Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Rural life in Southeast Asia is being transformed by new and intensifying processes of migration and mobility. Migration out of rural areas creates new forms of class mobility, familial relations, production processes and income. Migration into rural areas creates a new and sometimes marginalized...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Readers of this one-volume reference will gain useful knowledge of what travelers should and shouldn't do when in countries outside of the United States. After a general introduction, approximately 100 alphabetically arranged entries cover topics such as greeting and meeting, appearance and dress,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
A Companion to Heritage Studies is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art survey of the interdisciplinary study of cultural heritage.
Outlines the key themes of research, including cultural preservation, environmental protection, world heritage and tourism, ethics, and human rights
Accessibly organized...
Reward for High Public Office
Asian and Pacific Rim States
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
The choices made by governments about how to reward their top employees reveal a great deal about their values and their assumptions about governing. This book examines rewards of high public office in seven Asian political systems, a particularly rich set of cases for exploring the causes and consequences...
Learning Native Wisdom
What Traditional Cultures Teach Us about Subsistence, Sustainability, and Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Scientific evidence has made it abundantly clear that the world's population can no longer continue its present rate of consuming and despoiling the planet's limited natural resources. Scholars, activists, politicians, and citizens worldwide are promoting the idea of sustainability, or systems and...
Cinematic Social Studies
A Resource for Teaching and Learning Social Studies With Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Action! Film is a common and powerful element in the social studies classroom and Cinematic Social Studies explores teaching and learning social studies with film. Teaching with film is a prominent teaching strategy utilized by many teachers on a regular basis. Cinematic Social Studies moves readers...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Centuries-old community planning practices in Indigenous communities in Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia have, in modern times, been eclipsed by ill-suited western approaches, mostly derived from colonial and neo-colonial traditions. Since planning outcomes have failed to reflect...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Not only does the library have a long and complex history and politics, but it has an ambivalent presence in Western culture – both a site of positive knowledge and a site of error, confusion, and loss. Nevertheless, in literary studies and in the humanities, including book history, the figure of...
Porn Chic
Exploring the Contours of Raunch Eroticism
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The mainstreaming of pornographic imagery into fashion and popular culture at the turn of the millennium in Britain and the US signalled a dramatic cultural shift in construction of both femininity and masculinity. For men and women, raunch became the new cool. This engaging book draws from a diverse...
Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds
Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
An unprecedented account of the long-term cultural and political influences that Mexican-Americans will have on the collective character of our nation.In considering the largest immigrant group in American history, Gregory Rodriguez examines the complexities of its heritage and of the racial and cultural...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
The Caribbean ranks among the earliest and most completely globalized regions in the world. From the first moment Europeans set foot on the islands to the present, products, people, and ideas have made their way back and forth between the region and other parts of the globe with unequal but inexorable...
Globalisation and Advertising in Emerging Economies
Brazil, Russia, India and China
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Brazil, Russia, India and China are four of the largest and most dynamic contemporary emerging economies in the world. Strong economic growth in each of these economies has been accompanied by the expansion of the advertising and consumer goods sectors. Using a series of country studies, this book...
Curatorial Conversations
Cultural Representation and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Since its origins in 1967, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival has gained worldwide recognition as a model for the research and public presentation of living cultural heritage and the advocacy of cultural democracy. Festival curators play a major role in interpreting the Festival's principles and shaping...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Since 1975, when the U.S. government adopted a policy of self-determination for American Indian nations, a large number of the 562 federally recognized nations have seized the opportunity to govern themselves and determine their own economic, political, and cultural futures. As a first and crucial step...