Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society is an interdisciplinary resource that focuses on contemporary Japan and the social and cultural trends that are important at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This Handbook provides a cutting-edge and comprehensive survey of significant...
Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific
Between Local and Global
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
This volume examines the economic, political, social and environmental challenges facing rural communities in the Asia-Pacific region, as global issues intersect with local contexts. Such challenges, from climatic change and volcanic eruption to population growth and violent civil unrest, have stimulated...
by Arne Kalland, Gerard Persoon
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
This volume paints a general picture of the environmental situation in Asia, backing it up with several case studies.
Two major points are made in this general picture. The first is that environmental campaigns in Asia tend to have a local focus; they react to very concrete problems in the immediate...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
The clothing industry provides employment for 60 million workers worldwide. More than a quarter of these workers are employed in the Asia-Pacific region, where the industry is based on subcontracted production on behalf of international buyers. Rapid movements of manufacturing activity from country...
Developing Emotional Appeals in Internet Advertising
A study of contributing factors involved in provoking emotional appeals
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2008 in the subject South Asian Studies, South-Eastern Asian Studies, grade: A, , 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Online media and its increasing usage rate have changed the marketer's world for targeting their consumers. Internet...
Fashion Cultures Revisited
Theories, Explorations and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Following on from the ground-breaking collection Fashion Cultures, this second anthology, Fashion Cultures Revisited, contains 26 newly commissioned chapters exploring fashion culture from the start of the new millennium to the present day. The book is divided into six parts, each discussing different...
Gender, Culture, and Performance
Marathi Theatre and Cinema before Independence
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This book presents a lucid, comprehensive, and entertaining narrative of culture and society in late 19th- and early 20th-century Maharashtra through a perceptive study of its theatre and cinema. An intellectual tour de force, it will be invaluable to scholars and researchers of modern Indian history,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Global in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, Creolization as Cultural Creativity explores the expressive forms and performances that come into being when cultures encounter one another. Creolization is presented as a powerful marker of identity in the postcolonial creole societies of Latin America,...
Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop
Crises in Whiteness
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop examines white American male literature for its social commentary on the construction of whiteness in the United States. Whiteness has always been a contested racial identity in the U.S., one in a state of construction and reconstruction throughout...
Intersections of Harm
Narratives of Latina Deviance and Defiance
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
In this innovative new study, Laura Halperin examines literary representations of harm inflicted on Latinas’ minds and bodies, and on the places Latinas inhabit, but she also explores how hope can be found amid so much harm. Analyzing contemporary memoirs and novels by Irene Vilar, Loida Maritza...
From Bananas to Buttocks
The Latina Body in Popular Film and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
From the exuberant excesses of Carmen Miranda in the "tutti frutti hat" to the curvaceous posterior of Jennifer Lopez, the Latina body has long been a signifier of Latina/o identity in U.S. popular culture. But how does this stereotype of the exotic, erotic Latina "bombshell" relate, if at all, to...
Documenting Taiwan on Film
Issues and Methods in New Documentaries
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
To date, there is but a handful of articles on documentary films from Taiwan. This volume seeks to remedy the paucity in this area of research and conduct a systematic analysis of the genre. Each contributor to the volume investigates the various aspects of documentary by focusing on one or two specific...
Refusing the Favor
The Spanish-Mexican Women of Santa Fe, 1820-1880
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2001
Refusing the Favor tells the little-known story of the Spanish-Mexican women who saw their homeland become part of New Mexico. A corrective to traditional narratives of the period, it carefully and lucidly documents the effects of colonization, looking closely at how the women lived both before and...
Odd Tribes
Toward a Cultural Analysis of White People
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2005
Odd Tribes challenges theories of whiteness and critical race studies by examining the tangles of privilege, debasement, power, and stigma that constitute white identity. Considering the relation of phantasmatic cultural forms such as the racial stereotype “white trash” to the actual social conditions...