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The Postcolonial Sporting Body
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 245

The Postcolonial Sporting Body

The Postcolonial Sporting Body considers the future not only of sport, but of global politics and identity in a world striving towards greater equity and decolonisation.

The Grace of Four Moons
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 528

The Grace of Four Moons

  • Categories: Art

Because clothing, food, and shelter are basic human needs, they provide excellent entries to cultural values and individual aesthetics. Everyone gets dressed every day, but body art has not received the attention it deserves as the most common and universal of material expressions of culture. The Grace of Four Moons aims to document the clothing decisions made by ordinary people in their everyday lives. Based on fieldwork conducted primarily in the city of Banaras, India, Pravina Shukla conceptualizes and realizes a total model for the study of body art—understood as all aesthetic modifications and supplementations to the body. Shukla urges the study of the entire process of body art, from the assembly of raw materials and the manufacture of objects, through their sale and the interactions between merchants and consumers, to the consumer's use of objects in creating personal decoration.

Case Study Research
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 204

Case Study Research

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: SAGE

Designing case studies - Conducting case studies : preparing for data collection - Conducting case studies : collecting the evidence - Analyzing case study evidence - Reporting case studies.

The Locus of Tragedy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 356

The Locus of Tragedy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-12-31
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Ask for the tragic and Europe will answer. Leaving behind the philosophers’ enthusiasm of the nineteenth century, ‘tragedy’ and ‘the tragic’ now seem little more than vague containers. However, it appears that we still discover a tragic essence in our personal lives. Time and again tragedy is being registered, written down and staged. This book wants to open a contemporary philosophical perspective on the tragic. What is the locus of tragedy? Does it relate to metaphysics, the gods, destiny, and chance? Or is it a matter of ethics, of the Law and its transgression? Does man himself occupy the locus of tragedy, because of his unreasonable and boundless desires, as many philosophers have suggested? Is man today still able to account for his tragic condition? Or do we locate the tragic first and foremost in the esthetic imagination? Is not the theatrical genre of tragedy the locus authenticus of all things tragic? Is there more to the tragic than drama and play?

The Contemporary Goffman
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 396

The Contemporary Goffman

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-01-26
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The Contemporary Goffman highlights the continued relevance of Goffman to sociology and related disciplines – to theoretical discussions as well as to substantive empirical research – through contributions dealing with a variety of topics and themes.

Advances in Hospitality and Leisure
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 287

Advances in Hospitality and Leisure

Advances in Hospitality and Leisure, a peer-review series, delivers refreshing insights from a host of scientific studies in the domains of hospitality, leisure and tourism.

Studying Peoples in the People's Democracies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 394

Studying Peoples in the People's Democracies

Under socialism the anthropological sciences developed under conflicting pressures: on the one hand Soviet influences, Marxist ideology and institutional changes, on the other the continued influence of national traditions and of the distinction between Volkskunde and Volkerkunde. The chapters bring out striking differences between the countries considered: the German Democratic Republic, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. They also draw attention to variation within countries, and between sub-branches of the discipline. Coverage extends from the Stalinist years to the end of the socialist era, and the topics range from folklore studies at home to fieldwork expeditions abroad.

The Research Process in Nursing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 570

The Research Process in Nursing

‘The perfect text for any health care professional who wishes to gain a sound understanding of research...This text succeeds where others fail in terms of the thoroughness of the research process and the accessible style in which the material is presented. In an age when nursing and health care research is going from strength to strength this book offers those in the world of academia and practice an excellent and essential 'bible' that is a must on any bookshelf’ Dr Aisha Holloway, Lecturer Adult Health, Division of Nursing, The University of Nottingham ‘a book that helps you each step of the way. A very understandable and enjoyable publication’ Accident and Emergency Nursing Journa...

Training for Doctoral Research
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 195

Training for Doctoral Research

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-01-30
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Following the rapid expansion of translation studies as an emergent (inter-)discipline over recent decades, demand for doctoral research opportunities is now growing fast in many countries. At the same time, doctoral training packages of a generic nature have been elaborated and refined at many universities, drawing on long traditions of doctoral research in established disciplines. A degree of consensus no doubt exists on such matters as the need for rigor, method and the generation of new knowledge. Beyond that, however, there are a host of issues specific to translation and interpreting studies that remain under-researched and under-discussed. Contributors to this special issue encourage ...

Research Methodologies, Innovations and Philosophies in Software Systems Engineering and Information Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 512

Research Methodologies, Innovations and Philosophies in Software Systems Engineering and Information Systems

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-02-29
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

Philosophical paradigms, theoretical frameworks, and methodologies make up the answering and problem solving systems that define current research approaches. While there are multiple research method books, the subject lacks an update and integrated source of reference for graduate courses. Research Methodologies, Innovations and Philosophies in Software Systems Engineering and Information Systems aims to advance scientific knowledge on research approaches used in systems engineering, software engineering, and information systems and to update and integrate disperse and valuable knowledge on research approaches. This aims to be a collection of knowledge for PhD students, research-oriented faculty, and instructors of graduate courses.