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Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present
'Caste' is today almost universally perceived as an ancient and unchanging Hindu institution preserved solely by a deep-seated religious ideology. Yet the word itself is an importation from sixteenth-century Europe. This book tracks the long history of the practices amalgamated under this label and shows their connection to changing patterns of social and political power down to the present. It…
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- Volume: 44
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- 978-90-04-25485-5
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Research Ethics for Students in the Social Sciences
This open access textbook offers a practical guide into research ethics for undergraduate students in the social sciences. A step-by-step approach of the most viable issues, in-depth discussions of case histories and a variety of didactical tools will aid the student to grasp the issues at hand and help him or her develop strategies to deal with them. This book addresses problems and questions…
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- 1
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- 9783030484156
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- XVI, 287 ill; lamp
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The Biopsychosocial Model of Health and Disease = New Philosophical and Scien…
This open access book is a systematic update of the philosophical and scientific foundations of the biopsychosocial model of health, disease and healthcare. First proposed by George Engel 40 years ago, the Biopsychosocial Model is much cited in healthcare settings worldwide, but has been increasingly criticised for being vague, lacking in content, and in need of reworking in the light of recent…
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- 1
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- 9783030118990
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- XIII, 149 ill; lamp
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New Horizons in Systemic Practice with Children and Families
This open access book illustrates how systemic theory, as both a meta-theory and a relational organic theory, can be a suitable framework for understanding and appreciating the new horizons of systemic practice with children and families in their various contexts. The different chapters shed light on how systemic perspectives, as they are presented in their varying contexts, promote hope by giv…
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- 1
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- 9783031381119
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- XIV, 203 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Ancient Egypt, New Technology: The Present and Future of Computer Visualizati…
This volume of collected studies takes stock of most recent developments in Egyptology and the Digital Humanities, considering future directions for the application of new technologies in Egyptology. The book presents the results of an international conference held in 2019 at Indiana University – Bloomington, in which Egyptologists and digital humanists with interest in Egyptology gathered in…
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- Volume: 17
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- 978-90-04-50129-4
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A South Indian Digest of Commentaries on the Nyāyasūtra: Gambhīravaṃś…
The Nyāyasūtravivaraṇa, written in the first centuries of the 2nd millennium CE, provides the most accessible introduction to the core teachings of old Nyāya. Excerpting from the two earliest and most important treatises of this tradition—the Nyāyabhāṣya and Nyāyavārttika—Gambhīravaṃśaja created a comprehensive yet concise digest. The present work contains not only a critic…
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- Volume: 55
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- 9789004535282
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Social Work, Sociometry, and Psychodrama
This open access book outlines the intersections between social work and the methods of sociometry and psychodrama. Different sections offer essential practice wisdom for both trauma-focused and trauma-informed experiential work for individuals, groups, organizations, and communities. This text enriches the understanding of various action-based approaches and highlights how to enliven social wo…
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- 1
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- 9789813363427
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- XXXIII, 468 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- 1
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“The Turk” in the Czech Imagination (1870s-1923)
In “The Turk” in the Czech Imagination (1870s-1923), Jitka Malečková describes Czechs’ views of the Turks in the last half century of the existence of the Ottoman Empire and how they were influenced by ideas and trends in other countries, including the European fascination with the Orient, images of “the Turk,” contemporary scholarship, and racial theories. The Czechs were not free …
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- Volume: 26
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- 978-90-04-44079-1
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Agricultural Implications of Fukushima Nuclear Accident (IV)
This open access book presents the findings from on-site research into radioactive cesium contamination in various agricultural systems affected by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in March 2011. This fourth volume in the series reports on studies undertaken at contaminated sites such as farmland and forests, focusing on soil, water, mountain, agricultural products, and animal…
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- 978-981-19-9361-9
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- XIII, 276
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Bruno Latour in the Semiotic Turn : An Inquiry into the Networks of Meaning
This open access book highlights the link between Bruno Latour's works and the semiotic perspective on social phenomena analysis. It identifies and relaunches a dialogue that was as heated as it was fruitful, but still little recognized within the social sciences. It asks why the theory of signification has so far been only sporadically acknowledged in literature derived from Latour's work. Sta…
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- 978-3-031-57178-7
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- VIII, 113
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- SpringerBriefs in Sociology (BRIEFSSOCY)
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