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eBook available 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 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
eBook available Published April 2024
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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eBook available Published June 2022
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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eBook available 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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eBook available Forthcoming February 2025
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
eBook available Published August 2024
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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eBook available 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.

Subjects: Media Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available 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 July 2024
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)
eBook available Forthcoming December 2024
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)
Published April 2024
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
eBook available Published June 2024
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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eBook available Published June 2023
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 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)
eBook available Published May 2024
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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eBook available 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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eBook available Published April 2024
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 January 2024
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)
eBook available Published September 2023
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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eBook available 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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eBook available Forthcoming December 2024
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)
eBook available 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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eBook available Published December 2023
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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eBook available 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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eBook available Published May 2024
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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eBook available 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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eBook available Published January 2024
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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eBook available Published April 2023
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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eBook available 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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eBook available Forthcoming November 2024
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)
eBook available Published August 2024
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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eBook available Published July 2024
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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eBook available 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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eBook available Published May 2023
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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eBook available 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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eBook available 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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eBook available 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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eBook available 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.

Subjects: Media Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available 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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eBook available 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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eBook available Published October 2024
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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eBook available 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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eBook available Published January 2024
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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eBook available 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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eBook available Published February 2023
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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Published December 2022
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
eBook available Published December 2023
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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eBook available 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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eBook available 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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eBook available Published April 2022
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 February 2023
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)
eBook available 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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eBook available 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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eBook available 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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eBook available Published May 2022
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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eBook available 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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eBook available 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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eBook available Published April 2024
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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eBook available Published September 2023
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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eBook available Published October 2023
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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eBook available Published May 2022
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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eBook available Published February 2022
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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eBook available 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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eBook available Published December 2023
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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eBook available Published July 2020
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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eBook available Published January 2020
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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eBook available 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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eBook available 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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eBook available Published June 2022
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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eBook available 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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eBook available Published November 2020
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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eBook available 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 2022
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
eBook available 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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eBook available Published March 2020
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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eBook available 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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eBook available Published March 2019
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 November 2019
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
eBook available Published July 2019
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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eBook available 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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eBook available Published April 2020
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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eBook available Published July 2021
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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eBook available Published March 2023
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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eBook available Published July 2019
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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eBook available Published October 2023
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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eBook available Published June 2020
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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eBook available Published December 2019
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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eBook available Published September 2021
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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eBook available Published April 2023
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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eBook available Published August 2019
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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eBook available Published March 2022
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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eBook available Published December 2018
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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eBook available Published January 2022
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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eBook available Published June 2019
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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eBook available Published February 2021
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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eBook available Published March 2021
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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eBook available 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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eBook available Published August 2020
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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eBook available Published January 2020
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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eBook available Published April 2018
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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eBook available Published September 2020
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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eBook available 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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eBook available Published April 2018
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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eBook available Published May 2018
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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eBook available 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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eBook available Published February 2018
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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eBook available Published March 2018
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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eBook available Published August 2021
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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eBook available 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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eBook available Published February 2022
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 June 2018
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
eBook available Published August 2021
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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eBook available Published September 2018
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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eBook available 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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eBook available Published August 2021
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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eBook available 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 March 2018
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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eBook available Published November 2018
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 2018
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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eBook available Published November 2015
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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eBook available Published January 2019
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 June 2018
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 September 2017
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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eBook available Published October 2020
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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eBook available 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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eBook available Published June 2017
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 April 2017
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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eBook available Published July 2019
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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eBook available Published November 2017
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 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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eBook available Published February 2017
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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eBook available Published November 2016
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

Pb
eBook available Published October 2017
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)

Pb
eBook available Published December 2015
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

Pb
Published February 2017
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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eBook available Published December 2015
Mussolini's Dream Factory

Film Stardom in Fascist Italy

Gundle, S.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Performance Studies

Pb
eBook available Published September 2015
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)

Pb
Published March 2023
Screening Nature

Cinema beyond the Human

Pick, A. & Narraway, G. (eds)

