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At the end of life, our comfort lies mainly in relationships. In this book, Daniel Miller, one of the world's leading anthropologists, examines the social worlds of people suffering from terminal or long-term illness. Threading together a series of personal stories,...
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Polity
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2017-11-10
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This volume explores both historical and current issues in English usage guides or style manuals. Guides of this sort have a long history: while Fowler's Modern English Usage (1926) is one of the best known, the first English usage guide was published in the UK in 1770,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-11-03
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This book explores the cultural and economic conditions fuelling the popularity of the polarizing Paleo diet in Australia. Based on ethnographic research in Melbourne and Sydney, Catie Gressier recounts the compelling narratives of individuals struggling with illness...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-03
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COROMANDEL. A name which has been long applied by Europeans to the Northern Tamil Country, or (more comprehensively) to the eastern coast of the Peninsula of India.This is the India highly acclaimed historian Charles Allen visits in this fascinating book. Coromandel...
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Little, Brown Book Group
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2017-11-02
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"Sayarer is a precise and passionate writer . . . The vast energy of his commitment to discover, observe and communicate makes for engrossing, often incandescent prose. We need writers who will go all the way for a story, and tell it with fire. Sayarer is a marvellous...
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Arcadia Books
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2017-11-02
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This open access book presents fresh ethnographic work from the regions of Africa and Melanesia—where the popularity of charismatic Christianity can be linked to a revival and transformation of witchcraft. The volume demonstrates how the Holy Spirit has become an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-29
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This book investigates post-industrial American cities as sites of struggle where political identities are mobilized and new modes of citizenship are articulated.This interdisciplinary analysis gleans insights from anthropology, literary criticism, cultural studies,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-10-26
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This book, based on an empirical form of narration, outlines a short-medium term analysis of the social impact of austerity politics on urban life.. Set in Exarchia, a radical and anti-authoritarian neighbourhood located within the city centre of Athens, Greece, this is...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-25
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This book analyses the language practices of young adults in Mongolia and Bangladesh in online and offline environments. Focusing on the diverse linguistic and cultural resources these young people draw on in their interactions, the authors draw attention to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-25
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The book aims to explain the emergence of the Norwegian—and to some extent, the Scandinavian—welfare state in historical and anthropological terms. Halvard Vike argues that particular forms of political grassroots mobilization contributed heavily to what he calls “a low...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-20
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This book is a collection of studies of corrections and repair in conversation, by Gail Jefferson, co-founder of the field of Conversation Analysis and one of its foremost researchers. Throughout her career, Jefferson explored the almost hidden, subterranean world of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-10-20
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In the Handbook of Culture and Memory, Brady Wagoner and his team of international contributors explore how memory is deeply entwined with social relationships, stories in film and literature, group history, ritual practices, material artifacts, and a host of other...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-10-16
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This book highlights the diversity and richness of non-Mainland China and Taiwan-oriented gender issues from a unique Taiwanese perspective, in contrast to previous studies that have often placed Taiwanese gender issues under the huge umbrella of Mainland Chinese,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-10-15
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The expansion of Higher Education has been one of the most important changes to affect Western labour markets. More than a third of all British workers are now degree holders.The graduate labour market is often understood as that part of the labour market characterized...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-10-13
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This interdisciplinary work discusses the construction, maintenance, evolution, and destruction of home and community spaces, which are central to the development of social cohesion. By examining how people throughout the world form different communities to establish a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-13
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The expansion of Higher Education has been one of the most important changes to affect Western labour markets. More than a third of all British workers are now degree holders.The graduate labour market is often understood as that part of the labour market characterized...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-10-06
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'A pioneering study ... richly, empathetically and affectionately respectful of the human-animal bond' Sunday TimesWhy do humans love animals? The bestselling author of In Defence of Dogs and Cat Sense gives us the answers.Keeping pets is expensive, time-consuming, and...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2017-09-28
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What happens to transnational norms when they travel from one place to another? How do norms change when they move; and how do they affect the place where they arrive? This book develops a novel theoretical account of norm translation that is located in between theories...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-22
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What happens to transnational norms when they travel from one place to another? How do norms change when they move; and how do they affect the place where they arrive? This book develops a novel theoretical account of norm translation that is located in between theories...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-22
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This book is about a divided nation and polarized nationhood. Its principal purpose is to examine division and polarization as forms of imagining that are configured within culture and framed by history.This is what bivocality signifies—two distinct discursive voices...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-20
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