Ethnologiebücher - englischsprachig  (153 Angebote unter 17.392.855 Artikeln)

Many societies are experiencing growing longevity and population ageing simultaneously with increasing urbanization and mobilities. Such fundamental demographic and structural shifts have been refl...

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In post-war Greece, Western Allies, the country's conservative political elite and parts of the middle class share a dream of consolidating and maintaining the country's Western, bourgeois-liberal ...

This book is the result of a shared conviction of the necessity to advance the international discourse on criticism. What originated in ancient curiosity and developing self-reflexion became the cr...

Which are the aspects of cognition not yet focused on as such by brain research? How can one deal with them? This book sheds light on the other sides of cognition, on what they mean for forms and f...

Multiple refugee regimes govern the lives of forced migrants simultaneously but in an often conflicting way. As a mechanism of inclusion/exclusion, they tend to engender the violence they sought to...

Jeanne Féaux de la Croix maps three iconic places as part of Central Asians' 'moral geographies' and examines their role in navigating socialist, neo-liberal and neo-Islamic life models. Dams provi...

The underdevelopment of agriculture was an important subject during the negotiations for Romania's accession to the European Union. The problem of backwardness in rural areas is, however, far from ...

The Dogon people of Mali, West Africa, never cease to fascinate. With the spectacular scenery and picturesque villages that dominate the region, their remarkable sculpture, the frenetic mask dances...

Teresa Pinheiro is a professor at the Institute for European Studies at Chemnitz University of Technology. She has written extensively on the field of Iberian cultural studies and the history of th...

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Weltneuheit! Reproduktion des berühmten Dresdener Codices, 14 Seiten originalgetreu nachgezeichnet. Im Original fehlende Stellen sind geschickt ergänzt worden. Mit deutscher Beschreibung.

This book investigates how India was portrayed in British novels and short stories during the heyday of the British Raj. In the tradition of post-colonial studies such as Edward Said's Orientalism,...

Anna Oechslen arbeitet am Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung in Erkner und an der Brandenburgischen Technischen Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg.

Dwight Macdonald was the most prominent excoriator of mass culture in the 1950s and '60s. Since that time his reputation has not fared well. Derided as elitist and passé, his tracts now represent e...