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  1. Die suedaromunische Mundart von Turia (Pindos) : Syntax, Lexik, Ethnolinguistik, Texte
    Author: Bara, M; Kahl, T; Sobolev, A. N.
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    Vorliegender Band in russischer Sprache "Južnoarumynskij govor sela Tur'ja (Pind)" präsentiert Ergebnisse des DFG-Forschungsprojektes "Kleiner Balkansprachatlas (KBSA)" und enthält die in Nordgriechenland erhobenen und ausgewerteten Materialien zur... more

     

    Vorliegender Band in russischer Sprache "Južnoarumynskij govor sela Tur'ja (Pind)" präsentiert Ergebnisse des DFG-Forschungsprojektes "Kleiner Balkansprachatlas (KBSA)" und enthält die in Nordgriechenland erhobenen und ausgewerteten Materialien zur Syntax, Lexik und Ethnolinguistik des Ortspunktes sowie die zugrunde liegenden Dialekttexte. Dieser Band fungiert als eine weitere Materialveröffentlichung im Rahmen des KBSA-Projektes sowie als Grundlage für die abschließende Kartographierung der gesamten Sprachdaten aus allen Ortspunkten des Balkansprachatlasses.

     
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    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Literature & literary studies
    Other subjects: Bara; Dialekte Nordgriechenlands; Ethnolinguistik; Ethnolinguistik; Kleiner Balkansprachaltas; Lexik; Mundart; Pindos; südaromunische; südromunsiche Mundart; Syntax; Texte; Turia; Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (489 p.)
  2. Born of Clay : Ceramics from the National Museum of the American Indian
    Author: Solis, Felipé; Matos, Ramiro; Bernstein, Bruce; McMullen, Ann
    Published: 2005

    The museum’s holdings are rich in examples of Native ceramics from throughout the Western Hemisphere, stretching across forty centuries to the present day. In this book, four scholars introduce important and little-known ceramic figures and vessels... more

     

    The museum’s holdings are rich in examples of Native ceramics from throughout the Western Hemisphere, stretching across forty centuries to the present day. In this book, four scholars introduce important and little-known ceramic figures and vessels representing the cultures of the Andes, Mexico, the American Southwest, and the eastern United States. Extensively illustrated with beautiful new photographs of objects from the museum’s collections, including many pieces published here for the first time, Born of Clay brings curatorial and Native artistic perspectives together to present a lively and concise introduction to Native American ceramics.

     
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  3. Testimony from the Nazi Camps
    Author: Hutton, Margaret Anne
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    This interdisciplinary study intergrates historiographical, literary and cultural methodologies in its focus on a little known corpus of testimonial accounts published by French women deported to Nazi camps. Comprising epistemological and literary... more

     

    This interdisciplinary study intergrates historiographical, literary and cultural methodologies in its focus on a little known corpus of testimonial accounts published by French women deported to Nazi camps. Comprising epistemological and literary analyses of the accounts and an examination of the construction of deportee identities, it will interest those working in the fields of modern French literature, genre, women's studies and the Holocaust.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780203339787; 9780415349338; 9781138010284; 9781134273393; 9781134273386; 9781134273348
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    Subjects: Literature: history & criticism
    Other subjects: french; deportee; jewish; deportees; female; political; guard; chombart; lauwe; louis
  4. Spiritual Shakespeares
    Contributor: Fernie, Ewan (Publisher)
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    Spiritual Shakespeares is the first book to explore the scope for reading Shakespeare spiritually in the light of contemporary theory and current world events. Ewan Fernie has brought together an exciting cast of critics in order to respond to the... more

     

    Spiritual Shakespeares is the first book to explore the scope for reading Shakespeare spiritually in the light of contemporary theory and current world events. Ewan Fernie has brought together an exciting cast of critics in order to respond to the ‘religious turn’ in recent literary theory and to the spiritualized politics of terrorism and the ‘War on Terror’. Exploring a genuinely new perspective within Shakespeare Studies, the volume suggests that experiencing the spiritual intensities of the plays could lead us back to dramatic intensity as such. It tests spirituality from a political perspective, as well as subjecting politics to an unusual spiritual critique. Amongst its controversial and provocative arguments is the idea that a consideration of spirituality might point the way forward for materialist criticism. Reaching across and beyond literary studies to offer challenging and powerful contributions from leading scholars, this book

     
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  5. Accounting for Culture : Thinking Through Cultural Citizenship
    Author: Andrew, Caroline; Gattinger, Monica; Jeannotte, Sharon M.
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  University of Ottawa Press / Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa

    Many scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers in the cultural sector argue that Canadian cultural policy is at a crossroads: that the environment for cultural policy-making has evolved substantially and that traditional rationales for state... more

     

