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Cold War Cultures: Perspectives on Eastern and Western European Societies (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Provides an innovative approach to the concept of Cold War Cultures Focuses on both Eastern and Western European Cultures
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Anthropologies of Education: A Global Guide to Ethnographic Studies of Learning and Schooling (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Despite international congresses and international journals, anthropologies of education differ significantly... Læs mere
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A Social History of Europe, 1945-2000: Recovery and Transformation after Two World Wars (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Focuses on the fundamental challenges European societies underwent in the second half of the twentieth century... Læs mere
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Fatness and the Maternal Body: Women's Experiences of Corporeality and the Shaping of Social Policy (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Focusing specifically on the maternal body, contributors to the volume examine how the language and notions of obesity connect with, or stand apart from, wider societal values and moralities to do with the body, fatness, reproduction, and what is considered natural.A"
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Avant-garde to New Wave: Czechoslovak Cinema, Surrealism and the Sixties (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The cultural liberalization of communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s produced many artistic accomplishments, not least the... Læs mere
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Indigenous Peoples and Demography: The Complex Relation Between Identity and Statistics (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
When researchers want to study indigenous populations they are dependent upon the highly variable way in which... Læs mere
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The Frightful Stage: Political Censorship of the Theater in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In 19th-century Europe the ruling elites viewed the theater as a form of communication which had enormous importance. The theater provided the most significant form of mass entertainment and was the only arena aside from the church in which regular mass gatherings were possible.
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Cosmos and Colonialism: Alexander von Humboldt in Cultural Criticism (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Alexander von Humboldt explored the Spanish Empire on the verge of its collapse. He is the most significant German travel writer and the most important mediator between Europe and the Americas of the nineteenth century. His works integrated knowledge from two dozen domains.
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Beyond Conversion and Syncretism: Indigenous Encounters with Missionary Christianity, 1800-2000 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The globalization of Christianity, its spread and appeal to peoples of non-European origin, is by now a well-known phenomenon. Scholars increasingly realize the importance of natives rather than foreign missionaries in the process of evangelization.
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Diasporic Generations: Memory, Politics, and Nation among Cubans in Spain (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Interpretations of the background to the Cuban diaspora - a political revolution and the subsequent radical transformation of the... Læs mere
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Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema: A Sartrean Perspective (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
At the heart of this volume is the assertion that Sartrean existentialism, most prominent in the 1940s, particularly in France, is still... Læs mere
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How Enemies are Made: Towards a Theory of Ethnic and Religious Conflict (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In popular perception cultural differences or ethnic affiliation are factors that cause conflict or political fragmentation although this is not borne out by historical evidence. This book puts forward an alternative conflict theory...
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