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Slavery and Other Forms of Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies
(2022)
This volume approaches the phenomenon of slavery and other types of strong asymmetrical dependencies from two methodologically and theoretically distinct perspectives: semantics and lexical fields. Detailed analyses promise ...
Accidental Archivism
(2023)
In the digital media ecology, archives are changing. Artists, curators, critics and scholars assume the role of accidental archivists. They shape cinema’s futures by salvaging precarious repositories and making them matter ...
Kleinformate im Umbruch
(2023)
Gerade in Krisenmomenten treten kleine Formen und Formate in stabilisierender oder mobilisierender Funktion auf. In der Zwischenkriegszeit erscheinen sie innerhalb verschiedener medialer Konstellationen – wie etwa in ...
Bon and Naxi Manuscripts
(2023)
This collective volume offers an insight into the Bon and Naxi manuscript cultures and their possible interconnections. This is the first primarily object-based study to deal with Bon and Naxi cultural history, book ...
The Ancient World Revisited: Material Dimensions of Written Artefacts
(2024)
Written artefacts, that is, manuscripts and inscriptions, are traditionally studied because of their texts. Material aspects of these artefacts have become increasingly important, enriching the study of ancient history in ...
Lascivia mascherata
(2022)
Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion Volume 3, 2024
(2024)
The Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion is an annual collection of double-blind peer-reviewed articles that seeks to provide a broad international arena for an intellectual exchange of ideas between the disciplines ...
Social Networks and Health Inequalities
(2022)
This open access book applies insights from the network perspective in health research to explain the reproduction of health inequalities. It discusses the extant literature in this field that strongly correlates differences ...
Who Owns the Images?
(2021)
Digitization carries the utopian promise of archival access unlimited by constraints of space and time, and with it, of new forms of research and historiographies. In reality, digital image archives pose a complex set of ...
Infrastrukturen
(2019)
Between Manuscript and Print
(2023)
A cross-cultural, comparative view on the transition from a predominant ‘culture of handwriting’ to a predominant ‘culture of print’ in the late medieval and early modern periods is provided here, combining research on ...
The Notion of »holy« in Ancient Armenian Texts from the Fifth Century CE
(2022)
Religious studies have long discussed the comparative notion of »holy« beyond religious, cultural, and linguistic boundaries. In this book, Thomas Jurczyk conducts a diachronic comparison of the meaning and application of ...
Wege der Kooperation im Kontext inklusiver Bildung
(2022)
To cope with increasing school inclusion processes, (multi-)professional cooperation in inclusive schools is considered a central factor. Current studies show that school cooperation needs to be further developed and ...
A Touch of Doubt
(2021)
Scepticism claims that there is always something that slips through the epistemologist’s grasp.Drawing on the tradition of scepticism within continental philosophy, this volume discusses how the sense of touch uncovers ...
Social Protection in Latin America
(2024)
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of social protection in Latin America, its origins, institutions, and outcomes. The chapters are organised in three groups. The earlier chapters discuss in turn appropriate methods, ...
Action-Related Representations
(2020)
Theories of grounded cognition state that there is a meaningful connection between action and cognition. Although these claims are widely accepted, the nature and structure of this connection is far from clear and is still ...
Understanding the Generality of Mathematical Statements
(2023)
In this open access book Milena Damrau investigates the understanding of generality of mathematical statements in first-year university students and its relation to other proof-related activities. Through an experimental ...
Rest in Plastic
(2024)
In Peki, an Ewe town in the Ghanaian Volta Region, death is a matter of public concern. By means of funeral banners printed with synthetic ink on PVC, public lyings in state, cemented graves and wreaths made from plastic, ...
Geduldete Fremde
(2023)
Guides of the Atlas
(2023)
How do digital media technologies shape or restructure social practice? And which transitions and demarcations of different forms of publicness arise in this context? Simon Holdermann examines this question in his ethnography ...
Kamera-Ethnographie
(2023)
Haus – Geschlecht – Sicherheit
(2023)
In the early modern period, security was perceived much more broadly than it is today. Security was closely linked to social order and stability. The heteronormative gender order played a central role in this and was ...
On the Way in Upper Mesopotamia
(2023)
Cultural Studies > Department of Ancient and Modern Cultures > Middle Eastern Archeology
Schule und Unterricht im digitalen Wandel
(2023)
The volume "Schule und Unterricht im digitalen Wandel" (School and Teaching in the Digital Transformation) explores perspectives of reconstructive-sensual research for the study of school and teaching in the digital ...
Data Management for Social Scientists
(2023)
The 'data revolution' offers many new opportunities for research in the social sciences. Increasingly, social and political interactions can be recorded digitally, leading to vast amounts of new data available for research. ...
The Evolution of Young People’s Spatial Knowledge
(2024)
Young people imagine, perceive, experience, talk about, use, and produce space in a wide variety of ways. In doing so, they acquire and produce stocks of spatial knowledge. A quite dynamic and ever-changing process by ...
Misunderstandings
(2023)
What do we expect when we say something to someone, and what do they expect when they hear it? When is a conversation successful? The book considers a wide set of two-person conversations, and a bit of game theory, to show ...
The Scholia on Cicero’s Speeches
(2023)
The ancient commentaries and scholia to Cicero’s speeches have hitherto received relatively little scholarly attention. This volume is dedicated to Asconius’ first-century commentary and the corpora of the scholia stemming ...
Game | World | Architectonics
(2021)
In its current digital, pictorial and viral ubiquity, architecture no longer has to be bodily present, but has a mediating role. As a medial hinge it folds different disciplines of media and art onto the realm of the ...
The Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East, 12–13th Centuries
(2025)
This is the second in a series of sourcebooks charting the reception of Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d.1037) in the Islamic East (from Syria to central Asia) in the 12th-13th centuries CE. Moving on from the metaphysical and ...
Moving Beyond the WEIRD
(2025)
In this open-access book, Sarah Rüller offers a comprehensive exploration of the complexities and nuances of conducting Western digital research in non-Western contexts, focusing on a case study in the High Atlas Mountains ...
Caucasian Albania
(2023)
The handbook illustrates the present state of knowledge on the region of Albania in the Southern Caucasus and its inhabitants with a focus on its late antique and medieval history, its language and its written heritage, ...
Öffentliche Räume in Pompeji
(2023)
A Mist Connection
(2023)
In 1783, an eruption occurred in Iceland. Soon after, a dry fog descended upon mainland Europe. These two events long went unconnected. "A Mist Connection" documents the Laki eruption and its consequences for Iceland and ...
Gestaltungsmetrik
(2025)
This treatise introduces Gestaltungsmetrik as a con¬ceptual framework for studying and designing infor¬mal spaces, from image and Gestaltung to anatomy and materials. In mathematics and physics, the nexus between movement ...
Intentional Invisibilization in Modern Asian History: Concealing and Self-Concealed Agents
(2025)
Concealing Agents addresses the invisibilization and concealment of people, knowledge and ideas in history and historiography. With studies ranging from modern to contemporary history, language and translation studies, and ...
Transforming Spirit Bodies
(2025)
This edited volume is a comprehensive exploration of the bodies and embodiments of spirits, their (im-)materialities, and their bodily transformations. It focuses on the embodied experiences of asymmetrical dependencies ...
The Biological Foundation of Sustainability
(2025)
The ongoing climate change, rampant biodiversity loss, omnipresent pollution and waste accumulation around the world can no longer be overlooked or denied. As a consequence, “sustainability” has become a buzzword – but ...
Finnische Musikfachsprache
(2025)
Filtern
(2025)