    Many scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers in the cultural sector argue that Canadian cultural policy is at a crossroads: that the environment for cultural policy-making has evolved substantially and that traditional rationales for state intervention no longer apply.
    The concept of cultural citizenship is a relative newcomer to the cultural policy landscape, and offers a potentially compelling alternative rationale for government intervention in the cultural sector. Likewise, the articulation and use of cultural indicators and of governance concepts are also new arrivals, emerging as potentially powerful tools for policy and program development.
    Accounting for Culture is a unique collection of essays from leading Canadian and international scholars that critically examines cultural citizenship, cultural indicators, and governance in the context of evolving cultural practices and cultural policy-making. It will be of great interest to scholars of cultural policy, communications, cultural studies, and public administration alike.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780776615332
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    Subjects: Cultural studies
    Other subjects: canada; cultural policy; Social capital
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (300 p.)
  6. Tradition through Modernity: Postmodernism and the Nation-State in Folklore Scholarship
    Author: Anttonen, Pertti J.
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Finnish Literature Society / SKS, Helsinki

    "In their study of social practices deemed traditional, scholars tend to use the concept and idea of tradition as an element of meaning in the practices under investigation. But just whose meaning is it? Is it a meaning generated by those who study... more

     

    "In their study of social practices deemed traditional, scholars tend to use the concept and idea of tradition as an element of meaning in the practices under investigation. But just whose meaning is it? Is it a meaning generated by those who study tradition or those whose traditions are being studied? In both cases, particular criteria for traditionality are employed, whether these are explicated or not. Individuals and groups will no doubt continue to uphold their traditional practices or refer to their practices as traditional. While they are in no way obliged to explicate in analytical terms their criteria for traditionality, the same cannot be said for those who make the study of traditions their profession. In scholarly analysis, traditions need to be explained instead of used as explanations for apparent repetitions and replications or symbolic linking in social practice, values, history, and heritage politics. This book takes a closer look at ‘tradition’ and ‘folklore’ in order to conceptualize them within discourses on modernity and modernism. The first section discusses ‘modern’ and ‘traditional’ as modern concepts and the study of folklore as a modern trajectory. The underlying tenet here is that non-modernity cannot be represented without modern mediation, which therefore makes the representations of non-modernity epistemologically modern. The second section focuses on the nation-state of Finland and the nationalistic use of folk traditions in the discursive production of Finnish modernity and its Others. The insights are applicable worldwide in discussions on cultural representation. "

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789522228147; 9789522228154
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    Subjects: Art & design styles: Postmodernism; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Nationalism
    Other subjects: postmodernism; postmodern; national identity; folkloristics; modern; tradition; Finland; Finnish language; Finns
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (215 p.)
  7. Cinema at the End of Empire : A Politics of Transition in Britain and India
    Author: Jaikumar, Priya
    Published: 20050101
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham, NC

    How did the imperial logic underlying British and Indian film policy change with the British Empire’s loss of moral authority and political cohesion? Were British and Indian films of the 1930s and 1940s responsive to and responsible for such shifts?... more

     

    How did the imperial logic underlying British and Indian film policy change with the British Empire’s loss of moral authority and political cohesion? Were British and Indian films of the 1930s and 1940s responsive to and responsible for such shifts? Cinema at the End of Empire illuminates this intertwined history of British and Indian cinema in the late colonial period. Challenging the rubric of national cinemas that dominates film studies, Priya Jaikumar contends that film aesthetics and film regulations were linked expressions of radical political transformations in a declining British empire and a nascent Indian nation. As she demonstrates, efforts to entice colonial film markets shaped Britain’s national film policies, and Indian responses to these initiatives altered the limits of colonial power in India.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780822387749
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: Media and Communications; Cinema of India; Imperialism; India; Modernism; Nationalism
  8. Childhood and Migration : From Experience to Agency
    Contributor: Knörr, Jacqueline (Publisher)
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    This volume puts an emphasis on the question how children themselves experience and manage migration and by means of which they construct an identity for themselves which takes into account their experiences from both their places of origin and their... more

     

    This volume puts an emphasis on the question how children themselves experience and manage migration and by means of which they construct an identity for themselves which takes into account their experiences from both their places of origin and their host societies. What role does the cultural background of the society of origin on the one hand and the strategies of integration found in the host society on the other play in the creation of identity and of a concept of home, origin and belonging? How do children express processes of cultural orientation and integration (music, media, fashion, style) and what role do peer groups and social milieus play in this regard? How do migrant children experience xenophobia and a lack of acceptance on the side of the host society and how do they counter-balance such experiences? The approach taken is both comparative and interdisciplinary, the contributors having different theoretical and methodological backgrounds, the contributions dealing with different social and cultural settings both with regard to place of origin and host society.

