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Published June 2019
24 Bars to Kill
Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan's Social Margins
Armstrong, A. B.
Contrary to persistent depictions of an ethnically and economically homogeneous Japan, “ghetto” or “gangsta” J-hop music gives voice to the suffering, deprivation, and social exclusion experienced by many modern Japanese. 24 Bars to Kill gives a fascinating ethnographic account of this music as well as the subculture around it.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published December 2001
Academic Anthropology and the Museum
Back to the Future
Bouquet, M. (ed)
Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published June 2005
Aesthetics in Performance
Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience
Hobart, A. & Kapferer, B. (eds)
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published March 2022
The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance
Analyzing Political Street Art in Latin America
Bogerts, L.
Through illuminating case studies of street art in Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Caracas, and Mexico City, The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance explores the visual strategies of persuasion and meaning-making employed by both rulers and resisters to foster self-legitimization, identification, and mobilization.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Urban Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published July 2012
After The History of Sexuality
German Genealogies with and Beyond Foucault
Spector, S., Puff, H. & Herzog, D. (eds)
Subjects: History (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Published December 2016
Against Exoticism
Toward the Transcendence of Relativism and Universalism in Anthropology
Kapferer, B. & Theodossopoulos, D. (eds)
This volume confronts the distortions of orientalism, ethnocentrism, and romantic nostalgia to expose exoticism, defined as the construction of false and unsubstantiated difference. Its aim is to re-found the importance of the exotic in the development of anthropological knowledge and to overcome methodological dualisms and dualistic approaches.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Published December 2008
Against Machismo
Young Adult Voices in Mexico City
Ramirez, J.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Agency and Author
German Literature Beyond the Bestseller List
Halverson, R. J. & Schaper, B. D. (eds)
An exacting meditation on the financial realities of authorship, Agency and Author explores how lesser-known German-language writers navigate the German literary landscape. Ranging from literary awards to social media hate campaigns, this volume considers authorial attempts to assert creative agency and the implications for wider, structural change it offers.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Literary Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published May 2009
Alarming Reports
Communicating Conflict in the Daily News
Arno, A.
Subjects: Media Studies Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published June 2021
All Tomorrow's Cultures
Anthropological Engagements with the Future
Collins, S. G.
The first edition of All Tomorrow’s Cultures explored the legacy of futures-thinking in anthropology and marked the beginning of a resurgence of interest in anthropological futures. The new edition has been updated to reflect some of the outpouring of work since then, particularly in science and technology studies and in anthropological analyses of indigenous futures.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published February 2022
An American Icon in Puerto Rico
Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play
Aguiló-Pérez, E. R.
Since her creation in 1959, Barbie has become an icon of femininity to girls all over the world. In this monograph, author Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez explores the ways through which women and girls in Puerto Rico construct their own identities in relation to femininity, body image, race, and nationalism through Barbie play.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Published January 1995
The American Impact on Postwar Germany
Pommerin, R. (ed)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published November 2004
Americanization and Anti-americanism
The German Encounter with American Culture after 1945
Stephan, A. (ed)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published December 2005
The Americanization of Europe
Culture, Diplomacy, and Anti-Americanism after 1945
Stephan, A (ed)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published March 2023
Amnesia Remembered
Reverse Engineering a Digital Artifact
Aycock, J.
As an introduction to studying and reverse engineering a digital artifact, this volume is intended for nontechnical audiences wanting to learn how to conduct their own similar research on computer software. While presented through an archaeological lens, it is also suitable for readers in history, game studies, and other areas in the humanities and social sciences, as well as computer science and engineering.
Subjects: Archaeology Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published July 2000
And Keep Your Powder Dry
An Anthropologist Looks at America
Mead, M.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published April 2022
Anglo-American Relations and the Transmission of Ideas
A Shared Political Tradition?
Dobson, A. & Marsh, S. (eds)
With a central objective to interrogate the notion of a shared Anglo-American political tradition, Anglo-American Relations and the Transmission of Ideas opens up new debate on the nature of the ‘first principles’ that were to frame the development of Anglo-American ideas embedded in our everyday institutions and organizations.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published March 2022
Animals, Plants and Afterimages
The Art and Science of Representing Extinction
Bienvenue, V. & Chare, N. (eds)
From quaggas to thylacine to dinosaurs, Animals, Plants and Afterimages brings together leading scholars in the humanities and life sciences to explore how extinct species are represented in media, art, literature and elsewhere, crossing academic boundaries to explore how portrayals of disappeared species embody cultural assumptions.
Subjects: Media Studies Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published November 2003
Anthropology & Mass Communication
Media and Myth in the New Millennium
Peterson, M.A.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Media Studies
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Published October 2014
Anthropology Now and Next
Essays in Honor of Ulf Hannerz
Eriksen, T. H., Garsten, C. & Randeria, S. (eds)
The scholarship of Ulf Hannerz is characterized by extraordinary breadth and visionary nature. Contributions honor Hannerz’ legacy by addressing theoretical, epistemological, ethical and methodological challenges facing anthropological inquiry. The book showcases anthropology, a discipline devoted to the study of localized phenomena, in a world of global connectedness and accelerated change.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published September 2023
An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange
Interactions, Transactions and Ethics in Asia and Beyond
Copeman, J., Long, N. J., Chau, L. M., Cook, J. & Marsden, M.(eds)
This volume advocates for an analytical focus on intellectual exchange, as well as producing an ethnographically informed framework for its study across cultures and contexts.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2017
The Anthropology of the Fetus
Biology, Culture, and Society
Han, S., Betsinger, T. K., & Scott, A. B. (eds)
As a biological, cultural, and social entity, the human fetus is a multifaceted subject which calls for equally diverse perspectives to fully understand. Anthropology of the Fetus seeks to achieve this by bringing together specialists in biological anthropology, archaeology, and cultural anthropology, all with the ultimate goal of developing a holistic anthropology of the fetus.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)
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Published June 2018
Archaeogaming
An Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games
Reinhard, A.
Video games exemplify contemporary material objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their culture. This book serves as a general introduction to "archaeogaming"; it describes the intersection of archaeology and video games and applies archaeological method and theory into understanding game-spaces as both site and artifact.
Subjects: Archaeology Media Studies Heritage Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published January 2019
The Arkansas Regulators
Gerstäcker, F.
Adams, C. & Irmscher, C. (eds)Friedrich Gerstäcker’s The Arkansas Regulators is a rousing tale of frontier adventure, first published in German in 1846, but virtually lost to English readers for well over a century. This long-awaited translation and scholarly edition of the novel offers a startling rewriting of the frontier myth from a European perspective.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published October 2018
The Art of Resistance
Cultural Protest against the Austrian Far Right in the Early Twenty-First Century
Fiddler, A.
The 1999 Austrian election results produced an uprising against a turn to the political right. The Art of Resistance examines artworks created in responses to the Freedom Party of Austria and analyses the styles and strategies deployed by a large range of artists who clashed against increased normalization of far-right thinking.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2005
The Art of the Project
Projects and Experiments in Modern French Culture
Gratton, J. & Sheringham, M. (eds)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published November 2006
The Arts in Nazi Germany
Continuity, Conformity, Change
Huener, J. & Nicosia, F. (eds)
Subjects: History: World War II Cultural Studies (General)
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Published May 2024
Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective
Essays on Morality, Achievement and Modernity
Bayly, S.
Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective draws together essays that trace historical and contemporary realities in India and Vietnam about a variety of compelling topics such as the experience of the Indian caste system and the ethical challenges faced by Vietnamese working women.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Theory and Methodology
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Published June 2013
Astonishment and Evocation
The Spell of Culture in Art and Anthropology
Strecker, I. & Verne, M. (eds)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Media Studies
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Published October 2023
Audiences of Nazism
Using Media in the Third Reich
Weckel, U.
Innovating against the considerable gap in research surrounding historical media reception within Nazi Germany, Audiences of Nazism finds sources of actual audience responses to critically engage with the Third Reich’s media production legacy.
Subjects: History: World War II Media Studies
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Published March 2009
Banned in Berlin
Literary Censorship in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918
Stark, G. D.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published January 2006
A Belle Epoque?
Women and Feminism in French Society and Culture 1890-1914
Holmes, D. & Tarr, C. (eds)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century
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Published September 2014
Belonging in Oceania
Movement, Place-Making and Multiple Identifications
Hermann, E., Kempf, W. & Meijl, T. van (eds)
Belonging can be understood by considering the intersections of movement, place-making and cultural identifications. The contributions present ethnographic case studies of such intersections in Oceania. Investigated are ongoing formations of place, self and community in connection with travelling, as well as with internal and international migration.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Mobility Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published March 2021
The Best We Share
Nation, Culture and World-Making in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena
Brumann, C.
As the most ambitious study of the World Heritage arena so far, this volume dissects the inner workings of a prominent global body, demonstrating the power of ethnography in the highly formalised and diplomatic context of a multilateral organisation.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Museum Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published December 2005
Between Marx and Coca-Cola
Youth Cultures in Changing European Societies, 1960-1980
Schildt, A. & Siegfried, D. (eds)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies Sociology
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Published July 2008
Between Mass Death and Individual Loss
The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany
Confino, A., Betts, P. & Schumann, D. (eds)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Published December 2007
Between Tradition and Modernity
Aby Warburg and the Public Purposes of Art in Hamburg
Russell, M. A.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published July 2014
Beyond Alterity
German Encounters with Modern East Asia
Shen, Q. & Rosenstock, M. (eds)
This collection of essays examines German-language cultural production pertaining to modern China and Japan, and explicitly challenges orientalist notions by proposing a conception of East and West not as opposites, but as complementary elements of global culture, thereby urging a move beyond national paradigms in cultural studies. Essays focus on the mid-century German-Japanese alliance, Chinese-German Leftist collaborations, global capitalism, travel, identity, and cultural hybridity. The authors include historians and scholars of film and literature, and employ a wide array of approaches from postcolonial, globalization, media, and gender studies. The collection sheds new light on a complex and ambivalentset of international relationships, while also testifying to the potential of Asian German Studies.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published November 2012
Beyond Habermas
Democracy, Knowledge, and the Public Sphere
Emden, C. J. & Midgely, D. (eds)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Media Studies Literary Studies
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Published May 2024
Beyond Pain
The Anthropology of Body Suspensions
Manfredi, F.
Through thirteen years of fieldwork, an experimental practice-based methodology, and a new theoretical approach to harmonize online and offline data, Beyond Pain provides a wholly unique ethnographical exploration of the misunderstood world of body suspensions.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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Published April 2011
Beyond Pleasure
Cultures of Modern Asceticism
Peeters, E., van Molle, L. & Wils, K. (eds)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Sociology
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Published May 2021
Beyond the Veil
Reflexive Studies of Death and Dying
Thamann, A. & Christodoulaki, K. M. (eds)
Looking at the cultural responses to death and dying, this collection explores the emotional aspects that death provokes in humans, whether it is disgust, fear, awe, sadness, anger, or even joy. More broadly, this collection suggests a new paradigm in the study of death and dying.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Published September 2021
Bigger Fish to Fry
A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples
Sutton, D. E.
What defines cooking as cooking, and why does cooking matter to the understanding of society, cultural change and everyday life? This book explores these questions by proposing a new theory of the meaning of cooking as a willingness to put oneself and one’s meals at risk on a daily basis, with examples from the author's fieldwork in Greece.
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published September 2008
Biography Between Structure and Agency
Central European Lives in International Historiography
Berghahn, V. R. & Lässig, S. (eds)
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published November 2014
Bloom and Bust
Urban Landscapes in the East since German Reunification
Cliver, G. & Smith-Prei, C. (eds)
More than two decades of deconstruction, renovation, and reconstruction have left the urban environments in the former German Democratic Republic completely transformed. This volume considers the changing urban landscapes in the former East create the cultural landscape of modern unified Germany.
Subjects: Urban Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published April 2006
The Body of the Queen
Gender and Rule in the Courtly World, 1500-2000
Schulte R. (ed)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published May 2008
Border Interrogations
Questioning Spanish Frontiers
Sampedro, B. & Doubleday, S. (eds)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies History (General)
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Published December 2016
Breaking Rocks
Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa
Trapido, J.
Based on fieldwork in Kinshasa and Paris, Breaking Rocks examines patronage payments within Congolese popular music. This book offers insights into both the ideologies of power and value in central Africa’s troubled post-colonial political economy, and the economic flows that make up the hidden side of the globalization.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2022
Brewing Socialism
Coffee, East Germans, and Twentieth-Century Globalization
Kloiber, A.
Taking an uncommonly focused lens against the deep and active role coffee had in connecting East Germans to a global market, Brewing Socialism uncovers the significance of East German efforts to democratize coffee and how that focus on material cultural informed the everyday life of the Social Unity Party’s conceptualization of a modern social utopia.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published March 2009
Bringing Culture to the Masses
Control, Compromise and Participation in the GDR
Richthofen, E. von
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published April 2018
Burgundy
The Global Story of Terroir
Demossier, M.
Drawing on more than twenty years of fieldwork, this book explores the professional, social and cultural world of Burgundy wines and demystifies the terroir ideology to provide a unique long-term ethnographic analysis of what lies behind the concept in Burgundy, raising important questions about the future of quality wine in a global era.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition Cultural Studies (General)
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Published January 2023
Calling on the Community
Understanding Participation in the Heritage Sector, an Interactive Governance Perspective
Rodenberg, J., Wagenaar, P., & Burgers, G.-J. (eds)
There is a call in Heritage Studies to democratize heritage practices and place local communities at the forefront; heritage plays an important role in identity formation, and therefore in social inclusion and exclusion. This series of studies contributes to a better understanding of public participation in the heritage sector by applying Public Administration theory on collaborative governance.
Subjects: Heritage Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published September 2021
Cattle Poetics
How Aesthetics Shapes Politics in Mursiland, Ethiopia
Eczet, J.-B.
Loving cows, then killing them. The relation with cattle in Mursi country is shaped by the dichotomy between the value given to it during life and the death imposed upon it. This book investigates the link between the nurturing and killing of cattle, and its accompanying aesthetics, with Mursi society itself.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Development Studies
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Published January 2024
Centennial Fever
Transnational Hispanic Commemorations and Spanish Nationalism
Moreno-Luzón, J.
Hispanic commemorations that shaped the major elements of Spanish identity at the beginning of the 20th century, and their persistence to the present day, from the “discovery” of America to the publication of Don Quixote of la Mancha, are truly global and transnational events that have created a cultural community on which Spanish nationalism has become dependent.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published April 2000
Challenging Modernity
Dada between Modern and Postmodern
Pegrum, M. A.
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Published July 2012
Changing Perceptions of the Public Sphere
Emden, C. J. & Midgley, D. (eds)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published March 2014
Chiasmus and Culture
Wiseman, B. & Paul, A. (eds)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Children Dancing in Bali
Practice, Performance, and Power
McIntosh, J.
An illuminating ethnographic study of Balinese dance traditions, Children Dancing in Bali examines how children navigate the nexus of power, practice, and performance through the medium of Balinese culture, in order to negotiate fluctuations in their identity and society.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies
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Published March 2020
The Children of Gregoria
Dogme Ethnography of a Mexican Family
Kristensen, R. & Adeath Villamil, C.
The Children of Gregoria portrays a struggling Mexico, told through the story of the Rosales family. This book highlights their voices and allows them to tell their own stories in an accessible, literary manner without prejudice, persecution or judgment.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Media Studies
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Published November 2013
Children of the Dictatorship
Student Resistance, Cultural Politics and the 'Long 1960s' in Greece
Kornetis, K.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Published March 2016
Choreographies of Landscape
Signs of Performance in Yosemite National Park
Ness, S. A.
This original and cross-disciplinary book studies the experiences of Yosemite park visitors in order to understand human connection with and within natural landscapes. It grounds a sophisticated semiotic analysis in the lived experiences of parkgoers, assembling a collective account that will be of interest in disciplines ranging from performance studies to cultural geography.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Published October 2023
Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe
From Communism to Capitalism
Shpolberg, M. & Brasiskis, L. (eds)
Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe traces from the 1970s through the post 1989 period how documentaries and filmmakers began to articulate alternative, aesthetically and ideologically provocative visions of the relationship between human and natural worlds.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published September 2021
The Cinematic Language of Theo Angelopoulos
Karalis, V.
The Cinematic Language of Theo Angelopoulos offers a detailed study and critical discussion of the acclaimed filmmaker’s cinematic aesthetics as they developed over his career, exploring different styles through which Greek and European history, identity, and loss have been visually articulated throughout his oeuvre.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published April 2024
Cinematically Transmitted Disease
Eugenics and Film in Weimar and Nazi Germany
Hales, B.
The roots of German National Socialist policies have strong connections to Weimar era circulation of medical hygiene propaganda films that conveyed strong connections between scientific legitimacy between racial superiority, genetically spread “incurable” diseases, and the degradation of the German national population.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: World War II Media Studies
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Published August 2006
Civil Society
Berlin Perspectives
Keane, J. (eds)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Urban Studies
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Claims to Memory
Beyond Slavery and Emancipation in the French Caribbean
Reinhardt C.
