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  • Xenophobic Mountains

    Landscape Sentience Reconsidered in the Romanian Carpathians

    by Alexandra Cotofana ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book, based on ethnographic research in Romania, traces the ontological red lines that form a world in which xenophobic landscapes are possible. The last couple hundred years in Romania’s history have been marked by change of political regimes, but this manuscript pays equal attention to an important continuity in Romania’s ontological world: its understanding of the landscape, and the ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • The Familial Occult

    Explorations at the Margins of Critical Autoethnography

    Edited by Alexandra Coțofană ...
    Series Book 47 - EASA Series
    The Familial Occult addresses the presence of occult experiences in some scholars' families and how that has affected their epistemological and ontological worlds, as well as their identities as scholars. Those with backgrounds in the familial occult often experience a series of conflicting relationships and different ways of interacting with binaries such as the subjective and objective, a ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Sentient Ecologies

    Xenophobic Imaginaries of Landscape

    Edited by Hikmet Kuran, Alexandra Coțofană ...
    Series Book 31 - Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
    Employing methodological perspectives from the fields of political geography, environmental studies, anthropology, and their cognate disciplines, this volume explores alternative logics of sentient landscapes as racist, xenophobic, and right-wing. While the field of sentient landscapes has gained critical attention, the literature rarely seems to question the intentionality of sentient landscapes, ... Read more

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  • Religion and Magic in Socialist and Postsocialist Contexts [Part I]

    Historic and Ethnographic Case Studies of Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, and Alternative Spirituality

    Edited by Alexandra Cotofana, James M. Nyce ...
    Series Book 163 - Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    Religion and magic have played important roles within Eastern European societies where social reality and socio-political balance may differ greatly from those in the West. Although often thought of as being two distinct, even antagonistic forces, religion and magic find ways to work together. By taking on various examples in the multicultural settings of post-Soviet and post-socialist spaces, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Religion and Magic in Socialist and Post-Socialist Contexts II

    Baltic, Eastern European, and Post-USSR Case Studies

    by James M. Nyce, Andreas Umland, Alexandra Coțofană, Larisa Jasarevic, Zlatina Bogdanova, Sibelan Forrester, Gabriel Girigan, Reet Hiiemäe0, Danijela Jerotijević1, Iveta Leitane2, René Provis3, Ioana Repciuc4, Jessica Pollock5 ...
    Series Book 173 - Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    Religion and magic have often played important roles in Baltic, Eastern European, and post- USSR societies like those in Russia, Romania, Serbia, Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, and Estonia. Taken together, the studies presented in this collection suggest that the idea that religion and magic are connected to each other in some consistent, universal way may be nothing more than a reminiscence from nineteenth ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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  • World Literature in Theory

    Edited by David Damrosch ...
    World Literature in Theory provides a definitive exploration of the pressing questions facing those studying world literature today.Coverage is split into four parts which examine the origins and seminal formulations of world literature, world literature in the age of globalization, contemporary debates on world literature, and localized versions of world literatureContains more than 30 important ... Read more

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    Edited by Alexander C. Cook ...
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    $31.99 CAD

  • Comparing the Literatures

    Literary Studies in a Global Age

    by David Damrosch ...
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    Towards a Post-Westphalian, Worldist International Relations

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    A Routledge Study Guide

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