Business & Social Sciences
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Flattering Alliances: Scandinavia, Diplomacy & the Austrian-French Balance of Power, 1648-1740 [Hardback]
Peter Lindstrom (Author)
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ISBN: 9789187351075
Published by : Nordic Academic Press
At the same time as Denmark and Sweden were locked in a battle for supremacy in northern Europe, several other countries around Europe engaged in struggles for dominance. One conflict that had profound impact on much of the Continent as well as Sc... .... Learn More -
Situating Child Consumption: Rethinking Values & Notions About Children, Childhood & Consumption [Hardback]
Johanna Sjöberg (Editor)
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ISBN: 9789185509706
Published by : Nordic Academic Press
How do children understand issues of work, marketing, money and scarcity? In Situating Child Consumption the contributors offer a provocative stance rethinking values and notions of children, childhood and consumption. The authors investi... .... Learn More -
Medicine, Morality & Political Culture: Legislation on Venereal Disease in Five Northern European Countries, c.1870-1995 [Paperback]
Ida Blom (Author)
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ISBN: 9789185509737
Published by : Nordic Academic Press
How did governments in the past act to stop the spread of venereal disease? Did legislation reflect medical opinion, and how did it treat the interests represented by women's or homosexual organisations? How can similarities and differences in nat... .... Learn More -
Building Peace, Creating Conflict?: Conflictual Dimensions of Local & International Peacebuilding [Hardback]
Hanne Fjelde (Editor)
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ISBN: 9789185509607
Published by : Nordic Academic Press
One of the most significant challenges facing the international community today is how to secure stability and rebuild societies emerging from civil wars. International peace-building missions have been deployed in a range of countries emerging fr... .... Learn More -
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner: Feasting Rituals in the Prehistoric Societies of Europe and the Near East [Paperback]
Gonzalo Aranda Jiménez (Editor); Sandra Montón-Subias (Editor); Margarita Sánchez Romero (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781842179857
Published by : Oxbow Books
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner examines how specific types of food were prepared and eaten during feasting rituals in prehistoric Europe and the Near East. Such rituals allowed people to build and maintain their power and prestige and to maintain... .... Learn More -
Archaeomalacology Revisited: Non-dietary use of molluscs in archaeological settings [Paperback]
Canan Cakirlar (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781842174364
Published by : Oxbow Books
The past decade has witnessed a remarkable momentum in the advancement of archaeomalacological research but there is still a lot of room for progress. These ten papers are the second published proceedings of the archaeomalacology sessions organ... .... Learn More -
Ethnozooarchaeology: The Present and Past of Human-Animal Relationships [Hardback]
Umberto Albarella (Editor); Angela Trentacoste (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781842179970
Published by : Oxbow Books
This book examines how the study of human-animal relations can help us interpret archaeological evidence. An international range of contributors examines fishing, hunting and husbandry, slaughtering and butchering, ceremonial and ritual practic... .... Learn More -
Global Care Work: Gender & Migration in Nordic Societies [Hardback]
Lise Widding Isaksen (Editor)
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ISBN: 9789185509485
Published by : Nordic Academic Press
This is a unique study of gender and migration. Written by researchers from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, this anthology brings the Nordic example to the international debate on how globalisation affects and commercialises women's tradition... .... Learn More -
Anthropological Approaches to Zooarchaeology: Colonialism, Complexity and Animal Transformations [Hardback]
Douglas V. Campana (Editor); Pamela Crabtree (Editor); S. D. deFrance (Editor); Justin Lev-Tov (Editor); A. M. Choyke (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781842173909
Published by : Oxbow Books
Animals in complex human societies are often both meal and symbol, related to everyday practice and ritual. People in such societies may be characterized as having unequal access to such resources, or else the meaning of animals may differ for... .... Learn More -
Spas: The Cultural Economy of Hospitality, Magic & the Senses [Hardback]
Tom O'Dell (Author)
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ISBN: 9789185509355
Published by : Nordic Academic Press
Recent years have seen a rapidly growing hotel business built around health and well-being. Leisurely experiences are packaged, staged and consumed as commercial commodities - the tourist complexes have become part of the so called "cultural econo... .... Learn More
