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Handbook of Southeast Asian Studies Pioneers and Critical Thinkers
This handbook presents an overview of the wide range of scholarly endeavors and thinking of prominent pioneers and critical thinkers in Southeast...
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Traditional Knowledge and Climate Change An Environmental Impact on Landscape and Communities
This edited book uses a methodology that includes multidisciplinary collaboration to approach climate issues from several disciplines involved in...
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Indigeneity, Development and Sustainability Perspectives from Northeast India
This volume presents cutting-edge research on India's Northeast region relating to borders, material mobilities, contested identities, and economic...
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Chronicles of Colonialism Navigating the Naga Hills
This book offers fresh perspectives on the legacy of colonialism in the North-east frontiers of India, especially the Naga Hills. The book...
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Collective Memory Narratives in Contemporary Culture
Starting from the central importance of memory in contemporary societies, this book encourages a transdisciplinary reflection on how the...
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Festivals and Values Music, Community Engagement and Organisational Symbolism
This is an original book, covering all the past areas of research anyone would need to know about festivals and ‘event-based culture’. It is based on...
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Paratopia Literature as Discourse
This book presents Maingueneau’s notion of paratopia and its application to literary discourse. Unlike most discourse analysts, who pay little...
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Borderology Spatial Perspective, Theoretical and Practical
This book develops and establishes knowledge about borderology in the border zone between different countries, cultures, and climatic environment....
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American Gitanos in Mexico City Transnationalism, Cultural Identity and Economic Environment
This book provides a detailed and comprehensive description of the Gitano community of Mexico City. The ethnographic study showcases the interplay...
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Power and the People The State and Peripheral Communities in the Russian Far North
This book discusses state-periphery relations from the view-point of a reindeer husbandry community in the Russian Far North (Murmansk Region). The...
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Corrupt Britain Public Ethics in Practice and Thought Since the Magna Carta
This book deploys a long-term account of political corruption in Britain to explain the phenomenon of corruption as it resides within the state and...
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Jewish Identity in Multicultural Australia
This book offers a timely insight into ideas of ‘belonging’ in multicultural society from a Jewish perspective, one which is largely missing from the...
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Mobility instead of exodus Migration and Flight in and from Africa
Africa is commonly regarded as a "continent on the move" in scholarly observation and mass media reportage. Movement is seen primarily in the...
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Der Mensch spiegelt sich im Blick der Tiere Auflösung und Neudefinition des Menschen in der Exilliteratur
Was ist der Mensch und wie verhält er sich zum Tier? Wird diese Frage in ethischen, gesellschaftlichen, philosophischen und ästhetischen Diskursen...
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Leben und Alltag in Malaysia
Malaysia ist eine wohlhabende, sich entwickelnde Nation in Südostasien. Seine Bürger sind mit den Problemen konfrontiert, die das Leben der Menschen...
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Anthropology through the Experience of the Physical Body
This book seeks to break new ground, both empirically and conceptually, in examining changing understandings of the physical human body from a...
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From the Plate to Gastro-Politics Unravelling the Boom of Peruvian Cuisine
This book provides an interdisciplinary examination of Peruvian cuisine’s shift from a culinary to a political object and the making of Peru as a...
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The Ethnography of Reading at Thirty
This edited volume examines what the classic text The Ethnography of Reading (Boyarin ed., 1993), and the diverse ethnographies of reading it helped...
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The History and Environmental Impacts of Hunting Deities Supernatural Gamekeepers and Animal Masters
This edited volume analyzes the belief in supernatural gamekeepers and/or animal masters of wildlife from a cross-cultural perspective. It documents...
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The Ponytail Icon, Movement, and the Modern (Sports)Woman
This open access book adopts a cultural sociology of materiality to explore the hallmark of the female athlete: the ponytail. Studying a wealth of...