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Anthropology(Reprint)
A Continental Perspective
by Christoph Wulf, Deirdre Winter, Elizabeth Hamilton, Margitta Rouse, Richard J. Rouse, Christoff Wulf
Paperback, 408 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92507-3, ISBN: 0-226-92507-2

"Originally published in German, Christoph Wulf's "Anthropology" sets its sights on a topic as ambitious as its title suggests: anthropology itself. Arguing for an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to anthropology that incorporates science, philosophy, history, and many other disciplines, Wulf examines - with breathtaking scope - all the ways that anthropology has been understood and practiced around the globe and through the ..."






Repetition, Recurrence, Returns
How Cultural Renewal Works (Transforming Literary Studies)
by Joan Ramon Resina, Christoph Wulf, Vincent Barletta, Günter Blamberger, Christiane Brosius, Michael B. Buchholz, Isabel Capeloa Gil, Ulla Haselstein, Stephanie Malia Hom, Axel Michaels, Almut-Barbara Renger, Holger Schulze, Ursula Stenger, Shoko Suzuki, Matthias Warstat, Haselstein/Michaels/
Hardcover, 290 Pages, Published 2019 by Lexington Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-9399-1, ISBN: 1-4985-9399-2

"Repetition is constitutive of human life. Both the species and the individual develop through repetition. Unlike simple recall, repetition is permeated by the past and the present and is oriented toward the future. Repetition of central actions and events plays an important role in the lives of individuals and the life of society. It helps to create meaning and memory. Because repetition is a central aspect of human life, it plays a rol ..."






Exploring Alterity in a Globalized World(1st Edition)
by Christoph Wulf
Paperback, 532 Pages, Published 2018 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-48835-9, ISBN: 1-138-48835-6

"This volume develops a unique framework to understand India through indigenous and European perspectives, and examines how it copes with the larger challenges of a globalized world. Through a discussion of religious and philosophical traditions, cultural developments as well as contemporary theatre, films and media, it explores the manner in which India negotiates the trials of globalization. It also focuses upon India’s school and educ ..."






Images of the Body in India
South Asian and European Perspectives on Rituals and Performativity
by Axel Michaels, Christoph Wulf
Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2011 by Routledge India
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-60230-3, ISBN: 0-415-60230-0

"This intriguing book engages with the concept of the body in its cultural context by acknowledging and demonstrating that the human body is understood differently in Western and Indian cultures. The contributors go on to show that any attempt to put forward a single concept of the body within Indian culture would be misleading. Divided into three parts, the book examines the considerable and often conflicting variations in body images ..."






Ritual and Identity
The Staging and Performing of Rituals in the Lives of Young People (Ethnography and Education)
by Birgit Aithans, Kathrin Audehm, Christoph Wulf
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2010 by The Tufnell Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-872767-13-0, ISBN: 1-872767-13-3

"Rituals play a central role in the development of individual and collective identity. This is particularly true for young people, who are tractable to a great extent. Rituals are productive. While they were previously made a subject of discussion under the aspects of stereotyping, rigidity and violence, this examination concentrates on productive moments of rituals that contribute to making and forming the identity of communities and i ..."






Looking Back on the End of the World(Updated)
by Jean Baudrillard, Dietmar Kamper, Christoph Wulf, Gunter Gebauer, Dieter Lenzen, Edgar Morin, Gerburg Treusch-Dieter, Paul Virilio, David Antal, Dietmar Baudrillard
Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 1989 by Semiotext(E)
ISBN-13: 978-0-936756-46-2, ISBN: 0-936756-46-2

"Looking Back on the End of the World raises provocative questions about the possibilities of critical knowledge in social systems that seem to have "surpassed history."First published in 1989, Looking Back on the End of the World raises provocative questions about the possibilities of critical knowledge in social systems that seem to have "surpassed history." Unlike recent works that make history end with the consumer, or project the co ..."






Global Youth in Digital Trajectories(1st Edition)
(Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society)
by Michalis Kontopodis, Christos Varvantakis, Christoph Wulf
Hardcover, 174 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-23603-5, ISBN: 1-138-23603-9

"Global Youth in Digital Trajectories explores the most recent developments regarding youth and media in a global perspective. Representing an innovative contribution to virtual research methods, this book presents research carried out in areas as diverse as Greece, the Netherlands, Germany, Brazil, Russia, and India. The volume examines which new anthropological, and cultural-historical conditions and changes arise in connection with th ..."






Anthropology
A Continental Perspective (Hardcover)
by Christoph Wulf, Deirdre Winter, Elizabeth Hamilton, Margitta Rouse, Richard J. Rouse
Hardcover, 424 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92506-6, ISBN: 0-226-92506-4

"Originally published in German, Christoph Wulf s "Anthropology" sets its sights on a topic as ambitious as its title suggests: anthropology itself. Arguing for an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to anthropology that incorporates science, philosophy, history, and many other disciplines, Wulf examines with breathtaking scope all the ways that anthropology has been understood and practiced around the globe and through the year ..."






