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  • 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 €

  • Antropología del amor. Estructura esponsal de la persona
    Blanca Castilla de Cortázar / Pedro-Juan Viladrich
    Este libro trata de lo básico para entender a la persona humana, varón y mujer, y para comprender el amor. Dos realidades profundamenteentrelazadas, pues sólo el amor da sentido a la vida humana. Es un hecho que 'el hombre no puede vivir sin amor. Él permanece para sí mismo un ser incomprensible, su vida está privada de sentido si no se le revela el amor, si no se encuentra con...
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    33,51 €

  • Dear Sister
    Dannielle
    In this thought-provoking and heartfelt book, Paula Dannielle presents Dear Sister: There’s Something Black Women Want You to Know, a powerful collection of eight letters that amplify the voices and experiences of Black women. Tackling topics covering their experiences, including identity, beauty standards, relationships, mental health, career challenges, and societal expectati...
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    21,72 €

  • Queer Asian Identities in Contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand
    Sidney Gig-Jan Wong
    A Cantonese-Tauiwi queer man reflects on his lived experiences as a means to explore the intersection of Asian-ness and queerness in Aotearoa New Zealand.Queer Asian communities in Aotearoa New Zealand can suffer erasure caused by the dominance of whiteness in queer spaces. Written as a deliberate challenge to this invisibility, author Sidney Gig-Jan Wong 黃吉贊 reflects on his li...
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    23,73 €

  • Creative Resistance
    Cindy Horst
    How can hope flourish from the devastation of war, oppression, and forced migration?For the people featured in this book, this is not a philosophical question - it is a lived reality. Drawn from first-hand experience of violent conflict and displacement, the stories in this book belong to three extraordinary individuals who found a path to hope through action in the face of vio...
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    23,44 €

  • Bihar Days
    Carolyn Brown Heinz
    Prior to 1947, the Maithil Brahmans dominated North Bihar culturally, politically, and economically. Darbhanga Raj, the richest zamindari estate in British India, was owned by a family of the elite sub-group of Brahmans, the Srotriyas. The high prestige of this elite was based on a lifestyle prescribed by ancient law codes involving simplicity of life, daily Vedic rites, and in...
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    18,42 €

  • Transnational Spaces
    This volume celebrates fifty years of NeMLA’s important presence in the world of academia with a collection of essays that adopt a transnational critical lens. With the present selection, we intend to add our voices to the ongoing debate centered on the renegotiation of space, national, and cultural geographies; to foster both the re-thinking of language(s) and literature(s) no...
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    39,96 €

  • Decolonial Mourning and the Caring Commons
    Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez
    This book engages with decolonial mourning by bearing witness to the political grief work of contemporary struggles against migration-coloniality necropolitics in Europe, the United States and Latin America. ...
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    158,25 €

  • Hunters among Farmers
    Akira Takada
    Through moving life histories, Akira Takada gives the !Xun of north-central Namibia a voice in their own history. In contrast to other marginalised San minorities, the !Xun foster co-operative relationships with their neighbours, the Ovawambo and with the state. In the face of radical social changes over the past century, they have maintained traditional hunting and gathering a...
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    44,81 €

  • (C)over Your Head
    One of the most enduring symbol of Moorish presence the world over: the Moslem turban. Seeking to invoke the impression of an educational stroll through a niche art gallery, this text examines the Moslem Turban from a Moorish American perspective using historical references. Includes the metaphysical meanings of decorative elements, adaptations over time and space, wrapping ins...
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    24,26 €

  • Hawaiian Legends
    William Hyde Rice
    'Mr. Rice’s theory as to the origin of these legends is based on the fact that in the old days, before the discovery of the islands by Captain Cook, there were bards and storytellers, either itinerant or attached to the courts of the chiefs...these bards or storytellers sometimes used historical incidents or natural phenomena for the foundation of their stories, which were hand...
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    17,87 €

  • Brown Saviors and Their Others
    Arjun Shankar
    In Brown Saviors and Their Others Arjun Shankar draws from his ethnographic work with an educational NGO to investigate the practices of 'brown saviors'-globally mobile, dominant-caste, liberal Indian and Indian diasporic technocrats who drive India’s help economy. Shankar argues that these brown saviors actually reproduce many of the racialized values and ideologies associated...
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    140,67 €

  • Genomics with Care
    Mike Fortun
    In Genomics with Care Mike Fortun presents an experimental ethnography of contemporary genomics, analyzing science as a complex amalgam of cognition and affect, formal logics and tacit knowledge, statistics, and ethics. Fortun examines genomics in terms of care-a dense composite of affective and cognitive forces that drive scientists and the relations they form with their objec...
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    37,75 €

  • Brown Saviors and Their Others
    Arjun Shankar
    In Brown Saviors and Their Others Arjun Shankar draws from his ethnographic work with an educational NGO to investigate the practices of 'brown saviors'-globally mobile, dominant-caste, liberal Indian and Indian diasporic technocrats who drive India’s help economy. Shankar argues that these brown saviors actually reproduce many of the racialized values and ideologies associated...
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    37,50 €

  • An Older and More Beautiful Belgrade
    Mileta Prodanović / Maria Milojković
    This substantial essay depicts urban collapse in an exceptionally difficult period of the Serbian capital. The author has marshalled facts, reflections, photographs and other imagesto demonstrate the transformation of Belgrade during the Milošević years. With the theoretical grounding of cultural anthropology, history studies, culture of memory, history of art, and urbanism, Mi...
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    100,85 €

