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  • 1
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    Long Beach, CA : Western States Folklore Society | Berkeley : University of California Press | Los Angeles, Calif. : California Folklore Society ; 6.1947 -
    ISSN: 2325-811X , 0043-373x
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Dates of Publication: 6.1947 -
    Additional Information: In Literature online
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Western folklore
    Former Title: Vorg.: California folklore quarterly
    DDC: 390
    Keywords: Volkskultur ; USA Weststaaten ; Zeitschrift ; Zeitschrift ; Elektronische Publikation ; Zeitschrift ; Zeitschrift ; USA Weststaaten ; Volkskultur ; Zeitschrift ; Elektronische Publikation
    Note: Herausgebendes Organ 1947-[?]: California Folklore Society , Gesehen am 14.04.2020
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520930207 , 1417525746 , 9780520930209 , 9781417525744
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 284 pages)
    Series Statement: California series in public anthropology 6
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    DDC: 947.5/2
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    Keywords: Civil War (Chechni͡a / 1994- ) ; HISTORY. ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural ; Social aspects ; HUMAN RIGHTS IN ARMED CONFLICTS. ; POLITICAL VIOLENCE. ; ETHNIC CONFLICT. ; POLITICAL CONDITIONS. ; WAR VICTIMS. ; CHECHNYA (RUSSIAN FEDERATION) ; RUSSIAN FEDERATION. ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Lebensbedingungen ; Zweiter Tschetschenienkrieg ; Gesellschaft ; Krieg ; Kultur ; Tschetschenien ; Zweiter Tschetschenienkrieg ; Gesellschaft ; Kultur ; Tschetschenien ; Krieg ; Lebensbedingungen
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-267) and index , This is an illumination of one of the world's most troubled regions from a unique perspective - that of a prominent Russian intellectual. Valery Tishkov examines the evolution of the war in Chechnya that erupted in 1994, untangling the myths and the long-held resentments that have fueled the crisis
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511489785
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 289 pages)
    DDC: 306.7/0285/4678
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    Keywords: Internet ; Zweierbeziehung ; Gefühl ; Sexualität
    Abstract: Computers have changed not just the way we work but the way we love. Falling in and out of love, flirting, cheating, even having sex online have all become part of the modern way of living and loving. Yet we know very little about these new types of relationship. How is an online affair where the two people involved may never see or meet each other different from an affair in the real world? Is online sex still cheating on your partner? Why do people tell complete strangers their most intimate secrets? What are the rules of engagement? Will online affairs change the monogamous nature of romantic relationships? These are just some of the questions Professor Aaron Ben Ze'ev, distinguished writer and academic, addresses in this book, a full-length study of love online. Accessible, shocking, entertaining, enlightening, this book will change the way you look at cyberspace and love forever.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139055574
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 518 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Edition: Online-Ausgabe Cambridge Cambridge University Press March 2008 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The Cambridge history of the Pacific Islanders
    DDC: 995
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Ozeanier ; Ozeanien
    Abstract: This history presents an authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the experiences of Pacific islanders from their first settlement of the islands to the present day. It addresses the question of insularity and explores islanders' experiences thematically, covering such topics as early settlement, contact with Europeans, colonialism, politics, commerce, nuclear testing, tradition, ideology, and the role of women. It incorporates material on the Maori, the Irianese in western New Guinea, the settled immigrant communities in Fiji, New Caledonia and the Hawaiian monarchy and follows migrants to New Zealand, Australia and North America.
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    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781846152818
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 176 pages)
    DDC: 392.1/5/0940902
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    Abstract: 'Rites of passage' is a term and concept more used than considered. Here, for the first time, its implications are applied and tested in the field of medieval studies: medievalists from a range of disciplines consider the various theoretical models - folklorist, anthropological, psychoanalytical - that can be used to analyse cultures of transition in the history and literature of fourteenth-century Europe. Ranging over a wide variety of texts, from chronicles to romances, from priests' manuals to courtesy books, from state records to the writings of Chaucer, Gower and Froissart, the contributors identify and analyse medieval attitudes to the process of change in lifecycle, status, gender and power. A substantive introduction by Miri Rubin draws together the ideas and materials discussed in the book to illustrate the relevance and importance of anthropology to the study of medieval culture. Contributors: JOEL BURDEN, PATRICIA CULLUM, ISABEL DAVIS, JANE GILBERT, SARAH KAY, MARK ORMROD, HELEN PHILLIPS, MIRI RUBIN, SHARON WELLS. NICOLA F. McDONALD is Lecturer in Medieval Literature, W.M ORMROD Professor of Medieval History, University of York.
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    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780748676989
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 176 pages)
    DDC: 302.231
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    Abstract: This book explores how the Internet presents radical ways of organising and producing media that offer political and cultural alternatives, both to ways of doing business and to how we understand the world and our place in it. The book is characterised by in-depth case studies. Topics include the media of new social movements and other radical political organisations (including the far right); websites produced by fans of popular culture; and media dedicated to developing a critical, 'public' journalism. It locates these studies in appropriate theoretical and historical contexts, while remaining accessible to a student audience. Major themes: *The use of the Internet by political groups such as the anti-capitalist and environmental movements, as well as the far right *Radical forms of creativity and distribution: the anti-copyright and sampling/file-sharing movements, and their role as cultural critics in a corporate world *The development and maintenance of a global, 'digital public sphere' of protest through such practices as 'hacktivism' *The use of new media technologies to transform existing media forms and practices, such as news media and Internet radio. This is the first book devoted entirely to 'alternative' ways of political organisation and cultural production on the Internet. The author is one of the leading international experts in the study of alternative media, and this book is an authoritative guide to all aspects of these phenomena: the cultural, the political, the economic and the social. The range of topics covered will make it an attractive text for a wide range of media and cultural studies and computing courses.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511606793
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 217 pages)
    Series Statement: New perspectives on anthropological and social demography 3
    DDC: 304.6
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    Abstract: Two distinctive approaches to the study of human demography exist within anthropology today: anthropological demography and human evolutionary ecology. The first stresses the role of culture in determining population parameters, while the second posits that demographic rates reflect adaptive behaviors that are the products of natural selection. Both sub-disciplines have achieved notable successes, but each has ignored and been actively disdainful of the other. This text attempts a rapprochement of anthropological demography and human evolutionary ecology through recognition of common research topics and the construction of a broad theoretical framework incorporating both cultural and biological motivation. Both these approaches are utilized to search for demographic strategies in varied cultural and temporal contexts ranging from African pastoralists through North American post-industrial societies. As such this book is relevant to cultural and biological anthropologists, demographers, sociologists, and historians.
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  • 8
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511165862 , 0511184220 , 0511616317 , 0511164734 , 9780511184222 , 9780511616310 , 9780511164736 , 9780511165863
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 228 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New departures in anthropology
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Stewart, Pamela J Witchcraft, sorcery, rumors, and gossip
    DDC: 133.4/3
    Keywords: Witchcraft Cross-cultural studies ; Gossip Cross-cultural studies ; Social conflict Cross-cultural studies ; Violence Cross-cultural studies ; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT ; Magick Studies ; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT ; Witchcraft & Wicca ; Gossip ; Social conflict ; Violence ; Witchcraft ; Hexerei ; Kulturvergleich ; Klatsch ; Hekserij ; Tovenarij ; Roddelen ; Geruchten ; Cross-cultural studies
    Abstract: "This book combines two classic topics in social anthropology in a new synthesis: the study of witchcraft and sorcery and the study of rumors and gossip. It does so in two ways. First, it shows how rumor and gossip are invariably important as catalysts for accusations of witchcraft and sorcery. Second, it demonstrates the role of rumor and gossip in the genesis of social and political violence, as in the case of both peasant rebellions and witch-hunts. Examples supporting the argument are drawn from Africa, Europe, India, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Sri Lanka. They include discussions of witchcraft trials in England and Scotland in the seventeenth century, witch-hunts and vampire narratives in colonial and contemporary Africa, millenarian movements in New Guinea, the Indian Mutiny in nineteenth-century Uttar Pradesh, and rumors of construction sacrifice in Indonesia."--Jacket
    Abstract: Witchcraft and sorcery: modes of analysis -- Rumor and gossip: an overview -- Africa -- India -- New Guinea -- European and American witchcraft -- Rumors and violence -- Conclusions: conflict and cohesion.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-216) and index
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  • 9
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511499401
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 375 pages)
    DDC: 305.5/12
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    Keywords: Bibliografie ; Bibliografie
    Abstract: This book presents a systematic study of social stratification processes in urban China, from 1949 to 1994. Based on the life histories of a sample of urban residents from 20 Chinese cities, this book addresses two themes: (1) the interplay between redistribution and social stratification under state socialism in urban China, especially the impact of the state and state policies on individual life chances, in such areas as education, labor force participation, promotion in organizations, and the distribution of manifest and latent economic benefits; (2) an assessment of sources and extent of China's economic transformation since the 1980s. The author blends sociological analysis and sensitivity to the historical context in interpreting changes and continuity in the 45-year history of state socialist China. This is a comprehensive and rigorous study of social stratification in China.
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  • 10
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 1108585450 , 9781108585453
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 343 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Chandra, Kanchan, 1971- Why ethnic parties succeed
    DDC: 306.2/6/0954
    Keywords: Political parties ; Minorities Political activity ; Patronage, Political ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Ethnic relations ; Political aspects ; Minorities ; Political activity ; Patronage, Political ; Political parties ; Ethnizität ; Partei ; India Ethnic relations ; Political aspects ; India ; Indien
    Abstract: Limited information and ethnic categorization -- Patronage-democracy, limited information, and ethnic favouritism -- Counting heads : why ethnic parties succeed in patronage-democracies -- Why parties have different head counts : party organization and elite incorporation -- India as a patronage-democracy -- The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Scheduled Castes (SCs) -- Why SC elites join the BSP -- Why SC voters prefer the BSP -- Why SC voter preferences translate into BSP votes -- Explaining different head counts in the BSP and Congress -- Extending the argument to other ethnic parties in India : The BJP, The DMK, and the JMM -- Ethnic head counts and democratic stability.
    Abstract: Why do some ethnic parties succeed in attracting the support of their target ethnic group while others fail? In a world in which ethnic parties flourish in both established and emerging democracies alike, understanding the conditions under which such parties rise and fall is of critical importance to both political scientists and policy makers. Drawing on a study of variation in the performance of ethnic parties in India, this book builds a theory of ethnic party performance in 'patronage democracies'. Chandra shows why individual voters and political entrepreneurs in such democracies condition their strategies not on party ideologies or policy platforms, but on a headcount of co-ethnics and others across party personnel and among the electorate
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-335) and index
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511808302
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 389 pages)
    Series Statement: The Jacobs Foundation Series on Adolescence
    DDC: 302
    Abstract: Our volume examines the potential for change during the life course and across generations. We address the possibilities for promoting healthy development from infancy to adulthood in three key domains: human capital, partnership behavior, and child and adolescent development. Drawing from the disciplines of economics, demography, sociology, psychology, and psychiatry, our volume takes a multidisciplinary approach to review relevant empirical work regarding aspects of change and continuity, and the ways in which policies and programs might bring about change. We feature chapters from leading researchers in five countries to address these important issues. The main purpose of our volume is to link and integrate the lessons learned from multiple disciplines about change and continuity in order to examine how our nations can improve life chances.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511805554
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 368 pages)
    Edition: Second edition.
    Series Statement: Studies in environment and history
    DDC: 302.4
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    Abstract: People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world - North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain; in many cases they were a matter of firearms against spears. But, as Alfred Crosby maintains in this highly original and fascinating book, the Europeans' displacement and replacement of the native peoples in the temperate zones was more a matter of biology than of military conquest. European organisms had certain decisive advantages over their New World and Australian counterparts. The spread of European disease, flora, and fauna went hand in hand with the growth of populations. Consequently, these imperialists became proprietors of the world's most important agricultural lands. Now in a second edition with a new preface, Crosby revisits his now-classic work and again evaluates the global historical importance of European ecological expansion.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511606762
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 345 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in landscape ecology
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    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The establishment of ecological networks in Europe and greenways in America has required some of the most advanced applications of the principles of landscape ecology to land use planning. This book provides a thorough overview of recent developments in this emerging field, combining theoretical concepts of landscape ecology with the actual practice of landscape planning and management. In addition to biological and physical considerations important to biodiversity protection and restoration, equal weight is given to cultural and aesthetic issues to illustrate how sympathetic, sustainable land use policies can be implemented. Examples are given for large scale areas (Estonia and Florida) as well as regional areas such as Milano, Chicago and the Argentinian Yungas. This invaluable book will provide a wealth of information for all those concerned with biodiversity conservation through networks and greenways and their relevance to the planning process, whether researcher, land manager or policy maker.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511815447 , 0511037856
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Structural analysis in the social sciences 19
    DDC: 302.4
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    Keywords: Soziales Kapital ; Theorie ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Sozialstruktur ; Soziales Handeln ; Sozialkompetenz
    Abstract: In Social Capital, Nan Lin explains the importance of using social connections and social relations in achieving goals. Social capital, or resources accessed through such connections and relations, is critical (along with human capital, or what a person or organization actually possesses) to individuals, social groups, organizations, and communities in obtaining their objectives. This book places social capital in the family of capital theories (the classical and neo-capital theories), articulates its elements and propositions, presents research programs, findings, and agenda, and theorizes its significance in various moments of interactions between individual actions and social structure (for example, the primordial groups, social exchanges, organizations, institutional transformations and cybernetworks). Nan Lin eloquently introduces a groundbreaking theory that forcefully argues and shows why it is 'who you know', as well as 'what you know' that makes a difference in life and society.
