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    New York : Routledge | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781317787822
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 263 Seiten)
    DDC: 305.40922
    Keywords: Einwanderung ; Einwanderin ; Frau ; Psychologie ; Soziologie
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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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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780816690817
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (310 pages)
    Series Statement: Cultural Studies of the Americas
    DDC: 394.25/09895
    Abstract: The murgas are troupes of performers, musicians, writers, and creators who, during Montevideo's Carnival, perform on the tablados, temporary stages built in the neighborhoods of Uruguay's capital city each year. Throughout the period of Uruguay's subjection to a brutal dictatorship and in the following era of "democratization," the murgas, envisioned originally as popular theater, were transformed into a symbol of social resistance, celebrated by many and perceived by others as menacing and subversive. Focusing on the cultural practices of the lower classes and more specifically on the processes and productions of the murgas, Gustavo Remedi's Carnival Theater is a deeply thoughtful consideration of Uruguayan society's identity crisis and subsequent redefinition in the wake of the authoritarian-bureaucratic-technocratic regimes of the 1970s. A revealing work of cultural criticism, the book proposes a new set of criteria for the interpretation and critique of national culture.
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780816695966
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (236 pages)
    Series Statement: Electronic Mediations
    DDC: 303.48/3
    Abstract: As biotechnology defines the new millennium, genetic codes and computer codes increasingly merge-life understood as data, flesh rendered programmable. Where this trend will take us, and what it might mean, is what concerns Eugene Thacker in this timely book, a penetrating look into the intersection of molecular biology and computer science in our day and its likely ramifications for the future.Integrating approaches from science and media studies, Biomedia is a critical analysis of research fields that explore relationships between biologies and technologies, between genetic and computer "codes." In doing so, the book looks beyond the familiar examples of cloning, genetic engineering, and gene therapy-fields based on the centrality of DNA or genes-to emerging fields in which "life" is often understood as "information." Focusing especially on interactions between genetic and computer codes, or between "life" and "information," Thacker shows how each kind of "body" produced-from biochip to DNA computer-demonstrates how molecular biology and computer science are interwoven to provide unique means of understanding and controlling living matter.Throughout, Thacker provides in-depth accounts of theoretical issues implicit in biotechnical artifacts-issues that arise in the fields of bioinformatics, proteomics, systems biology, and biocomputing. Research in biotechnology, Biomedia suggests, flouts our assumptions about the division between biological and technological systems. New ways of thinking about this division are needed if we are to understand the cultural, social, and philosophical dimensions of such research, and this book marks a significant advance in the coming intellectual revolution.
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780816695942
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (283 pages)
    Series Statement: Borderlines
    DDC: 305.8/00994
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    Keywords: Landschaftspflege ; Nationalcharakter ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Nationenbildung ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Australien
    Abstract: In a world increasingly marked by migration and dislocation, the question of displacement, and of establishing a sense of belonging, has become ever more common and ever more urgent. But what of those who stay in place? How do people who remain in their place of origin or ancestral homeland rearticulate a sense of connection, of belonging, when ownership of the territory they occupy is contested? Focusing on Australia, Allaine Cerwonka examines the physical and narrative spatial practices by which people reclaim territory in the wake of postcolonial claims to land by indigenous people and new immigration of "foreigners." As a multicultural, postcolonial nation whose claims to land until recently were premised on the notion of the continent as "empty" (terra nullius), Australia offers an especially rich lens for understanding the reterritorialization of the nation-state in an era of globalization. To this end, Native to the Nation provides a multisited ethnography of two communities in Melbourne, the Fitzroy Police Station and the East Melbourne Garden Club, allowing us to see how bodies are managed and nations physically constructed in everyday confrontations and cultivations.
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780816695577
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (229 pages)
    DDC: 323.173
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    Abstract: Racial discrimination embodies inequality, exclusion, and injustice and as such has no place in a democratic society. And yet racial matters pervade nearly every aspect of American life, influencing where we live, what schools we attend, the friends we make, the votes we cast, the opportunities we enjoy, and even the television shows we watch. Joel Olson contends that, given the history of slavery and segregation in the United States, American citizenship is a form of racial privilege in which whites are equal to each other but superior to everyone else. In Olson's analysis we see how the tension in this equation produces a passive form of democracy that discourages extensive participation in politics because it treats citizenship as an identity to possess rather than as a source of empowerment. Olson traces this tension and its disenfranchising effects from the colonial era to our own, demonstrating how, after the civil rights movement, whiteness has become less a form of standing and more a norm that cements white advantages in the ordinary operations of modern society. To break this pattern, Olson suggests an "abolitionist-democratic" political theory that makes the fight against racial discrimination a prerequisite for expanding democratic participation.
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780816695874
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (208 pages)
    DDC: 305.894541047092
    Abstract: A riveting memoir of one family's struggle under a totalitarian regime.
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780816695072
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (257 pages)
    Series Statement: Social Movements, Protest, and Contention
    DDC: 303.61
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    Keywords: Autoritärer Staat ; Gewaltloser Widerstand ; Soziale Bewegung ; Politische Bewegung ; Protestbewegung ; Südostasien
    Abstract: In the last two decades of the twentieth century, a wave of "people power" movements erupted throughout the nondemocratic world. In South Africa, the Philippines, Nepal, Thailand, Burma (Myanmar), China, and elsewhere, mass protest demonstrations, strikes, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other nonviolent actions were brought to bear on a rigid political status quo. Kurt Schock compares the successes of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, the people power movement in the Philippines, the pro-democracy movement in Nepal, and the antimilitary movement in Thailand with the failures of the pro-democracy movement in China and the anti-regime challenge in Burma. Schock develops a synthetic framework that allows him to identify which characteristics increase the resilience of a challenge to state repression, and which aspects of a state's relations can be exploited by such a challenge. By looking at how these methods of protest promoted regime change in some countries but not in others, this book provides rare insight into the often overlooked and little understood power of nonviolent action.
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    Jackson : University Press of Mississippi | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781604739565
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (215 pages)
    DDC: 781.642082
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    Keywords: Countrymusic ; Geschlechterrolle
    Abstract: From the smiling, sentimental mothers portrayed in 1930s radio barn dance posters, to the sexual shockwaves generated by Elvis Presley, to the female superstars redefining contemporary country music, gender roles and imagery have profoundly influenced the ways country music is made and enjoyed. Proper male and female roles have influenced the kinds of sounds and images that could be included in country music; preconceptions of gender have helped to determine the songs and artists audiences would buy or reject; and gender has shaped the identities listeners made for themselves in relation to the music they revered. This interdisciplinary collection of essays is the first book-length effort to examine how gender conventions, both masculine and feminine, have structured the creation and marketing of country music. The essays explore the uses of gender in creating the personas of stars as diverse as Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline, and Shania Twain. The authors also examine how deeply conventions have influenced the institutions and everyday experiences that give country music its image: the popular and fan press, the country music industry in Nashville, and the line dance crazes that created the dance hall boom of the 1990s. From Hank Thompson's "The Wild Side of Life" to Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named Sue," from Tammy Wynette's "Stand by Your Man" to Loretta Lynn's ode to birth control, "The Pill," A Boy Named Sue demonstrates the role gender played in the development of country music and its current prominence. Kristine M. McCusker is a professor of history at Middle Tennessee State University. Diane Pecknold is an independent scholar in Chicago, Illinois.
