Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
A Spiral Way
How the Phonograph Changed Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
The invention of the cylinder phonograph at the end of the nineteenth century opened up a new world for cultural research. Indeed, Edison's talking machine became one of the basic tools of anthropology. It not only equipped researchers with the means of preserving folk songs but it also enabled them...
Northeast India
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Northeast India is a multifaceted and dynamic region that is constantly in focus because of its fragile political landscape characterized by endemic violence and conflicts. One of the first of its kind, this reader on Northeast India examines myriad aspects of the region – its people and its linguistic...
The Wars We Inherit
Military Life, Gender Violence, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
By combining personal memoir and critical analysis, Lori Amy links the violence we live in our homes to the violence that structures our larger culture. The Wars We Inherit brings insights from memory and trauma studies to the story of violence in the author’s own family.
In this brave, fascinating...
Landscape and the Environment in Hollywood Film
The Green Machine
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
This book systematically explores how popular Hollywood film portrays environmental issues through various genres. In so doing, it reveals the influence exerted by media consolidation and the drive for profit on Hollywood’s portrayal of the natural landscape, which ultimately shapes how environmental...
by Ronald A Train
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
In the New Testament the verb “to walk” (peripateo) finds its use on ninety-five occasions. It is of interest that the Apostle Paul uses the verb on thirty occasions in his prolific writings. Hence, why I have chosen the title of this work as A Walk with Paul Through Cultural Minefields. In many...
Business Practices in Southeast Asia
An interdisciplinary analysis of theravada Buddhist countries
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
This is an international business study of Theravada Buddhist Southeast Asia. Using a cross-disciplinary approach, the book examines business practices within a political, cultural, economic and religious context. It highlights those cultural and historical ties of the region which are shared because...
Death Matters
Cultural Sociology of Mortal Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
This book investigates death as part of contemporary everyday experience and practices. Through a cultural sociological lens, it studies death as it remains constantly at the edge of our consciousness, shaping the ways in which we move through social reality. As such, Death Matters is a significant...
Comics and Language
Reimagining Critical Discourse on the Form
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
It has become an axiom in comic studies that "comics is a language, not a genre." But what exactly does that mean, and how is discourse on the form both aided and hindered by thinking of it in linguistic terms? In Comics and Language, Hannah Miodrag challenges many of the key assumptions about the...
Restoried Selves
Autobiographies of Queer Asian / Pacific American Activists
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian / Pacific American Activists presents the first-person accounts of 20 activists-life stories that work against common stereotypes, shattering misconceptions and dispelling misinformation. These autobiographies challenge familial and cultural expectations...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Duke Ellington (1899–1974) is widely considered the jazz tradition's most celebrated composer. This engaging yet scholarly volume explores his long career and his rich cultural legacy from a broad range of in-depth perspectives, from the musical and historical to the political and international....
So, How Long Have You Been Native?
Life as an Alaska Native Tour Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
So, How Long Have You Been Native? is Alexis C. Bunten’s firsthand account of what it is like to work in the Alaska cultural tourism industry. An Alaska Native and anthropologist, she spent two seasons working for a tribally owned tourism business that markets the Tlingit culture in Sitka. Bunten’s...
The Assassination of Theo van Gogh
From Social Drama to Cultural Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2008
In November 2004, the controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was killed on a busy street in Amsterdam. A twenty-six-year-old Dutch citizen of Moroccan descent shot van Gogh, slit his throat, and pinned a five-page indictment of Western society to his body. The murder set off a series of reactions,...
Clyde Warrior
Tradition, Community, and Red Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
The phrase Red Power, coined by Clyde Warrior (1939–1968) in the 1960s, introduced militant rhetoric into American Indian activism. In this first-ever biography of Warrior, historian Paul R. McKenzie-Jones presents the Ponca leader as the architect of the Red Power movement, spotlighting him as...
Music and the Irish Imagination
Like a Language That We Could All Understand
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Irish music holds pride of place among the cultural attributes defining Ireland, and its role in shaping national identity is undisputed. To question these certainties which tend to convey a restrictive notion of a so-called Irish music, the first Irish music studies conference in France, which took...