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The field of anthropology took a long time to discover the significance of media in modern culture. In this important new book, Anna Pertierra tells the story of how a field - once firmly associated with the study of esoteric cultures - became a central part of the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-01-16
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Our daily lives, our culture and our politics are now shaped by the digital condition as large numbers of people involve themselves in contentious negotiations of meaning in ever more dimensions of life, from the trivial to the profound. They are making use of the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-01-16
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How is it possible to feel an affinity with a place? What is happening when someone feels almost literally transported to another time by a smell or a texture or a song? Why do striking family resemblances sometimes feel uncanny? In each of these cases a potent...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-01-16
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In recent years, there has been substantial progress on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights in the United States. We are now, though, in a time of incredible political uncertainty for queer people. LGBTQ Social Movements provides an...
Editeur :
Polity
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2018-01-16
Collection :
Social Movements
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This volume features bioarchaeological research that interrogates the human skeleton in concert with material culture, ethnographic data and archival research.This approach provides examples of how these intersections of inquiry can be used to consider the larger social...
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Springer
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2018-01-16
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Life for too many African American men is a battle with extreme disadvantage, a fight for survival, and a struggle for dignity in a society which labels them a "problem." For more than 30 years, most of the effort put toward addressing the crisis of Black men has...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-01-16
Collection :
Debating Race
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This book approaches Australo-German relations from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives. It maps new pathways into the rich landscape of the Australo-German transnational encounter, which is characterized by dense and interwoven cultural, historical and...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-01-12
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This book focuses on various concepts of space and their historical evolution. In particular, it examines the variations that have modified the notions of place, orientation, distance, vacuum, limit, bound and boundary, form and figure, continuity and contingence, in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-01-11
Collection :
Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
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The book aims to revitalise the interdisciplinary debate about evolutionary ethics and substantiate the idea that evolution science can provide a rational and robust framework for understanding morality. It also traces pathways for knowledge-based choices to be made...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-01-10
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The book provides a systematic review of research results on regional economic competitiveness, and constructs an evaluation index system based on nine key aspects: the development of a micro-economy; industrial development; enterprise strength; the sciences; education;...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-01-09
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This book provides a framework for approaching ethical and policy dilemmas in research with human subjects from the perspective of trust. It explains how trust is important not only between investigators and subjects but also between and among other stakeholders...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-01-09
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In this fully revised and updated second edition of An Anthropology of Biomedicine, authors Lock and Nguyen introduce biomedicine from an anthropological perspective, exploring the entanglement of material bodies with history, environment, culture, and politics. Drawing...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-01-09
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Studies of race and media are dominated by textual approaches that explore the politics of representation. But there is little understanding of how and why representations of race in the media take the shape that they do. How, one might ask, is race created by cultural...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-01-08
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Manage your own revision with step-by-step support from experienced teacher and examiner Steve Chapman. Use a selection of examples activities to improve your understanding of sociological concepts. Apply sociological terms accurately with the help of definitions and...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2018-01-08
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The book addresses urban transformations towards sustainability in light of challenges of global urbanization processes and the consequences of global environmental change.The aim is to show that urban transformations only succeed if both innovative scientific solutions...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-01-08
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This volume is a unique collection of philosophical essays on various aspects of Schopenhauer's understanding of the nature and character of the world through the classical philosophies of the Vedanta and Buddhism and classical and modern thinkers like Bhart?hari,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-01-05
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Grazie all’usanza della sepoltura a enchytrismos degli infanti, frequentissima a Pithecusa dagli inizi dell’insediamento greco fino ai primi decenni del VI sec. a.C., gli scavi nella necropoli hanno fornito abbondante materiale per la conoscenza delle anfore...
Editeur :
Publications du Centre Jean Bérard
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2018-01-04
Collection :
Cahiers du Centre Jean Bérard
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This book presents an in-depth critical analysis of the internationally recognized, place-specific works of three Iranian architects (Nader Ardalan, Kamran Diba and Hossein Amanat) during the 60s and 70s, and their significant contribution to the emerging anti-modernist...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-01-02
Collection :
The Urban Book Series
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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the municipal incorporation activity in the United States over the last several decades and the geographic consequences of the incorporation of new cities. It aims to explore new municipalities and to develop a better...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-01-02
Collection :
The Urban Book Series
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This book discusses pedagogical solutions that enable students to see how capitalist processes and economic inequalities intersect and shape our assumptions and behaviours. The contributors provide thoughtful reflections on the struggles and opportunities instructors...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-01-02
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