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Evidence, history and the great war
In the English-speaking world the Great War maintains a tenacious grip on the public imagination, and also continues to draw historians to an event which has been interpreted variously as a symbol of modernity, the midwife to the twentieth century and an agent of social change. Although much 'c...
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The power of entrepreneurs
Although Spain is an important member of the EU, relatively little is known about its economy and its interrelationship with political forces. This book, the first of its kind, offers a long-term view and analyzes this ever-changing relationship throughout the 20th century with its various uphe...
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Everyday invisibility
In the wake of Greece’s 2008 economic collapse, African women in Athens navigated intensified discrimination shaped by the intersecting forces of gender, race and migration status. This book argues that gendered racialization renders these women not only invisible but also hyper-visible in ster...
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Encounters with emotions
Spanning Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Encounters with Emotions investigates experiences of face-to-face transcultural encounters from the seventeenth century to the present. The case-studies presented in this volume explore the cultural aspects of nature and the bodily dimensions of nurture in...
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Turning the tune
Argues traditional Irish music represents an increasingly important identity marker both in Ireland and abroad. Focuses on a small village in County Clare, a pilgrimage site for those interested in experiencing traditional music. Explores the commercialization of music and culture, ...
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Identities
"Identity" has become a core concept of the social and cultural sciences. Bringing together perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and literary criticism, this book offers a comprehensive and critical overview on how this concept is currently used and how it relates to ...
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Ambiguous transitions
Ambiguous Transitions provides an accessible, intimate exploration of gender and citizenship in socialist Romania. Author Jill M. Massino connects women’s everyday lives to larger political, economic, and social processes, challenging conventional understandings of life in socialist Romania as ...
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Virtualism, governance and practice
Explores the relationship between conservation design and conservation execution Analyzes environmentalist visions and organizational policies and programs Justifies critics' concerns regarding organizations' impositions in different parts of the world Disproves critics by showca...
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Enhancing democracy
This volume provides a comprehensive framework of the democratic movements in Chile since the end of the Pinochet regime Uses empirical data to form an overview of the country's political sphere Expertly adds to the debate on the relationship between politics and civil society in C...
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Forging the collective memory
When studying the origins of the First World War, scholars have relied heavily on the series of key diplomatic documents published by the governments of both the defeated and the victorious powers in the 1920s and 1930s. However, this volume shows that these volumes, rather than dealing objecti...
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Struggling for recognition
As a religious and cultural minority in Turkey, the Alevis have suffered a long history of persecution and discrimination. In the late 1980s they started a movement for the recognition of Alevi identity in both Germany and Turkey. Today, they constitute a significant segment of Germany’s Turkis...
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Gardening the world
Offers multi-group comparative ethnography within river catchment area. Provides new theoretical insights into why societies use resources unsustainably. Eludicates complex social and cultural dynamics of water use and management. Considers what water means to different groups of...
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Objects and imagination
An exciting and innovative addition to the study of material culture, art and aethetics. Comprised by accomplished, previously published scholars in the field of art history and social anthropology. Explores how we conceptualise our social surroundings through the framework of the im...
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The anthropology of moralities
The authors observe, describe and assess values cross-culturally A valuable guide for students of anthropology, sociology and cultural studies Proposes methodological approaches to the study of moralities
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Picturing pity
Picturing Pity is the first full length monograph on missionary photography. Empirically, it is based on an in-depth analysis of the published photographs taken by Norwegian evangelical missionaries in Northern Cameroon from the early nineteen twenties, at the beginning of their activities in t...
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Alterity and human evolution
Engaging critically with concepts of race, species, and otherness, this book contributes to current debates on human evolution. In a political climate marked by movements such as Black Lives Matter and policies like Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14168 against ‘gender ideology’, this volume bri...
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Debating authenticity
All contributions are based on field research in Europe, Africa, Arabic Peninsula, Latin America, North America Authenticity is debated in various subfields, in particular: visual arts, popular culture, material culture, music, tourism, religion, colonial history. Scholars with affil...
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Chiasmus and culture
Uses the figure of chiasmus to model a broad array of phenomena, from human relations to artistic creation Provides first book-length study of chiastic thought Contributors explore what chiasmus reveals about the world, cultural patterns, human relations, psychology, and artistic an...
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Animism in rainforest and tundra
Unique comparative study of native peoples of Amazonia and Siberia Important contribution to the study of animism Major contribution to the ethnography of shamanism and shamanic societies
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My name is saajin singh
A debut picture book that explores the importance of pronouncing names properly and celebrates cultural identity.Saajin loves his name—he loves it so much that he sees it spelled out in the world around him in his snacks, in the sky and sometimes he even sings it aloud. On his first day of school...
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Post-communist nostalgia
Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people’s lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all ...
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Fortune and the cursed
Innovation-making is a classic theme in anthropology that reveals how people fine-tune their ontologies, live in the world and conceive of it as they do. This ethnographic study is an entrance into the world of Buryat Mongol divination, where a group of cursed shamans undertake the ‘race agains...
