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Memory and History: Essays in Contemporary History
ISBN: 9783631619155 / Angielski / Twarda / 453 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together eighteen English language essays on the fringes, overlap, and tensions of memory and history that the author has published over the last three decades. It is characteristic that the two longest essays in this volume, and the most recent one, are reflections on the author s ambiguity vis-a-vis autobiographical Ego-histoire, on his role and experiences as a government advisor during the international negotiations on compensation for Nazi forced labor, and on the contexts of the essays of this book. The author was also instrumental in bringing Oral History to Germany...
This book brings together eighteen English language essays on the fringes, overlap, and tensions of memory and history that the author has published o...
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Consciousness: Cultural and Therapeutic Perspectives
ISBN: 9783631620359 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years the study of consciousness has gained considerable impulse through interdisciplinary approaches. Modulation and transformation of consciousness have been deployed for tens of thousands of years to obtain knowledge and to enhance well-being and health. In many societies, techniques based on exceptional states of consciousness have been used to maintain ecological equilibrium. The volume deals with historic, social, linguistic, philosophical, psychological, physiological, aesthetic, and creative issues of consciousness research. According to the integrative endeavours of the...
In recent years the study of consciousness has gained considerable impulse through interdisciplinary approaches. Modulation and transformation of cons...
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Spinsters Reloaded: Single Older Women in American Popular Culture
ISBN: 9783631633007 / Angielski / Miękka / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study entails a qualitative cultural film analysis of single women characters in six contemporary US-American movies released between 1999 and 2008. On the one hand, the focal point is the assessment of character portrayals and their embedding into their everyday lives. On the other, it focuses on the correlation between age, gender, and marital status. Results show that an acknowledgement of different kinds of single older women seems prevalent, yet also reveal a dominance of hetero-normativity. It is concluded that Hollywood offers a so called counter world of single women and aging,...
This study entails a qualitative cultural film analysis of single women characters in six contemporary US-American movies released between 1999 and 20...
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314,23 |
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The Morbidity of Culture: Melancholy, Trauma, Illness and Dying in Literature and Film
ISBN: 9783631636145 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essay collection focuses on morbid phenomena such as melancholy, trauma, illness and death which engage with questions of -cultural vitality- and -cultural mortality-. The figurations and representations of social pathologies not only display time in its existential drama, but furthermore show a paradox inherent to processes of decay: in passing lies a certain accumulation of life. Thus the morbid indicates the presence of the living, although it intentionally prefigures death. The collection points to the complex interconnections of social, medical and cultural discourses and assumes the...
The essay collection focuses on morbid phenomena such as melancholy, trauma, illness and death which engage with questions of -cultural vitality- and ...
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257,17 |
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Folk-Beliefs and Nourishment of Environment
ISBN: 9783659207846 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Wall-Culture
ISBN: 9783659210495 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Wall can speak, bear and reflect vital facts in respect of time geography (combination of space and time).Wall in our society bears a cultural atmosphere. Different arts, paintings, architectures, graffiti, parietal/rock-art on Walls, even the materials those are used to make sporadic walls bear the cultural-arena. From the Paleolithic (2.6 million years ago) to recent, Walls are being used in diverse purposes. From the cave-walls to kingdom walls (palaces of different kings), tribal houses wall to modern houses, offices, hospitals, boundary-walls, shopping malls, schools, colleges, cinema...
A Wall can speak, bear and reflect vital facts in respect of time geography (combination of space and time).Wall in our society bears a cultural atmos...
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Migration, Intercultural Identities and Border Regions (19th and 20th Centuries) / Migration, Identités Interculturelles Et Espaces Frontaliers (Xixe
ISBN: 9789052018744 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a globalized world, discussions about migration and (inter)cultural identity call for a thorough analysis of the way in which people shape their cultural self-understanding. A comprehensive insight into these themes requires a study of the long-term development of migrants and the multi-faceted historical perspective of the context of migration. The book brings together a unique combination of academic reflections and research findings on migration in the fields of cultural history, history of education and comparative literature, focusing especially on the dimensions of intercultural...
In a globalized world, discussions about migration and (inter)cultural identity call for a thorough analysis of the way in which people shape their cu...
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Sticks and Straw: Comparative House Forms in Southern Sudan and Northern Kenya
ISBN: 9780883121641 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Five Amazonian Studies on Worldview and Cultural Change
ISBN: 9780883121740 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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132,11 |
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Peace Is Everything: The World View of Muslims and Traditionalists in the Senegambia
ISBN: 9780883128169 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Priorities for Cultural Artistic Associations & Minority Groups
ISBN: 9783659173240 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explored the direction and measures needed for solving the problem of the sustainable development of Cultural Artistic Associations in Kosovo. It gives particular emphasis to the ethnic minority groups. Safeguarding, promotion and maintenance of cultural diversity as a part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage are an essential condition for the sustainable development of Kosovo. These are for the benefit of the present and future generations and for a tolerant society, but at present insufficient resources are provided. The aim of this book was to find out what supporting and...
This book explored the direction and measures needed for solving the problem of the sustainable development of Cultural Artistic Associations in Kosov...
