Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Culture, Language and Identity
English–Tamil In Colonial India, 1750 To 1900
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
This volume examines the relationship between language and power across cultural boundaries. It evaluates the vital role of translation in redefining culture and ethnic identity. During the first phase of colonialism, mid-18th to late-19th century, the English-speaking missionaries and East India...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
A superb combination of focused case studies and high level conceptual thinking, this volume is an important monument in the ongoing development of Inter-American studies The articles gathered here closely examine a wide variety of cultural phenomena implicated in the 'entanglements' which have defined...
Society in Contemporary Laos
Capitalism, Habitus and Belief
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Over the past decade, Laos’ exposure to global capitalism has resulted in extensive economic and social transformations. Precapitalist social structures both persist and are transformed into a particular configuration of classes. This entails increasing social inequality, a widening range of habitus...
India-Thailand Cultural Interactions
Glimpses from the Past to Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
This volume looks at facets of cultural interactions between India and Thailand---two historically significant countries of the South East Asian region. For the first time a comprehensive discussion on historical and contemporary cultural interactions between Indian and Thailand has been attempted...
by Dongfeng Tao, Lei He, Yugao He
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
As the first book to introduce and analyze cultural studies in contemporary China, this volume is an important resource for Western scholars wishing to understand the rise and development of cultural studies in China. Organized according to subject, it includes extensive material examining the relationships...
East Main Street
Asian American Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
From henna tattoo kits available at your local mall to “faux Asian” fashions, housewares and fusion cuisine; from the new visibility of Asian film, music, video games and anime to the current popularity of martial arts motifs in hip hop, Asian influences have thoroughly saturated the U.S. cultural...
Beyond The Chinese Connection
Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
In Beyond The Chinese Connection, Crystal S. Anderson explores the cultural and political exchanges between African Americans, Asian Americans, and Asians over the last four decades. To do so, Anderson examines such cultural productions as novels (Frank Chin's Gunga Din Highway [1999], Ishmael Reed's...
Beyond The Chinese Connection
Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
In Beyond “The Chinese Connection,” Crystal S. Anderson explores the cultural and political exchanges between African Americans, Asian Americans, and Asians over the last four decades. To do so, Anderson examines such cultural productions as novels (Frank Chin’s Gunga Din Highway [1999], Ishmael...
Hallyu 2.0
The Korean Wave in the Age of Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Collectively known as Hallyu, Korean music, television programs, films, online games, and comics enjoy global popularity, thanks to new communication technologies. In recent years, Korean popular culture has also become the subject of academic inquiry. Whereas the Hallyu’s impact on Korea’s national...
From the Iron House
Imprisonment in First Nations Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
In From the Iron House: Imprisonment in First Nations Writing, Deena Rymhs identifies continuities between the residential school and the prison, offering ways of reading “the carceral”—that is, the different ways that incarceration is constituted and articulated in contemporary Aboriginal literature....
Basketball in America
From the Playgrounds to Jordan's Game and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Examine the social and cultural impact of basketball on America at the amateur and professional levels!
Basketball in America: From the Playgrounds to Jordan’s Game and Beyond is a pioneering analysis of the history of basketball and its effect on popular culture from the 1970s to today....
Being American on the Edge
Penurbia and the Metropolitan Mind, 1945-2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This manuscript focuses on the development of hybrid city-country (penurban) landscapes around large urban areas which mesh stylized countryside with functional links to the cities. These landscapes are central to American mindsets as they combine the dreams, expectations, and experiences of the nation...
Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance
Theater and Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial India
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Despite its importance to literary and cultural texts of resistance, theater has been largely overlooked as a field of analysis in colonial and postcolonial studies. Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance seeks to address that absence, as it uniquely views drama and performance as central to the practice...
Asegi Stories
Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
In Cherokee Asegi udanto refers to people who either fall outside of men’s and women’s roles or who mix men’s and women’s roles. Asegi, which translates as “strange,” is also used by some Cherokees as a term similar to “queer.” For author Qwo-Li Driskill, asegi provides a means by...