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    Singapore : International Institute for Asian Studies | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789812305879
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 325 pages)
    DDC: 303.482504
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    Keywords: Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: The book presents a unique combination of the study of contemporary and historical practices between Asia and Europe and brings forth some of the latest thinking on the subject. Recent debates have centered primarily on contemporary aspects of the Europe-Asia partnership in terms of international relations and economic linkages. The present volume complements this political and economic interest in Europe-Asia relationship by focusing on the academic, social and cultural connections between the two regions. The contributions in this volume have a contemporary focus but contextualize the themes within a historical perspective. They deal with academic discourses on the region, on modernity and entrepreneurship; they discuss the long-term exchange of knowledge in specific scientific fields; and they focus on the cultural interconnections in the area of film, literature and migration. The originality of this book lies in its interdisciplinary approach to the question of Asia-Europe and in its emphasis on the multifaceted complexity of the relationship between these two regions. It brings together the diversity of local histories, ideas, and agencies in both Europe and Asia into a universal project of knowledge formation in order to reveal their contribution to the making of the world we are in. Contributors: Syed Farid Alatas, Gregory Clancey, John Kleinen, Van Nguyen-Marshall, Henk Schulte Nordholt, Paravin J. Patel, Maurizio Peleggi, Satish Saberwal, Vineeta Sinha...
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520937468
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (303 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 304.8/73/00922
    Keywords: Einwanderung ; USA ; Erlebnisbericht
    Abstract: A Korean street child is adopted into an upper-middle-class suburban home. A Vietnamese monk dishes up fast food to fund a spiritual center. A woman saves for a home back in Ghana, where she will never live. All are immigrants to the United States, known to most of their fellow Americans only as statistics.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520937178
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (259 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 780.89
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    Keywords: Musikethnologie ; Weltmusik ; Ensemble ; Volksmusikgruppe ; Musikerziehung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Performing Ethnomusicology is the first book to deal exclusively with creating, teaching, and contextualizing academic world music performing ensembles. Considering the formidable theoretical, ethical, and practical issues that confront ethnomusicologists who direct such ensembles, the sixteen essays in this volume discuss problems of public performance and the pragmatics of pedagogy and learning processes. Their perspectives, drawing upon expertise in Caribbean steelband, Indian, Balinese, Javanese, Philippine, Mexican, Central and West African, Japanese, Chinese, Middle Eastern, and Jewish klezmer ensembles, provide a uniquely informed and many-faceted view of this complicated and rapidly changing landscape. The authors examine the creative and pedagogical negotiations involved in intergenerational and intercultural transmission and explore topics such as reflexivity, representation, hegemony, and aesthetically determined interaction. Performing Ethnomusicology affords sophisticated insights into the structuring of ethnomusicologists' careers and methodologies. This book offers an unprecedented rich history and contemporary examination of academic world music performance in the West, especially in the United States. "Performing Ethnomusicology is an important book not only within the field of ethnomusicology itself, but for scholars in all disciplines engaged in aspects of performance-historical musicology, anthropology, folklore, and cultural studies. The individual articles offer a provocative and disparate array of threads and themes, which Solís skillfully weaves together in his introductory essay. A book of great importance and long overdue."-R. Anderson Sutton, author of Calling Back the Spirit Contributors: Gage Averill, Kelly Gross, David Harnish, Mantle Hood, David W. Hughes, Michelle Kisliuk, David Locke, Scott Marcus, Hankus Netsky,...
    Abstract: Ali Jihad Racy, Anne K. Rasmussen, Ted Solís, Hardja Susilo, Sumarsam, Ricardo D. Trimillos, Roger Vetter, J. Lawrence Witzleben.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520929906
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (341 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Berkeley Series in Interdisciplinary Studies of China v.3
    DDC: 379.51
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    Abstract: Throughout the twentieth century, Beijing University (or Beida) has been at the center of China's greatest political and cultural upheavals-from the May Fourth Movement of 1919 to the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s to the tragic events in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Why this should be-how Beida's historical importance has come to transcend that of a mere institution of higher learning--is a question at the heart of this book. A study of intellectuals and political culture during the past century's tumultuous early decades, The Power of Position is the first to focus on Beida, China's oldest and best-known national university. Timothy B. Weston portrays the university as a key locus used by intellectuals to increase their influence in society. Weston analyzes the links between intellectuals' political and cultural commitments and their specific manner of living. He also compares Beijing's intellectual culture with that of the rising metropolis of Shanghai. What emerges is a remarkably nuanced and complex picture of life at China's leading university, especially in the decades leading up to the May Fourth Movement.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520936416
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (292 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.868/7295077311
    Abstract: The Near Northwest Side Story is a fascinating account of transnational migration as survival strategy, one bound up in kin, region, and gender. Gina M. Perez offers an intimate and unvarnished portrait of Puerto Rican life in Chicago and San Sebastian, Puerto Rico - two places connected by a long history of circulating people, ideas, goods, and information.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520937512
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (355 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306/.1
    Abstract: Heaven's Gate, a secretive group of celibate "monks" awaiting pickup by a UFO, captured intense public attention in 1997 when its members committed collective suicide. As a way of understanding such perplexing events, many have seen those who join cults as needy, lost souls, unable to think for themselves.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520937758 , 0520937759 , 0520238532 , 9780520238534 , 0520240979 , 9780520240971 , 1597349607 , 9781597349604
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xv, 195 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Partner, Simon Toshié
    DDC: 306.85209520904
    Keywords: Sakaue, Toshié 1925- ; Sakaue, Toshié 1925- ; Sakaue, Toshié ; Sakaue, Toshi?e 1925- ; Sakaue, Toshié ; Rural families History ; 20th century ; Japan ; Villages History ; 20th century ; Japan ; Familles rurales Histoire ; 20e siècle ; Japon ; Villages Histoire ; 20e siècle ; Japon ; Villages History 20th century ; Rural families History 20th century ; Dagelijks leven ; Gezin ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Alternative Family ; Villages ; Platteland ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Reference ; Rural conditions ; Rural families ; History ; Social conditions ; Japan Rural conditions ; 20th century ; Yokogoshi-mura (Japan) Social conditions ; 20th century ; Japon Conditions rurales ; 20e siècle ; Yokogoshi (Japon) Conditions sociales ; 20e siècle ; Yokogoshi-mura (Japan) Social conditions 20th century ; Japan Rural conditions 20th century ; History ; Japan Rural conditions 20th century ; Japan ; Yokogoshi-mura ; Japan ; Electronic books Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Sakaue Toshie was born on August 14, 1925, into a family of tenant farmers and day laborers in the hamlet of Kosugi. The world she entered was one of hard labor, poverty, dirt, disease, and frequent early death. By the 1970s, that rural world had changed almost beyond recognition
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    Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789812305312
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 251 pages)
    DDC: 305.8951059
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    Keywords: Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: Ethnic/racial relations have been a perennial theme in Southeast Asian studies. Current events have highlighted the tensions among ethnicgroups and the need to maintain ethnic/racial harmony for national unity. This book analyses ethnic/race relations in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia, with special reference to the roles of ethnic Chinese in nation-building. It brings together a group of established Southeast Asian scholars to critically examine some of the important issues such as ethnic politics, nation-building, state policies, and conflict resolution. These scholars of different ethnic origins present their own ethnic perspectives and hence make the book unique. This is the most up-to-date book on ethnic/racial relations with special reference to the ethnic Chinese in three Southeast Asian countries.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511231792 , 0511316895 , 9780511231797 , 9780511316890
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 298 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Elster, Jon, 1940- Closing the books
    DDC: 303.6/6
    Keywords: Political crimes and offenses ; Justice, Administration of Political aspects ; Ex post facto laws ; Revolutions ; Restorative justice ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Peace ; Ex post facto laws ; Justice, Administration of ; Political aspects ; Political crimes and offenses ; Restorative justice ; Revolutions ; Overgangsrecht ; Politieke verandering ; Revoluties ; Rechtspleging ; Electronic books
    Abstract: An analysis of transitional justice - retribution and reparation after a change of political regime - from Athens in the fifth century BC to the present. The book describes the universe of cases, and proposes a framework for explaining the variations among them
    Abstract: The Universe of Transitional Justice -- Athens in 411 and 403 BC -- The French restorations in 1814 and 1815 -- The larger universe of cases -- Analytics of Transitional Justice -- The structure of transitional justice -- Wrongdoers -- Victims -- Constraints -- Emotions -- Politics.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-287) and index
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
    ISBN: 0520238532 , 9780520238534 , 0520240979 , 9780520240971
    Language: English
    DDC: 306.85/2/09520904
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-187) and index
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    Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789812305886
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (216 pages)
    DDC: 303.48/2405
    Abstract: The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), officially established in 1996, is an inter-regional forum consisting of the 15 member states of the European Union and the European Commission, 7 member of the 10 states of ASEAN and China, Japan and South Korea. In this important volume academics from Asia and Europe examine the level of engagement between both continents and highlight how the ASEM process has been conducive in enhancing the political, economic and cultural ties between the various Asian and European countries. They address questions such as: how does the euro fit in the developing East Asian monetary cooperation; how does ASEM influence the process of East Asian identity building and what is the ASEM factor in the formulation of the new foreign policy of China? ASEM is wrongly a little known process because it plays a key role in formulating the emerging multilateralist world order of the 21st century.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511818134
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 297 pages)
    DDC: 306.81/09
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    Abstract: This book argues that a unique late marriage pattern, discovered in the 1960s but originating in the Middle Ages, explains the continuing puzzle of why western Europe was the site of changes that, from about 1500, gave rise to the modern world. Contrary to views that credit upheavals from the late eighteenth century were reponsible for ushering in the contemporary global era, it contends that the roots of modern developments themselves are located in an event more than a millennium earlier, when the peasants in northwestern Europe began to marry their daughters almost as late as their sons. The appearance of this late marriage system, with its unstable nuclear household form, will also be shown to have exposed for the first time the common ingredients whose presence has perpetuated beliefs in the importance of gender difference and of a sexual hierarchy favoring males.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 052183984X , 0521548721
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xv, 329 p) , ill., maps , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social theory, religion, and politics
    Parallel Title: Print version Sacred and Secular : Religion and Politics Worldwide
    DDC: 306.6
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    Keywords: Religion and politics
    Abstract: Sacred and Secular examines the validity of the secularization thesis, developing a theory of secularization and existential security. It is essential reading for anyone interested in comparative religion, sociology, public opinion, political behavior, political development, social psychology, international relations, and cultural change
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Figures; Preface and Acknowledgments; SACRED AND SECULAR; PART I Understanding Secularization; PART II Case Studies of Religion and Politics; PART III The Consequences of Secularization; CONCLUSIONS; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Notes; Bibliography; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-313) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511510458
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 293 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
    Uniform Title: Electoral competition and ethnic riots in India
    DDC: 303.6208900954
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    Abstract: Why do ethnic riots break out when and where they do? Why do some governments try to prevent ethnic riots while others do nothing or even participate in the violence? In this book, Steven I. Wilkinson uses collected data on Hindu-Muslim riots, socio-economic factors and competitive politics in India to test his theory that riots are fomented in order to win elections and that governments decide whether to stop them or not based on the likely electoral cost of doing so. He finds that electoral factors account for most of the state-level variation in Hindu-Muslim riots: explaining for example why riots took place in Gujarat in 2002 but not in many other states where militants tried to foment violence. The general electoral theory he develops for India is extended to Ireland, Malaysia and Romania as Wilkinson shows that similar political factors motivate ethnic violence in many different countries.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511819339
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 265 pages)
    DDC: 302.23
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    Keywords: Einführung ; Einführung
    Abstract: What is happening to public debate in Western cultures? Is our public sphere disintegrating? In the face of popular tabloid newspapers, new forms of reality television and an increasing lack of respect for traditional authorities, many critics are concerned that our society no longer has a rational, informed and unified space where everyone can communicate about the issues that affect us all. In this book Alan McKee answers these questions by providing an introduction to the concept of the public sphere, the history of the term and the philosophical arguments about its function. By drawing on many examples from contemporary mediated culture, McKee looks at how we communicate with each other in public - and how we decide whether changing forms of communication are a good thing for the 'public sphere'.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520231902
    Language: English
    Pages: XIX, 266 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    DDC: 306.364
    Abstract: "Beginning with the Clovis Paleoindians who hunted mammoths and other large mammals more than 11,000 years ago, Frison proceeds to discuss successive cultures and their prey - bison, mountain sheep, pronghorn, deer, elk, and, to a lesser extent, horse and camel. Surveying many archaeological sites and artifacts, he covers topics such as animal behavior, weapons, tools for butchering, how the introduction of the horse changed hunting, and how the landscape was used to create bison jumps and sheep traps. Frison has personally tested many of these tools and techniques in the field, and he describes the results of those tests here. This book will lead to a better understanding of the complex hunting strategies used by prehistoric peoples of the American West and a better appreciation of their vanished cultures."--BOOK JACKET
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511481291
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 183 pages)
    DDC: 303.6
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    Abstract: This fascinating and provocative 2005 book will change the way you think about democracy. Challenging conventional wisdom, Daniel Ross shows how from its origins and into its globalized future, violence is an integral part of the democratic system. He draws on the examples of global terrorism and security, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the relation of colonial powers to indigenous populations, and the treatment of asylum seekers. His analysis of these controversial issues moves beyond the comfortable stances of both left and right to show that democracy is violent, from its beginning and at its heart.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511999062
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 363 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge companions to culture
    DDC: 941.508
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-2000 ; Kultur ; Irland ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This Companion provides an authoritative introduction to the historical, social and stylistic complexities of modern Irish culture. Readers will be introduced to Irish culture in its widest sense and helped to find their way through the cultural and theoretical debates that inform our understanding of modern Ireland. The volume combines cultural breadth and historical depth, supported by a chronology of Irish history and arts. A wide selection of essays on a rich variety of Irish cultural forms and practices are complemented by a series of in-depth analyses of key themes in Irish cultural politics. The range of topics covered will enable a comprehensive understanding of Irish culture, while the authors gathered here - all acknowledged experts in their fields - provide stimulating essays that together amount to an invaluable guide to the shaping of modern Ireland.
