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Bad Girls of Japan (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? By tracing the concept of the bad girl as a product of specific cultural assumptions and historical... Læs mere
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Doing Fieldwork: Ethnographic Methods for Research in Developing Countries and Beyond (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Making use of his own research experiences in Papua New Guinea, Southern Ontario, and Newfoundland, Wayne Fife teaches students and new researchers how to prepare for research, conduct a study, analyze the material (e.g.
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The Political Economy of Emerging Markets: Actors, Institutions and Financial Crises in Latin America (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This book takes a cross-disciplinary look at the financial markets of emerging markets in Latin America. The author wants to disassemble the black box that is the financial market: what are the motivations and interests of the various actors, both institutional and individual?;
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Rethinking Freedom: Why Freedom Has Lost Its Meaning and What Can Be Done to Save It (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Based on interviews with people concerning the nature of freedom, the author compares what the people he talked with said about freedom with what writers and thinkers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Herbert Marcuse, and Iris Murdoch have to say about freedom.
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Creating Choice: A Community Responds to the Need for Abortion and Birth Control, 1961-1973 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Before Roe v. Wade, somewhere between one and two million illegal abortions were performed every year in the... Læs mere
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Islam Obscured: The Rhetoric of Anthropological Representation (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Ethnographers have observed Muslims nearly everywhere Islam is practiced. Varisco's analysis goes beyond the rhetoric over what Islam is to the information from ethnographic research about what Muslims say they do and actually are observed to do.
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An Intellectual History of the Caribbean (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This is first intellectual history of the Caribbean written by a top Caribbean studies scholar. The book examines both the work of natives of the region as well... Læs mere
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A Peaceful Jihad: Negotiating Identity and Modernity in Muslim Java (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book examines how the Islamic community in Java, Indonesia, is actively negotiating both modernity and tradition in the contexts of nation-building, globalisation, and a supposed clash of civilizations.
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The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Tracking the major symbolic and emotional themes of the ceremony to their sources in everyday Kaluli life, Schieffelin shows how the central values and passions of Kaluli experience are governed by the basic forms of social reciprocity.
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To Wear the Dust of War: From Bialystok to Shanghai to the Promised Land, an Oral History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Like many European Jews, Sam Iwry began his life in Poland, but at the age of ten fled with his family to Russia... Læs mere
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The Future of Political Islam (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This sweeping survey of trends in the Muslim world contends that the issue is not whether Islam plays a central role in politics, but what Muslims want. To focus on... Læs mere
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Soul, Psyche, Brain: New Directions in the Study of Religion and Brain-Mind Science (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Soul, Psyche, Brain is a collection of essays that address the relationships between neuroscience, religion and human nature. Soul, Psyche, Brain explores questions like: what can knowledge about the neurological activities of the brain tell us about consciousness?
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