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Synergising India-Africa Relationship: Now and Beyond COVID-19 Pandemic
Covid-19 reared its ugly head in 2020 and had a worldwide impact. This book looks at the impact of Covid-19 from the lens of International Relations with a specific and sharp focus on Indo-African ties. A nation and a continent, with shared concerns and opportunities, need to build, strengthen and sustain their ties; and take nearly 45% of the world’s population into a resurgent, post-covid world.
Material Culture in Transit
Material Culture in Transit: Theory and Practice constellates curators and scholars actively working with material culture within academic and museal institutions through theory and practice. The rich collection of essays critically addresses the multivalent ways in which mobility reshapes the characteristics of artefacts, specifically under prevailing issues of representation and colonial liabilities. The volume attests to material culture as central to understanding the repercussions of problematic histories and proposes novel ways to address them. It offers valuable reading for scholars of anthropology, museum studies, history and others with an interest in material culture.
African multilingualism and the Agenda 2030 / Multilinguisme africain et l'Agenda 2030
The UN Agenda 2030 read as an expression of a commitment to predefined goals, raises the question of a link, between failure to provide for needs of linguistic inclusion on the one hand and lingering deficits of adhesion on the other. Stated as a key factor for implementation sensitivity to language diversity correlates positively with inclusivity and sustainability, as this volume explains through case studies ranging from agriculture to health, education, human rights and ecology, and from digital inclusion to translation and science, thus enabling comparative advantages to turn language barriers into interfaces for `glocal' development.
African-Asian Relations: Past, Present, Future
Is the impression of a new dynamism in African-Asian relations empirically correct? Is it a process that will once be accepted as one of the fundamental transformations of World Society in the 21st century? This volume addresses these questions in 14 chapters, from a look back to 2000 years of African-Asian contacts and exchange to the analysis of the origins of this new inter-regional dynamism. On the Asian side, the focus is on China, which has - with the Forum on China-African Cooperation (FOCAC), the Belt and Road Initative with numerous infrastructure projects, development assistance, resource deals, and the support for the African Union in Africa - drawn most attention, but also recent...
Tausch.Beziehungen - Sozialanthropologische Perspektiven / Exchange.Relations - Perspectives from Social Anthropology
Tauschbeziehungen sind in ihren vielfältigen Formen zentral in der sozialanthropologischen Forschung. Die Autor:innen der 26 Buchbeiträge zeigen auf, wie (materielle) Transaktionen soziale Beziehungen und Institutionen (re)produzieren und transformieren, wie Austauschbeziehungen in Macht- und Schuldverhältnisse eingebettet sind, wie Reziprozität Feldforschungsbeziehungen und interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit prägt und wo Tauschbeziehungen enden können. Der Akt des Gebens oder Empfangens einer Gabe ist dabei kein abgeschlossenes Ereignis, sondern Teil einer kontinuierlichen sozialen Beziehung. Exchange relationships in their many forms are central to social anthropological research. The authors of the 26 book contributions show how (material) transactions (re)produce and transform social relationships and institutions, how exchange relationships are embedded in power and debt relationships, how reciprocity shapes field research relationships and interdisciplinary collaboration, and where exchange relationships can end. The act of giving or receiving a gift is not a finished event, but part of a continuous social relationship.
Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa
This volume examines religiosity on university campuses in Sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on both individuals and organized groups, the contributions open a window onto how religion becomes a factor, affects social interactions, is experienced and mobilized by various actors. It brings together case studies from various disciplinary backgrounds (anthropology, sociology, history, religious studies, literature) and theoretical orientations to illustrate the significance of religiosity in recent developments on university campuses. It pays a particular attention to religion-informed activism and contributes a fresh analysis of processes that are shaping both the experience of being student and the university campus as a moral space. Last but not least, it sheds light onto the ways in which the campus becomes a site of a reformulation of both religiosity and sociality.
Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Germanistik
Dieses Themenheft der ZiG, herausgegeben von Renata Cornejo (Usti nad Labem), Gesine Lenore Schiewer (Bayreuth) und Manfred Weinberg (Prag), widmet sich der Frage nach angemessenen wissenschaftlichen Beschreibungen interkultureller Vielfalt. Dafür genutzte Konzepte sind allerdings kultur- sowie fachspezifisch und damit ihrerseits vielfältig. Statt jedoch aus den unterschiedlichen Beschreibungsmodellen ein ›General-Konzept‹ zu synthetisieren, geht es vielmehr darum, deren Differenzen zur Grundlage der wissenschaftlichen Fortentwicklung interkultureller Germanistik zu machen. Die Beiträge der Zeitschrift diskutieren anhand paradigmatischer Phänomene sowohl etablierte Interkulturalitäts-Konzepte hinsichtlich ihrer Voraussetzungen und Potenziale als auch notwendige Erweiterungen, mögliche Anpassungen und neue Entwicklungen.
The Germanic Languages
Germanic - one of the largest sub-groups of the Indo-European language family - comprises 37 languages with an estimated 470 million speakers worldwide. This book presents a comparative linguistic survey of the full range of Germanic languages, both ancient and modern, including major world languages such as English and German (West Germanic), the Scandinavian (North Germanic) languages, and the extinct East Germanic languages. Unlike previous studies, it does not take a chronological or a language-by-language approach, organized instead around linguistic constructions and subsystems. Considering dialects alongside standard varieties, it provides a detailed account of topics such as case, word formation, sound systems, vowel length, syllable structure, the noun phrase, the verb phrase, the expression of tense and mood, and the syntax of the clause. Authoritative and comprehensive, this much-needed survey will be welcomed by scholars and students of the Germanic languages, as well as linguists across the many branches of the field.
