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Crisiswork

The world's attention has often turned to Lebanon in moments of crisis, including, recently, during the Beirut Port Explosion in 2020 and the 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Less told is the story of ho…

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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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J M Coetzee, Mariana Dimópulos
Speaking in Tongues

Language, historically speaking, has always been slippery. Two dictionaries provide two different maps of the universe: which one is true, or are both false? Speaking in Tongues -taking the form of a dial…

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The Oxford Handbook of Ritual Language

This volume brings together case studies and surveys of recent research to address foundational questions regarding the scope, structuring, use, and consequences of ritual language. The chapters examine t…

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J M Coetzee, Mariana Dimópulos
Speaking in Tongues

Language, historically speaking, has always been slippery. Two dictionaries provide two different maps of the universe: which one is true, or are both false? Speaking in Tongues -taking the form of a dial…

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String Figures

Stretched between eight fingers and two thumbs, sometimes between teeth and toes, lengths of string make shapes. String figures can do many things: they tell stories, they pass the time, they make the uns…

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Marc David
Remembering the Cajun Past

Exploring how public history creates collective memory of this white ethnic group through memorialsCajuns arrived in southern Louisiana in the 18th century after the British exiled them from eastern Canad…

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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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Steve Grove
How I Found Myself in the Midwest

"A passionate tribute to the power of moving forward by going back home, a Minnesota native son shares an urgent invitation to rediscover the grounding power of community through his story of leaving…

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Pflanzen

Das Handbuch geht von einem weiten Begriff der Kulturwissenschaften aus und untersucht die Rolle der Pflanzen in den Wechselbeziehungen von Natur und Kultur. Alle Kapitel betrachten Pflanzen sowohl als Le…

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Marc David
Remembering the Cajun Past

Exploring how public history creates collective memory of this white ethnic group through memorialsCajuns arrived in southern Louisiana in the 18th century after the British exiled them from eastern Canad…

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Ethnographies of Urban Heritage

Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology

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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Bart J Wilson
Meaningful Economics

Economics has a problem--the discipline cannot distinguish the causes of human action from the consequences of human action. Economists deal with matters of fact, not with feelings and morals. They model …

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Lars Cornelissen
Neoliberalism and Race

"In this book, Lars Cornelissen argues that starting from its emergence in the interwar period, neoliberalism has rested conceptually and politically on a Eurocentric vision that portrays Western cul…

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S L Price
The American Game

From "the master of new journalism [who always] hits it over the fence" (New York Times ) and "one of the finest writers on sports anywhere" (USA Today), the scintillating story of lac…

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Michelle Christian
The Global Journey of Racism

"In The Global Journey of Racism, Michelle Christian provides a unified narrative of how the world's racial hierarchies came to be. Christian's story begins before the Ku Klux Klan, Nazi Germany, and…

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Fang Fang,
Wuhan Diary

Das Tagebuch der berühmten chinesischen Schriftstellerin Fang Fang aus einer abgeriegelten Stadt ist ein einzigartiges, ergreifendes Zeitdokument über den Kampf gegen einen unsichtbaren Feind, den die Men…

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Anthony Aveni
Aliens Like Us?

Are aliens even out there? If so, why do we assume we can imagine what they look like, or how they will relate humanity? Anthony Aveni provides us with a thoroughly entertaining analysis of our fasincatio…

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Miriam Grabenheinrich
Journalism and Diversity

People with a migration background are, according to numerous analyses, disproportionately portrayed in problematic contexts in German reporting. To change this, there are various initiatives such as awar…

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Steve Grove
How I Found Myself in the Midwest

In this passionate testimony to the power of moving forward by going back home, a Midwestern native shares hope in going local.Just after turning forty, Steve Grove left Silicon Valley as a Google executi…

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