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Performing maternities
By giving voice to these women and men, this book honours the diversity of maternities, and validates new academic and creative methods in figuring herstory as a patchwork intersection of voices across and through time – simultaneously acknowledging difference and diversity as well as commonality...
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Āl-ğābirīs genese und kritik der arabischen vernunft
The Moroccan philosopher and literary scholar Muḥammed ʿĀbid al-Ğābirī (1935–2010) is a pioneering example of how Arab intellectuals can create new spaces for critical thinking and the use of reason. This monograph gives the reader an insight into al-Ğābirī's intellectual thinking and the histor...
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I'm me
I’m Me explores how learning disabled and autistic artists create and communicate identity through theatre, dance, visual art, and creative practice. Based on an inclusive research project involving more than 100 artists across the UK, the book foregrounds disability-inclusive ways of knowing, ma...
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Tagging the world
Mobile and social media enable many new travel practices, but their scale and impact create challenges. Using wide-ranging case studies from the mediated world of travel, this book explores how locations are mined, tagged, and distributed via platforms demanding constant content, arguing that mor...
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Systematische theologie des korans
This book starts by examining the composition of the Quranic text. This is followed by an analysis of the structure of the first revelation in order to understand the foundations of the new religion. Finally, the relationship between revelation and politics is defined using the pair of metaphors ...
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Digital island
A critical account of how Ireland became a key infrastructural hub for platform capitalism, examining how digital platforms reshape states, media systems, governance, labour, and lived experience under ecosystem-scale digital capitalism.
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Unpublished bo-fragments in transliteration v
This volume continues the systematic edition of the unpublished Bo-texts deposited in the Museum of Ancient Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara. Fragments from two hundred tablets are presented in photographs, transliterations, and succinct philological notes.
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Fan phenomena: sherlock holmes
Few could have predicted the enduring fascination with the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. From the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the recent BBC series that has made a heart-throb out of Benedict Cumberbatch, the sleuth has been much a part of the British and global cultural legacy fr...
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We europeans?
We Europeans? explores the relationship between media and identity along the fault lines and fissures of the shifting ethnicities, religions, tastes, generations and languages that make up contemporary Europe. Addressing topics such as film, television, public monuments and the press, contributor...
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On the origin of tourist experiences
Drawing on four millennia of travel narratives, this book examines the enduring fascination with travel from philosophical, historical, and anthropological perspectives. It argues that, despite its contested impacts, tourism reflects a persistent human impulse rooted in the long history of journe...
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Decolonizing ourselves
Tracing a life shaped by movement between cultures, this book combines autoethnography and analysis of modern colonialism to examine inequality across contexts. It reflects on personal and structural change, inviting readers to consider their own positions within enduring systems of injustice.
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Inplacement
Bringing together international theoretical and ethnographic perspectives, this volume examines individuals within socio-cultural contexts shaped by global crises. Drawing on Covid-19 lockdown experiences, it considers in-placement, situates epidemics within the risk field, and questions whether ...
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The origins of cultural customs
Examining the origins of a wide variety of cultural conventions, including calendar customs, folklore, annual holidays, and ethnic identity, this work uses a critical lens to common perceptions and misconceptions.
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Rebel valley
Focusing on the No TAV movement in Italy’s Valsusa, this book examines long-term resistance to infrastructure development. Drawing on anthropology, political theory, and geography, it situates territorial struggles across Europe and argues for territorio as a basis for alternative political futures.
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Anthropological handbook of mobility
The Anthropological Handbook of Mobility takes stock of the dispersed body of anthropological work on mobilities, as both an object of study and an analytical lens. From an anthropological point of view, this guide provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to mobility studies for stude...
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Israel numismatic research volume 20
The focus of Israel Numismatic Research is on coinages circulating in the southern Levant, from antiquity through to the modern era. Articles on medals, tokens, metrology, sealings and minor arts related to numismatics are also considered for inclusion, as well as book reviews.
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Materializing migrants’ emotions
By tracing the stories and emotions that emerge through the objects with which migrants associate, this book offers a deep ethnographic account of the social and cultural life of Syrian migrants in Turkey, mapping the emotional landscape of displacement.
