Search results for “[Subject: transformations]”

• Author(s): Reza Masoudi • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & Social The Iranian city experienced a major transformation when the Pahlavi Dynasty initiated a project of modernizat...

• Author(s): Claudia Roth | Willemijn de Jong | Manfred Perlik • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & Social Claudia Roth's work on Bobo-Dioulasso, a city of half a million residents...

• Author(s): Doubravka Olsáková • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Eastern Europe - General Beginning in 1948, the Soviet Union launched a series of wildly ambitious projects to implement Joseph Stalin's visi...

• Author(s): Maya Unnithan-Kumar • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & Social Recent years have seen many changes in human reproduction resulting from state and medical intervention...

• Author(s): Marsha L. Rozenblit | Jonathan Karp • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Jewish - General World War I utterly transformed the lives of Jews around the world: it allowed them to display their patrio...

• Author(s): Thomas M. Bohn • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology Even before Bram Stoker immortalized Transylvania as the homeland of his fictional Count Dracula, the figure of the vamp...

• Author(s): Regina Schulte • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Women's Studies How many "bodies" does a queen have? What is the significance of multiple "bodies"? How has the gendered body been constructed an...

• Author(s): Tanja Winther • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Anthropology - General How does everyday life change when electricity becomes available to a group of people for the first time? Why do some group...

• Author(s): Steffi de Jong • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Museum Studies In recent years, historical witnessing has emerged as a category of "museum object." Audiovisual recordings of interviews with ind...

• Author(s): Catherine Riley • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Women's Studies The 1970s witnessed a renaissance in women's print culture, as feminist presses and bookshops sprang up in the wake of the secon...

• Author(s): Karen Hagemann | Jean H. Quataert • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Gender Studies Writing on the history of German women has - like women's history elsewhere - undergone remarkable expansion an...

• Author(s): Bernhard Gissibl • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Africa - East Today, the East African state of Tanzania is renowned for wildlife preserves such as the Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro ...

• Author(s): Jacqueline Knörr • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Africa - General For centuries, Africa's Upper Guinea Coast region has been the site of regional and global interactions, with societies from d...