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Cultures and societies in transition
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International Seminar on Cultures and Societies in Tradition: India, Russia, and other CIS Countries (2008 Centre of Russian Studies, JNU) |
Contributed articles presented at the International Seminar on Cultures and Societies in Tradition: India, Russia, and other CIS Countries from February 8-10, 2008 at Centre of Russian Studies, Schoo… |
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Heritage, memory & identity
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Helmut K. Anheier,Yudhishthir Raj Isar |
"Heritage, memory, and identity are closely connected keywords of our time, each endowed with considerable rhetorical power. Different human groups define certain objects and practices as 'heritage';… |
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Bastard
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José F. A. Oliver,André Rösler,Lars Harmsen,Sudabeh Mohafez,Christian Ernst,Ruediger John,Uli Weiss,Selim Özdoğan |
What happens when the world fuses into a global village, when cultures mix, traditions dissolve, and something new arises? In search of cultural identity and cultural bastardizing, the authors let th… |
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The Seventeenth Century and the dawn of the global world
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Timothy Brook |
Offers an understanding of Vermeer's paintings and of the era they portray. |
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Globalisation and its discontents
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Stan Smith |
"Unlike most readings of globalisation, these essays depict not an irresistible juggernaut but a process that, in generating its own resistances, opens up the possibility of an alternative world orde… |
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The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations
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Tsedal Neeley |
1 online resource (vii, 188 pages) |
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Universalism without Uniformity
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Usha Menon,Julia Cassaniti |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
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Traveling Back
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Susan McWilliams |
xii, 217 pages ; 25 cm |
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The Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing
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Debbie Lisle |
To what extent do best-selling travel books, such as those by Paul Theroux, Bill Bryson, Bruce Chatwin and Michael Palin, tell us as much about world politics as newspaper articles, policy documents … |
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Global Linguistic Flows
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Awad Ibrahim |
"The book engages complex processes such as transnationalism, (im)migration, cultural flow, and diaspora in an effort to expand current theoretical approaches to language choice and agency, speech st… |
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