Cultural studies Books
Yale University Press Mary Through the Centuries Her Place in the
Book SynopsisThe Virgin Mary has been a figure of inspiration to Catholics, Protestants, Jews and Muslims, artists, musicians, writers, and men and women everywhere. This text examines how Mary has been depicted and venerated through the ages.Trade Review“After finishing Pelikan’s book, one must surely conclude that the Virgin is as fortunate in the ‘subtlety and discrimination’ of her 20th-century chronicler as she has been in her composers.”—John B. Breslin, Washington Post Book World"There can be no doubt that the Queen of Heaven would be pleased with this accolade, and no reader will come away from the work without profit."—Jo Ann Kay McNamara, New York Times Book Review“A lively and visually beautiful volume that any thoughtful reader can enjoy. . . . For anyone seeking an introduction to the cultural history of the figure of Mary, . . . this book is indispensable, delightful in its intelligence, learning, and remarkable beauty.”—David Myers, Chicago Tribune"This inclusive work covers it all, and in doing so helps explain the importance and attraction Mary has had over the centuries for various cultures and religions."—Publishers Weekly"Even the general reader with an interest in the subject will be mesmerized by [Pelikan's] lucidity and analysis. As a writer, Pelikan has an enviable way with words."—Dorothy A. Boyd-Rush, History"A remarkable tapestry enriched by superb illustrations. Its author's constructive approach should do much towards a better understanding and appreciation of one whom he describes in the final chapter as 'a woman for all seasons.'"—Gordon Huelin, Expository Times"This is a fascinating and stimulating book for teachers and others who wish to refresh and broaden their ideas about he history of Christian belief and devotion."—Leslie Houlden, Theological Book Review"This is a book of outstanding interest and outstanding quality, beautifully produced and beautifully illustrated."—A.M. Allchin, Journal of Ecclesiastical History"His scholarly acumen gives academic substance to Mary through the Centuries, although it is a book which is likely to appeal to general readers as well as to academics. . . . For those willing to entertain the notion that Mary might still have some significance in the modern world, I would recommend it as a most enjoyable and informative read."—Tina Beattie, Religion"It is rare for a non-expert audience to be allowed to participate in this type of etymological deconstruction, and it is a pleasure to see it done so deftly."—Michael Michael, Apollo
£18.99
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Bohemian Body Gender and Sexuality in Modern
Book SynopsisExamines the modernist forces within nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe that helped shape both Czech nationalism and artistic interaction among ethnic and social groups - Czechs and Germans, men and women, gays and straights.Trade ReviewThomas's book is remarkable for its scope and intellectual coherence. He notes that the oscillation between the parochial concerns of a small nation under threat of cultural extinction, and a cosmopolitan impulse that is no less powerful, is evident in Czech literary scholarship. The Bohemian Body's novel point of view is bound to stimulate discussion across the field of Czech literary criticism. - Maria Nemcova Banerjee, Smith College, author of Terminal Paradox: The Novels of Milan Kundera ""Through a series of careful readings of modern Czech-language literature and film, Thomas deploys gender analysis to reveal a consistent interplay within the texts between the personal and the political, as well as between local and European identities. Wary of strict categorizations, he celebrates complexity and plurality. Engagingly written and well-argued, The Bohemian Body will challenge historians and literary critics alike to rethink how we interpret Czech works of art."" - Chad Bryant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
£60.00
LUP - University of Michigan Press Transcribing Class and Gender Masculinity and
Book SynopsisExamines the historical roots of clerical work and the role that class and gender played in determining professional status.Trade ReviewDrawing upon census data, trade periodicals devoted to stenography and court reporting, the writings of educational reformers, and fiction, Srole allows us to better understand the roles that gender and work played in the formation of middle-class identity. Clearly written and thoroughly researched, her book reminds us of the contradictions that both men and women faced as they navigated changes in the labor market and sought to realize a modern professional identity." — Thomas Augst, New York University"Srole has succeeded in combining large historiographical and sociological trends from a variety of scholarly literatures, including the stories of professionalization, urbanization, womens' move into the workplace and the anxiety of 19th century men, into a single narrative. ... So much work on the history of gender forgets that, despite the ideology of 'separate spheres,' men and women did interact for much of their lives. That interaction is at the heart of her story, and makes her book of interest to all scholars with an interest in gender history." — Gender Forum
£28.45
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Morality of Laughter
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsLaughter as superiority -- The elements of laughter -- The one necessary thing -- Objectives to the normative thesis -- Comic, virtues, and vices -- The social virtues -- Machine law -- Machine shcolarship -- Machine art and machine cities -- The battle of the norms -- Resistance to laughter -- The sociability thesis -- Conclusion.
