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?This brief is the proceedings of two roundtables and forums organized by Eszter Bánffy, Peter Biehl, Douglas Comer, and Christopher Prescott and sponsored by the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) and the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) held at the...
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Springer
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2012-12-15
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Political Oratory and Cartooning An Ethnography of Democratic Processes in Madagascar “Insightful, detailed, and substantial, this book has much to say to students of language and followers of politics, not to mention those of us passionate about both and how they...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-12-13
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New Directions in Ethnography
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This book aims to contribute to the debate on European cultural policy and cultural diplomacy as well as to fill in the gap that exists in this under-researched field. Europe is still struggling in formulating its common cultural policy that will present Europe as a...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-07
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The rapid increase in adoption of modern 'connective' technologies like the mobile phone has reshaped the social landscape of Africa. This book examines the myriad possibilities that the post-global moment offers African societies to develop and to relate, offering...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-12-05
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The formation of new countries after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European block necessarily brings about an increased awareness of national identity and has given rise to more urgent attempts to define national literary and cultural facts. Among the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-05
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What role does race, geography, religion, orthography and nationalism play in the crafting of identities?What are the origins of Singlish? This book offers a thorough investigation of old and new identities in Asia's most global city, examined through the lens of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-11-29
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?Ethics and Rock Art: Images and Power addresses the distinctive ways in which ethical considerations pertain to rock art research within the larger context of the archaeological ethical debate. Marks on stone, with their social and religious implications, give rise to...
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Springer
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2012-11-28
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Academic literature rarely gives an account of the ethical challenges and emotional pitfalls the researcher is confronted with before, during and after being in the field. Giving personal accounts, the authors explore some of the challenges one can face when engaging in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-11-13
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While a number of published works approach the shared concerns of Ireland and Scotland, no major volume has offered a sustained and up-to-date analysis of the cultural connections between the two, despite the fact that these border crossings continue to be politically...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-12
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How do Amazonian native young people perceive, question, and negotiate the new kinds of social and cultural situations in which they find themselves? Virtanen looks at how current power relations constituted by ethnic recognition, new social contacts, and cooperation...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-11-09
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In diesem Buch wird die Geschichte der österreichischen Literatur seit der Gründung der eigenständigen Österreichischen Monarchie (1804) bis in die Gegenwart des 21. Jahrhunderts erzählt. Die Literaturgeschichte präsentiert einen Blick von außen und betrachtet die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-01
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Bruce Chatwin provides a fascinating background to indigenous Australian life.The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, tracks connecting communities and following ancient boundaries. Along these lines, Aboriginals passed the songs which...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-10-31
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A panorama of Europe, 1900-1914, describing the cultural, economic and political life before the First World War.Europe, early in the twentieth century: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. But did this era vanish in the trenches of the...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-10-18
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Winner of the Latin American Studies Association Brazil Section Book Awards. Utilizing an ethnographic study of a public university and its users, Cicalo analyzes the practical and symbolic potential that affirmative action has to redress historically-produced...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-10-15
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This is a book about time, but it is also about much more than time—it is about how the objects we use to think about time shape our thoughts. Because time ties together so many aspects of our lives, this book is able to explore the nexus of objects, cognition, culture,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-10-10
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Recent years have seen the topic of victims and victimhood brought to the fore on the island of Ireland, both in the North with the publication of the controversial Eames/Bradley report dealing with victims of the Troubles, and in the Republic with the publication of...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-28
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The current attempt in European politics to develop a European identity makes scientific research about discourses on Europe especially relevant. This book takes an analytical gaze at philosophical and political attempts to conceptualise Europe from antiquity to the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-27
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This monograph is the first to identify an important theoretical overlap between Anglo-Saxon and Lusophone postcolonial theories: the systematic neglect of gender and sexual variables in the analysis of the marketing of cultural difference in the post colonial era....
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-21
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A highly signi?cant movement within the Silver Age, harlequinade did not surface in Russian high culture until the turn of the twentieth century, when it suddenly began to attract the close attention of symbolist authors. In the present work, an attempt is made to show...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-20
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‘The Brownies’ Book:’ Inspiring Racial Pride in African-American Children offers a descriptive analysis and interpretation of America’s first magazine for young African-Americans. Published by W.E.B. Du Bois in cooperation with Jessie Fauset and Augustus Granville Dill,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-20
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