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This book discusses and analyses the ways in which fatherhood is in transition in contemporary and globalized society. The authors identify and examine fathering practices in relation to hegemonic and marginal patterns of masculinity, the concept of heteronormativity...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-17
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This book focuses on self-representations of several indigenous communities in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. It offers a multifaceted understanding of North American indigenous history, identity, community and forms of culture. Intersecting themes shape the structure of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-13
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Das Potenzial der Philosophie Ernst Cassirers ist keinesfalls erschöpft, sondern vielmehr in systematischer, transdisziplinärer und gesellschaftlich relevanter Perspektive anschlussfähig, um Fragestellungen der Gegenwartsphilosophie und der Wissenschaften zu begegnen....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-10
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Die Autorin beschäftigt sich mit den einschneidenden – traumatisierenden wie faszinierenden – Stationen der Kulturbegegnung von Ost und West. Sie untersucht die vielschichtigen Facetten des Orients als einerseits rein diskursiven, andererseits geografisch und historisch...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-10
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This interdisciplinary monograph applies the theory of games of strategy (or game theory) to an important subset of American literature: minoritarian texts. Fittingly, John von Neumann's game theory, as a mathematical subdiscipline practically abandoned by its founder...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-07
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This book depicts one South Indian village during the fifty-year period when women’s education became a possibility—and then a reality. Despite illiteracy, religious ritual marking them as inferior, and pre-pubertal marriages, the daughters and granddaughters of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-02
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In Spectacular Men, Sarah E. Chinn investigates how working class white men looked to the early American theatre for examples of ideal manhood. Theatre-going was the primary source of entertainment for working people of the early Republic and the Jacksonian period, and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-03-01
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This book assembles multi-disciplinary contributions to delve deeper into ReThinking Management. The first part provides some foundational considerations and inspirations. Further chapters offer more specific links to the arts and creativity sectors as well as empirical...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-02-27
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This volume presents a comprehensive overview of methodological issues and empirical methods of practice-oriented research. It examines questions regarding the scope and boundaries of practice-oriented approaches and practice theory. It discusses the potential...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-02-16
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Climate change-related effects and aftermaths of natural disasters, such as Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, have wreaked havoc on local peoples’ lives and livelihoods, especially in impoverished coastal communities. This book looks at local-level responses to...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-02-15
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The third edition of Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology, the highly praised innovative approach to introducing aspects of cultural anthropology to students, features a series of revisions, updates, and new material. Offers a refreshing...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-02-15
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“Surprising. Impressive. Cannibalism restores my faith in humanity.” —Sy Montgomery, The New York Times Book Review For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a bizarre phenomenon with little biological significance. Its presence in...
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Algonquin Books
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2017-02-14
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In this book, Ellen Swift uses design theory, previously neglected in Roman archaeology, to investigate Roman artefacts in a new way, making a significant contribution to both Roman social history, and our understanding of the relationships that exist between artefacts...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-02-09
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Keine Beobachtung (und auch kein Interview, keine Dokumentensichtung und keine Materialanalyse) ist theoriefrei denkbar. In dem vorliegenden Band wird dargestellt, wie Forschende im wissenschaftlichen „Tagesgeschäft“ zu theoretischen Einsichten gelangen. Konzeptionelle...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-02-08
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This book brings together several important essays examining the interface between identity, culture, and literature within the issue of cultural identity in South Asian literature. The book explores how one imagines national identity and how this concept is...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-08
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Central to human life and experience, habitation forms a context for enquiry within many disciplines. This collection brings together perspectives on human habitation in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, social history, material culture, literature, art and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-02-07
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The book offers an interdisciplinary discussion of the cognitive-semiotic interface between language, literature, and the arts, with a special focus on creativity and imagination. It brings together international contributors suggesting a wide range of innovative...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-02-07
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This is the book on the way we eat. Solidifying her standing as a preeminent observer and scholar of everyday life, Margaret Visser takes on the sweeping history of table manners, from the civilizations of ancient Greece and medieval Europe to the way that technology...
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Penguin
Parution :
2017-02-02
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Das Buch analysiert die Rezeption der Wälder und der Umweltprobleme Siebenbürgens im Zeitalter der Aufklärung. Es erweitert die Hypothese einer allgemeinen Holzkrise um die Feststellung, dass es gegen Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts auch in Siebenbürgen Bestrebungen zur...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-02-01
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Der Sammelband trifft theoretische und empirische Aussagen über Second Screen-Nutzungspraktiken. Er reflektiert damit ein aktuelles Problem des Medienwandels, das sich aus Veränderungen der Medientechnik ergibt und seinen Niederschlag in veränderten Rezeptions-,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-01-30
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