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  • The Festival of Indra
    Michael Baltutis
    Details the textual and performative history of the South Asian festival of Indra and its role in the development of classical Hinduism. ...
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    121,65 €

  • The Clarks of Willsborough Point
    Darcey Hale
    The stuff of social and cultural history is the people - how they were born, lived, worked, and died - and it all happened within the context of their times and their locales. The treasure trove of thousands of documents, diaries, business records and all manner of day-to-day things, the clothing they wore and textiles they sewed and wove, the beautiful and usually mundane cont...
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    15,83 €

  • El Monte
    Lydia Cabrera
    First published in Cuba in 1954 and appearing here in English for the first time, Lydia Cabrera’s El Monte is a foundational and iconic study of Afro-Cuban religious and cultural traditions. Drawing on conversations with elderly Afro-Cuban priests who were one or two generations away from the transatlantic slave trade, Cabrera combines ethnography, history, folklore, literature...
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    50,01 €

  • El Monte
    Lydia Cabrera
    First published in Cuba in 1954 and appearing here in English for the first time, Lydia Cabrera’s El Monte is a foundational and iconic study of Afro-Cuban religious and cultural traditions. Drawing on conversations with elderly Afro-Cuban priests who were one or two generations away from the transatlantic slave trade, Cabrera combines ethnography, history, folklore, literature...
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    178,58 €

  • TASTE
    Arthur Asa Berger
    Taste is an enigmatic topic. We recognize that taste plays an important role in our life in that everything we buy and many things we do are governed by our sense of taste. But what exactly is taste? How do we get our sense of taste and how does it affect our everyday lives? Does it evolve as we grow older or is it a constant in our lives? Is it affected by all the 'influencers...
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    40,98 €

  • Introduction to Anthropology (paperback, b&w)
    David G. Lewis / Jennifer Hasty / Marjorie M. Snipes
    Black & white print.Designed to meet the scope and sequence of your course, Introduction to Anthropology is a four-field text integrating diverse voices, engaging field activities, and meaningful themes like Indigenous experiences and social inequality to engage students and enrich learning. The text showcases the historical context of the discipline, with a strong focus on ant...
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    45,90 €

  • Introduction to Anthropology (hardcover, full color)
    David G. Lewis / Jennifer Hasty / Marjorie M. Snipes
    Color print.Designed to meet the scope and sequence of your course, Introduction to Anthropology is a four-field text integrating diverse voices, engaging field activities, and meaningful themes like Indigenous experiences and social inequality to engage students and enrich learning. The text showcases the historical context of the discipline, with a strong focus on anthropolog...
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    110,65 €

  • A Vital Frontier
    Andrea Muehlebach
    In A Vital Frontier Andrea Muehlebach examines the work of activists across Europe as they organize to preserve water as a commons and public good in the face of privatization. Traversing social, political, legal, and hydrological terrains, Muehlebach situates water as a political fault line at the frontiers of financialization, showing how the seemingly relentless expansion of...
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    128,19 €

  • A Vital Frontier
    Andrea Muehlebach
    In A Vital Frontier Andrea Muehlebach examines the work of activists across Europe as they organize to preserve water as a commons and public good in the face of privatization. Traversing social, political, legal, and hydrological terrains, Muehlebach situates water as a political fault line at the frontiers of financialization, showing how the seemingly relentless expansion of...
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    34,17 €

  • Paris in the Americas
    Carole Salmon
    Across centuries, France -and especially its capital city, Paris- established itself as a major source of influence across the Americas through colonization, diplomacy and political influence, but also through intellectualism and cultural productions of all sorts, either by imposition, exportation or as a trend of fashion via a bilateral transatlantic movement of people and ide...
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    61,73 €

  • The Rise of Tourism in China
    Yiping Li
    This book offers a comprehensive understanding of China’s tourism development from 1992 onwards, focusing on the social-cultural change that accompanied the rise of tourism. It examines both the economic benefits and sociocultural impacts of tourism and argues that a delicate balance between these is needed to achieve sustainable tourism. ...
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    182,02 €

  • Play in a Covid Frame
    During the international coronavirus lockdowns of 2020-2021, millions of children, youth, and adults found their usual play areas out of bounds and their friends out of reach. How did the pandemic restrict everyday play and how did the pandemic offer new spaces and new content? This unique collection of essays documents the ways in which communities around the world harnessed p...
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    60,66 €

  • Play in a Covid Frame
    During the international coronavirus lockdowns of 2020-2021, millions of children, youth, and adults found their usual play areas out of bounds and their friends out of reach. How did the pandemic restrict everyday play and how did the pandemic offer new spaces and new content? This unique collection of essays documents the ways in which communities around the world harnessed p...
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    77,60 €

  • The Omnipresent Past
    This collection of papers explores the variegated ways that the continent’s rich and complex history - precolonial, colonial and postcolonial - continues to impact and sometimes to haunt the lives of contemporary Africans and persons of African descent. The volume combines phenomenological approaches that consider the ways Africans experience historical memory alongside conside...
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    61,60 €

  • Context, Policy, and Practices in Indigenous and Cultural Entrepreneurship
    There are ongoing debates on the concepts surrounding the roles of Indigenous people in transforming the entrepreneurial landscape to promote socio-economic development. Arguably, the culture and ways of our lives, in the context of entrepreneurship, have a role in influencing social economic development. The ideals between the entrepreneurial practice of Indigenous people and ...
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    235,73 €