     
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    Source: OAPEN; transcript Open Access
    Contributor: Knörr, Jacqueline (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839403846; 9783899423846
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    Subjects: Cultural studies
    Other subjects: Migration; Childhood; Integration; Identity; Youth; Ethnology
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (228 p.)
  9. Religiöser Pluralismus : Empirische Studien und analytische Perspektiven
    Contributor: Baumann, Martin (Publisher); Behloul, Samuel M. (Publisher)
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    Interdisziplinär konzipiert, zeigt dieses Buch in historischer und gegenwartsbezogener Perspektive die Komplexität und den Facettenreichtum des religiösen Pluralismus auf, der unsere gesellschaftliche Wirklichkeit zunehmend bestimmt. Die hier... more

     

    Interdisziplinär konzipiert, zeigt dieses Buch in historischer und gegenwartsbezogener Perspektive die Komplexität und den Facettenreichtum des religiösen Pluralismus auf, der unsere gesellschaftliche Wirklichkeit zunehmend bestimmt. Die hier dokumentierten religionswissenschaftlichen, soziologischen, rechtlichen und philosophischen Zugänge sind dabei behilflich, sich mit Religion und ihrer weltweit wachsenden gesellschaftlichen Relevanz auseinander zu setzen. Die Beiträge zeigen, wie der Herausforderung des Religionspluralismus im europäischen und außereuropäischen Raum begegnet wird und welche große Bandbreite an Themen hierbei zu Tage tritt.

     
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    Source: OAPEN; transcript Open Access
    Contributor: Baumann, Martin (Publisher); Behloul, Samuel M. (Publisher)
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839403501; 9783899423501
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    Subjects: Cultural studies
    Other subjects: Religion; Migration; Religionspluralismus; Diaspora; Recht; Religionswissenschaft; Interkulturalität; Law; Religious Studies; Interculturalism
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (260 p.)
  10. »From the Native's Point of View«? : Kulturelle Globalisierung nach Clifford Geertz und Pierre Bourdieu
    Author: Kumoll, Karsten
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    Welchen Erklärungswert haben klassische ethnologische Kulturtheorien für die Analyse kultureller Globalisierung? Macht der Begriff »Kultur« in einer entgrenzten und hybridisierten Welt überhaupt noch Sinn? Anhand der breit rezipierten Ansätze von... more

     

    Welchen Erklärungswert haben klassische ethnologische Kulturtheorien für die Analyse kultureller Globalisierung? Macht der Begriff »Kultur« in einer entgrenzten und hybridisierten Welt überhaupt noch Sinn? Anhand der breit rezipierten Ansätze von Clifford Geertz und Pierre Bourdieu überprüft der Autor die postmoderne These, Globalisierung erfordere eine fundamentale Umstellung der kulturwissenschaftlichen Kategorien. »From the Native's Point of View«? bietet damit nicht nur einen gut lesbaren Vergleich der Konzepte von Geertz und Bourdieu, sondern wirft ein neues Licht auf die ethnologischen Debatten über kulturelle Globalisierung und den Kulturbegriff.

     
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    Source: OAPEN; transcript Open Access
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839402894; 9783899422894
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    Subjects: Cultural studies
    Other subjects: Globalisierung; Ethnologie; Soziale Praxis; Konsum; Pierre Bourdieu; Clifford Geertz; Kultur; Kultursoziologie; Kulturtheorie; Soziologie; Globalization; Ethnology; Consumption; Culture; Sociology of Culture; Cultural Theory; Sociology
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (166 p.)
  11. Mission und Kultur im alten Neuguinea : Der Missionar und Völkerkundler Stephan Lehner
    Author: Dech, Uwe Christian
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    Gewürdigt wird das Lebenswerk des Missionars und Völkerkundlers Stephan Lehner (1877-1943), der heute noch von den Menschen am Huongolf in Neuguinea als »Kulturbringer« in Ehren gehalten wird. Besonderen Wert legt der Autor, ein Nachfahre Lehners,... more

     

    Gewürdigt wird das Lebenswerk des Missionars und Völkerkundlers Stephan Lehner (1877-1943), der heute noch von den Menschen am Huongolf in Neuguinea als »Kulturbringer« in Ehren gehalten wird. Besonderen Wert legt der Autor, ein Nachfahre Lehners, auf die anschauliche Dokumentation der ethnologischen Arbeiten und Sammlungen Lehners. So lässt dieser reich bebilderte Band zugleich ein lebendiges Bild der melanesischen Kultur in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts entstehen.