Subjects: Colonial History Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies
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Published May 2000
Cold Fusion
Aspects of the German Cultural Presence in Russia
Barabtarlo, G. (ed)
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published July 2009
Colette's Republic
Work, Gender, and Popular Culture in France, 1870-1914
Tilburg, P. A.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General)
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Published April 2017
Collaborative Intimacies in Music and Dance
Anthropologies of Sound and Movement
Chrysagis, E. & Karampampas, P. (eds)
Across varied domains, music and dance both emerge from and give rise to intimate collaboration. This theoretically rich collection takes an ethnographic approach to understanding the collaborative dimension of sound and movement in everyday life, drawing on genres and practices in contexts as diverse as Japanese shakuhachi playing, Peruvian huayno, and the Greek goth scene.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published April 2022
Collecting Educational Media
Making, Storing and Accessing Knowledge
Hertling, A. & Carrier, P. (eds)
Over the last two centuries, collectors from around the world have historicized, politicized, and digitized media in the pursuit of knowledge and education. This collected volume explores how collections of educational media influence the ways in which people learn in both the present and future.
Subjects: Educational Studies Media Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published July 2019
Comical Modernity
Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth Century Vienna
Hakkarainen, H.
Comical Modernity looks at the years between 1857–1890, a period of dramatic urban renewal within Vienna during which the city’s rapidly changing face was a popular topic in publications. This book shows how humor provided access to understanding modernity in an era of radical change, thus broadening our understanding of the cultural history of nineteenth-century Vienna.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Media Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published July 2010
Comics in French
The European Bande Dessinée in Context
Grove, L.
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Published February 2020
Comrades in Arms
Military Masculinities in East German Culture
Smith, T.
Without question, the East German National People’s Army sought to exemplify traditional masculine ideals of stoicism, sacrifice, and physical courage. Yet depictions of the military in East German film and literature were far more nuanced and ambivalent. Comrades in Arms shows how cultural works have portrayed violence, vulnerability, military theatricality, and a range of masculinities.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality History: 20th Century to Present
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Published January 2012
Concentrationary Cinema
Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog
Pollock, G. & Silverman, M. (eds)
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Genocide History Cultural Studies (General)
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Published December 2018
Conceptualizing the World
An Exploration across Disciplines
Jordheim, H. & Sandmo, E. (eds)
This innovative and interdisciplinary volume explores the central paradox of globalization and illuminates historical moments that range from antiquity to the era of Google Earth through contributions that trace the emergence of the world in multitudinous representations, practices, and human experiences.
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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Published March 2014
Connecting Histories of Education
Transnational and Cross-Cultural Exchanges in (Post)Colonial Education
Bagchi, B., Fuchs, E. & Rousmaniere, K. (eds)
The history of education in the modern world is a history of transnational and cross-cultural influence. This collection explores those influences in (post) colonial and indigenous education across different geographical contexts. The authors emphasize how local actors constructed their own adaptation of colonialism, identity, and autonomy, creating a multi-centric and entangled history of modern education. In both formal as well as informal aspects, they demonstrate that transnational and cross-cultural exchanges in education have been characterized by appropriation, re-contextualization, and hybridization, thereby rejecting traditional notions of colonial education as an export of pre-existing metropolitan educational systems.
Subjects: Colonial History Educational Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published September 2019
Constructing Industrial Pasts
Heritage, Historical Culture and Identity in Regions Undergoing Structural Economic Transformation
Berger, S. (ed)
The contributions in this volume demonstrate that even as forms of industrial heritage provide anchors of identity for local populations, their meanings remain deeply contested, as both radical and conservative varieties of nostalgia intermingle with critical approaches as well as straightforward apologias for a past that was often full of pain, exploitation and struggle.
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Published August 2021
Contemporary Megaprojects
Organization, Vision, and Resistance in the 21st Century
Schindler, S., Fadaere, S., Brockington, D. (eds)
Contemporary “megaprojects” have evolved from the centralized, modernist projects undertaken in the past. With case studies ranging from mega-plantations in Southeast Asia to sports events, Contemporary Megaprojects explores the increasing ambition and pervasiveness of these projects, as well as their significant impact on both society and the environment.
Subjects: Development Studies Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published March 2024
Contested Femininities
Representations of Modern Women in the German Illustrated Press, 1920-1960
Lynn, J.
Contested Femininities for the first time contributes a long-view study of constructions of the Neue or Moderne Frau (New or Modern Woman) in the illustrated press providing an incredible scope of inquiry spanning the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, post-war occupation, and a divided German.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality Media Studies
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Published February 2022
Contested Holdings
Museum Collections in Political, Epistemic and Artistic Processes of Return
Bodenstein, F., Otoiu, D., & Troelenberg, E.-M. (eds)
Covering a range of case studies and a global geography, authors aim to historicize and bring depth to contemporary debates in relation to both the return of material culture and human remains. Defined as contested holdings, differing museum collections ranging from fine arts to physical anthropology provide connections between the treatment and conceptualization of collections that generally occupy separate realms in the museum world.
Subjects: Museum Studies Archaeology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published April 2023
Contesting Moralities
Roma Identities, State and Kinship
Sarafian, I.
Roma identities have often been presented in literature as collectively constructed and in opposition to those who are not Roma. Contesting Moralities challenges these preconceptions about Roma identification by disentangling the binaries between Roma and nonRoma, state and non-state, public and private. This book explores topics resonating in contemporary Romani studies that are in need of further exploration through individual perspectives.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published January 2018
Contrarian Anthropology
The Unwritten Rules of Academia
Nader, L.
Analyzing the workings of boundary maintenance in the areas of anthropology, energy, gender, and law, Nader contrasts dominant trends in academia with work that pushes the boundaries of acceptable methods and theories. Although the selections illustrate the history of one anthropologist’s work over half a century, the wider intent is to label a field as contrarian to reveal unwritten rules that sometimes hinder transformative thinking.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published May 2023
Coproducing Europe
An Ethnography of Film Markets, Creativity and Identity
Sideri, E.
By focusing on regional film markets in Thessasloniki, Sarajevo, and Tbilisi, Coproduction Europe uses comparative ethnography to look beyond the economic nature of film coproductions to explore their role in Europeanisation, memories of the Cold War, and preconstructed political agendas.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published November 2021
Cosmic Coherence
A Cognitive Anthropology Through Chinese Divination
Matthews, W.
Humans are unique in their ability to create systematic accounts of the world – theories based on guiding cosmological principles. This book is about the role of cognition in creating cosmologies, and explores this through the ethnography and history of Yijing divination in China.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)
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Cosmos and Colonialism
Alexander von Humboldt in Cultural Criticism
Clark, R. & Lubrich, O. (eds)
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published June 2022
The Cracked Art World
Conflict, Austerity, and Community Arts in Northern Ireland
Rush, K.
This book presents a nuanced view of Northern Ireland, a place at once deeply mired in its past and seeking to forge a new future for itself as a ‘post-post-conflict’ place within the context of a changing United Kingdom, a disintegrating Europe, and a globalized world.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Published October 2021
Crafting Chinese Memories
The Art and Materiality of Storytelling
Swancutt, K. (ed)
Through an interdisciplinary conversation with contributors from social anthropology, religious studies, film studies, literary studies, cultural studies, and history, Crafting Chinese Memories is the first volume to address how works of art shape memories, and offers new ways of conceptualising storytelling, memory-making, art, and materiality. It explores the memories of artists, filmmakers, novelists, storytellers, and persons who come to terms with their own histories even as they reveal the social memories of watershed events in modern China.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Memory Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Crafting 'The Indian'
Knowledge, Desire, and Play in Indianist Reenactment
Kalshoven, P. T.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Museum Studies
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Published April 2001
Creating Our Common Future
Educating for Unity in Diversity
Campbell, J. (ed)
Subjects: Educational Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published June 2023
Creation and Creativity in Indigenous Lowland South America
Anthropological Perspectives
Halbmayer, E. & Goletz, A. (eds)
Investigating local Indigenous processes of creation and creativity, this book uses ethnographic and comparative anthropological perspectives to enquire about creative transformative practices in lowland South America.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published July 2016
Creativity in Transition
Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe
Svašek, M. & Meyer, B. (eds)
Exploring creative practices in various settings, the book calls attention to the spread of modernist discourses of creativity, from the colonial era to the current obsession with ‘innovation’ in neo-liberal capitalist cultural politics, but also to the less visible practices of copying, recycling and reproduction that occur as part and parcel of creative improvisation.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published January 2007
Crime, Jews and News
Vienna 1890-1914
Vyleta, D.M.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 18th/19th Century Media Studies
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Published June 2001
Critical Theory
Current State and Future Prospects
Hohendahl, P.-U. & Fisher, J. (eds)
Subject: Cultural Studies (General)
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Published July 2019
Critique of Identity Thinking
Jackson, M.
Michael Jackson’s response to our beleaguered age is to ask what forms of speech and action are called for in ‘dark times’. He argues that experiences that fall outside the concepts and categories we habitually deploy in rendering life manageable and intelligible have both critical and redemptive power.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published July 2023
Cryptopolitics
Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media
Bernal, V., Pype, K., & Rodima-Taylor, D. (eds)
Focusing on African societies, Crypolitics brings together empirically grounded studies of digital media to draw out the significance of hidden information, double meanings, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages in negotiations of power relations.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Media Studies
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Published August 2017
Cultural Borders of Europe
Narratives, Concepts and Practices in the Present and the Past
Andrén, M., Lindkvist, T., Söhrman, I. & Vajta, K. (eds)
The cultural borders of Europe are today more visible than ever, creating uncertainty for liberal democratic traditions, and questions of legitimacy, political representation, and the legal bases for citizenship. This book provides a wide-ranging exploration of these lines of demarcation in a variety of European regions and historical eras.
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Cultural Diversity and the Empowerment of Minorities
Perspectives from Israel and Germany
Al-Haj, M. & Mielke, R. (eds)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Educational Studies Sociology
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Published May 2010
Cultural Diversity in Russian Cities
The Urban Landscape in the post-Soviet Era
Gdaniec, C. (ed)
Subjects: Urban Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published November 2017
Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin
Bauer, K. & Hosek, J. R. (eds)
Transformed by the Wall's opening in 1989 and the concomitant shift in global relations of power, Berlin continues to shape historical and contemporary images of Germanness. This interdisciplinary anthology explores Berlin's unique cultural topographies in literature, film, architecture, urban planning, and city marketing.
Subjects: Urban Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Culture and Crisis
The Case of Germany and Sweden
Witoszek, N. & Trägårdh, L. (eds)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published May 2003
Culture and International History
Gienow-Hecht, J. C. E. & Schumacher, F. (eds)
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published June 2004
Culture and Politics
Identity and Conflict in a Multicultural World
Pinxten, R. & Verstraete, G. & Longman, C. (eds)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published July 2009
Culture and Rhetoric
Strecker, I. & Tyler, S. (eds)
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2017
Culture Change and Ex-Change
Syncretism and Anti-Syncretism in Bena, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Knapp, R.
Analyzing perceived and performed cultural change by members of the Bena Bena language group in Papua New Guinea, Knapp offers a new understanding by conjoining traditional anthropological models as well as recent pursuits such as collaborative, reflexive and reverse anthropology.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Published June 2024
Culture Figures
A Rhetorical Reading of Anthropology
Mokrzan, M.
Employing ‘rhetorical reading,' Culture Figures dissects descriptive ethnography and theoretical texts, spanning classical monographs to recent texts representing various approaches in cultural anthropology. The book demonstrates how processes of using tropes and modes of persuasion underlie the creation of meanings or misunderstandings in cultural anthropology.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Culture in Dark Times
Nazi Fascism, Inner Emigration, and Exile
Hermand, J.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published December 2002
The Culture of German Environmentalism
Anxieties, Visions, Realities
Goodbody, A.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published March 2010
Culture Wars
Context, Models and Anthropologists' Accounts
James, D. Plaice, E. & Toren C. (eds)
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2015
Culture, Catastrophe, and Rhetoric
The Texture of Political Action
Hariman, R. & Cintron, R. (eds)
By emphasizing the texture of political action, this volume explores political culture, especially the catastrophic dimension of the global social order emerging in the twenty-first century. An array of case studies provide an account of how change is experienced, negotiated, and resisted in specific settings that define a society’s capacity for political action.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published June 2009
Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life
Carrithers, M. (ed)
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published June 2012
Cultures of Colour
Visual, Material, Textual
Horrocks, C. (ed)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Sociology
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Cultures of Exile
Images of Displacement
Everett, W. & Wagstaff, P. (eds)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Film and Television Studies
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Published November 2018
Curating Live Arts
Critical Perspectives, Essays, and Conversations on Theory and Practice
Davida, D., Pronovost, M., Hudom, V., & Gabriels, J. (eds)
Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to become a vibrant interdisciplinary project. Curating Live Arts brings together innovative essays from international theorist-practitioners to pose vital questions, propose future visions, and survey the landscape of this rapidly evolving discipline.
Subjects: Performance Studies Museum Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published March 2016
Cutting and Connecting
'Afrinesian' Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange
Myhre, K. C. (ed)
Cutting and Connecting rethinks anthropology’s comparative endeavor by calling in a conceptual debt that theoretical innovations from Melanesian anthropology owe to network analysis originally developed in African contexts. The contributors adopt and employ concepts from recent anthropological studies of Melanesia to analyze contemporary life on the African continent.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Cyberidentities At War
The Moluccan Conflict on the Internet
Bräuchler, B.
Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies
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Published November 2017
Cyprus and its Conflicts
Representations, Materialities, and Cultures
Doudaki, V. & Carpentier, N. (eds)
Cyprus is an island of enduring political, military and, more recently, economic conflict. In this edited volume, Cyprus serves as a geographical, cultural and political point of reference to study how conflict is mediated, represented, reconstructed, experienced, and transformed, offering broader insight into the ways in which the culture of conflict impacts identity.
Subjects: Media Studies Peace and Conflict Studies
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Published September 2024
Daisy Wheel, Hexfoil, Hexafoil, Rosette
Protective Marks in Gravestone Art
Lacy, R. S.
Hexfoils have a history of use for personal protection and were carved both intentionally or graffitied into church pews and walls, bed frames, doors, and gravestones. This research sheds light on the use of this historic symbol to protect the bodies and souls of the deceased, across several thousand years and multiple countries.
Subjects: Archaeology Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Published November 2013
Dance Circles
Movement, Morality and Self-fashioning in Urban Senegal
Neveu Kringelbach, H.
A historically informed ethnography of creativity, agency, and the fashioning of selves through the different life stages in urban Senegal, this book explores the significance of multiple engagement with dance in a context of economic uncertainty and rising concerns over morality in the public space.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
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Dances with Spiders
Crisis, Celebrity and Celebration in Southern Italy
Lüdtke, K.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Performance Studies
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Dancing At the Crossroads
Memory and Mobility in Ireland
Wulff, H.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies
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Published October 2012
Dancing Cultures
Globalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance
Neveu Kringelbach, H. & Skinner, J. (eds)
Subjects: Performance Studies Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)
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Published October 2023
De-Commemoration
Removing Statues and Renaming Places
Gensburger, S. & Wüstenberg, J. (eds)
In the wake of recent protests against police violence and racism, calls to dismantle problematic memorials have reverberated around the globe. This is not a new phenomenon, however, nor is it limited to the Anglo-Saxon world. De-Commemoration focuses on the concept of de-commemoration as it relates to remembrance.
Subjects: Memory Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published September 2024
The Death in their Eyes
What Perpetrator Images Perpetrate
Sánchez-Biosca, V.
Perpetrator images — those that embody the point of view of the perpetrators or their accomplices during acts of violence — from Abu Ghraib, the Auschwitz Album, and of illegal prisoners captured during the fiercest dictatorships, are analyzed under a new methodology in The Death in their Eyes to account not only for the visible aspect of the image but to see what is concealed behind or beyond the frame limits.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies Sociology
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Published March 2021
Deconstructing Dolls
Girlhoods and the Meanings of Play
Forman-Brunell, M. (ed)
Deconstructing Dolls explores the role of dolls in girlhood and young womanhood, seeking to understand the historical and contemporary significance of dolls particularly as they relate social meanings in the lives of girls.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)
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Published June 2016
Designing Worlds
National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization
Fallan, K. & Lees-Maffei, G. (eds)
In design history, globalization is deeply intertwined with a long-held bias towards Western, industrialized nations. By reassessing the role of regional and national design histories and challenging the claim that nation states are obsolete in identity construction, Designing Worlds reflects on new national narratives from around the world.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies
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Published May 2011
The Devil's Captain
Ernst Jünger in Nazi Paris, 1941-1944
Mitchell, A.
Subjects: History: World War II Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published April 2013
Diaspora Online
Identity Politics and Romanian Migrants
Trandafoiu, R.
Subjects: Media Studies Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published September 2021
Dictionary of Authentic American Proverbs
Mieder, W.
Dictionary of American Proverbs offers a comprehensive reference guide for distinctly American proverbs. Featuring a compendium of nearly 1,500 American proverbs spanning the 17th century to present day, this dictionary also includes a scholarly introduction along with a comprehensive bibliography of proverb collections and interpretive scholarship.
Subjects: Literary Studies Heritage Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published September 2021
Digital Archives and Collections
Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage
Müller, K.
