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  • 2005-2009  (6)
  • 1995-1999
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  • Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub  (6)
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  • 1
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    Climate and society in colonial Mexico : a study in vulnerability (2008)
    Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub
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    ISBN: 140514582X , 1405145838 , 0470712791 , 9781405145824 , 9781405145831 , 9780470712795
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (ix, 235 p) , ill., maps , 23 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: RGS-IBG book series
    Parallel Title: Print version Climate and Society in Colonial Mexico : A Study in Vulnerability
    DDC: 304.2/50972
    Keywords: Water-supply History ; Human ecology History ; Subsistence economy History ; Mexico History Spanish colony, 1540-1810 ; Mexico Environmental conditions
    Abstract: By considering three case study regions in Mexico during the Colonial era, Climate and Society in Colonial Mexico: A Study in Vulnerability examines the complex interrelationship between climate and society and its contemporary implications.Provides unique insights on climate and society by capitalizing on Mexico's rich colonial archivesOffers a unique approach by combining geographical and historic perspectives in order to comprehend contemporary concerns over climate changeConsiders three case study regions in Mexico with very different cultural, economic, and environmental characteristics
    Description / Table of Contents: Climate and Society in Colonial Mexico: A Study in Vulnerability; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 A Vulnerable Society; 2 Climate, Culture and Conquest: North, South and Central Mexico in the Pre-European and Contact Period; 3 Exploring the Anatomy of Vulnerability in Colonial Mexico; 4 Responding to Crisis: Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity in Colonial Mexico; 5 Dearth, Deluge and Disputes: Negotiating and Litigating Water and Climate in Colonial Mexico
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 Illusory Prosperity: Economic Growth and Subsistence Crisis in the Disastrous Eighteenth Century7 Regional, National and Global Dimensions of Vulnerability and Crisis in Colonial Mexico; Notes; Bibliography; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [202]-226) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1002/9780470712795
    URL: Volltext
    URL: Volltext
    URL: Autorenbiografie
    URL: Verlagsangaben
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
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  • 2
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    Eurostars and Eurocities : free movement and mobility in an integrating Europe (2008)
    Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub
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    ISBN: 9780470712580 , 9781281840646 , 1405134054 , 1405134046 , 0470712813 , 9781405134057 , 9781405134040 , 9780470712818
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvi, 279 p) , 23 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Studies in urban and social change
    Parallel Title: Print version Eurostars and Eurocities
    DDC: 304.8/4
    Keywords: Emigration and immigration Case studies Research ; Nationalism ; Transnationalism ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe examines intra-European Union migration in the cities of Amsterdam, London and Brussels.Based on sixty in-depth interviews of free moving European citizens, and more than five years of ethnographic and documentary research, it uncovers the rarely studied human dimension of European integrationExamines the mobility, lifestyle and career opportunities created by the borderless society of the European Union, as well as the barriers that still persistAnalyses the new migration trends, challenges to the welfare state, and
    Description / Table of Contents: EUROSTARS AND EUROCITIES: FREE MOVEMENT AND MOBILITY IN AN INTEGRATING EUROPE; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Preface; 1 Freedom-Vrijheid-Liberté; 2 New Amsterdam; 3 London Calls; 4 Brussels-Brussel-Bruxelles; 5 Migration; 6 Mobility (1); 7 Mobility (2); 8 Settlement; 9 Integration (1); 10 Integration (2); 11 London Loves; 12 Old Amsterdam; 13 Anomie; 14 Europa; Postface; Appendix 1: Summary of Interviews; Appendix 2: A Note on Methodology; Notes; Bibliographical Essay; Index of Interviewees; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-263) and indexes , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1002/9780470712818
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    URL: Autorenbiografie
    URL: Verlagsangaben
    URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470712818
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
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  • 3
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    Decolonizing development : colonial power and the Maya (2008)
    Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub
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    ISBN: 9781405157056 , 9781405157063 , 0470712953 , 9780470712955
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 312 p) , ill., maps , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Antipode book series
    Parallel Title: Print version Decolonizing Development : Colonial Power and the Maya
    DDC: 305.897/427072824
    Keywords: Mayas Agriculture ; Mayas Economic conditions ; Mayas Social conditions ; Toledo District (Belize) Economic conditions ; Toledo District (Belize) Social conditions ; Toledo District (Belize) Colonial influence
    Abstract: Winner of the 2010 James M. Blaut Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology (Honors of the CAPE specialty group (Cultural and Political Ecology)) Decolonizing Development investigates the ways colonialism shaped the modern world by analyzing the relationship between colonialism and development as forms of power.Based on novel interpretations of postcolonial and Marxist theory and applied to original research dataAmply supplemented with maps and illustrationsAn intriguing and invaluable resource for scholars of postcolonialism, development, geography, and
    Description / Table of Contents: Decolonizing Development: Colonial Power and the Maya; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Capitalism qua Development; Part I Colonizing the Maya; 1 Unsettling the Colonial Geographies of Southern Belize; 2 The Matter of the Maya Farm System; 3 An Archaeology of Mayanism; Part II Aporias of Development; 4 From Colonial to Development Knowledge: Charles Wright and the Battles over the Columbia River Forest; 5 Settling: Fieldwork in the Ruins of Development; 6 Finishing the Critique of Cultural Ecology: Reading the Maya Atlas; Conclusion
    Description / Table of Contents: BibliographyIndex
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-308) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1002/9780470712955
    URL: Volltext
    URL: Volltext
    URL: Autorenbiografie
    URL: Verlagsangaben
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  • 4
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    Early human kinship : from sex to social reproduction (2008)
    Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub
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    ISBN: 9781405179010 , 144430271X , 9781444302714
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xix, 316 p) , ill., maps , 26 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Early human kinship
    DDC: 306.83
    Keywords: Human evolution ; Kinship ; Prehistoric peoples ; Konferenzschrift 2005
    Abstract: Why "kinship"? : new questions on an old topic / Wendy James -- A brief overview of human evolution / John A.J. Gowlett and Robin Dunbar -- Kinship and material culture / archaeological implications of the human global diaspora / Clive Gamble -- Deep roots of kin : developing the evolutionary perspective from prehistory / John A.J. Gowlett -- Early human kinship was matrilineal / Chris Knight -- Alternating birth classes : a note from eastern Africa / Wendy James -- Tetradic theory and the origin of human kinship systems / Nicholas J. Allen -- What can ethnography tell us about human social evolution / Bob Layton -- Kinship in biological perspective / Robin Dunbar -- The importance of kinship in monkey society / Mandy Korstjens -- The meaning and relevance of kinship in great apes / Julia Lehmann -- Grandmothering and female coalitions : a basis for matrilineal priority? / Kit Opie and Camilla Power -- A phylogenetic approach to the history of cultural practices / Laura Fortunato -- Reconstructing ancient kinship in Africa / Christ Ehret -- The co-evolution of language and kinship / Alan Barnard -- Epilogue : reaching across the gaps / Hilary Callan
    Description / Table of Contents: Why "kinship"? : new questions on an old topic / Wendy JamesA brief overview of human evolution / John A.J. Gowlett and Robin Dunbar -- Kinship and material culture / archaeological implications of the human global diaspora / Clive Gamble -- Deep roots of kin : developing the evolutionary perspective from prehistory / John A.J. Gowlett -- Early human kinship was matrilineal / Chris Knight -- Alternating birth classes : a note from eastern Africa / Wendy James -- Tetradic theory and the origin of human kinship systems / Nicholas J. Allen -- What can ethnography tell us about human social evolution / Bob Layton -- Kinship in biological perspective / Robin Dunbar -- The importance of kinship in monkey society / Mandy Korstjens -- The meaning and relevance of kinship in great apes / Julia Lehmann -- Grandmothering and female coalitions : a basis for matrilineal priority? / Kit Opie and Camilla Power -- A phylogenetic approach to the history of cultural practices / Laura Fortunato -- Reconstructing ancient kinship in Africa / Christ Ehret -- The co-evolution of language and kinship / Alan Barnard -- Epilogue : reaching across the gaps / Hilary Callan.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-301) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1002/9781444302714
