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  • Intercultural Citizenship in Language Education
    This book explores Intercultural Citizenship across a variety of US learning contexts. The chapters, which comprise both conceptual and empirical studies, represent a wide variety of languages at levels ranging from beginner to advanced. They urge us to look at how Intercultural Citizenship enhances and expands the work of world language educators. ...
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    169,76 €

  • A Culture Going Mad
    Ronald C. Surels
    In this small volume, the author focuses on some of the dangerous major issues that are occurring in our Western culture and societies of this present age. These issues are evil and dangerous. They diametrically oppose the values and morals of not only common sense but of the traditions and values of the Judeo-Christian faith upon which the Western culture is based.The theme of...
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    11,25 €

  • Toxic Families, Violent Lives
    Stephen G. Lindsey
    IF YOU ARE A PARENT, SCHOOLTEACHER, LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, OR MENTAL HEALTHCARE PROVIDER, Toxic Families, Violent Lives lays out what you need to know aboutwhat is causing heightened levels of childhood/adolescent mental illness, behavioral disorders, juvenile alcohol and substance abuse, gang membership, school dropouts, teen pregnancies, and pervasive crime and violence. To...
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    21,64 €

  • Toxic Families, Violent Lives
    Stephen G. Lindsey
    IF YOU ARE A PARENT, SCHOOLTEACHER, LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, OR MENTAL HEALTHCARE PROVIDER, Toxic Families, Violent Lives lays out what you need to know aboutwhat is causing heightened levels of childhood/adolescent mental illness, behavioral disorders, juvenile alcohol and substance abuse, gang membership, school dropouts, teen pregnancies, and pervasive crime and violence. To...
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    33,57 €

  • Shépa
    Bendi Tso / Mark Turin / Marnyi Gyatso
    Shépa: ’explanation’ or ’elucidation’ in Tibetan.A form of oral poetry sung antiphonally in a question-and-answer style.This book contains a unique collection of Tibetan oral narrations and songs known as Shépa, as these have been performed, recorded and shared between generations of Choné Tibetans from Amdo living in the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Presented in trilingual format ...
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    52,37 €

  • Shépa
    Bendi Tso / Mark Turin / Marnyi Gyatso
    Shépa: ’explanation’ or ’elucidation’ in Tibetan.A form of oral poetry sung antiphonally in a question-and-answer style.This book contains a unique collection of Tibetan oral narrations and songs known as Shépa, as these have been performed, recorded and shared between generations of Choné Tibetans from Amdo living in the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Presented in trilingual format ...
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    74,47 €

  • Up Close and From Afar
    This volume contains papers by Russian and American anthropologists and historians dealing with ancient and modern cultures and societies of the New World. Their scope extends from Early Colonial American and European imaginary to the survival and revival of ethnic minorities’ traditional culture in our times. The works collected here were first presented at the 1st and 2nd Rus...
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    47,12 €

  • The Global Remapping of American Literature
    Giles Paul / Poley Olga
    ENG: This book charts how the cartographies of American literature as an institutional category have varied radically across different times and places. Arguing that American literature was consolidated as a distinctively nationalist entity only in the wake of the U.S. Civil War, Paul Giles identifies this formation as extending until the beginning of the Reagan presidency in 1...
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    62,17 €

  • The Anthem Companion to Zygmunt Bauman
    Michael Hviid Jacobsen
    Bauman’s ideas - his research topic, his hundreds of concepts and his imaginative approach to doing research - remain a source of inspiration for many scholars and researchers working within a variety of different fields and sub-fields, appealing equally to empirical work and theoretical elaboration. This book contains ten chapters devoted to different aspects of Bauman’s work ...
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    238,73 €

  • The Ethnographic Case
    A doctor injects turpentine into the leg of a dying patient; the patient lives and years later a granddaughter uses this story of survival to write a story of her own. A refugee is questioned in court for falsifying paternity; a cultural expert intervenes to develop a legal case for kinship that exceeds DNA. The actions of a caring father pose a dilemma for how a filmmaker repr...
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    28,59 €

  • Exploring Human Diversity An Anthropological Journey
    Elio Endless
    Exploring Human Diversity: An Anthropological JourneyEmbark on a Profound Exploration of AnthropologyWelcome to the captivating world of anthropology, where the complexities of human life are unraveled, and the rich tapestry of our shared humanity is illuminated. 'Exploring Human Diversity: An Anthropological Journey' is your passport to understanding the essence of human exist...
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    24,85 €

  • The Human Figure on Film
    Seth Barry Watter
    The Human Figure on Film asks what it is we look for when we look at human beings projected on a screen. People have appeared onscreen since film was invented. Nothing could be more common, and yet nothing confounds us more, than a filmed human being. Scholars and critics have attempted to reduce the mystery, creating methodologies that make this figure legible. Some of their e...
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    127,23 €

  • Archaeology of Mountain Landscapes
    Arnau Garcia-Molsosa
    Explores mountain regions as cultural landscapes that have been shaped by long-term human-environment interactions. ...
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    158,23 €

  • The Ethnography of Tantra
    Presents Tantra from an ethnographic vantage point, through a series of case studies grounded in diverse settings across contemporary Asia. ...
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    126,24 €

  • Anthropology Across Borders and Limits
    This volume presents a collection of papers on New World anthropology and history, from physical anthropology to historical memory to women’s history. The papers were presented at the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Russian-American Research Nexus (RARN) Forums, and offer a unique perspective on the New World from a variety of Russian and American scholars. This book will be of interest to s...
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    39,48 €