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    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781846152436
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 236 pages)
    DDC: 393
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    Keywords: Geschichte 871-1087 ; Grabstein ; Bestattungsritus ; Vorstellung ; Tod ; Ritual ; Sterben ; Brauch ; Trauerritual ; Jüngstes Gericht ; England
    Abstract: Pre-Conquest attitudes towards the dying and the dead have major implications for every aspect of culture, society and religion of the Anglo-Saxon period; but death-bed and funerary practices have been comparatively and unjustly neglected by historical scholarship. In her wide-ranging analysis, Dr Thompson examines such practices in the context of confessional and penitential literature, wills, poetry, chronicles and homilies, to show that complex and ambiguous ideas about death were current at all levels of Anglo-Saxon society. Her study also takes in grave monuments, showing in particular how the Anglo-Scandinavian sculpture of the ninth to the eleventh centuries may indicate not only the status, but also the religious and cultural alignment of those who commissioned and made them. VICTORIA THOMPSON undertook her postgraduate work in English and Medieval Studies at the University of York and currently lectures in medieval history for New York University's London Program.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520930964
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (206 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 303.482
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    Keywords: Globalisierung ; Kultur ; Bildung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Globalization defines our era. While it has created a great deal of debate in economic, policy, and grassroots circles, many aspects of the phenomenon remain virtual terra incognita. Education is at the heart of this continent of the unknown. This pathbreaking book examines how globalization and large-scale immigration are affecting children and youth, both in and out of schools. Taking into consideration broad historical, cultural, technological, and demographic changes, the contributors-all leading social scientists in their fields-suggest that these global transformations will require youth to develop new skills, sensibilities, and habits of mind that are far ahead of what most educational systems can now deliver. Drawing from comparative and interdisciplinary materials, the authors examine the complex psychological, sociocultural, and historical implications of globalization for children and youth growing up today. The book explores why new and broader global visions are needed to educate children and youth to be informed, engaged, and critical citizens in the new millennium. Published in association with the Ross Institute.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520922938
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (461 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Life Passages v.3
    DDC: 306.9
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    Abstract: How do our ideas about dying influence the way we live? Life has often been envisioned as a journey, the river of time carrying us inexorably toward the unknown country-and in our day we increasingly turn to myth and magic, ritual and virtual reality, cloning and cryostasis in the hope of eluding the reality of the inevitable end. In this book a preeminent and eminently wise writer on death and dying proposes a new way of understanding our last transition. A fresh exploration of the final passage through life and perhaps through death, his work deftly interweaves historical and contemporary experiences and reflections to demonstrate that we are always on our way. Drawing on a remarkable range of observations-from psychology, anthropology, religion, biology, and personal experience-Robert Kastenbaum re-envisions life's forward-looking progress, from early-childhood bedtime rituals to the many small rehearsals we stage for our final separation. Along the way he illuminates such moments and ideas as becoming a "corpsed person," going down to earth or up in flames, respecting or abusing (and eating) the dead, coping with "too many dead," conceiving and achieving a "good death," undertaking the journey of the dead, and learning to live through the scrimmage of daily life fully knowing that Eternity does not really come in a designer flask. Profound, insightful, often moving, this look at death as many cultures await it or approach it enriches our understanding of life as a never-ending passage.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
    ISBN: 9780520930209 , 0520930207 , 1417525746 , 9781417525744 , 9780520238879 , 0520238877 , 9780520238886 , 0520238885
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 284 pages) , map
    Series Statement: California series in public anthropology 6
    DDC: 947.5/2
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    Abstract: This is an illumination of one of the world's most troubled regions from a unique perspective - that of a prominent Russian intellectual. Valery Tishkov examines the evolution of the war in Chechnya that erupted in 1994, untangling the myths and the long-held resentments that have fueled the crisis.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
    ISBN: 9780520931855 , 0520931858 , 159734723X , 9781597347235
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 334 pages) , maps
    DDC: 001.94
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    Abstract: During the nineteenth century, Lemuria was imagined as a land that once bridged India and Africa but disappeared into the ocean millennia ago, much like Atlantis. A sustained meditation on a lost place from a lost time, this elegantly written book is the first to explore Lemuria's incarnations across cultures, from Victorian-era science to Euro-American occultism to colonial and postcolonial India. The Lost Land of Lemuria widens into a provocative exploration of the poetics and politics of loss to consider how this sentiment manifests itself in a fascination with vanished homelands, hidden ci.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511185499 , 0511184662 , 9780511185496 , 9780511184666
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 290 pages) , maps
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Lodge, R. Anthony Sociolinguistic history of Parisian French
    DDC: 306.44/0944/361
    Keywords: French language Social aspects ; French language Dialects ; French language Variation ; Speech and social status ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Linguistics ; Sociolinguistics ; French language ; Dialects ; French language ; Social aspects ; French language ; Variation ; Manners and customs ; Speech and social status ; Frans ; Français (Langue) ; Aspect social ; Sociolinguistique ; Variation de langage ; Langage ; Statut social ; Coutume sociale ; Electronic books ; Paris (France) Social life and customs ; France ; Paris ; Paris (France) ; Electronic book
    Abstract: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Maps; Tables; Figures; Acknowledgments; Phonetic symbols; Part 1 Preliminaries; Part 2 The pre-industrial city; Part 3 The proto-industrial city; Part 4 The industrial city; Conclusion; Appendix. Literary imitations of low-class speech; Bibliography; Index.
    Abstract: This book explores the interlinked history of Parisian speech and its speakers during various phases of in-migration, dialect-mixing and social stratification from the middle ages to the present. It tracks the emergence of specifically urban modes of speech, including the working-class vernacular of recent times
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520930964 , 9781597346351 , 0520929136 , 9780520929135 , 0520930967 , 1417525460 , 9781417525461 , 0520241231 , 9780520241237 , 0520241258 , 9780520241251 , 1597346357
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 275 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Globalization
    DDC: 303.482
    Keywords: Globalization ; Education ; Culture ; Electronic books ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Globalization ; EDUCATION ; General ; Culture ; Education ; Globalization ; EDUCATION ; CULTURE ; GLOBALIZATION ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Globalization defines our era. While it has created a great deal of debate in economic, policy, and grassroots circles, many aspects of the phenomenon remain virtual terra incognita. Education is at the heart of this continent of the unknown. This pathbreaking book examines how globalization and large-scale immigration are affecting children and youth, both in and out of schools
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520238745 , 0520238311
    Language: English
    Pages: vii, 322 p
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    DDC: 780/.89
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    Keywords: Ethnomusicology ; World music Instruction and study ; Folk music groups ; Weltmusik ; Volksmusikgruppe ; Ensemble ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Weltmusik ; Ensemble ; Volksmusikgruppe
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520930490
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (276 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 781.24095982
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    Keywords: Gamelan ; Zentraljava
    Abstract: The gamelan music of Central Java is one of the world's great orchestral traditions. Its rich sonic texture is not based on Western-style harmony or counterpoint, but revolves around a single melody. The nature of that melody, however, is puzzling. In this book, Marc Perlman uses this puzzle as a key to both the art of the gamelan and the nature of musical knowledge in general. Some Javanese musicians have suggested that the gamelan's central melody is inaudible, an implicit or "inner" melody. Yet even musicians who agree on its existence may disagree about its shape. Drawing on the insights of Java's most respected musicians, Perlman shows how irregularities in the relationships between the melodic parts have suggested the existence of "unplayed melodies." To clarify the differences between these implicit-melody concepts, Unplayed Melodies tells the stories behind their formulation, identifying each as the creative contribution of an individual musician in a postcolonial context (sometimes in response to Western ethnomusicological theories). But these stories also contain evidence of the general cognitive processes through which musicians find new ways to conceptualize their music. Perlman's inquiry into these processes illuminates not only the gamelan's polyphonic art, but also the very sources of creative thinking about music.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520936874 , 0520936876 , 1417522593 , 9781417522590
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 275 p.)
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    Parallel Title: Print version Taking back the streets
    DDC: 303.484098
    Keywords: Women Political activity ; Chile ; Women Political activity ; Argentina ; Women Political activity ; Spain ; Youth Political activity ; Chile ; Youth Political activity ; Argentina ; Youth Political activity ; Spain ; Protest movements Chile ; Protest movements Argentina ; Protest movements Spain ; Argentina ; Chile ; Spain ; Women Political activity ; Women Political activity ; Women Political activity ; Youth Political activity ; Youth Political activity ; Youth Political activity ; Protest movements ; Protest movements ; Protest movements ; Youth Political activity ; Youth Political activity ; Youth Political activity ; Protest movements ; Protest movements ; Protest movements ; Women Political activity ; Women Political activity ; Women Political activity ; Women ; Political activity ; Youth ; Political activity ; Gender Studies & Sexuality ; Gender & Ethnic Studies ; Social Sciences ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Protest movements ; Argentina ; Chile ; Spain ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Taking back the streets -- Staying alive through struggle -- Pots and pans will break my bones -- Democracy in the country and in the streets -- Searching and remembering -- Memory through mobilization -- Youth finds a way -- Demonstrating to remember in Spain -- Mobilizing for democracy.
    Abstract: Toward the end of the twentieth century in places ranging from Latin America and the Caribbean to Europe, the United States, South Africa, Nigeria, Iran, Japan, China, and South Asia, women and young people took to the streets to fight injustices they believed they could not confront in any other way
    Description / Table of Contents: Taking back the streetsStaying alive through struggle -- Pots and pans will break my bones -- Democracy in the country and in the streets -- Searching and remembering -- Memory through mobilization -- Youth finds a way -- Demonstrating to remember in Spain -- Mobilizing for democracy.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | [Ann Arbor, Michigan] : [ProQuest]
    Language: English
    Pages: xx, 311 p. , Ill, maps.
    Series Statement: California series in public anthropology 8
    DDC: 972.8105/2
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520231900 , 9780520927964
    Language: English
    Pages: xix, 266 p.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.3/64
    Keywords: Hunting, Prehistoric ; Paleo-Indians Hunting ; Hunting and gathering societies ; Indianer ; Paläoethnologie ; Jagd ; USA Weststaaten ; USA Weststaaten ; Indianer ; Jagd ; Paläoethnologie
    Description / Table of Contents: Where the buffalo once roamed -- The education of a hunter -- Paleoindian hunters and extinct animals -- The North American bison -- The North American pronghorn -- The rocky mountain sheep -- Hunting the deer, elk, and other creatures -- Weaponry and tools used by the hunter -- Concluding thoughts
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511214154 , 0511215940 , 0511817649 , 9780511214158 , 9780511215940 , 9780511817649
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 191 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time 38
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Fogel, Robert William Escape from hunger and premature death, 1700-2100
    DDC: 304.6/4
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    Keywords: Food supply History ; Malnutrition History ; Medical care History ; Mortality History ; Life Expectancy trends ; Diet trends ; Mortality trends ; Socioeconomic Factors ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Demography ; Food supply ; Malnutrition ; Medical care ; Mortality ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Unterernährung ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Ernährungspolitik ; Voeding ; Gezondheid ; Levensverwachting ; History ; Electronic books ; Electronic book
    Abstract: 1. The persistence of misery in Europe before 1900 -- 2. Why the twentieth century was so remarkable -- 3. Tragedies and miracles in the Third World -- 4. Prospects for the twenty-first century -- 5. Problems of equity in health care -- Postscript : how long can we live?
