Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Reading Orientalism
Said and the Unsaid
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The late Edward Said remains one of the most influential critics and public intellectuals of our time, with lasting contributions to many disciplines. Much of his reputation derives from the phenomenal multidisciplinary influence of his 1978 book Orientalism. Said's seminal polemic analyzes novels,...
Europe and the Asia-Pacific
Culture, Identity and Representations of Region
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
The many points of contact and conflict about culture and identity that exist between Europe and the Asia Pacific are highlighted in this book. This work surveys a variety of issues relating to culture, identity and representation from an interdisciplinary perspective, with contributions from sociology,...
Challenging Euro-America's Politics of Identity
The Return of the Native
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2008
In this fascinating book, Jorge Luis Andrade Fernandes critically examines the impact of colonialism and postcolonial migration on the politics and identity of Euro-American imperial powers.
It considers how ‘outsiders’ are part of the construction of the ‘native’ identity of the nation-state,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Censorship in Japan has seen many changes over the last 150 years and each successive system of rule has possessed its own censorship laws, regulations, and methods of enforcement. Yet what has remained constant through these many upheavals has been the process of negotiation between censor and artist...
City of Knowledge in Twentieth Century Iran
Shiraz, History and Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This book presents a cultural history of modern Iran from the point of view of Shiraz, a city famous for its poetry and its traditions of scholarship. Exploring the relationship among history, poetry and politics, the book analyses how Shiraz came to be defined as the country’s cultural capital,...
Studies in Coptic Culture
Transmission and Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Coptic contributions to the formative theological debates of Christianity have long been recognized. Less well known are other, equally valuable, Coptic contributions to the transmission and preservation of technical and scientific knowledge, and a full understanding of how Egypt's Copts survived...
Celebrating the Lives of Jewish Women
Patterns in a Feminist Sampler
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Jewish women of all ages and backgrounds come together in Celebrating the Lives of Jewish Women to explore and rejoice in what they have in common--their heritage. They reveal in striking personal stories how their Jewishness has shaped their identities and informed their experiences in innumerable,...
by Mark Q. Sutton, E. N. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
All peoples and cultures face environmental issues—but as this accessible text shows, how they respond to such issues varies widely around the world and across human history. Introduction to Cultural Ecology, Third Edition, familiarizes students with the foundations of the field and provides a framework...
Asegi Stories
Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
In Cherokee Asegi udanto refers to people who either fall outside of men’s and women’s roles or who mix men’s and women’s roles. Asegi, which translates as “strange,” is also used by some Cherokees as a term similar to “queer.” For author Qwo-Li Driskill, asegi provides a means by...
Cultures of Doing Good
Anthropologists and NGOs
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Anthropological field studies of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in their unique cultural and political contexts.
Cultures of Doing Good: Anthropologists and NGOs serves as a foundational text to advance a growing subfield of social science inquiry: the anthropology of nongovernmental...
Sinophone Studies
A Critical Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
This definitive anthology casts Sinophone studies as the study of Sinitic-language cultures born of colonial and postcolonial influences. Essays by such authors as Rey Chow, Ha Jin, Leo Ou-fan Lee, Ien Ang, Wei-ming Tu, and David Wang address debates concerning the nature of Chineseness while introducing...
Democratization and Memories of Violence
Ethnic minority rights movements in Mexico, Turkey, and El Salvador
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Ethnic minority communities make claims for cultural rights from states in different ways depending on how governments include them in policies and practices of accommodation or assimilation. However, institutional explanations don’t tell the whole story, as individuals and communities also protest,...
Cultural Policy and Industries of Identity
Québec, Scotland, & Catalonia
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
This book explores the cultural policies of sub-states with strong nationalist inclinations–in particular, Québec, Scotland, and Catalonia–and their trend, in recent years, towards promoting and supporting the cultural industries as a means of not just preserving their respective cultural identities,...
Transnational Memory and Popular Culture in East and Southeast Asia
Amnesia, Nostalgia and Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Transnational Memory and Popular Culture in East and Southeast Asia explores the significance of transnational popular culture in the formation and mediation of collective memories across the region. It looks at case studies including: the politics of cinematic remembering of Hong Kong films on Southeast...