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Savoring Care

Rethinking life with type 2 diabetes, Savoring Care flips the script on how people with this chronic illness foster wellness, emphasizing care and community by sharing resources, food, stories, and suppor…

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Suraj Milind Yengde
Caste

A unique exploration of caste oppression and caste resistance around the world, from one of India's leading public intellectuals.

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Lisa K Sabbahy
Daily Life of Women in Ancient Egypt

Providing an indispensable resource for students and scholars studying the history of women in Ancient Egypt, this book provides a readable and scholarly view of every aspect of the life of women in ancie…

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Aihe Wang
Painting Into Being

Painting into Being is the first in-depth study of underground art during China's Cultural Revolution, focusing on the Wuming (No Name) Painting Group from 1972 to 1981. Aihe Wang interweaves history, the…

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Ideology, Post-Ideology and Anti-Ideology in Latin America

The Latin American political landscape has already changed substantially in the 21st century. This book offers an approach to the Latin American political panorama that makes room for a post-ideological p…

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Daniella Gandolfo
A Day in the Hole

A single day in a semilegal market in Lima, Peru, reveals a social world that defies conventional economic logic.In the heart of Lima's historic center, the markets of El Hueco ("The Hole") and …

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Alessandro Baricco,
Hegels Seele oder Die Kühe von Wisconsin

Hegel zufolge soll Musik die Seele erheben. In Wisconsin stieg bei Kühen die Milchproduktion signifikant an, als sie Symphonien hörten. Klassische Musik tut also einfach gut. Allerdings: Beethovens Ode an…

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Curare

Curare wurde 1978 von der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnologie und Medizin (bis 2018 Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnomedizin) begründet. Sie bietet ein internationales und interdisziplinares Forum für die wissenschaft…

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A Cultural History of Insects in the Renaissance

A Cultural History of Insects in the Renaissance covers the period from 1300 to 1600, examining the profound impact of insects on the flowering of culture. In the early part of this period, the unpreceden…

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Ryan D Griffiths
The Disunited States

Given the growing intensity of regionally inflected political polarization in the US, many observers have grimly predicted that a divorce between red and blue America could well happen. Yet how likely is …

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Mitch Rose
Dreams of Presence

Drawing on contemporary debates in philosophy and cultural theory, Dreams of Presence revives the concept of culture as an existential phenomenon and explores geography's role in making it present as an a…

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Ethnographies of Urban Heritage

Drawing on historical and contemporary ethnographic research, this edited collection addresses tangible and intangible forms of urban heritage, their impact on urban policies, and their consequences for u…

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Museums of the Future

This book presents a visionary and comprehensive exploration of how museums are adapting to the evolving demands of contemporary society. It highlights the multiple roles museums play, as cultural institu…

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Afua Hirsch
Decolonising My Body

'Remarkable'Observer 'Intimate' Guardian 'Vital' i newspaperOur bodies tell our story.Upon turning forty, Afua Hirsch had an encounter that forever altered her preconceived notions of ancestry and body im…

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Michael Fuerstein
Experiments in Living Together

Michael Fuerstein explores how democracy drives social progress despite the potential ignorance and irrationality of democratic citizens, arguing that democracy enables "experiments in living": …

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Skill and Scale in Transnational Mediumship

The open access volume "Skill and Scale in Transnational Mediumship" presents ethnographic inquiries into new communities of practice and enskilment that revolve around techniques of mediumship,…

lieferbar ab 7.12.2025.

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Monica L Smith
How Urbanism Changes Foodways

The advent of urbanism had profound impacts on landscape management, agricultural production, food preservation, and cuisine. This Element examines the 6,000-year history of urbanism through the archaeolo…

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Monica L Smith
How Urbanism Changes Foodways

The advent of urbanism had profound impacts on landscape management, agricultural production, food preservation, and cuisine. This Element examines the 6,000-year history of urbanism through the archaeolo…

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Janet Carsten
Marriage and the Moral Imagination

This fresh and engaging book opens up new terrain in the exploration of marriage and kinship. While anthropologists and sociologists have often interpreted marriage, and kinship more broadly, in conservat…

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Janet Carsten
Marriage and the Moral Imagination

This fresh and engaging book opens up new terrain in the exploration of marriage and kinship. While anthropologists and sociologists have often interpreted marriage, and kinship more broadly, in conservat…

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