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Asylum and Nonreligion = Emotions, Evidence-making and Credibility
This open access Palgrave Pivot explores the experiences of nonreligious asylum seekers in Northern Europe. While religious persecution is often cited as a reason for seeking asylum, nonbelievers also face significant persecution in their home countries due to their lack of religious affiliation. Despite this, their experiences are frequently overlooked in academic discussions, and asylum asses…
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- 9783031717659
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- VI, 100 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Policing the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro = Cosmologies of War and The Far-Right
This book offers a unique look into the world of policing and the frontline of Brazil’s war on drugs. It analyzes the tensions produced by attempts to modernize Rio de Janeiro’s public security policies. Since the return of democracy in 1985, Rio's police forces have waged war against armed drug gangs based in the city’s favelas, casting the people who live in these communities as interna…
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- 9783031490279
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- XXI, 330 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Educational Change Amongst English Language College Teachers in China [= Tran…
This open access book provides anthropological insights into the arduous yet rewarding journeys involved in selected TESOL teachers’ pedagogical transition to teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at universities in Shanghai, the largest metropolitan area in China. Applying a unique combination of ethnography and phenomenology, the book offers innovative new perspectives on teacher e…
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- 9789811530531
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- X, 149 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Conviviality at the Crossroads : The Poetics and Politics of Everyday Encounters
Conviviality has lately become a catchword not only in academia but also among political activists. This open access book discusses conviviality in relation to the adjoining concepts cosmopolitanism and creolisation. The urgency of today’s global predicament is not only an argument for the revival of all three concepts, but also a reason to bring them into dialogue. Ivan Illich envisioned a p…
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- 9783030289799
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- XI, 290 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Pentecostalism and Witchcraft
This open access book presents fresh ethnographic work from the regions of Africa and Melanesia—where the popularity of charismatic Christianity can be linked to a revival and transformation of witchcraft. The volume demonstrates how the Holy Spirit has become an adversary to the reconfirmed presence of witches, demons, and sorcerers as manifestations of evil. We learn how this is articulated…
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- 978-3-319-56068-7
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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- 307
Simplex Society: How to Humanize
This open access book provides thought-provoking anthropology grounded in comparative ethnography. The theory captures the current historical moment, the long-term trends that led us here, and the prospects for a humane future. The experience of complexity characterizing a globalized information society triggers simplexes. These unidimensional responses instrumental in bringing about a predicta…
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- 978-3-031-41115-1
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- X, 320
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Travel Writings on Asia
This open access book provides an analysis of human actors and their capacity to explore and conceptualise their own agency by being curious, gathering knowledge, and shaping identities in their travel reflections on Asia. Thus, the actors open windows across time to present a profound overview of diverse descriptions and constructions of Asia. It is demonstrated that international and transnat…
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- 978-981-19-0124-9
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- Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies
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- XIV, 310
Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation
This open access book provides methodological devices and analytical frameworks for the study of societies in transformation. It explores a central paradox in the study of change: making sense of change requires long-term perspectives on societal transformations and on the different ways people experience social change, whereas the research carried out to study change is necessarily limited to …
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- 978-3-030-65067-4
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- Palgrave Macmillan Cham
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- XIII, 282
Travel Writings on Asia
This open access book provides an analysis of human actors and their capacity to explore and conceptualise their own agency by being curious, gathering knowledge, and shaping identities in their travel reflections on Asia. Thus, the actors open windows across time to present a profound overview of diverse descriptions and constructions of Asia. It is demonstrated that international and transnat…
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- 978-981-19-0124-9
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- Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies
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- XIV, 310
Martial Culture and Historical Martial Arts in Europe and Asia: A Multi-persp…
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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- 978-981-19-2037-0
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- Martial Studies
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- XXII, 381
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