  • Vers un modèle africain de dialogue interreligieux
    Cossi Augustin Ahoga
    Dans cette étude, l’auteur a développé une méthodologie de recherche africaine de dialogue interreligieux, basée sur une expérience au pays Maxi au Bénin. Cette expérience a été réalisée chez un peuple verbomoteur, dans un contexte de vodun, pour la résolution de conflits impliquant des communautés chrétiennes.Ainsi, à partir de l’expérience de résolution des conflits entre les...
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    36,18 €

  • Unseen Flesh
    Nessette Falu
    In Unseen Flesh Nessette Falu explores how Black lesbians in Brazil define and sustain their well-being and self-worth against persistent racial, sexual, class, and gender-based prejudice. Focusing on the trauma caused by interactions with gynecologists, Falu draws on in-depth ethnographic work among the Black lesbian community to reveal their profoundly negative affective expe...
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    128,26 €

  • Unseen Flesh
    Nessette Falu
    In Unseen Flesh Nessette Falu explores how Black lesbians in Brazil define and sustain their well-being and self-worth against persistent racial, sexual, class, and gender-based prejudice. Focusing on the trauma caused by interactions with gynecologists, Falu draws on in-depth ethnographic work among the Black lesbian community to reveal their profoundly negative affective expe...
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    32,95 €

  • Franz Boas in Translation
    Richard L Bland
    Franz Boas in Translation is the ultimate study of the legendary anthropologist Franz Boas and his work on the American Northwest. This groundbreaking study analyses what Boas did with local Native American legends passed down by the region’s tribal groups. Three translations, originally published in 1888 and 1895, are presented here and constitute Boas’s early attempts to defi...
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    205,13 €

  • La cultura espacializada
    Alejandro García Sotelo / Mariana Figueroa Castelán / Pablo López Osorio
    Este libro reúne las reflexiones de las y los estudiantes del Seminario de Investigación Espacio y prácticas socioculturales de la cohorte 2020-2023 del Colegio de Antropología Social perteneciente a la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. Se exponen pensamientos, interrogantes, inquietudes, aprendizajes y sentires que acompañan el pro...
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    14,56 €

  • (Everything Is) Cells and Bodies
    'I am a man.' 'Yo existo.'#BlackLivesMatter.If you’ve never felt your humanity denied, you might not understand why some people have to declare their right to exist. We are all just 'cells and bodies,' after all. And that is a connection the Ohio Migration Anthology, in all of its volumes, is trying to highlight.The stories, artwork, poems, and interviews in Volume Two, '(Every...
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    21,05 €

  • Post-Migration Experiences, Cultural Practices and Homemaking
    Sabrina Dinmohamed
    Shining a light on previously ’invisible’ immigrant communities, this book explores how attention to feelings of home and cultural practices provides insights into immigrants’ settlement experiences. ...
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    143,11 €

  • Cultural Treasures
    Kevan Joey
    profound impact that books have on our culture, identity, and shared human experience. Thisthought-provoking book delves into the multifaceted ways in which books shape and enrich ourlives, shedding light on their enduring significance in an ever-evolving world.Drawing from a diverse array of perspectives and case studies, 'Cultural Treasures' examineshow books serve as reposit...
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    29,41 €

  • The Psychology of Ancient Egypt
    Brian J. McVeigh
    Building upon Julian Jaynes’s theory of bicameral mentality, Brian McVeigh reconstructs the worldview of ancient Egypt, with its innumerable gods and goddesses, magnificent temples, and monumental mortuary architecture. By surveying the spiritual landscape of glorified ancestors, radiant gods, and a theocentric social order crowned by awe-inspiring pharaohs that lasted for thre...
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    23,82 €

  • Essays in Linguistic Ethnography
    Adrian Blackledge / Angela Creese
    This book argues for an approach to linguistic ethnography which departs from the perspective of the academic researcher, to amplify instead the voices of participants, researchers and collaborators. It reflects on ways of reporting research which add multiple perspectives and represent ambiguity more meaningfully than traditional academic prose. ...
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    48,07 €

  • Essays in Linguistic Ethnography
    Adrian Blackledge / Angela Creese
    This book argues for an approach to linguistic ethnography which departs from the perspective of the academic researcher, to amplify instead the voices of participants, researchers and collaborators. It reflects on ways of reporting research which add multiple perspectives and represent ambiguity more meaningfully than traditional academic prose. ...
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    169,68 €

  • 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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    219,77 €

  • Medina by the Bay
    Maryam Kashani
    From the Black Power movement and state surveillance to Silicon Valley and gentrification, Medina by the Bay examines how multiracial Muslim communities in the San Francisco Bay Area survive and flourish within and against racial capitalist, carceral, and imperial logics. Weaving expansive histories, peoples, and geographies together in an ethnographic screenplay of cinematic s...
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    36,55 €

  • Medina by the Bay
    Maryam Kashani
    From the Black Power movement and state surveillance to Silicon Valley and gentrification, Medina by the Bay examines how multiracial Muslim communities in the San Francisco Bay Area survive and flourish within and against racial capitalist, carceral, and imperial logics. Weaving expansive histories, peoples, and geographies together in an ethnographic screenplay of cinematic s...
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    138,40 €

  • Dialect and Nationalism in China
    Gina Tam / Kirill Batygin
    Taking aim at the conventional narrative that standard, national languages transform ’peasants’ into citizens, Gina Anne Tam centers the history of the Chinese nation and national identity on fangyan - languages like Shanghainese, Cantonese, and dozens of others that are categorically different from the Chinese national language, Mandarin. She traces how, on the one hand, lingu...
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    40,60 €


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