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available Published November 2015
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

Pb
eBook available Published May 2021
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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eBook available 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

Pb
eBook available Published May 2016
Durkheim, the Durkheimians, and the Arts

Riley, A.T., Pickering, W.S.F., & Watts Miller, W. (eds)

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
eBook available Published September 2015
Race, Color, Identity

Rethinking Discourses about 'Jews' in the Twenty-First Century

Sicher, E. (ed)

Subjects: Jewish Studies Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published April 2016
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)

Pb
Published November 2015
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

Pb
Published April 2015
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

Pb
eBook available Published June 2015
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)

Pb
eBook available Published June 2015
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

Pb
Published September 2014
Culture in Dark Times

Nazi Fascism, Inner Emigration, and Exile

Hermand, J.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
eBook available Published December 2014
Beyond Habermas

Democracy, Knowledge, and the Public Sphere

Emden, C. J. & Midgely, D. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Media Studies Literary Studies

Pb
eBook available Published May 2014
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)

Pb
eBook available Published November 2014
Performing Place, Practising Memories

Aboriginal Australians, Hippies and the State

Henry, R.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available 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

Pb
eBook available Published October 2014
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

Pb
eBook available Published April 2014
Moving Subjects, Moving Objects

Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions

Svašek, M. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Mobility Studies Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published April 2012
Images of Power and the Power of Images

Control, Ownership, and Public Space

Kapferer, J. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published March 2012
Writing the Dark Side of Travel

Skinner, J. (ed)

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies

Pb
eBook available Published November 2015
Sexual Knowledge

Feeling, Fact, and Social Reform in Vienna, 1900-1934

McEwen, B.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published March 2014
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)

Pb
Published October 2011
Ernst L. Freud, Architect

The Case of the Modern Bourgeois Home

Welter, V. M.

Subjects: Urban Studies Cultural Studies (General) History (General)

Pb
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)

Pb
eBook available Published January 2021
The Devil's Captain

Ernst Jünger in Nazi Paris, 1941-1944

Mitchell, A.

Subjects: History: World War II Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

Pb
eBook available Published December 2012
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)

Pb
eBook available Published December 2013
The Future of Memory

Crownshaw, R., Kilby, J. & Rowland, A. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies

Pb
Published November 2010
Theorising Media and Practice

Bräuchler, B. & Postill, J. (eds)

Subjects: Media Studies Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published December 2012
The Ways of Friendship

Anthropological Perspectives

Desai, A. & Killick, E. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
eBook available Published January 2013
Comics in French

The European Bande Dessinée in Context

Grove, L.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies Literary Studies

Pb
eBook available Published April 2013
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

Pb
eBook available Published December 2012
Cultural Diversity in Russian Cities

The Urban Landscape in the post-Soviet Era

Gdaniec, C. (ed)

Subjects: Urban Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
eBook available Published January 2013
News as Culture

Journalistic Practices and the Remaking of Indian Leadership Traditions

Rao, U.

Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published January 2012
A European Memory?

Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance

Pakier, M. & Stråth, B. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies

Pb
eBook available Published June 2012
Culture Wars

Context, Models and Anthropologists' Accounts

James, D. Plaice, E. & Toren C. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
eBook available 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)

Pb
eBook available Published December 2012
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)

Pb
eBook available Published March 2014
Kristeva in Focus

From Theory to Film Analysis

Goodnow, K.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

Pb
eBook available Published February 2012
The New Media Nation

Indigenous Peoples and Global Communication

Alia, V

Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published December 2012
Turning the Tune

Traditional Music, Tourism, and Social Change in an Irish Village

Kaul, A.