    Abstract: A compelling new study from Nobel laureate Robert Fogel, examining health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries and beyond. It will be essential reading for all those interested in economics, demography, history and health care policy
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    ISBN: 9780520937253
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (260 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 362.583
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    Abstract: What Muscovites get in a soup kitchen run by the Christian Church of Moscow is something far more subtle and complex-if no less necessary and nourishing-than the food that feeds their hunger. In Not by Bread Alone, the first full-length ethnographic study of poverty and social welfare in the postsocialist world, Melissa L. Caldwell focuses on the everyday operations and civil transactions at CCM soup kitchens to reveal the new realities, the enduring features, and the intriguing subtext of social support in Russia today. In an international food aid community, Caldwell explores how Muscovites employ a number of improvisational tactics to satisfy their material needs. She shows how the relationships that develop among members of this community-elderly Muscovite recipients, Russian aid workers, African student volunteers, and North American and European donors and volunteers-provide forms of social support that are highly valued and ultimately far more important than material resources. In Not by Bread Alone we see how the soup kitchens become sites of social stability and refuge for all who interact there-not just those with limited financial means-and how Muscovites articulate definitions of hunger and poverty that depend far more on the extent of one's social contacts than on material factors. By rethinking the ways in which relationships between social and economic practices are theorized-by identifying social relations and social status as Russia's true economic currency-this book challenges prevailing ideas about the role of the state, the nature of poverty and welfare, the feasibility of Western-style reforms, and the primacy of social connections in the daily lives of ordinary people in post-Soviet Russia.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520239776 , 0520242416 , 0520938127 , 141752278X , 9780520239777 , 9780520242418 , 9780520938120 , 9781417522781
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 293 pages)
    Series Statement: California series in public anthropology 10
    DDC: 303.6/6
    Keywords: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace ; Informal sector (Economics) ; War and society ; War / Economic aspects ; Vredesvraagstuk ; Sociale aspecten ; Oorlogen ; Gesellschaft ; War and society ; War Economic aspects ; Informal sector (Economics) ; Überleben ; Schattenwirtschaft ; Gesellschaft ; Alltag ; Krieg ; Krieg ; Alltag ; Überleben ; Krieg ; Gesellschaft ; Krieg ; Schattenwirtschaft
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-282) and index
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511165978 , 0511165382 , 0511616376 , 0511164823 , 9780511165382 , 9780511616372 , 9780511164828 , 9780511165979
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 402 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Chamley, Christophe Rational herds
    DDC: 303.3/2
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    Keywords: Social learning ; Social learning Mathematical models ; Decision making ; Collective behavior ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Collective behavior ; Decision making ; Social learning ; Soziales Lernen ; Kollektives Verhalten ; Mathematisches Modell ; Sociaal leren ; Wiskundige modellen ; Aprendizagem social ; Aprendizagem social (modelos matemáticos) ; Tomada de decisão ; Comportamento coletivo ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- Part I. Social learning : 2. Bayesian tools : The bayesian framework ; Binary and Gaussian information ; Private signals and beliefs ; Martingales -- 3. Social learning with a common memory : A canonical model of social learning ; Efficient learning ; Observation noise ; Extensions -- 4. Cascades and herds : The basic model of herding ; The standard model with bounded beliefs ; The convergence of beliefs ; Herds and the slow convergence of beliefs ; Pricing the informational externality ; Crashes and booms -- 5. Limited memories : The sequential model with sampling ; The welfare-improving principle ; Sampling in a very large population ; Social learning or sampling in a large population? -- 6. Delays : The simplest model ; A general model with heterogeneous beliefs ; Properties -- 7. More delays : The length of a period ; Continuous times ; Buildup of private information ; Observation of payoffs -- 8. Outcomes : Incomplete learning ; The determinant of economic success: luck or effort? ; Complete learning with a diversity of private beliefs -- 9. Networks and diffusion : Optimization and diffusion of innovations ; Learning in networks -- 10. Words : Advice by one expert ; Larger sets of states and messages ; Panel of experts ; The receiver does not make the evaluation -- Part II. Coordination : 11. Guessing to coordinate : Overview ; Eductive stability in a standard market ; Strategic complementarities ; Speculative attacks against a fixed exchange rate -- 12. Learning to coordinate : A distribution with a cluster ; Observation noise -- 13. Delays and payoff externalities : Strategic substitutability ; Strategic complementaries -- Part III. Financial herding : 14.l Sequences of financial trades : Learning in the model of Glosten and Milgrom ; Herds ; Avalanches ; Herding in auctions -- 15. Gaussian financial markets : Actions in the CARA-Gauss model ; Markets ; The convergence of beliefs ; Multiple equilibria, crashes, and booms -- 16. Financial frenzies : Speculative attacks against a fixed exchange rate ; Information delays in financial markets ; The crash of a bubble.
    Abstract: This book is the first in the exciting new field of social learning
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511185944 , 0511185111 , 0511616635 , 9780511185946 , 9780511185113 , 9780511616631
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 300 pages) , illustrations, maps
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Klein, Herbert S Population history of the United States
    DDC: 304.6/0973
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Demography ; Population ; Bevolkingsontwikkeling ; Bevolkingsopbouw ; Demographie ; Bevölkerung ; History ; United States Population ; History ; United States ; USA
    Abstract: Graphs, maps, and tables --Introduction --1.Paleo-Indians, Europeans, and the settlement of America --2.Colonization and settlement of North America --3.The early Republic to 1860 --4.The creation of an industrial and urban society, 1860-1914 --5.The evolution of a modern population, 1914-1945 --6.The baby boom and changing family values, 1945-1980 --7.A modern industrial society, 1980-2003 --Appendix tables, graphs, and maps --Bibliography --Index.
    Abstract: This is the first full-scale one-volume survey of the demographic history of the United States. From the arrival of humans in the Western Hemisphere to the current century, Klein analyzes the basic demographic trends in the growth of the pre-conquest, colonial and national populations. He surveys the origin and distribution of the Native Americans, the post-conquest free and servile European and African colonial populations and the variation in regional patterns of fertility and mortality to 1800. He then explores trends in births, deaths, international and internal migrations in the nineteenth century and compares them with contemporary European developments. The profound impact of historic declines in disease and mortality on the structure of the late twentieth century population is explained. Finally the late twentieth century changes in family structure, fertility and mortality are evaluated for their influence on the evolution of the national population for the 21st century
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520937512 , 0520937511
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xxiv, 329 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Ramji, Rubina Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults, by Janja Lalich. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2004, 353 pp.; 55.00 USD (cloth), 21.95 USD (paper) 2006
    Parallel Title: Print version Bounded choice
    DDC: 306.1
    Keywords: Democratic Workers Party (San Francisco, Calif.) Democratic Workers Party (San Francisco, Calif.) ; Heaven's Gate (Organization) ; Heaven's Gate (Organization) ; Democratic Workers Party (San Francisco, Calif.) ; Democratic Workers Party (San Francisco, Calif.) ; Heaven's Gate (Organization) ; Heaven's Gate (Organization) ; Democratic Workers Party (San Francisco, Calif.) ; Cults Psychology ; Brainwashing ; Cults Psychology ; Brainwashing ; Cults Psychology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Brainwashing ; Cults ; Psychology ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: It is easy to portray the members of cults as vunerable, needy people who cannot think for themselves. In this comparative study of the Heaven's Gate cult and the Democratic Workers Party, Janja Lalich offers a more complex and disturbing assessment of 'cult mentality'
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520237940 , 0520237943 , 9780520237957 , 0520237951 , 9780520937062 , 0520937066 , 141752541X , 9781417525416
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xvii, 271 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Ghozzi, Kamel Engaged Surrender: African American Women and Islam, by Carolyn Moxley Rouse. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004, 271pp.; 50.00 USD (cloth), 19.95 USD (paper) 2005
    Series Statement: George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies
    Parallel Title: Print version Engaged surrender
    DDC: 305.48697073
    Keywords: Muslim women Social conditions ; Muslim women Social conditions ; United States ; African American women Religious life ; United States ; Women in Islam ; Muslim women Social conditions ; Muslim women Social conditions ; African American women Religious life ; African American women Religious life ; Muslim women Social conditions ; Muslim women Social conditions ; Women in Islam ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General ; African American women ; Religious life ; Muslim women ; Social conditions ; Women in Islam ; Electronic books ; United States ; Electronic books Electronic books
    Abstract: Commonly portrayed in the media as holding women in strict subordination and deference to men, Islam is nonetheless attracting numerous converts among African American women. Are these women ""reproducing their oppression, "" as it might seem? Or does their adherence to the religion suggest unsuspected subtleties and complexities in the relation of women, especially black women, to Islam? Carolyn Rouse sought answers to these questions among the women of Sunni Muslim mosques in Los Angeles. Her richly textured study provides rare insight into the meaning of Islam for African American women; in
    Abstract: Engaged surrender -- A community of women : consensus, borders, and resistance praxis -- Gender negotiations and Qur'anic exegesis : one community's reading of Islam and women -- Historical discourses -- Soul food : changing markers of identity through the transition -- Conversion -- Performing gender : marriage, family, and community -- Searching for Islamic purity in and out of secular Los Angeles County.
    Description / Table of Contents: Engaged surrenderA community of women : consensus, borders, and resistance praxis -- Gender negotiations and Qur'anic exegesis : one community's reading of Islam and women -- Historical discourses -- Soul food : changing markers of identity through the transition -- Conversion -- Performing gender : marriage, family, and community -- Searching for Islamic purity in and out of secular Los Angeles County.
    Note: "George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-255) and index. - Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-255) and index
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511185073 , 0511185901 , 9780511185076 , 9780511185908
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 294 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in international relations 95
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Buzan, Barry From international to world society?
    DDC: 303.48/2
    Keywords: Wendt, Alexander ; Globalization Sociological aspects ; International relations ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Globalization ; Globalization ; Sociological aspects ; International relations ; Internationale betrekkingen ; Theorieën ; Internationalisatie ; English school of international relations ; Aspect sociologique ; Mondialisation ; Relations internationales ; Théorie politique ; Electronic books ; Electronic book
    Abstract: Barry Buzan offers a fresh contribution to the English school's tradition of thinking aout the idea of society on a global level. He sets out a new theoretical framework emphasising social structure that can be used to address globalisation as a complex political interplay among state and non-state actors
    Abstract: English school theory and its problems: an overview -- World society in English school theory -- Concepts of world society outside the English school thinking -- Reimagining the English school's triad -- Reconstructing the pluralist-solidarist debate -- The primary institutions of international society -- Bringing geography back in -- Conclusions: a portrait of contemporary interstate society.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511214383 , 0511216173 , 051175602X , 9780511214387 , 9780511216176 , 9780511756023
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (218 pages)
    Series Statement: Contemporary political theory
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Keane, John, 1949- Violence and democracy
    DDC: 303.6
    Keywords: Violence ; Democracy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Violence in Society ; Democracy ; Violence ; Politik ; Gewalt ; Demokratie ; Geweld ; Ethische aspecten ; Democratie ; Violence ; Démocratie ; Éthique
    Abstract: Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: surplus violence; Muskets, terrorists; Thinking violence; Civilisation; Barbarism?; Why violence?; Uncivil wars; Ethics; Ten rules for democratising violence; Further reading; Index.
    Abstract: John Keane offers an original account of the origins of violence, its consequences, its uses and remedies, and the relationship between violence and democracy. Rejecting the view that 'human nature' is violent, Keane shows why mature democracies do not wage war upon each other, and why they are sensitive to violence
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 1417508213
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 292 Seiten) , 23 cm
    Edition: Online_Ausgabe Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2004 E-Books von NetLibrary Sonstige Standardnummer des Gesamttitels: 22382847
    Parallel Title: Reproduktion von Bunzl, Matti Symptoms of modernity
    DDC: 305.892404361309049
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1990-2000 ; Gays - Social conditions - 20th century - Austria ; Jews - Social conditions - 20th century - Austria ; Nationalism - Social aspects - Austria ; Vienna ; Alltag, Brauchtum ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Juden ; Nationalismus ; Gays Social conditions 20th century ; Jews Social conditions 20th century ; Nationalism Social aspects ; Soziale Situation ; Homosexueller ; Juden ; Austria - History - 1955- ; Austria - Social policy ; Vienna (Austria) - Ethnic relations ; Vienna (Austria) - Social life and customs - 20th century ; Wien ; Österreich ; Austria History 1955- ; Austria Social policy ; Vienna (Austria) Ethnic relations ; Vienna (Austria) Social life and customs 20th century ; Wien ; Electronic books ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books History ; Wien ; Juden ; Homosexueller ; Soziale Situation ; Geschichte 1990-2000
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-286) and index
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    ISBN: 1417508213 , 9781417508211 , 9780520937208 , 0520937201
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 292 p , 23 cm
    Edition: Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2004 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary
    Series Statement: EBSCOhost eBook Collection
    Parallel Title: Print version Symptoms of modernity
    DDC: 305.892404361309049
    Keywords: Jews Social conditions 20th century. ; Gays Social conditions 20th century. ; Nationalism Social aspects ; Nationalism Social aspects ; Austria ; Gays Social conditions 20th century ; Nationalism Social aspects ; Jews Social conditions 20th century ; Jews Social conditions ; 20th century ; Austria ; Vienna ; Gays Social conditions ; 20th century ; Austria ; Vienna ; Jews Social conditions 20th century ; Gays Social conditions 20th century ; Nationalism Social aspects ; Jews Social conditions 20th century. ; Gays Social conditions 20th century. ; Nationalism Social aspects ; Jews Social conditions ; 20th ; Austria ; Vienna ; Social Science ; History ; Ethnic relations ; Gays ; Social conditions ; Jews ; Social conditions ; Manners and customs ; Nationalism ; Social aspects ; Social policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; Homosexueller ; Juden ; Soziale Situation ; Vienna (Austria) Ethnic relations. ; Vienna (Austria) Social life and customs 20th century. ; Austria History 1955- ; Austria History 1955- ; Vienna (Austria) Ethnic relations ; Vienna (Austria) Social life and customs ; 20th century ; Austria History ; 1955- ; Austria Social policy ; Austria ; Austria ; Vienna ; Austria Social policy ; Vienna (Austria) Ethnic relations ; Vienna (Austria) Social life and customs 20th century ; Austria Social policy ; Vienna (Austria) Ethnic relations ; Vienna (Austria) Social life and customs 20th century ; Vienna (Austria) Ethnic relations. ; Vienna (Austria) Social life and customs 20th century. ; Austria Social policy. ; Austria Social policy. ; Austria ; Vienna ; Austria ; Wien ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books History ; Wien ; Juden ; Homosexueller ; Soziale Situation ; Geschichte 1990-2000 ; Wien ; Juden ; Homosexueller ; Soziale Situation ; Geschichte 1990-2000
    Abstract: In the 1990s, Vienna's Jews and queers abandoned their clandestine existence and emerged into the city's public sphere in unprecedented numbers. 'Symptoms of Modernity' traces this development in the context of Central European history; Since 1900
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-286) and index , Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2004
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    ISBN: 0511216912 , 0511215126 , 9780511216916 , 9780511215124
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 285 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Devine, Fiona Class practices
    DDC: 305.5/13/09
    Keywords: Employees Recruiting ; Social aspects ; Employees Recruiting ; Social aspects ; Social mobility ; Social mobility ; Parents Social networks ; Parents Social networks ; Education Parent participation ; Education Parent participation ; Social surveys ; Social surveys ; Education ; Parent participation ; Employees ; Recruiting ; Social aspects ; Parents ; Social networks ; Social mobility ; Social surveys ; Sociale klassen ; Sociale mobiliteit ; Ouders ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Social Classes ; Electronic books ; United States ; Great Britain ; Electronic books ; Interview
    Abstract: Material help with education and employment -- Financial choices and sacrifices for children -- Aspirations and ambitions for 'good' jobs -- Hopes, happiness and 'fulfilling potential' -- Luck and contacts in the forging of careers -- Networks and friends in school and beyond.
