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South-North Dialogues on Queer Epistemologies, Embodiments and Activisms is composed of research presented at the fourth international Queering Paradigms Conference (QP4), held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In line with the QP project ethos of bringing together diverse...
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Wie können Museen von einem kulturellen Engagement älterer Menschen profitieren? Welche Motive und Erwartungen haben ältere Menschen und welche Barrieren sehen sie bei der Aufnahme und lernenden Bewältigung eines Engagements? Mit diesem Buch werden erstmalig in...
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In Balancing the World, the author illuminates what an ajq’ij, or «daykeeper», is by presenting material he collected in a series of interviews with practitioners of Maya spirituality. Frequently labeled as Maya priests, shamans, spiritual guides, or even witches, the...
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Was sind die Widerständigkeiten des Jazz? Zu dieser Frage haben sich im Laufe der Jazzgeschichte zwei zentrale Interpretationen herausgebildet. So gilt Jazz einerseits als afroamerikanische Subversion gegen rassistische Unterdrückung. Andererseits wird das...
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This book is based on the results of about forty years of work with one type of analysis of musical communication. It offers an elucidation of the meaning of music as, in addition to other factors, a fictive action and refers to the context of the intrapersonal,...
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This book is presented by two authors who worked in close cooperation. The first part is written by Ewa Binczyk and discusses various postulates that have been formulated in response to the problem of the unwanted side-effects of the practical success of technoscience...
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Entstehende Nationen brauchen Symbole. Das galt auch für Deutschland und Italien. Hier waren Nationaldenkmäler, Denkmalparks, Denkmalfeste und Mythen Teile dieser Symbolik. Dieses Buch untersucht Übereinstimmungen, Verbindungen und Unterschiede zwischen den deutschen...
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Der Band zeigt die Eigenarten der Schweiz an relevanten Stichworten aus Geschichte, Politik, Wirtschaft und Landwirtschaft sowie dem sozialen Leben und der eidgenössischen Mentalität auf. So offenbaren sich die eigentümlichen Aspekte der schweizerischen Identität anhand...
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Probing deeply into texts by and about prominent Christian mystics, religious authors, and saints, German Mysticism and the Politics of Culture challenges the reader to rethink the medieval past as a contemporary presence. This «presence of the past» shapes memory of...
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Developments: Encounters of Formation in the Latin American and Hispanic/Latino Bildungsroman, a notable contribution for students and scholars of Latin American, Brazilian, Hispanic and Latino literature, explores a significant but overlooked area in the literary...
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On the History of Rock Music follows the development of rock music from its origins up to the present time. It focuses on the relationship between the sound, improvisations and rhythms in particular styles, and gives specific attention to the development of rhythm. The...
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Biblical Representations of Moab: A Kenyan Postcolonial Reading employs critical theories on colonial, anticolonial, and postcolonial ethnicity and African cultural hermeneutics to examine the overlap of politics, ethnicity, nationality, economics, and religion in...
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This volume is a collection of essays on the process of obtaining a PhD degree at a Finnish university. The contributors share the common background of coming to Finland from abroad especially for the purpose of taking up PhD studies. They hail from different countries...
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This book represents the volume of the International Musicological Conference «Musical Romania and Neighbouring Cultures. Traditions, Influences, Identities», which took place in Iasi (Romania) and was organised by the George Enescu University of Arts Iasi in...
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Amidst rapid advances of mainstream gay and lesbian platforms, questions of essential sexual identities, queered rituals of family, queered notions of intimacy, queer considerations of time, and the possibility and value of queered systems of relation are largely...
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The book addresses the issue of the patient’s presence in specialist medical publications in the context of a patient-centered approach to medical practice.The author combines both quantitative and qualitative approaches in order to analyze the discourse about the...
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Norwood, an Anglo-Jewish childcare institution founded in the late nineteenth century, was one of several hundred such institutions in the UK, but the only Jewish one. Throughout its history, Norwood had the unusual task of adapting its childcare approach to both...
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Based on the thorough examination of French archival sources, this book examines in detail two industries in which women formed the majority of the workforce in France between 1890 and 1914. The choice of the tobacco and hat industries is particularly relevant in the...
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Die gegenwärtige verstärkte Migrationsdynamik sowie die damit einhergehende Diversifizierung der Weltgesellschaft statuieren eines: Unsere Lebenswelten sind so vielfältig wie nie zuvor geworden. In dieser Hinsicht werden Begriffe wie Integration, Inklusion oder...
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This book aims to assemble a variety of perspectives that have shaped the development of multicultural studies over the last years, and which today attempt at comprising the main contending lines of approach to both teaching and research within this rapidly expanding...
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