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Sainted Women of the Dark Ages (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Presents lives of eighteen Frankish women of the sixth and seventh centuries, all of whom became saints. This title covers the period from the fall of the Roman Empire and the conversion of the invading Franks to the rise of Charlemagne's family.
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The Rhetoric of Empire: Colonial Discourse in Journalism, Travel Writing, and Imperial Administration (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
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The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Focuses on the need to revitalise public life and political agency in the United States. Delivering a devastating critique of... Læs mere
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Women on the Verge: Japanese Women, Western Dreams (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Shows how female cosmopolitanism re-contextualises the well-known Western male romance with the Orient: Japanese women are now the agents, narrating their... Læs mere
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Sound of Africa!: Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Gives an account of the production of a mbaqanga album in a recording studio in Johannesburg. This work analyzes how the politics surrounding... Læs mere
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Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The first translation into English of essays on modern Japanese literature, culture, and urban ethnography written by the late Ai Maeda, arguably the most prominent 20th century Japanese literary and cultural critic
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The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Transnational ethnography and history of the School of the Americas, analyzing the military, peasant, and activist cultures that are linked by this institution.
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Social Choreography: Ideology As Performance in Dance and Everyday Movement (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Work links dance and the aesthetics of everyday movement to ideas about social order.
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The Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism, and Postsocialism on the Black Sea (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Presenting examinations of the lives of Bulgarian women, this ethnography challenges the idea that women have fared worse than men in... Læs mere
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Queer/Early/Modern (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Argues for a reading practice that accounts for the queerness of temporality, for the way past, present, and future time appear out of sequence and in dialogue in our thinking about... Læs mere
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Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu's Zaire (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled Zaire from 1965 until 1997, was fond of saying "happy are those who sing and dance," and his regime energetically... Læs mere
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Sciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A preeminent science studies scholar shows how feminist and postcolonial science studies challenge the problematic modernity versus tradition binary.
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