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    Jackson : University Press of Mississippi | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781604730593
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (206 pages)
    DDC: 306.846097309044
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    Keywords: Ethnische Beziehungen ; Rassenmischung ; USA
    Abstract: Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954 studies the meaning of interracial romance, love, and sex in the ten years after World War II. How was interracial romance treated in popular culture by civil rights leaders, African American soldiers, and white segregationists? Previous studies focus on the period beginning in 1967 when the Supreme Court overturned the last state antimiscegenation law (Loving v. Virginia). Lubin's study, however, suggests that we cannot fully understand contemporary debates about "hybridity," or mixed-race identity, without first comprehending how WWII changed the terrain. The book focuses on the years immediately after the war, when ideologies of race, gender, and sexuality were being reformulated and solidified in both the academy and the public. Lubin shows that interracial romance, particularly between blacks and whites, was a testing ground for both the general American public and the American government. The government wanted interracial relationships to be treated primarily as private affairs to keep attention off contradictions between its outward aura of cultural freedom and the realities of Jim Crow politics and antimiscegenation laws. Activists, however, wanted interracial intimacy treated as a public act, one that could be used symbolically to promote equal rights and expanded opportunities.
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    Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780801881596
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (344 pages)
    Series Statement: New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History
    DDC: 303.44
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1945-1989 ; Nationalcharakter ; Sozialer Wandel ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Politik ; USA
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    Stanford : Hoover Institution Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780817945435
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (226 pages)
    Series Statement: Hoover National Security Forum
    DDC: 303.6/25
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    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780812200645
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (232 pages)
    DDC: 306.84/5/095
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    Austin : University of Texas Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780292798120
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (213 pages)
    DDC: 306/.1
    Keywords: Drogenhandel ; Musik ; Mexiko
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    Austin : University of Texas Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780292798465
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (399 pages)
    DDC: 305.5/2/09720904
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    Austin : University of Texas Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780292797529
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (266 pages)
    DDC: 303.48/273072/09034
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    Madison : University of Wisconsin Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780299201333
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (253 pages)
    Series Statement: Women in Africa and the Diaspora
    DDC: 305.235086942096657
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    Keywords: Kind ; Tod ; Bewältigung ; Mutter ; Guinea-Bissau
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    New Haven : Yale University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780300127478
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (257 pages)
    DDC: 781.65/092/2
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    Keywords: Armstrong, Louis ; Whiteman, Paul ; Jazz ; USA
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203214503
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (242 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.230941
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    Keywords: Kind ; Sozialer Wandel ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: Examining debates concerning children and young people, this text discusses the politics of childhood , focusing on topics such as: the family; education and schooling; mental health; crime and justice; and sexuality.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203299197
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (277 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: ASAA Women in Asia Series
    DDC: 305.409598
    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-1960 ; Frauenbewegung ; Indonesien
    Abstract: This book examines women's activism in the early years of independent Indonesia when new attitudes to gender, nationalism, citizenship and democratization were forming. It questions the meaning of democratization for women and their relationship to national sovereignty within the new Indonesian state, and discusses women's organizations and their activities; women's social and economic roles; and the different cultural, regional and ethnic attitudes towards women, while showing the failure of political change to fully address women's gender interests and needs. The author argues that both the role of nationalism in defining gender identity and the role of gender in defining national identity need equal recognition.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203414415
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (199 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.48/9664/09495
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    Keywords: Dorf ; Lesbische Orientierung ; Soziale Identität ; Dorfgemeinschaft ; Geschlechterrolle ; Griechenland
    Abstract: This extraordinary book opens up the strange world of the 'parea' - a lesbian secret society based in a small-town bar outside Athens, whose members meet clandestinely to drink, dance and flirt. Though conducting intense sexual affairs under the noses of other customers, the parea's members - many of whom are married with children and have perfectly conventional lives by Greek standards - do not identify themselves as gay and have very negative images of homosexuality. Based entirely on fieldwork within the parea, For The Love of Women weaves stories of women's lives and relationships into an intriguing and perceptive analysis.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203583401
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (295 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Classic Ethnographies
    DDC: 306/.089/965
    Abstract: When first published in 1988, this classic study was the first to relate the dynamics of the Maasai age organisation to the tensions within the family. Together, these provide the twin strands of a man's career, opposed ritually and reflecting a fundamental ambivalence in Maasai thought. The analysis is illustrated with extensive case material from the the Matapato, selected for this study as a typical Maasai group.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203583524
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (304 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.89965
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    Keywords: Massai ; Religion ; Kosmologie ; Ritus ; Altersgruppe
    Abstract: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203503812
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (357 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 303.6/25
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    Keywords: Internationaler Terrorismus ; Internationale Politik ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The terrorist attacks of September 11th and more recent atrocities in Russia, Indonesia and Kenya have demonstrated that terrorism now poses the most dangerous threat to stability, democracy and prosperity around the world. This major new book examines how the world has reacted to, and been affected by, the attacks on September 11th, ensuing war in Afghanistan and President George W. Bush's declaration of a 'war on terror' as the 'first war of the 21st century'. The contributions by distinguished specialists in the field examine the domestic implications of terrorism and counter terrorist initiatives across the world. Few books can boast the quality and range of the contributions to this volume, which locate the war on terror in a truly global and intellectual context.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203584811
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (276 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Classic Ethnographies
    DDC: 306.089965
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    Keywords: Samburu ; Gerontokratie
    Abstract: Samburu society is a gerontocracy in which power rests with the older men; men under thirty may not marry or otherwise assert their personal independence. This nomadic tribe from the arid regions of northern Kenya cling to their traditional way of life despite the rapid change throughout Africa. The author spent more than two years during the 1960's amongst the Samburu, and as an adopted member of one of their clans, he perceived how their values and attitudes are closely interwoven with a social system that resists change.
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    London : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203465509
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Critical Social Thought
    DDC: 306.43/09773/11
    Abstract: Noted scholar Pauline Lipman explores the implications of education accountability reforms, particularly in urban schools, in the current political, economic, and cultural context of intensifying globalization and increasing social inequality and marginalization along lines of race and class.
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    London : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203463789
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (279 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education
    DDC: 305.4/07/051249
    Abstract: Acting Otherwise concerns the strategies of action that have been used by feminist scholars to attain the institutionalization of women's/gender studies in universities.
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    ISBN: 9780203448601
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (294 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    DDC: 303.4/0947
    Abstract: This book examines a number of key questions about social change in contemporary Russia - issues such as how people survive when they are not paid for months on end, 'the New Poor', the falling birth rate, why so many Russian men die in middle age, whether regional identities are becoming stronger, and how people's sense of 'Russianness' has developed since the creation of the Russian Federation in 1992. It examines these issues by looking at actual experiences in three small Russian towns. It includes a great deal of original ethnographic research, and, by looking at real places overall, provides a good sense of how different aspects of social change are interlinked, and how they actually affect real people's lives.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203501184
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (257 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.42/09
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    Keywords: Anthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Feminismus ; Kulturelle Entwicklung ; Theorie
    Abstract: With nine papers examining a distinct body of archaeological data, Ungendering Civilization offers a much needed scrutiny of the role of women in the evolution of states. Studying societies including Predynastic Egypt, Minoan Crete, ancient Zimbabwe and the Maya - to determine what the facts actually show, the contributors critically address traditional views of male and female roles, and argue for the possibility that the root historical cause of gender subordination is participation in modern world system, rather than 'innate' tendencies to domesticity and child-rearing in women, and leadership and aggression in men. With an interdisciplinary potential, students of archaeology, cultural studies and gender studies will find this full of useful information.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203507827
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (308 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 302.35
    Abstract: Taylorism was criticised for its over-simplistic view of what motivated the worker. Oliver Sheldon's theme was that though Taylorism had helped the development of a science of management, such work should not detract from the predominantly human job of the manager to manage. His work prefigures the human relations approach to management theory of Elton Mayo and F. J. Roethlisberger in rejecting the notion that economic incentives largely explain employee behaviour.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203495100
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (161 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Women and Psychology
    DDC: 306.4/613
    Abstract: Are scientific 'facts' about body image enough to define conceptions of normality? Reassessing Experimental Psychology from a critical perspective, Sylvia Blood demonstrates how its research into Body Image can be misused and prone to misuse. Classifying women who experience distress and anxiety with food, eating and body size as suffering 'body image disturbance' or 'body image dissatisfaction', it can reproduce dominant assumptions about language, meaning and subjectivity. Experimental psychology's discourse about body image has recently become more widely influential, becoming popularised through domains such as women's magazines, in which psychological experts provide 'facts' about women's 'body image problems', and offer advice and psychological treatments. With acute cross-disciplinary awareness Body Work: The Social Construction of Women's Body Image exposes the assumptions at work in the methods and status of experimental approaches. Penetrating beyond the usual dichotomy between experimental and popular psychology, this book illuminates some of the ways in which women's magazines have embraced experimental psychology's treatment of the issue. Drawing on her experience in Clinical Psychology, Sylvia Blood highlights the damaging effects of uncritically experimental views of body image. She goes on to elaborate not only an alternative model of discursive construction but also the implications of such a theory for clinical practice. Merging theory and clinical experience, Sylvia Blood exposes the fallacies about women's bodies that underpin experimental psychology's body image research. She demonstrates the dangerous consequences of these fallacies being accepted as truths in popular texts and in the talk of 'everyday' women.