Museums and archives all over the world digitize their collections and provide online access to heritage material. But what factors determine the content, structure and use of these online inventories? This book turns to India and Europe to answer this question. It explains how museums and archives envision, decide and conduct digitization and online dissemination.
Subjects: Museum Studies Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published June 2020
Don't Need No Thought Control
Western Culture in East Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Horten, G.
Don't Need No Thought Control explores the dynamic interplay between popular demands, intensifying economic crises, and cultural policy decisions during the Erich Honecker era in a comprehensive and comparative analysis.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies Cultural Studies (General) Film and Television Studies
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Published April 2020
A Dramatic Reinvention
German Television and Moral Renewal after National Socialism, 1956–1970
Anderson, S.
A Dramatic Revinvention sheds new light on how Germans rebuilt their moral and intellectual world after the Nazi catastrophe. The book argues that television emerged as one of the most important mediums for presenting, discussing, and working through the question of how to re-moralize Germany.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Film and Television Studies Media Studies
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Published May 2018
Dreams Made Small
The Education of Papuan Highlanders in Indonesia
Munro, J.
Dreams Made Small offers an in-depth, ethnographic look at journeys of education among young Papuans under Indonesian rule, ultimately revealing how dreams of transformation, equality, and belonging are shaped and reshaped in the face of multiple constraints.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published December 2018
Dreams of Germany
Musical Imaginaries from the Concert Hall to the Dance Floor
Gregor, N. & Irvine, T. (eds)
Why is Germany imagined as the ‘land of music’? How has that image been made over time? Exploring examples that range from Bruckner to the Beatles, from classical song to sex-club dance music, a team of historians and musicologists explores these perennial questions in innovative and exciting ways.
Subjects: Media Studies History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Performance Studies
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Published November 2021
Dressing Up
Menswear in the Age of Social Media
Bluteau, J. M.
What does men’s fashion say about contemporary masculinity? How do these notions operate in an increasingly digitized world? To answer these questions, author Joshua M. Bluteau combines theoretical analysis with vibrant narrative, exploring men’s fashion in the online world of social media as well as the offline worlds of retail, production, and the catwalk.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published August 2013
Durkheim, the Durkheimians, and the Arts
Riley, A.T., Pickering, W.S.F., & Watts Miller, W. (eds)
Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2017
Eastern Europe Unmapped
Beyond Borders and Peripheries
Kacandes, I. & Komska, Y. (eds)
Arguably more than any other world regions, the area known as Eastern Europe has been defined by its location on the map. Rather than expound on borders and neighbors, Eastern Europe Unmapped raises questions about the meaning and relevance of the area’s non-contiguous, frequently global or extraterritorial, entanglements.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published January 2001
Echoes of Narcissus
Spaas, L. (ed)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published August 2011
Ecofeminism and Rhetoric
Critical Perspectives on Sex, Technology, and Discourse
Vakoch, D. A. (ed)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Published November 2020
Ecological Nostalgias
Memory, Affect and Creativity in Times of Ecological Upheavals
Angé, O. & Berliner, D. (eds)
Introducing the study of econostalgias through a variety of rich ethnographic cases, this volume argues that a strictly human centered approach does not account for contemporary longings triggered by ecosystem upheavals.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies
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Published February 2024
Edges of Noir
Extreme Filmmaking in the 1960s
Mirabile, M.
Edges of Noir addresses film studies’ neglect of 1960s experimental noir films that have resisted easy classification against more popularly regarded late noir films and responds to the interpretive dilemmas and anxieties of the time to which the films provided expression.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published November 2008
Embodied Communities
Dance Traditions and Change in Java
Hughes-Freeland, F.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published January 2022
Emerging Technologies and Museums
Mediating Difficult Heritage
Stylianou-Lambert, T., Bounia, A., & Heraclidou, A. (eds)
Emerging technologies in museums have the potential to reveal unheard or silenced stories, challenge preconceptions, encourage emotional responses, introduce the unexpected, and overall provide alternative experiences. By examining varied theoretical approaches and case studies, authors demonstrate how “awkward”, contested, and rarely discussed subjects and stories are treated – or can be potentially treated - in a museum setting with the use of the latest technology.
Subjects: Museum Studies Heritage Studies Media Studies
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Published April 2010
Emotions in American History
An International Assessment
Gienow-Hecht, J. C. E. (ed)
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published June 2021
Emotions, Ethics, and Cinematic Experience
New Phenomenological and Cognitivist Perspectives
Sinnerbrink, R. (ed)
Since the early 1990s, phenomenology and cognitivism have become two of the most influential approaches to film theory. Emotions, Ethics, and Cinematic Experience explores how these two approaches might work together to create a philosophy of film that is both descriptively rich and theoretically productive.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies Sociology
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Published October 2007
Empire and After
Englishness in Postcolonial Perspective
MacPhee, G. & Poddar, P. (eds)
Subjects: Colonial History Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies
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Published December 2015
Empire of Pictures
Global Media and the 1960s Remaking of American Foreign Policy
Kunkel, S.
The 1960s were a period of global media revolution: communication satellites compressed time and space, television spread around the world, and images circulated through print media in expanding ways. This book examines how U.S. policymakers exploited these changes.
Subjects: Media Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published January 2024
Enacted Relations
Performing Knowledge in an Australian Indigenous Community
Tamisari, F.
Enacted Relations explores the Yolngu relational ontology and epistemology in the context of everyday practices, ritual ceremonies, bicultural education, vernacular Christianity and the production of popular music.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published July 2020
An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology
Raising the Dead with Agent-Based Models, Archaeogaming and Artificial Intelligence
Graham, S.
The use of computation in archaeology is a kind of magic, a way of heightening the archaeological imagination. Agent-based modelling allows archaeologists to test the ‘just-so’ stories they tell about the past. These models are one end of a spectrum that ends with video games. This volume explores this spectrum in the context of Roman archaeology, addressing the strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities of a formalized approach to computation and archaeogaming.
Subjects: Archaeology Media Studies Heritage Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published June 2019
Encounters with Emotions
Negotiating Cultural Differences since Early Modernity
Gammerl, B., Nielsen, P., & Pernau, M. (eds)
Spanning Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Encounters with Emotions investigates experiences of face-to-face transcultural encounters from the seventeenth century to the present. The case-studies presented in this volume explore the cultural aspects of nature and the bodily dimensions of nurture in order to trace the historical trajectories that shape our understandings of current cultural boundaries and effects of globalization.
Subjects: History (General) Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published January 1998
Enemy Images in American History
Fiebig-von Hase, R. & Lehmkuhl, U. (eds)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published November 2020
Engaging with Chaucer
Practice, Authority, Reading
Moseley, C.W.R.D. (ed)
This collected volume represents an homage to a toweringly great poet, as well as an acknowledgement of the intellectual excitement, challenges, and pleasure that readers owe to him as even today, his poems have the capacity to change the way we engage with fundamental questions of knowledge, understanding, and beauty.
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Published September 2019
Entangled Entertainers
Jews and Popular Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
Hödl, K.
Viennese popular culture at the turn of the twentieth century was shaped jointly by Jews and non-Jews alike, though their relationship was not immune to bouts of anti-Semitism. The case studies in this book provide new findings in understanding what it meant to be Jewish among artists, performers and impresarios at the turn of the twentieth century.
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published August 2023
Entertaining German Culture
Contemporary Transnational Television and Film
Ehrig, S., Schaper, B. & Ward, E. (eds)
In an increasingly transnational production of film and television, Entertaining German Culture explores and contextually thematizes a radical shift in the past fifteen years towards a profound appreciation of German cultural and intellectual history in the international mainstream.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies History (General)
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Ernst L. Freud, Architect
The Case of the Modern Bourgeois Home
Welter, V. M.
Subjects: Urban Studies Cultural Studies (General) History (General)
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Published January 2018
The Ethics of Seeing
Photography and Twentieth-Century German History
Evans, J., Betts P., & Hoffmann, S.-L. (eds)
The Ethics of Seeing brings together an international group of scholars to explore the complex relationship between the visual and the historic in German history. These revealing case studies illustrate photography’s multilayered role as a new form of representation, a means to subjective experience, and a fresh mode of narrating the past.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies
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Published October 2013
Ethno-Baroque
Materiality, Aesthetics and Conflict in Modern-Day Macedonia
Dimova, R.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Media Studies
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Published July 2018
Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space
Place-Making in the New Northern Ireland
Komarova, M. & Svašek, M. (eds)
Exploring the complex dynamics of twenty-first century spatial sociality, physical movement and placemaking in Northern Ireland, this volume provides a much-needed multi-dimensional perspective that undermines the dominant image of the region as a conflict-ridden place. The contributions here draw on and further develop theories of space, place, movement, identity and sociality.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Urban Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published April 2010
A European Memory?
Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance
Pakier, M. & Stråth, B. (eds)
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies
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Published September 2015
The Event of Charlie Hebdo
Imaginaries of Freedom and Control
Zagato, A. (ed)
The January 2015 shooting at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris sparked an enormous discussion among citizens and intellectuals worldwide. By analyzing the effects the attacks have had in various spheres of social life including the political, ideology, collective imaginaries, the media, and education, this collection aims to serve as a contribution and a critical response to that discussion.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published July 2023
Exceptional Experiences
Engaging with Jolting Events in Art and Fieldwork
Rethmann, P. & Wulff, H. (eds)
Looking at encounters that can puncture or jolt us, this volume uses art as a lens through which to register and understand exceptional experiences. The volume also includes the fieldworker’s experience of unexpected events that can lead to key understandings, as well as revelatory moments that happen during artistic creation and while looking at art.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published April 2021
Exchanging Objects
Nineteenth-Century Museum Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution
Nichols, C. A.
As an historical account of the exchange of “duplicate specimens” between anthropologists at the Smithsonian Institution and museums, collectors, and schools around the world in the late nineteenth century, this book reveals connections between both well-known museums and little-known local institutions, created through the exchange of museum objects. It explores how anthropologists categorized some objects in their collections as “duplicate specimens,” making them potential candidates for exchange.
Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Expanding Suburbia
Reviewing Suburban Narratives
Webster, R. (ed)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Urban Studies
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Published February 2021
Experiencing Materiality
Museum Perspectives
Gamberi, V.
Representing a cutting-edge study on the junction between theoretical anthropology, material culture studies, religious studies and museum anthropology, this study highlights the contradictions of museum practices and, at the same time, the potentialities that contemporary museums could offer for an engaging relationship between visitors and museum artefacts and for rethinking or, better, ‘softening’ specific approaches in material culture studies.
Subjects: Museum Studies Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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Exploring Regimes of Discipline
The Dynamics of Restraint
Dyck, N.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published December 2021
Extremism, Society, and the State
Loperfido, G. (ed)
This collected volume brings together leading anthropologists and cultural analysts to offer a concise look at the narratives, symbolic, and metaphoric fields related to extremism, systemitizing an approach to contemporary extremism by placing these idealogies into historical, political, and geo-systemic contexts.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published November 2022
Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa Claus
Tinted Glasses, Fetishes, and the Politics of Seeing
Doerr, N. M.
Investigating the politics of seeing and its effects, this book draws on Slavoj Žižek’s notion of fetish and Walter Benjamin’s notion of the optical unconscious to offer new concepts: “tinted glasses”, through which we see the world; “unit-thinking”, which renders the world as consisting of discrete units; and “coherants”, which help fragmented experiences cohere into something intelligible.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Theory and Methodology
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Published May 1996
Fascism and Theatre
Comparative Studies on the Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Europe, 1925-1945
Berghaus, G. (ed)
Subjects: Performance Studies History: World War II Literary Studies
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Published January 2020
Feelings Materialized
Emotions, Bodies, and Things in Germany, 1500–1950
Hillard, D., Lempa, H., & Spinney, R. (eds)
Examining the material aspects of emotion, this volume encompasses technology, photography, aesthetics, and a variety of other historical themes in an innovative application of emotion studies. Feelings Materialized brings together an interdisciplinary group of Germanists to unveil the emotions embedded in the world of things and bodies.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Media Studies History: Medieval/Early Modern Literary Studies
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Fellow Tribesmen
The Image of Native Americans, National Identity, and Nazi Ideology in Germany
Usbeck, F.
Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Germans exhibited a widespread cultural passion for tales and representations of Native Americans. Pervasive and adaptable, imagery of Native Americans was appropriated by Nazi propaganda and merged with exceptionalist notions of German tribalism, oxymoronically promoting the Nazis' racial ideology.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published April 2024
Food and Families in the Making
Knowledge Reproduction and Political Economy of Cooking in Morocco
Graf, K.
Food and Families in the Making looks at knowledge reproduction about how we know cooking and its role in the making of everyday family life. It also examines a political economy of cooking that situates Marrakchi women’s lived experience in the broader context of persisting poverty and food insecurity in Morocco.
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2022
Football Nation
The Playing Fields of German Culture, History, and Society
Dawson, R., Heinsohn, B., Knabe, O., & McDougall, A. (eds)
Germany’s football culture has a historically rich background full of transnational entanglements, German identity formation, and fan cultures. Football Nation constructs new insights surrounding the multifaceted landscapes of German historical and contemporary football debates as it investigates football’s role in discourses on culture, history, and politics.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published March 2022
Forging Architectural Tradition
National Narratives, Monument Preservation and Architectural Work in the Nineteenth Century
Damjanović, D. & Łupienko, Al. (eds)
During the nineteenth century, a change developed in the way architectural objects from the distant past were viewed by contemporaries. Architectural heritage often was (and still is) an important element of nation building. Authors address the process of building national myths around certain architectural objects. National narratives are questioned, as is the position architectural heritage played in the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries.
Subjects: Heritage Studies History (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2017
Foucault's Orient
The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan
Lazreg, M.
Using interviews with scholars from Tunisia and Japan, this book examines the manner in which Foucault experienced and explained his encounters with non-Western cultures, unraveling the anthropological implications of his unwavering commitment to cultural difference. It also traces the philosophical-theoretical sources of his conception of difference, and uncovers the contradictions of his dismissal of empirical anthropology to know human beings.
Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published February 2021
Four-Color Communism
Comic Books and Contested Power in the German Democratic Republic
Eedy, S.
As with all other forms of popular culture, comics in East Germany were tightly controlled by the state. Comics were employed as extensions of the regime’s educational system, delivering state ideology to develop the socialist personality among youth. The East German children who avidly read these comics, however, found their own meanings and projected their own desires in them.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies
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Published November 2000
France At War in the Twentieth Century
Propaganda, Myth, and Metaphor
Holman, V. & Kelly, D. (eds)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: World War I History: World War II Media Studies
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Published October 2005
Free Will, Consciousness and Self
Anthropological Perspectives on Psychology
Bertelsen, P.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published March 2009
The Frightful Stage
Political Censorship of the Theater in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Goldstein, R. J. (ed)
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Performance Studies Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published December 1996
From Caligari to California
Eric Pommer's Life in the International Film Wars
Hardt, U.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published April 2013
From Fidelity to History
Film Adaptations as Cultural Events in the Twentieth Century
Scholz, A.-M.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Film and Television Studies
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Published April 1999
From World War to Waldheim
Culture and Politics in Austria and the United States
Good, D. & Wodak, R. (eds)
Subjects: History: World War I Cultural Studies (General)
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Published November 2010
The Future of Memory
Crownshaw, R., Kilby, J. & Rowland, A. (eds)
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies
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Published April 1996
Futurism and Politics
Between Anarchist Rebellion and Fascist Reaction, 1909-1944
Berghaus, G.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 1994
The Gate to Perfection
The Idea of Peace in Jewish Thought
Homolka, W. & Friedlander, A.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published February 1998
Gender and Germanness
Cultural Productions of Nation
Herminghouse, P. & Mueller, M. (eds)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published October 2017
Gender in Georgia
Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation, and History in the South Caucasus
Barkaia, M. & Waterston, A. (eds)
As Georgia seeks to reinvent itself in the post-Soviet period, Georgian women are maneuvering to adjust to the new economic, social and political order. Gender in Georgia brings together an international group of feminist scholars to explore the socio-political conditions that have shaped gender dynamics in Georgia from the late 19th century to the present.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published June 2019
German Division as Shared Experience
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Postwar Everyday
Carter, E., Palmowski, J., & Schreiter, K. (eds)
German Division as Shared Experience shows the extent to which the story of East and West Germany was one of mutual entanglement after 1945. By subsuming political considerations into the historical domain of the social and cultural, each of the innovative studies presented here analyzes moments of connection at the level of lived experience across the East-West divide.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2008
German Literature in a New Century
Trends, Traditions, Transitions, Transformations
Gerstenberger, K. & Herminghouse, P. (eds)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published June 2001
German Minorities in Europe
Ethnic Identity and Cultural Belonging
Wolff, S. (ed)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published August 2016
German Television
Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
Powell, L. & Shandley, Robert R. (eds)
Long overlooked by scholars and critics, the history and aesthetics of German television have only recently begun to attract serious, sustained attention, and then largely within Germany. This ambitious volume collects penetrating essays on the distinctive theories, practices, and social-historical contexts that defined television in Germany.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies
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Published July 2019
The Girl in the Text
Smith, A. (ed)
How are girls represented in written and graphic texts, and how do these representations inform our understanding of girlhood? In this volume, contributors examine the girl in the text in order to explore a range of perspectives on girlhood across borders and in relation to their positionality.
