Anthropology and Nostalgia SCIENCE / Mechanics / StaticsNostalgia is intimately connected to the history of the social sciences in general and anthropology in particular, though finely grained ethnographies of nostalgia and loss are still scarce. Today, anthropologists have realized that nostalgia constitutes a fascinating object of study for exploring contemporary issues of the formation of identity in politics and history. Contributors to this volume consider the fabric of nostalgia in the fields of
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the formula established by the early missionaries for the translation of classical Chinese texts into Western languages has resulted in a Christian conversion of Confucian texts that is still very much with us today
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Power: A philosophical analysis is the first full-length attempt to analyse what we mean when we talk about power
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Child soldiers in international law examines how international law has developed to deal with this problematic and emotive issue