£40.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Morality of Laughter
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£19.90
LUP - University of Michigan Press Body Parts of Empire Visual Abjection Filipino
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Balce has given us a valuable addition to a growing body of scholarshipon the entwined histories of the Philippines and the United States. Thisis a gracefully-written study that pulls in a wide range of scholarly textswhile simultaneously shining new light on both well-known and longforgottenarchives.” - Mark Rice, author of Dean Worcester’s Fantasy Islands
£70.81
University of California Press Harlem in Montmartre A Paris Jazz Story Between
Book SynopsisDuring the years between the world wars, a small but dynamic community of African American jazz musicians left the US and settled in Paris. This book looks at this cultural moment, one in which African American musicians could flee the racism of the United States to pursue their lives and art in the relatively free context of bohemian Europe.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Making Noise and Stomping Feet 2. Jazz from the Trenches 3. Le Jazz-Hot: The Roaring Twenties 4. Jim Crow: Sans Domicile Fixe 5. The Golden Age: The Thirties 6. Le Jazz-Cold: The Silent Forties 7. Final Notes: The Liberation of Jazz Coda Appendix: Zazou Chants Notes Bibliography Index
£34.00
University of California Press Women Writing Culture
Book SynopsisA collection of reflections on the sexual politics, racial history, and moral predicaments of anthropology that explore a range of visions of identity and difference.Table of ContentsCONTRIBUTORS: Lila Abu-Lughod Barbara Babcock Ruth Behar Sally Cole Laurent Dubois Paulla Ebron Janet L. Finn Gelya Frank Deborah A. Gordon Faye V. Harrison Graciela Hernandez Dorinne Kondo Louise Lamphere Smadar Lavie Ellen Lewin Nancy Lutkehaus Catherine Lutz Kirin Narayan Judith Newton Aihwa Ong Judith Stacey Barbara Tedlock Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
£26.10
University of California Press Images and Empires Visuality in Colonial and
Book SynopsisConsiders the meaning and power of images in African history and culture. This title assembles a range of collection of essays dealing with specific visual forms, including monuments, cinema, cartoons, domestic and professional photography, body art, world fairs, and museum exhibits.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: An Amazing Distance: Pictures and People in Africa Paul Landau 1. "Our Mosquitoes Are Not So Big": Images and Modernity in Zimbabwe Timothy Burke 2. The Sleep of the Brave: Graves as Sites and Signs in the Colonial Eastern Cape David Bunn 3. Tintin and the Interruptions of Congolese Comics Nancy Rose Hunt 4. Cartooning Nigerian Anticolonial Nationalism Tejumola Olaniyan 5. Empires of the Visual: Photography and Colonial Administration in Africa Paul Landau 6. Portraits of Modernity: Fashioning Selves in Dakarois Popular Photography Hudita Nura Mustafa 7. Mami Wata and Santa Marta: Imag(in)ing Selves and Others in Africa and the Americas Henry John Drewal 8. "Captured on Film": Bushmen and the Claptrap of Performative Primitives Robert Gordon 9. Decentering the Gaze at French Colonial Exhibitions Catherine Hodeir 10. The Politics of Bushman Representations Pippa Skotnes 11. Omada Art at the Crossroads of Colonialisms Paula Ben-Amos Girshick 12. Bad Copies: The Colonial Aesthetic and the Manjaco-Portuguese Encounter Eric Gable Conclusion: Signifying Power in Africa Deborah D. Kaspin Bibliography List of Contributors Index
£27.90
Harvard University Press Keeping Together in Time
Book SynopsisMcNeil pursues the possibility that coordinated rhythmic movement—and the shared feelings it evokes—has been a powerful force in holding human groups together. As he has done for historical phenomena as diverse as warfare, plague, and the pursuit of power, he brings a dazzling breadth and depth of knowledge to his study.Trade ReviewIn his imaginative and provocative book...William H. McNeill develops an unconventional notion that, he observes, is 'simplicity itself.' He maintains that people who move together to the same beat tend to bond and thus that communal dance and drill alter human feelings. -- John Mueller * New York Times Book Review *Every now and then, a slender, graceful, unassuming little volume modestly proposes a radical rethinking of human history. Such a book is Keeping Together in Time...Important, witty, and thoroughly approachable, [it] could, perhaps, only be written by a scholar in retirement with a lifetime's interdisciplinary reading to ponder, the imagination to conceive unanswerable questions, and the courage, in this age of over-speculation, to speculate in areas where certainty is