     
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    Source: OAPEN; transcript Open Access
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839403297; 9783899423297
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    Subjects: Cultural studies
    Other subjects: Missionswissenschaft; Ethnologie; Papua-Neuguinea; Kolonialgeschichte; Kulturgeschichte; Ethnology; History of Colonialism; Cultural History
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (216 p.)
  12. Sex and the Body : Ethnologische Perspektiven zu Sexualität, Körper und Geschlecht
    Contributor: Alex, Gabriele (Publisher); Klocke-Daffa, Sabine (Publisher)
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    Sexualität und Geschlechtlichkeit sind Gegenstand kultureller Sinngebung. Das hierzulande nicht nachlassende Interesse an der Geschlechterdifferenz und den damit verknüpften Diskursen und Praktiken verweist auf andere kulturelle Kontexte, die nach... more

     

    Sexualität und Geschlechtlichkeit sind Gegenstand kultureller Sinngebung. Das hierzulande nicht nachlassende Interesse an der Geschlechterdifferenz und den damit verknüpften Diskursen und Praktiken verweist auf andere kulturelle Kontexte, die nach wie vor ein Gegenbild zu unseren eigenen Vorstellungen vom Körper abgeben. Wie weit auch in Zeiten der Globalisierung diese Praktiken von einer Homogenisierung entfernt sind, dokumentiert das in dieser Aufsatzsammlung präsentierte Spektrum an Beobachtungen, das von der Beschneidung und dem »free sex« bis zum Kamasutra reicht.

     
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    Contributor: Alex, Gabriele (Publisher); Klocke-Daffa, Sabine (Publisher)
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839402825; 9783899422825
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Cultural studies
    Other subjects: Ethnologie; Geschlechterforschung; Sexualität; Körper; Gender; Kultur; Gender Studies; Ethnology; Sexuality; Body; Culture
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (156 p.)
  13. Dezentrierte Positionierung : Stuart Halls Konzept der Identitätspolitiken
    Author: Supik, Linda
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    Der britische Kulturtheoretiker Stuart Hall wird seit einem Jahrzehnt zunehmend auch in den hiesigen Debatten über kulturelle Identität (in) der Einwanderungsgesellschaft zitiert. Mit diesem Buch liegt erstmals eine ausführliche und kritische... more

     

    Der britische Kulturtheoretiker Stuart Hall wird seit einem Jahrzehnt zunehmend auch in den hiesigen Debatten über kulturelle Identität (in) der Einwanderungsgesellschaft zitiert. Mit diesem Buch liegt erstmals eine ausführliche und kritische deutschsprachige Auseinandersetzung vor. Halls spannungsvolle Gratwanderung zwischen Antirassismus und Multikulturalismus wird aus verstreuten Aufsätzen, Vorträgen und Interviews herausgearbeitet und in ihren Kontext zu Dekonstruktion, postkolonialer Theorie und historischer Konjunktur gestellt. Warum ist die Frage der Identität nie endgültig zu beantworten? Wie kann dennoch identitätsstiftende Praxis aussehen?

     
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    Source: OAPEN; transcript Open Access
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839404096; 9783899424096
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    Subjects: Cultural studies
    Other subjects: Kulturelle Identität; Hybridität; Differenz; Rassismus; Postkolonialismus; Cultural Studies; Kulturtheorie; Interkulturalität; Kulturwissenschaft; Racism; Postcolonialism; Cultural Theory; Interculturalism
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (122 p.)
  14. Wahrnehmung - Kognition - Ästhetik : Neurobiologie und Medienwissenschaften
    Contributor: Schnell, Ralf (Publisher)
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    Wahrnehmung, Kognition und Ästhetik lassen sich als differente Verarbeitungs- und Ausdrucksformen einer biologischen Basisausstattung des Menschen verstehen. Ob diese stabil sind oder ob sie kulturell überformt oder gar transformiert werden, bildet... more

     

    Wahrnehmung, Kognition und Ästhetik lassen sich als differente Verarbeitungs- und Ausdrucksformen einer biologischen Basisausstattung des Menschen verstehen. Ob diese stabil sind oder ob sie kulturell überformt oder gar transformiert werden, bildet die zentrale medienanthropologische Fragestellung des Bandes. Dabei wird geprüft, welcher Art die wechselseitigen Impulse sind, die zu kulturellen und biologischen Veränderungen führen können, welche Wirkung sie besitzen und welche Dauer ihnen zukommt. Diese Fragen richten sich nicht allein auf Prozesse wahrnehmungstechnischer, kognitiver oder ästhetischer Habitualisierungen, sondern thematisieren deren physiologische Voraussetzungen. Mit der Beteiligung ausgewiesener Forscher aus den Bereichen Biologie, Medizin und Hirnforschung erschließt dieser Band Neuland im Grenzgebiet der Natur- und Kulturwissenschaften.

