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Italië: het is geen buurland en toch voelt het vaak net zo aan. Maar hoe goed kennen wij dat land en zijn volk? In Italië. De schaduwkant van een zonovergoten land reist Ine Roox door het andere Ita……続きを見る

Iedere natie ter wereld kent steden en landen die spreekwoordelijk bekendstaan als dom. In Nederland moeten vooral Kampen en België het ontgelden, terwijl de Belgen op hun beurt de domheid lokaliser……続きを見る

Queer Narratives in Contemporary American Comics: Gutter Smut examines how comics reveal evolving perspectives on gender, sex and sexuality in the United States. Tracing moral panics from the mid-20……続きを見る

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How do we hold onto friends and communities in a world that feels increasingly fragmented? This timely collection explores how social conne……続きを見る

This book uses the case of Chinese development in Laos to ask what development is and why it happens as it does. Development may seem self-evidently positive, but it is fraught with different agenda……続きを見る

Grounded in ethnographic and archival research on the Indonesian island of Bali, More Than Words challenges conventional understandings of textuality and writing as they pertain to the religious tra……続きを見る

La seule unité que connaisse la Confédération suisse au XVIIIe siècle est culturelle. Pour les Européens d’alors, la Suisse représente un pays de fiers républicains vertueux, simples et modérés dans……続きを見る

Brad Fox takes us on a wild exploration of plants and people, imagination and matter, over an unexpected year-long waylay in the high jungle of northeastern Peru. "Brad Fox has traveled to the cente……続きを見る

Less than a half century ago, China experienced a cataclysmic famine, which was particularly devastating in the countryside. As a result, older people in rural areas have experienced in their lifeti……続きを見る

How genetics can provide novel, fascinating, and objective data on human identity–when identity has never been more important. Our identity, both personal and collective, is a fluid and complex narr……続きを見る

El resto del viaje: Crónicas Fronterizas Por Roxana Rodríguez Ortiz Sinopsis ¿Qué significa cruzar una frontera? ¿Qué resta después del cruce, en la memoria, en el cuerpo y en la escritura? En El re……続きを見る

What happens when we listen to a film? How can we describe the relationship of sound to vision in cinema, and in turn our relationship as spectators with the audio-visual? Jean-Luc Godard understood……続きを見る

Revisualising Intersectionality offers transdisciplinary interrogations of the supposed visual evidentiality of categories of human similarity and difference. This open-access book incorporates insi……続きを見る

Central to this volume, and critical to its unique creative significance and contribution, is the conceptual unification of syndemics and stigma. Syndemics theory is increasingly recognized in socia……続きを見る

"Account of an Expedition to the Interior of New Holland" is an exploration narrative written with the aid of Lady Mary Fox, an Englishwoman who accompanied her husband, the Reverend J.L. Fox, on a ……続きを見る

**THE BESTSELLING MODERN CLASSIC. OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD. 'Brilliant and hilarious' GRAYSON PERRY 'A delightful read' SUNDAY TIMES 'Laugh out loud' MARTIN PARR 'Absolutely brilliant' JENNIF……続きを見る

Thoughts and feelings about home traditionally provided people of all cultures with a firm sense of where they belonged, and why. But with the world rapidly changing, many of our basic notions are b……続きを見る

This book is an ethnography of Chinese daigou (cross-border shopping on the behalf of mainland Chinese customers) and their mobilities practices. Daigou practitioners, predominantly women, engage in……続きを見る

An exploration of gender, race, and food in Peru in the 1950s and 1960s and today. From the late 1940s to the mid 1960s, Peru’s rapid industrialization and anti-communist authoritarianism coincided ……続きを見る

"The Hidden Tunnels: Unraveling the Enigmatic Secrets of Denver Airport" invites readers on an intriguing journey through the enigma surrounding Denver International Airport (DIA). This compelling e……続きを見る

From raucous football matches and raves to rubber-bullet-riddled riots, Hancox takes us into the crowd's pulsating heart to pose the questions that will define our age. Multitudes argues it is time ……続きを見る

Consisting of contributions from a host of international scholars (in fields as diverse as literature, architecture, philosophy, and education), Alain Beauclair and Josh Toth’s Nature and Its Unnatu……続きを見る

Anthropologist John Fox sets off on a worldwide adventure to thefarthest reaches of the globe and the deepest recesses of our ancientpast to answer a question inspired by his sports-loving son: "Why……続きを見る

Memory is at the center of a diverse array of political conflicts, moral disputes, and power dynamics. This book illustrates how scholars use different interpretive lenses to study and explain profo……続きを見る

A history and anthropological analysis of one of Papua New Guinea's worst Ponzi schemes in the late 1990s. In the late 1990s and early 2000s a wave of Ponzi schemes swept through Papua New Guinea, A……続きを見る

There is a huge collection of literature relating to death, grief and bereavement, but one aspect that has received relatively little attention is that of death management practices (by which we mea……続きを見る

««Questo libro è un trionfo. L'esplorazione appassionata e illuminante di James Fox dello straordinario rapporto che abbiamo con il colore è essa stessa straordinaria. È una festa intellettuale oltr……続きを見る

Das Buch hinterfragt die vermeintliche visuelle Evidenz von Kategorien menschlicher Ähnlichkeit und Differenz. Es bezieht Erkenntnisse aus den Sozial- und Kognitionswissenschaften sowie der Psycholo……続きを見る

The book highlights the urban imagination in contemporary Chinese science fiction, in order to assess the capacity of Chinese society to conceive of the future. The author argues that ‘the future’ i……続きを見る

Australia, Wilkommen (1990) documents the rich and varying contribution made by Germans in Australia. Originally welcomed as hardy pioneers, German settlers were responsible for discovering and open……続きを見る