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  • Pulling the Right Threads

    The Ethnographic Life and Legacy of Jane C. Goodale

    A tribute to Jane C. Goodale, Pulling the Right Threads discusses the vibrant ethnographer and teacher's principles for mentoring, collaborating, and performing fieldwork. Known for her ethnographic research in the Pacific, development of the Association of Social Anthropology in Oceania, and influence in the anthropology department at Bryn Mawr College, Goodale and other contributors renew the ... Leer más

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  • Ritual, Media, and Conflict

    Series series Oxford Ritual Studies
    Rituals can provoke or escalate conflict, but they can also mediate it and although conflict is a normal aspect of human life, mass media technologies are changing the dynamics of conflict and shaping strategies for deploying rituals. This collection of essays emerged from a two-year project based on collaboration between the Faculty of Religious Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen in the ... Leer más

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    Series series Oxford Ritual Studies
    Rituals can provoke or escalate conflict, but they can also mediate it and although conflict is a normal aspect of human life, mass media technologies are changing the dynamics of conflict and shaping strategies for deploying rituals. This collection of essays emerged from a two-year project based on collaboration between the Faculty of Religious Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen in the ... Leer más

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  • Renseignement et espionnage pendant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale

    Au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, les services de renseignement connaissent un développement sans précédent, tant en termes d’effectifs que de moyens, car il leur faut répondre au défi d’une guerre totale se déroulant sur tous les continents. L’espionnage s’intensifie afin de découvrir les intentions de l’ennemi, ses capacités et ses plans d’opération. Le contre-espionnage s’attache à ... Leer más

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  • Cultural styles of knowledge transmission

    Essays in honour of Ad Borsboom

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    Anthropologist Dr Ad Borsboom, chair of Pacific Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, devoted his academic career from 1972 onwards to the transmission of cultural knowledge. Borsboom handed the insights he acquired during many years of fieldwork among Australian Aborigines on to other academics, students and the general public. This collection of essays by his colleagues, specializing in ... Leer más

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  • Consolationscapes in the Face of Loss

    Grief and Consolation in Space and Time

    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    Human beings are grieving animals. ‘Consolation’, or an attempt to assuage grief, is an age-old response to loss which has various expressions in different cultural contexts. Over the past century, consolation has dropped off the West’s cultural radar. The contributions to this volume highlight this neglect of consolation in popular and academic discourses and explore the usefulness of the concept ... Leer más

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