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    The Globalization Process

    Series series Clarendon Lectures in Economics
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  • Collaborative Embodied Performance

    Ecologies of Skill

    Series series Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
    This book is about joint intelligence in action. It brings together scholarship in performance studies, cognitive science, sociology, literature, anthropology, psychology, architecture, philosophy and sport science to ask how tightly knit collaboration works. Contributors apply innovative methodologies to detailed case studies of martial arts, social interaction, freediving, site-specific artworks ... Read more

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