Transnationale Perspektiven /Transnational perspectives

by Vollmer, Klaus

Der vorliegende Band ist dem Thema Ökologie und Umweltpolitik gewidmet und ging aus einer internationalen Tagung der Vereinigung für sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung (VSJF) hervor. Die Beiträge stellen zwar Japan in den Mittelpunkt der Betrachtung, beziehen aber zugleich...

(2006)

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Jahrbuch des Deutschen Instituts für Japanstudien

by Backhaus, Peter and Deutsches In...

Der aktuelle Band der Japanstudien beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema Familie. Er besteht aus zehn themenrelevanten Beiträgen und sechs Buchbesprechungen, von denen jeweils die eine Hälfte in deutscher und die andere Hälfte in englischer Sprache verfasst ist.Zusammengenommen möcht...

(2007)

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Metaphors in the public debate about Europe in Britain and Germany

by Fritsch, Ingrid

If we go by the imagery used in the public debate, the European Union is a rather protean entity. Sometimes it is a >train that must not be missedhouse without exit doorsfamilymarriageménage à troiswar zonebattles are foughtChapter I: >The path is the goalChapter II: >Vehicles...

(2000)

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by Diane E. Gol..., Sylvia Ann G..., and Jeannie Bank...

Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people...

(2013)

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by Aaron N. Shugar and Scott E. Sim...

"This book will be a basic reference on the topic for many years to come, and will remain an essential source even as new field and laboratory studies develop. It is by far the best reference for metallurgy within the ancient Mesoamerican world system, and will be important fo...

(2013)

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by Trevor J. Blank

A pioneering examination of the folkloric qualities of the World Wide Web, e-mail, and related digital media. These stuidies show that folk culture, sustained by a new and evolving vernacular, has been a key, since the Internet's beginnings, to language, practice, and interact...

(2013)

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by Barre Toelken

One of the most comprehensive and widely praised introductions to folklore ever written. Toelken's discussion of the history and meaning of folklore is delivered in straightforward language, easily understood definitions, and a wealth of insightful and entertaining examples. ...

(2013)

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by William Wilson

A collection of narratives, humorous stories, and songs from Mormon missionaries that has become a classic study of narrative folklore. The 64th annual Faculty Honor Lecture, in the Humanities, Utah State University.

(2013)

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by Elliott Oring

Oring's introductory folklore text consists of a series of essays by leading scholars that give the student a solid sense of major folklore topics and interpretive techniques. Since 1986, when it was first published, this book has met the need for good instructional material a...

(2013)

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by Barre Toelken

After a career working and living with American Indians and studying their traditions, Barre Toelken has written this sweeping study of Native American folklore in the West. Within a framework of performance theory, cultural worldview, and collaborative research, he examines N...

(2013)

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by Martha Sims and Martine Step...

_Living Folklore_ is a comprehensive, straightforward introduction to folklore as it is lived, shared and practiced in contemporary settings. Drawing on examples from diverse American groups and experiences, this text gives the student a strong foundation--from the field's his...

(2013)

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Archaeological Perspectives

by David M. Car...

"[Cooperation research] is one of the busiest and most exciting areas of transdisciplinary science right now, linking evolution, ecology and social science. . . this is the first major work or collection to address linkages between archaeology and cooperation research."--Micha...

(2013)

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Policies to Support Women's Entrepreneurship Development in the MENA Region

by OECD Publishing

This publication provides an overview of approaches and measures in MENA-OECD Investment Programme economies to promote, support and advance women's entrepreneurship development in the Middle East and North Africa. It covers such issues as access to credit and business develop...

(2012)

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A Global Profile of Diasporas

by OECD Publishing

The potential of diasporas as a source of economic and social development in origin countries and whether diasporas could help foster development depend on their characteristics, such as size, composition, skill levels and degree of concentration, but also on the degree of int...

(2012)

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by Sara Warner

Acts of Gaiety explores the mirthful modes of political performance by LGBT artists, activists, and collectives that have inspired and sustained deadly serious struggles for revolutionary change. The book explores antics such as camp, kitsch, drag, guerrilla theater, zap actio...

(2012)

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by Ramon Rivera...

Performing Queer Latinidad highlights the critical role that performance played in the development of Latina/o queer public culture in the United States during the 1990s and early 2000s, a period when the size and influence of the Latina/o population was increasing alongside a...

(2012)

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Racial Transgression and the Politics of Black Performance

by Brandi Wilki...

Beautifully written and cogently argued, The Problem of the Color[blind] addresses one of the most persistent sociopolitical questions in contemporary culture: 'Are we a multicultural nation, or a colorblind one?' A tremendously illuminating study that promises to break new gr...

(2012)

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by Jill Dolan

The Feminist Spectator as Critic broke new ground as one of the pioneering books on feminist spectatorship, encouraging resistant readings to generate feminist meanings in performance. Approaching live spectatorship through a range of interdisciplinary methods, the book has be...

(2012)

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Feminism and the Politics of Cultural Critique

by Judith Newton

For more than a decade Judith Newton has been at the forefront of defining and promoting materialist feminist criticism. Starting Over brings together a selection of her essays that chart the establishment of feminist literary criticism in the academy and its relation to other...

(2012)

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by Joshua Engle...

"Through the lens of agency, contributors successfully rethink the nature of ancient texts. In so doing they ably demonstrate that when a new theoretical orientation is applied to a taken-for-granted category of data it invigorates both the data and our understanding of the pa...

(2012)

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