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  • Cultivating Moral Citizenship
    Jude D. Fokwang
    In Cultivating Moral Citizenship, ethnographer Jude Fokwang unpacks the meanings, mechanisms and processes through which young people in an inner city of the West African nation of Cameroon respond to local and global challenges as they seek to position themselves as social adults. Faced with the decline of old predictabilities, the diminishing capacity of the postcolonial stat...
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    39,71 €

  • Systemic Evolutions
    Chris Handrahan
    As a history, human reality is choiceless mimic to nature’s reality by its placement, inventiveness, creativity, and the compression of its localized space and time within a much broader system of existence. This collection of essays creatively elaborates topics such as evolution, environmental diversity, the nature of time, the finite and infinite worlds, instinctive awareness...
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    15,22 €

  • Quality and Equity in Education
    This book presents a vision of plurilingual, intercultural education, demonstrates how it can be realised in practice, and does so in a way which is easily and quickly accessible to teachers of all subjects and in all educational institutions, as well as to other educationists, including policymakers. ...
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    41,81 €

  • Quality and Equity in Education
    This book presents a vision of plurilingual, intercultural education, demonstrates how it can be realised in practice, and does so in a way which is easily and quickly accessible to teachers of all subjects and in all educational institutions, as well as to other educationists, including policymakers. ...
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    157,27 €

  • Anarchival Practices
    Carine Zaayman
    Where is the past? It is not really behind us, but with us, constantly imagined and re-imagined in public discourse through historical narrations. Using the Clanwilliam Arts Project as a case study, this volume is founded on the ’anarchive’, a conceptual constellation that positions the past in relation to the present, bringing into view strategies to facilitate remembering bey...
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    10,49 €

  • Don’t Call Me Gypsy
    Kytka Hilmarova
    Unveil the hidden treasures of Romani history, traditions, and cultural significance in Don’t Call Me Gypsy: A Journey through Czech Romani History and Fairy Tales This book takes readers on a remarkable journey, delving deep into the rich tapestry of Romani life in the Czech Lands, and offering a profound understanding of their experiences, challenges, and contributions throug...
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    22,48 €

  • Salud pública en Colombia
    Hugo Sotomayor Tribín / Jiménez Villamil
    Presenta una original aproximación al devenir sanitario del país desde la antropología médica, la epidemiología, la etnoepidemiología y la historia; es una expresión de interdisciplinariedad y transdisciplinariedad que tiene en cuenta el conocimiento ancestral, la academia y la cultura. A través de 18 capítulos distribuidos en siete apartes, Hugo Sotomayor Tribín presenta su vi...
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    31,20 €

  • Primitive Man as Philosopher
    Paul Radin
    2023 Reprint of the 1927 U.S. Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. 'Anthropology is a science whose most significant discoveries have come when it has taken its bearings from literature, and what makes Paul Radin’s Primitive Man as Philosopher a seminal piece of anthropological inquiry is that it is also a book of...
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    25,11 €

  • Eating beside Ourselves
    Heather Paxson
    Eating beside Ourselves examines eating as a site of transfer and transformation across bodies and selves. The contributors show that by turning organic substance into food, acts of eating create interconnected food webs organized by relative conditions of edibility through which eaters may in turn become eaten. In case studies ranging from nineteenth- and twentieth-century ind...
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    128,13 €

  • Eating beside Ourselves
    Heather Paxson
    Eating beside Ourselves examines eating as a site of transfer and transformation across bodies and selves. The contributors show that by turning organic substance into food, acts of eating create interconnected food webs organized by relative conditions of edibility through which eaters may in turn become eaten. In case studies ranging from nineteenth- and twentieth-century ind...
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    32,80 €

  • Power Back to the People
    Vick Lukwago Ssali
    The ’scramble for Africa’ resulted in random and unlikely borders that remain today. These artificial borders, the colonial policy of divide and rule, and the resultant segmental cleavages in most post-colonial African states, may be blamed for the horizontal inequalities (unequal development of and inequitable social and political relations among salient identity groups) rampa...
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    43,26 €

  • (Un)doing Resistance
    Reem Abbas / Ruba El Melik
    In April 2019, when millions marched to the headquarters of the military in Khartoum and other cities and the march was transformed into a sit-in that continued for two months, the sit-in became Sudan’s largest arts festival. The art produced during the revolution went viral, as it was covered by foreign journalists who swarmed Khartoum to report on the revolution. However, the...
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    39,61 €

  • Al crepuscolo - Gli immaginari del progresso e il loro declino
    Linda De Feo / Lorenzo Fattori / Stefano Bory
    Il mito del progresso è stata una delle più grandi invenzioni della ModernitàSolo che, a un certo punto, questo movimento sì è interrotto. Pochi hanno riflettuto su una circostanza: la capacità sì creativa, ma insieme distruttiva delle forze scatenate dai processi di modernizzazione.In questo volume collettivo, che raccoglie solo un primo punto d’arrivo, preliminare e incomplet...
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    16,13 €

  • Dynamics of Interregional Exchange in East Asian Buddhist Art, 5th-13th Century
    Dorothy C. Wong
    This volume examines the various patterns of trans-regional exchanges in Buddhist art within East Asia (China, Korea, and Japan) in the medieval period, from the fifth to the thirteenth centuries. A traditional approach to the study of East Asian Buddhist art revolves around the notion of an artistic relay: India was regarded as the source of inspiration for China, and China in...
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    68,52 €

