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  • Afghanistan
    Thomas J. Barfield
    A major history of Afghanistan and its changing political cultureAfghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence today. Thomas Barfield introduces readers to the bewildering diversity of tribal and ethnic groups in Afghanistan,...
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    25,79 €

  • Professionals and Marginals in Slavic and Jewish Cultural Traditions
    Ed. by O. Belova
    Professionals and Marginals in Slavic and Jewish Cultural Traditions is the annual publication of the Slavic&Jewish Cultures: Dialogue, Similarities, Differences’s project for 2022. It includes papers from the international conference of the same name held in Moscow on December 1-3, 2021. The book includes twelve articles by Russian and Israeli scholars who work on the social a...
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    41,98 €

  • Taming Oblivion
    John Traphagan
    Taming Oblivion examines the cultural construction of senility in Japan and the moral implications of dependent behavior for older Japanese. While the biomedical construction of senility-as-pathology has become increasingly the norm in North America, in Japan a folk category of senility exists known as boke. Although symptomatically and conceptually overlapping with Alzheimer’s...
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    40,96 €

  • Ruderal City
    Bettina Stoetzer
    In Ruderal City Bettina Stoetzer traces relationships among people, plants, and animals in contemporary Berlin as they make their lives in the ruins of European nationalism and capitalism. She develops the notion of the ruderal-originally an ecological designation for the unruly life that inhabits inhospitable environments such as rubble, roadsides, train tracks, and sidewalk c...
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    134,18 €

  • Ruderal City
    Bettina Stoetzer
    In Ruderal City Bettina Stoetzer traces relationships among people, plants, and animals in contemporary Berlin as they make their lives in the ruins of European nationalism and capitalism. She develops the notion of the ruderal-originally an ecological designation for the unruly life that inhabits inhospitable environments such as rubble, roadsides, train tracks, and sidewalk c...
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    36,24 €

  • Formal Shamanic Conduct
    Calum Hazell
    Formal Shamanic Conduct: Zonal Installations in Supernatural Space stages an indisciplinary practice via non-standard deployment of set-theoretic and anthropologic artefacts as they are brought to bear upon two propositions: that 'The human is an animal,' and that 'The animal is a human.' In the first place, the propositions are treated to set-theoretic modelisation whose expre...
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    19,22 €

  • Hair Tells a Story
    Margo Maine
    The body is the canvas upon which women paint their secrets, their hopes and dreams, pain and disappointments. Hair has long played a role in the struggles for power, self-determination and autonomy--serving as a nonverbal language that represents women’s lives. However, pain, anxiety, racism, sexism and rigid beauty standards can too often underlie these stories. Modern events...
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    28,39 €

  • Affects
    Parfait D. Akana
    The goal of this work (in French and English) is to think through experiences drawn from diverse forms of aesthetic expression the problems of suffering and transgression in Africa. The authors of the book describe what can be considered as a variety of regimes of affection, in other words, particular modes of influence which work from a transgressive ethos. Le but de ce livre ...
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    45,98 €

  • The City Electric
    Michael Degani
    Over the last twenty years of neoliberal reform, the power supply in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s metropolis, has become less reliable even as its importance has increased. Though mobile phones, televisions, and refrigerators have flooded the city, the electricity required to run these devices is still supplied by the socialist-era energy company Tanesco, which is characterized by...
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    128,03 €

  • The City Electric
    Michael Degani
    Over the last twenty years of neoliberal reform, the power supply in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s metropolis, has become less reliable even as its importance has increased. Though mobile phones, televisions, and refrigerators have flooded the city, the electricity required to run these devices is still supplied by the socialist-era energy company Tanesco, which is characterized by...
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    34,01 €

