Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law
Case Studies, Voices, and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Indigenous peoples around the world are seeking greater control over tangible and intangible cultural heritage. In Canada, issues concerning repatriation and trade of material culture, heritage site protection, treatment of ancestral remains, and control over intangible heritage are governed by a...
Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies
A Critical Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies brings into conversation two fields—Early Modern Studies and Black Studies—that traditionally have had little to say to each other. This disconnect is the product of current scholarly assumptions about a lack of archival evidence that limits what we can say...
Trade and Exchange
Archaeological Studies from History and Prehistory
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2009
Long before the advent of the global economy, foreign goods were transported, traded, and exchanged through myriad means, over short and long distances. Archaeological tools for identifying foreign objects, such as provenance studies, stylistic analyses, and economic documentary sources reveal non-local...
The State and the Arts in Singapore
Policies and Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
This book covers Singapore's key arts policies and art institutions which have shaped the cultural landscape of the country from the 1950s to the present.
The scholars and experts in this volume critically assess arts policies and arts institutions to collectively provide an overview of how...
Eating the Landscape
American Indian Stories of Food, Identity, and Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
"Eating is not only a political act, it is also a cultural act that reaffirms one’s identity and worldview," Enrique Salmón writes in Eating the Landscape. Traversing a range of cultures, including the Tohono O’odham of the Sonoran Desert and the Rarámuri of the Sierra Tarahumara,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This volume explores how migration is playing a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the fast growing and rapidly changing cities of Asia. Migration trends in Asia entered a new phase in the 1990s following the end of the Cold War which marked the advent of a renewed phase...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The colonial legacy in the construction of the modern Indian state has left a deep imprint on contemporary Indians’ self-identity and self-determination. Borderland Politics in Northern India is a collection of essays, giving detailed accounts of the many different ways that people throughout India...
A Visual History of HIV/AIDS
Exploring The Face of AIDS film archive
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
The Face of AIDS film archive at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, consists of more than 700 hours of unedited and edited footage, shot over a period of more than thirty years and all over the world by filmmaker and journalist Staffan Hildebrand. The material documents the HIV/AIDS pandemic and includes...
Buddhist Monasticism in East Asia
Places of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
The area of Buddhist monasticism has long attracted the interest of Buddhist studies scholars and historians, but the interpretation of the nature and function of monasteries across diverse cultures and vast historical periods remains a focus for debate. This book provides a multifaceted discussion...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This is one of the first books to explore Nepali diaspora in a global context, across India and other parts of South Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and Australia. It discusses the social, political and economic status and aspirations of the Nepali community worldwide. The essays in the volume cover...
Russia's Youth and its Culture
A Nation's Constructors and Constructed
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Since the political whirlwinds of the mid-1980s and the fall of communism in 1991, Russia has undergone dramatic social change, much of which has escaped the attention of Western media.
In her new book, Hilary Pilkington applies the methods of cultural studies research to the study of Russian youth....
Sufism and Saint Veneration in Contemporary Bangladesh
The Maijbhandaris of Chittagong
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Focusing on the Maijbhandari movement in Chittagong, south-eastern Bangladesh, which claims the status of the only Sufi order originated in Bengal and which has gained immense popularity in recent years, this book provides a comprehensive picture of an important aspect of contemporary Bengali Islam...
Desi Divas
Political Activism in South Asian American Cultural Performances
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Desi Divas: Activism in South Asian American Cultural Performances is the product of five years of field research with progressive activists associated with the School for Indian Languages and Cultures (SILC), South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), the feminist dance collective Post Natyam,...
Everyday Life and Cultural Theory
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2002
Everyday Life and Cultural Theory provides a unique critical and historical introduction to theories of everyday life. Ben Highmore traces the development of conceptions of everyday life, from the cultural sociology of Georg Simmel, through the Mass-Observation project of the 1930s to contemporary theorists such as Michel de Certeau.