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Integration in Rome and in the Roman World : Proceedings of the Tenth Worksho…
Integration in the empire under the political control of the city of Rome, her princeps, and the different authorities in the provinces and cities includes processes of inclusion and exclusion. These multifaceted processes take place at various levels in society and at different places, over a long period of time. In this volume, these processes are analysed and reflected on from different pers…
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- 978-90-04-25667-5
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- Impact of Empire, Volume: 17
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Integrated approaches to health : A handbook for the evaluation of One Health
One Health addresses health challenges arising from the intertwined spheres of humans, animals and ecosystems. This handbook is the product of an interdisciplinary effort to provide science-based guidance for the evaluation of One Health and other integrated approaches to health. It guides the reader through a systems approach and framework to evaluate such approaches in a standardised way. It …
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- 978-90-8686-875-9
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- 256 pp
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Insects and Colors between Art and Natural History
This book explores how European naturalists and artists perceived, investigated, and presented the relationship between insects and colors from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth century. The contributors to this volume examine the creative methods and strategies that were developed to record color-related information about insects through studies on Hoefnagel’s glazed metal and hand-c…
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- 978-90-04-68455-3
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- xviii, 322 pp
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- Emergence of Natural History, Volume: 7
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Indigenous Research Methodologies in Sámi and Global Contexts
This book addresses the conceptualization and practice of Indigenous research methodologies especially in Sámi and North European academic contexts. It examines the meaning of Sámi research and research methodologies, practical levels of doing Indigenous research today in different contexts, as well as global debates in Indigenous research. The contributors present place-specific and relation…
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- 978-90-04-46309-7
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- xiv, 260 pp.
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- New Research - New Voices, Volume: 11
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Indigenous Peoples' Cultural Heritage : Rights, Debates, Challenges
Indigenous rights to heritage have only recently become the subject of academic scholarship. This collection aims to fill that gap by offering the fruits of a unique conference on this topic organised by the University of Lapland with the help of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The conference made clear that important information on Indigenous cultural heritage has remaine…
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- 978-90-04-34219-4
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- viii, 352 pp
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Indian Islamic Architecture : Forms and Typologies, Sites and Monuments
The British scholar John Burton-Page contributed numerous formative articles on Indian Islamic architecture for the Encyclopaedia of Islam over a period of 25 years. Assembled here for the first time, these offer an insightful overview of the subject, ranging from the earliest mosques and tombs erected by the Delhi sultans in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries, to the great monuments of the Mugh…
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- 978-90-47-42365-2
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- xxiv, 196 pp
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- Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia, Volume: 20
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'Incidental' Ethnographers : French Catholic Missions on the Tonkin-Yunnan Fr…
This book, connecting the fields of social anthropology and missiology, presents a body of colonial ethnographic writing applied to highland societies in the southern portion of the Mainland Southeast Asian massif. The writers under scrutiny are Catholic priests from the Société des Missions Étrangères de Paris. Their texts from the Upper-Tonkin vicariate, in today's northern Vietnam, are p…
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- 978-90-47-42021-7
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- xviii, 286 pp
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- Studies in Christian Mission, Volume: 33
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In This Fragile World : Swahili Poetry of Commitment by Ustadh Mahmoud Mau
The present volume is a pioneering collection of poetry by the outstanding Kenyan poet, intellectual and imam Ustadh Mahmmoud Mau (born 1952) from Lamu island, once an Indian Ocean hub, now on the edge of the nation state. By means of poetry in Arabic script, the poet raises his voice against social ills and injustices troubling his community on Lamu. The book situates Mahmoud Mau’s oeuvre wi…
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- 978-90-04-52572-6
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- xx, 376 pp
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- Islam in Africa, Volume: 25
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In the Shadow of War and Empire : Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Wor…
In the Shadow of War and Empire offers a site-specific history of Ottoman and Turkish industrialisation through the lens of a mid-nineteenth-century cotton factory in the “Turkish Manchester,” the name chosen by the Ottomans for the industrial complex they built in the 1840s in Istanbul, which, in the contemporary words of one of the country’s most prominent contemporary Marxist theorists…
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- 978-90-04-68714-1
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- xviii, 374 pp
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- Studies in the Social History of the Global South, Volume: 52/4
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In Search of Singularity : Poetry in Poland and China Since 1989
In Search of Singularity introduces a new “compairative” methodology that seeks to understand how the interplay of paired texts creates meaning in new, transcultural contexts. Bringing the worlds of contemporary Polish and Chinese poetry since 1989 into conversation with one another, Joanna Krenz applies the concept of singularity to draw out resonances and intersections between these two d…
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- 978-90-04-50643-5
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- viii, 636pp
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- Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, Volume: 97
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