  • Journey to Adulthood
    This book is the first scientific publication on transition to adulthood in East Asia with most chapters utilizing a longitudinal panel dataset of Taiwanese youth from 2000 to 2018 (i.e., from age 14 to 32). ...
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    26,26 €

  • Journey to Adulthood
    This book is the first scientific publication on transition to adulthood in East Asia with most chapters utilizing a longitudinal panel dataset of Taiwanese youth from 2000 to 2018 (i.e., from age 14 to 32). ...
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    135,57 €

  • Power, Violence and Justice
    Margaret Abraham
    The authors in this edited volume provide sociological insights, theoretical perspectives and applied contexts that contribute to a deeper understanding the complexities of power, violence, and justice. Underlying many chapters also lies the question of what is the role that sociology plays and can play in moving us forward? ...
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    27,08 €

  • Power, Violence and Justice
    Margaret Abraham
    The authors in this edited volume provide sociological insights, theoretical perspectives and applied contexts that contribute to a deeper understanding the complexities of power, violence, and justice. Underlying many chapters also lies the question of what is the role that sociology plays and can play in moving us forward? ...
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    136,40 €

  • Customary Versus Modern Laws of Eritrea on Gender Equality
    Muluberhan Hagos
    The research of Muluberhan Hagos compares the customary laws of ethnic groups in Eritrea and the modern laws of the country, with a focus on the legal issues in society that emerge, understood from a gender perspective. These issues include the laws of person and gender, abortion, family law, succession and property, the law of contracts and criminal and civil liabilities in ge...
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    67,98 €

  • River Life and the Upspring of Nature
    Naveeda Khan
    In River Life and the Upspring of Nature Naveeda Khan examines the relationship between nature and culture through the study of the everyday existence of chauras, the people who live on the chars (sandbars) within the Jamuna River in Bangladesh. Nature is a primary force at play within this existence as chauras live itinerantly and in flux with the ever-changing river flows; wh...
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    34,06 €

  • Eating Disorders in Public Discourse
    Eating disorders remain little understood by the public, and sensationalist stories in the media have done little to dispel simplistic and reductionist perspectives. This book uncovers compelling insights on the intersection of language, discourse and mental health. ...
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    127,56 €

  • Birds and Humans
    Ruth H Finnegan
    THIRD EDITION January 2023BIRDS AND HUMANS: WHO ARE WE ?What are birds? Are they really today’s dinosaurs as against us mammals and how does their evolution compare with that of humans and their lifestyle, parenting, tools, travelling and intelligence - better or worse? Was it they who first discovered music and then taught us - and do they too have an aesthetic sense and a j...
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    26,90 €

  • The Spectacular Generic
    Cori Hayden
    In The Spectacular Generic, Cori Hayden examines how generic drugs have transformed public health politics and everyday experiences of pharmaceutical consumption in Latin America. Focusing on the Mexican pharmacy chain Farmacias Similares and its proprietor, Víctor González Torres, Hayden shows how generics have become potent commodities in a postpatent world. In the early 2000...
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    128,08 €

  • The Spectacular Generic
    Cori Hayden
    In The Spectacular Generic, Cori Hayden examines how generic drugs have transformed public health politics and everyday experiences of pharmaceutical consumption in Latin America. Focusing on the Mexican pharmacy chain Farmacias Similares and its proprietor, Víctor González Torres, Hayden shows how generics have become potent commodities in a postpatent world. In the early 2000...
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    32,75 €

  • Enslaved
    Eritrean refugees are being trafficked and enslaved in Libya, where they are tortured to force relatives to pay a ransom for their release. Labelled with a digital code, they are moved along in the possession of the traffickers through a series of ’black holes’, in which their access to digital technologies and connectivity is highly controlled. They are tortured, abused, extor...
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    78,59 €

  • The gift of narrative in medieval England
    Nicholas Perkins
    This critical study of medieval English romances uses ideas from anthropology and critical theories of the gift to shed light on narratives ranging from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. Written in a style accessible for students as well as scholars, it engages with questions about storytelling, agency, gender and material objects. ...
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    44,16 €

  • Translanguaging and Epistemological Decentring in Higher Education and Research
    Using data from universities in Asia, Central and North America, Europe and the Maghreb, this book provides examples of the heuristic value of translanguaging and epistemological decentring, and argues that decentring cannot happen until learners are able to identify which sorts of centring dynamics and conditions are salient to their learning. ...
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    60,10 €

  • Translanguaging and Epistemological Decentring in Higher Education and Research
    Using data from universities in Asia, Central and North America, Europe and the Maghreb, this book provides examples of the heuristic value of translanguaging and epistemological decentring, and argues that decentring cannot happen until learners are able to identify which sorts of centring dynamics and conditions are salient to their learning. ...
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    181,69 €

  • Trade in the Senegambia Region
    Patience Sonko-Godwin Sonko-Godwin
    Trade in the Senegambia Region deals with the local and trans-continental trading activities in the Senegambia Region. In this exposition, Patience Sonko-Godwin depicts trade as an agent of change and transposition of culture from one state to another and from one continent to another. She delves into aspects of the trans-Atlantic slave trade during which time millions of peopl...
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    64,15 €

  • Ethnic Groups of the Senegambia Region
    Patience Sonko-Godwin
    Ethnic Groups of the Senegambia Region deals with the major ethnic groups of the Senegambia Region, namely: the Wolof, Mandinka, Fula, Jola, Serahule, Tukulor and Serer. The book addresses the issues of origins, migration, settlements, state formation, intra- and inter-state relationships. It also addresses the European subjugation of these peoples. This invaluable work opens a...
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    31,18 €


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