Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
The essays in this collection address the relationship between children and cultural memory in texts both for and about young people. The collection overall is concerned with how cultural memory is shaped, contested, forgotten, recovered, and (re)circulated, sometimes in opposition to dominant national...
by Rebecca Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
Gandhi’s use of the spinning wheel was one of the most significant unifying elements of the nationalist movement in India. Spinning was seen as an economic and political activity that could bring together the diverse population of South Asia, and allow the formerly elite nationalist movement to...
Latinos in an Aging World
Social, Psychological, and Economic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
This book fosters a deeper understanding of the growing Latino elderly population and the implications on society. It examines post-WWII demographic and social changes and summarizes research from sociology, psychology, economics, and public health to shed light on the economic, physical, and mental...
Tapas de Culture
An Introduction To Cultural Awareness
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Presentation (Handout) from the year 2012 in the subject Sociology - Culture, Technology, Peoples / Nations, , course: Managing People in Project Environments, language: English, abstract: Many companies already operate in a number of foreign countries. More are following each year. The concept of...
Luyia Nation
Origins, Clans and Taboos
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Unbeknownst to most, the Luyia Nation is a congeries of Bantu and assimilated Nilotic clans principally the Luo, Kalenjin, and Maasai. Created seventy years ago, the Luyia tribe is still evolving in a slow process that seeks to harmonize the historico-cultural institutions that define the eighteen...
Migration Italy
The Art of Talking Back in a Destination Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
In terms of migration, Italy is often thought of as a source country - a place from which people came rather than one to which people go. However, in the past few decades, Italy has indeed become a destination for many people from poor or war-torn countries seeking a better life in a stable environment....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Home to close to 60 per cent of the world’s population, Asia is the largest and by far the most populous continent. It is also extremely diverse, physically and culturally. Asian countries and regions have their own distinctive histories, cultural traditions, religious beliefs and political systems,...
Flow TV
Television in the Age of Media Convergence
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
From viral videos on YouTube to mobile television on smartphones and beyond, TV has overflowed its boundaries. If Raymond Williams' concept of flow challenges the idea of a discrete television text, then convergence destabilizes the notion of television as a discrete object.
Flow TV examines...
The Modern Anthropology of India
Ethnography, Themes and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
The Modern Anthropology of India is an accessible textbook providing a critical overview of the ethnographic work done in India since 1947. It assesses the history of research in each region and serves as a practical and comprehensive guide to the main themes dealt with by ethnographers. It highlights...
Anywhere But Here
Black Intellectuals in the Atlantic World and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
Contributions by Keiko Araki, Ikaweba Bunting, Kimberly Cleveland, Amy Caldwell de Farias, Kimberli Gant, Danielle Legros Georges, Douglas W. Leonard, John Maynard, Kendahl Radcliffe, Edward L. Robinson Jr., Jennifer Scott, and Anja Werner
Anywhere But Here brings together new scholarship on...
Three Roads to Magdalena
Coming of Age in a Southwest Borderland, 1890-1990
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
“Someday,” Candelaria Garcia said to the author, “you will get all the stories.” It was a tall order, in Magdalena, New Mexico, a once booming frontier town where Navajo, Anglo, and Hispanic people have lived in shifting, sometimes separate, sometimes overlapping worlds for well over a hundred...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Recent studies on the meaning of cultural diplomacy in the twentieth century often focus on the United States and the Cold War, based on the premise that cultural diplomacy was a key instrument of foreign policy in the nation’s effort to contain the Soviet Union. As a result, the term “cultural...
Technology and In/equality
Questioning the Information Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Technology and In/equality explores the diverse implications of the new information and communication technologies through case studies of their applications in three main areas - media, education and training, and work. Questions of access to and control over crucial resources such as information,...
Researching Embodied Sport
Exploring movement cultures
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Despite a growing interest in the sociology of the body, there has to date been a lack of scholarly work addressing the embodied aspects which form a central part of our understanding and experience of sport and movement cultures. Researching Embodied Sport explores the political, social and...