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Anti-liberal europe
Offers a detailed study on the political and intellectual history of European integration Shifts focus away from the institutional histories of the EU, towards an examination of cultural and societal influences on 20th Century Europe Explores modern European integration through the s...
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The man with the violin
Winner of the 2014 TD Children’s Literature Awardnow in paperback!Dylan is someone who notices things. His mom is someone who doesn’t. So try as he might, Dylan can’t get his mom to listen to the man playing the violin in the subway station. But Dylan is swept away by the beautiful music that fi...
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Anyone
A critique of contemporary social-scientific writings on cosmopolitanism: an argument for cosmopolitanism as a version of identity, belonging and justice that is distinct from current nostra concerning multiculturalism, and that concerns our global humanity and our global individuality. ...
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News as culture
Explains the social relevance of news by discussing the relation between media related practices and dynamic cultural repertoires Moves beyond the dichotomy of reader and write in news relations to show how social interactions across these categories interactively create news texts and s...
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European foundations of the welfare state
Sets out a theory of the welfare state Portrays the welfare state as a political project embedded in European culture Disentangles the interaction of politics, economy and households in social welfare Assesses the welfare state's achievements and current challenges
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Native american thought of it
Everyone knows that moccasins, canoes and toboggans were invented by the Aboriginal people of North America, but did you know that they also developed their own sign language, syringe needles and a secret ingredient in soda pop? Depending on where they lived, Aboriginal communities relied on the...
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Peace at last?
Spanning more than thirty years, and costing over 3000 lives, the conflict in Northern Ireland has been one of the most protracted ethnic conflicts in Western Europe. After several failed attempts to resolve the fundamental differences over national belonging between the two communities in Nort...
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Cultures of colour
Colour permeates contemporary visual and material culture and affects our senses beyond the superficial encounter by infiltrating our perceptions and memories and becoming deeply rooted in thought processes that categorise and divide along culturally constructed lines. Colour exists as a cultur...
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Ethnobotany in the new europe
Tells the story of the on-going evolution of human-plant relations in one of the most bioculturally dynamic places on the planet Explores new approaches that link the re-evaluation of plant-based cultural heritage with the conservation and use of biocultural diversity.
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The bite of the mango
As a child in a small rural village in Sierra Leone, Mariatu Kamara lived peacefully surrounded by family and friends. Rumors of rebel attacks were no more than a distant worry. But when 12-year-old Mariatu set out for a neighboring village, she never arrived. Heavily armed rebel soldiers, many n...
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Walls, borders, boundaries
Written by previously published scholars with expert knowledge in the fields of German studies, history and cultural geography Demonstrates the historical, cultural and political implications of walls and boundaries Explores walls not just as physical divisions, but as social, cultur...
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Conversion and the politics of religion in early modern germany
The Protestant and Catholic Reformations thrust the nature of conversion into the center of debate and politicking over religion as authorities and subjects imbued religious confession with novel meanings during the early modern era. The volume offers insights into the historicity of the very c...
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Non-machines
Rethinking life as a network of relations between organisms, machines, and environments – through art, biology, and cybernetics.
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My long list of impossible things
A brilliant historical YA that asks: how do you choose between survival and doing the right thing? The arrival of the Soviet army in Germany at the end of World War II sends sixteen-year-old Katja and her family into turmoil. The fighting has stopped, but German society is in collapse, resultin...
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The cult and science of public health
It explores the tensions that arise as a result of public health being both a science and a moral force in society It demonstrates the ways in which public health acts not only to constrain individual excess, but also to constrain the execesses of capitalism It uses the work of Durkh...
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Coordinating conversation
The flow of spoken interaction: How does turn-taking work in real dialogue?
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Mi mama
The Talk-About-Books series is designed to enhance a baby or toddler’s first collection of books. Each book is illustrated with realistic and comforting photographs. Children from various familial, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds interact with their mothers. The simple text and engaging photos...
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Patients and agents
Sylhet, the area of Bangladesh most closely associated with overseas migration, has seen an increase in remittances sent home from abroad, introducing new inequalities. Social change has also been mediated by the global forces of Western biomedicine and orthodox Islam. This book examines the ...
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A european memory?
An examination of the role of history and memory is vital in order to better understand why the grand design of a United Europe—with a common foreign policy and market yet enough diversity to allow for cultural and social differences—was overwhelmingly turned down by its citizens. The authors a...
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Ethical consumption
Increasingly, consumers in North America and Europe see their purchasing as a way to express to the commercial world their concerns about trade justice, the environment and similar issues. This ethical consumption has attracted growing attention in the press and among academics. Extending beyon...
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Reading war, making memory
A clarifying analysis of how authors from Bosnia-Herzegovina translate and transmit the memory of the Bosnian War into their fiction, Reading War, Making Memory spotlights a vital new framework for understanding the impact of conflict upon diasporic literature from the region of the former Yugo...
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A cave in the clouds
Captured by ISIS, her bravery and faith became her pathway to freedom.
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