Social And Cultural Anthropology – alle Bücher und Diverse, Seite 9

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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Tracing Intangible Cultural Migrant Heritage in the UK

International Perspectives on Migration - Band 19

This book explores the role of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) among migrant communities in the UK. It examines how diverse cultural practices, from life celebrations to death commemorations, have trav…

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Stephen G Covell
The Teaching and Teachings of Temple Buddhism in Contemporary Japan

How have Buddhist teachings come to be in modern and contemporary Japan and how are they taught? This pioneering work seeks to answer these questions by highlighting the public teachings of Temple Buddhis…

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Sarah Bakker Kellogg
Sonic Icons

A vivid, artfully crafted, and deeply hopeful account of one community's struggle to rediscover and reinvent itself after a century of genocidal loss, dispossession, and displacement To the extent that Mi…

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Stephen G Covell
The Teaching and Teachings of Temple Buddhism in Contemporary Japan

"How have Buddhist teachings come to be in modern and contemporary Japan and how are they taught? This pioneering work seeks to answer these questions by highlighting the public teachings of Temple B…

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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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Edmée Ballif
Reproductive Boundaries

Reproductive Boundaries examines the shifting boundaries of prenatal care in Switzerland, focusing on the Pregnancy Support Center's innovative psychosocial model. By redefining the territory of care, the…

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Josh Brahinsky
Tongues of Fire

In Tongues of Fire , anthropologist Joshua Brahinsky embarks on an 18-year journey into the mind-body practices of charismatic evangelicals-Christians known for their exuberant worship and the enigmatic p…

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Sarah Bakker Kellogg
Sonic Icons

A vivid, artfully crafted, and deeply hopeful account of one community's struggle to rediscover and reinvent itself after a century of genocidal loss, dispossession, and displacement To the extent that Mi…

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Calum Lister Matheson
Post-Weird

Post-Weird: Fragmentation, Community, and the Decline of the Mainstream is an ambitious look at how communities form when old forms of authority and meaning seem to be collapsing around us. This book goes…

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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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Pamela Lothspeich,
Raslila and Ramlila

This short volume introduces readers to the interrelated devotional theatres of Raslila or Krishnalila (the play of Krishna), and Ramlila (the play of Ram), in a clear, accessible style.Pamela Lothspeich …

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Free Up Yuhself

Free Up Yuhself explores and theorizes what it means to embody and be empowered by the chaos of transgression, evaluating the implications for people who destabilize the Caribbean region's dominant gender…

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Sylvia D Hoffert
Wagging Tongues and Tittle Tattle

In Wagging Tongues and Tittle Tattle, Sylvia Hoffert calls on a particularly rich collection of primary sources, including diaries, letters, oral histories, census data, court documents, church records, a…

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Priya Swamy,
Struggles for Hindu Sacred Space in the Netherlands

This book asks us to consider what is absent, rather than what is present, when studying religions. Priya Swamy argues that absent religious spaces are in themselves abstract locations that painfully memo…

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The Oxford Handbook of Illiberalism

From the rise of populist leaders and the threat of democratic backsliding to polarizing culture wars and the return of great power competition, the backlash against the political, economic, and social li…

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Katie Rose Hejtmanek
The Cult of Crossfit

Reveals the Christian foundations of CrossFit CrossFit in the United States has become increasingly popular, around which a fascinating culture has developed which shapes everyday life for the people devo…

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James L Fitzsimmons
Blood on the Wind

The story most often commonly told about the Maya involves their spectacular collapse at the height of their civilization in the early ninth century CE. Crops died, disease and malnutrition spread, and sc…

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John Vaillant
Fire Weather

**PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR - FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION - FINALIST FOR THE PEN/GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION - A stunning account of a c…

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Simona Supekar,
Stock Photo

Brochures, billboards, websites, menus, and memes. We are immersed every day in the imagery of carefully-curated stock photography. Stock Photo blends memoir and cultural history to mine how this unique m…

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