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  • Fei Xiaotong Studies, Vol. II, Chinese edition
    The year 2016 was a significant year for honouring Professor Fei Xiaotong (1910–2005), because it was the 80th anniversary of his fieldwork in Kaixiangong Village.Fei Xiaotong Studies (Volume 2) consists of articles by authors from the UK, Japan, USA, Germany, China and Hong Kong. The main articles focus on Fei Xiaotong and related studies, with China in comparative perspective...
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    73,94 €

  • Psychology of Revolution
    Gustave Lebon
    The present age is not merely an epoch of discovery; it is also a period of revision of the various elements of knowledge. Having recognised that there are no phenomena of which the first cause is still accessible, science has resumed the examination of her ancient certitudes, and has proved their fragility. To-day she sees her ancient principles vanishing one by one. ...
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    27,92 €

  • CHINA THROUGH AMERICAN EYES
    Wenxian Zhang / ZHANG WENXIAN
    Cultural understanding between the United States and China has been a long and complex process. The period from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century is not only a critical era in modern Chinese history, but also the peak time of illustrated news reporting in the United States. Besides images from newspapers and journals, this collection also contains pictur...
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    165,78 €

  • Growing Up in Transit
    Danau Tanu
    In this compelling study of the children of serial migrants, Danau Tanu argues that the international schools they attend promote an ideology of being "international" that is Eurocentric. Despite the cosmopolitan rhetoric, hierarchies of race, culture and class shape popularity, friendships and romance on campus. By going back to high school for a year, Tanu befriended transnat...
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    184,05 €

  • Indigenous Knowledge
    Sarah Johnson
    The third volume in the reader series, ’Themes in Environmental History’.Comprising essays selected from our journals, Environment and History and Environmental Values, these inexpensive paperbacks address important aspects of environmental history, by means of theoretical essays and case studies. Indigenous Knowledge investigates how indigenous peoples from various cultures in...
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    38,83 €

  • Race Relations at the Margins
    Jeff Forret
    "Forret... has deepened our understanding of the complexity of relations between slaves and poor whites." -- Georgia Historical QuarterlyCovering a broad geographic scope from Virginia to South Carolina between 1820 and 1860, Jeff Forret scrutinizes relations among rural poor whites and slaves, a subject previously unexplored and certainly under-reported. Forret's findings ...
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    44,45 €

  • Soils and Societies
    Described in Nature as ’a delight for the soil aficionado’, this multi-authored collection examines the complex interrelations between societies in different parts of the world and the soils they relied on from the perspectives of geomorphology, archaeology, pedology and history. The geographical spread includes Mesoamerica, Africa, Europe, Australia, India and Easter Island. F...
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    50,36 €

  • Investigating Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Identities
    Edited by H. L. Cobb, F. Coward, L. Grimshaw and S. Price.This volume stems from sessions at the 2004 Theoretical Archaeology Conference at Glasgow University, entitled "Hunter-Gatherers in Early Prehistory" and "Hunting for Meaning: Interpretive Approaches to the Mesolithic". The sessions came about as a response to a continuing lack of appreciation of new developments in theo...
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    60,70 €

  • Cypriana
    'A restoration of Justina’s place in the Cyprianic pantheon.' -JHDSAINT CYPRIAN of Antioch and (to a far lesser extent) SAINT JUSTINA of Antioch have experienced a resurgence of interest in the English-speaking world. It has been remarked that they stand at a crossroads of the so-called Old and New Worlds, forming an intermediary nexus of Christian thaumaturgy and older pagan m...
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    51,75 €

  • Localism in the Mass Age
    In the United States the conventional left/right distinction has become increasingly irrelevant, if not harmful. The reigning political, cultural, and economic visions of both the Democrats and the Republicans have reached obvious dead ends. Liberalism, with its hostility to any limits, is collapsing. So-called Conservatism has abandoned all pretense of conserving anything at a...
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    26,75 €