    Abstract: This is an important new comparative study of social mobility based on qualitative interviews with middle-class parents in America and Britain. It addresses the key issue of the stability of class relations and middle-class reproduction and how parents seek to increase their children's chances of educational success and occupational advancement
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-275) and indexes
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
    ISBN: 9780520937888 , 0520937880 , 1417545186 , 9781417545186
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 263 pages) , Illustrations
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    Keywords: Hispanos ; Minderheit ; Soziale Situation ; Kalifornien
    Abstract: Since late 2001 more than fifty percent of the babies born in California have been Latino. When these babies reach adulthood, they will, by sheer force of numbers, influence the course of the Golden State. This essential reference, based on decades of data, paints a vivid and energetic portrait of Latino society in California by providing a wealth of details about work ethic, family strengths, business establishment, and the surprisingly robust health profile that yields a life expectancy for Lations five years longer that that of the general population.
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    ISBN: 9780520938519 , 0520938518
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (1 v.)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Enloe, Cynthia H., 1938- Curious feminist
    DDC: 305.42
    Keywords: Feminism ; Sex role ; Women and the military ; Women and war ; Electronic books ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Feminism & Feminist Theory ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gender Studies ; Feminism ; Sex role ; Women and the military ; Women and war ; Feminisme ; Electronic books ; Electronic book ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In this collection of lively essays, Cynthia Enloe makes better sense of globalization and international politics by taking a deep and personal look into the daily realities in a range of women's lives. She proposes a distinctively feminist curiosity that begins with taking women seriously, especially during this era of unprecedented American influence
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520937857
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (294 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Sozialstruktur ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Teacher, scholar, and leader, Neil Smelser stands as an iconic figure in sociology in the second half of the twentieth century. The essays in this volume, written by prominent scholars from all walks of the social sciences, reveal the range and depth of Smelser's influence - and his substantial contributions to diverse fields such as British history, social change, collective behavior, higher education, the economy, and psychoanalysis.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
    ISBN: 9780520929906 , 052092990X , 1417525673 , 9781417525676 , 1597348287 , 9781597348287
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 325 pages)
    Series Statement: Berkeley series in interdisciplinary studies of China 3
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    Abstract: Throughout the twentieth century, Beijing University (or Beida) has been at the center of China's greatest political and cultural upheavals--from the May Fourth Movement of 1919 to the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s to the tragic events in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Why this should be--how Beida's historical importance has come to transcend that of a mere institution of higher learning--is a question at the heart of this book. A study of intellectuals and political culture during the past century's tumultuous early decades, The Power of Position is the first to focus on Beida, China's oldest an.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520927940 , 052092794X , 1417508191 , 9781417508198
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xvi, 333 p.) , ill., maps.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Berkeley series in interdisciplinary studies of China 2
    Parallel Title: Print version Is Taiwan Chinese?
    DDC: 305.89925
    Keywords: Taiwan aborigines Ethnic identity ; History ; Ethnicity History ; Taiwan ; Ethnicity History ; 20th century ; China ; Nationalism History ; 20th century ; Taiwan ; Nationalism History ; 20th century ; China ; Tujia (Chinese people) Ethnic identity ; History ; 20th century ; China ; Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou ; Nationalism History 20th century ; Nationalism History 20th century ; Chinese reunification question, 1949- ; Tujia (Chinese people) Ethnic identity 20th century ; History ; Ethnicity History 20th century ; Ethnicity History ; Taiwan aborigines Ethnic identity ; History ; Chinese reunification question, 1949- ; Nationalism History 20th century ; Nationalism History 20th century ; Tujia (Chinese people) Ethnic identity 20th century ; History ; Ethnicity History 20th century ; Ethnicity History ; Taiwan aborigines Ethnic identity ; History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Chinese reunification question, 1949- ; Ethnic relations ; Ethnicity ; International relations ; Nationalism ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; History ; Taiwan Relations ; China ; China Relations ; Taiwan ; Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou (China) Ethnic relations ; History ; 20th century ; China Relations ; Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou (China) Ethnic relations 20th century ; History ; Taiwan Relations ; China Relations ; Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou (China) Ethnic relations 20th century ; History ; Taiwan Relations ; China ; Enshi Tujiazu Miaozu Zizhizhou ; Taiwan ; China ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In a unique comparison of studies drawn from both Taiwan and China, Brown's book shows how identity is shaped by social experience - not culture and ancestry, as is commonly claimed in political rhetoric
    Description / Table of Contents: What's in a name? : culture, identity, and the "Taiwan problem"Where did the aborigines go? : reinstating plains aborigines in Taiwan's history -- "We savages didn't bind feet" : culture, colonial intervention, and long-route identity change -- "Having a wife is better than having a god" : ancestry, governmental power, and short-route identity change -- "They came with their hands tied behind their backs" : forced migrations, identity changes, and state classification in Hubei -- Theory and the politics of reunification : understanding past choices and future options.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520937413
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (326 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.4896643
    Abstract: Amidst the shrill and discordant notes struck in debates over the make-up-or breakdown-of the American family, the family keeps evolving. This book offers a close and clear-eyed look into a form this change has taken most recently, the lesbian coparent family. Based on intensive interviews and extensive firsthand observation, The Family of Woman chronicles the experience of thirty-four families headed by lesbian mothers whose children were conceived by means of donor insemination.With its intimate perspective on the interior dynamics of these families and its penetrating view of their public lives, the book provides rare insight into the workings of emerging family forms and their significance for our understanding of "family"-and our culture itself.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520937086
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (413 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity v.4
    DDC: 306.6099577
    Keywords: Urapmin ; Religion ; Soziokultureller Wandel ; Christianisierung ; Christentum ; Papua-Neuguinea
    Abstract: In a world of swift and sweeping cultural transformations, few have seen changes as rapid and dramatic as those experienced by the Urapmin of Papua New Guinea in the last four decades. A remote people never directly "missionized," the Urapmin began in the 1960s to send young men to study with Baptist missionaries living among neighboring communities. By the late 1970s, the Urapmin had undergone a charismatic revival, abandoning their traditional religion for a Christianity intensely focused on human sinfulness and driven by a constant sense of millennial expectation. Exploring the Christian culture of the Urapmin, Joel Robbins shows how its preoccupations provide keys to understanding the nature of cultural change more generally. In so doing, he offers one of the richest available anthropological accounts of Christianity as a lived religion. Theoretically ambitious and engagingly written, his book opens a unique perspective on a Melanesian society, religious experience, and the very nature of rapid cultural change.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511166109 , 9780511166105
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 329 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Politics of prostitution
    DDC: 306.74
    Keywords: Prostitution Government policy ; Prostitution Political aspects ; Feminism ; Women's rights ; Prostitutes Legal status, laws, etc ; Prostitutes Civil rights ; PSYCHOLOGY ; Human Sexuality ; SELF-HELP ; Sexual Instruction ; Feminism ; Prostitutes ; Civil rights ; Prostitutes ; Legal status, laws, etc ; Prostitution ; Government policy ; Prostitution ; Political aspects ; Women's rights ; Prostitution ; Prostitutie ; Vrouwenhandel ; Overheidsbeleid ; Wetgeving ; Vrouwenbeweging ; Politique gouvernementale ; Prostitution ; Prostituée ; Féminisme ; Femme ; Mouvement féministe ; Démocratie ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Introduction : prostitution, women's movements and democratic politics / Joyce Outshoorn -- The women's movement and prostitution politics in Australia / Barbara Sullivan -- Taxes, rights and regimentation : discourses on prostitution in Austria / Birgit Sauer -- Prostitution policies in Britain, 1982-2002 / Johanna Kantola and Judith Squires -- Prostitution as public nuisance : prostitution policy in Canada / Leslie Ann Jeffrey -- Towards a new prohibitionism? State feminism, women's movements and prostitution policies in Finland / Anne Maria Holli -- Prostitute movmements face elite apathy and gender-biased universalism in France / Amy G. Mazur -- The politics of prostitution and trafficking of women in Israel / Delila Amir and Mencahem Amir -- Italy : the never-ending debate / Daniela Danna -- Voluntary and forced prostitution : the 'realistic approach' of the Netherlands / Joyce Outshoorn -- State feminism and central state debates on prostitution in post-authoritarian Spain / Celia Valiente -- Criminalising the john -- a Swedish gender model? / Yvonne Svanström -- The invisible issue : prostitution and trafficking of women and girls in the United States / Dorothy McBride Stetson -- Comparative prostitution politics and the case for state feminism / Joyce Outshoorn.
    Abstract: This book shows how women's movements in Western Europe, North America and Australia have affected politics on prostitution and trafficking of women since the 1970s, asking what made them successful in some countries but a failure in others
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511512163 , 0511185693 , 0511184867 , 9780511185694 , 9780511184864 , 9780511512162
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 315 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Greenwood, John D Disappearance of the social in American social psychology
    DDC: 302/.0973
    Keywords: Social psychology History ; Social psychology ; Social psychology ; Sozialpsychologie ; Sociale psychologie ; PSYCHOLOGY ; Social Psychology ; History ; Electronic books ; United States ; USA
    Abstract: Introduction : what happened to the "social" in social psychology? -- The lost world -- Wundt and Völkerpsychologie -- Durkheim and social facts -- The social and the psychological -- Social psychology and the "social mind" -- Individualism and the social -- Crowds, publics, and experimental social psychology -- Crossroads -- Crisis -- The rediscovery of the social?
    Abstract: The Disappearance of the Social in American Social Psychology is a critical conceptual history of American social psychology. In this challenging work, John Greenwood demarcates the original conception of the social dimensions of cognition, emotion and behaviour and of the discipline of social psychology itself, that was embraced by early twentieth-century American social psychologists. He documents how this fertile conception of social psychological phenomena came to be progressively neglected as the century developed, to the point that scarcely any trace of the original conception of the so
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511493751
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 310 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in law and society
    DDC: 340/.115
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    Keywords: Rechtsanthropologie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This collection of interdisciplinary essays explores how persons and things - the central elements of the social - are fabricated by legal rituals and institutions. The contributors, legal and anthropological theorists alike, focus on a set of specific institutional and ethnographic contexts, and some unexpected and thought-provoking analogies emerge from this intellectual encounter between law and anthropology. For example, contemporary anxieties about the legal status of the biotechnological body seem to resonate with the questions addressed by ancient Roman law in its treatment of dead bodies. The analogy between copyright and the transmission of intangible designs in Melanesia suddenly makes western images of authorship seem quite unfamiliar. A comparison between law and laboratory science presents the production of legal artefacts in new light. These studies are of particular relevance at a time when law, faced with the inventiveness of biotechnology, finds it increasingly difficult to draw the line between persons and things.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511216610 , 0511214820 , 9780511216619 , 9780511214820
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 386 pages) , illustrations, maps
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Goodale, Jay [Rezension von: Sreenivasan, Govind P., The Peasants of Ottobeuren, 1487-1726. A Rural Society in Early Modern Europe] 2006
    Series Statement: Past and present publications
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sreenivasan, Govind P Peasants of Ottobeuren, 1487-1726
    DDC: 305.5/633/094337
    Keywords: Peasants History ; Peasants ; Rural conditions ; Boeren ; Sociale verandering ; Economische groei ; Abtei Ottobeuren ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; History ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Ottobeuren (Germany) Rural conditions ; Germany ; Ottobeuren ; Electronic book ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Maps; Tables; Acknowledgements; Note on weights, measures, and currencies; Introduction; 1. Right and might (c. 1480-c. 1560); 2. The discrete society (c. 1480-c. 1560); 3. A crisis of numbers? (c. 1560-c. 1630); 4. Integrity and the market (c. 1560-c. 1630); 5. Living on borrowed time (c. 1560-c. 1630); 6. To empty and to refill (c. 1630-c. 1720); Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of places; General index.
