Folksongs from the Mountains of Iran: Culture, Poetics and Everyday Philosophies
ISBN: 9781788310178 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Iran, folksongs are part of folklore and offer an intimate portrait of a vanishing era. They are also the voice of ordinary people, providing a medium to express emotions, opinions, and concerns. Folksongs from the Mountains of Iran is based on folksongs collected over a 50-year period among the Boir Ahmad tribal people in the Zagros Mountains of West Iran. Erika Friedl has recorded, transcribed, and translated more than 600 lyrics from a Lur community, and her analysis of the folksongs provides an intimate portrait of local people's attitudes, attachments, fears, and...In Iran, folksongs are part of folklore and offer an intimate portrait of a vanishing era. They are also the voice of ordinary people, providing a ... |
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608,08 zł |
Within the Limits: Moral Boundaries of Class and Gender in Urban India
ISBN: 9780199477425 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The post-liberalization era of the Indian economy has given birth to a burgeoning middle class who has gained increasing prominence in the political and cultural imagination of the nation. Many erstwhile scholars have attempted to concretely define the size and scope of the middle class in India only to accede to the extraordinary variety of people living in multiple socio-economic circumstances, identifying with this class. This book thus explores what being middle class means to those who claim to belong to this class. Drawing on ethnographic material from the South Indian city of...
The post-liberalization era of the Indian economy has given birth to a burgeoning middle class who has gained increasing prominence in the political a...
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159,87 zł |
Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain: The Story of a Secret Brotherhood in Rural China, 1939-1949
ISBN: 9781503604834 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1939, residents of a rural village near Chengdu watched as Lei Mingyuan, a member of a violent secret society known as the Gowned Brothers, executed his teenage daughter. Six years later, Shen Baoyuan, a sociology student at Yenching University, arrived in the town to conduct fieldwork on the society that once held sway over local matters. She got to know Lei Mingyuan and his family, recording many rare insights about the murder and the Gowned Brothers' inner workings. Shining a light on Shen Baoyuan's once-forgotten research, Di Wang unfolds a story of two voices--that of the... In 1939, residents of a rural village near Chengdu watched as Lei Mingyuan, a member of a violent secret society known as the Gowned Brothers, exec... |
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547,27 zł |
Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain: The Story of a Secret Brotherhood in Rural China, 1939-1949
ISBN: 9781503605305 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1939, residents of a rural village near Chengdu watched as Lei Mingyuan, a member of a violent secret society known as the Gowned Brothers, executed his teenage daughter. Six years later, Shen Baoyuan, a sociology student at Yenching University, arrived in the town to conduct fieldwork on the society that once held sway over local matters. She got to know Lei Mingyuan and his family, recording many rare insights about the murder and the Gowned Brothers' inner workings. Shining a light on Shen Baoyuan's once-forgotten research, Di Wang unfolds a story of two voices--that of the... In 1939, residents of a rural village near Chengdu watched as Lei Mingyuan, a member of a violent secret society known as the Gowned Brothers, exec... |
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131,70 zł |
Colonialism in Modern America: The Appalachian Case
ISBN: 9781469642048 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Provides a series of essays exploring the economic and social problems of the region within the context of colonialism. It is a relatively simple task to document the social ills and the environmental ravage that beset the people and land of Appalachia. However, it is far more difficult and problematic to uncover the causes of these tragic conditions.
Provides a series of essays exploring the economic and social problems of the region within the context of colonialism. It is a relatively simple task...
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129,86 zł |
Desmistificación de la Cultura Aymara
ISBN: 9781506521039 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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270,60 zł |
Negotiating Rural Land Ownership in Southwest China: State, Village, Family
ISBN: 9780824876807 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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149,09 zł |
The Collected Oz Volume Two
ISBN: 9781908728630 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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108,17 zł |
Visual Encounters in the Study of Rural Childhoods
ISBN: 9780813588162 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brings together visual studies and childhood studies to explore images of childhood in the study of rurality and rural life. The volume highlights how the voices of children themselves remain central to investigations of rural childhoods.
Brings together visual studies and childhood studies to explore images of childhood in the study of rurality and rural life. The volume highlights how...
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679,01 zł |
Bang Chan: Social History of a Rural Community in Thailand
ISBN: 9781501721380 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bang Chan traces the changing cultural characteristics of a small Siamese village during the century and a quarter from its founding as a wilderness settlement outside Bangkok to its absorption into the urban spread of the Thai capital. Rich in ethnographic detail, the book sums up the major findings of a pioneering interdisciplinary research...
Bang Chan traces the changing cultural characteristics of a small Siamese village during the century and a quarter from its founding as a wilderness s...
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75,96 zł |
Visual Encounters in the Study of Rural Childhoods
ISBN: 9780813588155 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brings together visual studies and childhood studies to explore images of childhood in the study of rurality and rural life. The volume highlights how the voices of children themselves remain central to investigations of rural childhoods.
Brings together visual studies and childhood studies to explore images of childhood in the study of rurality and rural life. The volume highlights how...
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222,96 zł |
India Connected: How the Smartphone Is Transforming the World's Largest Democracy
ISBN: 9780190858650 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the rise of low-cost smartphones and cheap data plans, millions of Indians are now discovering the internet for the first time, and the implications are as vast as the country itself.
With the rise of low-cost smartphones and cheap data plans, millions of Indians are now discovering the internet for the first time, and the implicati...
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111,87 zł |
The Fisher Folk of Late Imperial and Modern China: An Historical Anthropology of Boat-and-Shed Living
ISBN: 9781138476943 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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253,31 zł |
Sustainability in Contemporary Rural Japan: Challenges and Opportunities
ISBN: 9781138476974 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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233,05 zł |
Ethical Trade, Gender and Sustainable Livelihoods: Women Smallholders and Ethicality in Kenya
ISBN: 9781138574786 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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238,11 zł |
Vocational Education of Female Entrepreneurs in China: A Multitheoretical and Multidimensional Analysis of Successful Businesswomen's Everyday Lives
ISBN: 9781138580176 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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217,84 zł |
Zwischen »Dorfgemeinschaft« Und »Volksgemeinschaft«: Landbevölkerung Und Ländliche Lebenswelten Im Nationalsozialismus
ISBN: 9783506787378 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 458 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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296,42 zł |
Herlands: Exploring the Women's Land Movement in the United States
ISBN: 9780816698233 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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506,73 zł |
Herlands: Exploring the Women's Land Movement in the United States
ISBN: 9780816698257 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,57 zł |
Bulldozer Revolutions: A Rural History of the Metropolitan South
ISBN: 9780820354149 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the local boosters, gentlemen farmers, historical preservationists, and nature-seeking suburbanites who abandoned the city to live in the metropolitan countryside during the twentieth century. These property owners formed the vanguard of the antigrowth movement that has defined metropolitan fringe politics across America.
Examines the local boosters, gentlemen farmers, historical preservationists, and nature-seeking suburbanites who abandoned the city to live in the met...
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340,63 zł |