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Urban Studies : Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Urban Stud…
This work contains a selection of papers from the International Conference on Urban Studies (ICUS 2017) and is a bi-annual periodical publication containing articles on urban cultural studies based on the international conference organized by the Faculty of Humanities at the Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia. This publication contains studies on issues that become phenomena in urban life, includ…
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- 9780429507410
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Chapter Unsheathing the Katana. The Long Fortune of the First Two Japanese Em…
At the end of the nineteenth century, Italy welcomed an official embassy sent by the government in Tokyo to make Japan more integrated into the new world scene it was entering. The cultural and political elites of the peninsula had the chance to discover, or rather rediscover, the charm of a world that had been lost over the centuries. This essay aims to reflect on the means and meanings of thi…
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- 9788855185790
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- Pages 19
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- 900 TRI c
Chapter 35 Migration and Narrative Dynamics
How can narrative theory account for the changing roles of storytelling and storysharing in the public sphere? This essay proposes a new concept of narrative dynamics, one that generates well-constrained descriptions of specific elements, features, or qualities of narratives, as well as programmatic claims concerning their potential uses and effects. Narrative dynamics research is equally inter…
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- 9780367569730
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- Pages 15
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- 900 ROY c
Hunter-Gatherers Archaeological and Evolutionary Theory
Hunter-gatherer research has played a historically central role in the development of anthropological and evolutionary theory. Today, research in this traditional and enduringly vital field blurs lines of distinction between archaeology and ethnology, and seeks instead to develop perspectives and theories broadly applicable to anthropology and its many sub disciplines. In the groundbreaking …
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- 978-1-4899-7580-5
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- XV, 304
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The Latin New Testament : a Guide To Its Early History, Texts, and Manuscripts
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the history and development of the Latin New Testament and a user’s guide to the resources available for research and further study. The first five chapters offer a new historical synthesis, bringing together evidence from Christian authors and biblical manuscripts from earliest times to the late Middle Ages. Each witness is considered in its…
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- 9780198744733
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- 400 halaman
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The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas : New Nations and a Transa…
Why is the capital of the United States named in part after Christopher Columbus, a Genoese explorer commissioned by Spain who never set foot on what would become the nation's mainland? Why did Spanish American nationalists in 1819 name a new independent republic "Colombia," after Columbus, the first representative of the empire from which they had recently broken free? These are only two of th…
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- 9780826519535
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- 216 halaman
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Czech Broadside Ballads as Text, Art, Song in Popular Culture, c.1600–1900
This landmark collection makes a major contribution to the burgeoning field of broadside ballad study by investigating the hitherto unexplored treasure-trove of over 100,000 Central/Eastern European broadside ballads of the Czech Republic, from the 16th to the 19th century. Viewing Czech broadside ballads from an interdisciplinary perspective, we see them as unique and regional cultural phenome…
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- 9789463721554, 9789048553341
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- 500
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Time and the Ancestors: Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art
Time and the Ancestors: Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art combines iconographical analysis with archaeological, historical and ethnographic studies and offers new interpretations of enigmatic masterpieces from ancient Mexico, focusing specifically on the symbols and values of the religious heritage of indigenous peoples.; Readership: Scholars and students working on the archaeology, art, history and …
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- 9789004340510, 9789004340527
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- 648
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- The Early Americas: History and Culture, 5
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- 973.82 JAN t
A Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North: Terrestria…
Gordon W. Smith, PhD, dedicated much of his life to researching Canada's sovereignty in the Arctic. A historian by training, his 1952 dissertation from Columbia University on "The Historical and Legal Background of Canada's Arctic Claims" remains a foundational work on the topic, as does his 1966 chapter "Sovereignty in the North: The Canadian Aspect of an International Problem," in R. St. J. M…
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- 9781552387740, 9781552387740
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- Northern Lights
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Living Martyrs in Late Antiquity and Beyond: Surviving Martyrdom
Antiquity; Living; Martyrdom; Martyrs; Surviving
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