Subjects: Performance Studies Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published January 2012
The Surplus Woman

Unmarried in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918

Dollard, C. L.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available Published November 2011
A Walk to the River in Amazonia

Ordinary Reality for the Mehinaku Indians

Stang, C. D.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published June 2012
Culture and Rhetoric

Strecker, I. & Tyler, S. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published May 2010
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)

Pb
eBook available Published June 2012
Mediating Europe

New Media, Mass Communications, and the European Public Sphere

Harrison, J. & Wessels, B. (eds)

Subjects: Media Studies Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published July 2012
Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life

Carrithers, M. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
eBook available Published November 2011
Alarming Reports

Communicating Conflict in the Daily News

Arno, A.

Subjects: Media Studies Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published September 2011
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

Pb
eBook available Published January 2012
Banned in Berlin

Literary Censorship in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918

Stark, G. D.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

Pb
Published February 2011
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

Pb
Published July 2012
Women and Men in Love

European Identities in the Twentieth Century

Passerini, L.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

Pb
Published November 2010
Embodied Communities

Dance Traditions and Change in Java

Hughes-Freeland, F.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published September 2011
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

Pb
eBook available Published September 2011
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

Pb
eBook available Published August 2008
The State and the Arts

Articulating Power and Subversion

Kapferer, J.

Subjects: Urban Studies Sociology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
eBook available Published September 2011
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

Pb
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

hb
eBook available Published May 2008
Border Interrogations

Questioning Spanish Frontiers

Sampedro, B. & Doubleday, S. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies History (General)

hb
Published October 2010
Multiculturalism in the New Japan

Crossing the Boundaries Within

Graburn, N., Ertl, J. & Tierney, R. K. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
eBook available Published February 2011
Stardom in Postwar France

Gaffney, J. & Holmes, D. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
eBook available Published December 2008
Dancing At the Crossroads

Memory and Mobility in Ireland

Wulff, H.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies

Pb
Published December 2007
Visual Interventions

Applied Visual Anthropology

Pink, S. (ed.)

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Media Studies

hb
Published October 2009
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)

Pb
eBook available 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)

hb
eBook available Published October 2007
Empire and After

Englishness in Postcolonial Perspective

MacPhee, G. & Poddar, P. (eds)

Subjects: Colonial History Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies

hb
Published December 2011
Crime, Jews and News

Vienna 1890-1914

Vyleta, D.M.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: 18th/19th Century Media Studies

Pb
Published December 2006
Mozart

The First Biography

Niemetschek, F.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century

hb
Published December 2006
Locating Memory

Photographic Acts

Kuhn, A. & McAllister, K. (eds)

Subjects: Media Studies Cultural Studies (General) Film and Television Studies Memory Studies

Pb
Published December 2008
Names and Nunavut

Culture and Identity in the Inuit Homeland

Alia, V.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
eBook available Published September 2007
The Arts in Nazi Germany

Continuity, Conformity, Change

Huener, J. & Nicosia, F. (eds)

Subjects: History: World War II Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published September 2007
Civil Society

Berlin Perspectives

Keane, J. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Urban Studies

Pb
Published March 2008
Turning the Kaleidoscope

Perspectives on European Jewry

Lustig, S. & Leveson, I. (eds)

Subjects: Jewish Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
eBook available Published October 2008
Media and Nation Building

How the Iban became Malaysian

Postill, J.

Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published May 2006
Languages of Civil Society

Wagner, P. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb
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)

Pb
Published December 2007
Claims to Memory

Beyond Slavery and Emancipation in the French Caribbean

Reinhardt C.

Subjects: Colonial History Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies

Pb
eBook available Published January 2008
Postsocialism

Politics and Emotions in Central and Eastern Europe

Svasek M. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published August 2023
Remapping Knowledge

Intercultural Studies for a Global Age

Spariosu, Mihai I.