Subjects: Literary Studies Sociology Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published August 2020
Globalizing Automobilism
Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900–1980
Mom, G.
Why has “car society” proven so durable, even in the face of mounting environmental and economic crises? In this follow-up to his magisterial Atlantic Automobilism, Gijs Mom traces the global spread of the automobile in the postwar era and investigates why adopting more sustainable forms of mobility has proven so difficult.
Subjects: Transport Studies History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Mobility Studies
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Published August 2017
A Goddess in Motion
Visual Creativity in the Cult of María Lionza
Canals, R.
Shedding light on the role of visual creativity in religion, Canals explores the current practice of the cult of María Lionza, one of the most important and yet unexplored religious practices in Venezuela.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2003
The Great Tradition and Its Legacy
The Evolution of Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe
Cherlin, M., Filipowicz, H. & Rudolph, R. L. (eds)
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Performance Studies Literary Studies
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Published March 2003
Group Identities on French and British Television
Scriven, M. & Roberts, E. (eds)
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) Sociology Media Studies
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Published March 2018
Heading for the Scene of the Crash
The Cultural Analysis of America
Drummond, L.
Refashioning cultural analysis into a hard-edged tool for the study of American society and culture, Lee Drummond explores the 9/11 terrorist attacks, abortion, sports doping, and the Jonestown massacre-suicides, providing the basis for a new theory of culture grounded in the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published July 2022
Heritage, Gentrification and Resistance in the Neoliberal City
Hammami, F., Jewesbury, D., & Valli, C. (eds)
What happens when versions of the past become silenced, suppressed or privileged due to urban restructuring? In this volume, the authors explore a variety of attempts to interrupt and interrogate urban restructuring, and to imagine alternative forms of urban organization, produced by diverse coalitions of resisting groups and individuals. Armed with historical narratives, oral histories, objects, physical built environment, memorials and intangible aspects of heritage that include traditions, local knowledge, experiences and memories, authors challenge the ‘devaluation’ of their neighbourhoods in official heritage and development narratives.
Subjects: Heritage Studies Cultural Studies (General) History (General)
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Published June 2010
Historical Memory in Africa
Dealing with the Past, Reaching for the Future in an Intercultural Context
Diawara, M., Lategan, B., & Rüsen, J. (eds)
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies
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Published September 2003
The Historical Practice of Diversity
Transcultural Interactions from the Early Modern Mediterranean to the Postcolonial World
Hoerder, D., Harzig, C. & Shubert, A. (eds)
Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Cultural Studies (General) Colonial History
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Published September 2022
Historical Reenactment
New Ways of Experiencing History
Carretero, M., Wagoner, B., & Perez-Manjarrez, E. (eds)
The increasing number of historical reenactments, along with their growing popularity, are catching both attention in popular culture and in multiple academic disciplines. Historical Reenactment takes a transdisciplinary and global approach to define and theorize reenactments as an embedded cultural and material phenomenon.
Subjects: Memory Studies Performance Studies
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Published November 2020
Histories of a Radical Book
E. P. Thompson and The Making of the English Working Class
Burton, A. & Fortado, S. (eds)
This collected volume explores the complex impact of E.P. Thompson’s monumental book, The Making of the English Working Class, both as an intellectual project and material object, relating it to the social and cultural history of the book form itself—an enduring artifact of English history.
Subject: Cultural Studies (General)
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Published May 1995
History and Modernity in Latin America
Barloewen, C. von
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published June 2003
Hitler's Dancers
German Modern Dance and the Third Reich
Karina, L & Kant, M.
Subjects: Performance Studies History: World War II Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published May 2022
Hotbeds of Licentiousness
The British Glamour Film and the Permissive Society
Halligan, B.
By focusing on a series of colorful filmmakers whose work, while omnipresent during the 1970s, now remains critically ignored, Hotbeds of Licentiousness explores pornography as a lens through which to view radical changes in British society.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published March 2019
How Materials Matter
Design, Innovation and Materiality in the Pacific
Were, G.
Explores how design and innovation shape people’s lives in the Pacific. Focusing on plant materials from the region, it reveals ways in which a variety of people – from craftswomen and scientists to architects and politicians – work with materials to transform worlds.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published June 2001
Human Nature and the French Revolution
From the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic Code
Martin, X.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century
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Published December 2018
Humanitarianism and Media
1900 to the Present
Paulmann, J. (ed)
Humanitarianism & Media brings together scholars from a variety of backgrounds to offer an unprecedented exploration of the history behind humanitarian efforts and the media, spanning from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
Subjects: Media Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published April 2016
Humour, Comedy and Laughter
Obscenities, Paradoxes, Insights and the Renewal of Life
Sciama, L.D. (ed)
Anthropological writings on humour are not numerous, but they do contain insight into the social processes that underlie joking and laughter. This volume examines the cognitive, social, and moral aspects of humour and its potential to bring about a sense of mutual understanding, even among different and possibly hostile people.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies
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Published July 2023
If Cars Could Walk
Postsocialist Streets in Transformation
Duijzings, G. & Tuvikene, T. (eds)
Addressing the transformation of street life in postsocialist cities against the backdrop of the explosive rise of car-mobility in the last 25 years, If Cars Could Walk consists of ethnographic case studies documenting changes in these cities as former socialist modes of mobility are replaced by a culture of privately owned cars.
Subjects: Transport Studies History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published November 2003
Illness and Irony
On the Ambiguity of Suffering in Culture
Lambek, M. & Antze, P. (ed)
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Published August 2017
Images from Paradise
The Visual Communication of the European Union's Federalist Utopia
Salgó, E.
Drawing upon the disciplines of politics, anthropology, psychoanalysis, aesthetics and cinema studies, Salgó presents a new way of looking at the “art of European unification” and to highlight the mythical sources of the federalist project.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Media Studies
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Published December 2004
Images of Power
Iconography, Culture and the State in Latin America
Andermann, J. & Rowe, W. (eds)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Media Studies
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Published April 2012
Images of Power and the Power of Images
Control, Ownership, and Public Space
Kapferer, J. (ed)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Published April 2020
In Fading Light
The Films of the Amber Collective
Leggott, J.
The Amber Film collective has been part of the British and European documentary scene since the late 1960s. Situating the work within wider social, political and historical contexts, In Fading Light interrogates how their critically acclaimed body of work—which includes documentaries, feature films, television films, and other experimental and campaigning projects—relates to other filmmakers in Britain and Europe.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published June 2021
In Memory of Times to Come
Ironies of History in Southeastern Papua New Guinea
Demian, M.
Drawing on twenty years of research, this book examines the historical perspective of a Pacific people who saw “globalization” come and go. It asks the question: What does it mean to claim that global connections are in the past rather than the present or the future?
Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published January 2016
In Search of Legitimacy
How Outsiders Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Tradition
Griffith, L. M.
Every year, young adults from Western nations travel to Brazil to train in the dance/martial art of capoeira. This ethnography uses the concept of apprenticeship pilgrimage—studying with a local master at a historical point of origin—to explore how non-Brazilians learn their art and claim legitimacy within capoeira communities.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published March 2023
In the Meantime
Toward an Anthropology of the Possible
Masquelier, A. & Durham, D. (eds)
The “meantime” represents the gap between what is past and the unknown future. When considered as waiting, the meantime is defined as a period of suspension to be endured. By contrast, the contributors of this volume understand it as a space of “the possible” where calculation coexists with uncertainty, promises with disappointment, and imminence with deferral.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published May 2009
Indispensable Eyesores
An Anthropology of Undesired Buildings
Hoorn, M. v der
Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Ingmar Bergman Out of Focus
Film Cultures and International Reception
Van Belle, J., Arenos, F. R., & Peirano, M. P. (eds)
An exacting re-examination of Ingmar Bergman’s cultural heritage, Ingmar Bergman Out Of Focus digs into the perceived “familiarity” of Bergman’s films by analyzing how the Swedish director’s film aesthetics simultaneously shaped modern culture and were themselves reshaped by contemporary cultural debates.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Intersected Identities
Strategies of Visualisation in 19th and 20th Century Mexican Culture
Segre, E.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies
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Published April 2024
Intimate Histories
African Americans and Germany since 1933
Klopprogge, N.
Intimate Histories investigates the role and conceptualizations of intimacy between African American and German relations between 1933 through 1990. Reviewing issues surrounding anti-miscegenation laws, casual sexual encounters, and unique friendships, this book traces how intimacy became an important site of transnational racial history.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published October 2003
An Invitation to Anthropology
The Structure, Evolution and Cultural Identity of Human Societies
Llobera, J.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2019
Inward Looking
The Impact of Migration on Romanipe from the Romani Perspective
Marinov, A. G.
Inward Looking seeks to understand the relationship between Romani identity, performance and migration. Particularly, it studies the idea of ‘Romanipe’ under the prism of the personal accounts of Romani migrants. The findings are based on qualitative data gathered from Romani migrants from three towns in Bulgaria.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published April 2013
Irish/ness Is All Around Us
Language Revivalism and the Culture of Ethnic Identity in Northern Ireland
Zenker, O.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published June 2012
Journeys Into Madness
Mapping Mental Illness in the Austro-Hungarian Empire
Blackshaw, G. & Wieber, S. (eds)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Published January 2010
Kristeva in Focus
From Theory to Film Analysis
Goodnow, K.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published October 2024
Kubrick's Mitteleuropa
The Central European Imaginary in the Films of Stanley Kubrick
Abrams, N. & Szaniiawski, J. (eds)
Stanley Kubrick was arguably one of the most influential American directors of the post-World War II era, and his Central European Jewish heritage, though often overlooked, greatly influenced his oeuvre. Kubrick's Mitteleuropa explores this as well as providing important commentary on the reception of his films in countries across Eastern Europe.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published April 2000
The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800
Gray, E. & Fiering, N. (eds)
Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Colonial History Cultural Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published May 2006
Languages of Civil Society
Wagner, P. (ed)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published December 2016
Languid Bodies, Grounded Stances
The Curving Pathway of Neoclassical Odissi Dance
Sikand, N.
Odissi dance has transformed over the centuries from an Indian temple ritual to a transnational genre performed—and consumed—throughout the world. Building on ethnographic research in multiple locations, this book reveals the complexity of odissi as it is practiced today, at the intersection of identity, nationalism, tradition, and neoliberal economics.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published February 2014
Learning Senegalese Sabar
Dancers and Embodiment in New York and Dakar
Bizas, E.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2006
Lela in Bali
History through Ceremony in Cameroon
Fardon, R.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Performance Studies Colonial History
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Published June 2018
Lessons in Perception
The Avant-Garde Filmmaker as Practical Psychologist
Taberham, P.
Narrative comprehension, memory, hallucination, and dreaming have long been objects of fascination for cognitive psychologists, as well as inspiration for experimental filmmakers. Lessons in Perception brings together film theory and psychological research by exploring how experimental filmmakers expand the viewer’s range of aesthetic sensitivities, and the creative possibilities uncharted by commercial cinema.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies Sociology
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Published July 2019
Lewis Henry Morgan's Comparisons
Reassessing Terminology, Anarchy and Worldview in Indigenous Societies of America, Australia and Highland Middle India
Pfeffer, G.
Georg Pfeffer re-examines the work of Lewis Henry Morgan on relationship terminologies, societal forms, and ideas of property and the relationship between these three domains. He concludes that reciprocal affinal relations determine most ‘classificatory’ terminologies and regulate many non-state societies, their property notions, and their rituals.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published November 2007
The Limits of Loyalty
Imperial Symbolism, Popular Allegiances, and State Patriotism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy
Cole, L. & Unowsky, D. (eds)
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published December 1999
The Lion and the Eagle
German-Spanish Relations Over the Centuries: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Kent, C., Wolber, T. & Hewitt, C. (eds)
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published August 2021
Living Like a Girl
Agency, Social Vulnerability and Welfare Measures in Europe and Beyond
Vogel, M. & Arnell, L. (eds)
With a particular focus on girls who have experienced interventions by social services, the contributions in Living Like a Girl expand our understanding of contemporary European girlhood by demonstrating how social problems are managed in different cultural contexts, political and social systems.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published August 2011
Localizing the Internet
An Anthropological Account
Postill, J.
Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2006
Locating Memory
Photographic Acts
Kuhn, A. & McAllister, K. (eds)
Subjects: Media Studies Cultural Studies (General) Film and Television Studies Memory Studies
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Published December 2007
London Eyes
Reflections in Text and Image
Cunningham, G. & Barber, S. (eds)
Subjects: Literary Studies Film and Television Studies Media Studies
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Published December 2015
The Long Aftermath
Cultural Legacies of Europe at War, 1936-2016
Bragança, M. & Tame, P. (eds)
The hostilities in Europe from 1936 to 1945 have exerted enormous influence over the cultural life of Europe. Bringing together over twenty leading scholars across disciplines, this interdisciplinary volume investigates the intertwining dynamics of Europeans’ individual and collective memories and the ways in which they have shaped cultural forms.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published November 2020
The Long Journey
Exploring Travel and Travel Writing
Di Bella, M. P. & Yothers, B. (eds)
Travel writing has, for centuries, comprised an essential historical record and wide-ranging literary form, reflecting the rich diversity of travel as a social and cultural practice, metaphorical process, and driver of globalization.
Subjects: Literary Studies Mobility Studies Cultural Studies (General) Travel and Tourism
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Published August 2018
Lullabies and Battle Cries
Music, Identity and Emotion among Republican Parading Bands in Northern Ireland
Rollins, J.
Lullabies and Battle Cries examines the relationship between music, emotion, memory, and identity in Northern Irish republican parading bands, exploring how rebel parade music provides a foundational idiom of national and republican expression, acting as a critical medium for shaping new political identities.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published July 2017
Mad Mädchen
Feminism and Generational Conflict in Recent German Literature and Film
McCarthy, M.
The last two decades have been frequently discordant for German feminism, as a new cohort of activists has come of age and challenged many of the movement’s strategic and philosophical orthodoxies. This book offers an incisive cultural analysis of these trans-generational debates, identifying characteristic features of their representation in German literature, film, and media.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Media Studies Film and Television Studies Literary Studies
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The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama
Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa
Pype, K.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Media Studies Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published January 2020
Management and Morality
An Ethnographic Exploration of Management Consultancy Seminars
Henningsen, E.
Drawing on extended ethnographic studies of management consultancies in the Oslo region of Norway, this book seeks to find a richer understanding of their role in contemporary work life and the attraction their practices exert on people. The author shows that management consultancy is an arena of meaning that should be analysed as a ‘cultural space’.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Applied Anthropology
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Published April 2004
The Many Faces of Germany
McCarthy, J. A., Grûnzweig, W. & Koebner, T. (eds)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published January 2023
The Marseille Mosaic
A Mediterranean City at the Crossroads of Cultures
Ingram, M. & Kleppinger, K. (eds)
Moving across disciplines, The Marseille Mosaic integrates a diverse range of sources and methods to reveal France’s second city in the national imagination as a critical site for postcolonial memory and urban transformation as they crucially interact with debates in contemporary French society.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Sociology Urban Studies
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Published November 2014
Mass Communication In Israel
Nationalism, Globalization, and Segmentation
Soffer, O.
Mass communication has long been recognized as an important contributor to national identity and nation building. This book examines the relationship between media and nationalism in Israel, arguing that, in comparison to other countries, the Israeli case is unique.
Subject: Media Studies
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Published March 2010
Materialising Exile
Material Culture and Embodied Experience among Karenni Refugees in Thailand
Dudley, S.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published May 2021
Mattering the Invisible
Technologies, Bodies, and the Realm of the Spectral
Espírito Santo, D. & Hunter, J. (eds)
Exploring how technological apparatuses “capture” invisible worlds, this book looks at how spirits, UFOs, discarnate entities, spectral energies, atmospheric forces and particles are mattered into existence by human minds. The book uses contemporary case studies where the realm of the invisible arises through technological engagement, and where the paranormal intertwines with modern technology.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Media Studies
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Published May 2011
Max Liebermann and International Modernism
An Artist's Career from Empire to Third Reich
Deshmukh, M., Forster-Hahn, F. & Gaehtgens, B. (eds)
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published December 2020
The Meanings of a Disaster
Chernobyl and Its Afterlives in Britain and France
Kalmbach, K.
Focusing on the cases of Great Britain and France, this innovative study explores the discourses and narratives that arose in the wake of the incident among both state and nonstate actors. It gives a thorough account of the strategies that shaped Western European responses to the disaster as well as nuclear policy up to the present day.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General) Media Studies
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Published December 2006
The Meanings of Magic
From the Bible to Buffalo Bill
Wygant, A. (ed)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published May 2006
Media and Nation Building
How the Iban became Malaysian
Postill, J.
Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published February 2014
Media and Revolt
Strategies and Performances from the 1960s to the Present
Fahlenbrach, K., Sivertsen, E. & Werenskjold, R. (eds)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies
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Published March 2020
Media Practices and Changing African Socialities
Non-media-centric Perspectives
Helle-Valle, J. & Strom-Mathiesen, A. (eds)
Deriving from innovative new work by six researchers, this book questions what the new media's role is in contemporary Africa. The focus is on media-related practices, which require engagement with different perspectives and concerns while situating these in a wider analytical context.
Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General) Development Studies
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Published October 2015
Media, Anthropology and Public Engagement
Pink, S. & Abram, S. (eds)
Contemporary anthropologists’ engagement with social and digital media simultaneously offers opportunities to disseminate work in new ways, while challenging scholars to move into unfamiliar collaborative domains and expose their research to new forms of scrutiny. This volume’s contributors question whether, through these new practices, a fresh public anthropology is emerging.
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Media Studies
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Published January 2022
Mediated Lives
Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan
Twigt, M.
Using the example of Iraqi refugees in Jordan's capital of Amman, this book describes how information and communication technologies (ICTs) play out in the everyday experiences of urban refugees, geographically located in the Global South, and shows how interactions between online and offline spaces are key for making sense of the humanitarian regime, for carving out a sense of home and for sustaining hope.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Media Studies
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Published July 2009
Mediating Europe
New Media, Mass Communications, and the European Public Sphere
Harrison, J. & Wessels, B. (eds)
Subjects: Media Studies Sociology
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Published January 2024
Melanesian Mainstream
Stringband Music and Identity in Vanuatu
Ellerich, S. T.
Based in extensive ethnographic research, Melanesian Mainstream provides a detailed representation of the roots, context, evolution, and impact of stringband music in the Melanesian Republic of Vanuatu.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Performance Studies
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Published November 2016
Memory Unbound
Tracing the Dynamics of Memory Studies
Bond, L., Craps, S., & Vermeulen, P. (eds)
Increasingly, scholars understand memory to be a fluid, dynamic process, rather than a reified object. Embodying this elastic approach, this state-of-the-field collection systematically explores the transcultural, transgenerational, transmedial, and transdisciplinary dimensions of memory—four key concepts that have sometimes been studied in isolation but never in such an integrated manner.
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies
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Published January 2014
Metallic Modern
Everyday Machines in Colonial Sri Lanka
Wickramasinghe, N.
Subjects: Colonial History Cultural Studies (General) Development Studies
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Published November 2023
Microhistories of Memory
Remediating the Holocaust by Bullets in Postwar West Germany
Saryusz-Wolska, M.
Microhistories of Memory takes the culturally significant West German novel, radio play, and television series Through the Night (originally Am grünen Strand der Spree, 1955-1960), depicting the mass shootings of Jews in the occupied Soviet Union during World War II, and provides an in-depth look into work’s circulation, reception, production, and popularity in the public sphere.
Subjects: Memory Studies Film and Television Studies Media Studies
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Published October 2017
Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters
Making Likenesses in Time, Trade, and Ritual Reconfigurations
Mageo, J. & Hermann, E. (eds)
How do images circulating in Pacific cultures and exchanged between them and their many visitors transform meanings for all involved? This fascinating collection explores how through mimesis, wayfarers and locales alike borrow images from one another to expand their cultural repertoire of meanings or borrow images from their own past to validate their identities.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published August 2018
Mirrors of Passing
Unlocking the Mysteries of Death, Materiality, and Time
Seebach, S. & Willerslev, R. (eds)
Mirrors of Passing explores the relationship between death, materiality, and temporality, drawing from the fields of archaeology, cultural anthropology, political science, and media studies to explore fundamental questions about the relationship between death and our perception of time.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Published October 2024
Mobile Pastoralist Households
Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives
Houle, J.-L. (ed)
Mobile pastoralist activities occur at different scales across the landscape, including local, regional, and supra-regional scales. This research brings together the work of archaeologists currently engaged in mobile pastoralist household research in different regions of the world to highlight the importance of household studies and the utility of both archaeological and ethnoarchaeological approaches in understanding mobile pastoralist household formation, continuity, and adaptation to environmental, social, economic, and political change.
Subjects: Archaeology Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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Published October 1998
Models and Mirrors
Towards an Anthropology of Public Events
Handelman, D.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published July 2020
Modern Lusts
Ernest Borneman: Jazz Critic, Filmmaker, Sexologist
Siegfried, D.
Detlef Siegfried’s long-awaited English translation chronicles Ernest Borneman’s journey from his days as a young Jewish Communist in Berlin to his ventures in England and Canada, and ultimately, to his endeavors as the most prominent sexologist spearheading the sexual revolution in West Germany and Austria in the twentieth century.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Film and Television Studies Media Studies
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Published January 2019
Monetising the Dividual Self
The Emergence of the Lifestyle Blog and Influencers in Malaysia
Hopkins, J.
Combining theoretical discussions with shorter case studies, this book offers an anthropological exploration of the emergence in Malaysia of lifestyle bloggers. It tracks the transformation of personal blogs, which attracted readers with spontaneous, authentic accounts of everyday life, into lifestyle blogs that generate income through advertising and foreground consumerist lifestyles.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Media Studies
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Published March 2018
Money at the Margins
Global Perspectives on Technology, Financial Inclusion, and Design
Maurer, B., Musaraj, S., & Small, I. V. (eds)
Mobile money, e-commerce, cash cards, retail credit cards, and more — as new monetary technologies become increasingly available, the global South has embraced these mediums as a simple solution to the issue of financial inclusion. Money at the Margins is a groundbreaking exploration of the uses and socio-cultural impact of new forms of money and financial services.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published June 2019
Money Games
Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town
Pickles, A. J.
Since the Colonial era, gambling has come to dominate nighttime activity in Papua New Guinea. This richly detailed ethnography intersects with theories of money, value, play, money, exchange, informal economy, materiality, social change, leadership, and the anthropology of Melanesia.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published December 1994
Montaigne Amongst the Moderns
Receptions of the Essays
Marchi, D.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published October 2017
Moral Engines
Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life
Mattingly, C., Dyring, R., Louw, M., & Schwarz Wentzer, T. (eds)
What fundamentally drives human beings to strive for moral perfection? Is it care of the self? Is it care for others? Is it inextricably wedded to politics? Moral Engines includes some of the foremost voices in the anthropology of morality, representing a unique interdisciplinary conversation between anthropologists and philosophers about the moral engines of ethical life.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published February 2004
More Than a Music Box
Radio Cultures and Communities in a Multi-Media World
Crisell, A. (ed)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies
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Published February 2022
Moving Frames
Photographs in German Cinema
Collenberg-González, C. & Sheehan, M. P. (eds)
Through an intermedial approach combining studies on cinema and photography, Moving Frames addresses precise historical moments uniquely in a German context. Across films both in and outside the canon, this volume tackles those specific historical moments experienced in media forms to gauge the cultural, political, and transnational trends in humanity’s desire for agency and how that agency is represented.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published May 2012
Moving Subjects, Moving Objects
Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions
Svašek, M. (ed)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Mobility Studies Sociology
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Published December 2006
Mozart
The First Biography
Niemetschek, F.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century
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Published December 1998
Multiculturalism in Transit
A German-American Exchange
Milich, K. & Peck, J. (eds)
Subject: Cultural Studies (General)
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Published March 2008
Multiculturalism in the New Japan
Crossing the Boundaries Within
Graburn, N., Ertl, J. & Tierney, R. K. (ed)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published August 2019
Multiple Nature-Cultures, Diverse Anthropologies
Bruun Jensen, C. & Morita, A. (eds)
Over time, the role of nature in anthropology has evolved from being a mere backdrop for social and cultural diversity to being viewed as an integral part of the ontological entanglement of human and nonhuman agents. This transformation of the role of nature offers important insight into the relationships between diverse anthropological traditions.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published August 2019
The Museum of Mankind
Man and Boy in the British Museum Ethnography Department
Burt, B.
The Museum of Mankind was an innovative and popular showcase for minority cultures from around the non-Western world from 1970 to 1997, as the devolved Ethnography Department of the British Museum. This memoir of over forty years’ service with the Department is a critical appreciation of its achievements in the various roles of a national museum, of the personalities of its staff and of the issues raised in the representation of exotic cultures.
Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published June 2022
Museum Times
Changing Histories in South Africa
Witz, L.
Museums flourished in post-apartheid South Africa. In older museums, there were renovations on the go, and at least fifty new museums opened. Most sought to depict violence and suffering under apartheid and the growth of resistance. These unlikely journeys are tracked as museums became a primary setting for contesting histories. The author demonstrates how an institution concerned with the conservation of the past is simultaneously a site for changing history.
Subjects: Museum Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2015
Museum Websites and Social Media
Issues of Participation, Sustainability, Trust and Diversity
Sánchez Laws, A. L.
Online activities present a unique challenge for museums as they harness the potential of digital technology for sustainable development, trust building, and representations of diversity. This volume provides insight into the issues behind designing and implementing web pages and social media to serve the broadest range of museum stakeholders.
Subjects: Museum Studies Media Studies
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Published September 2022
Museum, Place, Architecture and Narrative
Nordic Maritime Museums’ Portrayals of Shipping, Seafarers and Maritime Communities
Bünz, A.
A characteristic trait of the maritime museums is that they are often located in a contemporary and/or historical environment from which the collections and narratives originate. This volume unravels the kinds of worlds and realities the Nordic maritime museums stage, which identities and national myths they depict, and how they make use of both the surrounding maritime environments and the architectural properties of the museum buildings.
Subjects: Museum Studies Archaeology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published April 2015
Music and International History in the Twentieth Century
Gienow-Hecht, J. C. E. (ed)
Bringing together scholars from the fields of musicology and international history, this book investigates the significance of music to foreign relations, and how it affected the interaction of nations since the late 19th century.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies Performance Studies
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Published December 2005
Music and Manipulation
On the Social Uses and Social Control of Music
Brown, S. & Volgsten, U. (eds)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies Sociology Anthropology (General)
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Published June 2023
Music and Postwar Transitions in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Fléchet, A., Guerpin, M., Gumplowicz, P. & Kelly, B. L. (eds)
Music and Postwar Transitions takes a groundbreaking and much anticipated dive into the concept of postwar transitions and how these affect and are affected by the world of music. Leading scholars in the field explore new approaches to create a novel understanding of music and postwar periods.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century Media Studies
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Published December 2013
Mussolini's Dream Factory
Film Stardom in Fascist Italy
Gundle, S.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Performance Studies
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Published April 2012
Myth and Modernity
Barlach's Drawings on the Nibelungen
Paret, P. & Thieme, H.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published June 2019
Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany
Plummer, M. E. & Harrington, J. F. (eds)
This volume offers a coherent and interdisciplinary approach to a wide variety of early modern subjects centered on onomastics, the study of names. Leading scholars in the field seek to explore the dynamics and impact of this naming (or renaming) process in a variety of contexts: social, artistic, literary, theological, and scientific.
Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Cultural Studies (General)
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Published November 2006
Names and Nunavut
Culture and Identity in the Inuit Homeland
Alia, V.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2008
Narrating the Nation
Representations in History, Media and the Arts
Berger, S., Eriksonas, L. & Mycock, A. (eds)
Subjects: History (General) Media Studies Literary Studies Film and Television Studies
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Published June 2005
Narration, Identity, and Historical Consciousness
Straub, J. (ed)
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published June 2016
Narratives in Motion
Journalism and Modernist Events in 1920s Portugal
Trindade, L.
A fascinating study of newspapers in 1920s Portugal, Narratives in Motion explores how the new “modernist reportage” embodied the spirit of its era while mediating some of its most spectacular episodes. In the process, it shows how that journalism epitomized a distinctively modern entanglement of narrative and event.
Subjects: Media Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published August 2018
Nation Branding in Modern History
Viktorin, C., Gienow-Hecht, J. C. E., Estner, A., & Will, M. K. (eds)
Branding in Modern History draws from a variety of international case studies, ranging from Austria and Switzerland to Chile, the US, China, Spain, Suriname, and Poland to investigate the nexus between cultural marketing, self-representation and political power by looking at current nation branding campaigns as well as its historical predecessors.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Political and Economic Anthropology Media Studies
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Published November 2004
Nature Knowledge
Ethnoscience, Cognition, and Utility
Sanga, G. & Ortalli, G. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published March 2019
Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire
Transnational Approaches
Habermas, R. (ed)
Negotiating the Secular and the Religious in the German Empire sheds light on the multitude of worldviews, belief systems, and rituals that defined the borders between the secular and the religious in the German imperial era.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2010
New Dangerous Liaisons
Discourses on Europe and Love in the Twentieth Century
Passerini, L., Ellena, L., & Geppert, A. (eds)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published November 2015
New Hong Kong Cinema
Transitions to Becoming Chinese in 21st-Century East Asia
Cheung, R.
The trajectory of Hong Kong films had been drastically affected long before the city’s official sovereignty transfer from the British to the Chinese in 1997. The author introduces the “Cinema of Transitions,” using examples from the 1980s to the present, to study New Hong Kong Cinema and on- and off-screen life against this background.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published June 2015
New Imaginaries
Youthful Reinvention of Ukraine's Cultural Paradigm
Rubchak, M.J. (ed)
Contributors to this volume infuse their work with Western elements, although vestiges of Soviet-style ideas, research methodology and writing linger. This, as a result, is a paradigm articulating “New Imaginaries” — neither Soviet nor Western — offering a fresh portrait of Ukrainian society seen through a new generation of feminist scholars.
Subjects: Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)
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Published January 2010
The New Media Nation
Indigenous Peoples and Global Communication
Alia, V
Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published July 2016
New Uses of Bourdieu in Film and Media Studies
Austin, G. (ed)
French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s work has been extremely influential, but has only intermittently been used to study cinema and new media. With topics ranging from photography to mobile technology, this collection demonstrates the enormous relevance that Bourdieu holds for the field of media studies.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies Sociology
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Published May 2010
News as Culture
Journalistic Practices and the Remaking of Indian Leadership Traditions
Rao, U.
Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published November 2018
Non-Humans in Amerindian South America
Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals and Songs
Rivera Andía, J. J. (ed)
Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies, and presenting ethnographies of non-human entities emerging in ritual, oral tradition, cosmology, shamanism and music, this book offers new insights into the indigenous constitutions of humanity, personhood, and environment characteristic of the South American highlands and lowlands.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published February 2021
Nordic War Stories
World War II as History, Fiction, Media, and Memory
Stecher-Hansen, M. (ed)
Nordic War Stories explores the commonalities and divergences among the five Nordic countries, examining formal and informal national historiographies alongside representations of the second world war in canonical literary works, memoirs, and films. Together, they comprise a valuable companion that challenges the myth of Scandinavian homogeneity while demonstrating the powerful influence that the war continues to exert on national self-conceptions.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies
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Published September 2020
Nourishing Life
Foodways and Humanity in an African Town
Huhn, A.
In this accessible ethnography of a small town in northern Mozambique, everyday cultural knowledge and behaviors about food, cooking, and eating reveal the deeply human pursuit of a nourishing life. This emerges less through the consumption of specific nutrients than it does in the affective experience of alimentation in contexts that support vitality, compassion, and generative relations.
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published February 2015
Objects and Imagination
Perspectives on Materialization and Meaning
Fuglerud, Ø. & Wainwright, L. (eds)
Despite the wide interest in material culture, art, and aesthetics, few studies have considered them in light of the importance of the social imagination - the complex ways we conceptualize our social surroundings. This collection engages the “material turn” in the arts, humanities, and social sciences through a range of original contributions on creativity in diverse global and contemporary social settings.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Museum Studies
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Published October 2023
Of Hoarding and Housekeeping
Material Kinship and Domestic Space in Anthropological Perspective
Newell, S. (ed)
Of Hoarding and Housekeeping provides an anthropological, global, and comparative angle to the understanding of hoarding and decluttering. Focusing on the house, with careful attention to material flows in and out, this book examines practices of accumulation, storage, decluttering, and waste as practices of kinship and the objects themselves as material kin.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published September 1999
Olympic Games as Performance and Public Event
The Case of the XVII Winter Olympic Games in Norway
Klausen, A. (ed)
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published September 2003
On Prayer
Text and Commentary
Mauss, M.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion Sociology
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Published March 2021
On the Death of Jews
Photographs and History
Fresco, N.
In this trenchant meditation on photographs from an atrocity in Latvia during the Holocaust, Nadine Fresco argues for the vital importance of photographs—and nontraditional sources more broadly—for understanding the Holocaust. She confronts charged questions around guilt and testimony while teasing out the subtle implications of camera angles, photo sequencing, and body language, helping us to see anew the perspectives of victims, perpetrators, and others who witnessed the brutality of the Holocaust.
Subjects: Genocide History Media Studies Jewish Studies
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Published April 2019
On the Geopragmatics of Anthropological Identification
Chun, A.
An audacious critique of the issues that have plagued culturalization in anthropological thought and writing. Allen Chun argues that disciplinary knowledge has always been embedded in changing contexts of sociopolitical practice and that neglect of its underlying politics gives different meaning to anthropology’s objective fallacy.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published July 2023
Once Upon a Time is Now
A Kalahari Memoir
Biesele, M.
