Lengel takes the reader on a journey from India and Romania, where women preserve cultural rituals through mourning songs, to South Africa, where the body is a site of struggle for meaning and power in contemporary dance.
Much has been written about the Muslim Murid movement and its leader Shamil, who resisted the Tsarist Russian expansion into Chechan and Daghestan for more than quarter of a century.
Tale of Four Indian Cities presents a vivid picture of how the British political regime reorganized the structure of the Indian economy to suit its own objectives.
After assuming power in 1980, the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) has sought to control the narrative of the struggle for liberation from colonialism, to the exclusion of other players such as the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU).
This book examines the increasing influence of European football in African societies, considering the processes and significance of being a fan and what this means for the wider globalisation of popular culture.
This resource helps readers navigate and better understand the religious, cultural, and political impact of American views of religious faith and scientific inquiry.
En 2002, un grupo de profesores de semiótica del departamento de Humanidades de la Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano empezó a conformar un grupo de estudio dedicado a analizar diferentes facetas de la denominada ciencia de los signos .
Niñas, niños y adolescentes en el posconflicto colombiano es el resultado de un conjunto de investigaciones que contribuyen a la construcción de paz y aportan al debate público sobre la importancia de las niñas, niños y adolescentes como sujetos de derechos y miembros de una sociedad reconciliada.
Now reissued with a new introduction, Discovering Islam is a classic account of how the history of Islam and its relations with the West have shaped Islamic society today.
This book is a first-of-its-kind critical interdisciplinary introduction to the economic, political, cultural, and technological dimensions of work in the rapidly growing digital media and entertainment industries (DMEI).
More African women than men become entrepreneurs, with women often balancing time caring for their households with small enterprises such as setting up shops in front of their homes, renting market stalls, or setting up hairstyling businesses.
This volume includes selected papers (in English and Chinese) from an international conference held in Beijing in 2001, the year that marked the 400th anniversary of Matteo Ricci's arrival in Beijing.
Written by Indian experts and strategic thinkers, this book comprehensively analyses the many themes which have come to characterise the Chinese Dream in the "e;third era"e; and also examines the narrative of success as well as risks and challenges facing China in various fields.
Named a Best Book of the Year by Scientific American and The Economist The riveting, untold true story of the botanists at the world's first seed bank who made ';the mad, heroic decision during the siege of Leningrad to guard biodiversity at the cost of human life' (The New York Times, Editors' Choice)from the award-winning author of The Island of Extraordinary Captives.
Durante la dictadura civico militar del general Augusto Pinochet Ugarte opero una agrupacion ilicita organizada por el y por oficiales de su circulo de mayor confianza, acusada de cometer graves ilicitos, como el secuestro y asesinato del coronel Gerardo Huber y el trafico de armas a Croacia, entre otros delitos, orientados al enriquecimiento indebido.
The challenge of disentangling political communication processes and their effects has grown with the complexity of the new political information environment.
