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  • HeBIS  (8)
  • 2005-2009  (8)
  • Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
  • Münster : Coppenrath
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  • 1
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    Entanglement : literary and cultural reflections on post apartheid (2009)
    Johannesburg : Wits University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781868149414
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 198 pages)
    DDC: 820.9968
    RVK:
    HP 1207
    RVK:
    HP 1226
    RVK:
    LB 40585
    RVK:
    MS 1250
    Keywords: Kultur ; Südafrika
    Abstract: This original book is a much needed and far reaching exploration of post-apartheid South African life worlds. Entanglement aims to capture the contradictory mixture of innovation and inertia, of loss, violence and xenophobia as well as experimentation and desegregation, which characterises the present. The author explores the concept of entanglement in relation to readings of literature, new media forms and painting. In the process, she moves away from a persistent apartheid optic, drawing on ideas of sameness and difference, and their limits, in order to elicit ways of living and imagining that are just starting to take shape and for which we might not yet have a name. In the background of her investigations lies a preoccupation with a future-oriented politics, one that builds on largely unexplored terrains of mutuality while being attentive to a historical experience of confrontation and injury.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 May 2018)
    URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781868149414/type/BOOK
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  • 2
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    The first Ethiopians : the image of Africa and Africans in the early Mediterranean world (2009)
    Johannesburg : Wits University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781868146345
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 528 pages)
    DDC: 939.78
    RVK:
    LB 24541
    RVK:
    LE 4814
    RVK:
    LE 5566
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Äthiopienbild ; Afrikabild
    Abstract: The First Ethiopians explores the images of Africa and Africans that evolved in ancient Egypt, in classical Greece and imperial Rome, in the early Mediterranean world, and in the early domains of Christianity. Inspired by curiosity regarding the origins of racism in southern Africa, Malvern van Wyk Smith consulted a wide range of sources: from rock art to classical travel writing; from the pre-Dynastic African beginnings of Egyptian and Nubian civilisations to Greek and Roman perceptions of Africa; from Khoisan cultural expressions to early Christian conceptions of Africa and its people as 'demonic'; from Aristotelian climatology to medieval cartography; and from the geo-linguistic history of Africa to the most recent revelations regarding the genome profile of the continent's peoples. His research led to a startling proposition: Western racism has its roots in Africa itself, notably in late New Kingdom Egypt, as its ruling elites sought to distance Egyptian civilisation from its African origins. Kushite Nubians, founders of Napata and Meroë who, in the eighth century BCE, furnished the black rulers of the twenty-fifth Dynasty in Egypt, adopted and adapted such Dynastic discriminations in order to differentiate their own 'superior' Meroitic civilisation from the world of 'other Ethiopians'. In due course, archaic Greeks, who began to arrive in the Nile Delta in the seventh century BCE, internalised these distinctions in terms of Homer's identification of 'two Ethiopias', an eastern and a western, to create a racialised (and racist) discourse of 'worthy' and 'savage Ethiopians'. Such conceptions would inspire virtually all subsequent Roman and early medieval thinking about Africa and Africans, and become foundational in European thought. The book concludes with a survey of the special place that Aksumite Ethiopia - later Abyssinia - has held in both European and African conceptual worlds as the site of 'worthy Ethiopia', as well as in the wider context of discourses of ethnicity and race.
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  • 3
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    The moral force of indigenous politics : critical liberalism and the Zapatistas (2008)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511551222
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 350 pages)
    Series Statement: Contemporary political theory
    DDC: 323.1197/072
    RVK:
    LB 48625
    RVK:
    MI 72094
    RVK:
    MI 72370
    Abstract: Tracing the political origins of the Mexican indigenous rights movement, from the colonial encounter to the Zapatista uprising, and from Chiapas to Geneva, Courtney Jung locates indigenous identity in the history of Mexican state formation. She argues that indigenous identity is not an accident of birth but a political achievement that offers a new voice to many of the world's poorest and most dispossessed. The moral force of indigenous claims rests not on the existence of cultural differences, or identity, but on the history of exclusion and selective inclusion that constitutes indigenous identity. As a result, the book shows that privatizing or protecting such groups is a mistake and develops a theory of critical liberalism that commits democratic government to active engagement with the claims of culture. This book will appeal to scholars and students of political theory, philosophy, sociology, and anthropology studying multiculturalism and the politics of culture.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511551222
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  • 4
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    The post-Soviet Potemkin village : politics and property rights in the black earth (2008)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511509940
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 215 pages)
    DDC: 333.3/147
    RVK:
    LB 49327
    RVK:
    MG 85910
    Keywords: Geschichte 1991-2006 ; Landwirtschaft ; Privatisierung ; Russland ; Ukraine
    Abstract: Why does the introduction of private property rights sometimes result in poverty, rather than development? Most analyses of institutional change emphasize the design of formal institutions, but this study of land privatization in the Russia-Ukraine borderlands shows how informal politics at the local level instead can drive outcomes. Local officials in both countries pursued strategies that produced a record of reform, even as they worked behind the scenes to maintain the status quo. The end result was a facade of private ownership: a Potemkin village for the post-Soviet era. Far from creating private property that would bring development to the post-Soviet rural heartland, privatization policy deprived former collective farm members of their few remaining rights and ushered in a new era of state control over land resources. This study draws upon the author's extensive primary research in the Black Earth region conducted over a period of nine years.
