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A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment offers original essays that examine historical and contemporary approaches to conceptualizations of the body. In this ground-breaking work on the body and embodiment, the latest scholarship from anthropology...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-03-29
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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A Companion to the Anthropology of Education presents a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the field, exploring the social and cultural dimension of educational processes in both formal and nonformal settings. Explores theoretical and applied approaches to...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-03-29
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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A Companion to Cultural Resource Management is an essential guide to those wishing to gain a deeper understanding of CRM and heritage management. Expert contributors share their knowledge and illustrate CRM's practice and scope, as well as the core issues and realities...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-03-29
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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Accessible and clearly written, Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology introduces readers to the study of language in real-life social contexts around the world through the contemporary theory and practice of linguistic anthropology. A highly...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-03-21
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Primers in Anthropology
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In verschiedenen Werken ab dem 16. Jahrhundert werden bei Sprachforschern von Jckelsamer bis Becker Beispielsammlungen phraseologischer Formen wie Sprichwörter, sprichwörtliche Redensarten, phraseologische Vergleiche, Zwillings- und Drillingsformeln etc. untersucht, um...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-03-15
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Cities are both real and imaginary places whose identity is dependent on their distinctive heritage: a network of historically transmitted cultural resources. The essays in this volume, which originate from a lecture series at the Institute of Germanic & Romance...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-03-07
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Born into a German-French bilingual environment, the once renowned German-language author René Schickele (1883-1940) grew up in the Alsace region - today located in eastern France - during its annexation to the German Empire when links to French culture were frowned...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-03-07
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In this study of space and place, Sally Bayley examines the meaning of ‘home’ in American literature and culture. Moving from the nineteenth-century homestead of Emily Dickinson to the present-day reality of Bob Dylan, Bayley investigates the relationship of the...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-03-07
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Corporations engage young people and musicians in brand-building activities. These activities unfold in media-dense social spaces. Social networking sites, the user-generated content of web 2.0, live music events, digital cameras and cell phones are all used in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-03-07
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Dieser Band versammelt die Beiträge der Tagung «Helvetische Merkwürdigkeiten. Wahrnehmung und Darstellung der Schweiz in der Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte seit dem 18. Jahrhundert». Im Zentrum der Beiträge stehen bildliche und narrative Entwürfe, die von jeher das Bild...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-03-07
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Which are the aspects of cognition not yet focused on as such by brain research? How can one deal with them? This book sheds light on the other sides of cognition, on what they mean for forms and figurations of subjective, cultural and social understanding. In examining...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-03-07
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Warum interessieren sich chinesische Intellektuelle und Kulturschaffende auch heute noch für den Mythos? Karneval der Götter ergründet diese Frage bezugnehmend auf Theorien zu ästhetischen und diskursiven Konstruktionen (post-)moderner nationaler Identität. Die Autorin...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-03-07
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Die Verstrickungen der Archäologie in das völkisch-nationale Gedankengut gehören zu den wichtigen Themen des Faches in seiner Auseinandersetzung mit dem eigenen Erbe. Dies gilt umso mehr, als über die archäologischen Inhalte eine Ideologie vermittelt wurde, die in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-03
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Das vorliegende Buch rekonstruiert und analysiert als erste Studie dieser Art Anna Seghers’ Begegnung mit den Chinesen, der chinesischen Kultur und Geschichte, der Politik sowie der Gesellschaft des Landes chronologisch. Durch die Darstellung und Analyse Seghers’...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-03
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This book was awarded a Special Mention Citation in the 2010 competition for the ‘de la Torre Bueno Prize’ by The Society of Dance History Scholars. In the region of Salento in Southern Italy, the music and dance of the pizzica has been used in the ritual of tarantism...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-03-03
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The essays in this collection all revolve around the notion of change in Ireland, whether by revolution or by evolution. Developments in the shared histories of Ireland and Great Britain are an important theme throughout the book.The volume begins by examining two...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-03
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During the twentieth century Macedonia had a very turbulent history. Essentially, the region became the apple of discord among the Balkan states. Ethnic identity formation among immigrants from Macedonia to Canada followed the political developments in the Balkans. This...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-03
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Ritualizing the Disposal of the Deceased traces mortuary behavior from the early fossil record to modern religious contexts in diverse cultural settings. By using archival and ethnographic evidence from Buddhist traditions, the author highlights the disparity between...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-03-03
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This book undertakes a detailed reading of Robert Kroetsch’s The Studhorse Man, examining this Canadian novel in its transnational historical and socio-cultural context. Key subject headings are biology and culture, sex and gender, eugenics and contraception, writing...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-03-03
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Liminality, if interpreted as a concern with borders and states of in-betweenness, is a widespread theme in Irish literature and culture, which is perhaps not surprising considering the colonial and postcolonial background of Ireland. The liminal, from the Latin word...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-03
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