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The Good Cause : Theoretical Perspectives on Corruption
Money makes the world go round - corruption The book presents the state of the art in studying the causes of corruption from a comparative perspective. Leading scholars in the field of corruption analysis shed light on the issue of corruption from different theoretical perspectives. Understanding how different theories define, conceptualize, and eventually deduce policy recommendations will amp…
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- 978-3-86649-263-9
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- 363.4 GOO
Money and Morality : 2006 Transformation Audit
South Africans are struggling to characterise the times we are living through. Is this a time of deepening grievance, of political patronage and plunder – or a season of hope and previously unimaginable opportunity for most? The 2006 Transformation Audit – Money and Morality focuses on accountability, corruption and its costs.
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- 9780958500272
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Going to Pentecost : An Experimental Approach to Studies in Pentecostalism
Co-authored by three anthropologists with long–term expertise studying Pentecostalism in Vanuatu, Angola, and Papua New Guinea/the Trobriand Islands respectively, Going to Pentecost offers a comparative study of Pentecostalism in Africa and Melanesia, focusing on key issues as economy, urban sociality, and healing. More than an ordinary comparative book, it recognizes the changing nature of r…
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- 9781789201406
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The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain
The book is based on research carried out as part of the research pro-gramme “Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse”, funded by the Wellcome Trust (grant WT095904AIA). I am very grateful to the Wellcome Trust for their support and assistance—financial and practical. I also thank the other participants in the programme: Elizabeth Hurren, Pet…
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- 978-1-137-60089-9
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Going to Court to Change Japan : Social Movements and the Law in Contemporary…
Going to Court to Change Japan takes us inside movements dealing with causes as disparate as death by overwork, the rights of the deaf, access to prisoners on death row, consumer product safety, workers whose companies go bankrupt, and persons convicted of crimes they did not commit. Each of the six fascinating case studies stands on its own as a detailed account of how a social movement has pe…
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- 978-1-929280-84-1
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- Michigan monograph series in japanese studies ; no. 77
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- 340.309 52 GOI
A God of Time and Space : New Perspective On Bob Dylan and Religion
"This book is a collection of essays on Bob Dylan and religion. The eight scientific essays present new perspectives on the subject, aiming to elucidate the role played by religion in Bob Dylan’s artistic output and in the reception history of some of his songs. Few would dispute the fact that religion or religious traditions and the use of religious imagery have always played an important ro…
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- 978-82-02-63262-5
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Game Production Studies
Video games have entered the cultural mainstream and in terms of economic profits they now rival established entertainment industries such as film or television. As careers in video game development become more common, so do the stories about precarious working conditions and structural inequalities within the industry. Yet, scholars have largely overlooked video game production cultures in fav…
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Gambling Debt Iceland's Rise and Fall in the Global Economy
Gambling Debt is a game-changing contribution to the discussion of economic crises and neoliberal financial systems and strategies. Iceland's 2008 financial collapse was the first case in a series of meltdowns, a warning of danger in the global order. This full-scale anthropology of financialization and the economic crisis broadly discusses this momentous bubble and burst and places it in theor…
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- 9781607323341
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Für ein Europa der Übergänge Interkulturalität und Mehrsprachigkeit in e…
Europa kann neu gedacht werden: nicht von den Grenzen und Leitdifferenzen her, sondern von den Übergängen. Die aus vier Kontinenten stammenden Beiträgerinnen und Beiträger befassen sich mit der Frage, inwiefern die Fähigkeit, ästhetische, sprachliche und kulturelle Übergänge angesichts hoher Heterogenität hervorzubringen, Europa am ehesten ausmacht. Von Fatou Diome bis Yoko Tawada, von…
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The Funeral of Mr. Wang Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. In rural China funerals are conducted locally, on village land by village elders. But in urban areas, people have neither land for burials nor elder relatives to conduct funerals. Chinese urbanization, which has increased drastically in recent decades, involves the creation of cemeteries, state-run funeral …
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