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Grenzgängerin zwischen den Disziplinen
In the first half of the twentieth century, we find many similarities between ethnology and social work. In both disciplines, fundamental differences...
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Children’s Spirituality: Spiritual Voice(s) on Journeys to Finding Meaning and Purpose
The spiritual dimension of childhood is one of the least understood and hence most overlooked aspects of young people’s lives, especially in many...
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Deep-Time Images and the Challenges of Globalization
In this collection of papers on globalization and rock art, we begin to examine how rock art research was historically shaped by a deep Eurocentric...
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Introduction
In the larger narrative of colonialism and its exploitative history, we generally ignore or give less attention to the micro-strategies employed in...
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Prologue
A ‘peripatetic’ is a traveller, a nomad who traditionally walked from place to place. The word arises from the Greek language in which it was used to...
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Chapter Four: The Human Experiment
This chapter starts from the notorious Milgram experiment to find the historical and sociocultural origins of dehumanization described in the...
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Exploring the Great Transformation of Modern China
I was born in Tiantai, Zhejiang Province. My father, ** Ruilin, having been brought up under the influence of Confucianism since his childhood,...
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The Scientific Revolution of Evolutionary Psychology: Current Status and Future Directions. A Commentary on Zagaria (2024)
Objectives: A bibliometric analysis by Zagaria (2024) claimed that research in Evolutionary Psychology (EP) lags behind research grounded in the...
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Explaining Aboriginal Alcohol Use: Changing Perspectives, Hidden Assumptions
In this chapter, we review explanatory frameworksExplanatory frameworksInterpretive frameworks that have been used since the arrival of European...
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Sourcing and Searching for Suitable Data Sets
This chapter focuses on the availability of data and initial preliminary strategies for identifying possible datasets of interest. The first part of...
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History of the Methodology
The previous chapter inquires to a lack of curiosity regarding the factors that drive asylum-seeking refugeesRefugees to embark on perilous journeys....
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Interactions Between British Archaeologists and National Socialism: Pragmatism, Neutrality, Opposition and Compromise
This chapter examines interactions between British and German National Socialist archaeologists. Before the war, British archaeologists admired...
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New Directions in the Sociology of Morality
Morality has proved a difficult concept for sociologists to define. We begin by reviewing two great families of approaches to the problem: one based...
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Incorporated Genre and Gender: Elsie Masson, Her Writings, and Her Contribution to Malinowski’s Career
This chapter aims to give an overview of the works by Elsie Masson (1890–1935), including her book, newspapers articles, reports, and letters. It...
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The Game in Real Life, Real Life in the Game: An Introduction
Games have gained a new, previously unattained social significance in the twenty-first century. What was noticeable about digitization was that work...
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Qualitative and Quantitative Methods as Applied to International Migration
The objectives of this chapter are to (1) demonstrate how geographical knowledge is produced by research, (2) provide examples of research outcome...
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Anticipatory Infrastructures, Emerging Technologies and Visions of Energy Futures
This chapter focuses on how Automated Decision-Making (ADM) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are being imagined by stakeholders in the energy...
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Place, Country, and Genius Loci
This chapter immerses the reader into the nature and narratives associated with ‘sense of place’ charting definitions, theories, key narrators and...
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Introduction: Artefacts in the Making of Digital Mental Health
This book is about mental health and the digital realm. It focuses on smartphone apps, wearables devices, and ingestible sensors, which are at the...
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A Professor in Ghana: Norbert Elias, civilising processes and the African challenge. An introduction by the editors
Norbert Elias (1897–1990) is now recognised as one of the greatest sociologists of the twentieth century. Such recognition, however, came very late...