     
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    Contributor: Schnell, Ralf (Publisher)
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839403471; 9783899423471
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    Subjects: Media studies
    Other subjects: Wahrnehmung; Kognition; Ästhetik; Medien; Biologie; Hirnforschung; Medienästhetik; Medienwissenschaft; Aesthetics; Media; Biology; Media Aesthetics; Media Studies
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (264 p.)
  15. Moving in the USSR : Western anomalies and Northern wilderness
    Contributor: Hakamies, Pekka (Publisher)
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Finnish Literature Society / SKS, Helsinki

    "This book deals with 20th century resettlements in the western areas of the former USSR, in particular the territory of Karelia that was ceded by Finland in the WWII, Podolia in the Ukraine, and the North-West periphery of Russia in the Kola... more

     

    "This book deals with 20th century resettlements in the western areas of the former USSR, in particular the territory of Karelia that was ceded by Finland in the WWII, Podolia in the Ukraine, and the North-West periphery of Russia in the Kola peninsula. Finns from Karelia emigrated to Finland, most of the Jews of Podolia were exterminated by Nazi Germany but the survivors later emigrated to Israel, and the sparsely populated territory beyond the Polar circle received the Societ conquerors of nature which they began to exploit. The empty areas were usually settled by planned state recruitment of relocated Soviet citizens, but in some cases also by spontaneous movement. Thus, a Ukrainian took over a Jewish house, a Chuvash kolkhos was dispersed along Finnish khutor houses, and youth in the town of Apatity began to prefer their home town in relation to the cities of Russia.

     

    Everywhere the settlers met new and strange surroundings, and they had to construct places and meanings for themselves in their new home and restructure their local identity in relation to their places of origin and current abodes. They also had to create images of the former inhabitants and explanations for various strange details they preceived around themselves.

     

    All articles within this volume are based on extensive field or archive work. This research project was funded by the Academy of Finland."

     
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    Contributor: Hakamies, Pekka (Publisher)
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789517466950; 9789518580235; 9789518580228
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    Subjects: Literature & literary studies; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: migration; demography; internal migration; colonisation; resettlement activities; regional identity; Soviet Union
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (161 p.)
  16. Ständige Vertretung : Eine Ethnographie diplomatischer Lebenswelten
    Author: Niedner-Kalthoff, Ulrike
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    In politikwissenschaftlichen Studien erscheinen Diplomaten häufig als Elemente in einem übergeordneten System zwischenstaatlicher Beziehungen. Der vorliegende Band betrachtet sie hingegen als eigenständige Akteure und stellt ihren konkreten Berufs-... more

     

    In politikwissenschaftlichen Studien erscheinen Diplomaten häufig als Elemente in einem übergeordneten System zwischenstaatlicher Beziehungen. Der vorliegende Band betrachtet sie hingegen als eigenständige Akteure und stellt ihren konkreten Berufs- und Lebensalltag ins Zentrum einer ethnographischen Studie. In diesem Rahmen widmet er sich insbesondere der spezifischen Form internationaler Mobilität, die den diplomatischen Alltag prägt, und analysiert diese als eine Sonderform transnationaler Migration. Durch dichte Beschreibungen und lebendige theoretische Reflexionen bietet die Studie einen fundierten Einblick in diplomatische Lebenswelten.

     
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    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839403716; 9783899423716
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    Subjects: Cultural studies
    Other subjects: Diplomatie; Transnationalismus; Fremdheit; Ethnographie; Migration; Politik; Internationale Politik; Soziologie; Politics; International Relations; Sociology
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (110 p.)
  17. De letteren als wetenschappen
    Author: Pollmann, Thijs
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press

    Literature (Belles lettres) and rhetoric; Philosophy 'De letteren? Daar stort geen brug van in', zei een Amsterdams taalkunde-hoogleraar in de jaren vijftig. Dit boek laat zien hoe de geschiedenis, de taalkunde, de letterkunde en de... more

     

