With 600 signed, alphabetically organized articles covering the entirety of folklore in South Asia, this new resource includes countries and regions, ethnic groups, religious concepts and practices, artistic genres, holidays and traditions, and many other concepts. A preface introduces the material, while a comprehensive index, cross-references, and black and white illustrations round out the work. The focus on south Asia includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, with short survey articles on Tibet, Bhutan, Sikkim, and various diaspora communities. This unique reference will be invaluable for collections serving students, scholars, and the general public.

This book provides an accessible introduction to a wide range of concerns that have preoccupied historians over time. Global in scope, it explores historical perspectives not only from historiography itself, but from related areas such as literature, sociology, geography and anthropology which have entered into productive dialogues with history. Clearly written and accessible, this third edition is fully revised with an updated structure and new areas of historical enquiry and themes added, including the history of emotions, video history and global pandemics. In all of this, the authors have attempted to think beyond the boundaries of the West and consider varied approaches to history. They do so by engaging with theoretical perspectives and methodologies that have provided the foundation for good historical practice. The authors analyse how historians can improve their skills by learning about the discipline of historiography, that is, how historians go about the task of exploring the past and determining where the line separating history from other disciplines, such as sociology or geography, runs. History: An Introduction to Theory and Method 3ed is an essential resource for students of historical theory and method working at both an introductory and more advanced level.

This book provides an accessible introduction to a wide range of concerns that have preoccupied historians over time. Global in scope, it explores historical perspectives not only from historiography itself, but from related areas such as literature, sociology, geography and anthropology which have entered into productive dialogues with history. Clearly written and accessible, this third edition is fully revised with an updated structure and new areas of historical enquiry and themes added, including the history of emotions, video history and global pandemics. In all of this, the authors have attempted to think beyond the boundaries of the West and consider varied approaches to history. They do so by engaging with theoretical perspectives and methodologies that have provided the foundation for good historical practice. The authors analyse how historians can improve their skills by learning about the discipline of historiography, that is, how historians go about the task of exploring the past and determining where the line separating history from other disciplines, such as sociology or geography, runs. History: An Introduction to Theory and Method 3ed is an essential resource for students of historical theory and method working at both an introductory and more advanced level.

With 600 signed, alphabetically-organized articles covering the entirety of folklore in south Asia, this new resource includes countries and regions, ethnic groups, religious concepts and practices, artistic genres, holidays and traditions, and many other concepts. A preface introduces the material, while a comprehensive index, cross-references, and black and white illustrations round out the work. The focus on south Asia includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, with short survey articles on Tibet, Bhutan, Sikkim and various diaspora communities. This unique reference will be invaluable for collections serving students, scholars, and the general reader.

"Das Heinerle," die Hauptfigur dieses Buches, erlebt nach den ersten Jahren einer wohlbehuteten Kindheit mit seiner Mutter den Angriff auf Dresden im Februar 1945 und bei Kriegsende auf der Flucht durch das damalige Sudentenland die schrecklichsten Ereignisse, die sein weiteres Leben entscheidend mit pragen. Von ganz besonderer Bedeutung ist die kriegsbedingte Abwesenheit des Vaters, die das Verhaltnis der allein erziehenden Mutter zum Sohn pragt. Mit der Zeit wird aufgrund ihrer Hilflosigkeit in der Erziehung und dem taglichen Umgang mit dem Heranwachsenden ihr Verhaltnis immer problematischer und endet in der emotionalen Katastrophe. Dieses Thema wird in dem Buch eindringlich dargestellt. Der Autor beschreibt nicht nur ausserst realistisch die grauenvollen Geschehnisse wahrend der Flucht bei Kriegsende, er vermittelt auch mit viel tiefgrundigem Humor und Sarkasmus die vielseitigen Facetten des taglichen Daseins eines Heranwachsenden in der korrupten Nachkriegszeit, sowie Einblicke in die damaligen Vorstellungen von Moral, Ethik und Erotik