Funded publications
Now showing items 361-380 of 575
Ester Boserup’s Legacy on Sustainability
(2014)
Arising from a scientific conference marking the 100th anniversary of her birth, this book honors the life and work of the social scientist and diplomat Ester Boserup, who blazed new trails in her interdisciplinary approach ...
The Art of Prehistoric Textile Making
(2016)
Textiles, textile production and clothing were essentials of living in prehistory, locked into the system of society at every level – social, economic and even religious.
Textile crafts not only produced essential goods ...
Das Heroon von Trysa, 13 A
(2016)
The study examines the friezes of the Heroon of Trysa in context of Lycian culture and society and interprets the selection of the picture themes. In a very exceptional way the friezes visualize Greek, Lycian and Persian ...
biografiA. Lexikon österreichischer Frauen, Band 1
(2016)
biografiA gives on the basis of selected 6.367 biographies an overview over many centuries of austrian female history and various insights into the cultural and social contexts of the concerned eras both for experts and ...
The Inscription in the ’Du khang of Dgung ’phur Monastery, Spu rang (Mnga’ ris)
(2016)
This study essentially provides the edition and annotated translation of a historical inscription in the assembly hall of Dgung ’phur Monastery in Spu rang (Mnga’ ris, Western Tibet). The inscription deals with religious ...
biografiA. Lexikon österreichischer Frauen, Band 3
(2016)
biografiA gives on the basis of selected 6.367 biographies an overview over many centuries of austrian female history and various insights into the cultural and social contexts of the concerned eras both for experts and ...
biografiA. Lexikon österreichischer Frauen, Band 2
(2016)
biografiA gives on the basis of selected 6.367 biographies an overview over many centuries of austrian female history and various insights into the cultural and social contexts of the concerned eras both for experts and ...
Enzyklopädie der slowenischen Kulturgeschichte in Kärnten/Koroška, Band 3: PO-Z
(2016)
The Encyclopaedia of Slovenian cultural history in Carinthia (Austria) is conceaved as a pluridisciplinary and intercultural reference work with over 160 authors, some 1000 entries and in total over 2100 conceptual entries ...
Enzyklopädie der slowenischen Kulturgeschichte in Kärnten/Koroška, Band 1: A-I
(2016)
The Encyclopaedia of Slovenian cultural history in Carinthia (Austria) is conceaved as a pluridisciplinary and intercultural reference work with over 160 authors, some 1000 entries and in total over 2100 conceptual entries ...
Enzyklopädie der slowenischen Kulturgeschichte in Kärnten/Koroška, Band 2: J-PI
(2016)
The Encyclopaedia of Slovenian cultural history in Carinthia (Austria) is conceaved as a pluridisciplinary and intercultural reference work with over 160 authors, some 1000 entries and in total over 2100 conceptual entries ...
Liminalität und Adoleszenz
(2016)
Based upon the description of the psychoanalytic subtext in the work of Victor Turner, his concept of structure and antistructure is submitted to a fundamental revision.
Das Beispiel der Obrigkeit ist der Spiegel des Unterhans
(2016)
This edition collects instructions, police ordinances, decrees and related normative sources concerning the economic activities of landlords and subjects of the estates Feldsberg (today Valtice in the Czech Republic) and ...
„Berufsstand“ oder „Stand“?
(2016)
The Constitution of 1 May 1934 saw an attempt made in Austria to create an alternative to parliamentary democracy in the form of an order based on the professional “Stand” (corporation). The failure of this attempt was due ...
Die Thun-Hohenstein’sche Universitätsreformen 1849–1860
(2017)
The book gathers 14 articles on the reforms of the Austrian University system from 1848 to 1860 named after Leo Thun Hohenstein. The reforms mark a turning point in the history of the Austrian educational landscape. The ...
Performanz und Imagination in der Oralkultur Südosteuropas
(2017)
This monograpy analyses forms of performativity in the oral cultures of Southeast-Europe, as gestures, masks and disguising, theatrical customs, popular and professional theatre, as well as forms of imagination, like ...
MOSCOW CONTEMPORARY
(2016)
The monograph is the first international study to analyze and describe the process of the post-Soviet contemporary art museums from 1992 to 2015. Based on exemplary case studies, it covers the heterogeneous museum-political ...
Das schwarze Wien
(2017)
This book deals with the housing- and settlement-policy of the authoritarian Austrian Corporate State (Staendestaat) in Vienna between 1934 and 1938. National and international dialogues led to building strategies for a ...
Wende und Übergang
(2017)
Bulgaria’s cultural policy has experienced many transformations since the revolution. One of the most important is that at the beginning the conviction developed that those elements which could not support themselves because ...
Revolution and Transition
(2017)
Bulgaria’s cultural policy has experienced many transformations since the revolution. One of the most important is that at the beginning the conviction developed that those elements which could not support themselves because ...
Der Opfermythos bei Elfriede Jelinek
(2017)
This paper presents a new, interdisciplinary method to adequately interpret Elfriede Jelinek’s texts, integrating contemporary historical theories of fascism, national-socialism and the Austrian victim myth into the exemplary ...