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Culture Works
Space, Value, and Mobility Across the Neoliberal Americas
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Culture Works addresses and critiques an important dimension of the “work of culture,” an argument made by enthusiasts of creative economies that culture contributes to the GDP, employment, social cohesion, and other forms of neoliberal development. While culture does make important contributions...
National Identity
Theory and Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
National identity has been the subject of much controversy and debate. Some have even suggested dropping the concept entirely. One group, Essentialists, argue that national identity is fixed, cultural, based on birth and ancestry. Another viewpoint is posited by Postmodernists who argue that national...
The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies
Autonomy and Representation in the University
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Originating in the 1968 student-led strike at San Francisco State University, Asian American Studies was founded as a result of student and community protests that sought to make education more accessible and relevant. While members of the Asian American communities initially served on the departmental...
by P. K. Bhowmick
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2002
This book shows the gradual changing conditions of the customary law of the Austric speaking tribal people of Frontier Bengal. Due to socio-political changes their customary laws are expected to change. All these factors have been critically explained including the ethnographic account of the tribal...
Food and Foodways in Asia
Resource, Tradition and Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
Food is an important cultural marker of identity in contemporary Asian societies, and can provide a medium for the understanding of social relations, family and kinship, class and consumption, gender ideology, and cultural symbolism. However, a truly comprehensive view of food cannot neglect the politics...
by Martine Legge
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Ever wondered about the correct way to address a Duke? Or how to get out of a car elegantly? What do you do if you embarrass yourself in public? These, and a whole host of other practical questions, are answered in this charming pocket-sized book. First published in 1960 this charming book provides...
Indigenous Peoples and the State
International Perspectives on the Treaty of Waitangi
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Across the globe, there are numerous examples of treaties, compacts, or other negotiated agreements that mediate relationships between Indigenous peoples and states or settler communities. Perhaps the best known of these, New Zealand’s Treaty of Waitangi is a living, and historically rich, illustration...
Merchants in the City of Art
Work, Identity, and Change in a Florentine Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This lively and engaging ethnography, written and designed with students in mind, uses the experiences and perspectives of a set of long-time market vendors in San Lorenzo, a neighborhood in the historic center of Florence, Italy, to explore how cultural identities are formed in periods of profound economic and social change.
Remaking the World
Myth, Mining, and Ritual Change Among the Duna of Papua New Guinea
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Drawing on both their own fieldwork from 1991 to 1999 and older written sources, Stewart and Strathern explore how the Duna have remade their rituals and associated myths in response to the outside influences of government, Christianity, and large-scale economic development, specifically mining and...
by Maurice Godelier
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2020
Exploring the close relationship between the real and the symbolic and imaginary
What you imagined is not always imaginary, but everything that is imaginary is imagined. It is by imagining that people make the impossible become possible. In mythology or religion, however, those things that...
by Daniel Defoe
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
The Subject is singular, and it has been handled after a singular Manner: The wise World has been pleased with it, the merry World has been diverted with it, and the ignorant World has been taught by it; none but the malicious part of the World has been offended at it: Who can wonder, that when the...
by Marcela Magdaleno
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Este es un recorrido por los pueblos de México y sus moradores, por sus costumbres y sus historias, por sus temores y sus milagros, animado con nuevos colores, sonidos, olores y visiones. La autora no solo nos narra las historias, sino que nos hace sentir que son los diablos, duendes y brujas quienes nos cuentas su suerte, ya sea de fatalidad o de ventura.
by Fridtjof Nansen
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2016
For one whole winter we were cut off from the world and immured among the Greenlanders. I dwelt in their huts, took part in their hunting, and tried, as well as I could, to live their life and learn their language. But one winter, unfortunately, is far too short a time in which to attain a thorough...
Dressing for the Culture Wars
Style and the Politics of Self-Presentation in the 1960s and 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Style of dress has always been a way for Americans to signify their politics, but perhaps never so overtly as in the 1960s and 1970s. Whether participating in presidential campaigns or Vietnam protests, hair and dress provided a powerful cultural tool for social activists to display their politics...