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Digital flâneurs
This ethnography explores how young people in Vienna inhabit digital time and space amid boredom, unemployment, migration, school pressures and fragmented life trajectories. It reveals how digital devices are entangled with experiences of sociality, waiting, and boredom, offering an alternative t...
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Jane ellen harrison
Jane Ellen Harrison transformed the study of Greek religion with her discovery of a religious system predating that of the Olympic gods and goddesses familiar to the modern world. This book introduces her work and ideas, which have influenced and profoundly shaped scholarship, primarily in the cl...
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Weather signs
Drawing on ethnography, historical sources, and folklore, this book examines how fishermen and coastal communities in Japan read winds, clouds, seas, animals, and celestial signs to anticipate change and manage risk.
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Becoming advocate
Tracing the emergence of autism in Portugal, from its early recognition in child psychiatry to the rise of parent-led advocacy and digital activism, this book examines how families confront inadequate services, challenge outdated paradigms and advocate for educational and social reforms.
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Controlled economic evolution
Every nation strives to build a creative, innovative economy, yet only a few achieve a genuine economic breakthrough. This is why such successes are called "economic miracles". This book argues that there are no miracles: success depends on how a country's social institutions are configured. It o...
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Race and representation in the imperial design of the modern jew
This book examines how European imperialism shaped the racialization and representation of Jews as both White and not quite White, exploring diaspora, Holocaust memory, Europe-Israel relations, and geopolitical implications.
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The phantom hitchhiker
A cultural history of the phantom hitchhiker motif across oral tradition, literature, and modern media. Centred on twentieth-century Italy and shaped by a distinctive dialogue with Japanese ghostlore, the book explores how this enduring tale reflects shifting cultural imaginaries.
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The folklore of devon
Devon has a long and rich folkloric heritage which has been extensively collected over many years, but never before drawn together into one serious study. This book consolidates more than a century of research by eminent Devon folklorists into one valuable volume.
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William morris and john ruskin
Includes articles first published in The Journal of William Morris Studies and new pieces written for this book. Subjects include promotion of craft skills and meaningful work, division of labour, education, environment, art and architecture and the contrasts between Ruskin’s (1819-1900) Tory pat...
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Child and adolescent migration, mental health, and language
This timely book focuses on migration and the socio-affective significance of language. It examines how this influences children’s and adolescents’ development, subjectivity, identifications, and identity formations.
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The exeter companion to fairies, nereids, trolls and other social supernatural beings
For centuries, Europeans believed in a parallel world of the ‘social supernatural’. The social supernatural realm mirrored and interacted with our own, causing disasters and providing fertility. Bringing together eighteen experts, this book explores how diverse cultures across Europe envisioned t...
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Mermaids
Women with fish tails are among the oldest and most popular of mythological creatures. This book presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and beautifully illustrated study of mermaids and their influence on Western culture. The roots of mermaid mythology and its metamorphosis through the centu...
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Ontographies
Traditional models of representation are in crisis, unable to account for the flat, participatory, and event-driven nature of contemporary media-driven existence. This book proposes a radical shift, moving beyond this crisis by embracing a philosophy of immanence, and offering a vital new perspec...
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The folklore of cornwall
Piskies, mermaids, giants, and a revenant bridegroom: the stuff of legend. In the hands of skilled storytellers – the famed droll tellers of Cornwall – the result was magical. Considered in the context of narratives throughout Northern Europe, enchantment can be understood as well as enjoyed in t...
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Narratives and spaces
This book examines how photography, the railroad, electricity, space flight and the computer became central, yet often contradictory, parts of the way Americans construct and narrate their culture. This is a significant contribution to American cultural history, and like David Nye's previous book...
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The south-west and the sea
This volume collects the papers given at a seminar concerning the maritime history of the South-West of England, which took place at Dartington Hall in October 1967
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Exeter excavations: the guildhall site
Redevelopment of this open space in the middle of Exeter gave archaeologists an opportunity to explore the earliest settlement. Did it have its origin as a major Roman fort? There is little evidence of occupation before the Roman conquest but substantial evidence from the first century AD.
