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The Philatelist (Hardcover): Tito Perdue The Philatelist (Hardcover)
Tito Perdue
R531 Discovery Miles 5 310 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Education for Children With Disabilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Hardcover): Margarita Schiemer Education for Children With Disabilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Hardcover)
Margarita Schiemer
R1,349 Discovery Miles 13 490 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Kolkata in Space, Time, and Imagination Vol 1 (Hardcover): Anuradha Roy, Melitta Waligora Kolkata in Space, Time, and Imagination Vol 1 (Hardcover)
Anuradha Roy, Melitta Waligora
R1,315 Discovery Miles 13 150 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Embracing Biological Humanism - Abandoning the Idea of God (Hardcover): Norman Orr Embracing Biological Humanism - Abandoning the Idea of God (Hardcover)
Norman Orr
R808 Discovery Miles 8 080 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism (Hardcover): Juan Javier Rivera Andia, Cecilie Vindal Odegaard Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism (Hardcover)
Juan Javier Rivera Andia, Cecilie Vindal Odegaard
R1,444 Discovery Miles 14 440 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Assertiveness Training - 10 Simple Steps How to Become an Assertive Leader, Stand Up, speak up, and Take Control of Your Life... Assertiveness Training - 10 Simple Steps How to Become an Assertive Leader, Stand Up, speak up, and Take Control of Your Life (Hardcover)
Luke Caldwell
R569 Discovery Miles 5 690 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Achieving a Career, Becoming a Master - Aspirations in the Lives of Young Uzbek Men (Hardcover, 1., Erstausgabe): Jesko... Achieving a Career, Becoming a Master - Aspirations in the Lives of Young Uzbek Men (Hardcover, 1., Erstausgabe)
Jesko Schmoller
R1,132 Discovery Miles 11 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The series Studies on Modern Orient provides an overview of religious, political and social phenomena in modern and contemporary Muslim societies. The volumes do not only take into account Near and Middle Eastern countries, but also explore Islam and Muslim culture in other regions of the world, for example, in Europe and the US. The series Studies on Modern Orient was founded in 2010 by Klaus Schwarz Verlag.

African Life and Customs Hardcover (Hardcover): Edward W Blyden African Life and Customs Hardcover (Hardcover)
Edward W Blyden
R610 R549 Discovery Miles 5 490 Save R61 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Contained Empowerment and the Liminal Nature of Feminisms and Activisms (Hardcover): Victoria A Newsom Contained Empowerment and the Liminal Nature of Feminisms and Activisms (Hardcover)
Victoria A Newsom; Foreword by Sahar Khamis
R3,575 Discovery Miles 35 750 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Contained Empowerment and the Liminal Nature of Feminisms and Activisms examines the processes by which activist successes are limited, outlines a theoretical framing of the liminal and temporal limits to social justice efforts as "contained empowerment." With a focused lens on the third wave and contemporary forms of feminism, the author investigates feminist activity from the early 1990s through responses and reactions to the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022, and contrasts these efforts with anti-feminist, white supremacist, and other structural normalizing efforts designed to limit and repress women's, gendered, and reproductive rights. This book includes analyses of celebrity activism, girl power, transnational feminist NGOs, digital feminisms, and the feminist mimicry applied by practitioners of neo-liberal and anti-feminism. Victoria A. Newsome concludes that the contained nature of feminist empowerment illustrates how activists must engage directly with intersectional challenges and address the multiplicities of structural oppressions in order to breach containment.

Dancing in the Forest - Korean Shamans in the United States (Hardcover): Helen Hong Dancing in the Forest - Korean Shamans in the United States (Hardcover)
Helen Hong
R1,133 Discovery Miles 11 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Herder Warfare in East Africa: A Social and Spatial History (Hardcover): Gufu Oba Herder Warfare in East Africa: A Social and Spatial History (Hardcover)
Gufu Oba
R2,182 Discovery Miles 21 820 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Herder Warfare in East Africa presents a regional analysis of the spatial and social history of warfare among the nomadic peoples of East Africa, covering a period of 600 years. The long duree facilitates understanding of how warfare among pastoralist communities in earlier centuries contributed to political, economic and ethnic shifts across the grazing lands in East Africa. The book discusses herder warfare from the perspective of warfare ecology, highlighting the interrelations between environmental and cultural causalities - including droughts, famine, floods, ritual wars, religious wars and migrations - and the processes and consequences of war. Regional synthesis concentrates on frontiers of conflicts extending from the White Nile Basin in south Sudan - into the southern savannas of East Africa, the Great East African Rift Valley, and the northern and southern Horn of Africa - examining historical military power shifts between diverse pastoralist cultures. Case studies are set in the coastal hinterland of East Africa and the Jubaland-Wajir frontiers. Warfare combined with environmental disasters caused social-economic breakdowns and the enslavement of defeated groups. The dynamics of herder warfare changed after colonial entry, response to pastoralist resistance and slave emancipation. The book is of interest to specialist and non-specialist readers exploring pastoralism, social anthropology and warfare and conflict studies; and is suitable for introductory graduate courses in environmental and social history of warfare .