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Shadows of the Prophet: Martial Arts and Sufi Mysticism
ISBN: 9789400736887 / Angielski / Miękka / 311 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contemporary accounts of Malay culture that focus on shamanism, dance, medicine and performance reveal only a partial view of Malay mysticism. However, given knowledge of the Malay martial art (silat) a more comprehensive understanding of Malay mysticism, religion, sorcery and magic becomes possible. Recognizing the silat master's (guru silat) role in Malay mysticism recon? gures the social anth- pology of Malay religion, sorcery and magic. Hence this account explores Malay mysticism, shamanism and sorcery from the perspective of silat, which may be considered as a kind of embodied war magic...
Contemporary accounts of Malay culture that focus on shamanism, dance, medicine and performance reveal only a partial view of Malay mysticism. However...
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925,87 |
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Guangdong and Chinese Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of Qiaoxiang
ISBN: 9780415642224 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China's rapid economic growth has drawn attention to the Chinese diasporic communities and the multiple networks that link Chinese individuals and organizations throughout the world. Ethnic Chinese have done very well economically, and the role of the Chinese Diaspora in China's economic success has created a myth that their relations with China is natural and primordial, and that regardless of their base outside China and generation of migration, the Chinese Diaspora are inclined to participate enthusiastically in China's social and economic agendas. This book seeks to dispel such a myth....
China's rapid economic growth has drawn attention to the Chinese diasporic communities and the multiple networks that link Chinese individuals and org...
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782,04 |
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Human Rights and the Third World: Issues and Discourses
ISBN: 9780739177358 / Angielski / Twarda / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Human Rights and the Third World: Issues and Discourses deals with the controversial questions on the universalistic notions of human rights. It finds Third World perspectives on human rights and seeks to open up a discursive space in the human rights discourse to address unresolved questions, citing issues and problems from different countries in the Third World: 1. Whether alternative perspectives should be taken as the standard for human rights in the Third World countries? 2. Should there be a universalistic notion of rights for Homo sapiens or are we talking about two diametrically...
Human Rights and the Third World: Issues and Discourses deals with the controversial questions on the universalistic notions of human rights. It finds...
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Who Are These Dead? The Anthropology of Violence, Pit Structures, Power and Symbolism
ISBN: 9781407309743 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Death in the Anasazi culture of the American southwest Cases of trauma-related violent death among the Anasazi culture of the American Southwest have been documented since the beginning of archaeological study in the region. Researchers have reported these deaths as having been caused through violent activities associated with warfare, cannibalism, witch execution, and violence against women. Although trauma-related death has been discussed cursorily for a long period of time, in recent years it has received much attention as a legitimate study in and of itself. Several books have... Death in the Anasazi culture of the American southwest Cases of trauma-related violent death among the Anasazi culture of the American Southw... |
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Politics of Origin in Africa: Autochthony, Citizenship and Conflict
ISBN: 9781848139978 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this revealing new book, Boas and Dunn explore the phenomenon of "autochthony" - literally meaning "son of the soil" - in African politics. In contemporary Africa, questions concerning origin are currently among the most crucial and contested issues in political life, directly relating to the politics of place, belonging, identity and contested citizenship. Thus, land claims and autochthony disputes are the hallmark of political crises in many places on the African continent.Examining the often complex reasons behind this recent rise of autochthony across a number of high-profile case... In this revealing new book, Boas and Dunn explore the phenomenon of "autochthony" - literally meaning "son of the soil" - in African politics. In c... |
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Oral Ramayani Tradition of Eastern India
ISBN: 9783846544662 / Angielski / Miękka / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Ramayana tradition of India with a long and strong background has played a significant role on life and society. The present book is primarily a comparative analytical study of the oral Ramayana traditions of Eastern India i.e. Assam, Bengal and Orissa. Its aim and objectives are to explore inter-related, well documented and systematic study of genres based on Rama-katha which are transmited orally first and gradually entered to the written traditions. In India Rama is not only religious idols for the people or the Ramayana is not simply an epic of religious verses, it is a part of human...
The Ramayana tradition of India with a long and strong background has played a significant role on life and society. The present book is primarily a c...
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Himachali Shawl Designs: Traditional to Contemporary
ISBN: 9783847375241 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Indian culture and its rich heritage of tradition are reflected in many ways and the crafts, costumes, embroideries of various region of this country are some among them. Each state in India has its own set of crafts, fine arts, rituals and festivals forming unique tradition. The most famous craft of Himachal Pradesh is weaving of Kullu shawls. These shawls have unique designs and colour combinations. Designs are generally geometrical and influenced by the household surroundings and nature. The weaving of Kullu shawls is not restricted to one community in Himachal Pradesh, it is deep rooted...
Indian culture and its rich heritage of tradition are reflected in many ways and the crafts, costumes, embroideries of various region of this country ...
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Caste and Kinship in a Modern Hindu Society: The Newar City of Lalitpur, Nepal
ISBN: 9789745241367 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Anthropology: A Continental Perspective
ISBN: 9780226925073 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in German, Christoph Wulf s "Anthropology" sets its sights on a topic as ambitious as its title suggests: anthropology itself. Arguing for an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to anthropology that incorporates science, philosophy, history, and many other disciplines, Wulf examines with breathtaking scope all the ways that anthropology has been understood and practiced around the globe and through the years.Seeking a central way to understand anthropology in the midst of many different approaches to the discipline, Wulf concentrates on the human body. An emblem...
Originally published in German, Christoph Wulf s "Anthropology" sets its sights on a topic as ambitious as its title suggests: anthropology itself. Ar...
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