Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
by Professor Ian Woodward
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2007
"In his interdisciplinary review of material culture, Ian Woodward goes beyond synthesis to offer a theoretically innovative reconstruction of the field. It is filled with gems of conceptual insight and empirical discovery. A wonderful book."
- Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University
"A...
Reclaiming Chinese Society
The New Social Activism
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Reclaiming Chinese Society analyses the mechanisms, processes and actors producing a wide spectrum of social and cultural changes in reform China. Contrary to most literature that emphasizes economic and political processes at the expense of Chinese society, this volume argues for the centrality of...
From Prehistoric Villages to Cities
Settlement Aggregation and Community Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Archaeologists have focused a great deal of attention on explaining the evolution of village societies and the transition to a ‘Neolithic’ way of life. Considerable interest has also concentrated on urbanism and the rise of the earliest cities. Between these two landmarks in human cultural development...
Mobilizing New York
AIDS, Antipoverty, and Feminist Activism
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Examining three interconnected case studies, Tamar Carroll powerfully demonstrates the ability of grassroots community activism to bridge racial and cultural differences and effect social change. Drawing on a rich array of oral histories, archival records, newspapers, films, and photographs from post–World...
Gay and Lesbian Asia
Culture, Identity, Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
How do Asian cultures construct queer genders, sexualities, and eroticism?
Gay and Lesbian Asia demonstrates the astonishing diversity of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered identities in countries including Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, China, India, Indonesia, Singapore, and the Philippines....
To Die in this Way
Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1998
Challenging the widely held belief that Nicaragua has been ethnically homogeneous since the nineteenth century, To Die in This Way reveals the continued existence and importance of an officially “forgotten” indigenous culture. Jeffrey L. Gould argues that mestizaje—a cultural homogeneity that...
by Jane Stokes
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
The Second Edition of this student favourite takes readers step-by-step through the theories, processes and methods of each stage of research, from how to create a research question to designing the project and writing it up. It gives students a clear sense of how their own work relates to broader...
Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 8
Preservation of Cultural Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes, and deals with the preservation of cultural heritage. In 1972, the World Heritage Convention linked in a single framework the concepts of nature conservation and the preservation of cultural sites. Since then, engineering geology is enlarging its...
Music and Youth Culture in Latin America
Identity Construction Processes from New York to Buenos Aires
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Music is one of the most distinctive cultural characteristics of Latin American countries. But, while many people in the United States and Europe are familiar with musical genres such as salsa, merengue, and reggaetón, the musical manifestations that young people listen to in most Latin American...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Keyframes introduces the study of popular cinema of Hollywood and beyond and responds to the transformative effect of cultural studies on film studies.
The contributors rethink contemporary film culture using ideas and concerns from feminism, queer theory, 'race' studies, critiques of nationalism,...
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...
The Reorder of Things
The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
In the 1960s and 1970s, minority and women students at colleges and universities across the United States organized protest movements to end racial and gender inequality on campus. African American, Chicano, Asia American, American Indian, women, and queer activists demanded the creation of departments...
Negotiating Cultural Identity
Landscapes in Early Medieval South Asian History
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2019
This volume breaks new ground by conceptualizing physical landscapes as living cultural bodies. It redefines dynamic cultural landscapes as catalysts in which the natural world and human practice are inextricably linked and are constantly interacting.
Drawing on research by eminent archaeologists,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2007
The Sanskrit Mahabharata is one of the most important texts to emerge from the Indian cultural tradition. At almost 75,000 verses it is the longest poem in the world, and throughout Indian history it has been hugely influential in shaping gender and social norms. In the context of ancient India, it...