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Seeds are at the heart of a transformation process that affects more than two billion people worldwide. This study on smallholder farmers in Tanzania examines how local seed systems are anchored in the socio-cultural structures of smallholder life worlds. Using the...
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Springer VS
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2023-05-31
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Mumbai is generally recognized as an environment of extraordinary religious diversity. The city is known at one and the same time for a habitual cosmopolitanism and a series of violent religion-related conflicts and clashes. While there is much academic scholarship on...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-05-31
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Kein Zweifel: Die Vorbilder sind zurück. Kinder, Jugendliche und auch Erwachsene bekennen sich heute wieder freimütig und manchmal sogar stolz zu ihrer Bewunderung. Die Grundüberzeugung lautet: Vorbilder geben dem Leben Orientierung, Sinn und Bedeutung. Doch wem folgen?...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-05-30
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This text comprehensively covers the rituals, traditions and receipts of ancestral processes of bread making from multiple countries, including the scientific and technological character of the science of bread making and sourdough biotechnology. Individual chapters...
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Springer
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2023-05-16
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The present book examines cultural diversities of Northeast India.The sixteen essays included in the volume cover various aspects of cultural forms and their practices among the communities of Northeast.The present volume is expected to serve as a bridge between...
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Springer
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2023-05-16
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What does it mean to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race? In the face of pervasive racial inequality and segregation, most white people cannot answer that question. In the second edition of this seminal text, Robin...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-05-16
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Updated with both a new introduction and a series of interviews, the second edition of Education and the Crisis of Public Values examines American society’s shift away from democratic public values, the ensuing move toward a market-driven mode of education, and the last...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-05-16
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In the second edition of Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism, Henry A. Giroux uses the metaphor of the zombie to highlight how America has embraced a machinery of social and civil death that chills any vestige of a robust democracy. He charts the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-05-16
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The stories of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe have made the headlines in the news over the last twenty years. How have these human itineraries been represented in contemporary culture? This book considers the migrant’s story as portrayed in...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-05-15
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This book began as a year-long ethnography of a school in Taiwan in 1991 then evolved more into a historical sociology of national formation and its cultural mindset. Cultural nationalism is a widely debated but poorly understood process. Contrary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-15
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Editeur :
Headline
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2023-05-11
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The complex, highly problematic, often thorny dynamics of trust and authority are central to the anthropological study of legitimacy. In this book, this sine qua non runs across the in-depth examination of the ways in which healthcare and public health are managed by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-03
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This edited book demonstrates how love both unites and separates academic thinking across the arts and humanities, and beyond: from popular romance studies to border criminology, from sexology to peace studies, and into the fields of health, medicine, and engineering....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-02
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This book explores the historical and contemporary connections between art and politics in Colombia. These relations are unique because of the ways in which they are saturated by violence, as the country has passed through conquest, struggles for Independence, fighting...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-04-20
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Habitat und Habitus – ein semantischer Gleichklang, aber auch ein Verweis auf ein fehlendes Glied in der breiten internationalen und interdisziplinären Rezeption und Diskussion rund um Bourdieus Habitus-Konzept. Bisher konzentrierte sich die Rezeption des »Habitus« fast...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2023-04-19
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The Great Nation of Futurity is situated within the discourse and ideology of American exceptionalism which has undergirded the nation's identity throughout its history. It draws out the temporal dimension of the exceptionalist ideology, namely the construal of America...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-04-14
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«A brilliant, touching and thought-provoking book. Moving Along merges academic research with personal narrative and beautifully rendered drawings to create a one-of-a-kind book that contributes fresh and compelling perspectives. This life-affirming graphic novel is...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-04-11
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Kreativität ist Motor gesellschaftlichen Wandels, künstlerischer Innovation und wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisfortschritts. Die Beiträge des Bandes gehen der Frage nach, wie in Wirtschaft und Politik, Kunst und Kultur, Wissenschaft und Religion auf jeweils spezifische...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-04-05
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Postkoloniale Ansätze in der Ethnologie zeichnen sich durch eine kritische Reflexion der eigenen Wissenschaftsgeschichte aus und denken dabei theoretische und methodologische Ansätze des Faches weiter. Sie laden dazu ein, sich kritisch mit der Verstrickung der...
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Springer VS
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2023-03-30
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This book puts forward the concept of “subjective anthropology” and outlines a theoretical system that will allow subjective anthropology to qualify as a new academic discipline in its own right. In an effort to respond to the field’s proper role as the science of...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-03-27
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