Many textbooks on intercultural communication are not written with an intercultural readership in mind. This team of authors has, on the other hand, put together an introduction to communicating across cultures that draws on examples and case studies from across the world, using…
"Based on long-term medical anthropological research in northern Ghana, the author analyses issues of health and healing, of gender, and of the control and use of money in a changing rural African setting. He describes the culture of medical pluralism, typical for neo-colonial s…
"Based on long-term medical anthropological research in northern Ghana, the author analyses issues of health and healing, of gender, and of the control and use of money in a changing rural African setting. He describes the culture of medical pluralism, typical for neo-colonial s…
This ambitious work offers the first comprehensive transcultural history of historiography. The contributors transcend a Eurocentric approach not only in terms of the individual historiographies they assess but also in the methodologies they use for comparative analysis. Moving …
Als "Importe" gelten archäologische Phänomene, wenn sie fern ihres vermuteten Herstellungsortes gefunden werden. Diese Charakterisierung beruht auf einem starren Objektbegriff und wird der Vielschichtigkeit von Dingen und ihren Beziehungsgefügen nicht gerecht. Daher werden in di…
Audible Empire's contributors rethink the mechanisms of empire, showing how musical practice has been important to its spread around the globe. The volume's fifteen interdisciplinary essays cover large swaths of genre, time, politics, and geography to put forth music as a means …