The Natives are Restless (Hardcover): Idries Shah The Natives are Restless (Hardcover)
Idries Shah
R540 Discovery Miles 5 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Songs of Earth - Aesthetic and Social Codes in Music (Hardcover): Anna L. Wood, Robert Garfias, Victor Grauer, Stella Silbert Songs of Earth - Aesthetic and Social Codes in Music (Hardcover)
Anna L. Wood, Robert Garfias, Victor Grauer, Stella Silbert
R2,631 Discovery Miles 26 310 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Based upon Cantometrics: An Approach to the Anthropology of Music (1976), by Alan Lomax, Songs of Earth: Aesthetic and Social Codes in Music is a contemporary guide to understanding and exploring Cantometrics, the system developed by Lomax and Victor Grauer for analyzing the formal elements of music related to human geography and sociocultural patterning. This carefully constructed cross-cultural study of world music revealed deep-rooted performance patterns and aesthetic preferences and their links with environmental factors and ancient socioeconomic practices. This new and updated edition is for anyone wishing to understand and more deeply appreciate the forms and sociocultural contexts of the musics of the world's peoples, and it is designed to be used by both scholars and laypeople. Part One of the book consists of a practical guide to using the Cantometrics system, a course with musical examples to test one's understanding of the material, a theoretical framework to put the methodology in context, and an illustration of the method used to explore the roots of popular music. Part Two includes guides to four other analytical systems that Lomax developed, which focus on orchestration, phrasing and breath management, vowel articulation, instrumentation, and American popular music. Part Three provides resources for educators who wish to use the Cantometrics system in their classrooms, a summary of the findings and hypotheses of Lomax's original research, and a discussion of Cantometrics' criticisms, applications, and new approaches, and it includes excerpts of Lomax's original writings about world song style and cultural equity.

Reinventing craft in China - The Contemporary Politics of Yixing Zisha Ceramics (Hardcover): Geoffrey Gowlland Reinventing craft in China - The Contemporary Politics of Yixing Zisha Ceramics (Hardcover)
Geoffrey Gowlland
R1,691 Discovery Miles 16 910 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

How does a craft reinvent itself as `traditional' following cultural, social and political upheaval? In the township of Dingshu, Jiangsu province of China, artisans produce zisha or Yixing teapots that have been highly valued for centuries. Yet in twentieth-century socialist imagination, handicrafts were an anomaly in a modern society. The Maoist government had clear ambitions to transform the country by industrialization, replacing craft with mechanized methods of production. Four decades later, some of the same artisans identified as `backward' handicraft producers in the 1950s and made to join workers' cooperatives, were now encouraged to set up private workshops, teach their children and become entrepreneurs. By the 2000s ceramic production in Dingshu is booming and artisans are buying their first cars, often luxury brands. However, many involvements of the Chinese state are apparent, from the control of raw materials, to the inscription of the craft on China's national list of intangible cultural heritage. In this perceptive study, Gowlland argues that this re-evaluation of heritage is no less inherently political than the collectivism of the communist regime. Reflecting that the craft objects, although produced in very different contexts, have remained virtually the same over time and that it is the artisans' subjectivities that have been transformed, he explores the construction of mastery and its relationship to tradition and authenticity, bringing to the fore the social dimension of mastery that goes beyond the skill of simply making things, to changing the way these things are perceived, made and talked about by others.

Fashioning Brazil - Globalization and the Representation of Brazilian Dress in National Geographic (Hardcover): Elizabeth... Fashioning Brazil - Globalization and the Representation of Brazilian Dress in National Geographic (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Kutesko
R4,309 Discovery Miles 43 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Examining the dynamics between subject, photographer and viewer, Fashioning Brazil analyses how Brazilians have appropriated and reinterpreted clothing influences from local and global cultures. Exploring the various ways in which Brazil has been fashioned by the pioneering scientific and educational magazine, National Geographic, the book encourages us to look beyond simplistic representations of exotic difference. Instead, it brings to light an extensive history of self-fashioning within Brazil, which has emerged through cross-cultural contact, slavery, and immigration. Providing an in-depth examination of Brazilian dress and fashion practices as represented by the quasi-ethnographic gaze of National Geographic and National Geographic Brazil (the Portuguese language edition of the magazine, established in 2000), the book unpacks a series of case studies. Taking us from body paint to Lycra, via loincloths and bikinis, Kutesko frames her analysis within the historical, cultural, and political context of Latin American interactions with the United States. Exploring how dress can be used to manipulate identity and disrupt expectations, Fashioning Brazil examines readers' sensory engagements with an iconic magazine, and sheds new light on key debates concerning global dress and fashion.