  • الروح الهندية
    Charles Alexander Eastman / الحسين خضيري
    الروح الهندية: هو رحلة استثنائية عبر الزمن والثقافات، تأخذ القارئ في عمق التجربة الروحية للشعوب الأصلية في أمريكا الشمالية. يسرد الكتاب بأسلوب سردي مشوق قصة شعب داكوتا وتقاليدهم المقدسة، مكشفًا عن فلسفة الحياة الفريدة التي عاشها الهنود الحمر وطريقتهم الخاصة في التواصل مع الطبيعة والإنسانية. من خلال صفحاته، نكتشف عالمًا غنيًا بالرموز الروحية والمعتقدات العميقة التي تشكلت عبر قرو...
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    14,62 €

  • Narrating Archaeological Sites and Places
    Narrating Archaeological Sites and Places celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Madaba Plains Project and reflects on the decades of archaeological fieldwork experience at Tall Ḥisbān, Tall al-ʿUmayri, and Tall Jalūl. In addition to lessons learned and issues addressed, this volume presents the backstories that represent the heart and soul of the Madaba Plains Project, focusin...
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    139,24 €

  • Traditional Midwives
    Traditional Midwives: Cross-Cultural Perspectives is a pioneering work that delves deeply into the worlds of traditional midwives, shedding light on their practices, roles, and the immense cultural value they hold within their respective communities wherever they are still allowed to practice. ...
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    72,13 €

  • Return to Eden
    David H. Turner
    In the third edition of Return to Eden, David H. Turner returns to his groundbreaking study of the Indigenous people of Amagalyuagba in northern Australia. As in the first two editions, published in 1989 and 1996, Turner recounts the Indigenous people’s own theoretical interpretation of their society and history, and brings that interpretation to life in a journey with them thr...
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    32,20 €

  • Return to Eden
    David H. Turner
    In the third edition of Return to Eden, David H. Turner returns to his groundbreaking study of the Indigenous people of Amagalyuagba in northern Australia. As in the first two editions, published in 1989 and 1996, Turner recounts the Indigenous people’s own theoretical interpretation of their society and history, and brings that interpretation to life in a journey with them thr...
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    81,57 €

  • Pol tica Americana
    Alejandro Calvo
    Una fascinante redescubierta de los fundamentos y el futuro del gobierno estadounidense Pol tica Americana vuelve a imprimirse, restaurada y reeditada por Alpha Editions.El incisivo an lisis pol tico de Alejandro Calvo gu a al lector a trav s de la arquitectura del sistema pol tico de EE. UU., trazando la evoluci n del proceso electoral estadounidense, el equilibrio de podere...
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    15,98 €

  • Awakened Faith
    Shiko Clayton
    As a child, Shiko Clayton made regular trips alongside her siblings to visit her grandparents, in the countryside on the far slopes of Mt. Kenya. In awe of her grandmother, Cucu Julia, Shiko would routinely seek her counsel as she grew up. This was guided by her faith in God, wisdom from her life experiences, her knowledge of nature, and her cultural informal education. Shiko i...
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    19,72 €

  • NAMAHAGE
    Anthony DiCristofano
    This ethnographic study offers a comprehensive examination of the Namahage, a ritual tradition unique to Japan’s Oga Peninsula in which masked figures descend upon households on New Year’s Eve to admonish sloth, instill moral discipline, and reaffirm communal values. Far from mere folklore, the Namahage embody a living cultural system that integrates ritual performance, symboli...
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    15,04 €

  • Unveiling the Sacred in 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American Literature
    Through an interdisciplinary approach, this collection delves into the interplay between modernity and sacred traditions in contemporary Latin America as represented in its literature, drawing on diverse scholarly and theoretical perspectives. ...
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    268,02 €

