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The book looks into the in situ organization of ethnic and racial categorization in interviews in English as a lingua franca. It proposes the combined ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approach.The author shows that the negotiation of ethnic identity...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-07-07
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This anthology is an attempt to make sense of conferences and trade fairs as phenomena in contemporary society. The authors describe how these large-scale professional gatherings have become key sites for making and negotiating both industries and individual...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-21
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This four-part work describes and analyses democracy and despotism in tribes, city-states, and nation states. The theoretical framework used in this work combines Weberian, Aristotelian, evolutionary anthropological, and feminist theories in a comparative-historical...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-06-19
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Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung steht die Frage, inwieweit Verknappung bewusst als funktionales Instrument und zeitgenössisches Stilmittel in Sprache, Kultur und neuen Medien eingesetzt wird. Der Sammelband untersucht das Phänomen der Verknappung zunächst als Strategie...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-06-19
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Der einflussreichste französische Denker der Gegenwart. Foucaults Werk hat nicht nur die Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften entscheidend beeinflusst. Das Handbuch gibt einen systematischen Überblick über Foucaults Leben und Werk. Es stellt die Kontexte dar, aus denen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-06-17
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This study documents various historical instances in the development of the concept «Common Good». The author reflects about Plato's theory of Forms, which is infused with the idea of good, as the first principle of being. Plato was not the first philosopher to address...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-06-14
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This edited volume demonstrates the broader socio-cultural context for individual human-horse relations and equestrian practices by documenting the international value of equines; socially, culturally, as subjects of academic study and as drivers of public policy. It...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-06-13
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Once only a sign, technologies have helped to transform brands into symbols that we constantly encounter in our natural and mediated environments. Moreover, the branding of culture marks a commercialization of society. Almost everywhere we look, a brand name or logo...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-06-06
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What is a memory of the future? Is it a myth, a fiction of a severed arm, a post-human debate or a broken time machine? In an increasingly insecure future-world there is an urgency to consider and debate these questions. Memories of the Future: On Countervision...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-05-31
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How can the examination of action groups, such as the one discussed in this book, help to initiate a discussion of environmental conflicts as societal conflicts? In this work, which is an ethnographic study of a protest born in Istanbul during the late 1990s, the author...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-05-31
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This book reconstructs the perceptions about mixed marriages across generations, starting from a detailed analysis of the statistical background and a description of this phenomenon in the historical past, and then focusing on the case history of families. As ethnic and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-05-29
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As a theory, sociobiology is opposed to socio-ecology, a discipline hampered since its birth. The indictment of the ideological intentions of the first has obscured the notion that the growing domination of the image of the “selfish gene” has obstructed the necessary...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2017-05-26
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The Theory of Social Pulsation is a new social theory elaborated from the social phenomenology and philosophy of sciences’ standpoint. It represents an innovative interpretation of social phenomena postulated as active states of social actors including individuals,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-05-26
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This book explores mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion involved in practices of community building through an ethnographic study of a neighborhood restaurant in Amsterdam. It presents important insights into the advantages and empowering effects of professional, top...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-24
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Boondock Kollage: Stories from the Hip Hop South is a collection of twelve short stories that addresses issues of race, place, and identity in the post–Civil Rights American South. Using historical, spectral, and hip hop infused fiction,Boondock Kollage critically...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-05-23
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The end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic Ð at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary apocalypse are subjects of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic studies show, human cultures have approached them in very...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-05-23
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In this book leading cultural anthropologist Anton Blok sheds new light on the lives and achievements of pioneers who revolutionized science and art over the past five centuries, demonstrating that adversity rather than talent alone was crucial to their success. Through...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-05-23
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Die Zeit tritt uns in der Geschichte in vielfältiger Form entgegen.Die Unterschiede sind nicht nur oberflächlich; sie reichen bis in ihre kategoriale Struktur. Wir können nicht sicher sein, dass wir fremde Zeiten überhaupt verstehen. Weshalb dachten sich die Arunta die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-05-15
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Gesammelte Schriften
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This book provides a unique insight into the lived realities of hate crime in Ireland and its treatment within the criminal justice system. The significance of the Irish case is contextualised within the European and global policy contexts and an overview of hate crime...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-15
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