Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Japanese Modernisation and Mingei Theory
Cultural Nationalism and Oriental Orientalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Conceptualised in 1920s Japan by Yanagi Sôetsu, the Mingei movement has spread world wide since the 1950s, creating phenomena as diverse as Mingei museums, Mingei connoisseurs and collectors, Mingei shops and Mingei restaurants. The theory, at its core and its adaptation by Bernard Leach, has long...
Feminism and Migration
Cross-Cultural Engagements
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Feminism and Migration: Cross-Cultural Engagements is a rich, original, and diverse collection on the intersections of feminism and migration in western and non-western contexts. This book explores the question: does migration empower women? Through wide-ranging topics on theorizing feminism in...
Tibetan Medicine in the Contemporary World
Global Politics of Medical Knowledge and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The popularity of Tibetan medicine plays a central role in the international market for alternative medicine and has been increasing and extending far beyond its original cultural area becoming a global phenomenon. This book analyses Tibetan medicine in the 21st century by considering the contemporary...
Cultural Politics and Asian Values
The Tepid War
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Cultural Politics and Asian Values looks at the political, cultural and religious background of East and Southeast Asian societies and those of 'the West', with a view to seeing how they are affecting contemporary national and international politics: democratization, the international human rights...
Daoism in Japan
Chinese traditions and their influence on Japanese religious culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Like an ancient river, Daoist traditions introduced from China once flowed powerfully through the Japanese religious landscape, forever altering its topography and ecology. Daoism’s presence in Japan still may be discerned in its abiding influence on astrology, divination, festivals, literature,...
Women, Sport and Exercise in the Asia-Pacific Region
Domination, Resistance, Accommodation
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Although socio-cultural issues in relation to women within the fields of sport and exercise have been extensively researched, this research has tended to concentrate on the Western world. Women, Sport and Exercise in the Asia-Pacific Region moves the conversation away entirely from Western contexts...
by Valerie Wee
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
The Ring (2002)—Hollywood’s remake of the Japanese cult success Ringu (1998)—marked the beginning of a significant trend in the late 1990s and early 2000s of American adaptations of Asian horror films. This book explores this complex process of adaptation, paying particular attention to the...
Politics and Aesthetics in Contemporary Native American Literature
Across Every Border
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Over the last twenty years, Native American literary studies has taken a sharp political turn. In this book, Matthew Herman provides the historical framework for this shift and examines the key moments in the movement away from cultural analyses toward more politically inflected and motivated perspectives....
by Anne Anlin Cheng
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Focusing on the cultural and philosophic conflation between the "oriental" and the "ornamental," Ornamentalism offers an original and sustained theory about Asiatic femininity in western culture. This study pushes our vocabulary about the woman of color past the usual platitudes about objectification...
Black-Brown Solidarity
Racial Politics in the New Gulf South
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Houston is the largest city in the Gulf South, a region sometimes referred to as the “black belt” because of its sizeable African American population. Yet, over the last thirty years, Latinos have become the largest ethnic minority in Houston, which is surpassed only by Los Angeles and New York in...
French Food
On the Table, On the Page, and in French Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
More than a book about food alone, French Food uses diet as a window into issues of nationality, literature, and culture in France and abroad. Outstanding contributors from cultural studies, literary criticism, performance studies, and the emerging field of food studies explore a wide range of food matters.
Affect in Relation
Families, Places, Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Decades of research on affect and emotion have brought out the paramount importance of affective processes for human lives.
Affect in Relation brings together perspectives from social science and cultural studies to analyze the formative, subject constituting potentials of affect and emotion....
by Joanna McMillan
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
After decades of near silence on the matter, sex is being talked about in China. But what is being said? Who is allowed to speak? And whose purposes are being served?
This ground-breaking book takes a critical look at how sex in China is thought and talked about. Drawing on the work of the...
by Xiaowei Zang
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
This book studies the relationship between Islam, family processes, and gender inequality among Uyghur Muslims in Ürümchi, China. Empirically, it shows in quantitative terms the extent of gender inequalities among Uyghur Muslims in Ürümchi and tests whether the gender inequalities are a difference...