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    ISBN: 9780203509241
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (214 pages)
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    DDC: 302.35
    Abstract: This edited collection includes contributions by Mary Parker Follett, Henri Fayol, James D. Mooney and Henry S. Dennison, and L. J. Henderson, T. N. Whitehead and Elton Mayo. The paper by Henderson, Whitehead and Mayo discusses the findings of the Hawthorne experiments. Whilst admiring the pioneering work of Taylor, these authors criticize scientific management on the grounds that it does not study the facts of human organization. The Hawthorne experiments revealed the importance of spontaneous social organization of the work group into a micro-social system.
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    Series Statement: Key Ideas
    DDC: 306.7
    Abstract: We are almost programmed into thinking of our sexuality as a wholly natural feature of life. But sexual relations are but one form of social relations, as Jeffrey Weeks makes clear in his book.Drawing on the analyses of Michel Foucault, amongst others, the book examines the social, moral and political issues raised by contemporary forms of sexuality. Weeks provides an authoritative introduction to the sociology of sexuality, discussing its cultural and socio-historical construction, it's relationship with power and the State's involvement in its rationalisation and regulation. This second edition is also updates to include global and postcolonial perspectives on sexuality, queer theory, the internet and cybersex, AIDS as a global phenomenon and international debates on the politics of sexuality. This book is an indispensable introduction to this complex and expanding field.
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    ISBN: 9780203497579
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (172 pages)
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    Abstract: Rethinking Aggression and Violence in Sport explores the psychological aspects of these two intrinsic elements of competitive sport. This book critically examines the important issues associated with aggression and violence in sport, including: * a review of current theory in the psychology of aggression * exploration of how players become acclimatised to physical violence * discussion of the psychological benefits of sanctioned and unsanctioned sport violence * examination of the moral and ethical dimensions of the debate * the psychological basis of spectator aggression * case studies from a wide variety of sports. This text is a must read for researchers and students within sport studies, psychology and sociology with an interest in human violence and aggressive behaviour.
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    ISBN: 9780203633618
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (294 pages)
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    Abstract: Culture has become a touchstone of interdisciplinary conversation. For readers interested in sociology, the social sciences and the humanities, this book maps major classical and contemporary analyses and cultural controversies in relation to social processes, everyday life, and axes of ordering and difference - such as race, class and gender. Hall, Neitz, and Battani discuss: self and identity stratification the Other the cultural histories of modernity and postmodernity production of culture the problem of the audience action, social movements, and change.  The authors advocate cultivating the sociological imagination by engaging myriad languages and perspectives of the social sciences and humanities, while cultivating cultural studies by developing the sociological imagination.  Paying little respect to boundaries, and incorporating fascinating examples, this book draws on diverse intellectual perspectives and a variety of topics from various historical periods and regions of the world.
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    ISBN: 9780203380703
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (512 pages)
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    Keywords: Rassismus ; Ethnizität ; Wörterbuch
    Abstract: Developed from the critically acclaimed and commercially successful Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations, now in its fourth edition, Encyclopedia of Race and Ethnic Studies has been assembled by a world-class team of international scholars led by Ellis Cashmore to provide an authoritative, single-volume reference work on all aspects of race and ethnic studies. From Aboriginal Australians to xenophobia, Nelson Mandela to Richard Wagner, sexuality to racial profiling, the Encyclopedia is organized alphabetically and reflects cultural diversity in a global context. The entries range from succinct 400 word definitions to in-depth 2000 word essays to provide comprehensive coverage of: all the key terms, concepts and debates important figures, both historical and contemporary landmark cases historical events Although unafraid to engage with cutting-edge theory, the Encyclopedia is uncluttered by jargon and has been written in a lucid, 'facts-fronted' style to offer an accessible introduction to race and ethnic studies. The Encyclopedia is also fully cross-referenced and thoroughly indexed with most entries followed by annotated up-to-date suggestions for further reading to guide the user to the key sources. It is destined to become an essential resource for scholars and students of race and ethnic studies, as well as a handy reference for journalists and others working in the field.
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    ISBN: 9780203508275
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    Abstract: The everyday makeup of contemporary sport is increasingly characterised by a perceived explosion of 'deviance' - violence, drug taking, racism, homophobia, misogyny, corruption and excess. Whereas once these behaviours may have been subject to the moral judgments of authority, in the face of dramatic socio-cultural change they become more a matter of populist consumer gaze. In addressing these developments this book provides a new and insightful approach toward the study of 'deviance' in the realm of sport. New Perspectives in Sport and 'Deviance' awakens the sociology of sport to the possibilities of re-imagining 'deviance' and offers an evocative approach which will appeal both to academics and students in the field of sociology of sport and sociology of deviance.
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    ISBN: 9780203493922
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (195 pages)
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    Keywords: Sportfan ; Sportsoziologie ; Verbraucherverhalten
    Abstract: Consuming Sport offers a detailed consideration of how sport is experienced and engaged with in the everyday lives, social networks and consumer patterns of its followers. It examines the processes of becoming a sport fan, and the social and moral career that supporters follow as their involvement develops over a life-course. The book argues that while for many people sport matters, for many more, it does not. Though for some sport is significant in shaping their social and cultural identity, it is often consumed and experienced by others in quite mundane and everyday ways, through the media images that surround us, conversations overheard and in the clothing of people we pass by. As well as developing a new theory of sport fandom the book links this discussion to wider debates on audiences, fan cultures and consumer practices. The text argues that for far too long consideration of sport fans has focused on exceptional forms of support ignoring the myriad of ways in which sport can be experienced and consumed in everyday life.
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    ISBN: 9780203499979
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (273 pages)
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    Keywords: Armut ; Gewalt ; Politik ; Subsaharisches Afrika
    Abstract: Modernization in Africa has created new problems as well as new freedoms. Multiparty democracy, resource privatization and changing wealth relationships, have not always created stable and prosperous communities, and violence continues to be endemic in many areas of African life - from civil war and political strife to violent clashes between genders, generations, classes and ethnic groups. Violence and Belonging explores the crucial formative role of violence in shaping people's ideas of who they are in uncertain postcolonial contexts where, as resources dwindle and wealth is contested, identities and ideas of belonging become a focal area of conflict and negotiation. Focusing on fieldwork from across the continent, its case studies consider how routine everyday violence ties in with wider regional and political upheavals, and how individuals experience and legitimize violence in its different forms. The Zimbabwean and Sudanese civil wars, Kenyan Kikuyu domestic conflicts, Rwandan massacres and South African Truth and Reconciliation processes, are among the contexts explored.