    Literature (Belles lettres) and rhetoric; Philosophy 'De letteren? Daar stort geen brug van in', zei een Amsterdams taalkunde-hoogleraar in de jaren vijftig. Dit boek laat zien hoe de geschiedenis, de taalkunde, de letterkunde en de kunsten-disciplines desondanks deugdelijk zijn. Met begrippen uit de filosofie van de wetenschappen wordt het waarheidsstreven en de groei van kennis in deze zaken geanalyseerd. 'Coherentie' blijkt een sleutelwoord te zijn. Niettegenstaande de chaotische en soms tegendraadse discussie over de grondslagen van de geesteswetenschappen worden heldere lijnen getrokken, gebaseerd op voorbeelden van onderzoek van erkend hoog niveau. De auteur besteedt veel aandacht aan hoe kennis in taal wordt omgezet en aan de consequenties van deze vertaling. In een inleidend hoofdstuk wordt het renaissance-humanisme geschetst als de bron van de letteren als discipline, en wordt een aantal factoren beschreven die de letteren hebben gemaakt tot wat ze nu zijn. Het laatste hoofdstuk is gewijd aan de maatschappelijke waarde van de moderne vakbeoefening in deze disciplines.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: Dutch; Dutch
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789053563939
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    Subjects: Literature: history & criticism; Philosophy
    Other subjects: literatuur en rhetorica; philosophy; filosofie; literature (belles lettres) and rhetoric
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (208 p.)
  18. Negen muzen, tien geboden. Historische en methodologische gevalstudies over de interactie tussen literatuur en ethiek
    Author: Praet, Danny; de Moor, Katrien; Martens, Gunther; Keunen, Bart; Roose, Alexander; Biebuck, Benjamin; Buelens, Gert; Verbaal, Wim
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Academia Press, Gent

    Literature traditionally holds a special place in society. This fact can be ascribed especially to literature’s unique capability to urge its audience and readers to allow a voice other than their own to resound within. And yet, literature’s role... more

     

    Literature traditionally holds a special place in society. This fact can be ascribed especially to literature’s unique capability to urge its audience and readers to allow a voice other than their own to resound within. And yet, literature’s role raises questions regarding one’s responsibility and engagement – questions that nearly every generation asks itself time and again with an ever changing urgency. Eight literary scholars from the research group ‘Literature – Ethics – Law’ (Ghent University) focus on this complex dialogue between literature and ethics. In the process, they arrive at answers that tease out crucial historical developments (from Plato to HIV/AIDS-prose), while also attending to the impact of methodological reevaluations during the search for such answers.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: Dutch; Dutch
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Subjects: Europe; Flemish; For emergent readers (adult); Literary theory; Literary studies: general
    Other subjects: literature; ethiek; ethics; literatuur
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (241 p.)
  19. Costruire per temi i paesaggi?
    Author: Enrica, Dall'Ara
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Firenze University Press

    The current diffusion of a design mentality that proceeds by the assignment of themes, in the design of both sites and individual architectural elements, makes it useful to ponder the subject of the theme park that is the purest example of this. More... more

     

    The current diffusion of a design mentality that proceeds by the assignment of themes, in the design of both sites and individual architectural elements, makes it useful to ponder the subject of the theme park that is the purest example of this. More specifically, what this signifies is questioning ourselves about the relations between the natural element, the architecture and the symbol. Addressing the argument with the eye of the landscape architect, it appears dense with repercussions, focusing the question of what landscape we are dealing with and what its design entails. This is an issue of landscape architecture in the purest sense and in its most extreme forms. La diffusione contemporanea dell'atteggiamento progettuale che procede per assegnazione di temi, nel disegno dei luoghi e delle singole architetture, rende utile ragionare sull'oggetto parco tematico che ne rappresenta l'esempio più puro. Questo significa specificatamente interrogarsi sul rapporto fra elemento naturale, architettura e simbolo: appare carico di conseguenze affrontare l'argomento con lo sguardo del paesaggista, domandarsi di quale paesaggio si tratti e cosa comporti progettarlo. È una questione di architettura del paesaggio nel suo senso più proprio e nelle sue forme più estreme.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: Italian
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 8884532361
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    Subjects: Landscape art & architecture
    Other subjects: urbanistica; town planning; landscape; paesaggio
  20. Ragioni d'amore
    Author: Luigi, Totaro
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Firenze University Press

    This text proposes a rereading of the Decameron that traces the female figures - 'constrained' as we are told in the Proem, by the 'wishes', 'desires' and 'orders' of fathers, mothers, brothers and husbands - in their attempt to open up areas of... more

     

