At the beginning of the twenty-first century the demand for anthropological approaches, understandings and methodologies outside academic departments is shifting and changing. Through a series of fascinating case studies of anthropologists' experiences of working with very diver…
At the beginning of the twenty-first century the demand for anthropological approaches, understandings and methodologies outside academic departments is shifting and changing. Through a series of fascinating case studies of anthropologists' experiences of working with very diver…
Tatsachen über Deutschland
by Bischoff, Matthias, Chauvistré, Eric, Kleis, Constanze, Wille, Joachim
The book presents a cultural study of Toni Morrison?s fiction, focused on her representations of the past and present, along with the relationship between the two. The authors analyze Morrison?s texts not solely as aesthetic, autonomous objects but as manifestations of a cultura…
Facts about Germany
by Bischoff, Matthias, Chauvistré, Eric, Kleis, Constanze, Wille, Joachim
This is a comprehensive, introductory guide to Buddhism as a living, practical religion. It demonstrates the similarities within the central teaching of the different schools and traditions of Buddhism.
Considering a range of present-day phenomena, from the immediacy effects of literature to the impact of hypercommunication, globalization, and sports, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht notes an important shift in our relationship to history and the passage of time. Although we continue to u…
Considering a range of present-day phenomena, from the immediacy effects of literature to the impact of hypercommunication, globalization, and sports, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht notes an important shift in our relationship to history and the passage of time. Although we continue to u…
This book provides an in-depth and thematic analysis of socially engaged art in Mainland China, exploring its critical responses to and creative interventions in China's top-down, pro-urban, and profit-oriented socioeconomic transformations. It focuses on the socially conscious …
Henry Rousso addresses the rise of contemporary history and the relations of present-day societies to their past, especially their legacies of political violence. Focusing on France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, he shows that for contemporary historians, t…
The writing of recent history tends to be deeply marked by conflict, by personal and collective struggles rooted in horrific traumas and bitter controversies. Frequently, today's historians can find themselves researching the same events that they themselves lived through. This …