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Italian cityscapes
This book examines the transformation of the Italian city from the 1950s to the present with particular attention to questions of identity, migration and changes in urban culture. It shows how major demographic movements and cultural shifts threw into relief new conceptions of the city in which ...
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Exeter in roman times
In its final form, Roman Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum) was a fine walled city nearly 100 acres in extent and entered by four gates. Streets were fronted by shops and houses built of stone or half-timbered. In the centre were public buildings, the Forum and the Baths. This booklet tries to explain how...
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The green children of woolpit
This book introduces the story of the ‘Green Children’ and how it has been interpreted, retold, and reworked. Analysing the two accounts, and offering fresh translations from the Latin originals, it considers what the historians tell us happened, and then the children’s own story of their homeland.
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Materiality of air
Exploring air, airborne phenomena and elemental representation, this book dissects the materiality of air, which comes to the fore ever more vigorously given the ongoing environmental and health crises. Understanding air’s materiality is essential to outline clear solutions to these challenges.
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Fairy encounters in medieval england
Strange tales from many medieval genres prove that experience, not fiction, underlay fairy beliefs. Supernatural beings took on similar forms whether they were supposed to be ghosts or goblins, saints or demons. First-person oral testimony is backed up by place-names which show how wells, pools a...
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The boggart
The little-studied and once much-feared boggart is a supernatural being from the north of England. Using long-forgotten sources as well as social media surveys and personal interviews, this ground-breaking book reveals that almost everything we thought we knew about the boggart is wrong.
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Algerian women and diasporic experience
This book uses the narratives of women who fled Algeria in the 1990s—known as the ‘Black Decade’—to offer a more intimate understanding of the violence women face in times of conflict, and the function of diasporic networks in rebuilding their lives.
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Gulf women’s lives
This edited volume investigates how Gulf women negotiate spaces of dissent through their writing. The focus on women’s narratives offers critical perspectives on how Gulf women construct themselves as gendered selves and authors, how they exist in public and private spaces, and how voice and agen...
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Penal discipline, reformatory projects and the english prison commission, 1895-1939
In the early 1890s there was a prolonged criticism of conditions in English prisons and in 1895 new policies of relaxation of severity and commitment to individual reformation were recommended by the Gladstone Committee on prisons. This study examines the ideological foundations and the operation...
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Cornish studies volume 17
The seventeenth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.
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New arabian studies volume 5
New Arabian Studies is an international journal covering a wide spectrum of topics including geography, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture, language, dialect, sociology, documents, literature and religion.
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Our multispecies futures
An urgent call for a paradigm-shift away from human exceptionalism, addressing interconnected global crises of climate change, species extinction and cultural conflict. Proposes the Cybercene as a framework to study how digital technologies accelerate control over all life, while revealing pragma...
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The exeter companion to changeling lore
The Exeter Companion to Changeling Lore is the first multi-author study of changelings and the first to centre on West Eurasia and the Mediterranean. Challenging orthodoxy, it shows that changelings are largely restricted to this area and that our changeling records are older than has been apprec...
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The boggart sourcebook
This volume provides the three corpora on which the associated monograph The Boggart: Folklore, History, Place-Names and Dialect is based. Offering detailed insights into a ground-breaking research method, it will be of particular interest to folklorists, historians and dialect scholars.
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Arthurian sites in the west
A completely new, revised and enlarged edition of this classic survey of monuments in South-West England associated with the stories of King Arthur and Knights of the Round Table: the castle of Tintagel, the great hill-fort of Cadbury in south Somerset, the ruined abbey at Glastonbury and Castle ...
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New directions in celtic studies
The primary aim of this book is to focus on contemporary issues and to promote interdisciplinary approaches within the subject. Written by international scholars and practitioners in fields such as folklore, ethnomusicology, art history, religious studies, tourism and education, the book brings t...
