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What makes a people so persistently guard its ethnic name, even at the expense of reconstructing its cultural entities? The Nu in northern Myanmar originated from the Anung and Nusu branches of the Chinese Nu people in the Nujiang River valley. In Myanmar’s contemporary...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-08-18
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This handbook provides a broad overview of left-wing extremism and its associated key issues and themes. It breaks new ground by assembling in a single volume a comparative analysis of the phenomenon that is both multidimensional and multidisciplinary. Gathering a wide...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-08-17
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This handbook showcases an Africa-wide compendium of Stone Age archaeological sites and methodological advances that have improved our understanding of hominin lifeways and biogeography in the continent. The focal time spans the Pleistocene Epoch (c. 2.5...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-08-17
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The SAGE Handbook on Decision Making, Assessment and Risk in Social Work provides a comprehensive overview of key strands of research and theoretical concepts in this increasingly important field. With 49 chapters and four section summaries, this Handbook describes...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2023-08-16
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THEORY AND EXPLANATION IN GEOGRAPHY "With this book Henry Yeung puts Geography back into the driver's seat of new theory development. Foregrounding mid-range theories and mechanism-based explanations, he offers a pragmatic approach that has the capacity to shape the...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2023-08-15
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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People in poverty suffer daily under misconceptions about economic hardship and its causes. Providing the most comprehensive consideration to date of poverty in the United States, Elizabeth Seale tackles how we think about issues of culture, behavior, and poverty,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-08-15
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This book offers a timely insight into ideas of ‘belonging’ in multicultural society from a Jewish perspective, one which is largely missing from the discourse on multiculturalism. There is a current climate in Australia, as there is in the United States, Europe and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-08-14
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This edited volume is dedicated to national-socialist archaeology as a Europe-wide phenomenon. It analyses national-socialist attempts to denationalize the archaeologies of European nations by creating a new unifying European archaeology on a racial basis.
From...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-08-14
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This book offers global evidence about the increasing longevity, its consequences and its potential for societal benefits. Based on statistics, academic literature, policy initiatives and numerous country experiences, it explains the interconnected effects of a longer...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-08-14
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Das Jahrbuch für Theorie und Geschichte der Soziologie trägt dem Umstand Rechnung, dass die Soziologie es mit einem sich historisch wandelnden Gegenstand zu tun hat; sie also eine Wissenschaft ist, die sich stets von Neuem selbst reflektieren muss....
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-08-14
Collection :
Jahrbuch für Theorie und Geschichte der Soziologie
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This unique volume uses the innovative methodological approach of dystopian fictocriticism to offer a speculative, critical narrative of parents at work. The author begins with a review of fictocriticism and the blurring of lines between genre and gender scholarship....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-08-13
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This book explores communication as a key influence on the trajectory of conflicts and crises in the specific context of academia. From the ideological responsibilities of academia to the profit-seeking motives of institutions, the authors explore challenges facing...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-08-12
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of post-war labour market reconstructions, in the context of a regional bloc whose member states have experienced conflict. Focusing on the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, the book explores how major...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-08-12
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This book presents important concepts from medical and socio-cultural anthropology to health professionals working with organ transplantation involving indigenous populations. Written by an anthropologist and a nephrologist working at the Brazilian Amazon region, it...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-08-12
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This book is an in depth, extensive study of Romanian queer cultural products. It brings an essential contribution to the literature on Central and South Eastern European gender studies, post-communism studies, media, and cultural studies, as well as transnational...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-08-12
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There is a poetic convergence between the struggles of people on the move and people in the peripheries of power, as they may collectively envision alternative forms of coexistence and fight together for fundamental rights and a dignified life. The emergence of fresh...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-08-11
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This volume reshapes a contemporary understanding of research in theatre and performance arts. Bringing together distinguished scholars from all over the world, the book serves as an arena for international scholars to introduce innovative research methodologies...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-08-11
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This book provides a cultural investigation of the police in India and how it uses data and algorithmic tools for crime mapping. The book draws on an ethnographic study of Delhi Police's hotspot mapping endeavour. It provides a sociological investigation of the police...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-08-11
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Luxembourg has an atypical, efficient migration. The recent Portuguese underclass themselves in the same way as their predecessors of the Salazar regime, despite higher educational attainment, while the citizens of the new member states move to the top of the pyramid....
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-08-09
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The Himalaya is the new folded mountain system – the tallest and the youngest in the world. It has a rich diversity – natural and cultural, and diversity in all walks of life. Most of its uniqueness is unknown because of its remoteness. Even, the native people are not...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-08-09
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