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Scale : discourse and dimensions of social life
"Wherever we turn, we see diverse things scaled for us, from cities to economies, from history to love. We know scale by many names and through many familiar antinomies: local and global, micro and macro events. Even the most critical among us often proceed with our analysis as if such scales were the ready-made platforms of social life, rather than asking how, why, and to what effect are scala…
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- 15
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780520965430
- Collation
- xi, 277 p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 300.72 LEM s
Established and outsiders at the same time : self-images and we-images of Pal…
Palestinians frequently present a harmonizing and homogenizing we-image of their own national we-group, as a way of counteracting Israeli attempts to sow divisions among them, whether through Israeli politics or through the dominant public discourse in Israel. However, a closer look reveals the fragility of this homogenizing we-image which masks a variety of internal tensions and conflicts. By …
- Edition
- 11
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783863952860
- Collation
- 232 p, ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 305.8927405694 ROS e
Storytelling in Northern Zambia: theory, method, practice and other necessary…
Storytelling plays an important part in the vibrant cultural life of Zambia and in many other communities across Africa. This innovative book provides a collection and analysis of oral narrative traditions as practiced by five Bemba-speaking ethnic groups in Zambia. The integration of newly digitalised audio and video recordings into the text enables the reader to encounter the storytellers the…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781909254619
- Collation
- xviii, 274 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 808.543 CAN s
Feeding the city: work and food culture of the Mumbai Dabbawalas
Every day in Mumbai 5,000 dabbawalas (literally translated as "those who carry boxes") distribute a staggering 200,000 home-cooked lunchboxes to the city’s workers and students. Giving employment and status to thousands of largely illiterate villagers from Mumbai's hinterland, this co-operative has been in operation since the late nineteenth century. It provides one of the most efficient deli…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781909254022
- Collation
- xv, 214 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 394.12 RON f
Frontier encounters: knowledge and practice at the Russian, Chinese and Mongo…
China and Russia are rising economic and political powers that share thousands of miles of border. Yet, despite their proximity, their practical, local interactions with each other — and with their third neighbour Mongolia — are rarely discussed. The three countries share a boundary, but their traditions, languages and worldviews are remarkably different. Frontier Encounters presents a w…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781906924898
- Collation
- ix, 280 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 327.51047 FRO f
Gallucci's commentary on Dürer’s 'four books on human proportion': renaiss…
In 1591, Giovanni Paolo Gallucci published his Della simmetria dei corpi humani, an Italian translation of Albrecht Dürer’s Four Books on Human Proportion. While Dürer’s treatise had been translated earlier in the sixteenth-century into French and Latin, it was Gallucci’s Italian translation that endured in popularity as the most cited version of the text in later Baroque treatises, cov…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783748891
- Collation
- xiii, 208 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 704.942 HUT g
Life histories of etnos theory in Russia and beyond
Life Histories of Etnos Theory in Russia and Beyond makes a powerful argument for reconsidering the importance of etnos in our understanding of ethnicity and national identity across Eurasia. The collection brings to life a rich archive of previously unpublished letters, fieldnotes, and photographic collections of the theory’s early proponents. Using contemporary fieldwork and case studies, t…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783745463
- Collation
- xix, 425 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 305.8 LIF l
Digital media and textuality: from creation to archiving
Due to computers' ability to combine different semiotic modes, texts are no longer exclusively comprised of static images and mute words. How have digital media changed the way we write and read? What methods of textual and data analysis have emerged? How do we rescue digital artifacts from obsolescence? And how can digital media be used or taught inside classrooms? These and other questions ar…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783839440919
- Collation
- 284 p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 006.7 MAD d
The theatre of Shelley
This is the first full-length study of Shelley’s plays in performance. It offers a rich, meticulously researched history of Shelley’s role as a playwright and dramatist and a reassessment of his "closet dramas" as performable pieces of theatre. With chapters on each of Shelley’s dramatic works, the book provides a thorough discussion of the poet’s stagecraft, and analyses performanc…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781906924324
- Collation
- xiv, 289 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 822.709 MUL t
Living earth community: multiple ways of being and knowing
Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing is a celebration of the diversity of ways in which humans can relate to the world around them, and an invitation to its readers to partake in planetary coexistence. Innovative, informative, and highly accessible, this interdisciplinary anthology of essays brings together scholars, writers and educators across the sciences and humanities…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783748051
- Collation
- xxxviii, 243 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 304.2 LIV l
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