    Abstract: The most detailed reconstruction to date of peasant society in early modern Germany, focusing on the lands of the Benedictine monastery of Ottobeuren. Based on a mass of archival data, the book argues that the German rural economy performed much better than has previously been believed
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520926578
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.5
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1860 ; Industrialisierung ; Klassengesellschaft ; Sprache ; USA
    Abstract: In this innovative book, Stephen P. Rice offers a new understanding of class formation in America during the several decades before the Civil War. This was the period in the nation's early industrial development when travel by steamboat became commonplace, when the railroad altered concepts of space and time, and when Americans experienced the beginnings of factory production. These disorienting changes raised a host of questions about what machinery would accomplish. Would it promote equality or widen the distance between rich and poor? Among the most contentious questions were those focusing on the social consequences of mechanization: while machine enthusiasts touted the extent to which machines would free workers from toil, others pointed out that people needed to tend machines, and that that work was fundamentally degrading and exploitative. Minding the Machine shows how members of a new middle class laid claim to their social authority and minimized the potential for class conflict by playing out class relations on less contested social and technical terrains. As they did so, they defined relations between shopowners-and the overseers, foremen, or managers they employed-and wage workers as analogous to relations between head and hand, between mind and body, and between human and machine. Rice presents fascinating discussions of the mechanics' institute movement, the manual labor school movement, popular physiology reformers, and efforts to solve the seemingly intractable problem of steam boiler explosions. His eloquent narrative demonstrates that class is as much about the comprehension of social relations as it is about the making of social relations, and that class formation needs to be understood not only as a social struggle but as a conceptual struggle.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520930025
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (222 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 303.38
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    Abstract: In this sequel to the acclaimed Damned Lies and Statistics, which the Boston Globe said "deserves a place next to the dictionary on every school, media, and home-office desk," Joel Best continues his straightforward, lively, and humorous account of how statistics are produced, used, and misused by everyone from researchers to journalists. Underlining the importance of critical thinking in all matters numerical, Best illustrates his points with examples of good and bad statistics about such contemporary concerns as school shootings, fatal hospital errors, bullying, teen suicides, deaths at the World Trade Center, college ratings, the risks of divorce, racial profiling, and fatalities caused by falling coconuts. More Damned Lies and Statistics encourages all of us to think in a more sophisticated and skeptical manner about how statistics are used to promote causes, create fear, and advance particular points of view. Best identifies different sorts of numbers that shape how we think about public issues: missing numbers are relevant but overlooked; confusing numbers bewilder when they should inform; scary numbers play to our fears about the present and the future; authoritative numbers demand respect they don't deserve; magical numbers promise unrealistic, simple solutions to complex problems; and contentious numbers become the focus of data duels and stat wars. The author's use of pertinent, socially important examples documents the life-altering consequences of understanding or misunderstanding statistical information. He demystifies statistical measures by explaining in straightforward prose how decisions are made about what to count and what not to count, what assumptions get made, and which figures are brought to our attention. Best identifies different sorts of numbers that shape how we think about public issues. Entertaining, enlightening, and...
    Abstract: very timely, this book offers a basis for critical thinking about the numbers we encounter and a reminder that when it comes to the news, people count-in more ways than one.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511184794 , 0511185626 , 0511186517 , 1139165224 , 9780511184796 , 9780511185625 , 9781139165228 , 9780511186516
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 149 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Skyrms, Brian Stag hunt and the evolution of social structure
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    Keywords: Social structure ; Social action ; Collective behavior ; Social evolution ; Social networks ; Cooperation ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Regional Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General ; Collective behavior ; Cooperation ; Social action ; Social evolution ; Social networks ; Social structure ; Sozialstruktur ; Evolution ; Kooperatives Verhalten ; Soziale Evolution ; Structure sociale ; Action sociale ; Comportement collectif ; Évolution sociale ; Réseaux sociaux ; Coopération ; Action sociale ; Comportement collectif ; Coopération ; Évolution sociale ; Réseau social ; Structure sociale ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic book
    Abstract: "This book is a study of ideas of cooperation and collective action. The point of departure is a prototypical story found in Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality. Rousseau contrasts hunting hare, where the risk of noncooperation is small but the reward is equally small, with hunting the stag, where maximum cooperation is required but the reward is much greater. Rational agents are pulled in one direction by considerations of risk and in another by considerations of mutual benefit."
    Abstract: "The possibility of a successful solution depends on the coevolution of cooperation and social structure. Brian Skyrms focuses on three factors that affect the emergence of such structure and the facilitation of collective action: location (interactions with neighbors), signals (transmission of information), and association (the formation of social networks)."--Jacket
    Abstract: Location -- Signals -- Association.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511510793
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 286 pages)
    DDC: 304.8/094/09045
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1950-2000 ; Migration ; Südeuropa
    Abstract: Managing migration promises to be one of the most difficult challenges of the twenty-first century. It will be even more difficult for south European countries, from which emigration has levelled off and to which immigration has become a significant economic issue. Southern Europe is close to other regions where the pressure to emigrate is intense: these regions have a high level of unemployment, above the European Union average, and a large informal sector, often 15–25 per cent of their economies as a whole. This book analyses the southern European migration case using an economic approach. It combines a theoretical and an empirical approach on the fundamental migration issues - the decision to migrate, effects on the country of departure and country of destination, and the effectiveness of policies in managing migration. It also explores the transformation due to migration of southern European countries in the 1980s and 1990s.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511184980 , 0511185812 , 9780511184987 , 9780511185816
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 322 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time 39
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ottaway, Susannah R., 1967- Decline of life
    DDC: 305.26/0944
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    Keywords: Alter ; Großbritannien ; Old age History 18th century ; Aging History 18th century ; Older people Social conditions 18th century ; Family Relations ; History, 18th Century ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gerontology ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Aging ; Aging ; Old age ; Older people ; Social conditions ; Bejaarden ; Ouderdom ; Alter ; History ; Electronic books ; England ; Electronic book
    Abstract: This is an important new study of the history of ageing. Ottaway combines a comprehensive survey of existing literature with original interpretation and analysis of available data, using a wide variety of sources. Her lively and sophisticated analysis will be of great interest to scholars in British and social history
    Abstract: Who was "old" in eighteenth-century England? -- The activities of the "helmsman" : self-reliance, work, and community expectations of the elderly -- "The comforts of a private fire-side" -- Independent but not alone : family ties for the elderly -- Community assistance to the aged under the Old Poor Law -- Continuity and change in community assistance to the elderly over the eighteenth century -- Within workhouse walls : indoor relief for the elderly -- Conclusion : old age as a useful category of historical analysis.
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    ISBN: 0511215347 , 0511217137 , 0511213530 , 9780511215346 , 9780511217135 , 9780511213533
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 349 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Learning in doing
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bakhtinian perspectives on language, literacy, and learning
    DDC: 302.2/244
    Keywords: Bakhtin, M. M ; Bakhtin, M. M ; Literacy Social aspects ; Language and education ; Critical pedagogy ; Language and education ; Literacy ; Social aspects ; Leesvaardigheid ; Taal ; Leren ; Critical pedagogy ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Literacy ; Electronic book ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Contributed by authors who write from various disciplinary perspectives, the essays in this book clarify the learning theories of Mikhail Bakhtin and address the application of his concepts to contemporary issues. In addition, the authors are joined by other scholars in a Bakhtinian dialogue. Together, they address questions that readers may have about Bakhtinian theory and its application to everyday teaching practices
    Abstract: Ideological becoming : Bakhtinian concepts to guide the study of language, literacy, and learning / Sarah Warshauer Freedman and Arnetha F. Ball -- Dewey and Bakhtin in dialogue : from Rosenblatt to a pedagogy of literature as social, aesthetic practice / Mark Dressman -- Intertextualities : Volosinov, Bakhtin, literary theory, and literacy studies / Charles Bazerman -- The teaching of academic language to minority second language learners / Guadalupe Valdés -- Voices in dialogue -- dialoguing about dialogism : form and content in a Bakhtinian dialogue / Allison Weisz Brettschneider -- Performance as the foundation for a secondary school literacy program : a Bakhtinian perspective / Eileen Landay -- Double voiced discourse : African American vernacular English as resource in cultural modeling classrooms / Carol D. Lee -- Narratives of rethinking : the inner dialogue of classroom discourse and student writing / Christian P. Knoeller -- Ever newer ways to mean : authoring pedagogical change in secondary subject-area classrooms / Cynthia L. Greenleaf and Mira-Lisa Katz -- Voices in dialogue : multivoiced discourses in ideological becoming / Verda Delp -- New teachers for new times : the dialogical principle in teaching and learning electronically / Jabari Mahiri -- Is contradiction contrary? / Melanie Sperling -- A Bakhtinian perspective on learning to read and write late in life / Judy Kalman -- New times and new literacies : themes for a changing world / James Paul Gee -- Voices in dialogue : hybridity as literacy, literacy as hybridity : dialogic responses to a heteroglossic world / Alice A. Miano -- The process of ideological becoming / Gary Saul Morson.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520930025 , 0520930029
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xvii, 200 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Best, Joel More damned lies and statistics
    DDC: 303.38
    Keywords: Sociology Statistical methods ; Social problems Statistical methods ; Social indicators ; Social problems Statistical methods ; Sociology Statistical methods ; Electronic books ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Social indicators ; Social problems ; Statistical methods ; Sociology ; Statistical methods ; Missbrauch ; Sozialstatistik ; Sociaal-wetenschappelijk onderzoek ; Statistieken ; Kritiek (algemeen) ; Sociale problemen ; Problemy społeczne ; metody statystyczne ; Socjologia ; metody statystyczne ; Wskaźniki rozwoju społecznego ; Electronic books ; Electronic book ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In this sequel to the acclaimed Damned Lies and Statistics, which the Boston Globe said "deserves a place next to the dictionary on every school, media, and home-office desk," Joel Best continues his straightforward, lively, and humorous account of how statistics are produced, used, and misused by everyone from researchers to journalists. Underlining the importance of critical thinking in all matters numerical, Best illustrates his points with examples of good and bad statistics about such contemporary concerns as school shootings, fatal hospital errors, bullying, teen suicides, deaths at the
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    ISBN: 0520233670 , 9780520233676 , 0520233689 , 9780520233683 , 1597347728 , 9781597347723 , 9780520936416 , 0520936418
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiv, 276 p.)
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    Parallel Title: Print version Near northwest side story
    DDC: 305.8687295077311
    Keywords: Puerto Ricans Migrations ; Illinois ; Chicago ; Puerto Ricans Migrations ; Puerto Ricans Migrations ; Electronic books ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Emigration and immigration ; Puerto Ricans ; Migrations ; United States Local History ; Regions & Countries - Americas ; History & Archaeology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; History ; Chicago (Ill.) Emigration and immigration ; History ; San Sebastián (P.R.) Emigration and immigration ; History ; Illinois ; Chicago ; Puerto Rico ; San Sebastián ; San Sebastián (P.R.) Emigration and immigration ; History ; Chicago (Ill.) Emigration and immigration ; History ; San Sebastián (P.R.) Emigration and immigration ; History ; Chicago (Ill.) Emigration and immigration ; History ; Puerto Rico ; San Sebastián ; Illinois ; Chicago ; Electronic books ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: The Near Northwest Side Story is a fascinating account of transnational migration as survival strategy, one bound up in kin, region, and gender. Gina M. Perez offers an intimate and unvarnished portrait of Puerto Rican life in Chicago and San Sebastian, Puerto Rico - two places connected by a long history of circulating people, ideas, goods, and information
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520937062
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (291 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies
    DDC: 305.48697107
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    Keywords: Schwarze Frau ; Islam ; Soziale Situation ; USA
    Abstract: Commonly portrayed in the media as holding women in strict subordination and deference to men, Islam is nonetheless attracting numerous converts among African American women. Are these women "reproducing their oppression," as it might seem? Or does their adherence to the religion suggest unsuspected subtleties and complexities in the relation of women, especially black women, to Islam? Carolyn Rouse sought answers to these questions among the women of Sunni Muslim mosques in Los Angeles. Her richly textured study provides rare insight into the meaning of Islam for African American women; in particular, Rouse shows how the teachings of Islam give these women a sense of power and control over interpretations of gender, family, authority, and obligations. In Engaged Surrender, Islam becomes a unique prism for clarifying the role of faith in contemporary black women's experience. Through these women's stories, Rouse reveals how commitment to Islam refracts complex processes-urbanization, political and social radicalization, and deindustrialization-that shape black lives generally, and black women's lives in particular. Rather than focusing on traditional (and deeply male) ideas of autonomy and supremacy, the book-and the community of women it depicts-emphasizes more holistic notions of collective obligation, personal humility, and commitment to overarching codes of conduct and belief. A much-needed corrective to media portraits of Islam and the misconceptions they engender, this engaged and engaging work offers an intimate, in-depth look into the vexed and interlocking issues of Islam, gender, and race.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520939769 , 052093976X , 141752040X , 9781417520404
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiv, 456 p.) , ill., maps.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Studies on the history of society and culture 51
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Desan, Suzanne, 1957- Family on trial in revolutionary France
    DDC: 306.85094409033
    Keywords: Families 18th century ; France ; Families Political aspects ; France ; Domestic relations History ; 18th century ; France ; Domestic relations History 18th century ; Families 18th century ; Families Political aspects ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Reference ; HISTORY ; Europe ; General ; Domestic relations ; Families ; Families ; Political aspects ; Women ; Sociology & Social History ; Family & Marriage ; Social Sciences ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Alternative Family ; History ; France History ; Women ; Revolution, 1789-1799 ; France History ; Revolution, 1789-1799 ; France ; France History Revolution, 1789-1799 ; France History Revolution, 1789-1799 ; Women ; France ; Electronic book ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: In a groundbreaking book that challenges many assumptions about gender and politics in the French Revolution, Suzanne Desan offers an insightful analysis of the ways the Revolution radically redefined the family and its internal dynamics. She shows how revolutionary politics and laws brought about a social revolution within households and created space for thousands of French women and men to reimagine their most intimate relationships. Families negotiated new social practices, including divorce, the reduction of paternal authority, egalitarian inheritance for sons and daughters alike, and the granting of civil rights to illegitimate children. Contrary to arguments that claim the Revolution bound women within a domestic sphere, The Family on Trial maintains that the new civil laws and gender politics offered many women unexpected opportunities to gain power, property, or independence. The family became a political arena, a practical terrain for creating the Republic in day-to-day life. From 1789, citizens across France-sons and daughters, unhappily married spouses and illegitimate children, pamphleteers and moralists, deputies and judges-all disputed how the family should be reformed to remake the new France. They debated how revolutionary ideals and institutions should transform the emotional bonds, gender dynamics, legal customs, and economic arrangements that structured the family. They asked how to bring the principles of liberty, equality, and regeneration into the home. And as French citizens confronted each other in the home, in court, and in print, they gradually negotiated new domestic practices that balanced Old Regime customs with revolutionary innovations in law and culture. In a narrative that combines national-level analysis with a case study of family contestation in Normandy, Desan explores these struggles to bring politics into households and to envision and put into practice a new set of familial relationships
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520939769
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (475 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Studies on the History of Society and Culture v.51
    DDC: 306.85094409
    Abstract: In a groundbreaking book that challenges many assumptions about gender and politics in the French Revolution, Suzanne Desan offers an insightful analysis of the ways the Revolution radically redefined the family and its internal dynamics. She shows how revolutionary politics and laws brought about a social revolution within households and created space for thousands of French women and men to reimagine their most intimate relationships. Families negotiated new social practices, including divorce, the reduction of paternal authority, egalitarian inheritance for sons and daughters alike, and the granting of civil rights to illegitimate children. Contrary to arguments that claim the Revolution bound women within a domestic sphere, The Family on Trial maintains that the new civil laws and gender politics offered many women unexpected opportunities to gain power, property, or independence. The family became a political arena, a practical terrain for creating the Republic in day-to-day life. From 1789, citizens across France-sons and daughters, unhappily married spouses and illegitimate children, pamphleteers and moralists, deputies and judges-all disputed how the family should be reformed to remake the new France. They debated how revolutionary ideals and institutions should transform the emotional bonds, gender dynamics, legal customs, and economic arrangements that structured the family. They asked how to bring the principles of liberty, equality, and regeneration into the home. And as French citizens confronted each other in the home, in court, and in print, they gradually negotiated new domestic practices that balanced Old Regime customs with revolutionary innovations in law and culture. In a narrative that combines national-level analysis with a case study of family contestation in Normandy, Desan explores these struggles to bring politics into...