  • An Older and More Beautiful Belgrade
    Mileta Prodanović / Maria Milojković
    This substantial essay depicts urban collapse in an exceptionally difficult period of the Serbian capital. The author has marshalled facts, reflections, photographs and other imagesto demonstrate the transformation of Belgrade during the Milošević years. With the theoretical grounding of cultural anthropology, history studies, culture of memory, history of art, and urbanism, Mi...
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    38,12 €

  • Мертвое время
    Светлана Еремеева
    Книга исследовательницы Светланы Еремеевой представляет собой анализ репрезентаций военных похорон 2022 года в публичном пространстве. Автор стремился выяснить не столько то, как сегодня хоронят военных, сколько то, что это значит для его близких, для общества и государства в целом. Определяя контуры жизненных миров, стоящих за проводами погибших, автор показывает несостоятельн...
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    27,68 €

  • Sonic Histories of Occupation
    This open access book examines how auditory environments in different contexts have contributed to understanding foreign occupation and colonialism, and how they have given rise to historical music cultures. How are sound and music implicated in the control and discipline of people under occupation? Exploring case studies of foreign occupation and colonialism from around the wo...
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    51,03 €

  • New Lives for Old; Cultural Transformation
    Margaret Mead
    This is a classic study of the cultural transformation of Manus Island in the years before and after World War II, and the impact it had on the lives of the islanders.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 possib...
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    44,20 €

  • The Human Factor In Changing Africa
    Melville J. Herskovits
    This groundbreaking work by anthropologist Melville J. Herskovits explores the complex interplay of culture, society, and history in the changing landscape of Africa. With a focus on the human factor of social change, this book is an essential read for anyone interested in understanding the modern African experience.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally im...
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    43,14 €

  • The Human Factor In Changing Africa
    Melville J. Herskovits
    This groundbreaking work by anthropologist Melville J. Herskovits explores the complex interplay of culture, society, and history in the changing landscape of Africa. With a focus on the human factor of social change, this book is an essential read for anyone interested in understanding the modern African experience.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally im...
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    31,81 €

  • Anthropological Studies in the Strange Sexual Practises of All Races in All Ages [electronic Resource]
    Iwan 1872-1922 Bloch
    Discover the fascinating and sometimes unsettling practices of sexual cultures throughout history and around the world. Iwan Bloch provides a detailed and comprehensive survey of sexual practices and attitudes in various cultures. From ancient civilizations to contemporary societies, readers will gain a better understanding of the diversity of human sexual behavior and customs....
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    25,18 €

  • Anthropological Studies in the Strange Sexual Practises of All Races in All Ages [electronic Resource]
    Iwan 1872-1922 Bloch
    Discover the fascinating and sometimes unsettling practices of sexual cultures throughout history and around the world. Iwan Bloch provides a detailed and comprehensive survey of sexual practices and attitudes in various cultures. From ancient civilizations to contemporary societies, readers will gain a better understanding of the diversity of human sexual behavior and customs....
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    36,50 €

  • New Lives for Old; Cultural Transformation
    Margaret Mead
    This is a classic study of the cultural transformation of Manus Island in the years before and after World War II, and the impact it had on the lives of the islanders.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 possib...
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    32,86 €

  • 温度心理学：温暖能否为我们献上幸福？
    ［法］汉斯·罗查·伊泽曼
    内容简介人类织布裁衣、建造房屋、结成社区、发展科技，对外在温度变化未雨绸缪；同时也会抱团，通过肢体接触和社交网络营造温馨的氛围，积蓄内在能量。  季候流转，世情冷暖，从极地到赤道，从远古到当下，与温度有关的策略帮助地球上的万物渡过了一个又一个难关。  该领域的先驱汉斯·罗查·伊泽曼立足生物进化、心理学和社会学等多个维度，从人际关系、依恋、文化、健康、幸福感等主题入手，以一个个生动有趣的故事和实验，向我们展示外在温度变化与我们的内心是如何相互影响的，以及我们可以如何从中获益。其中的关键往往就在我们每日可见的热茶、冰咖啡、暖气、空调中，而本书将让我们获得 系统而科学的认识。或许在越发孤独和艰难的情形中，我们需要的正是学会为自己和他人增添一缕温情。 ...
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    41,14 €

  • Everyday Life in China
    Edwin Joshua Dukes
    This book provides a detailed look at daily life in China, including customs, habits, and cultural practices. With insights from his travels in China, Dukes provides a vivid picture of the country and its people.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 domai...
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    36,62 €

  • Regeneration
    Edmund Hamilton Sears
    Sears’s theological masterpiece explores the concept of spiritual rebirth and redemption through poetic language and powerful imagery. A classic of Christian literature.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 poss...
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    25,24 €

  • A Manual of Foreign Exchanges
    William Tate
    This book provides a comprehensive guide to foreign exchanges operations including direct, indirect, and cross transactions. It is ideal for those seeking to gain a better understanding of the intricacies of foreign exchange markets and the associated risks and opportunities. The author draws upon his extensive experience in the field to provide practical insights and advice fo...
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    23,08 €

  • The Vikings of the Baltic; Volume I
    George Webbe Dasent
    Dasent’s history of the Vikings in the Baltic region is a captivating account of a little-known chapter of medieval history. Drawing upon extensive research, he tells the story of the Vikings’ early exploration and settlement of the Baltic coast, their wars with neighboring peoples, and their impact on the region’s culture and economy. His vivid descriptions of battles, raids, ...
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    26,22 €

  • Young Japan
    James A.B. Scherer
    Young Japan: The Story of the Japanese People, Especially of Their Educational Development offers a fascinating window into the rapidly changing world of Meiji-era Japan. Published in 1905, this book explores the social, cultural, and educational transformations that took place in Japan during this period. Scherer’s lively and engaging narrative captures the spirit of an exciti...
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    27,04 €


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