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    ISBN: 9780203484722
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (401 pages)
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    Series Statement: Death and the Displacement of Beauty
    DDC: 306.9
    Abstract: The pursuit of death and the love of death has characterized Western culture from Homeric times through centuries of Christianity, taking particular deadly shapes in Western postmodernity. This necrophilia shows itself in destruction and violence, in a focus on other worlds and degradation of this one, and in hatred of the body, sense and sexuality. In her major new book project Death and the Displacement of Beauty, Grace M. Jantzen seeks to disrupt this wish for death, opening a new acceptance of beauty and desire that makes it possible to choose life. Foundations of Violence enters the ancient world of Homer, Sophocles, Plato and Aristotle to explore the genealogy of violence in Western thought through its emergence in Greece and Rome. It uncovers origins of ideas of death from the 'beautiful death' of Homeric heroes to the gendered misery of war, showing the tensions between those who tried to eliminate fear of death by denying its significance, and those like Plotinus who looked to another world, seeking life and beauty in another realm.
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    ISBN: 9780203633953
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (239 pages)
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    Series Statement: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    DDC: 306.2/094371
    Abstract: Post-communist transformation in the former Soviet bloc has had a profound effect, not just in the political and economic sphere, but on all aspects of life. Although a great deal has been written about transformation, much of it has been about transformation viewed from the top, and little has been written about how things have changed for ordinary people at the local level. This book, based on extensive original research, examines the changes resulting from transformation at the local level in the form Czechoslovakia. It considers especially local democracy, social movements, and work collectives, and paints a picture of people gradually growing in self-confidence and taking more control of their communities, having lived for decades in a framework where so much was directed from the top.
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    ISBN: 9780203493861
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    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies
    DDC: 303.48/21761017671
    Abstract: The Christian-Muslim Frontier describes the historical formation of this zone, and its contemporary dimensions: geopolitical, psychological, economic and security. Special attention is given to the concept of state-frontiers, to the effects of the uneven development of nation states and the contemporary interspersing of communities, which creates new functional frontiers. Further, the frontier is described as a mental construction, imagined by people in their search for social order, individual and collective security. Apostolov demonstrates that it is the political and economic situation of the local people that determines whether these frontiers result in conflict or cooperation. Rather than imposing unilateral principles of good governance, and to ensure cooperation prevails in Christian-Muslim relations, he argues that world society needs to undertake multilateral efforts to build participatory political institutions that accommodate groups with different identities.
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    ISBN: 9780203717806
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    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in Sociology v.7
    DDC: 305.9/0691
    Abstract: Immigrant Life in the U.S. brings together scholars from across the disciplines to examine diverse examples of immigration to the paradigmatic 'nation of immigrants'. The volume covers a wide range of time periods, ethnic and national groups, and places of immigration. Contemporary Chinese children brought to the U.S. through adoption, Mexican laborers hired to work in the mid-west in the 1930s, Indian computer programmers hired to work in California, and more, are examined in a series of chapters that show the great diversity of issues facing immigrants in the past and in the present. This book emphasizes the complex tapestry that is the everyday experience of life as an immigrant and turns a critical eye on the place of globalization in the everyday life of immigrants. The contrasts it draws between past and present demonstrate the continued salience of national and ethnic identities while also describing how migrants can live almost simultaneously in two countries. This book will be of essential interest to advanced students and researchers of Sociology, History, Ethnic Studies and American Studies.
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    ISBN: 9780203492277
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (287 pages)
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    DDC: 306/.0951
    Abstract: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    ISBN: 9780203180488
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    Series Statement: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    DDC: 305.5/2/0947
    Abstract: Political Elite and the New Russia convincingly argues that although reforms in Russia have been initiated by those close to the President, in fact local and national elites have been the crucial strategic actors in reshaping Russia's economy, democratising its political system and decentralising its administration. This book analyses the role of elites under Yeltsin and Putin, discussing the extent to which they form a coherent political culture, and how far this culture has been in step with, or at odds with, the reform policies of the Kremlin leadership.
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    ISBN: 9780203633649
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (278 pages)
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    Keywords: Kunstsoziologie
    Abstract: Introducing the fundamental theories and debates in the sociology of art, this broad ranging book, the only edited reader of the sociology of art available, uses extracts from the core foundational and most influential contemporary writers in the field. As such it is essential reading both for students of the sociology of art, and of art history. Divided into five sections, it explores the following key themes: * classical sociological theory and the sociology of art * the social production of art * the sociology of the artist * museums and the social construction of high culture * sociology aesthetic form and the specificity of art. With the addition of an introductory essay that contextualizes the readings within the traditions of sociology and art history, and draws fascinating parallels between the origins and development of these two disciplines, this book opens up a productive interdisciplinary dialogue between sociology and art history as well as providing a fascinating introduction to the subject.
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    ISBN: 9780203496176
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (374 pages)
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    Abstract: This book is about the social psychological dynamics and phenomenology of social inclusion and exclusion. The editors take as their starting point the assumption that social life is conducted in a framework of relationships in which individuals seek inclusion and belongingness. Relationships necessarily include others, but equally they have boundaries that exclude. Frequently these boundaries are challenged or crossed. The book will draw together research on individual motivation, small group processes, stigmatization and intergroup relations, to provide a comprehensive social psychological account of social inclusion and exclusion.
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    ISBN: 9780203696989
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (251 pages)
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    Keywords: Europäische Union ; Englisch ; Sprachpolitik ; Verkehrssprache ; Europa
    Abstract: English-Only Europe? explores the role of languages in the process of European integration. Languages are central to the development of an integrated Europe. The way in which the European Union deals with multilingualism has serious implications for both individual member countries and international relations. In this book, Robert Phillipson considers whether the contemporary expansion of English represents a serious threat to other European languages. After exploring the implications of current policies, Phillipson argues the case for more active language policies to safeguard a multilingual Europe. Drawing on examples of countries with explicit language policies such as Canada and South Africa, the book sets out Phillipson's vision of an inclusive language policy for Europe, and describes how it can be attained.
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    ISBN: 9780203561218
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (241 pages)
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    Abstract: This is an essential read for anyone interested in the way language is used in the world of politics. Based on Aristotle's premise that we are all political animals, able to use language to pursue our own ends, the book uses the theoretical framework of linguistics to explore the ways in which we think and behave politically. Contemporary and high profile case studies of politicians and other speakers are used, including an examination of the dangerous influence of a politician's words on the defendants in the Stephen Lawrence murder trial. International in its perspective, Analysing Political Discourse also considers the changing landscape of political language post-September 11, including the increasing use of religious imagery in the political discourse of, amongst others, George Bush. Written in a lively and engaging style, this book provides an essential introduction to political discourse analysis.
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    ISBN: 9780203563397
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (252 pages)
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    DDC: 305.8
    Abstract: The impact of liberal globalization and multiculturalism means that nations are under pressure to transform their national identities from an ethnic to a civic mode. This has led, in many cases, to dominant ethnic decline, but also to its peripheral revival in the form of far right politics. At the same time, the growth of mass democracy and the decline of post-colonial and Cold War state unity in the developing world has opened the floodgates for assertions of ethnic dominance. This book investigates both tendencies and argues forcefully for the importance of dominant ethnicity in the contemporary world.
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    ISBN: 9780203748879
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (241 pages)
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    Series Statement: Anthropology of Asia
    DDC: 394.1/5/0952
    Abstract: The subject of the tea ceremony is well researched both in and outside of Japan, but the women who practice it are hardly ever discussed. The Tea Ceremony and Women's Empowerment in Modern Japan rectifies this by discussing the meaning of the Japanese tea ceremony for women practitioners in Japan from World War II to the present day. It examines how lay tea ceremony practitioners have been transforming this cultural activity while being, in turn, transformed by it.
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    ISBN: 9780203577929
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (225 pages)
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    Keywords: Datenbank ; Humangenetik ; Gesundheitswesen ; Sozialethik ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Genetic Databases offers a timely analysis of the underlying tensions, contradictions and limitations of the current regulatory frameworks for, and policy debates about, genetic databases. Drawing on original empirical research and theoretical debates in the fields of sociology, anthropology and legal studies, the contributors to this book challenge the prevailing orthodoxy of informed consent and explore the relationship between personal privacy and the public good. They also consider the multiple meanings attached to human tissue and the role of public consultations and commercial involvement in the creation and use of genetic databases. The authors argue that policy and regulatory frameworks produce a representation of participation that is often at odds with the experiences and understandings of those taking part. The findings present a serious challenge for public policy to provide mechanisms to safeguard the welfare of individuals participating in genetic databases.
