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This open access book examines how Indigenous authors from the Soviet North reflect the impact of Soviet settler colonialism on Indigenous communities in the region through literary engagement with ……続きを見る

In the fertility and cosmetics industries, women’s body products – such as urine, eggs, and placentas – have moved from being seen as waste to becoming valuable ingredients. Taking a sociological an……続きを見る

For the first time in over 30 years, a new ethnographic study emerges on the Bugkalot tribe, more widely known as the Ilongot of the northern Philippines. Exploring the notion of masculinity among t……続きを見る

Nagas addresses the natureーembedded belief systems and subsistence strategies of the Naga people. Knowledge systems that were once spread across the Naga communities but are now confined to specifi……続きを見る

When a human being and an artificial intelligence begin to talk about life, something unexpected happens: a new kind of conversation emerges ー free of judgment, yet full of reflection. Knowing Your……続きを見る

Ontdek de verborgen schatten van Java's ziel in een tijdloos meesterwerk! Door duisternis tot licht: Gedachten over en voor het Javaansche volk van Kartini is een diepgaande reis door de geest en cu……続きを見る

Electronic open-access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. At the border where Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina meet under the scrutiny of the US and Mercosur (the large Sout……続きを見る

Anthropologically explores the entanglement of theology and politics among contemporary Orthodox Christians Much of the anthropological literature on Christianity tends to concentrate on Protestants……続きを見る

Syntymään ja kuolemaan liittyy kaikissa kulttuureissa mystiikkaa ja uskomuksia. Elämän porteista kulkevia saatellaan eri puolilla maailmaa monenlaisin menoin ja siirtymäriitein, jotka ulkopuoliselle……続きを見る

Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union: The European Heritage Label provides an interdisciplinary examination of the ways in which European cultural heritage is created, comm……続きを見る

La pensée de Claude Lévi-Strauss a façonné le XXe siècle. Disciple de Montaigne autant que de Rousseau, l’auteur de Tristes Tropiques a pulvérisé une certaine bonne conscience de l’Occident dans les……続きを見る

Spirit Power explores the manifestation of the American Century in Korean history with a focus on religious culture. It looks back on the encounter with American missionary power from the late ninet……続きを見る

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 t……続きを見る

This volume is a collection of essays on the process of obtaining a PhD degree at a Finnish university. The contributors share the common background of coming to Finland from abroad especially for t……続きを見る

Engagements with Children’s and Young Adult Literature offers an accessible guide to studying Children’s and Young Adult (CYA) literature, teaching readers how to read critically. This book introduc……続きを見る

Most cultural critics theorize modernity as a state of disenchanted distraction, one linked to both the rationalizing impulses of scientific and technological innovation and the kind of dispersed, f……続きを見る

Exploring Canada: Exploits and Encounters is a collection of articles on a broad variety of Canadian topics and themes, from literature to language and linguistics, from social and political issues ……続きを見る

«Kilpeläinen’s engaging journey through Baldwin’s postcategorical utopian thought shows how this writer’s under-appreciated later works foresee today’s heated ideological and philosophical debates. ……続きを見る

In the early 1990s, Berlin and Shanghai witnessed the dramatic social changes in both national and global contexts. While in 1991 Berlin became the new capital of the reunified Germany, from 1992 Sh……続きを見る

Die Monographie bietet einen Überblick über verschiedene Raumkonzepte der modernen Literaturforschung. Es werden Orte und Unorte, historische und gegenwärtige Regionen, mentale Räume der Kultur und ……続きを見る

Das Buch vereint die Beiträge der 2013 von der Deutschabteilung der Ramkhamhaeng-Universität Bangkok organisierten Konferenz zum Thema Motivieren und Motivation im Unterricht Deutsch als Fremdsprach……続きを見る

The articles in this volume investigate everyday textual material of sociolinguistic landscapes in the early 21st century. Sociolinguistic landscapes reflect societal change, and they enable observe……続きを見る

Central-Eastern Europe, in the mid-20th century, was a scene of Holocaust, mass killings, war, deportations and forced resettlements under the competing totalitarian invasions and afterwards. It was……続きを見る

A sensitive ethnography of former Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) combatants After sixteen years of civil war (1976ー1992) between the Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) and the governm……続きを見る

This book offers a close-up study of annual cycle rituals among the southern Tagbanwa of Palawan Island in the Philippines, with a particular focus on shamanic oratory and vocalized performance. Dra……続きを見る

Live, Die, Buy, Eat. These words represent a chain of events which today is disconnected. In the past few years, controversies around meat have arisen around industrialization and globalization of m……続きを見る

Key debates of contemporary cultural sociology – the rise of the ‘cultural omnivore’, the fate of classical ‘highbrow’ culture, the popularization, commercialization and globalization of culture – d……続きを見る

A unique journey into the Arctic world, its myths and changes Finland’s leading expert on Arctic affairs, Markku Heikkilä shares insights from 25 years of travel, from the northern parts of Canada t……続きを見る

This open access book investigates human-environment relations in the context of the anthropocenic Arctic. Through an archaeological and anthropological study of landscape, it wields “weirding” – a ……続きを見る

In a twenty-first-century global economy, in which multinational companies coordinate and collaborate with partners and clientele around the world, it is usually English that is the parlance of busi……続きを見る