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available Published February 2007
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

Pb
Published December 2005
Silence

The Currency Of Power

Achino-Loeb, M.-L. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Pb
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)

Pb
eBook available Published December 2006
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

Pb
eBook available Published September 2007
The Americanization of Europe

Culture, Diplomacy, and Anti-Americanism after 1945

Stephan, A (ed)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published December 2005
Sartre Today

A Centenary Celebration

Hoven, A. van den & Leak, A.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Pb
Published October 2006
Free Will, Consciousness and Self

Anthropological Perspectives on Psychology

Bertelsen, P.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published December 2006
Thinking Utopia

Steps into Other Worlds

Rüsen, J., Fehr, M. & Rieger, T. W. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published July 2005
The World Ahead

An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future

Mead, M.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published December 2006
Aesthetics in Performance

Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience

Hobart, A. & Kapferer, B. (eds)

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published January 2006
Narration, Identity, and Historical Consciousness

Straub, J. (ed)

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

Pb
Published September 2006
Images of Power

Iconography, Culture and the State in Latin America

Andermann, J. & Rowe, W. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Media Studies

Pb
Published December 2004
Sartre, Self-formation and Masculinities

Boulé, J.-P.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

Pb
Published December 2005
Sound Matters

Essays on the Acoustics of German Culture

Alter, N. & Koepnick, L. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies

Pb
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

Pb
Published November 2004
Nature Knowledge

Ethnoscience, Cognition, and Utility

Sanga, G. & Ortalli, G. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published August 2007
Americanization and Anti-americanism

The German Encounter with American Culture after 1945

Stephan, A. (ed)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
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

Pb
Published June 2004
Sartre Against Stalinism

Birchall, I. H.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published April 2006
More Than a Music Box

Radio Cultures and Communities in a Multi-Media World

Crisell, A. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies

Pb
Published December 2003
Studying Contemporary Western Society

Method and Theory

Mead, M.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
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

Pb
eBook available Published December 2004
Anthropology & Mass Communication

Media and Myth in the New Millennium

Peterson, M.A.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Media Studies

Pb
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)

Pb
eBook available Published October 2004
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

Pb
eBook available Published September 2003
On Prayer

Text and Commentary

Mauss, M.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion Sociology

Pb
Published February 2004
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

Pb
Published January 2004
Culture and International History

Gienow-Hecht, J. C. E. & Schumacher, F. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published December 2003
Culture and Crisis

The Case of Germany and Sweden

Witoszek, N. & Trägårdh, L. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

Pb
Published February 2004
The Culture of German Environmentalism

Anxieties, Visions, Realities

Goodbody, A.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published June 2002
Western Historical Thinking

An Intercultural Debate

Rüsen, J. (ed)

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
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)

Pb
Published February 2002
Plural Identities - Singular Narratives

The Case of Northern Ireland

Nic Craith, M.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present

Pb
Published December 2001
Academic Anthropology and the Museum

Back to the Future

Bouquet, M. (ed)

Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published October 2001
Theatre and War 1933-1945

Performance in Extremis

Balfour, M.

Subjects: Performance Studies History: World War II Literary Studies

Pb
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)

Pb
Published July 2001
Russian Culture

Mead, M. & Gorer, G.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published January 2002
Critical Theory

Current State and Future Prospects

Hohendahl, P.-U. & Fisher, J. (eds)

Subject: Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published June 2001
German Minorities in Europe

Ethnic Identity and Cultural Belonging

Wolff, S. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

Pb
Published December 2003
Human Nature and the French Revolution

From the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic Code

Martin, X.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century

Pb
Published June 2001
Secret Spaces, Forbidden Places

Rethinking Culture

Lloyd, F. & O'Brien, C. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

Pb
Published February 2001
Relative Points of View

Linguistic Representations of Culture

Stroinska, M. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

Pb
Published April 2001
Creating Our Common Future

Educating for Unity in Diversity

Campbell, J. (ed)

Subjects: Educational Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published January 2001
Expanding Suburbia

Reviewing Suburban Narratives

Webster, R. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Urban Studies

Pb
Published January 2001
Echoes of Narcissus

Spaas, L. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

Pb
Published January 2002
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)

Pb
Published August 2002
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

Pb
Published July 2000
The Study of Culture At a Distance

Mead, M. & Métraux, R. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
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 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)

