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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
    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 €

  • Navigating Boundaries
    Shuchi Agrawal
    ’Navigating Boundaries: A Comprehensive Study of Postcolonial Theory and Literature’ delves into the intricate area of postcolonial discourse, amplifying the voices emerging from the margins, challenging dominant narratives while exploring the themes of identity, mimicry, hybridity, power and resistance. Drawing from key theorists such as Edward Said, Homi K. Bhabha, Frantz Fan...
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    65,21 €

  • Collective Action in Post-colonial Societies
    Sepetla Molapo
    This book offers an exploration of collective action by bringing together the themes of sovereignty and solidarity in post-colonial societies in Africa and beyond. It does so against a common tradition of writing about collective action that assumes an opposition between the state as a legal framework of unity and social movements that express the aspirations of marginalized pe...
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    182,18 €

  • Persona - über die Funktion der Maske in den Künsten
    Der Sammelband thematisiert Masken und Maskierungen. Im Vergleich der Künste untersucht er die funktionale Verwendung dieses Theaterrequisits, das eine Technik impliziert, und die Ausgestaltungen von Persona in den Künsten, Maskenverwendungen, -gestaltungen und -problematisierungen, die stets die Produktion von Fiktion und/oder Simulation reflektieren. Zehn Beiträge analysieren...
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    118,41 €

  • Critique of the Victim
    Daniele Giglioli / Sean Mark
    This book critiques the victim paradigm that occupies a central place in today’s world. As being a victim, or a self-proclaimed defender of victims, is a source of power today, one which grants privilege, an audience, and freedom to act beyond criticism, a critique of the victim appears more necessary than ever. In this stirring polemic, Daniele Giglioli investigates the origin...
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    47,59 €

  • The Yalaku
    Ross Bowden
    This ground-breaking and beautifully illustrated ethnography of the Kaunga-speaking Yalaku provides the first detailed history of any of the 200 language groups in the Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea. The story of this society, recorded by Ross Bowden at their request, is told by the people themselves, and contains by far the most complete account of traditional warfare ...
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    87,86 €

  • Museums as Sites of Transformative Foreign Language Learning Beyond the Classroom
    Fabiana Fazzi
    This book takes a look at the affordances of engaging second/foreign language students in educational projects that bridge the gap between the classroom and the museum. Studies on language learning and teaching beyond the classroom have shown that students learn in different settings and through different types of activities and that their learning is influenced by the intersec...
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    153,67 €

  • Unraveling Management
    Management is everywhere. Schools teach it and professional organisations counsel about it. Books and articles are written for managers and about them. Management is usually understood in terms of styles of management, management policies and successful management but few tend to think about management in an abstract sense. This book addresses this gap and provokes us to think ...
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    184,43 €

  • Groundwater Politics
    Sally Babidge
    The mining industry is an expanding socio-ecological and political problem worldwide, not least in Atacameño-Likanantay (Indigenous) territories in the hyper-arid Salar de Atacama, Chile. Groundwater Politics addresses the social, technical and political conditions it calls ‘advanced extractivism’ to reveal how groundwater extraction sustains both ecological damage and mining ...
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    184,24 €

  • Haunting Ruins
    Ruins, rubble and decaying material can foster a more layered theory of time, change and memory. The seven ethnographic case studies in Haunting Ruins trace human engagements with the temporal forces of ruins, which can trace the past and transform the present. Conjuring environmental humanities, the anthropology of history, memory and archaeology, this book delves into the com...
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    184,44 €

  • From Triads to Pentads
    N. J. Allen
    N.J. (‘Nick’) Allen had an extensive academic career, which for the most part was spent in Oxford. He passed away in 2020. This edited volume brings together a selection of his anthropological papers. They cover two major fields and a supplementary one: Indo-European mythical comparison and his own notion of tetradic kinship, supplemented by a long-term interest in the work of ...
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    184,24 €

