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Understanding material text cultures : a multidisciplinary view
The present volume comprises 6 highly original studies on material text cultures in different nontypographic societies stretching from the 3rd millennium cuneiform textual record of Ancient Mesopotamia to 20th century Qur’anic boards of northern and central African provenience. The volume provides a multidisciplinary approach to material text cultures complementary to the interdisciplinary, s…
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- 9783110425284
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- 287 p.
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- Materiale Textkulturen
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- 302.224409 UND u
The social metabolism of Spanish agriculture, 1900–2008 : the mediterranean…
This open access book provides a panoramic view of the evolution of Spanish agriculture from 1900 to the present, offering a more diverse picture to the complex and multidimensional reality of agrarian production. With a clear transdisciplinary ambition, the book applies an original and innovative theoretical and methodological tool, termed Agrarian Social Metabolism, combining Social Metabolis…
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- 9783030209001
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- xix, 281p. : ill.
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- 630.946 SOC s
Communicative Figurations : Transforming Communications in Times of Deep Medi…
This open access volume is about how to research the influence of our changing media environment. Today, there is not one single medium that is the driving force of change. With the spreading of various technical communication media such as mobile phone and internet platforms, we are confronted with a media manifold of deep mediatization. But how can we investigate its transformative capability…
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- 9783319655840
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- XXIII, 444 p.
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- 302.23 COM c
Divided loyalties: displacement, belonging and citizenship among East Timores…
Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this study explores the ideas of belonging and citizenship among former pro-autonomy East Timorese who have elected to settle indefinitely in West Timor. The study follows different East Timorese groups and examines various ways they construct and negotiate their socio-political identities following the violent and destructive separation from their h…
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- 9781760462376
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- xvi, 204p.: ill.
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- 959.87032 DAM d
Manifesto of the new economy : institutions and business models of the digita…
The book describes the main directions for the development of the digital society. The author angles its book to those who are interested to know what would replace search engines, and how social networks would evolve; what profit can be made of different forms of informational collaboration (crowdsourcing, collaborative filtering). And, the main thing, how it will influence the structure of th…
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- 9783642212772
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- vi, 145p. : ill.
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- 330 DOL m
Transcending the culture: nature divide in culture heritage
While considerable research and on-ground project work focuses on the interface between Indigenous/local people and nature conservation in the Asia-Pacific region, the interface between these people and cultural heritage conservation has not received the same attention. This collection brings together papers on the current mechanisms in place in the region to conserve cultural heritage values. …
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- 9781922144058
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- xii, 242p.: ill.
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- 363.69091823 BRO t
Circulating cultures : exchanges of Australian Indigenous music, dance and media
Circulating Cultures is an edited book about the transformation of cultural materials through the Australian landscape.
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- 9781925022193
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- 268 p.
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- 306.4840994 HAR c
Nuaulu Religious Practices : The frequency and reproduction of rituals in a M…
How religious practices are reproduced has become a major theoretical issue. This work examines data on Nuaulu ritual performances collected over a 30 year period, comparing different categories of event in terms of frequency and periodicity. It seeks to identify the influencing factors and the consequences for continuity. Such an approach enables a focus on related issues: variation in perform…
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- 9789004253452
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- xxviii, 356 p.
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 283
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- 299.9222 ELL n
Workers, managers, productivity : Kaizen in developing countries
This open access book provides a glimpse into the Japanese management technique known as “Kaizen,” and the ways it has been disseminated around the developing world. The novelty of this book is three-fold: it provides a contextualized view of the mechanisms of initiatives implementing Kaizen in developing countries; compared with productivity studies, it places the relationship between work…
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- 9789811503641
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- xxvi, 327p. : ill.
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- 658.406 WOR w
Skin Color and Identity Formation
The focus of this study is on the ways in which skin color moderates the perceptions of opportunity and academic orientation of 17 Mexican and Puerto Rican high school students. More specifically, the study's analysis centered on cataloguing the racial/ethnic identification shifts (or not) in relation to how they perceive others situate them based on skin color.
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- 9780415949705
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- 373.18296872073 FER s
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