Bringing together noted anthropologists and literary scholars, Knowing Your Place explores rural identity in a number of cultures and situations. Essays examine the distinction between popular and high culture, the explosion of high technology, the impact of environmental policy…
In Late Antiquity, people commonly sought to acquire knowledge about the past, the present, and the future, using a variety of methods. While early Christians did not doubt that these methods worked effectively, in theory they were not allowed to make use of them. In practice, p…
by Hobsbawm, E. J., (Eric J.), Ranger, T. O., Şahin, Mehmet Murat, Kaylı, Ahmet
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In treating memory as a cultural rather than an individual faculty, this book provides an account of how practices of a non-inscribed kind are transmitted in, and as, traditions. Most studies of memory as a cultural faculty focus on inscribed transmissions of memories. Connerton…
Studie over de aanpassing van het gezinsleven aan veranderende sociale omstandigheden sinds de 19e eeuw
These essays - written by scholars in many fields - examine the production, transmission and implementation of ideas about development within historical, political and intellectual contexts, emphasizing the changing meanings of development over the past 50 years.
This work provides a systematic sociological discussion of one of the most important of modern institutions: money. The author demonstrates the immense significance of monetary systems in modern societies and considers why social theory has been so slow to address this issue.
by McLinden, Gerard, Doyle, Tom, Fanta, Enrique, Widdowson, David
This book provides border management policymakers and reformers with a broad survey of key developments in and principles for improving trade facilitation through better border management, including practical advice on particular issues. In contrast to the traditional border man…
