"This book uses controversies as a gateway through which to explore the origins, ethics, key moments and people in the history of anthropology. It draws on a variety of cases including complicity in 'human zoos', Malinowski's diaries, and the Human Terrain System to explore how …
Die universitäre Fremdsprachendidaktik verfolgt seit langem eine doppelte Ausrichtung: In ihrer Funktion als forschende Disziplin erforscht, beschreibt und interpretiert sie Unterricht, seine Teilnehmer:innen sowie seine Lehr-Lernprozesse. Als (aus-)bildende Disziplin beschäftig…
"Before countless audiences across the globe, the Dalai Lama has tried to refashion Tibetan Buddhism into a modern religion compatible with empirical science and founded on principles of nonviolence and "universal compassion," but how exactly has this project affected monastic e…
This illuminating volume examines the profound transformation of historical thought and practice of writing history from the late Qing through the mid- twentieth century. The authors devote extensive analysis to the common set of intellectual and political forces that shaped the…
Churchill once famously remarked that he would not join the navy because it was "all rum, sodomy and the lash." How far this was true of the navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars is the subject of this important new book. Summary punishments, courts martial, f…
This book asks, 'what are the implications of blurring genres for the discipline of Political Science, and for Area Studies?' It argues novelists and playwrights provide a better guide for political scientists than the work of physicists. It restates the intrinsic value of the H…
Der Blick auf wissenschaftliche Disziplinen und ihre Geschichte ändert sich, sobald Akte der Überlieferung als machtförmige soziale Praktiken betrachtet werden. Als solche ziehen sie Grenzen und verweigern bestimmten Wissensbeständen die Aufnahme in das disziplinäre Gedächtnis. …
