Berg Publishers imprint: 51 books
When Clothes Become Fashion
Design and Innovation Systems
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
When, how and why do clothes become fashion? Fashion is more than mere clothing. It is a moment of invention, a distillation of desire, a reflection of a zeitgeist. It is also a business relying on an intricate network of manufacture, marketing and retail.
Fashion is both medium and message...
Design Thinking
Understanding How Designers Think and Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Design thinking is the core creative process for any designer; this book explores and explains this apparently mysterious "design ability".
Focusing on what designers do when they design, Design Thinking is structured around a series of in-depth case studies of outstanding and expert designers...
Cinema
A Visual Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Cinema: A Visual Anthropology provides a clear and concise summary of the key ideas, debates, and texts of the most important approaches to the study of fiction film from around the world. The book examines ways to address film and film experience beyond the study of the audience. Cross-disciplinary...
by Pamela Church Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The interrelationship between fashion and celebrity is now a salient and pervasive feature of the media world. This accessible text presents the first in-depth study of the phenomenon, assessing the degree to which celebrity culture has reshaped the fashion system.
Fashion and Celebrity Culture critically...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
For at least two centuries, fashion and art have maintained a competitive love-hate relationship. Both fashion and art construct imaginary worlds, and use a language of style to invigorate beliefs, perceptions and ideas.
Until now the crossovers of fashion and art have received only scattered...
Changing Fashion
A Critical Introduction to Trend Analysis and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Changing trends in fashion have always reflected large-scale social and cultural changes. Changing Fashion presents for the first time a multi-disciplinary approach to examining fashion change, bringing together theory from fashion studies, cultural studies, sociology, psychology and art history,...
Art
Key Contemporary Thinkers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
The last few decades have witnessed an explosion in ideas and theories on art. Art itself has never been so topical, but much recent thinking remains inaccessible and difficult to use. This book assesses the work of those thinkers (including artists) who have had a major impact on making, criticizing...
Japanese Fashion Designers
The Work and Influence of Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamotom, and Rei Kawakubo
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Over the past 40 years, Japanese designers have led the way in aligning fashion with art and ideology, as well as addressing identity and social politics through dress. They have demonstrated that both creative and commercial enterprise is possible in today's international fashion industry, and have...
by Thomas C. Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
After being widely rejected in the late 20th century the work of Karl Marx is now being reassessed by many theorists and activists. Karl Marx, Anthropologist explores how this most influential of modern thinkers is still highly relevant for Anthropology today.
Marx was profoundly influenced...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The study of tourism has made key contributions to the study of Anthropology. This volume defines the current state of the Anthropology of Tourism, examining political, economic, ideological and symbolic themes.
An extraordinarily rich collection of case studies illustrate topics as diverse as hospitality,...
Technoculture
The Key Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
We live in a world where science and technology shape the global economy and everyday culture, where new biotechnologies are changing what we eat and how we can reproduce, and where email, mobiles and the internet have revolutionised the ways we communicate with each other and engage with the world...
Food
The Key Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Food: The Key Concepts presents an exciting, coherent and interdisciplinary introduction to food studies for the beginning reader. Food Studies is an increasingly complex field, drawing on disciplines as diverse as Sociology, Anthropology and Cultural Studies at one end and Economics, Politics and...
Globalization
The Key Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Globalization is the buzzword of the 21st century. If we live in a globalized world, what does this mean for our economies, our cultures, our work and leisure, even our sense of ourselves? Globalization: The Key Concepts presents an accessible and provocative guide to the way we live now. The causes...
The Internet
An Introduction to New Media
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Life without the internet, a very new technology, seems almost unimaginable for most people in western nations. Today the internet is intrinsic to media and communications, entertainment, politics, defence, business, banking, education and administrative systems as well as to social interaction. The...