Fifty years after her first fieldwork with Ju/'hoan San hunter-gatherers, anthropologist Megan Biesele has written this exceptional memoir based on personal journals she wrote at the time.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Development Studies
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Published October 2021
One More for the Road
A Director’s Notes on Exile, Family, and Film
Grlić, R.
One More for the Road recounts the life and career of Croatian filmmaker Rajko Grlić in the form of a film dictionary, tying cinematic terms to anecdotes spanning Grlić’s life. With a scholarly introduction by Aida Vidan, these personal stories combine to provide insight into the socialist film industries and south Slavic film.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published May 2019
One Sound, Two Worlds
The Blues in a Divided Germany, 1945-1990
Rauhut, M.
Through extensive archival research and conversations with renowned publicists, musicians and insiders, author Michael Rauhut examines more than fifty texts to give an in-depth overview of the historical development of blues music in East and West Germany during the postwar period.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Performance Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published August 2003
An Ordinary Country
Issues in the Transition from Apartheid to Democracy in South Africa
Alexander, N.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published June 2017
Organic Cinema
Film, Architecture, and the Work of Béla Tarr
Botz-Bornstein, T.
What might the “organic” mean in the context of film studies? This innovative volume locates one instance of organicity in the work of Béla Tarr, the renowned Hungarian filmmaker “slow cinema” pioneer. It analyzes Tarr’s long take and other signature techniques, establishes links between the seemingly remote spheres of film and architecture.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published November 2023
Other Borders
History, Mobility and Migration of Rudari Families between Romania and Italy
Tosi Cambini, S.
Other Borders is a deeply thorough, multi-site ethnographic research volume that brings forward the rudari lingurari family’s social and economic cultural organization and the mobilities developed in their migratory paths.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Cultural Studies (General) Theory and Methodology
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Published October 2022
Pacific Spaces
Translations and Transmutations
Engels-Schwarzpaul, A.-C., Lopesi, L., & Refiti, A. L. (eds)
Delving into Pacific spaces from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and interpretations, this book looks at how the anthropological and architectural can be connected.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Development Studies
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Published January 2000
Paradoxes of Civil Society
New Perspectives on Modern German and British History
Trentmann, F. (ed)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General)
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Published July 2019
PC Worlds
Political Correctness and Rising Elites at the End of Hegemony
Friedman, J.
This provocative work offers an anthropological analysis of the phenomenon of political correctness, both as a general phenomenon of communication, in which associations in space and time take precedence over the content of what is communicated, and as specific critical historical conjunctures in which new elites attempt to redefine social reality.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Media Studies
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Published July 2019
Peace at All Costs
Catholic Intellectuals, Journalists, and Media in Postwar Polish–German Reconciliation
Frieberg, A. E.
Peace at All Costs reconsiders postwar Polish-German relations as an interdisciplinary case study of reconciliation and follows an influential network of non-state peace activists, major players in print and audiovisual media, as they attempted to establish dialogue in the 1950s and 1960s.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Peace and Conflict Studies Media Studies
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Published December 2002
The Peirce Seminar Papers
Volume V: Essays in Semiotic Analysis
Shapiro, M. (ed)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century Literary Studies
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Published January 1995
The Peirce Seminar Papers
Volume II: An Annual of Semiotic Analysis
Shapiro, M. (ed)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century Literary Studies
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Published November 2022
Pepsi and the Pill
Motherhood, Politics and Film in Britain and France, 1958–1969
Oliver-Powell, M.
With the reintroduction of many important debates surrounding reproductive rights, migration and nationalism, Pepsi and the Pill brings to the fore examples and critical historical and media analysis of British and French films in the popular culture and political discourses of 1960s Western Europe.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published June 2023
Performing Memory
Corporeality, Visuality, and Mobility after 1968
Passerini, L. & Reinisch, D. (eds)
Through a post-1968 perspective on Europe, Performing Memory newly approaches the performative dimensions of memory within the historical cluster of visuality, corporeality and mobility. In a series of focused case studies from emerging and leading scholars, this volume enlarges the focus of memory across the histories of dance, theatre, the media, cinema, and other forms of artistic and political performances.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Performance Studies Mobility Studies
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Published September 2012
Performing Place, Practising Memories
Aboriginal Australians, Hippies and the State
Henry, R.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published April 2020
Permeable Borders
History, Theory, Policy, and Practice in the United States
Otto, P. & Berthier-Foglar, S. (eds)
This boldly interdisciplinary volume explores the ways that historical and contemporary actors in the U.S. have crossed such borders—whether national, cultural, ethnic, racial, or conceptual. These essays suggest new ways to understand borders while encouraging connection and exchange, even as social and political forces continue to try to draw lines around and between people.
Subjects: History (General) Mobility Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published March 2019
Persistently Postwar
Media and the Politics of Memory in Japan
Guarné, B., Lozano-Méndez, A., & Martinez, D. P. (eds)
Persistently Postwar approaches the topics of social memory and political discourse through an exploration of Japan’s post-war mass media. Diverse disciplinary backgrounds and contrasting perspectives offer a nuanced dialogue in which the functions of mass media are explored as more than a simple ideological tool.
Subjects: Media Studies Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies
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Published March 2021
Perspectives in Motion
Engaging the Visual in Dance and Music
Stepputat, K & Diettrich, B. (eds)
Through a diverse range of case studies from Oceania, Asia, and Europe, and interdisciplinary approaches, Perspectives in Motion explores visual approaches to performance in global cultural contexts, offering new critical and ethnographic frameworks for understanding and experiencing practices of music and dance across the globe.
Subjects: Performance Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2024
Playing the Hand We Are Dealt
The Counterpoint of Fate and Freewill in Literature and Life
Jackson, M.
The relationship between literature and life can be construed as a counterpoint of fate and freewill. Rather than equating fate to the ‘hand we are dealt’ which is reducible to the social or familial environments into which we are born, this book explores the idea of fate through the books that shape our lives and under whose influence we write.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Literary Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published February 2002
Plural Identities - Singular Narratives
The Case of Northern Ireland
Nic Craith, M.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published January 2001
Poems in Steel
National Socialism and the Politics of Inventing from Weimar to Bonn
Gispen, K.
Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 1996
A Poet Or Nothing At All
The Tübingen and Basel Years of Herman Hesse
Helt, R. C.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published January 2023
Polarized Pasts
Heritage and Belonging in Times of Political Polarization
Niklasson, E. (ed)
When questions of belonging enter the forefront of political debates, so too does heritage. From different ends at the political spectrum, people invoke the past to validate their stance on immigration, equality and security. Together, the texts pave the way for a better understanding of the role of the heritage in society.
Subjects: Heritage Studies Cultural Studies (General) Archaeology
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Published March 1997
The Policing of Politics in the Twentieth Century
Historical Perspectives
Mazower, M. (ed)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published October 2018
Polish Cinema
A History
Haltof, M.
This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Marek Haltof’s seminal survey takes stock of dramatic shifts in Polish society and to provide an essential account of the nation’s cinema from the nineteenth century to today. It covers such renowned figures as Kieślowski and Wajda along with vastly expanded coverage of documentaries, animation, and television.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published July 2009
The Political Economy of Germany under Chancellors Kohl and Schröder
Decline of the German Model?
Leaman, J.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies
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Published February 2021
Political Graffiti in Critical Times
The Aesthetics of Street Politics
Campos, R., Pavoni, A., & Zaimakis, Y. (eds)
With a particular eye to the demographic, ecological, and economic crises of today, this volume provides a wide-ranging exploration of urban space and visual protest during periods of social and political upheaval. Assembling case studies that cover topics such as gentrification in Cyprus and the convulsions of post-independence East Timor, it reveals the ways in which street artists challenge existing social orders and reimagine urban landscapes.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Urban Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published March 1996
The Politics of Cultural Performance
Parkin, D., Caplan, L. & Fisher, H. (eds)
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Published December 2010
Popular Historiographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Cultural Meanings, Social Practices
Paletschek, S. (ed)
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published June 2007
Portraits of Hope
Armenians in the Contemporary World
Voss, Huberta von (ed)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published March 1997
Post-war Women's Writing in German
Feminist Critical Approaches
Weedon, C. (ed)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published July 1998
Postmodernism in the Cinema
Degli-Esposti, C. (ed)
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published March 2006
Postsocialism
Politics and Emotions in Central and Eastern Europe
Svasek M. (ed)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published September 2017
Power in Practice
The Pragmatic Anthropology of Afro-Brazilian Capoeira
González Varela, S.
Considering the concept of power in capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian ritual art form, Varela describes ethnographically the importance that capoeira leaders (mestres) have in the social configuration of a style called Angola in Bahia, Brazil.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Performance Studies
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Published October 2014
The Power of Death
Contemporary Reflections on Death in Western Society
Blanco, M.-J. & Vidal, R. (eds)
The social and cultural changes of the last century have transformed death from an everyday fact to something hidden from view. Shifting between the practical and the theoretical, the professional and the intimate, the real and the fictitious, this collection of essays explores the continued power of death over our lives.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Sociology Literary Studies
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Published April 2023
The Power of the Story
Writing Disasters in Haiti and the Circum-Caribbean
Joos, V., Munro, M. & Ribó, J. (eds)
A cross-disciplinary volume that combines and puts into dialogue perspectives on disasters, this book includes contributions from anthropology, history, cultural studies, sociology, and literary studies. Offering a rich and diverse set of arguments and analyses on the ever-relevant theme of catastrophe in the circum-Caribbean, it will encourage debate and collaboration between scholars working on disasters from a range of disciplinary perspectives.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Published May 2024
Practical Archaeogaming
Reinhard, A.
As a sequel to Archaeogaming: an Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games, the author focuses on the practical and applied side of the discipline, collecting recent digital fieldwork together in one place for the first time to share new methods in treating interactive digital built environments as sites for archaeological investigation.
Subjects: Archaeology Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published January 2000
Productive Men and Reproductive Women
The Agrarian Household and the Emergence of Separate Spheres during the German Enlightenment
Gray, M.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published August 2020
Punks and Skins United
Identity, Class and the Economics of an Eastern German Subculture
Venstel, A.
Germany has one of the most lively and well-developed punk scenes in the world. However, punk in this country is not just a style-based music community. This book provides an anthropological examination of how punk reflects the larger changes and contradictions in post-reunification Germany.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published August 2022
Puzzling Stories
The Aesthetic Appeal of Cognitive Challenge in Film, Television and Literature
Willemsen, S. & Kiss, M. (eds)
Many films and novels defy our ability to make sense of the plot. Puzzling Stories offers the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and trans-medial approach to the question of cognitive challenge in narrative art, bringing together psychological, philosophical, formal-historical, and empirical perspectives from leading scholars across these fields.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Published March 2019
Raccomandazione
Clientelism and Connections in Italy
Zinn, D. L.
Based on ethnographic research in southern Italy, this book examines the concept of raccomandazione, the omnipresent social practice of using connections to get things done. Viewing the practice from both emic and etic perspectives, it builds on and extends past scholarship to consider the nature of patronage in a contemporary society and its relationship to corruption.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Applied Anthropology
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Published May 2013
Race, Color, Identity
Rethinking Discourses about 'Jews' in the Twenty-First Century
Sicher, E. (ed)
Subjects: Jewish Studies Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Published October 2024
Rag Fair
A Different Migration History of London’s East End, 1780-1850
Münch, O.
Drawing on approaches across migration history, economic history, economic anthropology, and the sociology of movements, Rag Fair uncovers the social mechanisms behind the world-famous market’s role as an intercultural contact zone where Jewish and Irish migrants mingled, entered client relationships, and forged political alliances.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General) Mobility Studies Jewish Studies
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Published March 2019
Rampart Nations
Bulwark Myths of East European Multiconfessional Societies in the Age of Nationalism
Berezhnaya, L. & Hein-Kircher, H. (eds)
Rampart Nations delves deeper into the bulwark (antemurale) myth and uncovers the stories that have helped to spread it within Eastern Europe. Through perspectives that range from Eastern European art history to theology, with a concentration on the nexus of political, social, and religious history, this volume explores historical narratives that have shaped contemporary Eastern European national identities.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published December 2005
Reading Germany
Literature and Consumer Culture in Germany before 1933
Reuveni, G.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies Media Studies
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Published August 2008
Rebirth of a Culture
Jewish Identity and Jewish Writing in Germany and Austria today
Herzog, H. H., Herzog, T. & Lapp, B. (eds)
Subjects: Jewish Studies Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published July 2024
Reconstructing Homes
Affective Materiality and Atmospheres of Belonging
Koskinen-Koivisto, E., Korjonen-Kuusipuro, K., Čeginskas, V. L. A., Kajander, A., & De Nardi, H. (eds)
Reconstructing Homes takes on a multidisciplinary approach of sensory ethnography, visual methods, and autoethnography methodologies to explore affective engagements with materiality in the context of home and the idea of belonging.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published November 2011
Reconstructing the House of Culture
Community, Self, and the Makings of Culture in Russia and Beyond
Donahoe, B. & Habeck, J. O. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2015
Recovered Territory
A German-Polish Conflict over Land and Culture, 1919-1989
Polak-Springer, P.
From 1919 to 1989, the German-Polish borderland, one of Central Europe’s important industrial regions, was at the center of a conflict between Germany and Poland. In their interaction with — and mutual influence on — one another, both nations developed a transnational culture, giving the borderland a “Polish” / “German” face.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published May 2017
Redescribing Relations
Strathernian Conversations on Ethnography, Knowledge and Politics
Lebner, A. (ed)
Marilyn Strathern is among the most creative and celebrated contemporary anthropologists, and her work draws interest from across the humanities and social sciences. With a comprehensive introduction and a newly translated interview, Redescribing Relations brings some of Strathern’s most committed and renowned readers into conversations in her honour.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published June 2001
Relative Points of View
Linguistic Representations of Culture
Stroinska, M. (ed)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published April 2024
Religious Plurality at Princely Courts
Dynasty, Politics, and Confession in Central Europe, ca. 1555-1860
Marschke, B., Riches, D., Schunka, A., & Smart, S. (eds)
Examining previously neglected intersections and transformations in early modern European monarchical legitimization, Religious Plurality at Princely Courts works across multiple lenses of European studies to explore the effects of bi-confessional or multi-confessional intra-Christian settings at princely courts on dynastic, representative/symbolic, diplomatic, artistic, and theological levels.
Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Cultural Studies (General)
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Published February 2017
Reluctant Skeptic
Siegfried Kracauer and the Crises of Weimar Culture
Craver, H. T.
Best remembered for investigations of film and other media, journalist and critic Siegfried Kracauer offered a seismographic reading of the Weimar-era confrontation between religion and secular modernity. This discerning study analyzes and contextualizes Kracauer’s early output, showing how he identified the quasi-theological roots of the era’s cultural ferment.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies
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Published March 2006
Remapping Knowledge
Intercultural Studies for a Global Age
Spariosu, Mihai I.
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published January 2023
Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants
Returning to the Jewish Past in Spain and Portugal
Kandiyoti, D. & Benmayor, R. (eds)
In 2015, both Portugal and Spain passed laws enabling descendants of Sephardi Jews to obtain citizenship, an historic offer of reconciliation. Drawing from scholarly and first-person essays, Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants analyzes the memory and afterlives of those who were wronged, and how reconciliatory rights impact the lives of those affected.
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published February 2022
Representing 21st-Century Migration in Europe
Performing Borders, Identities and Texts
González Ortega, N. & Martínez García, A. B. (eds)
The 21st century has witnessed some of the largest human migrations in history. Europe in particular has seen a major influx of refugees, redefining notions of borders and national identity. This interdisciplinary volume offers innovative interpretations of contemporary migration to Europe, engaging with the ongoing debate on forced mobility.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published July 2022
Rethinking Social Movements after '68
Selves and Solidarities in West Germany and Beyond
Davis, B., Brühöfener, F., & Milder, S. (eds)
With a focus on West Germany and Europe, Social Movements after ’68 bridges the 1970s and 1980s as a vital period of European political development and social change. Looking past the known ruptures and changes in the history of European social movements, this volume brings together interconnected social movements including environmental, women’s and gay rights movements.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Rethinking the Cinematic Cold War
The Struggle for Hearts and Minds Goes Global
Pisu, S., Pitassio, F., & Zinni, M. (eds)
An exacting reassessment of the relationship between culture and ideology within the Cold War period, Rethinking the Cinematic Cold War highlights the role that politics played in informing policies as well as cultural products and appetites, across geopolitical boundaries.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published March 2009
The Return of Jazz
Joachim-Ernst Berendt and West German Cultural Change
Wright Hurley, A.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Performance Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published December 2017
Returning Life
Language, Life Force and History in Kilimanjaro
Myhre, K. C.
Returning Life explores how language and action affect life force. Diverse sources demonstrate how this phenomenon extends to coffee cash-cropping, Catholic Christianity, and colonial and post-colonial rule, featuring cognate languages throughout the area.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Published May 2000
A Reversal of Fortunes?
Women, Work, and Change in East Germany
Alsop, R.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published July 2024
Reversible America
Cowboys, Clowns, and Bullfighters
Saumade, F. & Maudet, J.-B.
Reversible America negotiates the spectacle of Rodeo, cattle ranching, and bullfighting as it has manifested in California through cross border convergences of Iberian bullfighting, Native American hunting methods, and ethics in human and non-human relationships.
