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Volume 19Law in Japan: A Turning Point (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Explores various developments in Japanese law over the latter half of the twentieth century. This book features the work of thirty-five legal experts on various fields of... Læs mere
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Border Landscapes: The Politics of Akha Land Use in China and Thailand (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Offers a study based on extensive fieldwork as well as historical sources. This book examines the different trajectories of landscape change and land use among communities who call themselves Akha (known as Hani in China) in contrasting political contexts.
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Explaining Culture Scientifically (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)What exactly is culture? This volume suggests that the study of one of anthropology's central questions may be a route to developing a scientific paradigm for the... Læs mere
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Bits of Life: Feminism at the Intersections of Media, Bioscience, and Technology (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Since World War II, the biological and technological have been fusing and merging in new ways, resulting in the loss of a distinction between the two. This title deals with the fusion of biological and technological power and the entanglements of biocultures.
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Forest Guardians, Forest Destroyers: The Politics of Environmental Knowledge in Northern Thailand (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Offers an examination of environmental problems and politics in northern Thailand. This book analyzes... Læs mere
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The Interweaving of Rituals: Funerals in the Cultural Exchange Between China and Europe (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)The death of the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci in China in 1610 was the occasion for demonstrations of European rituals appropriate for a Catholic priest. This book explores the role of ritual - specifically rites related to death and funerals - in cross-cultural exchange.
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Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words: Histories of Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Examines modern and pre-modern Buddhist monastic education traditions in Laos and Thailand. Through five... Læs mere
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Ballyhoo!: Posters As Portraiture (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Posters provide an instructive glimpse of an era's prevailing ideals, prejudices, and presumptions. This title suggests how a famous face can enhance the message of the poster and, conversely, how posters have defined and disseminated images of prominent Americans.
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Tracing Autism: Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and the Affective Labor of Neuroscience (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage) -
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The Legacy of Tolstoy: Alexandra Tolstoy and the Soviet Regime in the 1920s (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Drawing on research in Russian archives, this work examines how Alexandra Tolstoy, the youngest daughter of Russian writer Lev... Læs mere
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Febris Erotica: Lovesickness in the Russian Literary Imagination (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Aims to probe beyond the perception of 'love and death' as a constant theme of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russian literature, examining what underlies the stereotype about the destructive power of romantic love and why Russian writers so willingly employ this cliche.
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Building Ships, Building a Nation: Korea's Democratic Unionism Under Park Chung Hee (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Examines the rise and fall, during the rule of Park Chung Hee (1961-79), of the combative labor union at the Korea Shipbuilding and Engineering Corporation (KSEC), which was Korea's largest shipyard until Hyundai appeared on the scene in the early 1970s.
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