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Colonialism and Culture
Häftad, 1992
395 kr
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Colonialism and Culture, edited by Nicholas B. Dirks, is an insightful exploration of the intricate relationship between colonialism and cultural transformation. The book features contributions that reflect how colonialism reshaped cultural identities and expressions across the globe, and how it …
Comparing Muslim Societies
Knowledge and the State in a World Civilization
Häftad, 1992
323 kr
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This book departs from stereotypes that often dominate Western discourse about Muslim societies. The Muslim world encompasses a wide range of countries—among them Turkey, Iraq, Egypt, Senegal, Saudi Arabia, and Morocco—each with a varying degree of religious stricture. Generalizations, therefore, …
Constructing Culture and Power in Latin America
Häftad, 1993
564 kr
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Provides a basis for understanding change in Latin America and what that understanding means for scholarly analysis
Construction of Minorities
Cases for Comparison Across Time and Around the World
Av Andre Burguière, Raymond Grew m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
488 kr
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How does a minority come to be? In an unusual project, a notable group of French and American scholars take the view that minorities are socially constructed. Their original studies of specific historical examples produce a series of stimulating and provocative essays useful and enjoyable for …
States of Violence
Av Fernando Coronil, Julie Skurski
Häftad, 2005
489 kr
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This extraordinary collection of essays recasts prevailing understandings of the role of violence in the formation of the modern world. By illuminating the links between exceptional ruptures and the routine maintenance of social order, the collection expands and redefines our understanding of …
Comparing Jewish Societies
Häftad, 1997
504 kr
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Having unfolded in the diverse communities of the diaspora, Jewish experience lends itself almost effortlessly to comparative treatment. The contributors to this volume take up the challenge, examining Jewish societies from medieval to modern times, in Western and Eastern Europe, North and South …
Cultures of Scholarship
Häftad, 1997
503 kr
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The essays collected in this volume offer comparative perspectives on scholarship across a wide range of cultures and periods, from oral instruction by Yoruba diviners in West Africa to Renaissance humanism and nineteenth-century anthropology. The contributors address three prominent issues in …
Modes of Comparison
Theory and Practice
Häftad, 2006
565 kr
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In Modes of Comparison: Theory and Practice, the contributors highlight how theoretical problems have brought forth new ideas on comparison and how comparison has become pivotal in the human sciences. Many of the chapters in this interdisciplinary volume update landmark essays from the journal …
Natures Past
The Environment and Human History
Av Paolo Squatriti, Paolo Squatriti
Häftad, 2007
519 kr
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Investigates the relationship between the environment and human history.At the beginning of the twenty-first century, environmental change is a pressing public issue across the globe. natures Past seeks to lend some historical depth to current debates about man-made modifications of ecological …
Colonialism and Culture
Inbunden, 1992
1231 kr
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Provides new and important perspectives on the complex character of colonial history
Construction of Minorities
Cases for Comparison Across Time and Around the World
Av Andre Burguiere, Raymond Grew
Inbunden, 2001
1302 kr
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How does a minority come to be? In an unusual project, a notable group of French and American scholars take the view that minorities are socially constructed. Their original studies of specific historical examples produce a series of stimulating and provocative essays useful and enjoyable for …
Modes of Comparison
Theory and Practice
Inbunden, 2006
1373 kr
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In Modes of Comparison: Theory and Practice, the contributors highlight how theoretical problems have brought forth new ideas on comparison and how comparison has become pivotal in the human sciences. Many of the chapters in this interdisciplinary volume update landmark essays from the journal …
