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Water societies and technologies from the past and present
Today our societies face great challenges with water, in terms of both quantity and quality, but many of these challenges have already existed in the past. Focusing on Asia, Water Societies and Technologies from the Past and Present seeks to highlight the issues that emerge or re-emerge across different societies and periods, and asks what they can tell us about water sustainability. Incorporat…
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- 9781911576693
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- xix, 311 p. : ill.
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- 333.911 ZHU w
Right research : modelling sustainable research practices in the anthropocene
Educational institutions play an instrumental role in social and political change, and are responsible for the environmental and social ethics of their institutional practices. The essays in this volume critically examine scholarly research practices in the age of the Anthropocene, and ask what accountability educators and researchers have in ‘righting’ their relationship to the environment…
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- 9781783749638
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- xxiii, 560 p. ; ill
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- 304.2 MIY r
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
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- 9780520965430
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- xi, 277 p. : ill.
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- 300.72 LEM s
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
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- xviii, 274 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 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
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- xv, 214 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 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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- 9781906924898
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- ix, 280 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 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
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- xiii, 208 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24cm
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- 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
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- xix, 425 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 305.8 LIF l
A people passing rude: British responses to Russian culture
Described by the sixteenth-century English poet George Turbervile as "a people passing rude, to vices vile inclin’d", the Russians waited some three centuries before their subsequent cultural achievements—in music, art and particularly literature—achieved widespread recognition in Britain. The essays in this stimulating collection attest to the scope and variety of Russia’s influence…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781909254121
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- xvi, 331 p.: illustrations
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- 947.084 CRO a
Methodological approaches to societies in transformation: how to make sense o…
This open access book provides methodological devices and analytical frameworks for the study of societies in transformation. It explores a central paradox in the study of change: making sense of change requires long-term perspectives on societal transformations and on the different ways people experience social change, whereas the research carried out to study change is necessarily limited to …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030650674
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- xiii, 282 p. : ill.
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- Anthropology, Change, and Development,
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- 338.9 LUD m
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