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    ISBN: 9780203642573
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (193 pages)
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    Series Statement: Postcommunist States and Nations
    DDC: 306.094972
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1990-2003 ; Politik ; Gesellschaft ; Kroatien
    Abstract: Croatia, Between Europe and the Balkans addresses the key developments in economics, politics, international relations and social policy in the state over the last decade. It places these developments in their historical context, and shows how current policy dilemmas are structured within the conflicting pressures which historically have pulled Croatia between a European, a Mediterranean and a Balkan orientation. In the new context of European integration however, Croatia may now find a new role in her pivotal position as a bridge between the unruly Balkans and an impatient Europe. This book will be of particular use for courses on Eastern Europe. Its thorough, up-to-date analysis will also be of interest to students and researchers in politics and international relations, but with a broader appeal to diplomats, policy makers, trade officials, the business community and consultants expanding their trading links with the region.
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    ISBN: 9780203647219
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (202 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Transnationalism
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    Keywords: Migration ; Globalisierung ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Anthropogeografie ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Social relations in our globalising world are increasingly stretched out across the borders of two or more nation-states. Yet, despite the growing academic interest in transnational economic networks, political movements and cultural forms, too little attention has been paid to the transformations of space that these processes both reflect and reproduce. Transnational Spaces takes a innovative perspective, looking at transnationalism as a social space that can be occupied by a wide range of actors, not all of whom are themselves directly connected to transnational migrant communities.
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    ISBN: 9780203642481
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
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    Keywords: Videoüberwachung ; Gesellschaft ; Video ; Theater ; Künste ; Videokunst ; Massenkultur
    Abstract: In Loving Big Brother the author tackles head on the overstated claims of the crime-prevention and anti-terrorism lobbies. But he also argues that we desire and enjoy surveillance, and that, if we can understand why this is, we may transform the effect it has on our lives. This book looks at a wide range of performance and visual artists, at popular TV shows and movies, and at our day-to-day encounters with surveillance, rooting its arguments in an accessible reading of cultural theory. Constant scrutiny by surveillance cameras is usually seen as - at best - an invasion of privacy, and at worst an infringement of human rights. But in this radical new account of the uses of surveillance in art, performance and popular culture, John E McGrath sets out a surprizing alternative: a world where we have much to gain from the experience of being watched. This iconoclastic book develops a notion of surveillance space - somewhere beyond the public and the private, somewhere we will all soon live. It's a place we're just beginning to understand.
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    ISBN: 9780203643297
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (392 pages)
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    Series Statement: International Library of Sociology
    DDC: 306.85/09/04
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    Abstract: The institution of the family changed hugely during the course of the twentieth century. In this major new work, Göran Therborn provides a global history and sociology of the family as an institution and of politics within the family, focusing on three dimensions of family relations: on the rights and powers of fathers and husbands; on marriage, cohabitation and extra-marital sexuality; and on population policy. Therborn's empirical analysis uses a multi-disciplinary approach to show how the major family systems of the world have been formed and developed. Therborn concludes by assessing what changes the family might see during the next century. This book will be essential reading for anybody with an interest in either the sociology or the history of the family.
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    ISBN: 9780203643211
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (296 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    DDC: 305.42
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1880-1930 ; Frau ; Identität ; Verbraucherverhalten ; Feminismus
    Abstract: Since the 1970s, the literary and cultural politics of the turn-of-the-century New Woman have received increasing academic attention. Whether she is seen as the emblem of sexual anarchy, an agent of mediation between mass market and modernist cultures, or as a symptom of the consolidation of nineteenth and early twentieth-century political liberation movements, the New Woman represents a site of cultural and socio-political contestation and acts as a marker of modernity. This book explores the diversity of meanings ascribed to the New Woman in the context of cultural debates conducted within and across a wide range of national frameworks including the UK, Canada, North America, Europe, and Japan. The key concept of 'hybridities' is used to elucidate the national and ethnic multiplicity of the 'modern woman' as well as to locate this figure both within international consumer culture and within feminist writing. The book is structured around four key themes. 'Hybridities' examines the instabilities of New Woman identities and discourses in relation to both national/ethnic contexts and the textual parameters of New Woman writings. 'Through the (Periodical) Looking Glass' is concerned with the periodical press and its production and circulation of New Woman images. 'Feminist Counter Cultures?' interrogates feminist efforts to influence and shape this process by mimicking or subverting dominant models of representation and by establishing alternative spaces for the articulation of New Woman subjectivities. 'Race and the New Woman' inspects white New Women's investment in hegemonic racial discourses, looking at the way in which black and non-Western women inserted liberationist discourses into the New Woman debate. This book will be essential reading for advanced students and researchers of American Studies, Women's Studies, and Women's History.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203643730
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (280 pages)
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    Abstract: Around the world, citizens in local communities are utilising ICTs to underpin the creation of a participatory and democratic vision of the network society. Embedded in the richness and diversity of community practice, a vision of a 'civil network society' is emerging. A society where ICTs are harnessed as tools to improve the quality of life and reflect the diversity of social networks; where people are viewed as citizens, not just as consumers, and where heterogeneity is perceived as a strength rather than a weakness. Community Practice in the Network Society looks at the broad context in which this is happening, presents case studies of local projects from around the world, and discusses community ICT research methodologies. Not only does it highlight the symbiotic relationship between community ICT practice and research, but it also provides evidence supporting the case for the development of more inclusive and participatory pathways to the network society.
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    ISBN: 9780203694527
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    Abstract: We live in a visual culture, and visual evidence is increasingly central to social research. In this collection an international range of experts explain how they have used visual methods in their own research, examine their advantages and limitations, and show how they have been used alongside other research techniques. Contributors explore the following ideas: * self and identity * visualizing domestic space * visualizing urban landscapes * visualizing social change. The collection showcases different methods in different contexts through the examination of a variety of topical issues. Methods covered include photo and video diaries, the use of images produced by respondents, the use of images as prompts in interviews and focus groups, documentary photography, photographic inventory and visual ethnography. The result is an exciting and original collection that will be indispensable for any student, academic or researcher interested in the use of visual methods.
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    Richmond : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203476338
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (223 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Security in Asia Series v.2
    DDC: 306/.095
    Abstract: The main theme of this book is that security is not just about defence from external attack, but embraces the protection of identity and values which cultures regard as important, and which they may regard as worth fighting for. It examines Asia Pacific security from the perspective of the values and identities of the major actors in the region - China, Japan, the Koreas and the USA.
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    Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203218693
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (352 pages)
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    Abstract: Crossing Cultures provides a bold and refreshing new resource for teachers and trainers with proven methods for developing coping strategies and problem-solving skills in the cross-cultural arena. A comprehensive study structured to provide a framework for teaching; each chapter contains a teaching module, highlighting the potential difficulties, dialogues and variations in cross-cultural teaching. Ideal for those teaching Business across borders, this is a uniquely practical guide that features contributions from the leading lights of the field.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203769362
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 pages)
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    Keywords: Visuelle Medien ; Anthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Feldforschung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Visual methods such as drawing, painting, video, photography and hypermedia offer increasingly accessible and popular resources for ethnographic research. In Working Images, prominent visual anthropologists and artists explore how old and new visual media can be integrated into contemporary forms of research and representation. Drawing upon projects undertaken both 'at home' in their native countries and abroad in locations such as Ethopia and Venezuela, the book's contributors demonstrate how visual methods are used in the field, and how these methods can produce and communicate knowledge about our own and other cultures. As well as focusing on key issues such as ethics and the relationship between word and image, they emphasize the huge range of visual methods currently opening up new possibilities for field research, from cartoons and graphic art to new media such as digital video and online technologies.
