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Guardians of the Buddha's Home(2019) STARLING, JESSICADraws on nearly three years of ethnographic research to provide a comprehensive view of Jodo Shinshu (True Pure Land) temple life with temple wives (known as bomori, or temple guardians) at its centre. Throughout, Jessica Starling focuses on “domestic relVezava: Trda79,34 € -
Ceramics in Circumpolar Prehistory(2019)The book is for archaeologists interested in the adaptations and social lives of people in the prehistoric Circumpolar North. It is also targeted at archaeologists and historians interested in the history of technologies, specifically pottery cooking techVezava: Trda160,51 € -
Constructive Mind(2017) WAGONER, BRADY (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY, AALBORG UNIVERSITY, DENMARK)The Constructive Mind presents the life, work and legacy of Frederic Bartlett (1886–1969), one of the leading psychologists of the twentieth century. Wagoner describes Bartlett's fundamental ideas - such as constructive remembering, imagining, thinking, sVezava: Trda131,25 € -
Language in Louisiana(2019)Presents the state of languages and of linguistic research on topics such as indigenous language documentation and revival; variation in educational opportunities in Louisiana's French varieties; current research on rural and urban dialects of English; anVezava: Mehka58,72 € -
Frontiers of Belonging - The Education of Unaccompanied Refugee Youth(2022) ANNIKA LEMSVezava: Mehka39,90 € -
Gift of Narrative in Medieval England(2021) PERKINS, NICHOLASThis critical study of medieval English romances uses ideas from anthropology and critical theories of the gift to shed light on narratives ranging from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. Written in a style accessible for students as well as scholarsVezava: Trda77,52 € -
Stories from a Migrant City(2020) ROGALY, BENTaking a biographical approach, the book explores the causes and consequences of moving or staying put in the context of class inequality and racisms, and looks for commonalities between people often seen as irredeemably divided. -- .Vezava: Mehka35,63 € -
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How to Be Animal(2022) CHALLENGER, MELANIECombining popular science, history and moral philosophy, this is a wide-ranging and radical take on the human story and what it means for us todayVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Preventing Dementia?(2020)The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that, through early detection and by controlling several risk factors, a prevention of dementia is possible. This volume looks at how this new conceptualization ignoVezava: Trda184,32 € -
Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi(2020) ARJANA, SOPHIA ROSEHow Eastern religions are commodified in the modern world, and why it mattersVezava: Mehka35,64 € -
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Greek Language, Italian Landscape(2021) PELLEGRINO, MANUELA, FELLOW AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY’S CENTER FOR HELLENIC STUDIESGreek Language, Italian Landscape traces the transformation of language ideologies and practices of Griko, a variety of Modern Greek used in the Italian province of Lecce, and proposes the concept of “the cultural temporality of language” to describe howVezava: Mehka33,35 € -
Caravan of Martyrs(2017) EDWARDS, DAVID B.What compels a person to strap a vest loaded with explosives onto his body and blow himself up in a crowded street? In this book, th author argues that we need to understand the rise of suicide bombing in relation to the cultural beliefs and ritual practiVezava: Trda40,39 €











