Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Heritage Conservation and Japan's Cultural Diplomacy
Heritage, National Identity and National Interest
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Japan’s heritage conservation policy and practice, as deployed through its foreign aid programs, has become one of the main means through which post-World War II Japan has sought to mark its presence in the international arena, both globally and regionally. Heritage conservation has been intimately...
Making Cultural History
New Perspectives on Western Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This volume contains 17 essays with fresh new approaches to cultural history from 17 authors that belong to different academic disciplines, including archaeology, art history, classical languages, ethnology, fashion studies, history, history of ideas, history of religion, literature studies, and media...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
This state-of-knowledge review provides a synthesis of the effects of fire on cultural resources, which can be used by fire managers, cultural resource (CR) specialists, and archaeologists to more effectively manage wildland vegetation, fuels, and fire. The goal of the volume is twofold: (1) to provide...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
“Undoubtedly the most comprehensive analysis of the role of culture and emergent practices in capacity building currently at hand. d’Estrée and Parsons have produced a commendable amalgamation and scrutiny of local, cultural, and Indigenous mediation practices in a number of contexts that empower...
by Paul Bowman, Professor of Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, UK
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
What do martial arts signify today? What do they mean for East-West cross cultural exchanges? How does the representation of martial arts in popular culture impact on the wide world? What is authentic practice? What does it all mean?
From Kung Fu to Jiujitsu and from Bruce Lee to The Karate...
Transforming Images
Screens, affect, futures
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Contemporary social and cultural life is increasingly organised around a logic of self-transformation, where changing the body is seen as key. Transforming Images examines how the future functions within this transformative logic to indicate the potential of a materially better time. The book explores...
Cultural Rights and Justice
Sustainable Development, the Arts and the Body
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
This book provides an innovative contribution to the emerging field of culture and development through the lens of cultural rights, arguing in favour of a fruitful dialogue between human rights, development studies, critical cultural studies, and concerns about the protection and preservation of cultural...
Rights to Culture
Heritage, Language and Community in Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
This collection brings together original, small-scale, ethnographic research on minorities and communities contesting heritage, livelihood, language, and citizenship in Thailand. The case studies included here look at the rights of communities to manage their own cultural and natural resources across...
Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain
History, the New Left, and the Origins of Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 1997
In this intellectual history of British cultural Marxism, Dennis Dworkin explores one of the most influential bodies of contemporary thought. Tracing its development from beginnings in postwar Britain, through its various transformations in the 1960s and 1970s, to the emergence of British cultural...
Black Cultural Traffic
Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
"A shrewdly designed, generously expansive, timely contribution to our understanding of how 'black' expression continues to define and defy the contours of global (post)modernity. The essays argue persuasively for a transnational ethos binding disparate African and diasporic enactments, and together...
by Erdener Kaynak, Paul Herbig
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Going global can be risky business if you don't divest yourself of your ethnocentric thinking. You have to take into consideration your new market's language, work schedules, tastes, lifestyle choices, and cultural associations, and this is the book to help you do that! Handbook of Cross-Cultural...
On the Margins of Tibet
Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
The state of Tibetan culture within contemporary China is a highly politicized topic on which reliable information is rare. But what is Tibetan culture and how should it be developed or preserved? The Chinese authorities and the Tibetans in exile present conflicting views on almost every aspect of...
Indigenous Mestizos
The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919–1991
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2000
In the early twentieth century, Peruvian intellectuals, unlike their European counterparts, rejected biological categories of race as a basis for discrimination. But this did not eliminate social hierarchies; instead, it redefined racial categories as cultural differences, such as differences in education...
by Mario A. Tovar
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Providing in-depth coverage of the Mexican American population from social, cultural, and psychological (clinical) perspectives, this book promotes the understanding of cultural practices and sociological characteristics of this important ethnic group.
• Addresses the characteristics of members...