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    ISBN: 9780203643617
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (352 pages)
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    Keywords: Ethnische Beziehungen ; Interethnische Herkunft ; Rassenmischung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Mixed race studies is one of the fastest growing, as well as one of the most important and controversial areas in the field of race and ethnic relations. Bringing together pioneering and controversial scholarship from both the social and the biological sciences, as well as the humanities, this reader charts the evolution of debates on 'race' and 'mixed race' from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book is divided into three main sections: tracing the origins: miscegenation, moral degeneracy and genetics mapping contemporary and foundational discourses: 'mixed race', identities politics, and celebration debating definitions: multiraciality, census categories and critiques. This collection adds a new dimension to the growing body of literature on the topic and provides a comprehensive history of the origins and directions of 'mixed race' research as an intellectual movement. For students of anthropology, race and ethnicity, it is an invaluable resource for examining the complexities and paradoxes of 'racial' thinking across space, time and disciplines.
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    ISBN: 9780203410790
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (286 pages)
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    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative
    DDC: 306/.0947
    Keywords: Geschichte 1917-1991 ; Alltag ; Familienleben ; Oral history ; Sowjetunion
    Abstract: For a period of over seventy years after the 1917 revolutions in Russia, talking about the past, either political or personal, became dangerous. The new policy of glasnost at the end of the 1980s resulted in a flood of reminiscence, almost nightly on television and more formally collected by new Russian oral history groups and western researchers. This book is a fascinating collection of life stories and family history interview material collected by the editors and two Russian groups of interviewers.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780203446317
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (247 pages)
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    Keywords: Sozialstruktur ; Kultursoziologie ; Kultur
    Abstract: Culture is a concept that has remained on the top of the agenda within the social sciences for two decades. It incites controversy and debate and always appears fresh. This book, updated throughout and with new sections on visual culture, urban culture and subcultures, argues that to understand the concept we need to locate it within traditions of thought and appreciate its political and ideological bases. The book looks at the concept of culture in the context of idealism and materialism, examining its relation to the notion of social structure and assessing its once assumed monopoly within literary study. Culture remains stimulating throughout. A standard reference text for students on sociology and cultural studies courses, this second concise and student-friendly edition offers an overview over the sociology of culture in an accessible format.
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    Clevedon : Multilingual Matters | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781853597169
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (236 pages)
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    Series Statement: Parents' & Teachers' Guides
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    Abstract: This title looks at how families can support and increase bilingualism through planned strategies. One such strategy is the one person-one language approach, where each parent speaks his or her language.
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    Clevedon : Multilingual Matters | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781853597626
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (249 pages)
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    Series Statement: Multilingual Matters S.
    DDC: 306.44089924
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    Keywords: Jiddisch ; Hebräisch ; Aramäisch ; Soziolinguistik
    Abstract: John Myhill argues that the usage of language in Jewish societies can be understood as following from certain specific principles, particularly regarding the relationship between language and identity. He discusses the revival of Hebrew, Hebrew in the diaspora, the survival of Yiddish and more.
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    London : SAGE Publications | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781412932387
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (337 pages)
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    Keywords: Organisationspsychologie
    Abstract: Alex Haslam's thoroughly revised and updated edition of his ground-breaking original text still retains the highly readable and engaging style of the best-selling first edition, presenting extensive reviews and critiques of major topics in organizational psychology - including leadership, motivation, communication, decision making, negotiation, power, productivity and collective action - but with much more besides.
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    Leiden : BRILL | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9789047402381
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (390 pages)
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    Keywords: Koptische Kunst ; Mittelalter ; Reitkleidung ; Ägypten ; Ägypten
    Abstract: This work deals with the evolution and distribution of the oriental riding costume in the Middle and Near East through the ages and the historical background on the find spot. It also focuses on the original costumes in various museum collections including technical researches and reconstructions.
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    ISBN: 9781412932523
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    Series Statement: Core Cultural Theorists series
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    Keywords: McLuhan, Marshall ; Massenmedien ; Theorie
    Abstract: 'In quite a profound, high-modernist way, this succinct but comprehensive book deems its subject worthy of careful scholarly analysis. I applaud and recommend it for taking much of the nonsense out of McLuhan' - Topia Journal 'Feted and reviled in his own lifetime, Marshall McLuhan has made a dramatic comeback in recent years. Marchessault gives a balanced and carefully considered appraisal of McLuhan's contribution to cultural theory, which may be even more pertinent now, in the early twenty-first century, than when he originally formulated it in the 1950s and '60s' Jim McGuigan, Professor of Cultural Analysis, Loughborough University Why is McLuhan important? What use can we make of his approach to the media today? In this insightful critical introduction, McLuhan's contribution is carefully explained and his reputation reassessed. The book: · Explains McLuhan's key ideas · Engages with critical issues in media and contemporary art · Demonstrates the relevance of his work for students of media and communications · Addresses his methodological contribution · Revises our understanding of his place in the history of ideas. Illustrated with many examples from the network society, the book works as a guide to anyone who wants to know why McLuhan is important.
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    ISBN: 9781412933919
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (169 pages)
    DDC: 306.1
    Keywords: Subkultur
    Abstract: This illuminating book, which explores the idea of subcultures, traces the concept back to the works of Tonnies and Durkheim. Jenks also analyses subcultures in American urban sociology and criminology. Finally, he evaluates the work of Stuart Hall and the Birmingham School and argues for the continuing relevance of subcultures.
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    London : SAGE Publications | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781412933872
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (199 pages)
    Series Statement: Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    DDC: 392.4/09182/10904
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1890-2000 ; Geschlechterverhältnis ; Frauenemanzipation
    Abstract: `This is a highly original and in many ways brilliant text. It is a model of how historical/process sociological research ought to be conducted and written-up. The author's subtle blending of theory and data is outstanding' - Eric Dunning, Professor of Sociology, University of Leicester.
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    ISBN: 9780511187766
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (434 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law
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    Abstract: Hetcher applies his theory of norms to tort law and Internet privacy laws.
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    West Nyack : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780511187780
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (316 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Bevölkerung ; Demographie ; USA
    Abstract: The first full scale survey of the demographic history of America in one volume.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780511187889
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (271 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology v.12
    DDC: 306.46109546
    Abstract: This book examines the low birth weight and infant mortality in high-altitude Indian region Ladakh.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780511187919
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (384 pages)
    DDC: 306.3620973
    Abstract: This book contains perspectives from prominent historians of slavery in the Americas.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780511187650
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    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time v.39
    DDC: 305.26094209033
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Sozialpolitik ; Alter ; England
    Abstract: This book presents an important study of the history of ageing.
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    Bloomington : Indiana University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780253110411
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (216 pages)
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    Abstract: "[F]illed with rare encounters with Syria's oldest, most elite families. Critics of anthropology's taste for exoticism and marginality will savor this study of upper-class Damascus, a world that is urbane and cosmopolitan, yet in many ways as remote as the settings in which the best ethnography has traditionally been done.... [Written] with a nuanced appreciation of the cultural forms in question and how Damascenes themselves think, talk about, and create them." -- Andrew ShryockIn contemporary urban Syria, debates about the representation, preservation, and restoration of the Old City of Damascus have become part of status competition and identity construction among the city's elite. In theme restaurants and nightclubs that play on images of Syrian tradition, in television programs, nostalgic literature, and visual art, and in the rhetoric of historic preservation groups, the idea of the Old City has become a commodity for the consumption of tourists and, most important, of new and old segments of the Syrian upper class. In this lively ethnographic study, Christa Salamandra argues that in deploying and debating such representations, Syrians dispute the past and criticize the present.Indiana Series in Middle East Studies -- Mark Tessler, general editor.
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    Ottawa : International Development Research Centre | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781552500668
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (167 pages)
    DDC: 302.2
    Abstract: This guide is intended for people working in research and development. It introduces participatory development communication concepts, discusses the effective two-way communication approaches, and presents a methodology to plan, develop, and evaluate communication strategies.
