Product Description: Few thorough ethnographic studies on Central Indian tribal communities exist and the elaborate discussion on the cultural meanings of Indian food systems ignores these societies altogether. Food epitomizes the social for the Gadaba of Orissa...read more

Product Description: The Modern Anthropology of India is an accessible textbook providing a critical overview of the ethnographic work done in India since 1947. It assesses the history of research in each region and serves as a practical and comprehensive guide to the main themes dealt with by ethnographers...read more

Product Description: The breakup of the Habsburg Dual Monarchy and the redrawing of the political map of East Central Europe was a major experiment in destroying the old, and creating the new (O. Hwaletz). The eighteen essays in this volume offer fresh perspective and innovative scholarship on the difficult transition from empire to republic for the small state of Austria, newly created by the Allied peacemakers in Paris in 1919...read more

Product Description: Unser Verhältnis zu Computer und Informationstechnologie wird weniger von den Maschinen bestimmt als davon, wie wir von ihnen denken. Die Informatisierung des Alltags geht einher mit der Entwicklung prägender individueller und kultureller Bilder von der Welt der Computer...read more