Pb
Published January 2001
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

Pb
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

Pb
Published August 2003
Paradoxes of Civil Society

New Perspectives on Modern German and British History

Trentmann, F. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General)

Pb
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)

Pb
Published April 1999
Television Broadcasting in Contemporary France and Britain

Scriven, M. & Lecomte, M. (eds)

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Sociology Media Studies

Pb
Published October 1998
Models and Mirrors

Towards an Anthropology of Public Events

Handelman, D.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published September 1998
Sinti and Roma

Gypsies in German-speaking Society and Literature

Tebbutt, S. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Sociology Literary Studies

Pb
Published July 1998
Postmodernism in the Cinema

Degli-Esposti, C. (ed)

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
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

Pb
Published January 1998
Towards Emancipation

German Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century

Diethe, C.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century

Pb
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

Pb
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)

Pb
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

Pb
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

Pb
Published May 1996
Turkish Culture in German Society

Horrocks, D. & Kolinsky, E. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Pb
Published April 1996
Tolerance Between Intolerance and the Intolerable

Ricoeur, P. (ed)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published March 1996
The Politics of Cultural Performance

Parkin, D., Caplan, L. & Fisher, H. (eds)

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

Pb
Published February 2000
Sexual Subordination and State Intervention

Comparing Sweden and the United States

Elman, R. A.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published August 1997
The Triumph of Propaganda

Film and National Socialism 1933-1945

Hoffmann, H.

Subjects: History: World War II Film and Television Studies Media Studies

Pb
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

Pb
Published January 1996
The American Impact on Postwar Germany

Pommerin, R. (ed)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published December 1997
Toward a Global Civil Society

Walzer, M. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb

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Shakespeare and Social Engagement

Mackenzie, R. & Shaughnessy, R. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

Once Upon a Time is Now

A Kalahari Memoir

Biesele, M.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Development Studies

Puzzling Stories

The Aesthetic Appeal of Cognitive Challenge in Film, Television and Literature

Willemsen, S. & Kiss, M. (eds)

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Shakespeare and the First Hamlet

Bourus, T. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

Theorizing Relations in Indigenous South America

González Gálvez, M., Di Giminiani, P., & Bacchiddu, G. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Soho on Screen

Cinematic Spaces of Bohemia and Cosmopolitanism, 1948-1963

Young, J.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Media Studies

Hotbeds of Licentiousness

The British Glamour Film and the Permissive Society

Halligan, B.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)

The Walls of Santiago

Social Revolution and Political Aesthetics in Contemporary Chile

Gordon-Zolov, T. & Zolov, E.

Subjects: Media Studies History: 20th Century to Present

Self in the World

Connecting Life's Extremes

Hart, K.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Animals, Plants and Afterimages

The Art and Science of Representing Extinction

Bienvenue, V. & Chare, N. (eds)

Subjects: Media Studies Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General)

The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance

Analyzing Political Street Art in Latin America

Bogerts, L.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Urban Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Times of History, Times of Nature

Temporalization and the Limits of Modern Knowledge

Ekstrom, A. & Bergwik, S. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Environmental Studies (General) Media Studies

Representing 21st-Century Migration in Europe

Performing Borders, Identities and Texts

González Ortega, N. & Martínez García, A. B. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

An American Icon in Puerto Rico

Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play

Aguiló-Pérez, E. R.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Extremism, Society, and the State

Loperfido, G. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Dressing Up

Menswear in the Age of Social Media

Bluteau, J. M.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies Anthropology (General)

One More for the Road

A Director’s Notes on Exile, Family, and Film

Grlić, R.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Transforming Author Museums

From Sites of Pilgrimage to Cultural Hubs

Spring, U., Schimanski, J., & Aarbakke, T. (eds)

Subjects: Museum Studies Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

Digital Archives and Collections

Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage

Müller, K.

Subjects: Museum Studies Media Studies Anthropology (General)

Bigger Fish to Fry

A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples

Sutton, D. E.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Contemporary Megaprojects