Rituality and Social (Dis)Order. The Historical Anthropology of Popular Carnival in Europe, Paperback - ***

This is the first comparative historical anthropology of popular European Carnival written in English, with a focus on its cultural, religious, and...

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Based on ethnography-driven regional comparison and a critical re-examination of classic monographs on some forty cultural groups, this volume make...

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Publisher: Central European University PressAuthor(s): Tomasz (Reader in Modern history, University of St Andrews) KamusellaIllustration(s): 42 Map...

Description As soon as Europeans set foot on African soil, they looked for the equivalents of their kings - and found them. The resulting misunders...

This is one of the most original and important works of contemporary European thought. First published in France in 1975, it is the major theoretic...

DescriptionHow homophobic backlash unexpectedly strengthened mobilization for LGBT political rights in post-communist Europe While LGBT activism ha...

The Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi explores how sixteenth-century samurai leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi's continued and evolving presence in popular c...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gustave Le BonIn The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, social theorist Gustave Le Bon gives historical insight into the p...

In this volume, scholars from history, anthropology, religious studies, sociology, and art history examine historical and contemporary hajj and non...

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Austerity and structural adjustment programs are just the latest forms of neoliberal policy to have a profoundly damaging impact on the targeted po...

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Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Professor Glenda SlugaIllustration(s): 5 maps. 34 b+w illus.Number of pages: 392Publication date: 2...

DescriptionPop City examines the use of Korean television dramas and K-pop music to promote urban and rural places in South Korea. Building on the ...

Publisher: Warners Group PublicationsAuthor(s): Stephen BridgewaterNumber of pages: 132Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 210 x 298 x 13Cover type: ...

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Carlo Mazzoni arrives at Cadenza, the City of Words, intent on making his name, but instead he finds himself embroiled with the intrigues of a city...

This book reconstructs what Europe stood for in National Socialist Germany, analyses how the interplay of its defining elements changed dependent o...

Offers historical and political background to the profusion of nationalist movements in Eastern Europe. This book demonstrates empirically the conc...

This book explores how young people across different European contexts participate in decision-making and foster changes on issues that concern the...

Reducere. These eleven theological essays explore the origins and nature of Islamophobia in Europe and the steady rise of national populism across the contin...

Based on extensive archival research, the contributions in this collection examine the nuances of neutrality leading up to and during the Cold War....

This book sheds an interdisciplinary light on 'transforming bodies': bodies that have been subjected to, contributed to, or have resisted social tr...

Where is the world heading? What choices need to be made to help humanity to thrive? These questions are more acute than ever in a context of growi...

This book offers an invaluable look at what cultural anthropologists do when they are in the field. Through fascinating and often entertaining acco...

Reducere. This book reevaluates the prevailing notion that Jews in medieval Christian Europe lived under an appalling regime of ecclesiastical limitation, go...

Publisher: Hal Leonard Europe LimitedIllustration(s): IllustrationsPublication date: 2010Dimensions: 217 x 150 x 7Cover type: BookRedescopera farme...

Isiah Lavender III's Dis-Orienting Planets amplifies critical issues surrounding the racial and ethnic dimensions of science fiction. This volume e...

The first comprehensive and truly pan-European study of populist radical right parties in Europe by one of the foremost scholars in the field. Cas ...

Survival, the IISS's bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of t...

Using a great variety of methodologies and sources, the authors provide richly documented case studies which cover a wide geographical area within ...

The relationship between Germany and Russia is Europe's most important link with the largest country on the continent. This book analyses how succe...

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In The Cow in the Elevator Tulasi Srinivas explores a wonderful world where deities jump fences and priests ride in helicopters to present a joyful...

Taking a sociocultural long view, the authors, from a range of disciplines, examine violent phenomena in Europe and analyze the role of violence - ...