  • A Touch of Genius
    André Singer
    Evans-Pritchard was perhaps the most influential anthropological scholar of the twentieth century. His extraordinary work in Africa has formed a central foundation to anthropological thought since the 1930s, with generations of anthropologists having read and appreciated his ethnographies of the Azande, Nuer and Sanusi, and his analyses of social structures, belief systems and ...
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    229,83 €

  • Sensorial Investigations
    David Howes
    Presents a history of the senses in the fields of anthropology, psychology, and law, identifying important shifts and key disciplinary concerns. ...
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    164,95 €

  • Global Citizenship Education in Praxis
    This book examines the experience of combining internationalisation, intercultural competence and global citizenship in an upper secondary school in Denmark with links to schools in 15 countries. The book includes a description of the project by the teachers who have taken part and an analysis by researchers who have worked with them. ...
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    42,26 €

  • Global Citizenship Education in Praxis
    This book examines the experience of combining internationalisation, intercultural competence and global citizenship in an upper secondary school in Denmark with links to schools in 15 countries. The book includes a description of the project by the teachers who have taken part and an analysis by researchers who have worked with them. ...
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    157,72 €

  • THE DINKA HISTORY THE ANCIENTS OF SUDAN FROM ABUK AND GARANG AT CREATION TO THE PRESENT DAY DINKA 2015
    Lewis Anei Madut-Kueendit
    This book serves as a tribute to the rich heritage and legacy of the Dinka people, whose traditions and history span millennia. As a valuable contribution to the global pursuit of knowledge about humanity, it provides a compelling account of the Dinka’s historical presence in Sudan, Egypt, and the Middle East.Remarkably, the book has been over thirty years in the making. Its or...
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    39,88 €

  • Students, Teachers, Families, and a Socially Just Education
    Francesca Peruzzo / Julie Allan
    One size does not fit all when it comes to education.In modern society, education has been and continues to be shaped, informed, and driven by a so-called 'grammar of schooling': an approach which completely ignores the many and diverse identities that learners own, are given, and encounter. Categorising students into neat, labelled boxes, splintering knowledge into strictly de...
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    22,37 €

  • Amasiko Nezithethe ZamaHlubi
    M.D. Mgulwa
    Isixa esivisayo sabantu basithelwe kukuyazi intsingiselo yesiko. Kude kube kuyaphikiswanangelithi umba othile ulisiko ekubeni othile ungelilo isiko. Ukusungula umba wamasiko amaHlubi, le ncwadana iqala ngokuchaza ukuba yintoni na kanyekanye lento ilisiko. Ihambisa njalo ke ichaza ngokufuthelana kwamasiko ngamasiko eentlangangeentlanga nezizwe ngezizwe. ibuya ke ikhethe amasiko ...
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    13,46 €

  • The fall and rise of the English upper class
    Daniel R. Smith
    Charting the decline and recent resurgence of the landed gentry in British public life, The fall and rise of the English upper class explores how traditionalist worldviews, centred on kinship, inheritance, and the image of the house, have come to shape our politics and culture. ...
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    157,44 €

  • Reconstructing Perceptions of Systemically Marginalized Groups
    Leslie Ponciano
    Despite their best intentions, professionals in the helping fields are influenced by a deficit perspective that is pervasive in research, theory, training programs, workforce preparation programs, statistical data, and media portrayals of marginalized groups. They enter their professions ready to fix others and their interactions are grounded in an assumption that there will be...
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    282,10 €

  • Reconstructing Perceptions of Systemically Marginalized Groups
    Leslie Ponciano
    Despite their best intentions, professionals in the helping fields are influenced by a deficit perspective that is pervasive in research, theory, training programs, workforce preparation programs, statistical data, and media portrayals of marginalized groups. They enter their professions ready to fix others and their interactions are grounded in an assumption that there will be...
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    216,25 €

  • Modernization from the Other Shore
    David Engerman / Mariya Petrenko
    From the late nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, America’s experts on Russia watched as Russia and the Soviet Union embarked on a course of rapid industrialization. Captivated by the idea of modernization, diplomats, journalists, and scholars across the political spectrum rationalized the enormous human cost of this path to progress. In a fascinating examination of ...
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    61,84 €

  • That Savage Gaze
    Ian Helfant / Aleksandra Volkova
    Imperial Russia’s large wolf populations were demonized, persecuted, tormented, and sometimes admired. That Savage Gaze explores the significance of wolves in pre-revolutionary Russia utilizing the perspectives of cultural studies, ecocriticism, and human-animal studies. It examines the ways in which hunters, writers, conservationists, members of animal protection societies, sc...
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    41,31 €

  • How to Do Things with Emotions
    Owen Flanagan
    An expansive look at how culture shapes our emotions-and how we can benefit, as individuals and a society, from less anger and more shameThe world today is full of anger. Everywhere we look, we see values clashing and tempers rising, in ways that seem frenzied, aimless, and cruel. At the same time, we witness political leaders and others who lack any sense of shame, even as the...
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    30,48 €

  • Honeymoon Couples and Jurassic Babies
    Kristen Rudisill
    Contextualizes Sabha Theatre historically, politically, and aesthetically, revealing how it expresses a Tamil Brahmin identity that is at once traditional and modern. ...
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    41,70 €

  • Coca-Cola Socialism
    Radina Vučetić / John K. Cox
    This book is about the Americanization of Yugoslav culture and everyday life during the nineteen-sixties. After falling out with the Eastern bloc, Tito turned to the United States for support and inspiration. In the political sphere the distance between the two countries was carefully maintained, yet in the realms of culture and consumption the Yugoslav regime was definitely mu...
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    38,78 €


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