Anger Management - 13 Powerful Steps to Take Complete Control of Your Emotions, For Men and Women, Self-Help Guide for Self... Anger Management - 13 Powerful Steps to Take Complete Control of Your Emotions, For Men and Women, Self-Help Guide for Self Control, Psychology Behind Anger (Hardcover)
Tony Bennis
R596 Discovery Miles 5 960 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
They Must Go (Hardcover): Rabbi Meir Kahane, Meir Kahane They Must Go (Hardcover)
Rabbi Meir Kahane, Meir Kahane
R699 R628 Discovery Miles 6 280 Save R71 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Trump's Vision of a Gated United States of America - A Male Thing (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print... Trump's Vision of a Gated United States of America - A Male Thing (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Abdo a Husseiny
R593 Discovery Miles 5 930 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Transnational Management - Identity and Nunchi in Multinational Corporations (Hardcover): Steffen Kromer Transnational Management - Identity and Nunchi in Multinational Corporations (Hardcover)
Steffen Kromer
R1,209 Discovery Miles 12 090 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Family Portraits with Saints - Hagiography, Sanctity, and Family in the Muslim World (Hardcover): Alexandre Papas, Catherine... Family Portraits with Saints - Hagiography, Sanctity, and Family in the Muslim World (Hardcover)
Alexandre Papas, Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen
R2,118 Discovery Miles 21 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Liberia, South Carolina - An African American Appalachian Community (Hardcover): John M. Coggeshall Liberia, South Carolina - An African American Appalachian Community (Hardcover)
John M. Coggeshall
R2,655 Discovery Miles 26 550 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In 2007, while researching mountain culture in upstate South Carolina, anthropologist John M. Coggeshall stumbled upon the small community of Liberia, in the Blue Ridge foothills. There he met Mable Owens Clarke and her family, the remaining members of a small African American community still living on land obtained immediately after the Civil War. This intimate history tells the story of five generations of the Clarke family and their friends and neighbors, chronicling their struggles through slavery, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, and the desegregation of the state. Through hours of interviews with Mable and her relatives, as well as friends and neighbors, Coggeshall presents an ethnographic history that allows a largely ignored community to speak and record their own history for the first time. This story sheds new light on the African American experience in Appalachia, and in it Coggeshall documents the community's 150-year history of resistance to white oppression, while offering a new way to understand the symbolic relationship between residents and the land they occupy, tying together family, memory, and narratives to explain this connection.

The Theory of the Leisure Class (Hardcover): Thorstein Veblen The Theory of the Leisure Class (Hardcover)
Thorstein Veblen
R767 Discovery Miles 7 670 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Selected Manchu Studies - Contributions to History, Literature, and Shamanism of the Manchus (Hardcover): Giovanni Stary Selected Manchu Studies - Contributions to History, Literature, and Shamanism of the Manchus (Hardcover)
Giovanni Stary; Edited by Hartmut Walravens
R2,807 Discovery Miles 28 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur der Turkvoelker was founded in 1980 by the Hungarian Turkologist Gyoergy Hazai. The series deals with all aspects of Turkic language, culture and history, and has a broad temporal and regional scope. It welcomes manuscripts on Central, Northern, Western and Eastern Asia as well as parts of Europe, and allows for a wide time span from the first mention in the 6th century to modernity and present.

Pastoralist Livelihoods in Asian Drylands - Environment, Governance and Risk (Hardcover): Ariell Ahearn Pastoralist Livelihoods in Asian Drylands - Environment, Governance and Risk (Hardcover)
Ariell Ahearn
R1,986 Discovery Miles 19 860 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Pastoralist Livelihoods in Asian Drylands brings together the work of scholars from across Asia to discuss the transforming boundaries, agencies and risks involved in pastoralist livelihoods. The authors, whose research sites range from Oman to Mongolia, Syria to Pakistan, share methodological commitment to long-term field research, participant observation and engagement with local communities. There is a focus on pastoralist engagements with governance institutions and the essays collectively argue that risk, which is often imagined in environmental terms for pastoralist peoples, often stems from government policies and political circumstances. The authors challenge common ecological approaches to understanding social change amongst pastoralist groups by focusing on the politics of resource distribution and control. Papers in the volume support an indigenous perspective on pastoralists and present academic perceptions and assessments of key issues in their local context.

Bushido - The Soul of Japan (Hardcover): Inazo Nitobe Bushido - The Soul of Japan (Hardcover)
Inazo Nitobe
R681 Discovery Miles 6 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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