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    New York, NY : Brookings Institution Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780815796336
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (290 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Kunst ; Kultur ; Intellektueller ; Geistesleben ; Sowjetunion ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Isaiah Berlin's response to the Soviet Union was central to his identity, both personally and intellectually. Born a Russian subject in Riga in 1909, he spoke Russian as a child and witnessed both revolutions in St. Petersburg in 1917, emigrating to the West in 1921. He first returned to Russia in 1945, when he met the writers Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak. These formative encounters helped shape his later work, especially his defense of political freedom and his studies of pre-Soviet Russian thinkers. Never before collected, Berlin's writings about the USSR include his accounts of his famous meetings with Russian writers shortly after the Second World War; the celebrated 1945 Foreign Office memorandum on the state of the arts under Stalin; his account of Stalin's manipulative 'artificial dialectic'; portraits of Osip Mandel´shtam and Boris Pasternak; his survey of Soviet Russian culture written after a visit in 1956; a postscript stimulated by the events of 1989; and more. This collection includes essays that have never been published before, as well as works that are not widely known because they were published under pseudonyms to protect relatives living in Russia. The contents of this book were discussed at a seminar in Oxford in 2003, held under the auspices of the Brookings Institution. Berlin's editor, Henry Hardy, had prepared the essays for collective publication and here recounts their history. In his foreword, Brookings president Strobe Talbott, an expert on the Soviet Union, relates the essays to Berlin's other work. The Soviet Mind will assume its rightful place among Berlin's works and will prove invaluable for policymakers, students, and those interested in Russian politics, past, present and future.
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    ISBN: 9781552500040
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (373 pages)
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    Keywords: Indigenes Volk ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Globalisierung ; Menschenrecht ; Postkolonialismus ; Entwicklungspolitik ; Entwicklungsländer ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Indigenous peoples today are enmeshed in the expanding modern economy, subject to the pressures of both market and government. This book takes indigenous peoples as actors, not victims, as its starting point in analysing this interaction. It assembles a rich diversity of statements, case studies and wider thematic explorations, primarily from North America, and particularly the Cree, the Haudenausaunee (Iroquois) and Chippewa-Ojibwe peoples who straddle the US/Canadian border, but also from South America and the former Soviet Union. It explores the complex relationships between indigenous peoples, civil society, and the environment. It shows how the boundaries between indigenous peoples' organizations, civil society, the state, markets, development and the environment are ambiguous and constantly changing. These complexities create both opportunities and threats for local agency. People resist or react to the pressures of market and state, while sustaining 'life projects' of their own, embodying their own local history, visions and strategies.
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    ISBN: 9781433704246
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (268 pages)
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    Keywords: Diola ; Kleidung ; Identität
    Abstract: This book describes how style of dress influences the body's demeanour and habit. In describing dress practices in three West African communities - Muslim, Animist and Christian - it considers the role played by dress in the enculturation of the body.
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    ISBN: 9781433705687
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (429 pages)
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    Keywords: Grundwerte ; Wertorientierung ; Familie ; Bürgerliche Gesellschaft ; Religion ; Arbeit ; Europa ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book provides insights in and explanations of the varieties ans similarities in values in Europe in a number of life spheres at the turn of the millennium.
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    ISBN: 9781433706400
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (709 pages)
    DDC: 393.1089924033
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    Keywords: Geschichte 520 v. Chr.-70 ; Frühjudentum ; Juden ; Bestattung ; Palästina
    Abstract: This publication outlines the material preserved in the ancient Jewish cemeteries in the Land of Israel and provides a comprehensive and instructive study of Jewish funerary customs, practices, and rituals relating to death, burial and mourning, as well as addressing the meaning of Jewish funerary art and tradition.
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    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780816695584
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (298 pages)
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    Abstract: It isn't uncommon to hear now that race hardly matters anymore-that we've somehow gotten beyond it. In the face of such pronouncements, and the misconceptions that prompt them, this book aims to show precisely why and how race has always been, and remains, absolutely fundamental to modern politics. Howard Winant, one of the leading sociologists of race and ethnicity working today, clearly locates race at the crossroads of identity and social structure, where difference frames inequality and where political processes operate with a comprehensiveness that ranges from the world-historical to the intimately psychological.The New Politics of Race brings together Winant's new and previously published essays to form a comprehensive picture of the origins and nature of the complex racial politics that engulf us today. It is only in light of the post-World War II patterns of racial insurgency and reform that these politics can be understood, Winant asserts. His work offers a thorough grounding in these patterns, describing the breakdown of a certain racial order after World War II and identifying the ways in which racial hierarchies everywhere are being reestablished and reenergized, often in clandestine, or at least unfamiliar, forms.Theoretically acute and empirically sound, his essays deftly analyze the character of racial formations in a world that is, on the surface, deeply committed to eradicating racism.Howard Winant is professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Racial Conditions (Minnesota, 1994) and The World Is a Ghetto, and the coauthor with Michael Omi of Racial Formation in the United States.
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    Arlington : National Science Teachers Association | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781933531793
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (80 pages)
    DDC: 303.48/3
    Abstract: Clones, Cats, and Chemicals examines 10 dilemmas from the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, Earth science, technology, and mathematics and helps you challenge students to confront scientific and social problems that offer few black-and-white solutions. Each question is presented in two parts: concise scientific background for teachers, and reproducible materials to guide students in debating and decision making.
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    ISBN: 9781847871534
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (112 pages)
    Series Statement: Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    DDC: 306.4
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    Keywords: Körper ; Soziologie
    Abstract: Five Bodies offers an introduction to some of the most urgent contemporary concerns within the sociology of the body. This new edition has been substantially revised and updated to address today's issues of the body in modern life, community and politics.
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    London : SAGE Publications | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781847877376
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (243 pages)
    DDC: 302.23/071
    Abstract: `This is the most well written book I have read for some time. I would have very much wished for such a book when I was an undergraduate. It outlines very clearly and honestly the skills needed to be a successful independent learner. …the authors "voice" is one of a critical friend that the reader can trust.... It contains lots of good advice in relation to student support and guidance for any future subject review and on how to meet the "skills based" elements of the QAA benchmarks' Shaun Best, University of Manchester How can you succeed in media, communication and cultural studies? What are the best ways to answer essays and exams? How can you sort out your dissertation? This comprehensive and reliable book provides students in these disciplines with all they need to know to maximize their learning experience. The book: · Defines the field · Provides easy tips on being a good learner · Helps them communicate effectively in seminars · Clearly outlines key ideas and thinkers · Supplies a trouble-shooting and problem solving guide for all aspects of their study Written by an experienced lecturer and writer, the book is a must for effective performance on media, communication and cultural studies courses.
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    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781410610171
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (617 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    Series Statement: LEA's Communication
    DDC: 305.26
    Abstract: This second edition of the Handbook of Communication and Aging Research captures the ever-changing and expanding domain of aging research. Since it was first recognized that there is more to social aging than demography, gerontology has needed a communication perspective. Like the first edition, this handbook sets out to demonstrate that aging is not only an individual process but an interactive one. The study of communication can lead to an understanding of what it means to grow old. We may age physiologically and chronologically, but our social aging--how we behave as social actors toward others, and even how we align ourselves with or come to understand the signs of difference or change as we age--are phenomena achieved primarily through communication experiences. Synthesizing the vast amount of research that has been published on communication and aging in numerous international outlets over the last three decades, the book's contributors include scholars from North America and the United Kingdom who are active researchers in the perspectives covered in their particular chapter. Many of the chapters work to deny earlier images of aging as involving normative decrement to provide a picture of aging as a process of development involving positive choices and providing new opportunities. A recuring theme in many chapters is that of the heterogeneity of the group of people who are variously categorized as older, aged, elderly, or over 65. The contributors review the literature analytically, in a way that reveals not only current theoretical and methodological approaches to communication and aging research but also sets the future agenda. This handbook will be of great interest to scholars and researchers in gerontology, developmental psychology, and communication, and, in this updated edition, will continue to play a key role in the study of...