    URL: Volltext
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    URL: Verlagsangaben
    URL: Autorenbiografie
    URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781444302714
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781444302714
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  • 5
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    We share walls : language, land, and gender in Berber Morocco (2008)
    Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub
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    ISBN: 1405154209 , 1405154217 , 0470694149 , 9781405154208 , 9781405154215 , 9780470694145
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xviii, 261 p) , ill., map, music , 26 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Blackwell studies in discourse and culture 2
    Parallel Title: Print version We Share Walls : Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco
    DDC: 305.89/33064
    Keywords: Berbers Social conditions ; Acculturation ; Berbers Social life and customs ; Women ; Morocco Ethnic relations
    Abstract: We Share Walls: Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco explores how political economic shifts over the last century have reshaped the language practices and ideologies of women (and men) in the plains and mountains of rural Morocco.Offers a unique and richly textured ethnography of language maintenance and shift as well as language and place-making among an overlooked Muslim groupExamines how Moroccan Berbers use language to integrate into the Arab-speaking world and retain their own distinct identityIlluminates the intriguing semiotic and gender issues embedded in the culturePart of the
    Description / Table of Contents: We Share Walls; Contents; List of Figures,Tables and Transcripts; Series Preface; Copyright Acknowledgments; Note on Transcription and Transliteration; Part I Prelude; 1 Introduction:Staying Put; 2 On Fieldwork Methods and Movements:"Song Is Good Speech "; Part II Dissonance:Gender; 3 The Gender of Authenticity; Part III Consonance:Homeland; 4 Building the Homeland:Labor,Roads,Emigration; 5 Voicing the Homeland:Objecti . cation,Order,Displacement; Part IV Antiphony:Periphery; 6 Transformation in the Sous Valley; 7 Ishelhin into Arabs?Ethnolinguistic Differentiating Practices in the Periphery
    Description / Table of Contents: Part V Resonance8 Mediating the Countryside:Purists and Pundits on Tashelhit Radio; 9 Conclusion; Notes; References; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-256) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1002/9780470694145
    URL: Volltext
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    URL: Autorenbiografie
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  • 6
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    Latinos in America : philosophy and social identity (2008)
    Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub
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    ISBN: 1282341987 , 9780470695746 , 9781282341982 , 140517658X , 0470696486 , 1405176598 , 9781405176583 , 9780470696484 , 9781405176590
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xv, 252 p) , 23 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Latinos in America
    DDC: 305.89/68073
    RVK:
    MS 3300
    Keywords: Hispanic Americans Ethnic identity ; Citizenship Philosophy ; Hispanic Americans Philosophy ; Ethnicity Philosophy ; Hispanic Americans Social conditions ; United States Ethnic relations ; Philosophy
    Abstract: A first-of-its-kind book that seriously and profoundly examines what it means philosophically to be Latino and where Latinos fit in American society. Offers a fresh perspective and clearer understanding of Latin American thought and culture, rejectinganswers based on stereotypes and fear Takes an interdisciplinary approach to the philosophical, social, and political elements of Hispanic/Latinoidentity, touching upon anthropology, history, cultural studies and sociology, as well as philosophy Written by Jorge J. E. Gracia, one of the most influential thinkers of Hispanic/Latino descent
    Description / Table of Contents: Latinos in America: Philosophy and Social Identity; Contents; Preface: The Latino Challenge; I Latino/a Identities; 1 Identities: General and Particular; 2 Individuation: Circularity and Demarcation; 3 Labels: Politics and Names; II Latinos/as in Society; 4 Marketplace: Survival and Flourishing; 5 Affirmative Action: Meaning and Justification; 6 Linguistic Rights: Language and Children; III Latino/a Philosophy; 7 Philosophy: Latino vs American; 8 Canon: Place and Future; 9 History: Role and Approach; Conclusion: Latinos in America; Bibliography; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-238) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1002/9780470696484
    URL: Volltext
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    URL: Autorenbiografie
    URL: Verlagsangaben
    URL: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=470544
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