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    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511509940
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  • 5
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    Islam in Europe : diversity, identity and influence (2007)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511809309
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 223 pages)
    DDC: 297.094
    RVK:
    BE 8607
    RVK:
    LB 46005
    RVK:
    MS 6575
    RVK:
    MS 6750
    Keywords: Islam ; Europa
    Abstract: Events over recent years have increased the global interest in Islam. This volume seeks to combat generalisations about the Muslim presence in Europe by illuminating its diversity across Europe and offering a more realistic, highly differentiated picture. It contends with the monist concept of identity that suggests Islam is the shared and main definition of Muslims living in Europe. The contributors also explore the influence of the European Union on the Muslim communities within its borders, and examine how the EU is in turn affected by the Muslim presence in Europe. This book comes at a critical moment in the evolution of the place of Islam within Europe and will appeal to scholars, students and practitioners in the fields of European studies, politics and policies of the European Union, sociology, sociology of religion, and international relations. It also addresses the wider framework of uncertainties and unease about religion in Europe.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511809309
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  • 6
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    The archaeology of the Caribbean (2007)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511816505
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 209 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge world archaeology
    DDC: 972.9/01
    RVK:
    NF 8575
    RVK:
    LB 25640
    Keywords: Vor- und Frühgeschichte ; Geschichte Anfänge-1700 ; Geschichte 1400-1600 ; Karibik
    Abstract: A comprehensive synthesis of Caribbean prehistory from the earliest settlement by humans more than 4000 years BC, to the time of European conquest of the islands. The Caribbean was the last large area in the Americas to be populated, and its relative isolation allowed unique cultures to develop. Samuel Wilson reviews the evidence for migration and cultural change throughout the archipelago, dealing in particular with periods of cultural interaction when groups with different cultures and histories were in contact. He also examines the evolving relationship of the Caribbean people with their environment, as they developed increasingly productive economic systems over time, as well as the emergence of increasingly complex social and political systems, particularly in the Greater Antilles in the centuries before the European conquest. Wilson also provides a review of the history of Caribbean archaeology and the individual scholars and ideas that have shaped the field.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511816505
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  • 7
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    Inside rebellion : the politics of insurgent violence (2006)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511808654
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 402 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
    DDC: 322.4/2
    RVK:
    MD 8700
    RVK:
    LB 51000
    Keywords: Geschichte 1975-2006 ; Bürgerkrieg ; Kriegführung ; Gewalttätigkeit ; Strategie ; Aufständischer ; Guerilla
    Abstract: Some rebel groups abuse noncombatant populations, while others exhibit restraint. Insurgent leaders in some countries transform local structures of government, while others simply extract resources for their own benefit. In some contexts, groups kill their victims selectively, while in other environments violence appears indiscriminate, even random. This book presents a theory that accounts for the different strategies pursued by rebel groups in civil war, explaining why patterns of insurgent violence vary so much across conflicts. It does so by examining the membership, structure, and behavior of four insurgent movements in Uganda, Mozambique, and Peru. Drawing on interviews with nearly two hundred combatants and civilians who experienced violence firsthand, it shows that rebels' strategies depend in important ways on how difficult it is to launch a rebellion. The book thus demonstrates how characteristics of the environment in which rebellions emerge constrain rebel organization and shape the patterns of violence that civilians experience.
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    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511808654
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  • 8
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    Social solidarity and the gift (2005)
    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0521841003 , 0521600847
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 234 p) , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Social Solidarity and the Gift
    DDC: 394
    RVK:
    BL 3330
    RVK:
    CV 6500
    RVK:
    LC 24000
    RVK:
    LB 39000
    RVK:
    LB 57000
    Keywords: Solidarity ; Gifts ; Generosity
    Abstract: This book brings together two traditions of thinking about social ties: sociological theory on solidarity and anthropological theory on gift exchange. The main argument, supported by empirical illustrations, is that a theory of solidarity should incorporate some of the core insights from anthropological gift theory
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; PART I The Gift; PART II Solidarity and Selectivity; PART III Contemporary Solidarity; References; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-224) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511614064
    URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/social-solidarity-and-the-gift/4D1EE6079EC48D2E542FCEED719D6458
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