Publications
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Roman Women’s Dress
(2022)
The book concerns female dress in Roman life and literature. The main focus is on female Roman dress as it may have been worn in daily life in Rome and in a social environment influenced by Roman culture in the time from ...
Female Agency in Manuscript Cultures
(2024)
Manuscript cultures have frequently forgotten or erased women’s contributions. Their agency is a glaring blind spot in the pursuit of gender perspectives on the production of written artefacts. This volume studies manuscripts ...
Against the Fetishisation of Plural Time
(2025)
It has become an unflinching belief that time is plural and temporal multiplicity is the best framework to study the relationship between time and society. Through a critical reading of existing scholarship, Sinha questions ...
When Tibetan Meditation Goes Global
(2022)
This pioneering ethnographic work on Western practitioners of Bon, or bonpos, presents the first in-depth study of the transition of the Yungdrung Bon religion, Tibet’s so-called "indigenous religion," to the West in the ...
Der digitale Pranger
(2018)
As a source of information for consumers to assess the quality of goods and services, rating portals basically make a useful contribution to consumer protection. However, the portals become a problem when critics express ...
Sometimes Hard, Usually Soft
(2020)
As an urgent response to the continually growing flood of information to which libraries, search engines, and cultural institutions are exposed, Data Loam combines radical approaches and strategies from the international ...
Neighbourhoods and City Quarters in Antiquity
(2023)
This volume focuses on the socio-spatial organisation of ancient cities, and more specifically on Late Republican and Imperial Italy. Referring to a praxeological and phenomenological perspective, it looks at neighbourhoods ...
Advances in the Sociology of Trust and Cooperation
(2020)
The book identifies conditions for trust and cooperation. It highlights unintended consequences of individually rational behavior, and shows how trust and cooperation change dependent on social embeddedness. Such analyses ...
Aufklärung zwischen zwei Welten
(2021)
Pierre Chaunu sprach 1971 noch vorsichtig von der Herausbildung von „l’Europe des Lumières“. Ein halbes Jahrhundert später ist längst zu fragen: Aufklärung nur in Europa? Die transareal angelegte Vorlesung will versuchen, ...
Vanitas und Gesellschaft
(2021)
This interdisciplinary volume delves into the significance of the early modern vanitas motif in the present day. In the arts, pop culture, and social discourses, it is utilized to make cultural-critical diagnoses. Reflections ...