Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Food and Multiculture
A Sensory Ethnography of East London
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
In this book, Alex Rhys-Taylor offers a ground-breaking sensory ethnography of East London. Drawing on the multicultural context of London, one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, he explores concepts such as gentrification, class antagonism, new ethnicities and globalization. Rhys-Taylor...
Africa in the American Imagination
Popular Culture, Radicalized Identities, and African Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
In the American world, the presence of African culture is sometimes fully embodied and sometimes leaves only a trace. Africa in the American Imagination: Popular Culture, Racialized Identities, and African Visual Culture explores this presence, examining Mattel's world of Barbie, the 1996 Sports Illustrated...
by Annie O. Derthick, PhD, E.J.R. David
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Written in an engaging and relatable manner, this book reviews the psychological theories and research on the topic of oppression – its evolution, its various forms, and its consequences. Painful historical examples and modern-day occurrences of oppression including mass incarceration, LGBT and...
Family Violence and Men of Color
Healing the Wounded Male Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
"This innovative book examines an important, timely topicÖThe content will greatly enhance practitioners' and students' understanding and skills in working with men of color."
- Elaine P. Congress, DSW, Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service
"Family Violence and...
Engendering the Buddhist State
Territory, Sovereignty and Sexual Difference in the Inventions of Angkor
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Drawing from more than a decade of field and archival research, this monograph concerns Cambodian cultural history and historiography, with an ultimate aim of broadening and deepening bases for understanding the Cambodian Theravadin politico-cultural complex. The book takes the form of an interdisciplinary...
Indian Arranged Marriages
A Social Psychological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Despite the fact that more than 80% of cultures practice varying degrees of arranged marriage, scholars have thus far concentrated exclusively on American and European cultures from choice marriages, not yet fully exploring the psychology of arranged marriages. India is a prominent South Asian nation...
Mediating Cultures
Parenting in Intercultural Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
This book explores the communication challenges faced by parents as they raise children who are bi-cultural, multi-cultural, or are adopted from a heritage other than the parents. Each contributor views the family as a site of intercultural dialogue and mediation, and uses compelling studies throughout...
Tibetan Buddhism in Diaspora
Cultural re-signification in practice and institutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
The imperialist ambitions of China – which invaded Tibet in the late 1940s – have sparked the spectacular spread of Tibetan Buddhism worldwide, and especially in western countries. This work is a study on the malleability of a particular Buddhist tradition; on its adaptability in new contexts.
The...
Innovative Departures
Anthropology and the Indian Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This volume brings together analytical insights from modern social and cultural anthropology to unravel processes of globalization in the 21st century through diasporic migrations. Developments in anthropological theory and method are traced from the heritage of Enlightenment to the present times,...
by Michael Walonen
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
We are in the midst of the third tectonic social transformation in human history. Our current transition toward greater forms of transnational interconnection, consumption- and finance-driven rather than production-based capitalism, digital information and cultural flows, and the attendant large-scale...
Wisdom from the Hills
Traditions of Ejagham Oban
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
This work begins by presenting a brief history of origin of Ejagham people. It then goes on to record in some details the different cultural forms that make up cultural identity of Ejagham communityOban people. The book treats cultural practices around birth, marriage, initiation, death, etc. It also...
The Southern Hospitality Myth
Ethics, Politics, Race, and American Memory
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Hospitality as a cultural trait has been associated with the South for well over two centuries, but the origins of this association and the reasons for its perseverance often seem unclear. Anthony Szczesiul looks at how and why we have taken something so particular as the social habit of hospitality—which...
Living Color
Race and Television in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 1998
Recent media events like the confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas, the beating of Rodney King and its aftermath, and the murder trial of O.J. Simpson have trained our collective eye on the televised spectacle of race. Living Color combines media studies, cultural studies, and critical race theory...
Occupational Therapy Across Cultural Boundaries
Theory, Practice and Professional Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This fascinating book examines the concept of culture from a unique perspective--that of individual occupational therapists who have worked in environments very different from those in which they were educated or had worked previously. In Occupational Therapy Across Cultural Boundaries, six occupational...