    Abstract: communication and aging.
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    Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9783110197426
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (472 pages)
    Series Statement: Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP] v.13
    DDC: 398.0899915
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    Keywords: Aborigines ; Mündliche Erzählung ; Erzähltechnik
    Abstract: This is a highly original comparative study of the oral storytelling traditions of two widely divergent cultures, Anglo-Western culture and Central Australian Aboriginal culture. Concerned with both theoretical and empirical issues, this book offers a critical discussion of the most influential theories of narrative. It evaluates them on the basis of textual analyses of Anglo-Western and Australian Aboriginal oral narratives, viewed in the context of the different storytelling practices, values and worldviews in both cultures. The book offers new insights to readers interested in linguistics, narratology, discourse analysis, cross-cultural pragmatics, anthropology, and Australian Aboriginal studies.
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    London : SAGE Publications | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781847871077
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (142 pages)
    DDC: 306.766
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    Keywords: Geschlechtsidentität ; Internationalisierung ; Homosexualität ; Globalisierung
    Abstract: Explores the relationships between the national state, globalization and sexual dissidence.
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    Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780807875872
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (380 pages)
    DDC: 305.896/08611
    Abstract: After Brazil and the United States, Colombia has the third-largest population of African-descended peoples in the Western hemisphere. Yet the country is commonly viewed as a nation of Andeans, whites, and mestizos (peoples of mixed Spanish and indigenous Indian ancestry). Aline Helg examines the historical roots of Colombia's treatment and neglect of its Afro-Caribbean identity within the comparative perspective of the Americas. Concentrating on the Caribbean region, she explores the role of free and enslaved peoples of full and mixed African ancestry, elite whites, and Indians in the late colonial period and in the processes of independence and early nation building.Why did race not become an organizational category in Caribbean Colombia as it did in several other societies with significant African-descended populations? Helg argues that divisions within the lower and upper classes, silence on the issue of race, and Afro-Colombians' preference for individual, local, and transient forms of resistance resulted in particular spheres of popular autonomy but prevented the development of an Afro-Caribbean identity in the region and a cohesive challenge to Andean Colombia.Considering cities such as Cartagena and Santa Marta, the rural communities along the Magdalena River, and the vast uncontrolled frontiers, Helg illuminates an understudied Latin American region and reintegrates Colombia into the history of the Caribbean.
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    New York : Springer Publishing Company | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780826127976
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (208 pages)
    Series Statement: Springer Series on Death and Suicide
    DDC: 306.9
    Abstract: By comparing the findings from Kalish's and Reynolds's landmark 1970's Death and Ethnicity Study to their own present study, Hayslip and Peveto examine the impact of cultural change on death attitudes. With a focus on African-American, Asian-American, and Hispanic-American subpopulations, with Caucasians treated as a comparison group, the authors come to several conclusions, including: the shift toward more interest in being informed of one's own terminal prognosis; a more personal approach to funerals and mourning observances; a greater focus on family and relationships.
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    Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780807863350
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (199 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.4/842/0975823109041
    Abstract: Music and the Making of a New South.
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    London : Bloomsbury Publishing | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781847142610
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (286 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 304.2
    Abstract: Thinking Geographically offers students and faculty alike an elegant, concise, and thorough overview of contemporary theoretical concerns in geography. Easily accessible to those unfamiliar with social theory, this volume "pushes the envelope" of understanding by sketching the contours of post-structuralist spatial thought, including such critical emerging topics as geographies of text, the body, money, and globalisation. Brief biographies of influential theorists demonstrate how ideas are embodied and personified. This volume is highly useful for courses in human geography, the history and status of the discipline, and will stand as a milestone in the discipline's conceptual understanding over the next decade or more." Barney Warf, Florida State University The last decade has seen Geography transformed by an astonishing range of cultural and philosophical concepts and approaches. Thinking Geographically is designed for students as an accessible and enjoyable introduction to this new landscape of geographical ideas. The book takes the reader through the history of geographic thought up to a survey of the present. Contemporary theory is then used to explore real world issues drawn from across the discipline of social, cultural, political and economic geography. Entertainingly written and packed with examples and with profiles of key theorists, the book is an ideal introduction for any student who wants to discover the potential of thinking geographically.
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    London : Bloomsbury Publishing | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780826432452
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (273 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 302.2343094
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    Keywords: Film ; Propaganda ; Europa
    Abstract: Explores five case studies in Britain, the USSR, Germany and Italy to determine whether or not propaganda films reached the audiences at which they were targeted, and where they did, whether the films made the impact on those audiences that the propagandists had expected.
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    London : Bloomsbury Publishing | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781441146434
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (317 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Open Linguistics
    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Konversationsanalyse ; Textlinguistik ; Soziolinguistik ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Any piece of primary research ought to be preceded by a systematic review. The key advantage of a systematic review over the traditional narrative review is its ability to identify all the available evidence in a systematic and relicable manner. This book describes a? the key steps to undertaking a systematic review and b/ the process of untertaking a meta-analysis. The book includes step-by-step examples of how to design data extraction forms, search strategies and combine in a meta-analysis.
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    ISBN: 9780191569067
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (501 pages)
    DDC: 192
    Abstract: This is the long-awaited publication of a set of writings by the British philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R.G. Collingwood (1889-1943) on critical, anthropological, and cultural themes only hinted at in his previously available work. At the core are six essays on folktale and magic in which Collingwood applies the principles of his philosophy of history to problems in the long-term evolution of human society and culture. The volume opens with three substantial introductory. essays by the editors, authorities in their various fields, who provide their explanatory and contextual notes to guide the reader through the texts. The Philosophy of Enchantment highlights the broad range of Collingwood's intellectual engagements, their integration, and their relevance to current. areas of debate in the fields of philosophy, cultural studies, social and literary history, and anthropology. - ;This is the long-awaited publication of a set of writings by the British philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R.G. Collingwood on critical, anthropological, and cultural themes only hinted at in his previously available work. At the centre of the book are six chapters of a study of folktale and magic, composed by Collingwood in the mid-1930s and intended for development into a book. Here Collingwood applies the principles of his philosophy of history to problems in the. long-term evolution of human society and culture. This is preceded, in Part I, by a range of contextualizing material on such topics as the relations between music and poetry, the nature of language, the value of Jane Austen's novels, the philosophy of art, and the relations between aesthetic theory and. artistic practice. Part III of the volume consists of two essays, one on the relationship between art and mechanized civilization, and the second, written in 1931, on the collapse of human...
    Abstract: values and civilization leading up to the catastrophe of armed conflict. These offer a devastating analysis of the consequences that attend the desertion of liberal principles, indeed of all politics as such, in the ultimate self-annihilation of military conquest. The volume opens with three substantial introductory essays by the editors, authorities in the fields of critical and literary history, social and cultural anthropology, and the philosophy of history and the history of ideas; they provide their explanatory and contextual notes to guide the reader through the texts. The Philosophy of Enchantment brings hitherto unrecognized areas of Collingwood's achievement to light, and demonstrates the broad range of Collingwood's intellectual. engagements, their integration, and their relevance to current areas of debate in the fields of philosophy, cultural studies, social and literary history, and anthropology. - ;The appearance in print in a scholarly and scrupulously edited form of Collingwood's folktale manuscript is very much to be welcomed as something of an event in Collingwood studies. The editors have done a superb job in presenting the folktale manuscript in a highly accessible form and in linking it with a number of other previously unpublished manuscripts and papers on broadly connected themes. - Peter Johnson, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
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    Gabriola Island : New Society Publishers | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781550924008
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (349 pages)
    DDC: 304.2091732
    Abstract: Countless inspiring examples of the successful ecological transformation of cities in Sweden and North America.
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    Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781551523088
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (92 pages)
    DDC: 306.8740971
    Abstract: A collection of essays about identity: gender, culture, class, and sexuality.
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