    This text proposes a rereading of the Decameron that traces the female figures - 'constrained' as we are told in the Proem, by the 'wishes', 'desires' and 'orders' of fathers, mothers, brothers and husbands - in their attempt to open up areas of personal life. The possession of the female body, considered as part of the family property in a social context governed by a commercial rationale, is an instrument of the violence characterising all social relations, which Boccaccio indicates as a cause for the wrath of God that exploded in the plague of 1348. Moreover, their bodies also become an instrument in the hands of the women themselves when they decide - with all the ambiguity which the context imposed (even on the author) - to repossess the same to use it as a weapon of revenge, an occasion of joy or a gift of love. Il testo propone una rilettura del Decameron seguendo le figure femminili "costrette", come dice il Proemio, "da' voleri, da' piaceri, da' comandamenti de' padri, delle madri, de' fratelli e de' mariti" nei loro tentativi di aprire spazi di vita propria. Il possesso del corpo delle donne, parte del patrimonio familiare nel contesto sociale guidato dalla ragion di mercatura, è uno strumento della violenza che connota tutti i rapporti sociali, e che il Boccaccio indica come causa dell'ira di Dio esplosa nella peste del 1348. Ma diviene anche strumento delle donne quando decidono con tutta l'ambiguità che il contesto imponeva (anche all'Autore) di riappropriarsene per farne arma di vendetta, occasione di gioia, o dono d'amore.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: Italian
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 8884532531
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    Subjects: Literary reference works; Social interaction
    Other subjects: italian literary; donne; letteratura italiana; women; giovanni boccaccio; decameron
  21. Thumb Culture : The Meaning of Mobile Phones for Society
    Contributor: Glotz, Peter (Publisher); Bertschi, Stefan (Publisher); Locke, Chris (Publisher)
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    Mobile communication has an increasing impact on people's lives and society. Ubiquitous media influence the way users relate to their surroundings, and data services like text and pictures lead to a culture shaped by thumbs. Representing several... more

     

    Mobile communication has an increasing impact on people's lives and society. Ubiquitous media influence the way users relate to their surroundings, and data services like text and pictures lead to a culture shaped by thumbs. Representing several years of research into the social and cultural effects of mobile phone use, this volume assembles the fascinating approaches and new insights of leading scientists and practitioners. The book contains the results of a first international survey on the social consequences of mobile phones. It provides a comprehensive inventory of today's issues and an outlook in mobile media, society and their future study.

     
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    Source: OAPEN; transcript Open Access
    Contributor: Glotz, Peter (Publisher); Bertschi, Stefan (Publisher); Locke, Chris (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839404034; 9783899424034
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    Subjects: Media studies
    Other subjects: Mobile Phone; Mobile Media; Communication; Culture; Society; Media; Technology; Diagnosis of Our Time; Digital Media; Sociology of Media; Sociology of Culture; Media Studies
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (296 p.)
  22. Gaze Regimes : Film and Feminisms in Africa
    Author: Schuhmann, Antje; Mistry, Jyoti; Levin, Nobunye; Wenner, Dorotheex; von Braun, Christina
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Wits University Press, Johannesburg

    Gaze Regimes is a bricolage of essays and interviews showcasing the experiences of women working in film, either directly as practitioners or in other areas such as curators, festival programme directors or fundraisers. It does not shy away from... more

     

    Gaze Regimes is a bricolage of essays and interviews showcasing the experiences of women working in film, either directly as practitioners or in other areas such as curators, festival programme directors or fundraisers. It does not shy away from questioning the relations of power in the practice of filmmaking and the power invested in the gaze itself. Who is looking and who is being looked at, who is telling women’s stories in Africa and what governs the mechanics of making those films on the continent?

     

    The interviews with film practitioners such as Tsitsi Dangarembga, Taghreed Elsanhouri, Jihan El-Tahri, Anita Khanna, Isabel Noronhe, Arya Lalloo and Shannon Walsh demonstrate the contradictory points of departure of women in film – from their understanding of feminisms in relation to lived-experiences and the realpolitik of women working as cultural practitioners. Jyoti Mistry, Antje Schuhmann, Nobunye Levin, Dorothee Wenner and Christina von Braun are some of the contributors.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781868148561; 9781868146888
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    Subjects: Films, cinema
    Other subjects: Media and Communications; Africa; Feminism; Filmmaking; South Africa
  23. Progettare paesaggi di limite
    Author: Antonella, Valentini
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Firenze University Press

    This book addresses the issue of the design of urban fringe landscapes, focusing in particular on the experience of the "green belts" and the "green wedges". Experimenting in the urban peripheries of Florence, the fringe landscape project is not... more

     

    This book addresses the issue of the design of urban fringe landscapes, focusing in particular on the experience of the "green belts" and the "green wedges". Experimenting in the urban peripheries of Florence, the fringe landscape project is not aimed at the reconstruction of ideal city limits, but is a container for examples of rebalance, connotation and regeneration proper to the border areas, which feature an indeterminacy of identifying characteristics and a marked reduction in landscape quality. Il volume affronta il tema della progettazione dei paesaggi di margine urbano osservando in particolare l'esperienza delle "cinture verdi" e dei "cunei verdi". Sperimentando nei territori periurbani di Firenze, il progetto del paesaggio di limite non è volto alla ricostruzione di ideali limiti alla città, ma è portatore di istanze di riequilibrio, connotazione e rigenerazione proprie dei territori di confine, dove si avvertono condizioni di indeterminatezza dei caratteri identitari e forti riduzioni della qualità paesistica.

