Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage examines the social, cultural, political and economic value of popular music as history and heritage. Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, the volume explores the relationship between popular music and the past, and how interpretations...
The Invention of Taste
A Cultural Account of Desire, Delight and Disgust in Fashion, Food and Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
The Invention of Taste provides a detailed overview of the development of taste, from ancient times to the present. At the heart of the book is an intriguing question: why did the sensory attribute of human taste become a social metaphor and aesthetic value for judging cultural qualities of art, fashion,...
Cultural Geographies
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Cultural geography is a major, vibrant subdiscipline of human geography. Cultural geographers have done some of the most important, exciting and thought-provokingly zesty work in human geography over the last half-century.
This book exists to provide an introduction to the remarkably diverse,...
Troubling Tricksters
Revisioning Critical Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Troubling Tricksters is a collection of theoretical essays, creative pieces, and critical ruminations that provides a re-visioning of trickster criticism in light of recent backlash against it. The complaints of some Indigenous writers, the critique from Indigenous nationalist critics, and the changing...
Gathering the Potawatomi Nation
Revitalization and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Following the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, the Potawatomis, once concentrated around southern Lake Michigan, increasingly dispersed into nine bands across four states, two countries, and a thousand miles. How is it, author Christopher Wetzel asks, that these scattered people, with different characteristics...
Gaydar Culture
Gay Men, Technology and Embodiment in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Popular culture has recognized urban gay men's use of the Web over the last ten years, with gay Internet dating and Net-cruising featuring as narrative devices in hit television shows. Yet to date, the relationship between urban gay male culture and digital media technologies has received only limited...
Telling and Being Told
Storytelling and Cultural Control in Contemporary Yucatec Maya Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Through performance and the spoken word, Yucatec Maya storytellers have maintained the vitality of their literary traditions for more than five hundred years. Telling and Being Told presents the figure of the storyteller as a symbol of indigenous cultural control in contemporary Yucatec Maya literatures....
An Anthropology of Learning
On Nested Frictions in Cultural Ecologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
This book has one explicit purpose: to present a new theory of cultural learning in organisations which combines practice-based learning with cultural models - a cognitive anthropological schema theory of taken-for-granted connections - tied to the everyday meaningful use of artefacts. The understanding...
by Yingjie Guo
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
In the vast majority of literature on 'Chinese nationalism' the distinction between nation and state is rarely made, consequently nationalism usually appears as loyalty to the state rather than identification with the nation. Yet, since 1989, both the official configuration of the nation and the state's...
Economy Hotels in China
A Glocalized Innovative Hospitality Sector
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
While economy or budget hotels have been popular in western countries since the end of the Second World War, they have only emerged as a sector in their own right in China since the mid-1990s. Indeed, as a new service industry sector, economy hotels in China demonstrate important characteristics which...
Identity Politics and Popular Culture in Taiwan
A Sajiao Generation
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
In the past two decades, a uniform representation of cutified femininity prevails in the Taiwanese media, evidenced by the shift of Taiwan’s popular cultural taste from a Chinese-centered tradition to a mixed absorption from neighboring cultural capitals in the global market. This book argues that...
Global and Regional Problems
Towards an Interdisciplinary Study
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Distinctive due to explicit and systematically developed links between international relations (IR) and related disciplines, this book addresses global and regional interactions and the complex policy problems that often characterise this agenda. Such enhanced communication is crucial for improving...
Indian Blood
HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco's Two-Spirit Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary "Lammy" Award in LGBTQ Studies
The first book to examine the correlation between mixed-race identity and HIV/AIDS among Native American gay men and transgendered people, Indian Blood provides an analysis of the emerging and often contested LGBTQ "two-spirit"...
by Earl Wright II, Edward V. Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The Ashgate Research Companion to Black Sociology provides the most up to date exploration and analysis of research focused on Blacks in America. Beginning with an examination of the project of Black Sociology, it offers studies of recent events, including the ‘Stand Your Ground’ killing of Trayvon...