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First Blood: A Cultural Study of Menarche
What woman forgets discovering her first period? First Blood examines the ways in which women from various countries – India, Sri Lanka, England, the Philippines, Greece, Italy, Uganda, Indonesia, Fiji, Chile, Ukraine, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong – recall this moment of menarche and what it meant to them, their families, and their societies. What is the mystique of womenâ€â„…
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- 9781925377040
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Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica
Archaeologists have long recognized the crucial role of interregional interaction in the development and cultural dynamics of ancient societies, particularly in terms of the evolution of sociocultural complexity and economic systems. New Perspectives on Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica builds on and amplifies this earlier research to examine such sociocultural phenomena as movem…
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- 9781607328353
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Historicizing Fear: Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering
Historicizing Fear is a historical interrogation of the use of fear as a tool to vilify and persecute groups and individuals from a global perspective, offering an unflinching look at racism, fearful framing, oppression, and marginalization across human history. The book examines fear and Othering from a historical context, providing a better understanding of how power and oppression are used i…
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- 9781646420025
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Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Capitali…
This book explores activism, research and critique in the age of digital subjects and objects and Big Data capitalism after a digital turn said to have radically transformed our political futures. Optimists assert that the ‘digital' promises: new forms of community and ways of knowing and sensing, innovation, participatory culture, networked activism, and distributed democracy. Pessimists…
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- 9781912656202
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Contemporary Indonesian Film; Spirits of Reform and Ghosts from the Past
This highly informative book explores the world of Post-Soeharto Indonesian audio-visual media in the exiting era of Reform.
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- 9789067183819
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- 301 HEE c
A Contemporary History of Exclusion; The Roma Issue in Hungary from 1945 to 2015
This book illustrates the history of the Gypsy/Roma issue in the wider context of Hungarian national history, relying on state policy documents.
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- 9789633861226
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Toward a Pragmatist Sociology: John Dewey and the Legacy of C. Wright Mills
In Toward a Pragmatist Sociology, Robert Dunn explores the relationship between the ideas and principles of philosopher and educator John Dewey and sociologist C. Wright Mills to provide a philosophical and theoretical foundation for the development of a critical and public sociology. Dunn recovers an intellectual and conceptual framework for transforming sociology into a more substantive, comp…
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- 9781439914595
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Contact Zones; Photography, Migration, and Cultural Encounters in the United …
Since the mid-nineteenth century photography has played a central role in cultural encounters within and between migrant communities in the United States.
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- 9789461663573
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Consuming Cities
This book is about cities as engines of consumption of the world's environment, and the spread of policies to reduce their impact.
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- 9780203984611
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- 339.47 GLE c
Consuming Beauty - Körper, Schönheit und Geschlecht in Tanah Karo, Nord-Sum…
Die vorliegende Arbeit widmet sich der Frage nach den sozialen Praxen und gesellschaftlichen Bedeutungen von Schönheit bei den Karo Batak in Sumatra, Indonesien. In Tanah Karo, einer agrarisch geprägten Hochebene, säumen Aerobic- Studios und Schönheitssalon die Straßen der zwei Kleinstädte Berastagi und Kabanjahe
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