, distance, vacuum, limit, bound and boundary, form and figure, continuity and contingence, in...
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Springer
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2018-01-11
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In this fully revised and updated second edition of An Anthropology of Biomedicine, authors Lock and Nguyen introduce biomedicine from an anthropological perspective, exploring the entanglement of material bodies with history, environment, culture, and politics. Drawing...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2018-01-09
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Lessings Ringparabel von der Koexistenz der drei Religionen ist heute angesichts der Tatsachen, die unsere moderne religiöse Welt bietet, entschieden zu ergänzen und zu erweitern. Noch mehr Toleranz und Verstehen scheint angebracht. Dazu will das Metzler Lexikon...
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J.B. Metzler
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2018-01-03
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Thanks to recent progress in biotechnology, surrogacy, transplantation of organs and tissues, blood products or stem-cell and gamete banks are now widely used throughout the world. These techniques improve the health and well-being of some human beings using products or...
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Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme
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2017-12-19
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About two hundred kilometers west of the city of Karachi, in the desert of Baluchistan, Pakistan, sits the shrine of the Hindu Goddess Hinglaj. Despite the temple's ancient Hindu and Muslim history, an annual festival at Hinglaj has only been established within the last...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-12-18
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The study of childhood in academia has been dominated by a mono-cultural or WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) perspective. Within the field of anthropology, however, a contrasting and more varied view is emerging. While the phenomenon of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-12
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The Handbook of East and Southeast Asian Archaeology focuses on the material culture and lifeways of the peoples of prehistoric and early historic East and Southeast Asia; their origins, behavior and identities as well as their biological, linguistic and cultural...
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Springer
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2017-12-08
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This volume is a compilation of results from sessions of the Second International Conference on the Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans, which took place between November 30 and December 6, 2014, in Hokkaido, Japan. Similar to the first conference held in 2012...
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Springer
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2017-12-06
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The book uses an ethnographic approach to explore why the Tablighi Jamaat movement remains so successful in contemporary times. It shows that this success results from the positive image that it cultivates, and the systematic preaching activities of Tablighi Jamaat...
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Springer
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2017-11-28
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In der vorliegenden qualitativen Studie untersucht Anno Dederichs die Relevanz kultureller Differenzierungen und kulturalistischer Diskurse im Kontext deutsch-chinesischer Wirtschaftskooperationen. Er fokussiert dabei auf die Entsendenarrative von „deutschen“ bzw....
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Springer VS
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2017-11-28
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The Present Image explores the world of images in the contemporary, increasingly digitized, habitats of the world. Moving across a theoretical spectrum that brings visual and digital culture in touch with anthropology, political theory, phenomenology and art-history,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-27
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