  • Nuclear Gaia
    Agnieszka Jelewska / Michał Krawczak
    The book analyses new media archives on nuclear violence toward humans and the environment in the context of the ongoing project to transform Earth into Nuclear Gaia as a consequence of a confluence of political, military, economic, and scientific decisions made back in the 1940s, related to the development of nuclearity. 24 b&w illus. ...
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    160,72 €

  • Luminous
    CARL SAFINA / Kike Calvo
    In Luminous: A Field Guide for Visual Explorers and Storytellers,award-winning photographer and visual storyteller Kike Calvo-Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and The Explorers Club,and a National Geographic Certified Educator-invites readersinto the mindset of a photographic explorer: someone who movesslowly, listens deeply, and photographs with intention.Bridging phot...
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    40,72 €

  • Creativity and illness
    Philip Sandblom
    The interplay between ill health and artistic creativity is demonstrated in fascinating surveys of afflicted artists, composers, and authors and their works. ...
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    54,86 €

  • Ornithophonia
    Kathrin Lang
    Dieses Buch rekonstruiert die mehr-als-menschliche Dimension des Lieds im späten neunzehnten und frühen zwanzigsten Jahrhundert. Untersucht wird die Darstellung von Vogelgesang in deutschsprachiger Lyrik, Vokalmusik und ornithologischen Schriften. Dabei wird ein gleichberechtigt literatur- und musikwissenschaftlicher Ansatz verfolgt. Die ‚ornithophone Analyse‘ dokumentiert, wie...
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    96,67 €

  • Legacies of Forced Removals in South Africa
    Efua Tembisa Prah
    This book focuses on experiences of six children from various backgrounds who lived in temporary relocation areas in Cape Town, South Africa. Themes identified examined the effects of forced removals, displacement, and marginality on the lifeworld’s of children. ...
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    159,85 €

  • Falatório/Chatter
    Stella do Patrocínio
    Falatório/Chatter delves into the life and work of Stella do Patrocínio (1941-1992), who was confined in Rio de Janeiro’s Colônia Juliano Moreira psychiatric asylum from the age of twenty-one until her death. The unique form of relentless speech that Do Patrocínio produced while institutionalized was dismissed by doctors as mere ’logorrhoea’. Yet her falatório is far more: a de...
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    17,36 €

  • Understanding Japanese Society
    Emma E. Cook / Joy Hendry
    In this welcome new sixth edition of the bestselling textbook Understanding Japanese Society, Joy Hendry and Emma E. Cook take the reader into the heart of Japanese life. ...
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    254,05 €

  • Understanding Japanese Society
    Emma E. Cook / Joy Hendry
    In this welcome new sixth edition of the bestselling textbook Understanding Japanese Society, Joy Hendry and Emma E. Cook take the reader into the heart of Japanese life. ...
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    72,80 €

  • Antropología de la Inteligencia Artificial Frente a ella. Repensando el trabajo de campo. Complemento a una Filosofía del todo y la autosimilitud
    Uriel David Avilés Rangel
    La antropología de la inteligencia artificial (AIA) se presenta como un campo interdisciplinario que busca comprender la relación entre humanos y máquinas. En este contexto, la obra ’Filosofía del todo y autosimilitud. Una filosofía integral con visión holística’ ofrece una perspectiva innovadora para repensar el trabajo de campo en la relación máquina-humano-máquina. ...
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    30,11 €

  • Homesick
    Nicholas Shapiro
    Following Hurricane Katrina, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) distributed over 120,000 trailers for emergency housing. Produced from engineered wood containing toxic amounts of formaldehyde, these shelters were vectors of illness and death. Although they were subsequently banned, FEMA trailers were resold and again used for housing, scattering their harm to other ...
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    154,37 €

  • Homesick
    Nicholas Shapiro
    Following Hurricane Katrina, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) distributed over 120,000 trailers for emergency housing. Produced from engineered wood containing toxic amounts of formaldehyde, these shelters were vectors of illness and death. Although they were subsequently banned, FEMA trailers were resold and again used for housing, scattering their harm to other ...
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    36,84 €


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