    Abstract: households and to envision and put into practice a new set of familial relationships.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520937252 , 1417508264 , 9780520937253 , 9781417508266
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 242 pages)
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    DDC: 362.5/83
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    Keywords: Since 1991 ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural ; Food relief ; Poor ; Social history ; Social networks ; Soup kitchens ; Sozialgeschichte ; Soup kitchens ; Social networks ; Food relief ; Poor ; Armenspeisung ; Sozialdienst ; Soziale Unterstützung ; Russland ; Russland ; Sozialdienst ; Armenspeisung ; Soziale Unterstützung
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-234) and index , Transnational soup -- Making do : everyday survival in a shortage society -- From hand to hand : informal networks -- The forest feeds us : organic exchange -- Strategic intimacy : communities of assistance -- The mythology of hunger -- Socialism revisited
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520937857 , 0520937856
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (286 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Self, social structure, and beliefs
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: Sociology Philosophy ; Social structure ; Sociology ; Sociology ; Social structure ; Sociology Philosophy ; Sociology ; Social structure ; Sociology ; Sociology ; Philosophy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Regional Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Neil Smelser is an iconic figure in sociology. This volume reveals the range & depth of his influence, & his substantial contributions to diverse fields such as British history, social change, collective behaviour, higher education, the economy, & psychoanalysis
    Description / Table of Contents: Mastering ambivalence : Neil Smelser as a sociologist of synthesis / Jeffrey C. Alexander, Gary T. Marx, Christine L. WilliamsIntroduction / Christine L. Williams -- The sociological eye and the psychoanalytic ear / Nancy J. Chodorow -- The commodity frontier / Arlie Russell Hochschild -- The glass cage : flexible work, fragmented consumption, fragile selves / Yiannis Gabriel -- Rational choice and sociology / Alberto Martinelli -- Enlisting Smelser's theory of ambivalence to maintain progress in sociology of religion's new paradigm / R. Stephen Warner -- Circuits of commerce / Viviana A. Zelizer -- Trust as an aspect of social structure / Robert Wuthnow -- The organizational foundations of university capability : differentiation and competition in the academic sector of society / Burton R. Clark -- Introduction / Jeffrey C. Alexander -- Primordial beliefs and immigration policy : the case of Britain's patrials / Christian Joppke -- Causal reasoning, historical logic, and sociological explanation / Lyn Spillman -- Intellectual cycles of social movement research : from psychoanalysis to culture? / James M. Jasper -- Shaping sociological imagination: the importance of theory / Piotr Sztompka.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520937413 , 0520937414
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 312 p.)
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    Parallel Title: Print version Family of woman
    DDC: 306.874308664
    Keywords: Lesbian mothers Case studies ; United States ; Children of gay parents Case studies ; United States ; Sex role Case studies ; United States ; Lesbian mothers Case studies ; Children of gay parents Case studies ; Sex role Case studies ; Sex role Case studies ; Lesbian mothers Case studies ; Children of gay parents Case studies ; Lesbian mothers United States ; Children of gay parents United States ; Sex role United States ; Electronic books United States ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Parenting ; Motherhood ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gender Studies ; Children of gay parents ; Lesbian mothers ; Sex role ; Case studies ; United States ; Electronic books Case studies ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: Amidst the shrill and discordant notes struck in debates over the make-up - or breakdown - of the American family, the family keeps evolving. This book offers a close and clear-eyed look into a form this change has taken most recently, the lesbian coparent family. Based on intensive interviews and extensive firsthand observation, The Family of Woman chronicles the experience of thirty-four families headed by lesbian mothers whose children were conceived by means of donor insemination. With its intimate perspective on the interior dynamics of these families and its penetrating view of their pub
    Abstract: The emergence of lesbian-coparent families in postmodern society -- Becoming parents : baby making in the age of assisted procreation -- Being parents : the end of Oedipus and the expansion of intimacy -- Undoing the gender division of labor -- Truth and reconciliation : families of origin come around and come out -- Becoming familiar in the community of strangers -- The structure of donor-extended kinship -- The theoretical future of a conscious feminist kinship -- Appendix: Families by the bay : the study design, method, and participants.
    Description / Table of Contents: The emergence of lesbian-coparent families in postmodern societyBecoming parents : baby making in the age of assisted procreation -- Being parents : the end of Oedipus and the expansion of intimacy -- Undoing the gender division of labor -- Truth and reconciliation : families of origin come around and come out -- Becoming familiar in the community of strangers -- The structure of donor-extended kinship -- The theoretical future of a conscious feminist kinship -- Appendix: Families by the bay : the study design, method, and participants.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520938120
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (309 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: California Series in Public Anthropology v.10
    DDC: 303.6/6
    Abstract: In this provocative and compelling examination of the deep politics of war, Carolyn Nordstrom takes us from the immediacy of war-zone survival, through the offices of power brokers, to vast extra-legal networks that fuel war and international profiteering.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511185006 , 0511185839 , 9780511185007 , 9780511185830
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 289 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sociology of Norbert Elias
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: Elias, Norbert ; Elias, Norbert ; Elias, Norbert ; Historical sociology ; Civilization, Modern ; Social structure ; Self-consciousness (Awareness) ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Regional Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General ; Self-consciousness (Awareness) ; Civilization, Modern ; Historical sociology ; Social structure ; Sociologen ; Figuratiesociologie ; Sociologie historique ; Structure sociale ; Conscience de soi ; Civilisation moderne ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Online-Publikation ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the key aspects of Elias's work and applies an Eliasian approach to key topics in contemporary sociology such as race, class, gender, religion, epistemology and nationalism. This book is a major contribution to Elias studies and a valuable resource for students and scholars
    Abstract: Towards a 'central theory': the scope and relevance of Norbert Elias / Stephen Quilley and Steven Loyal -- Sociology as a Human Science: Norbert Elias and the Sociology of Knowledge: -- From distance to detachment: knowledge and self-knowledge in Elias's theory of involvement and detachment / Richard Kilminster -- Ecology, 'human nature' and civilising processes: biology and sociology in the work of Norbert Elias / Stephen Quilley -- Between the real and the reified: Elias on time / Barry Barnes -- Processes of Stratification: Figurations of Race, Class and Gender: -- The figurational dynamics of racial stratification: a conceptual discussion and developmental analysis of black-white relations in the United States / Eric Dunning -- Decivilising and demonising: the social and symbolic remaking of the black ghetto and Elias in the dark ghetto / Loi;c Wacquant -- Elias on class and stratification / Steven Loyal -- Elias on gender relations: the changing balance of power between the sexes / Christien Brinkgreve -- The Formation of Individuals and States: -- Not so exceptional? State-formation processes in America / Stephen Mennell -- Armed peace: on the pacifying condition for the co-operative of States / Paul Kapteyn -- Changing regimes of manners and emotions: from disciplining to informalizing / Cas Wouters -- Elias and modern penal development / John Pratt -- Elias, Freud and Goffman: shame as the master emotion / Thomas Scheff -- Religion and Civilising Processes: Weber and Elias Compared: -- Weber and Elias on religion and violence: warrior charisma and the civilising process / Bryan Turner -- Christian religion and the European civilising process: the views of Norbert Elias and Max Weber compared / Johan Goudsblom.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511195516 , 051180038X , 0511194153 , 9780511195518 , 9780511800382 , 9780511194153
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 216 pages)
    Series Statement: New departures in anthropology
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Carsten, Janet After kinship
    DDC: 306.83
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    Keywords: Kinship ; Kin recognition ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; Marriage & Family ; Kin recognition ; Kinship ; Anthropologie ; Verwandtschaft ; Verwantschap ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: 1. Introduction: After Kinship? -- 2. Houses of Memory and Kinship -- 3. Gender, Bodies, and Kinship -- 4. The Person -- 5. Uses and Abuses of Substance -- 6. Families into Nation: The Power of Metaphor and the Transformation of Kinship -- 7. Assisted Reproduction -- 8. Conclusion.
    Abstract: What is the impact on anthropology of recent studies of reproductive technologies, gender, and the social construction of science in the West? What is the significance of public anxiety about the family to anthropology's analytic approach? Janet Carsten presents an original view of the past, present, and future of kinship in anthropology
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520937130 , 0520937139 , 1417522828 , 9781417522828
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xvi, 335 p.) , ill.
