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Wat is eetbaar? = Een reis door de wereld van voedseltaboes en eetculturen
"In Wat is eetbaar? laat Adel den Hartog zien hoe complex de voedselkeuzes van mensen al millennia lang zijn. Wie zich afvraagt waarom wij eten wat wij eten, komt uit bij praktische zaken als de beschikbaarheid van producten, transport en kosten, maar ziet ook fysiologische, culturele, geografische, en psychologische factoren. Den Hartog wijst op het belang van de toegang die individuen en groe…
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- 9789086869206
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- 138 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Africa
Protestants entering Africa in the nineteenth century sought to learn from earlier Jesuit presence in Ethiopia and southern Africa. The nineteenth century was itself a century of missionary scramble for Africa during which the Jesuits encountered their Protestant counterparts as both sought to evangelize the African native. Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Africa, edited by Robert …
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- 978-90-04-34714-4
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Jesuit Studies, Volume: 13
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Vision, Narrative, and Wisdom in the Aramaic Texts from Qumran = Essays from …
The Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran have attracted increasing interest in recent years. These texts predate the “sectarian” Dead Sea scrolls, and they are contemporary with the youngest parts of the Hebrew Bible. They offer a unique glimpse into the situation before the biblical canons were closed. Their highly creative Jewish authors reshaped and rewrote biblical traditions to cope wi…
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- 9789004413733
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- 296 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 131
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Vernacular Books and Their Readers in the Early Age of Print (c. 1450–1600)
'The Open Access publishing costs of this volume were covered by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), Veni-project “Leaving a Lasting Impression. The Impact of Incunabula on Late Medieval Spirituality, Religious Practice and Visual Culture in the Low Countries” (grant number 275-30-036).' This volume explores various approaches to study vernacular books and reading practices across Europe in …
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- 9789004520158
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- 432 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Intersections, Volume: 85
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Velázquez, Painter & Curator
This book is the first to address the curatorial career of Diego Velázquez, painter to King Philip IV of Spain and chamberlain of his royal palace. It investigates the role that Velázquez played in overseeing the display of the Habsburg art collection, then the richest in the western world, and the role, in turn, that this practice played in his creative trajectory between his arrival at the …
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- '9789004690073
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- 304 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, Volume: 80
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Transforming Higher Education for Community Development = Participatory Refle…
This volume explores educational transformation as a tool for community development in northern Uganda, with an emphasis on student-centred, hybrid and problem-based learning. It addresses key questions about existing education systems, the need for transformation, desired outcomes and foreseeable challenges. The introductory chapter contextualises the reforms within Uganda's colonial history, …
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- 9789004731585
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- 327 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- African Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives, Volume: 21
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Travelling Chronicles: News and Newspapers from the Early Modern Period to th…
Travelling Chronicles presents fourteen episodes in the history of news, written by some of the leading scholars in the rapidly developing fields of news and newspaper studies. Ranging across eastern and western Europe and beyond, the chapters look back to the early modern period and into the eighteenth century to consider how the news of the past was gathered and spread, how news outlets gaine…
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- 9789004362871
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- 408 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Library of the Written Word, Volume: 66 Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World, Volume: 66
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Literary Cultures and Public Opinion in the Low Countries, 1450-1650
In the early modern Low Countries, literary culture functioned on several levels simultaneously: it provided learning, pleasure, and entertainment while also shaping public debate. From a ditty in Dutch sung in the streets to a funeral poem in Latin composed to be read for or by intimate friends, from a play performed for a prince to a comedy written for pupils – literary texts and performanc…
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- 978-90-04-20111-8
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- x, 324 pp.
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- Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume: 197
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Lire l’Histoire générale des Antilles de J.-B. Du Tertre : Exotisme et é…
Cette étude propose d’examiner les ramifications historiques de l’exotisme à partir d’une lecture critique de l’Histoire générale des Antilles (1654/1667-71) écrite par le missionnaire dominicain, Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre. En procédant d’une analyse littéraire, notre étude suggère une reconfiguration de l’exotisme basée à la fois sur la théorisation contemporaine et sur l…
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- 978-90-04-43496-7
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- viii, 210 pp.
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- Francopolyphonies, Volume: 31
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Lifelong Religion as Habitus : Religious Practice among Displaced Karelian Or…
In this book, Helena Kupari examines the lived religion of Finnish, evacuee Karelian Orthodox women through an innovative reading and application of Pierre Bourdieu’s practice theory. After the Second World War, Finland ceded most of its Karelian territories to the Soviet Union. Over 400,000 Finns, including two thirds of the Finnish Orthodox Christians, lost their homes. This book traces …
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- 978-90-04-32674-3
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- viii, 200 pp.
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- Numen Book Series, Volume: 153
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