  • Legacies of Ancient Greece in Contemporary Perspectives
    Thomas M. F. Gerry
    ’Legacies of Ancient Greece in Contemporary Perspectives’ provides readers with opportunities to reconnect with the origins of thought in an astonishingly wide variety of areas: politics, economics, art, spirituality, gender relations, medicine, literature, philosophy, music, and so on. As the chapters in the book show, Classical Greek thought still informs much of contemporary...
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    50,21 €

  • Cultures of Authenticity
    This volume contains an Open Access Chapter. This collection explores the complex and controversial idea of authenticity. Addressing the concept from an interdisciplinary perspective and offering a diverse range of topical cases. ...
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    142,22 €

  • Street Diplomacy
    Elliott Drago
    An illuminating look at how Philadelphia’s antebellum free Black community defended themselves against kidnappings and how this street diplomacy forced Pennsylvanians to confront the politics of slavery.As the most southern of northern cities in a state that bordered three slave states, antebellum Philadelphia maintained a long tradition of both abolitionism and fugitive slave ...
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    60,32 €

  • Dancing in the Forest
    Helen Hong
    Why do Koreans search for shamans? Confrontation with jarring reality, magnified in the context of immigration, pulls them to look for cultural roots in moral solidarity with their ancestors. Ancestral spirits travel by carrying culturally engrained remedial power to the ''othered'' life of the Korean immigrant community in the country of Protestantism. Korean shamans mediate t...
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    47,11 €

  • Dancing in the Forest
    Helen Hong
    Why do Koreans search for shamans? Confrontation with jarring reality, magnified in the context of immigration, pulls them to look for cultural roots in moral solidarity with their ancestors. Ancestral spirits travel by carrying culturally engrained remedial power to the ''othered'' life of the Korean immigrant community in the country of Protestantism. Korean shamans mediate t...
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    32,83 €

  • Bouncing Back
    In 2018 South Africa’s so-called 'mother city', Cape Town came into the global spotlight as being the first city in the world to (almost) 'run out of water,' a crisis that only exacerbated the pressures placed upon a population staggering under socio-economic and politically-tinged environmental predicaments. Japan on the other hand has long sustained an international reputatio...
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    87,74 €

  • Modern France
    Michael Leruth
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    145,52 €

  • Silent but Deadly
    Kirsten Bell
    An entertaining anthropological tour through the big answers to life’s little questions. Why do farts evoke laughter and disgust? Is the aversion to the left hand universal? Are dogs really humankind’s best friend? Why do we tip wait staff but not teachers? Can you still spot the difference between a Brit and an American by their teeth? In Silent but Deadly: The Underlying Cu...
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    22,34 €

  • Reise Nach Innerarabien, Kurdistan und Armenien. 1892
    Baron Eduard Nolde
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    25,14 €

  • Monumenta Historica Celtica
    Dinan William
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    27,07 €

  • On the Tribes Around Darjeeling
    Archibald superintendent o... Campbell
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    15,69 €

  • Unter Kopfjägern in Central-Celebes; Ethnologische Streifzüge in Südost- und Central-Celebes
    Albert Grubauer
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    46,22 €

  • Rules of Etiquette and Home Culture; Or What to Do and How to Do It
    WALTER R. HOUGHTON
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    41,61 €

  • Turkestan, Die Wiege Der Indogermanischen Völker
    Franz Xaver Von Schwarz
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    32,71 €

  • Die Skythen-Saken, die Urväter der Germanen.
    Johannes Fressel
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    27,10 €

  • Urwald-Dokumente
    Alfred Mansfeld
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    27,91 €

  • The Nandi, Their Language and Folk-lore
    A. C. Hollis
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    41,50 €

  • A Colony of Émigrés in Canada, 1798-1816
    Lucy Elizabeth Textor
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    33,87 €

  • Code Civil. Manuel Complet De La Politesse, Du Ton, Des Manières De La Bonne Compagnie, ......
    Horace Raisson
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    36,52 €

  • Mount McKinley and Mountain Climbers’ Proofs
    Edwin Swift Balch
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    33,70 €


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