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    Parallel Title: Print version Making modern mothers
    DDC: 305.420949512
    Keywords: Feminist anthropology Greece ; Athens ; Women Social conditions ; Greece ; Athens ; Motherhood Greece ; Athens ; Birth control Public opinion ; Greece ; Athens ; Public opinion Greece ; Athens ; Birth control Public opinion ; Public opinion ; Motherhood ; Women Social conditions ; Feminist anthropology ; Feminist anthropology ; Women Social conditions ; Motherhood ; Birth control Public opinion ; Public opinion ; Family Planning Services ; Abortion, Legal ; Gender Identity ; Mothers ; Sexual Behavior ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Feminism & Feminist Theory ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gender Studies ; Birth control ; Public opinion ; Feminist anthropology ; Manners and customs ; Motherhood ; Public opinion ; Women ; Social conditions ; Feministische filosofie ; Moederschap ; Geboorteregeling ; Publieke opinie ; Athens (Greece) Social life and customs ; Greece ; Athens ; Athens (Greece) Social life and customs ; Athens (Greece) Social life and customs ; Greece ; Athens ; Electronic book ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Heather Paxson addresses the ambivalent perceptions of motherhood in Athens, as traditional views on femininity and childbearing are challenged by consumerism and imported biomedical family planning methods
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511625466
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 287 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in contentious politics
    DDC: 303.48/4
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    Keywords: Partei ; Soziale Bewegung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Studies of social movements and of political parties have usually treated them as separate and distinct. In fact they are deeply intertwined. Social movements often shape electoral competition and party policies; they can even give rise to new parties. At the same time, political parties and campaigns shape the opportunities, personnel, and outcomes of social movements. In many countries, electoral democracy itself is the outcome of social movement actions. This book, first published in 2003, examines the interaction of social movements and party politics since the 1950s, both in the United States and around the world. In studies of the US Civil Rights movement, the New Left, the Czechoslovak dissident movements, the Mexican struggle for democracy, and other episodes, this volume shows how party politics and social movements cannot be understood without appreciating their intimate relationship.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511550331
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 262 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in public opinion and political psychology
    DDC: 306.2/0968
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    Keywords: Politik ; Politische Kultur ; Toleranz ; Demokratie ; Südafrika
    Abstract: Overcoming Intolerance in South Africa investigates the degree to which the political culture of South Africa - the beliefs, values, and attitudes toward politics held by ordinary people - impedes or promotes the consolidation of democratic reform. One set of values is of particular concern in this study - political tolerance. The authors contend that political tolerance is a crucial element of democratic political cultures in general, but that in the South African case, tolerance is perhaps more important than any other democratic value. Since South Africa is one of the most polyglot countries in the world, the only viable strategy for survival is tolerance toward the political views of others. The overwhelming emphasis throughout this book is on finding ways to enhance the willingness of South Africans to 'put up with' their political enemies, to allow open and widespread political competition, and to coexist in their diversity.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511615627
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 219 pages)
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    Keywords: Familienpolitik ; Geschlechterrolle ; Argentinien ; Brasilien ; Chile
    Abstract: Abortion, divorce, and the family: how did the state make policy decisions in these areas in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile during the last third of the twentieth century? As the three countries transitioned from democratic to authoritarian forms of government (and back), they confronted challenges posed by the rise of the feminist movement, social changes, and the power of the Catholic Church. The results were often surprising: women's rights were expanded under military dictatorships, divorce was legalized in authoritarian Brazil but not in democratic Chile, and no Latin American country changed its laws on abortion. Sex and the State explores these patterns of gender-related policy reform and shows how they mattered for the peoples of Latin America and for a broader understanding of the logic behind the state's role in shaping private lives and gender relations everywhere.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511489532
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 180 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 112
    DDC: 306.6/8267825
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    Keywords: Katholische Kirche ; Volksfrömmigkeit ; Tansania
    Abstract: In the aftermath of colonial mission, Christianity has come to have widespread acceptance in Southern Tanzania. In this book, Maia Green explores contemporary Catholic practice in a rural community of Southern Tanzania. Setting the adoption of Christianity and the suppression of witchcraft in a historical context, she suggests that power relations established during the colonial period continue to hold between both popular Christianity and orthodoxy, and local populations and indigenous clergy. Paradoxically, while local practices around the constitution of kinship and personhood remain defiantly free of Christian elements, they inform a popular Christianity experienced as a system of substances and practices. This book offers a challenge to idealist and interpretative accounts of African participation in twentieth-century religious forms, and argues for a politically grounded analysis of historical processes. It will appeal widely to scholars and students of anthropology, sociology and African Studies; particularly those interested in religion and kinship.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511550362
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 226 pages)
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    Abstract: The twentieth century gave rise to profound changes in traditional sex roles. However, the force of this 'rising tide' has varied among rich and poor societies around the globe, as well as among younger and older generations. Rising Tide sets out to understand how modernization has changed cultural attitudes towards gender equality and to analyze the political consequences of this process. The core argument suggests that women and men's lives have been altered in a two-stage modernization process consisting of (i) the shift from agrarian to industrialized societies and (ii) the move from industrial towards post industrial societies. This book is the first to systematically compare attitudes towards gender equality worldwide, comparing almost 70 nations that run the gamut from rich to poor, agrarian to postindustrial. Rising Tide is essential reading for those interested in understanding issues of comparative politics, public opinion, political behavior, political development, and political sociology.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511550461
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 448 pages)
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    Abstract: The management of and communication about risks has become a major question of public policy and intellectual debate in the modern world. The social amplification of risk framework describes how both social and individual factors act to amplify or dampen perceptions of risk and through this create secondary effects such as stigmatisation of technologies, economic losses or regulatory impacts. This volume, edited by three of the world's leading analysts of risk and its communication, brings together contributions from a group of international experts working in the field of risk perception and risk communication. Key conceptual issues are discussed as well as a range of recent case studies (spanning BSE and food safety, AIDS/HIV, nuclear power, child protection, Y2K, electromagnetic fields, and waste incineration) that take forward the state-of-the-art in risk amplification theory. The volume also draws attention to lessons for public policy, risk management and risk communication practice.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511610042
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 370 pages)
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    Keywords: Öffentliche Meinung ; Politische Beteiligung ; USA
    Abstract: Since so few people appear knowledgeable about public affairs, one might question whether collective policy preferences revealed in opinion surveys accurately convey the distribution of voices and interests in a society. This study, the first comprehensive treatment of the relationship between knowledge, representation, and political equality in opinion surveys, suggests some surprising answers. Knowledge does matter, and the way it is distributed in society can cause collective preferences to reflect disproportionately the opinions of some groups more than others. Sometimes collective preferences seem to represent something like the will of the people, but frequently they do not. Sometimes they rigidly enforce political equality in the expression of political viewpoints, but often they do not. The primary culprit is not any inherent shortcoming in the methods of survey research. Rather, it is the limited degree of knowledge held by ordinary citizens about public affairs. Accounting for these factors can help better appreciate thepossibilities for using opinion polls to represent the people's voice.
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    Cambridge ; : D.S. Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781846150470
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 294 pages)
    DDC: 398.209
    Keywords: Märchen ; Fairy tales History and criticism ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Introduction by Derek Brewer. The aim of this book is to discuss the characteristics of the traditional fairy tale in Europe and North America, and various theories of its development and interpretation. The book deals with the main collections - the Grimm brothers, Hans Andersen, Perrault and Afanes'ev - and with the development of tales in various regions of Europe, including Ireland, Wales, Scandinavia, Germany and Russia, as well as India, where it was once claimed that they originated. The subject of the fairy tale is a controversial one: problems discussed here include the relationship between tales recorded from story-tellers and literary works, the importance of printed works for the spread of the tales, the growth of recent examples with a feminine approach, the spread of popular tales like Cinderella, special types like the cumulative tales, possible effects of TV, and the nature of traditional plots and characters. Above all, we have been concerned with the distribution and long survival of these tales, and the nature of their appeal. SHORTLISTED FOR THE KATHARINE BRIGGS FOLKLORE AWARD 2004. Contributors: GRAHAM ANDERSON, DAVID BLAMIRES, RUTH BOTTIGHEIMER, DEREK BREWER, MARY BROCKINGTON, ANNA CHAUDHRI, HILDA ELLIS DAVIDSON, ROBIN GWYNDAF, BENGT HOLBEK, DAVID HUNT, REIMUND KVIDELAND, PATRICIA LYSAGHT, NEIL PHILIP, JAMES RIORDAN, PAT SCHAEFER, TOM SHIPPEY, JOYCE THOMAS.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521818915 , 9780521818919 , 0521524423 , 9780521524421 , 0511061463 , 9780511061462 , 0511069928 , 9780511069925
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 306 Seiten)
    DDC: 305/.0994
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations ; Wirtschaft ; Social classes / Australia ; Equality / Australia ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Lehrmittel ; Geschichte ; Australien ; Australia / Social conditions / 21st century ; Australia / Economic conditions / 21st century ; Australia / Social policy ; Australien ; Electronic books. ; Electronic book ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Electronic books. ; Electronic book ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books ; Australien ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Geschichte ; Lehrmittel
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-291) and index , Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Why a new look at inequality?; The importance of the social; The importance of history; 2 Inequality and the Sociology of the Body; 3 Sick Bodies and Inequality: Class, Mortality and Morbidity; 4 Gendered, Aged and Disabled Bodies; 5 Experiencing the Inequality of Social Resources; 6 Experiencing the Inequality of Cultural Difference; 7 Experiencing the Inequality of Life Choices; 8 Collective Identity, Politics and the Myth of Egalitarianism , This text seeks to analyse and explain inequality, challenging traditional conceptions and providing a new critical perspective. The authors provide a comprehensive historical account of inequality, and show how that account no longer adequately explains the new and different forms of inequality experienced in recent decades
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520929265
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (202 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.8089
    Keywords: Filipinos ; Ethnosoziologie ; Philippinischer Einwanderer ; USA
    Abstract: Filipino Americans, who experience life in the United States as immigrants, colonized nationals, and racial minorities, have been little studied, though they are one of our largest immigrant groups. Based on her in-depth interviews with more than one hundred Filipinos in San Diego, California, Yen Le Espiritu investigates how Filipino women and men are transformed through the experience of migration, and how they in turn remake the social world around them. Her sensitive analysis reveals that Filipino Americans confront U.S. domestic racism and global power structures by living transnational lives that are shaped as much by literal and symbolic ties to the Philippines as they are by social, economic, and political realities in the United States. Espiritu deftly weaves vivid first-person narratives with larger social and historical contexts as she discovers the meaning of home, community, gender, and intergenerational relations among Filipinos. Among other topics, she explores the ways that female sexuality is defined in contradistinction to American mores and shows how this process becomes a way of opposing racial subjugation in this country. She also examines how Filipinos have integrated themselves into the American workplace and looks closely at the effects of colonialism.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520937505
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (401 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Life Passages v.2
    DDC: 395.22
    Abstract: The fabulous gown, the multitiered cake, abundant flowers, attendants and guests in their finery. The white wedding does more than mark a life passage. It marries two of the most sacred tenets of American culture-romantic love and excessive consumption. For anyone who has ever wondered about the meanings behind a white dress, a diamond ring, rice, and traditions such as cake cutting, bouquet tossing, and honeymooning, this book offers an entertaining and enlightening look at the historical, social, and psychological strains that come together to make the lavish wedding the most important cultural ritual in contemporary consumer culture. With an emphasis on North American society, Cele C. Otnes and Elizabeth H. Pleck show how the elaborate wedding means far more than a mere triumph for the bridal industry. Through interviews, media accounts, and wide-ranging research and analysis, they expose the wedding's reflection-or reproduction-of fundamental aspects of popular consumer culture: its link with romantic love, its promise of magical transformation, its engendering of memories, and its legitimization of consumption as an expression of perfection. As meaningful as any prospective bride might wish, the lavish wedding emerges here as a lens that at once reveals, magnifies, and reveres some of the dearest wishes and darkest impulses at the heart of our culture.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520936478
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (237 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.40973
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1650-1800 ; Frau ; Geschlechterrolle ; Wert ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Ruth Bloch's stellar essays on the origins of Anglo-American conceptions of gender and morality are brought together in this valuable book, which collects six of her most influential pieces in one place for the first time and includes two new essays. The volume illuminates the overarching theme of her work by addressing a basic historical question: Why did the attitudes toward gender and family relations that we now consider traditional values emerge when they did? Bloch looks deeply into eighteenth-century culture to answer this question, highlighting long-term developments in religion, intellectual history, law, and literature, showing that the eighteenth century was a time of profound transformation for women's roles as wives and mothers, for ideas about sexuality, and for notions of female moral authority. She engages topics from British moral philosophy to colonial laws regarding courtship, and from the popularity of the sentimental novel to the psychology of religious revivalism. Lucid, provocative, and wide-ranging, these eight essays bring a revisionist challenge to both women's studies and cultural studies as they ask us to reconsider the origins of the system of gender relations that has dominated American culture for two hundred years.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520937277
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (317 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 330.979474
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    Keywords: Mexikaner ; Chicanos ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Armut ; USA
    Abstract: Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in two impoverished California communities-one made up of recent immigrants from Mexico, the other of U.S.-born Chicano citizens-this book provides an invaluable comparative perspective on Latino poverty in contemporary America. In northern California's high-tech Silicon Valley, author Daniel Dohan shows how recent immigrants get by on low-wage babysitting and dish-cleaning jobs. In the housing projects of Los Angeles, he documents how families and communities of U.S.-born Mexican Americans manage the social and economic dislocations of persistent poverty. Taking readers into worlds where public assistance, street crime, competition for low-wage jobs, and family, pride, and cross-cultural experiences intermingle, The Price of Poverty offers vivid portraits of everyday life in these Mexican American communities while addressing urgent policy questions such as: What accounts for joblessness? How can we make sense of crime in poor communities? Does welfare hurt or help?.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520936973
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.7
    Abstract: In France, a common notion is that the shared interests of graduate students and their professors could lead to intimate sexual relations, and that regulations curtailing those relationships would be both futile and counterproductive. By contrast, many universities and corporations in the United States prohibit sexual relationships across hierarchical lines and sometimes among coworkers, arguing that these liaisons should have no place in the workplace. In this age of globalization, how do cultural and legal nuances translate? And when they differ, how are their subtleties and complexities understood? In comparing how sexual harassment-a concept that first emerged in 1975-has been defined differently in France and the United States, Abigail Saguy explores not only the social problem of sexual harassment but also the broader cultural concerns of cross-national differences and similarities.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520935396
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (251 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.461
    Abstract: Even childbirth is affected by globalization-and in India, as elsewhere, the trend is away from home births, assisted by midwives, toward hospital births with increasing reliance on new technologies. And yet, as this work of critical feminist ethnography clearly demonstrates, the global spread of biomedical models of childbirth has not brought forth one monolithic form of "modern birth." Focusing on the birth experiences of lower-class women in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Birth on the Threshold reveals the complex and unique ways in which modernity emerges in local contexts. Through vivid description and animated dialogue, this book conveys the birth stories of the women of Tamil Nadu in their own voices, emphasizing their critiques of and aspirations for modern births today. In light of these stories, author Cecilia Van Hollen explores larger questions about how the structures of colonialism and postcolonial international and national development have helped to shape the form and meaning of birth for Indian women today. Ultimately, her book poses the question: How is gender-especially maternity-reconfigured as birth is transformed?.
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