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Race and Gender in Electronic Media: Content, Context, Culture
This volume examines the consequences, implications, and opportunities associated with issues of diversity in the electronic media. With a focus on race and gender, the chapters represent diverse approaches, including social scientific, humanistic, critical, and rhetorical. The contributors consider race and gender issues in both historical and contemporary electronic media, and their work is p…
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- 9781317266136
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- 302.23 LIN r
Oceanic Encounters: Exchange, Desire, Violence
This volume, the result of ongoing collaborations between Australian and French anthropologists, historians and linguists, explores encounters between Pacific peoples and foreigners during the longue durée of European exploration, colonisation and settlement from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century. It deploys the concept of ‘encounter’ rather than the more common idea of ‘fir…
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- 9781921536298
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- 400 OCE o
New Perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific Prehistory
This volume brings together a diversity of international scholars, unified in the theme of expanding scientific knowledge about humanity’s past in the Asia-Pacific region. The contents in total encompass a deep time range, concerning the origins and dispersals of anatomically modern humans, the lifestyles of Pleistocene and early Holocene Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers, the emergence of Neolit…
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New Mana: Transformations of a Classic Concept in Pacific Languages and Cultures
Mana’, a term denoting spiritual power, is found in many Pacific Islands languages. In recent decades, the term has been taken up in New Age movements and online fantasy gaming. In this book, 16 contributors examine mana through ethnographic, linguistic, and historical lenses to understand its transformations in past and present. The authors consider a range of contexts including Indigenous s…
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- 9781760460075
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- 400 TEN n
Media Effects Advances in Theory and Research
Now in its fourth edition, Media Effects again features essays from some of the finest scholars in the field and serves as a comprehensive reference volume for scholars, teachers, and students. This edition contains both new and updated content that reflects our media-saturated environments, including chapters on social media, video games, mobile communication, and virtual technologies. In reco…
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- 9780429957024, 0429957025
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Surveying Human Vulnerabilities across the Life Course
Sociology
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- 9783319241555
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- 302 ROB s
Promoting Active Citizenship: Markets and Choice in Scandinavian Welfare
employment; social policy; care; decentralization; service users; vouchers; welfare reform
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- 9783319553801
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- 302.2 SIV p
New Frontiers in Social Innovation Research
Social Policy, Politics and Economics of Welfare, Business and Management, Innovation, Sociology, Economic Sociology, Politics, Citizenship, Social Policy and Welfare
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- 9781137549532
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Multiculturalism and Conflict Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific
Politics, International Relations, Sociology, Asian Studies, Asian Politics and Law, Development, Migration, Ethnicity and Identity, General
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- 9781137464620
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Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World: Albanian Migrants and Their Childre…
Migration; Social Structure, Social Inequality; Childhood, Adolescence and Society; Sociology, general
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- 9783319077697
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- 320.17 VAT m
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