Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Drumming up Dialogue
The Dialogic Philosophies of Martin Buber, Fred Iklé, and William Ury Compared and Applied to the Babukusu Community of Kenya
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
If, as they say, we all come out of Africa, then somewhere in Kenyas Rift Valley we first learned to live as human beings and we quickly learned to quarrel, too. Migration patterns within Kenya are as complicated as any in the U.S. or Europe and its multi-ethnic history is much, much longer. Fr. Baraza,...
Brands
Meaning and Value in Media Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2006
Drawing on rich empirical material, this revealing book builds up a critical theory, arguing that brands have become an important tool for transforming everyday life into economic value.
When branding lifestyles or value complexes onto their products, companies assume that consumers desire...
The Expanding World Ayahuasca Diaspora
Appropriation, Integration and Legislation
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
During its expansion from the Amazon jungle to Western societies, ayahuasca use has encountered different legal and cultural responses. Following on from the earlier edited collection, The Expanding World Ayahuasca Diaspora continues to explore how certain alternative global religious groups, shamanic...
Not Straight, Not White
Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
This compelling book recounts the history of black gay men from the 1950s to the 1990s, tracing how the major movements of the times—from civil rights to black power to gay liberation to AIDS activism—helped shape the cultural stigmas that surrounded race and homosexuality. In locating the rise...
Psychotherapy and Religion in Japan
The Japanese Introspection Practice of Naikan
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Naikan is a Japanese psychotherapeutic method which combines meditation-like body engagement with the recovery of memory and the reconstruction of one's autobiography in order to bring about healing and a changed notion of the self.
Based on original anthropological fieldwork, this fascinating...
Reimagining Indians
Native Americans through Anglo Eyes, 1880-1940
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Reimagining Indians investigates a group of Anglo-American writers whose books about Native Americans helped reshape Americans' understanding of Indian peoples at the turn of the twentieth century. Hailing from the Eastern United States, these men and women traveled to the American West and discovered...
Progressive Traditions
Identity in Cherokee Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
According to a dichotomy commonly found in studies of American Indians, some noble Native people defiantly defend their pristine indigenous traditions in honor of their ancestors, while others in weakness or greed surrender their culture and identities to white American economies and institutions....
A Chemehuevi Song
The Resilience of a Southern Paiute Tribe
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
The Chemehuevi of the Twenty-Nine Palms tribe of Southern California stands as a testament to the power of perseverance. This small, nomadic band of Southern Paiute Indians has been repeatedly marginalized by European settlers, other Native groups, and, until now, historical narratives that have all...
Samuel Steward and the Pursuit of the Erotic Sexuality, Literature, Archives
Sexuality, Literature, Archives
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Samuel Steward and the Pursuit of the Erotic: Sexuality, Literature, Archives examines one of the most fascinating sexual renegades of the twentieth century and the social, cultural, pedagogical, and erotic projects with which he was engaged. This innovative collection, edited by Debra A. Moddelmog...
Hawaiian Blood
Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2008
In the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act (HHCA) of 1921, the U.S. Congress defined “native Hawaiians” as those people “with at least one-half blood quantum of individuals inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands prior to 1778.” This “blood logic” has since become an entrenched part of the legal system...
Cultural Sociology
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Cultural Sociology: An Introduction is the first dedicated student textbook to address cultural sociology as a legitimate model for sociological thinking and research. Highly renowned authors present a rich overview of major sociological themes and the various empirical applications of cultural sociology.
A...
Gay Tourism
Culture and Context
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The gay tourism industry-a progressive social force or a pull towards an oppressive status quo?
The pink tourism dollar is now recognized as a highly profitable niche of the tourism market. Gay Tourism: Culture and Context critically investigates the emergence of a commercial gay tourism industry...
by Teresa L. Ebert, Mas'ud Zavarzadeh
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
"A gem of a book. Its topics are timely and provocative for cultural studies, sociology, English, literary theory, and education classes. The authors are brilliant thinkers and clear, penetrating writers." -Peter McLaren, UCLA, author of Capitalists and Conquerors: A Critical Pedagogy Against...
by Cynthia Levine-Rasky
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Whiteness Fractured examines the many ways in which whiteness is conceptualized today and how it is understood to operate and to effect social relationships. Exploring the intersections between whiteness, social class, ethnicity and psychosocial phenomena, this book is framed by the question of how...