Exploring Alterity in a Globalized World(1st Edition)
by Christoph Wulf, Iris Clemens, Padma Sarangapani, Sundar Sarukkai
Hardcover, 532 Pages, Published 2016 by Routledge India
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-99898-8, ISBN: 1-138-99898-2

"This volume develops a unique framework to understand India through indigenous and European perspectives, and examines how it copes with the larger challenges of a globalized world. Through a discussion of religious and philosophical traditions, cultural developments as well as contemporary theatre, films and media, it explores the manner in which India negotiates the trials of globalization. It also focuses upon India’s school and educ ..."






Images of the Body in India(1st Edition)
South Asian and European Perspectives on Rituals and Performativity
by Axel Michaels, Christoph Wulf
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2016 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-66284-1, ISBN: 1-138-66284-4

"This intriguing book engages with the concept of the body in its cultural context by acknowledging and demonstrating that the human body is understood differently in Western and Indian cultures. The contributors go on to show that any attempt to put forward a single concept of the body within Indian culture would be misleading. Divided into three parts, the book examines the considerable and often conflicting variations in body images a ..."






Science and Scientification in South Asia and Europe
by Axel Michaels and Christoph Wulf
Published 2020 by Routledge (India)
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-67412-0, ISBN: 0-367-67412-2






Human Beings and their Images
Imagination; Mimesis; Performativity
by Christoph Wulf
Hardcover, Published 2022 by Bloomsbury 3Pl
ISBN-13: 978-1-350-26513-4, ISBN: 1-350-26513-6






Learning as Social Practice
Beyond Education as an Individual Enterprise (Foundations and Futures of Education) [Hardcover ]
by Gunther R. Kress, Staffan Selander, Roger Säljö, Christoph Wulf
Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2021 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-68824-0, ISBN: 0-367-68824-7

"This book studies learning as a social enterprise, contextually situated, organized and assessed. It gives a broad theoretic grounding for an understanding of learning which goes beyond a common reductionist approach."






Science and Scientification in South Asia and Europe
by Axel Michaels, Christoph Wulf
278 Pages, Published 2020 by Taylor & Francis
ISBN-13: 978-1-00-005179-7, ISBN: 1-00-005179-X

"I was later told, rather nonchalantly, that he was 'Khan Sahib', an old acquaintance who was visiting to see if he could be of ... Arabic-speaking Muslims tend to favour ruqya alone and accuse South Asian Muslims of having poor knowledge of ..."






Repetition, Recurrence, Returns
How Cultural Renewal Works
by Joan Ramon Resina, Christoph Wulf
290 Pages, Published 2019 by Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-9400-4, ISBN: 1-4985-9400-X

"... a clear positioning and reflection of artist and intellectual agents in response to their location therein (Filipovic, van Hal, ... of six members of a jury/ selection committee11 selected from across South Asia, there now is Philippe Van Cauteren, ..."






Global Youth in Digital Trajectories
by Michalis Kontopodis, Christos Varvantakis, Christoph Wulf
152 Pages, Published 2017 by Taylor & Francis
ISBN-13: 978-1-315-30322-2, ISBN: 1-315-30322-1

"... or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Kontopodis, Michalis, editor. | Varvantakis, Christos, editor. | Wulf, Christoph, 1944– editor. Title: Global youth in digital trajectories / [edit ..."






Exploring the Senses
South Asian and European Perspectives on Rituals and Performativity
by Axel Michaels, Christoph Wulf
350 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-317-34210-6, ISBN: 1-317-34210-0

"If these contexts are ignored, the cultural and historical particulars cannot be adequately understood. The essays in this volume make it clear that, in the history of India and Europe, complex historical-cultural concepts were developed that differed fundamentally from the ideas that are considered valid today under the influence of the neurosciences and behavioral sciences. These modern ideas have emerged on the basis of an Axel ..."






Global Youth in Digital Trajectories
by Michalis Kontopodis, Christos Varvantakis, Christoph Wulf
152 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-315-30321-5, ISBN: 1-315-30321-3

"do not have the rights to lead our lives ̄. ®We. need to take the control of our lives in our hands ̄. As in a song of Greek singer Vasilis Papakonstantinou: ®I« m. afraid for all these things that will be done for me without me ̄. Young people «s ..."






Exploring Alterity in a Globalized World
by Christoph Wulf
532 Pages, Published 2016 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-317-33113-1, ISBN: 1-317-33113-3

"... body as spatial frame of reference, not that of the viewer's perspective on the photo! 19 Burgess (1882, Plate 11; 1887, Plate XLIX No. 3). 20 Shivaramurti ( 1942). 21 Edwards (2007:49). 22 For detailed studies of visual discourses on India see Pinney (2008); Karlekar (2005); for the use of photography in archaeology see Banta and Hissley (1986: 72–99). ... Hope, Laurence (2001): India's Love Lyrics. Including the Garden of Kama ..."






Exploring Alterity in a Globalized World
by Christoph Wulf
532 Pages, Published 2016 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-317-33112-4, ISBN: 1-317-33112-5

"beliefs defines social anthropology. However, the sociocultural thinking of Northeast India remains silent in mainstream academic texts. There is a fair amount of absence regarding the existing social realities of Northeast India in mainstream academia and institutions of higher learning. Northeast Indian issues are not discussed in academia, reported on by mainstream Indian media, or examined in scholarly journals. This failure to ..."



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