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Buddhist Manuscript Cultures

Knowledge, Ritual, and Art

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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009

Buddhist Manuscript Cultures explores how religious and cultural practices in premodern Asia were shaped by literary and artistic traditions as well as by Buddhist material culture. This study of Buddhist texts focuses on the significance of their material forms rather than their doctrinal contents,...
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Urban Spaces in Japan

Cultural and Social Perspectives

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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012

Urban Spaces in Japan explores the workings of power, money and the public interest in the planning and design of Japanese space. Through a set of vivid case studies of well-known Japanese cities including Tokyo, Kobe, and Kyoto, this book examines the potential of civil society in contemporary planning...
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Safeguarding Intangible Heritage

Practices and Politics

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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018

The UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage came into force in 2006, framing the international and national practices and policies associated with intangible cultural heritage. This volume critically and reflexively examines these practices and policies, providing...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013

​This volume explores China’s cultural heritage ideology and policies from three interrelated perspectives: the State and World Heritage tourism; cultural heritage tourism at undesignated sites, and the cultural politics of museums and collections. Something of a cultural heritage designation...
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Crip Theory

Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability

by Robert McRuer
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006

Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and identities are represented as “normal” or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to...
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Brown Boys and Rice Queens

Spellbinding Performance in the Asias

by Eng-Beng Lim
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013

Honorable Mention for the 2015 Cultural Studies Best Book presented by the Association of Asian American Studies Winner of the 2013 CLAGS Fellowship Award for Best First Book Project in LGBT Studies A transnational study of Asian performance shaped by the homoerotics of orientalism,...
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Chicana Without Apology

The New Chicana Cultural Studies

by Eden E. Torres
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013

By approaching Chicana/o issues from the frames of feminism, social activism, and cultural studies, and by considering both lived experience and the latest research, Torres offers a more comprehensive understanding of current Chicana life. Through compelling prose, Torres masterfully weaves her own...
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Production Studies

Cultural Studies of Media Industries

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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009

"Behind-the-scenes" stories of ranting directors, stingy producers, temperamental actors, and the like have fascinated us since the beginnings of film and television. Today, magazines, websites, television programs, and DVDs are devoted to telling tales of trade lore—from on-set antics...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013

Science and Homosexualities is the first anthology by historians of science to examine European and American scientific research on sexual orientation since the coining of the word "homosexual" almost 150 years ago. This collection is particularly timely given the enormous scientific and...
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by Xiaobo Su, Peggy Teo
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009

This volume unravels the politics surrounding behind China’s hegemonic project of heritage tourism development in Lijiang.  It provides a compelling study of the dialectical relationships between global and domestic capital, the state, tourists and locals as they collude, collaborate and contest...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015

This book explores cultural sustainability and its relationships to heritage from a wide interdisciplinary perspective. By examining the interactions between people and communities in the places where they live it exemplifies the diverse ways in which a people-centred heritage builds identities and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016

Cultural sociology - or the sociology of culture - has grown from a minority interest in the 1970s to become one of the largest and most vibrant areas within sociology globally. In The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Sociology, a global range of experts explore the theory, methodology and innovations...
Cover of Cultural Change from a Business Anthropology Perspective
by Jo Aiken, Russell W. Belk, Arundhati Bhattacharyya
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017

This book offers keen insight and useful lessons underscoring the value of practice to theory. Conceived by two anthropologists who lead consulting practices, McCabe and Briody selected contributors to explore how cultural change happens in a variety of consumer and organizational contexts. The 12...
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by Cheryl Suzack
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017

In Indigenous Women’s Writing and the Cultural Study of Law, Cheryl Suzack explores Indigenous women’s writing in the post-civil rights period through close-reading analysis of major texts by Leslie Marmon Silko, Beatrice Culleton Mosionier, Louise Erdrich, and Winona LaDuke. Working within...
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