Subjects: Performance Studies History: 18th/19th Century
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Published April 2020
Revisiting Austria
Tourism, Space, and National Identity, 1945 to the Present
Graml, G.
Revisiting Austria draws on a rich selection of films, marketing materials, literature, and first-person accounts to explore the ways in which tourism has shaped both international and domestic perceptions of Austrian identity even as it has failed to confront the nation’s often violent and troubled history.
Subjects: Travel and Tourism History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies
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Published August 2014
A Revolution of Perception?
Consequences and Echoes of 1968
Gilcher-Holtey, I. (ed)
Exploring the effects the protest movement of 1968 had on the political, social, and symbolic order of the societies they called into question, this volume focuses on the consequences and echoes of 1968 from different perspectives, including history, sociology, and linguistics.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published May 2011
The Rhetorical Emergence of Culture
Meyer, C. & Girke, F. (eds)
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Published February 2010
Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite
Schaeper, T. & Schaeper, K.
Subjects: Educational Studies History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published February 2023
The Right to Memory
History, Media, Law, and Ethics
Tirosh, N. & Reading, A. (eds)
The Right to Memory looks beyond everyday memory and commemoration practices, focusing instead on how memory relates to human rights and socio-legal constructs in order to legitimize and protect groups and individuals.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies Media Studies
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Published May 2011
Russia Before The 'Radiant Future'
Essays in Modern History, Culture, and Society
Confino, M.
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published July 2001
Russian Culture
Mead, M. & Gorer, G.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published December 2015
Russian Postmodernism
New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture
Epstein, M., Genis, A. A., & Vladiv-Glover-, S. M.
The end of the Cold War has enabled Russia to take part in the global rise and crystallization of postmodernism. This volume investigates the manifestations of this crucial trend in Russian fiction, poetry, art, and spirituality, demonstrating how Russian postmodernism is its own unique entity.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published January 2006
Sacred Speakers
Language and Culture among the ultra-Orthodox in Israel
Baumel, S.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published March 2013
Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Beyond
Transnational Media During and After Socialism
Kind-Kovács, F. & Labov, J. (eds)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies
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Published June 2004
Sartre Against Stalinism
Birchall, I. H.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published December 2005
Sartre Today
A Centenary Celebration
Hoven, A. van den & Leak, A.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Published December 2004
Sartre, Self-formation and Masculinities
Boulé, J.-P.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
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Published August 2024
Science on Screen and Paper
Media Cultures and Knowledge Production in Cold War Europe
Ivanova, M. & Scholz, J. (eds)
Scientific discovery and discourse were central in the making of Cold War. Spanning various media, Science on Screen and Paper seeks to embrace the medial differences during the Cold War period through intersectional themes and strategies for the representation of science’s central role.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published November 2013
Science, Seti, and Mathematics
DeVito, C. L.
Mathematics is as much a part of our humanity as music and art. And it is our mathematics that might be understandable, even familiar, to a distant race and might provide the basis for mutual communication. This book discusses, in a conversational way, the role of mathematics in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The author explores the science behind that search, its history, and the many questions associated with it, including those regarding the nature of language and the philosophical/psychological motivation behind this search.
Subjects: Archaeology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published February 2019
Screening Art
Modernist Aesthetics and the Socialist Imaginary in East German Cinema
Allan, S.
Screening Art represents the first full-length study of films about art and artists produced by the state-owned Eastern German film studio DEFA. It investigates the essential role that these “art films” played in the development of new paradigms of socialist art in post-war Europe.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published November 2013
Screening Nature
Cinema beyond the Human
Pick, A. & Narraway, G. (eds)
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Published June 2001
Secret Spaces, Forbidden Places
Rethinking Culture
Lloyd, F. & O'Brien, C. (eds)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published March 2022
Self in the World
Connecting Life's Extremes
Hart, K.
The eminent anthropologist Keith Hart reflects on a life of learning, sharing and remembering to offer readers the means of connecting life’s extremes – individual and society, local and global, personal and impersonal dimensions of existence and explores what it is that makes us fully human.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published November 2020
Sensitive Subjects
The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary German and Austrian Cinema
Mukhida, L.
Sensitive Subjects examines how contemporary German-language cinema may be read as seeking to produce greater political sensitivity in audiences through its form—that is, by employing medium-specific devices such as lighting, sound, editing and mise-en-scène in ways that prompt a more critical stance towards the societies it depicts.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies
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Published December 2007
Sex, Thugs & Rock 'n' Roll
Teenage Rebels in Cold-War East Germany
Fenemore, M.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)
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Published February 2012
Sexual Knowledge
Feeling, Fact, and Social Reform in Vienna, 1900-1934
McEwen, B.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Published February 1996
Sexual Subordination and State Intervention
Comparing Sweden and the United States
Elman, R. A.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)
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Published November 2004
Sexuality and German Fascism
Herzog, D. (ed)
Subjects: History: World War II Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published September 2020
Shakespeare and Biography
Scheil, K. & Holderness, G. (eds)
From Shakespeare’s religion to his wife to his competitors in the world of early modern theatre, biographers have approached the question of the Bard’s life from numerous angles. Shakespeare & Biography offers a fresh look at the biographical questions connected with the famous playwright’s life, through essays and reflections written by prominent international scholars and biographers.
Subjects: Literary Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published July 2019
Shakespeare and Commemoration
Calvo, C. & Hoenselaars, T. (eds)
Memory and commemoration play a vital role not only in the work of Shakespeare, but also in the process that has made him a world author. As the contributors of this collection demonstrate, the phenomenon of commemoration has no single approach, as it occurs on many levels, has a long history, and is highly unpredictable in its manifestations.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Performance Studies Literary Studies Memory Studies
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Published September 2019
Shakespeare and Creative Criticism
Conkie, R. & Maisano, S. (eds)
What kinds of critical insights are made possible only or especially via creative strategies? This volume examines how creative modes of writing might facilitate or inform new ways to critically engage with Shakespeare.
Subjects: Literary Studies Performance Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published May 2020
Shakespeare and Money
Holderness, G. (ed)
Though better known for his literary merits, Shakespeare made money, wrote about money and enabled money-making by countless others in his name. With chapters by leading scholars on the economic, financial and commercial ramifications of his work, this multifaceted volume connects the Bard to both early modern and contemporary economic conditions, revealing Shakespeare to have been a serious economist in his own right.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published August 2023
Shakespeare and Social Engagement
Mackenzie, R. & Shaughnessy, R. (eds)
Shakespeare’s roots in applied and participatory performance practices have been recently explored within a wide variety of educational, theatrical and community settings. Shakespeare and Social Engagement explores these settings, as well as audiences who have largely been excluded from existing accounts of Shakespeare’s performance history.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published July 2019
Shakespeare and Stratford
Scheil, K. (ed)
As the site of literary pilgrimage since the eighteenth century, the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the topic of hundreds of imaginary portrayals, Stratford is ripe for analysis, both in terms of its factual existence and its fictional afterlife.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Travel and Tourism Literary Studies
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Published July 2019
Shakespeare and the Arab World
Hennessey, K. & Litvin, M. (eds)
Offering a variety of perspectives on the history and role of Arab Shakespeare translation, production, adaptation and criticism, this volume explores both international and locally focused Arab/ic appropriations of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published September 2019
Shakespeare and the Ethics of War
Gray, P. (ed)
How does Shakespeare represent war? This volume reviews scholarship to date on the question and introduces new perspectives, looking at contemporary conflict through the lens of the past.
Subjects: Literary Studies Cultural Studies (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Media Studies
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Shakespeare and the First Hamlet
Bourus, T. (ed)
The first edition of Hamlet – often called ‘Q1’, shorthand for ‘first quarto’ – was published in 1603. The essays in this collected volume explore the ways in which we might approach Q1’s Hamlet, from performance to book history, from Shakespeare’s relationships with this contemporaries to the shape of his whole career.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Shaping the Novel
Receptions of the Essais
Mitchell, C. T. & Côté, P. R.
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Published March 2000
Sight and Sound Entwined
Studies of the New Russian Poetry
Janecek, G.
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Published December 2005
Silence
The Currency Of Power
Achino-Loeb, M.-L. (ed)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Silence, Screen, and Spectacle
Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information
Freeman, L. A., Nienass, B., & Daniell, R. (eds)
This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine mnemonic technologies both new and old, and cover subjects as diverse as U.S. internment camps for Japanese Americans in WWII, the Canadian Indian Residential School system, Israeli memorial videos, and the desaparecidos in Argentina. Through these cases, the contributors argue for a re-interpretation of Guy Debord’s notion of the spectacle as a conceptual apparatus through which to examine the contemporary landscape of social memory, arguing that the concept of spectacle might be developed in an age seen as dissatisfied with the present, nervous about the future, and obsessed with the past.
Subjects: Memory Studies Media Studies Sociology Cultural Studies (General)
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Silent Dilemmas of Project Managers
Solving the Existential Puzzle
Djolic, M. R.
A fastidious investigation into the nature of self-identity, Silent Dilemmas of Project Managers uses the context of project management to challenge the perceived separation of objective experience from subjective perception, highlighting how these adopted self-notions act as the object of existential anxiety.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Theory and Methodology Media Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Singing Ideas
Performance, Politics and Oral Poetry
Ní Shíocháin, T.
The songs of the beloved Irish poet Máire Bhuí Ní Laeire (Yellow Mary O’Leary) explore themes of colonial subjection, oppression and injustice, representing an integral contribution to the development of anti-colonial thought in Ireland. Singing Ideas explores the significance of her work, and the immense power of her chosen medium.
Subjects: Performance Studies History: 18th/19th Century Anthropology (General) Literary Studies
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Sinister and Righteous
Interpreting Left and Right in the Archaeological Record
Augé, C. Riley
This research demonstrates the ubiquitous, but often overlooked, occurrence of material culture meaningfully arranged according to deeply entrenched left and right concepts and is the first to bring together and expand upon these cultural ideologies.
Subjects: Archaeology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published September 1998
Sinti and Roma
Gypsies in German-speaking Society and Literature
Tebbutt, S. (ed)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Sociology Literary Studies
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Published August 2024
Smoke and Mirrors
The Yenidze Cigarette Factory, Dresden
Nielsen, D.
Providing the first comprehensive account of the Yenidze Tobacco factory in Dresden, designed by the architect Martin Hammitzsch for the flamboyant Dresden tobacco personality Hugo Zietz, this unique addition to Dresden’s skyline was a formative addition to the development of the modernist aesthetic
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Urban Studies
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Social Identities and Political Cultures in Italy
Catholic, Communist, and 'Leghist' Communities between Civicness and Localism
Cento Bull, A.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Social Limits to Learning
Essays on the Archeology of Domination, Resistance, and Experience
Mergner, G.
Subjects: Educational Studies Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Published March 2022
The Social Origins of Thought
Durkheim, Mauss, and the Category Project
Schick, Johannes F. M.
The Social Origins of Thought explores the Durkheim School’s ambitious critique of philosophical interpretations of the genesis and constitution of the categories of thought. With contributions from philosophy, sociology, anthropology, media studies, and sinology, this volume illustrates the interdisciplinarity and intellectual rigor of the “category project”.
Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology Media Studies
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Published March 2013
Socialist Escapes
Breaking Away from Ideology and Everyday Routine in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989
Giustino, C. M., Plum, C. J., & Vari, A. (eds)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published November 2018
Sofia Coppola
The Politics of Visual Pleasure
Backman Rogers, A.
Sofia Coppola: The Politics of Visual Pleasure interprets Coppola’s oeuvre to date from a resolutely feminist and philosophical perspective. Using the work of a range of feminist theorists, Backman Rogers situates Coppola’s work as a critique of postfeminist lifestyles that offer the viewer a feminist and feminine philosophy through beguilement, mood and surface.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)
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Published May 2022
Soho on Screen
Cinematic Spaces of Bohemia and Cosmopolitanism, 1948-1963
Young, J.
Soho on Screenprovides the first history of London’s commercial and cultural center, Soho, in British cinema. It highlights forgotten British films, filmmakers, and stars in detail and introduces thoroughly researched studies that highlight not only the cultural importance of Soho as a locus for cinema but also the impact of gentrification on the cultural and social development of Soho today.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies
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Published November 2004
Sound Matters
Essays on the Acoustics of German Culture
Alter, N. & Koepnick, L. (eds)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies
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Published November 2020
Sounds German
Popular Music in Postwar Germany at the Crossroads of the National and Transnational
Fulk, K. A. (ed)
Sounds German surveys the sociopolitical impact of music on German national identity, gender and sexuality, and transnational cultural production and consumption, expanding on the ways in which sounds, technologies, media practices, and exchanges of popular music provide a unique glimpse into the cultural dynamics of postwar Germany.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies
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Published September 2014
Sounds of Modern History
Auditory Cultures in 19th- and 20th-Century Europe
Morat, D. (ed)
Since the late 19th century, there has been a paradigmatic shift in auditory cultures and practices in European societies. This change was brought about by modern phenomena such as urbanization, industrialization and mechanization, the rise of modern sciences, and of course the emergence of new sound recording and transmission media. This book contributes to our understanding of modern European history through the lens of sound by examining diverse subjects such as performed and recorded music, auditory technologies like the telephone and stethoscope, and the ambient noise of the city.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies
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Published May 2020
Spaces of Solidarity
Karen Activism in the Thailand-Burma Borderlands
Sharples, R.
Exploring notions of activism and space as narrated by Karen displaced persons and refugees in the Thai-Burma borderlands, this book looks beyond refugees as passive victims or a ‘humanitarian case’. Instead, the book examines the active engagement the Karen have with their persecution and displacement, and their subsequent emplacement in the borderlands.
Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published November 2020
Spanish Comics
Historical and Cultural Perspectives
Magnussen, A. (ed)
Spanish Comics offers an overview on contemporary scholarship on Spanish comics, focusing on a wide range of comics dating from early comics history in 1875-1939; the Francoist dictatorship, 1939-1975; the Political Transition, 1970-1985; and Democratic Spain from the early 1980s, and themes of memory, gender, regional identities, and history.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies
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Published June 2022
Spanish Laughter
Humor and Its Sense in Modern Spain
Calvo Maturana, A. (ed)
Exploring various forms of humor in Modern Spain since their entry into the eighteenth-century public sphere, Spanish Laughter takes on the comforting, transgressive, conservative, rebellious, and other dynamic forms of humor as they have changed and contributed to the building of Spain’s cultural framework and historiographical panorama.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies
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Published September 2017
Spanish Lessons
Cinema and Television in Contemporary Spain
Smith, P. J.
Spanish film and television represent a remarkably influential and vibrant cultural industry, as well as a fertile site of innovation in the production of “transmedia” works that bridge narrative forms. Spanish Lessons provides an engaging exploration of the nation’s visual culture in an era of collapsing genre boundaries, accelerating technological change, and political-economic tumult.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies
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Published December 2017
Staging Citizenship
Roma, Performance and Belonging in EU Romania
Szeman, I.
Staging Citizenship explores a wide range of Roma performances and representations—from live music and cultural performances to Gypsy soaps and reality TV shows, demonstrating how disenfranchised urban Roma claim cultural citizenship and belonging in music, dance, activism and everyday encounters.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Performance Studies
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Published February 2008
Stardom in Postwar France
Gaffney, J. & Holmes, D. (eds)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published December 2016
Stars and Stardom in Brazilian Cinema
Bergfelder, T., Shaw, L. & Vieira, J. L. (eds)
The richness of Brazilian stardom extends well beyond the ubiquitous Carmen Miranda, and among the studies assembled in this volume are fascinating explorations of figures alongside interrogations of the inner workings of the star system in Brazil, from the pioneering efforts of silent-era actresses to the recent advent of the non-professional movie star.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies
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Published August 2008
The State and the Arts
Articulating Power and Subversion
Kapferer, J.
Subjects: Urban Studies Sociology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published January 2024
Stories between Tears and Laughter
Popular Czech Cinema and Film Critics
Vojvoda, R.
Stories between Tears and Laughter strikes new ground in the history of Czech cinema focusing on the historically underrepresented post-socialist era following the 1960s to reveal the discourse of cultural value through which popular Czech films were being evaluated.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published August 2021
Stories from an Ancient Land
Perspectives on Wa History and Culture
Fiskesjö, M.
The Wa people have a rich civilization of their own and a deep history in the mountains of Southeast Asia. This book introduces aspects of Wa culture, including their approach to the world’s troubles, and the lessons others might learn from it.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published July 2000
The Study of Culture At a Distance
Mead, M. & Métraux, R. (eds)
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published December 2003
Studying Contemporary Western Society
Method and Theory
Mead, M.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2024
Subjectivity at Latin America's Urban Margins
Kopper, M. & Richmond, M. A. (eds)
Subjectivity at Latin America's Urban Margins investigates how margins are actively produced, upheld, and challenged through the process of subject-making and margin-drawing by a multiplicity of actors affecting Latin American cities today.
Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2009
The Surplus Woman
Unmarried in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918
Dollard, C. L.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published January 2020
Sustaining Indigenous Songs
Contemporary Warlpiri Ceremonial Life in Central Australia
Curran, G.