     
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  24. European Cinema : Face to Face with Hollywood
    Author: Elsaesser, Thomas
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press

    In the face of renewed competition from Hollywood since the early 1980s and the challenges posed to Europe's national cinemas by the fall of the Wall in 1989, independent filmmaking in Europe has begun to re-invent itself. European Cinema: Face to... more

     

    In the face of renewed competition from Hollywood since the early 1980s and the challenges posed to Europe's national cinemas by the fall of the Wall in 1989, independent filmmaking in Europe has begun to re-invent itself. European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood re-assesses the different debates and presents a broader framework for understanding the forces at work since the 1960s. These include the interface of "world cinema" and the rise of Asian cinemas, the importance of the international film festival circuit, the role of television, as well as the changing aesthetics of auteur cinema. New audiences have different allegiances, and new technologies enable networks to reshape identities, but European cinema still has an important function in setting critical and creative agendas, even as its economic and institutional bases are in transition. Onder invloed van de rivaliteit met Hollywood en de val van de muur in 1989 vond er in de jaren '90 in veel West-Europese landen een levendig debat plaats over de toekomst van de nationale filmtradities. Van het bestaan van zich onderscheidende 'nationale' stijlen, zoals bijvoorbeeld neo-realisme, zou niet langer kunnen worden uitgegaan. Film zou een benepen kunstvorm geworden zijn, die redding zoekt in het bewaren van de 'nationale' erfenis of hoopt op artistieke vernieuwing van televisie en door de overheid gesubsidieerde prestigeprojecten. In European Cinema blikt Thomas Elsaesser terug op het debat en geeft een genuanceerder beeld van verschillende factoren die sinds de jaren zestig een rol speelden. Er is o.m. aandacht voor de raakvlakken met de 'world cinema' en de opkomst van de Aziatische film, de invloed van het internationale film festival circuit, de rol van televisie en de veranderende esthetiek in auteur-cinema. Nieuwe toeschouwers hebben andere voorkeuren, en nieuwe technologieën bieden de mogelijkheid om bestaande identiteiten te hervormen, maar de Europese cinema heeft nog steeds een belangrijke functie in het vaststellen van kritische en creatieve agenda's, ook al is haar economische en institutionele basis in beweging.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789053565940
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    Subjects: Film, TV & radio; History; Society & culture: general
    Other subjects: culture and instituten; geschiedenis; motion pictures; film; culture and institutions; history, geography, and auxiliary disciplines
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (566 p.)
  25. Hitchcock's Motifs
    Author: Walker, Michael
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press

    Among the abundant Alfred Hitchcock literature, Hitchcock's Motifs has found a fresh angle. Starting from recurring objects, settings, character-types and events, Michael Walker tracks some forty motifs, themes and clusters across the whole of... more

     

    Among the abundant Alfred Hitchcock literature, Hitchcock's Motifs has found a fresh angle. Starting from recurring objects, settings, character-types and events, Michael Walker tracks some forty motifs, themes and clusters across the whole of Hitchcock's oeuvre, including not only all his 52 extant feature films but also representative episodes from his TV series. Connections and deeper inflections that Hitchcock fans may have long sensed or suspected can now be seen for what they are: an intricately spun web of cross-references which gives this unique artist's work the depth, consistency and resonance that justifies Hitchcock's place as probably the best know film director ever. The title, the first book-length study of the subject, can be used as a mini-encyclopaedia of Hitchcock's motifs, but the individual entries also give full attention to the wider social contexts, hidden sources and the sometimes unconscious meanings present in the work and solidly linking it to its time and place. In de overvloed aan Hitchcock-boeken, heeft Hitchcock's Motifs een nieuwe invalshoek weten te vinden. Uitgaande van terugkerende objecten, decors, karakters en gebeurtenissen heeft Michael Walker zo'n veertig motieven, thema's en clusters geïdentificeerd in het gehele oeuvre van Hitchcock. Niet alleen komen alle 52 bestaande bioscoopfilms daarbij aan bod, maar ook representatieve episodes uit zijn televisieseries. Connecties en diepere betekenissen die Hitchcockfans misschien allang voorvoelden of vermoeden, komen eindelijk in hun volle betekenis aan het licht. Ze vormen een complex web van kruisverwijzingen die het werk van deze unieke kunstenaar de diepte, samenhang en weerklank geven en Hitchcock's positie rechtvaardigen als een van de meest bekende filmregisseurs ooit. Het boek kan gebruikt worden als een mini-encyclopedie van Hitchcock motieven, maar in de individuele lemma's wordt ook volop aandacht besteed aan de bredere sociale context, de verborgen bronnen en de soms onbewuste betekenissen in het werk waarmee het duidelijk verankerd wordt in de eigen context.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789053567739
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    Subjects: Film, TV & radio; Individual film directors, film-makers
    Other subjects: motion pictures; film
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (496 p.)