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Die Verstrickungen der Archäologie in das völkisch-nationale Gedankengut gehören zu den wichtigen Themen des Faches in seiner Auseinandersetzung mit dem eigenen Erbe. Dies gilt umso mehr, als über die archäologischen Inhalte eine Ideologie vermittelt wurde, die in...
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Das vorliegende Buch rekonstruiert und analysiert als erste Studie dieser Art Anna Seghers’ Begegnung mit den Chinesen, der chinesischen Kultur und Geschichte, der Politik sowie der Gesellschaft des Landes chronologisch. Durch die Darstellung und Analyse Seghers’...
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This book was awarded a Special Mention Citation in the 2010 competition for the ‘de la Torre Bueno Prize’ by The Society of Dance History Scholars. In the region of Salento in Southern Italy, the music and dance of the pizzica has been used in the ritual of tarantism...
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The essays in this collection all revolve around the notion of change in Ireland, whether by revolution or by evolution. Developments in the shared histories of Ireland and Great Britain are an important theme throughout the book.The volume begins by examining two...
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During the twentieth century Macedonia had a very turbulent history. Essentially, the region became the apple of discord among the Balkan states. Ethnic identity formation among immigrants from Macedonia to Canada followed the political developments in the Balkans. This...
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Ritualizing the Disposal of the Deceased traces mortuary behavior from the early fossil record to modern religious contexts in diverse cultural settings. By using archival and ethnographic evidence from Buddhist traditions, the author highlights the disparity between...
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This book undertakes a detailed reading of Robert Kroetsch’s The Studhorse Man, examining this Canadian novel in its transnational historical and socio-cultural context. Key subject headings are biology and culture, sex and gender, eugenics and contraception, writing...
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Liminality, if interpreted as a concern with borders and states of in-betweenness, is a widespread theme in Irish literature and culture, which is perhaps not surprising considering the colonial and postcolonial background of Ireland. The liminal, from the Latin word...
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This book was shortlisted for the ESSE Junior Scholars book award for Cultural Studies in English, 2012 Since its inception cinema has served as a powerful medium that both articulates and intervenes in visions of identity. The experiences of British colonialism in...
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One Story of Academia: Race Lines and the Rhetoric of Distinction through the Académie française explores how the word race was historically linked to kings and feudal lords as a sign of elite social distinction, and how the Académie française has embodied that type of...
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Despite being Ireland’s national and first official language, Irish is marginalised and threatened as a community language. The dominant discourse has long dismissed the Irish language as irrelevant or even an obstacle to Ireland’s progress. This book critiques that...
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Ma è proprio vero che il giallo italiano partorisce unicamente noir parodici e metaletterari? Sfatando questo cliché, Noir de Noir attesta anche l’obiettivo principale dei noiristi italiani: scrivere un ‘romanzo sociale’ che vada ‘oltre’ i precetti del genere...
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Theodor Geigers Studie ist eine gesellschafts- und geistesgeschichtliche Einführung in einen zentralen philosophischen und soziologischen Grundbegriff. Sie gibt eine höchst originelle Antwort auf die alte Grundfrage der Gesellschaft: Welchen sozialen Normen und Werten...
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Das Problem des nachehelichen Unterhalts gehört zu den brisantesten Problemen des Familienrechts. Der deutsche nacheheliche Unterhalt wurde durch das UÄndG von 2007 reformiert, vor diesem Hintergrund präsentiert diese rechtsvergleichend angelegte Arbeit die aktuelle...
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This book develops a scientific approach to the phenomenon of religion. It is the conviction of the author that such an approach can only be comparative in nature, in order to overcome centuries of religiously biased views on religion. From an anthropological point of...
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Bereits die Azteken hatten ein differenziertes Wissen von der menschlichen Anatomie. Es war der Franziskanermönch Bernardino de Sahagún, der im 16. Jahrhundert die Kultur des vorspanischen Mexikos dokumentierte, und zwar in aztekischer Sprache. Sein berühmter Codex...
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What role have translations from Hindi literary works played in shaping and transforming our knowledge about India? In this book, renowned scholars, translators and Hindi writers from India, Europe, and the United States offer their approaches to this question. Their...
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Der von Edward Said angeregte Orientalismus-Diskurs über den westlichen Blick auf den Orient weist auf die überwiegend durch Stereotype und Vorurteile geprägte Betrachtungsweise des Okzidents hin. Dabei geht Said stillschweigend von einem männlichen Diskurs aus,...
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This book contributes to the debate on what Europe means by demonstrating the complexities and contradictions inherent in the concept. They are seen most clearly when Europe is viewed from a long historical perspective. During the closing decades of the twentieth...
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Work has always been and remains a powerful integrator in society. It provides places, duties and rights and classifies individuals on a scale of social prestige. Over a long period of time, however, the meaning of work has changed. It has become more diversified and it...
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