Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
The Cultural Politics of Nationalism and Nation-Building
Ritual and performance in the forging of nations
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Rituals and performances are a key theme in the study of nations and nationalism. With the aim of stimulating further research in this area, this book explores, debates and evaluates the role of rituals and performances in the emergence, persistence and transformation of nations, nationalisms and...
European Studies in Asia
Contours of a Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
As countries across Asia continue to rise and become more assertive global powers, the role that Higher Education has played, and continues to play, in this process is an issue of growing pertinence. Furthermore, understanding the relationship between Europe and Asia fostered by historical and contemporary...
Possessed Women, Haunted States
Cultural Tensions in Exorcism Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Since the release of The Exorcist in 1973, there has been a surge of movies depicting young women becoming possessed by a demonic force that only male religious figures can exorcise, thereby saving the women from eventual damnation. This book considers this history of exorcism cinema by analyzing...
Theravada Buddhism and the British Encounter
Religious, Missionary and Colonial Experience in Nineteenth Century Sri Lanka
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
This major new work explores the British encounter with Buddhism in nineteenth century Sri Lanka, examining the way Buddhism was represented and constructed in the eyes of the British scholars, officials, travellers and religious seekers who first encountered it.
Tracing the three main historical...
Beauty and Misogyny
Harmful cultural practices in the West
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
The new edition of Beauty and Misogyny revisits and updates Sheila Jeffreys' uncompromising critique of Western beauty practice and the industries and ideologies behind it. Jeffreys argues that beauty practices are not related to individual female choice or creative expression, but represent instead...
by Amy Ansell
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Situating the study of race and ethnicity within its historical and intellectual context, this much needed guide exposes students to the broad diversity of scholarship within the field. It provides a clear and succinct explanation of more than 70 key terms, their conceptual evolution over time, and...
Culture Shock for Asians in U.S. Academia
Breaking the Model Minority Myth
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Culture Shock for Asians in U.S. Academia: Breaking the Model Minority Myth discusses the unique cultural challenges that Asians face in U.S. academia. The issues facing Asians in academia are worthy of our attention for two major reasons: the numerical significance of Asians in U.S. academia and...
Geographies of Muslim Identities
Diaspora, Gender and Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
In recent years, geographies of identities, including those of ethnicity, religion, 'race' and gender, have formed an increasing focus of contemporary human geography. The events of September 11th, 2001 particularly illustrated the ways in which identities can be transformed across time and space...
Appetites and Anxieties
Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Cinema is a mosaic of memorable food scenes. Detectives drink alone. Gangsters talk with their mouths full. Families around the world argue at dinner. Food documentaries challenge popular consumption-centered visions. In Appetites and Anxieties: Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation, authors...
Flying Under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force
Mapping a Chicano/a Art History
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
The Royal Chicano Air Force produced major works of visual art, poetry, prose, music, and performance during the second half of the twentieth century and first decades of the twenty-first. Materializing in Sacramento, California, in 1969 and established between 1970 and 1972, the RCAF helped redefine...
When We Imagine Grace
Black Men and Subject Making
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Simone C. Drake spent the first several decades of her life learning how to love and protect herself, a black woman, from the systems designed to facilitate her harm and marginalization. But when she gave birth to the first of her three sons, she quickly learned that black boys would need protection...
The Future of Hindu–Christian Studies
A Theological Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
The field of Hindu-Christian studies revives theology as a particularly useful interreligious discipline. Though a sub-division of the broader Hindu-Christian dialogue, it is also a distinct field of study, proper to a smaller group of religious intellectuals. At its best it envisions a two-sided,...
The Culture of the Body
Genealogies of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
What is the body? How was it culturally constructed, conceived, and cultivated before and after the advent of rationalism and modern science? This interdisciplinary study elaborates a cultural genealogy of the body and its legacies to modernity by tracing its crucial redefinition from a live anatomical...
Latin American Popular Culture since Independence
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
This unique reader offers an engaging collection of essays that highlight the diversity of Latin America’s cultural expressions from independence to the present. Leading historians explore funerals, dance and music, letters and literature, spectacles and monuments, and world’s fairs and food....