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The radiant hour
This book of interdisciplinary essays explores how youth has been represented in American culture. The book focuses on familiar literary, film and television texts set within a framework of ideas drawn from cultural and social theory, presenting innovative and challenging analyses of new and clas...
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Representing others
Representing Others examines a diverse range of cultural forms in which white novelists, sculptors, diarists, photographers, ethnographers, travel writers and filmmakers have depicted Native American, African, Pacific and Australian Aboriginal peoples.
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Cornish studies volume 12
The twelfth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.
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The history of cornish tradition
Examines the rich tradition of the West Country, providing a definitive historical analysis of how the region’s legends, language, and customs have transformed over the last four centuries. Traces the evolution of Cornwall’s most famous stories, from Ann Jefferies and her fairies to the birth of ...
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Turkish drama serials
Examines the reach and reception of Turkish drama serials in the Middle East and Latin America, exploring what it is that makes Turkish television so successful as entertainment in places as diverse as Qatar, Chile and Israel.
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New arabian studies volume 1
New Arabian Studies is an international journal covering a wide spectrum of topics including geography, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture, language, dialect, sociology, documents, literature and religion.
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New arabian studies volume 6
New Arabian Studies is an international journal covering a wide spectrum of topics including geography, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture, language, dialect, sociology, documents, literature and religion.
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New arabian studies volume 4
New Arabian Studies is an international journal covering a wide spectrum of topics including geography, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture, language, dialect, sociology, documents, literature and religion.
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William morris
This well illustrated book celebrates every aspect of the wide-ranging achievements of William Morris - writer, designer, cultural critic, revolutionary socialist - with particular emphasis on their relevance to our own times. The book makes available up-to-date Morris scholarship in accessible f...
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New arabian studies volume 2
New Arabian Studies is an international journal covering a wide spectrum of topics including geography, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture, language, dialect, sociology, documents, literature and religion.
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Cornish studies volume 10
The tenth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.
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Cornish studies volume 13
The thirteenth volume in this acclaimed paperback series includes articles on Cornish emigration, Cornish literature, the novelist Virginia Woolf, the poet Jack Clemo, Cornish mining history, Cornish folklore, the medieval Cornish-language miracle plays, and William Scawen: the seventeenth-centur...
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New arabian studies volume 3
New Arabian Studies is an international journal covering a wide spectrum of topics including geography, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture, language, dialect, sociology, documents, literature and religion.
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Cornish studies volume 9
The ninth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.
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Cornish studies volume 11
The eleventh volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.
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Traffication
The trillions of miles we drive each year are just as destructive to our natural environment as any of the better known threats, such as habitat loss or intensive farming. Traffication does for road traffic what Silent Spring did for agrochemicals: awakening us from our collective road-blindness ...
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The victory monument of augustus at nicopolis, volume iii
The third volume of The Victory Monument of Augustus at Nicopolis offers a fully documented and extensively illustrated presentation of the Monument and brings the trilogy to completion with a synthetic and scholarly assessment of its place in the history of art and in the ideological formation o...
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Errant mobilities
In Errant mobilities, Aguiar examines representations of contemporary Mediterranean Sea migration in documentaries, visual art and literature. She interprets these cultural works to mark a concept she calls 'errant mobility,' a form of movement challenging conventional ideas of migration and mob...
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Fan phenomena: star trek
In this anthology, a panel of rising and established popular culture scholars examines the phenomenon of Star Trek fan culture and its most compelling dimensions. The resulting collection is both critical and respectful, capturing the practices and attitudes of a fan culture that is arguably the ...
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Bodies, gods and other imponderables
A dialogue between a philosopher and an anthropologist, one a specialist in ancient Greek and Chinese thought, the other in Amazonian Indigenous peoples. Lloyd and Vilaça revise our understanding of ideas about the body and its antitheses, dreams, sickness, gods, and the narratives and myths whic...
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Anthropology and travel writing, 19th–21st century
From the nineteenth century onward, there have been gaps between travel writing and anthropological sciences, but also commonalities and continuous interactions in the anglophone world. Through a variety of case studies, Anthropology and Travel Writing follows the shift from armchair speculation ...
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