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Collection of twenty-one papers presented at an international symposium on the theme "cultural relations between Portugal and Goa" at the University of Cologne, 29 May-2 June 1996; chiefly covers the 16th-18th centuries.
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Helmut Feldmann, geboren 1946, hat ein bewegtes Leben geführt. Seine Erlebnisse haben ihn dazu bewogen, dieses Buch zu schreiben. Seine Botschaft, die er vermitteln will, soll Mahnung und Ermutigung zugleich sein. Mahnen will er, sich durch sein Schicksal und seinen Lebensweg nicht auf ein falsches Gleis leiten zu lassen, sondern an der nächsten Weiche selbst die richtige Richtung zu bestimmen. Sein Anliegen ist es, dazu zu ermutigen, seinen Weg zu ändern und alles dafür zu tun, sein neues Lebensziel zu erreichen. So kann man vom Saulus zum Paulus werden. Es ist nie zu spät! Nach Abhängigkeit von Heroin und Alkohol, Absturz in die Kriminalität und Inhaftierung ganz unten gewesen zu se...
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The first systematic study to address the character and scope of American popular music in India during British rule.
Between Ethnography and Fiction brings together essays by sixteen scholars of various disciplines to re-examine the work of Verrier Elwin in the fields of tribal literature, tribe and non-tribe relationship, tribal development policies, missionaries and conversion, myths and legends, art and craft, etc. Elwin is undoubtedly one of the most controversial as well as influential anthropologists of the twentieth century. The essays included here are therefore both appreciative and critical.
Afrasian Transformations explores a dynamic nexus of transregional interactions that is reshaping political relations, economic flows and increasingly mobile lifeworlds on the one hand, and academic practices in African and Asian Studies as well as transregional research on the other.
The first reference work to provide an integrated and authoritative body of information about the political, cultural and economic contexts of postcolonial literatures that have their provenance in the major European Empires of Belgium, Denmark, France, G