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Mobility and Ancient Society in Asia and the Americas
Mobility and Ancient Society in Asia and the Americas contains contributions by leading international scholars concerning the character, timing, and geography of regional migrations that led to the dispersal of human societies from Inner and northeast Asia to the New World in the Upper Pleistocene (ca. 20,000-15,000 years ago). This volume bridges scholarly traditions from Europe, Central Asia,…
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- 978-3-319-15137-3
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- XIII, 202
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Metals in Past Societies
This book seeks to communicate to both a global and local audience, the key attributes of pre-industrial African metallurgy such as technological variation across space and time, methods of mining and extractive metallurgy and the fabrication of metal objects. These processes were transformative in a physical and metaphoric sense, which made them total social facts. Because the production and …
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- 978-3-319-11640-2
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- XXI, 166
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- SpringerBriefs in Archaeology
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Educational Contexts and Borders through a Cultural Lens Looking Inside, View…
This book provides a ℓ́ℓcontextℓ́ℓ of discussion for researchers and educational experts in order to rethink the relationship between actors, practices and borders within the educational contexts. The research in educational psychology has often challenged the concept of ℓ́ℓeducational contextℓ́ℓ. According to the different theoretical frameworks, the construct of contexts, …
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- 9783319187655
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- xxi, 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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- 306.43
Ethnoprimatology Primate Conservation in the 21st Century
The list of challenges facing nonhuman primates in the 21st century is a long one. The expansion of palm oil plantations to feed a growing consumer class is eating away at ape and monkey habitats in Southeast Asia and Central Africa. Lemurs are hunted for food in the poorest parts of Madagascar while monkeys are used as medicine in Brazil. Traditional cultural beliefs are maintaining demand for…
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- 978-3-319-30469-4
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- 35 b/w illustrations, 31 illustrations in colour
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Islamist Terrorism and Militancy in Indonesia: The Power of the Manichean Min…
Drawing upon insights from the natural and social sciences, this book puts forth a provocative new argument that the violent Islamist threat in Indonesia today derives its stubborn resilience from being in essence a complex, adaptive and self-organizing system – or what some specialists might even call a super-organism. The book challenges the popular assumption that ideology is the root caus…
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- 978-981-287-194-7
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Environment and Society Socionatural Relations in the Anthropocene
This short book sets out to explore the concept of nature in the context of a changing reality, in which the extent of our transformation of the environment has become evident: What is nature and to what extent has humanity transformed it? How do nature and society relate to one another? What does the idea of a sustainable society entail and how can nature be understood as a political subject? …
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- 978-3-319-15952-2
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- X, 131
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TransCoding - From `Highbrow Art' to Participatory Culture: Social Media - Ar…
Between 2014 and 2017, the artistic research project "TransCoding - From 'Highbrow Art' to Participatory Culture" encouraged creative participation in multimedia art via social media. Based on the artworks that emerged from the project, Barbara Lüneburg investigates authorship, authority, motivational factors, and aesthetics in participatory art created with the help of web 2.0 technology. The…
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- 9783839441084
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- 301 LUN t
Scale Matters: The Quality of Quantity in Human Culture and Sociality
Scale matters. When conducting research and writing, scholars upscale and downscale. So do the subjects of their work - we scale, they scale. Although scaling is an integrant part of research, we rarely reflect on scaling as a practice and what happens when we engage with it in scholarly work. The contributors aim to change this: they explore the pitfalls and potentials of scaling in an interdi…
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- 9783839460993
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- 301 SCA s
Theory and Practice in the Bioarchaeology of Care
This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to, and explanation of, the theory and practice of the ‘bioarchaeology of care’, an original, fully theorised and contextualised case study-based approach designed to identify and interpret cases of care provision in prehistory. The applied methodology comprises four stages of analysis, each building on the content of the preceding on…
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- 978-3-319-18860-7
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- 13 b/w illustrations, 31 illustrations in colour
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The Politics of Affective Societies: An Interdisciplinary Essay
Many claim that political deliberation has become exceedingly affective, and hence, destabilizing. The authors of this book revisit that assumption. While recognizing that significant changes are occurring, these authors also point out the limitations of turning to contemporary democratic theory to understand and unpack these shifts. They propose, instead, to reframe this debate by deploying th…
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- 9783839447628
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- 301 POL p
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