Set against a discussion of the contemporary vitality of Aboriginal musical traditions in Australia and embedded in the historical background of this region, Curran lays out the features of Warlpiri songs and ceremonies, and centers on a focal case study of the Warlpiri Kurdiji ceremony to illustrate the modes in which core cultural themes are being passed on through song to future generations.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Cultural Studies (General)
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Published May 1996
Taboos in German Literature
Jackson, D. (ed)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published April 1999
Television Broadcasting in Contemporary France and Britain
Scriven, M. & Lecomte, M. (eds)
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Sociology Media Studies
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Television's Moment
Sitcom Audiences and the Sixties Cultural Revolution
Hodenberg, C. von
Television was one of the forces shaping the cultural revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, when a blockbuster TV series could reach up to a third of a country’s population. This book explores television’s impact on social change by comparing three sitcoms and their audiences.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies Film and Television Studies
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Published July 2021
Textures of Belonging
Senses, Objects and Spaces of Romanian Roma
Racleş, A.
The longstanding European conception that Roma and non-Roma are separated by unambiguous socio-cultural distinctions has led to the construction of Roma as "non-belonging others." Challenging this conception, Textures of Belonging explores how Roma negotiate and feel belonging on the everyday level.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2004
Theater and Political Process
Staging Identities in Tokelau and New Zealand
Hoëm, I.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published October 2001
Theatre and War 1933-1945
Performance in Extremis
Balfour, M.
Subjects: Performance Studies History: World War II Literary Studies
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Published October 2001
Themes in French Culture
A Preface to a Study of French Community
Mead, M. & Metraux, R.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published April 2020
Theorising Media and Conflict
Budka, P. & Bräuchler, B. (eds)
Theorising Media and Conflict brings together anthropologists as well as media and communication scholars to collectively address the elusive and complex relationship between media and conflict. Practitioners, policymakers, students and scholars who wish to understand the lived realities and dynamics of contemporary conflicts will find this book invaluable.
Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Theorising Media and Practice
Bräuchler, B. & Postill, J. (eds)
Subjects: Media Studies Theory and Methodology
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Published May 2022
Theorizing Relations in Indigenous South America
González Gálvez, M., Di Giminiani, P., & Bacchiddu, G. (eds)
Whether invented, discovered, implicit, or directly addressed, relations remain the main focus of most anthropological inquiries. These relations, once conceptualized in ethnographic fieldwork as self-evident connections between discrete social units, have been increasingly explored through local ontological theories. This collected volume explores how ethnographies of indigenous South America have helped to inspire this analytic shift.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published July 2005
Thinking Utopia
Steps into Other Worlds
Rüsen, J., Fehr, M. & Rieger, T. W. (eds)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published January 2008
Time and History
The Variety of Cultures
Rüsen, J. (ed)
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies
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Time and the Field
Dalsgaard, S. & Nielsen, M. (eds)
Despite numerous conceptual facelifts, definitions and demarcations of ‘the field’ have remained fundamentally anchored in tropes of spatiality with the association between field and fieldworker characterized by distances in space. This collection serves a fresh invitation to a temporally oriented ethnography by radically rethinking the notion of the field in terms of time rather than space.
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Times of History, Times of Nature
Temporalization and the Limits of Modern Knowledge
Ekstrom, A. & Bergwik, S. (eds)
Times of History, Times of Nature engages with this historical shift in temporal sensibilities through a combination of detailed case studies and synthesizing efforts. Focusing on the history of knowledge, media theory, and environmental humanities, this volume explores the rich and nuanced notions of time and temporality that have emerged in response to climate change.
Subjects: History (General) Environmental Studies (General) Media Studies
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Published April 1996
Tolerance Between Intolerance and the Intolerable
Ricoeur, P. (ed)
Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published February 2024
Too Jewish or Not Jewish Enough
Ritual Objects and Avant-Garde Art at the Jewish Museum of New York
Abt, J.
This volume explores the origins of the Jewish Museum of New York and its evolution from collecting and displaying Jewish ritual objects, to Jewish art, to exhibiting avant-garde art devoid of Jewish content, created by non-Jews. Established within a rabbinic seminary, the museum’s formation and development reflect changes in Jewish society over the twentieth century as it grappled with choices between religion and secularism, particularism and universalism, and ethnic pride and assimilation.
Subjects: Museum Studies Jewish Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published August 2015
Topographies of Suffering
Buchenwald, Babi Yar, Lidice
Rapson, J.
Examining the Holocaust in literature, landscape and memory, this book examines three sites of murder by the Nazis: Buchenwald, Germany; Babi Yar, Ukraine; and Lidice, Czech Republic. Balancing scrutiny with the way their violent histories are remembered globally, these sites emerge as dynamic transcultural landscapes in which difficult pasts can be comprehended in the present.
Subjects: Genocide History Cultural Studies (General)
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Published July 2016
The Total Work of Art
Foundations, Articulations, Inspirations
Imhoof, D., Menninger, M. E., & Steinhoff, A. J. (eds)
In this wide-ranging volume’s twelve compact essays, scholars from across the disciplines trace Gesamtkunstwerk—the ideal of the “total work of art”—from its foundations in the early nineteenth century to its manifold articulations and reimaginings in the twentieth century and beyond.
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Performance Studies
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Toward a Global Civil Society
Walzer, M. (ed)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Towards a British Natyam
Creating a British Classical Indian Dance Tradition
Gorringe, M.
An illuminating investigation into the ‘professionalization’ of classical Indian dance forms in Britain, Towards a British Natyam critically analyzes the cultural, social, and political frameworks that make a ‘profession’ within the arts possible, highlighting the transformational power of classical Indian dance within society to decenter white supremacy and recenter pluriversality.
Subjects: Performance Studies Heritage Studies Sociology
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Towards Emancipation
German Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century
Diethe, C.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century
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Transatlantic Echoes
Alexander von Humboldt in World Literature
Clark, R. & Lubrich, O. (eds)
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published July 2017
Transborder Media Spaces
Ayuujk Videomaking between Mexico and the US
Kummels, I.
Transborder Media Spaces offers a new perspective on how various media forms have been appropriated by Mexican indigenous people in the light of transnational migration and ethnopolitical movements. Within new media spaces, the Ayuujk people carve out their own visions of development, modernity, gender, and indigeneity in the twenty-first century.
Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published October 2013
Transcultural Montage
Suhr, C. & Willerslev, R. (eds)
“This is an ambitious and ground-breaking volume which takes a thoroughly interdisciplinary perspective on what the editors have branded as ‘transcultural montage.’ ...The total effect is a mesmerising and in many ways insightful comparative endeavour that will do much to consolidate montage as a theme that goes to the heart of contemporary social theory.” · Martin Holbraad, University College London
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Film and Television Studies Museum Studies
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Published October 2021
Transforming Author Museums
From Sites of Pilgrimage to Cultural Hubs
Spring, U., Schimanski, J., & Aarbakke, T. (eds)
Literary museums today must respond to new challenges; the traditional image of the author’s home museum as a sacred place of literary pilgrimage centered around a national hero has been questioned, and literary museums have begun to develop new strategies. The book addresses how literary museums have changed since the form was established, what challenges they face today and how we might imagine them in the future.
Subjects: Museum Studies Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published October 2021
Transnational Railway Cultures
Trains in Music, Literature, Film, and Visual Art
Fraser, B. & Spalding, S. (eds)
Spanning five continents and a diverse range of contexts, this collection offers an unprecedentedly broad survey of global representations of trains. From experimental novels to Hollywood blockbusters, the works studied here chart fascinating routes across a remarkably varied cultural landscape.
Subjects: Mobility Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published July 2017
Travel and Representation
Lean, G., Staiff, R., & Waterton, E. (eds)
Exploring and re-examining the various convergences between literature, art, photography, television, cinema and travel, this collection offers a careful appreciation of the entanglement of travel and its representations, emphasizing a reconsideration of the intersections between travelers, fields of representation, imagination, emotions and corporeal experiences in the past, the present and future.
Subjects: Heritage Studies Travel and Tourism Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published December 1995
The Triumph of Propaganda
Film and National Socialism 1933-1945
Hoffmann, H.
Subjects: History: World War II Film and Television Studies Media Studies
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Published May 2016
Tropics of Vienna
Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire
Bach, U. E.
Though not a conventional colonial power, the Austrian Empire had a metropole-periphery structure that shaped its cultural and intellectual life. This book illuminates colonial utopian writing in the work of Roth, Herzl, and others, revealing a shared longing for alternative social and spatial configurations.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published May 1996
Turkish Culture in German Society
Horrocks, D. & Kolinsky, E. (eds)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Published May 2006
Turning the Kaleidoscope
Perspectives on European Jewry
Lustig, S. & Leveson, I. (eds)
Subjects: Jewish Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published November 2009
Turning the Tune
Traditional Music, Tourism, and Social Change in an Irish Village
Kaul, A.
Subjects: Performance Studies Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)
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Published May 2021
A Twisted Style
The Culture of Dreadlocks in “Western” Societies
Jerrentrup, M. T.
In "western" cultures, some people have chosen a dreadlock hairstyle, despite many in mainstream society looking at it in a negative light. Based on interviews and close observations in social media, the book offers insights into the culture(s) surrounding dreadlocks and ultimately interprets the phenomenon as a postmodern form of individuality.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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Published January 2021
Unlocking the Love-Lock
The History and Heritage of a Contemporary Custom
Houlbrook, C.
A padlock is a mundane object, designed to fulfil a specific – and secular – purpose. A contemporary custom has given padlocks new significance155. This custom is ‘love-locking’, where padlocks are engraved with names and attached to bridges in declaration of romantic commitment. This book explores the worldwide popularity of the love-lock as a ritual token of love and commitment by considering its history, symbolism, and heritage.
Subjects: Heritage Studies Archaeology Museum Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published September 2019
The Vampire
Origins of a European Myth
Bohn, T. M.
Drawing on a wealth of heretofore neglected sources from multiple languages, this book gives a fascinating account of how vampires—whose various incarnations originally developed within the folk traditions of societies throughout the world—came to be inextricably tied to Eastern Europe in the popular imagination.
Subjects: Sociology Literary Studies History (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published August 2014
Vehicles
Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination
Lipset, D. & Handler, R. (eds)
On-the-ground vehicles offer themselves as rich metaphors for the moral imagination, for thinking about ethical dimensions of the social. Vehicles presents a collection of ethnographic essays on the metaphoric significance of vehicles in different cultures, from canoes in Papua New Guinea to cars in contemporary China, Japan, and Eastern Europe. Vehicles not only “carry people around,” but also “carry” how they relate to culture, politics and history.
Subjects: Transport Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published February 2020
Velvet Retro
Postsocialist Nostalgia and the Politics of Heroism in Czech Popular Culture
Pehe, V.
This innovative study develops the concept of “retro” to describe the nuanced and ironic depiction of the past as seen in Czech popular culture. It locates a distinctively retro aesthetic in Czech literature, film, and other cultural forms, enriching our understanding of not only the nation’s memory culture, but also the ways in which popular culture can structure collective memory.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Film and Television Studies Memory Studies
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Published April 2008
Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance
St John, G. (ed)
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Published January 2013
The Viennese Café and Fin-de-Siècle Culture
Ashby, C., Gronberg, T. & Shaw-Miller, S. (eds)
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Media Studies Literary Studies
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Published April 2018
The Virago Story
Assessing the Impact of a Feminist Publishing Phenomenon
Riley, C.
The Virago Story provides a comprehensive history of classic feminist publisher Virago, along with an up-to-date analysis of the four waves of feminism, new strands of feminist analysis and praxis, and publishing trends.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published September 2023
Visions of Humanity
Historical Cultural Practices since 1850
Kunkel, S., Jessica Gienow-Hecht, J., & Jobs, S. (eds)
Visions of Humanity focuses on the promises and problems, the successes and the failures of “humanity” as an idea since the 19th century. Through an international set of contributions, the volume examines the hopes and ambiguities involved in constructing, invoking, and instrumentalizing the “we” of humanity.
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published December 2007
Visual Interventions
Applied Visual Anthropology
Pink, S. (ed.)
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Published November 2017
Vital Diplomacy
The Ritual Everyday on a Dammed River in Amazonia
Nahum-Claudel. C.
Focusing on the major ceremonial cycle of the Enawene-nawe people, Vital Diplomacy sheds new light on classic Amazonian themes such as manioc cultivation and cuisine, predatory relations with non-humans, and the interplay of myth and practice, and to consider dynamics of kin, clan, and gender relations, the meaning of productive work, and practices of foreign diplomacy.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published July 2009
A Walk to the River in Amazonia
Ordinary Reality for the Mehinaku Indians
Stang, C. D.
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Published May 2022
The Walls of Santiago
Social Revolution and Political Aesthetics in Contemporary Chile
Gordon-Zolov, T. & Zolov, E.
The response in Chile to Santiago’s metro’s fare hike in October of 2019 has grown into a strong and multi-faceted resistance movement. Through incisive and topical analysis, the authors offer a beautiful catalog of photographs of the murals, graffiti, and other forms of political art, reflecting on these aesthetic traditions and their relationship to the broader context of global protest movements and the long shadow cast by memories of the Pinochet regime.
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Published September 2016
War Magic
Religion, Sorcery, and Performance
Farrer, D. S. (ed)
This collection documents war magic and warrior religion as performed in diverse cultures and historical time periods. By foregrounding embodiment, practice, and performance, the anthropological approaches to magic, sorcery, shamanism, and religion that the authors apply go beyond what magic ‘represents’ to consider what magic does.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Performance Studies
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Published November 2016
War Stories
The War Memoir in History and Literature
Dwyer, P. (ed)
Although war memoirs constitute a rich, varied literary form, they are often dismissed by historians as unreliable. This collection of essays is the first to explore the modern war memoir, revealing the genre’s surprising capacity for breadth and sophistication while remaining sensitive to the challenges it poses for scholars.
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies Memory Studies
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Published August 2010
The Ways of Friendship
Anthropological Perspectives
Desai, A. & Killick, E. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published June 2002
Western Historical Thinking
An Intercultural Debate
Rüsen, J. (ed)
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published August 2018
The Wheel of Autonomy
Rhetoric and Ethnicity in the Omo Valley
Girke, F.
Through the theoretical lens of rhetoric, this book offers an interactionalist analysis of how the Kara – a small population in southern Ethiopia – negotiate ethnic and non-ethnic differences among themselves, the relations with their various neighbors, and eventually their integration in the Ethiopian state.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published February 2010
When Women Held the Dragon's Tongue
and Other Essays in Historical Anthropology
Rebel, H.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Literary Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published June 2008
Where Humans and Spirits Meet
The Politics of Rituals and Identified Spirits in Zanzibar
Larsen, K.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Performance Studies
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Published January 2018
The Witness as Object
Video Testimony in Memorial Museums
Jong, S. de
Today more than ever before, the historical witness is now a “museum object” in the form of video interviews. With a focus on Holocaust museums, this study scrutinizes this new global phenomenon of the “musealisation” of testimony, exploring the processes, prerequisites, and consequences of video testimonies as exhibits.
Subjects: Museum Studies History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies Memory Studies
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Published December 2008
Women and Men in Love
European Identities in the Twentieth Century
Passerini, L.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published June 2001
Women and Modernity in Weimar Germany
Reality and its Representation in Popular Fiction
Petersen, V. R.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)
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Published November 1998
Women and Russian Culture
Projections and Self-Perceptions
Marsh, R. (ed)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)
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Published August 1995
Women in Contemporary Russia
Koval, V. (ed)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 1995
Women of Prague
Ethnic Diversity and Social Change from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Iggers, W.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century
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Published February 2024
Working Class Formation in Turkey, 1946-1962
Work, Culture, and the Politics of the Everyday
Alp Özden, B.
Working Class Formation in Turkey explores the everyday practices of workers in Turkey from the End of War II to until just after the military interventions of 1960. Drawing a wide range of historical sources and moving beyond generalizations, this volume examines the contextual dynamics of the lives of Turkish workers during these critical decades.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published April 2023
Working the Fabric
Resourcefulness, Belonging and Island Life in Scotland’s Harris Tweed Industry
Nascimento, J.
Trademark-protected since 1910, the famous woollen cloth known as Harris Tweed can only be produced in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland – yet it is exported to over 50 countries around the world. Examining contemporary experiences of work and life, this book is the first in-depth anthropological study of the renowned textile industry, complementing and updating existing historical and ethnographic research.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published July 2005
The World Ahead
An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future
Mead, M.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2019
The World of Children
Foreign Cultures in Nineteenth-Century German Education and Entertainment
Lässig, S. & Weiß, A. (eds)
In an era of technological advances and rapidly increasing international exchange, how did young Germans come to understand the world beyond their doorstep? Bringing together contributions from specialists in historical, literary, and cultural studies, this is a fascinating kaleidoscopic exploration of the ways that children absorbed, combined, and adapted notions of the world in their own ways.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General) Educational Studies
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Published April 2002
Writing Mothers and Daughters
Renegotiating the Mother in Western European Narratives by Women
Giorgio, A. (ed)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)
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Published March 2012
Writing the Dark Side of Travel
Skinner, J. (ed)
Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies
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