China's Economic Culture: The Ritual Order of State and Markets
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China's spectacular rise challenges established economic moulds, both at the national level, with...
Culture and Conservation: Beyond Anthropocentrism
Helen Kopnina and Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet
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Today, there is growing interest in conservation and anthropologists have an important role to play...
Childhood and Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture
Susan Irvine and Winfried Rudolf
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Childhood and Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture counters the generally received wisdom...
From Shamanism to Sufism: Women, Islam and Culture in Central Asia
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Women have traditionally played a vital part in Islam throughout Central Asia - the vast area from...
The Reception of Byzantium in European Culture Since 1500
Przemyslaw Marciniak and Dion C. Smythe
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Studies on the reception of the classical tradition are an indispensable part of classical studies....
City Linkage: Art and Culture Fostering Urban Futures
Michael Ziehl, Carsten Rabe and Till Haupt
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How do we want to live together? How can citizens directly participate in city politics? How can we...
Evolution and Conversion: Dialogues on the Origins of Culture
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Evolution and Conversion explores the main tenets of Rene Girard's thought in a series of dialogues....
Ethnography of a Neoliberal School: Building Cultures of Success
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As a school ethnography, this book explores the controversial schooling practices and strategies...
Performing Race & Erasure: Cuba, Haiti, and US Culture, 1898-1940
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In this book, Shannon Rose Riley provides a critically rich investigation of representations of Cuba...