  • ‘You Don’t Know’
    Jacob A. E Nielsen
    People employed at sites of precarious work such as call centres or retail warehouses often live precarious lives. Drawing on ethnographic research in a London hostel for precarious workers, the book explores the political, analytical and practical limitations of using traditional methods of trying to make sense of life in these settings. Traditional methods are rooted in pract...
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    184,46 €

  • Dynamics of Identification and Conflict
    Dealing with the dynamics of identification and conflict, this book uses theoretical orientations ranging from political ecology to rational choice theory, interpretive approaches, Marxism and multiscalar analysis. Case studies set in Africa, Europe and Central Asia are grouped in three sections devoted to pastoralism, identity and migration. What connects all of these anthropo...
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    53,37 €

  • PC Worlds
    Jonathan Friedman
    This provocative work offers an anthropological analysis of the phenomenon of political correctness, both as a general phenomenon of communication, in which associations in space and time take precedence over the content of what is communicated, and at specific critical historical conjunctures at which new elites attempt to redefine social reality. Focusing on the crises over t...
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    47,04 €

  • One Hundred Years of Argonauts
    Malinowski’s Argonauts of the Western Pacific was a major contribution to anthropological theory and method, while simultaneously establishing the sub-field of economic anthropology. Even a century after its publication, Malinowski’s pioneering work remains critical for anthropology in a postcolonial age. This volume uses ethnographic studies from around the world to contextual...
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    53,74 €

  • The Human World Shapers
    Azhar ul Haque Sario
    Dare to question everything you thought you knew about history’s most influential figures.This book, The Human World Shapers, isn’t just another list. It isn’t a ranking. It’s a deep dive. We explore lives of people like Muhammad, Jesus, Buddha, Confucius. We examine Newton, Einstein, Gutenberg, and Columbus. We also look at lesser known, like Cai Lun. We go beyond biographies....
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    17,12 €

  • The (Dis)Information Age
    Jonathan A. Austad
    There has yet to be a strong consensus regarding when and if postmodernism ended. As such, there is no agreement about the new age’s name, origins, or tenets. Nealson’s ’Post-Postmodernism: or The Cultural Logic of Just-in-Time Capitalism’ leaves out the impact of the internet and social media. Other books fail to explore post-postmodernism within a larger social-political fram...
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    78,67 €

  • ECHOES OF HERITAGE THE CULTURAL TAPESTRY OF THE UAE
    Jana Al Ramahi
    Echoes of Heritage: The Cultural Tapestry of the UAE takes readers on a captivating journey through the rich and diverse history of the United Arab Emirates. From the legacy of the Bedouins and the values of family and hospitality, to the modern achievements of the nation’s architectural wonders and artistic expression, this book delves into the UAE’s unique ability to harmoniz...
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    16,15 €

  • Untangling Whiteness
    Jennifer Gale de Saxe
    With the prominence of workshops, trainings, and anti-racist books popping up over the past few years, it may seem confusing as to what it really means to engage in deliberate and meaningful learning that challenges the many facets of racism and whiteness. ’Untangling Whiteness’ directly interrogates the assumption that the teaching and learning about race and whiteness, partic...
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    56,96 €

  • Inqueersición, Guerra Cultural y Decadencia de Occidente (Volumen 1)
    David Canga Corozo
    Acerca del libro'Inqueersición: Guerra Cultural y Decadencia de Occidente' es una obra de David Cangá Corozo que analiza el proceso de transformación cultural, política y social de Occidente, desde la modernidad hasta la posmodernidad tardía. Basado en el concepto de 'guerra cultural', acuñado por Otto von Bismarck y desarrollado por Antonio Gramsci, el libro explora las disput...
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    45,95 €

  • Missing persons, political landscapes and cultural practices
    Laura Huttunen
    The book explores missing person issues and human disappearances from an anthropological perspective. It analyses reasons behind disappearances and the political and practical ways of dealing with them, suggesting a conceptual framework for understanding disappearances across varying political and cultural contexts. ...
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    157,61 €


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