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The Cultural Politics of Nationalism and Nation-Building

Ritual and performance in the forging of nations

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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013

Rituals and performances are a key theme in the study of nations and nationalism. With the aim of stimulating further research in this area, this book explores, debates and evaluates the role of rituals and performances in the emergence, persistence and transformation of nations, nationalisms and...
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European Studies in Asia

Contours of a Discipline

by Georg Wiessala
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014

As countries across Asia continue to rise and become more assertive global powers, the role that Higher Education has played, and continues to play, in this process is an issue of growing pertinence. Furthermore, understanding the relationship between Europe and Asia fostered by historical and contemporary...
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Possessed Women, Haunted States

Cultural Tensions in Exorcism Cinema

by Christopher J. Olson, CarrieLynn D. Reinhard
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016

Since the release of The Exorcist in 1973, there has been a surge of movies depicting young women becoming possessed by a demonic force that only male religious figures can exorcise, thereby saving the women from eventual damnation. This book considers this history of exorcism cinema by analyzing...
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Theravada Buddhism and the British Encounter

Religious, Missionary and Colonial Experience in Nineteenth Century Sri Lanka

by Elizabeth Harris
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006

This major new work explores the British encounter with Buddhism in nineteenth century Sri Lanka, examining the way Buddhism was represented and constructed in the eyes of the British scholars, officials, travellers and religious seekers who first encountered it. Tracing the three main historical...
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Beauty and Misogyny

Harmful cultural practices in the West

by Sheila Jeffreys
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014

The new edition of Beauty and Misogyny revisits and updates Sheila Jeffreys' uncompromising critique of Western beauty practice and the industries and ideologies behind it. Jeffreys argues that beauty practices are not related to individual female choice or creative expression, but represent instead...
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by Amy Ansell
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013

Situating the study of race and ethnicity within its historical and intellectual context, this much needed guide exposes students to the broad diversity of scholarship within the field. It provides a clear and succinct explanation of more than 70 key terms, their conceptual evolution over time, and...
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Culture Shock for Asians in U.S. Academia

Breaking the Model Minority Myth

by Eunkyong Lee Yook
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013

Culture Shock for Asians in U.S. Academia: Breaking the Model Minority Myth discusses the unique cultural challenges that Asians face in U.S. academia. The issues facing Asians in academia are worthy of our attention for two major reasons: the numerical significance of Asians in U.S. academia and...
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Geographies of Muslim Identities

Diaspora, Gender and Belonging

by Peter Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016

In recent years, geographies of identities, including those of ethnicity, religion, 'race' and gender, have formed an increasing focus of contemporary human geography. The events of September 11th, 2001 particularly illustrated the ways in which identities can be transformed across time and space...
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Appetites and Anxieties

Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation

by Diane Carson, Cynthia Baron, Mark Bernard
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013

Cinema is a mosaic of memorable food scenes. Detectives drink alone. Gangsters talk with their mouths full. Families around the world argue at dinner. Food documentaries challenge popular consumption-centered visions. In Appetites and Anxieties: Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation, authors...
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by Ella Maria Diaz
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017

The Royal Chicano Air Force produced major works of visual art, poetry, prose, music, and performance during the second half of the twentieth century and first decades of the twenty-first. Materializing in Sacramento, California, in 1969 and established between 1970 and 1972, the RCAF helped redefine...
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When We Imagine Grace

Black Men and Subject Making

by Simone C. Drake
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016

Simone C. Drake spent the first several decades of her life learning how to love and protect herself, a black woman, from the systems designed to facilitate her harm and marginalization. But when she gave birth to the first of her three sons, she quickly learned that black boys would need protection...
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by Francis X. Clooney
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017

The field of Hindu-Christian studies revives theology as a particularly useful interreligious discipline. Though a sub-division of the broader Hindu-Christian dialogue, it is also a distinct field of study, proper to a smaller group of religious intellectuals. At its best it envisions a two-sided,...
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The Culture of the Body

Genealogies of Modernity

by Dalia Judovitz
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011

What is the body? How was it culturally constructed, conceived, and cultivated before and after the advent of rationalism and modern science? This interdisciplinary study elaborates a cultural genealogy of the body and its legacies to modernity by tracing its crucial redefinition from a live anatomical...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011

This unique reader offers an engaging collection of essays that highlight the diversity of Latin America’s cultural expressions from independence to the present. Leading historians explore funerals, dance and music, letters and literature, spectacles and monuments, and world’s fairs and food....
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