Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
The Toda Landscape
Explorations in Cultural Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
The Toda people of the Nilgiris District in south India are one of the oldest indigenous groups in South Asia; they are also reportedly among the most studied and written-about in the region. While the field was dominated by Western scholars in the beginning, Indian researchers and writers began contributing...
Media, Surveillance and Affect
Narrating Feeling-States
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Surveillance has become a part of everyday life: we are surrounded by surveillance technologies in news media, when we go down the street, in the movies, and even carry them in our own pockets in the form of smartphones. How are we constructing imaginaries of our realities and of ourselves as living...
Cross-Cultural Servanthood
Serving the World in Christlike Humility
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2009
Duane Elmer asked people around the world how they felt about Western missionaries. The response? "Missionaries could be more effective if they did not think they were better than us." The last thing we want to do in cross-cultural ministry is to offend people in other cultures. Unfortunately,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Born out of the Civil Rights and Third World Liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s, Asian American Studies has grown significantly over the past four decades, both as a distinct field of inquiry and as a potent site of critique. Characterized by transnational, trans-Pacific, and trans-hemispheric...
Dancing Revelations
Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2004
In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi-racial company of dancers that performed the works of its founding choreographer and other emerging artists. By the late 1960s, the company had become a well-known African American artistic group closely tied to the Civil...
Barthes' Mythologies Today
Readings of Contemporary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
This is Barthes’ seminal text reimagined in a contemporary context by contemporary academics. Through a revisiting of Mythologies, a key text in cultural and media studies, this volume explores the value these disciplines can add to an understanding of contemporary society and culture. Leading academics...
Changing Fashion
A Critical Introduction to Trend Analysis and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Changing trends in fashion have always reflected large-scale social and cultural changes. Changing Fashion presents for the first time a multi-disciplinary approach to examining fashion change, bringing together theory from fashion studies, cultural studies, sociology, psychology and art history,...
Expressions of Cambodia
The Politics of Tradition, Identity and Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
Taking a theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective, the essays in this collection provide compelling insight into contemporary Cambodian culture at home and abroad. The book represents the first sustained exploration of the relationship between cultural productions and practices, the changing...
Japan and Britain after 1859
Creating Cultural Bridges
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
In the years following Japan's long period of self-imposed isolation from the world, Japan developed a new relationship with the West, and especially with Britain, where relations grew to be particularly close. The Japanese, embarrassed by their perceived comparative backwardness, looked to the West...
Africana Critical Theory
Reconstructing The Black Radical Tradition, From W. E. B. Du Bois and C. L. R. James to Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Building on and going far beyond W.E.B. Du Bois and the Problems of the Twenty-First Century and Du Bois's Dialectics, Reiland Rabaka's Africana Critical Theory innovatively identifies and analyzes continental and diasporan African contributions to classical and contemporary critical theory. This...
Great Satan's rage
American negativity and rap/metal in the age of supercapitalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
This book looks at how rap and metal, the two most pervasive popular music forms of the 1990s, have been highly engaged with America's role in the world, supercapitalism and their own role within it. This has especially been the case when genres - hitherto clearly identified as indelibly 'black' or...
by Louis Menand
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
At each step of this journey through American cultural history, Louis Menand has an original point to make: he explains the real significance of William James's nervous breakdown, and of the anti-Semitism in T. S. Eliot's writing. He reveals the reasons for the remarkable commercial successes of William...
The Black Cultural Front
Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
The Black Cultural Front describes how the social and political movements that grew out of the Depression facilitated the left turn of several African American artists and writers. The Communist-led John Reed Clubs brought together black and white writers in writing collectives. The Congress of Industrial...
by Rachel Carroll, Adam Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Bringing together exciting new interdisciplinary work from emerging and established scholars in the UK and beyond, Litpop addresses the question: how has writing past and present been influenced by popular music, and vice versa? Contributions explore how various forms of writing have had a crucial...