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The smartphone is often literally right in front of our nose, so you would think we would know what it is. But do we? To find out, 11 anthropologists each spent 16 months living in communities in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America, focusing on the take up of smartphones by older people. Their research reveals that smartphones are technology for everyone, not just for the young

Nach einer Einführung in das Thema folgen sechs zentrale Kapitel zu den Aspekten: 1. Zwei Revolutionen im Jemen, warum scheiterten sie? 2. Das Projekt einer nationalen Charta; 3. Analytische Einführung in die jemenitische Wirklichkeit; 4. Die jemenitische Identität; 5. Der Jemen und Amerika; 6. Amerika entdeckt seine Seite für die Araber; kurzer Dokumentenanhang. (DÜI-Faa)

The World and the West reaches from such diverse cases as the Maya and Yaqui of Mexico, the Ghost Dance of North America, cargo cults of Melanesia, to Meiji Japan and the Ottoman Empire. In discussing a variety of questions about the relations between the world and the West in recent centuries, Curtin ultimately introduces a new perspective on the underlying question: How do human societies change through time?