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Economic Exchange and Social Interaction in Southeast Asia : Perspectives fro…
Economic behavior is governed by two major sets of boundary conditions: environmental and technological factors on the one hand, and conditions of social organization on the other hand. Indeed, social scientists are often particularly interested in the framework of exchange relationships: exchange of goods, services, personnel, and information. Economic exchanges lend concrete manifestations to…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780472901722
- Collation
- 337p
- Series Title
- Michigan Papers On South And Southeast Asia, 13
- Call Number
- 380.10959
Mapping society : the spatial dimensions of social cartography
From a rare map of yellow fever in eighteenth-century New York, to Charles Booth’s famous maps of poverty in nineteenth-century London, an Italian racial zoning map of early twentieth-century Asmara, to a map of wealth disparities in the banlieues of twenty-first-century Paris, Mapping Society traces the evolution of social cartography over the past two centuries. In this richly illustrated b…
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- 25
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781787353053
- Collation
- xix, 268p.; ill.
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- 526 MAP v
Words in space and time : a historical atlas of language politics in modern C…
With forty-two extensively annotated maps, this atlas offers novel insights into the history and mechanics of how Central Europe’s languages have been made, unmade, and deployed for political action. The innovative combination of linguistics, history, and cartography makes a wealth of hard-to-reach knowledge readily available to both specialist and general readers. It combines information on …
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- 9789633864180
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- xvii, 289 p. : ill.
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- -
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- 306.44943 KAM w
Cities made of boundaries : mapping social life in urban form
Cities Made of Boundaries presents the theoretical foundation and concepts for a new social scientific urban morphological mapping method, Boundary Line Type (BLT) Mapping. Its vantage is a plea to establish a frame of reference for radically comparative urban studies positioned between geography and archaeology. Based in multidisciplinary social and spatial theory, a critical realist understan…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781787351059
- Collation
- 416p. ; ill.
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- Call Number
- 307.76 BEN c
The local dimension of migration policymaking
This book prompts a fresh look on immigrant integration policy. Revealing just where immigrants and their receiving societies interact everyday, it shows how societal inclusion is administered and produced at a local level. The studies presented focus on three issue areas of migration policy - citizenship, welfare services and religious diversity - and consider cities in very different national…
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- 22
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789048512430
- Collation
- 204 p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 325.4 CAP t
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
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- Call Number
- 305.8 LIF l
Boundaries of the text : epic performances in South and Southeast Asia
When the Mahabharata and Ramayana are performed in South and Southeast Asia, audiences may witness a variety of styles. A single performer may deliver a two-hour recitation, women may meet in informal singing groups, shaddow puppets may host an all-night play, or professional theaters may put on productions lasting thirty nights. Performances often celebrate ritual passages: births, deaths, mar…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780472901715
- Collation
- X, 161 p.
- Series Title
- Michigan Papers On South And Southeast Asia, 35
- Call Number
- 781.4 BOU b
Interdisciplinary insights for digital touch communication
Communication is increasingly moving beyond ‘ways of seeing’ to ‘ways of feeling’. This Open Access book provides social design insights and implications for HCI research and design exploring digitally mediated touch communication. It offers a socially orientated map to help navigate the complex social landscape of digitally mediated touch for communication: from everyday touch-screens,…
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- 9783030245641
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- 004.77 JEW i
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