Bereits die ersten Anwendungen der Kernspin(NMR)-Spektrosko pie und -Tomographie auf medizinische Fragestellungen unter Ver wendung noch sehr unvollkommener Versuchs apparaturen liessen das aussergewohnliche Potential dieser Methode erahnen. Die folge richtig daraufhin einsetzende sturmische Entwicklung auf diesem Gebiet wurde v. a. von den Herstellerfirmen vorangetrieben, denen es gelang, durch Verbesserungen der Magnet- und Computertech nologie serienreife Gerate mit einer bereits erstaunlichen Bildquali tat herzustellen. Experimentelles Material aus ersten systematischen...

Migrations molded Balkan societies, and were very common in multiethnic empires. In the modern era, before World War I, economic factors forced millions of people to migrate overseas, as guest workers in the 1960s and 70s, and as economic migrants thereafter. In addition, many people had to leave their homes as political refugees or as victims of ethnic cleansing. This volume, the first part of a selection of conference papers, focuses on historical and cultural aspects of migration in, from, and to Southeastern Europe.

This volume is part two of a selection of articles on migration movements in, to, and from Southeast Europe. It provides a clearer understanding of the complex migration processes, which deeply affected Balkan societies, both past and present.

In southeast Europe, more than 20 years of rapid change under the combined impact of transformation, globalization, and EU integration have deeply affected the structures of everyday life and have produced a variety of (post-)modern lifestyles. This book's contributions focus on the changing practices and patterns of everyday life. The concepts of multiple modernities and post-modernity appear to be particularly appropriate for a region in which everyday life is marked by often sharp contrasts: the coexistence of modern and traditional labor relations and legal concepts * the return to...

The development of the ethnological sciences in Southeast Europe, that is, of ethnology, ethnography, folklore, and cultural or social anthropology, has been dealt with extensively - from a historical distance - for the period before 1990; for most Balkan countries this was the period of socialism. This volume unites analyses of the ensuing development of the ethnological sciences in rapidly transforming Southeast Europe by scholars involved in the turbulent processes of modernizing change. Their insightful and engaged contributions show, that these changes were indeed changes of basic...

Southeast Europe's history of the last two centuries is marked by deep transformations and upheavals: the emergence and disappearance of states; ethnic conflicts and wars; changes of political systems; economic crises; migration movements; and natural disasters. Most of these upheavals have been experienced as deep crises forcing people to adapt to often radically new situations. This can cause crisis management to become a permanent way of life. The book focuses on the cultures of crisis. It analyzes the reactions of societies or individuals to them, their impact on everyday life, on...

The history of the Balkan Peninsula of the last two centuries is marked by deep transformations and upheavals. The emergence and disappearance of states, ethnic conflicts and wars, changes of political systems, economic crises, migration movements, and natural disasters are the more visible of such upheavals. Most of them have been experienced as deep crises that forced people to adapt to often radically new situations. All too often crisis management became a permanent way of life. The included essays focus on the cultures of crisis and on the reactions of societies and individuals to them:...