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A Bibliography of Chinese Language Materials on the People's Communes
A research tool for scholars studying modern China, particularly those focusing on the post-1949 communal system and economy. The work includes full bibliographic references to some 2,800 essay, articles, pamphlets, and other materials in Chinese taken from more than 130 publications, primarily from mainland. The entries are arranged are arranged topically with annotations. Includes a geographi…
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»Failed« Migratory Adventures? Malian Men Facing Conditions Post Deportati…
The effects of the intra-African and European deportation regimes brought about since the European Union's externalization of its migration and development policy by transferring it to countries of sub-Saharan Africa remain largely understudied - especially their effects on people's everyday life after forced returns. Based on extensive field research, Susanne U. Schultz's book analyses the sup…
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- 9783839460092
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Theater,
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A Translation of Lao-tzu’s Tao Te Ching and Wang Pi’s Commentary
During the Spring-Autumn period (722–420 BCE) and the time of the Warring States (480–222 CE), China was in great turmoil. Intellectuals and social reformers sifted through their wisdom and knowledge of China’s experiences up to then, attempting to find a solution to their situation. The Tao Te Ching, one of the foremost products of the era, is a metaphysical book, a source of the highest…
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Michigan Monographs In Chinese Studies,
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Weirding Landscapes = Arctic Glacier Extinction and Monsters of the Anthropocene
This open access book investigates human-environment relations in the context of the anthropocenic Arctic. Through an archaeological and anthropological study of landscape, it wields “weirding” – a creative mode of engagement with the world – as a means of coming to terms with the stranger, experiential dimensions of a planet populated by diverse non-human entities often bearing monstro…
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- 9783031850165
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- XXVIII, 200 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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The Ndebele, Frank Oates, and Knowledge Production in the 1870s = Encounters …
This open access book addresses a question fundamental to the histories of empire and Africa: at the point of the colonial encounter, how was knowledge made? How did different communities, with little or no prior contact, construct meaning about one another? Amidst huge changes in the politics and economics of a continent, on the cusp of almost complete colonization at the hands of European pow…
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- 9783031759635
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- IX, 125 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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The Tale of a Feud = Domination, Resistance, and Agency in Highland Yemen
This book chronicles the life and times of tribal leader Mujāhid Ḥaydar, scion of a prominent local dynasty, and his agency in highland Yemen’s political conflicts from the 1970s to the early 2000s. When the political elites of the Ṣāliḥ regime murder his father and his elder brothers, he is forced to exact revenge and lead his tribe through dramatic vicissitudes that culminate in the…
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- 9789004546998
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- 344 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin = An Ethnographic Study
The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin offers an in-depth ethnographic account of Muslim youth’s religious identity formation and their engagement with Islam in everyday life. Focusing on Muslim women in the organisation MJD in Germany, it provides a deeper understanding of processes related to immigration, transnationalism, the transformation of identifications and the recons…
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- 9789004251311
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- 342 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Muslim Minorities, Volume: 14
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The Paradox of Openness = Transparency and Participation in Nordic Cultures o…
The ‘open society’ has become a watchword of liberal democracy and the market system in the modern globalized world. Openness stands for individual opportunity and collective reason, as well as bottom-up empowerment and top-down transparency. It has become a cherished value, despite its vagueness and the connotation of vulnerability that surrounds it. Scandinavia has long considered itself …
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- 9789004281196
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- 286 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology, Volume: 126
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The Logic of the Laws = A Structural Analysis of Malay Language Legal Codes f…
This study is directed towards providing basic background material for the understanding of South Sumatran social organisation. To this end, four legal codes from the first half of the nineteenth century are presented and analysed. The method used in the analysis is a modification of that used by Levi-Strauss for the analysis of myth. The author concludes by stating: "Out of these detailed anal…
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- 9789004287068
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- 316 hlm,: ill, lamp; 21 cm
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
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Martial Culture and Historical Martial Arts in Europe and Asia = A Multi-pers…
This open access book is the first publication to provide a comparative framework for the study of martial culture and historical martial arts in Europe and Asia, in particular in Italy and China. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of martial studies, contributors to this volume include historians, archeologists, art historians, scholars of fencing literature, metallurgists, as well as contemp…
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- 9789811920370
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