impossible. Its vision of dance as a shaper of evolution, a perpetually sustainable and sustaining resource, would crown anyone's career. -- Penelope Reed Doob * Toronto Globe and Mail *McNeill is one of our greatest living historians...As usual with McNeill, Keeping Together in Time contains a wonderfully broad survey of practices in other times and places. There are the Greeks, who invented the flute-accompanied phalanx, and the Romans, who invented calling cadence while marching. There are the Shakers, who combined worship and dancing, and the Mormons, who carefully separated the functions but who prospered at least as much on the strength of their dancing as their Sunday morning worship. -- David Warsh * Boston Sunday Globe *[A] wide-ranging and thought-provoking book...A mind-stretching exploration of the thesis that `keeping together in time'--army drill, village dances, and the like--consolidates group solidarity by making us feel good about ourselves and the group and thus was critical for social cohesion and group survival in the past. * Virginia Quarterly Review *[This book is] nothing less than a survey of the historical impact of shared rhythmic motion from the paleolithic to the present, an impact that [McNeill] finds surprisingly significant...McNeill moves beyond Durkheim in noting that in complex societies divided by social class muscular bonding may be the medium through which discontented and oppressed groups can gain the solidarity necessary for challenging the existing social order. -- Robert N. Bellah * Commonweal *The title of this fascinating essay contains a pun that sums up its thesis" keeping together in time, or coordinated rhythmic movement and the shared feelings it evokes, has kept human groups together throughout history. Most of McNeill's pioneering study is devoted to the history of communal dancing...[This] volume will appeal equally to scholars and to the general reader. -- Doyne Dawson * Military History *As with so many themes [like this one], whether in science or in symphonies, one wonders (in retrospect) why it has not been invented before...[T]he book is fascinating. -- K. Kortmulder * Acta Biotheoretica (The Netherlands) *This scholarly and creative exploration of the largely unresearched phenomenon of shared euphoria aroused by unison movement moves across the disciplines of dance, history, sociology, and psychology...Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsMuscular Bonding Human Evolution Small Communities Religious Ceremonies Politics and War Conclusion Notes Index
£28.76
Harvard University Press Cultural Psychology
Book SynopsisDistinguished psychologist Michael Cole, known for pioneering work in literacy, cognition, and human development, offers a multifaceted account of what cultural psychology is, what it has been, and what it can be. A rare synthesis of the theory and empirical work shaping the field, this book will be a major foundation for the emerging discipline.Trade ReviewMichael Cole argues that, just as fish do not see water because they swim in it, so humans do not see culture because we swim in it. The first part of the book is a fascinating tour of the early days of psychology. He argues that when psychology tried to become a science, it stopped thinking about the culture in which individuals operate. * New Scientist *Michael Cole’s latest book represents an impressive synthesis of the many disciplinary strands of cultural psychology, as well as an inspiration for this discipline… Cole’s tale is made even more compelling by the account of how he was able to address the concrete theoretical, methodological, and practical problems he and his colleagues encountered while trying to take culture into consideration in their research… Cole’s book should be of interest to a broad audience concerned with the systematic examination of culture and mind… All educators concerned with creating, evaluating, and sustaining productive environments for learning are likely to find both examples and analytic tools that may help them in their ventures. Cole’s subtitle calls cultural psychology a ‘once and future discipline.’ With this work, he offers a significant boost to the discipline’s future. * American Journal of Education *In a very readable, clear book, Cole uses the domain of cognitive development to show how a cultural framework can help us understand the dynamic interplay between individual, social, cultural, and historical lines of development… [It is] a convincing argument for why studying culture can open new horizons and frontiers. * American Journal of Psychology *Culture is back in psychology. Michael Cole, one of the most significant contributors to this movement, gives a thoughtful synthesis of his three decades of theoretical and empirical research in this book. Though mild-mannered in his writing, Cole’s proposal amounts to nothing less than a radical restructuring of the entire discipline of psychology as a scientific enterprise. Whether one agrees with him or not, anyone interested in the culture–mind relation should read it cover to cover. In fact, any psychologist, basic or applied, will be richly rewarded by a close reading of it… Cole’s cultural psychology is an impressive achievement with a promising future. * Contemporary Psychology *Michael Cole’s recent book is a fascinating combination of history, autobiography and monograph. It is written in just the way that psychology should be written. It is informed by the chequered past of this strange discipline, if indeed it is one. In the autobiographical sections the author takes us through his transformation from naïve paradigm dope to truly creative scientist. As a monograph the book consists of an exposition of ‘cultural psychology’ as a general theory of human thought and action, richly illustrated with empirical work conducted within that framework. It has the further merit of cross-referencing, so to say, some, though not all, of the other forms that the disciplinary matrix the author calls ‘cognitive psychology’ has taken in recent decades. Whenever one comes across a book of this depth and a record of this breadth of experiences, one is struck yet again by the amazing way that orthodox, methodological behaviourism and the naive cognitivist mainstream can continue to be pursued… In this remarkable book we have another volume to accompany the growing shelf-load of subtle and powerful studies that call into question the hegemony of methodological behaviourism, naïve experimentalism, the ‘quick fix’ for a few papers to support a tenure application, and mentalistic cognitivism with its hidden and quite implausible individual mental mechanisms… Let us hope that this book is widely read, and its message even more widely acted upon. * Culture & Psychology *[This book] throws…light on Max Velman’s belief that awareness should not be thought of in terms of happenings in the brain alone, but is rather located in ‘events as perceived’—in amalgams of the external world with brain activity. After reading Cole, there’s not much room for doubt that the cultural and social world of the experiencer, as well as the physical world, enters the amalgam. To reach a full understanding of conscious mind, culture must be given as much weight as neuroscience. * Journal of Consciousness Studies *Does experimental psychology face a cross-cultural crisis? Michael Cole believes so, and in his engaging and lucid book…he offers the beginning of a solution. Cultural Psychology covers a wide range of topics, sometimes retrospectively, other times with an eye towards the future, and consistently woven with the threads of his own experience—from early work in Liberia, to ongoing research in the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition at the University of California, San Diego. Discussion varies from the theoretical to the practical to the historical, all the while painting an engaging picture of a potentially reborn discipline… The result is an excellent integration of a widely diverse set of influences, arguing for the shortcomings of general psychology while providing a positive alternative, and demonstrating the practical application of this ‘second psychology.’ …[It] is not only an interesting and excellent piece of synthesis and scholarship, but also potentially important across the multiple disciplines of philosophy, education, cognitive science, and psychology. The book should therefore appeal to a wide audience, and rightly so… Overall, Cultural Psychology is an inspiring and prescient work. * Philosophical Psychology *In an increasingly diverse society, the neglect of cultural differences or their banishment as ‘extraneous variables’ should be troubling to psychologists, and Cole’s prescriptions for a new ‘cultural psychology’ are most welcome. * Library Journal *Herder, Wundt, Dilthey, Sapir, and all the ancestral spirits of cultural psychology must be smiling down at this book and pleased to see their once and future discipline alive and well in the writings of Michael Cole.A pathbreaking volume on cultural psychology by one of the modern masters of that subject. Full of riches.For those unconvinced by the mind as computer metaphor, for those unmoved by the all-too-easy creation of innate mental modules, for those who…believe that the truly unique aspects of human cognition are social and culturally constituted, this is the book!Nowhere will a reader find as rich and thorough a historical account of the origins and evolution of an approach that has become increasingly influential in American psychology.Cole has carried out a heroic task and, in his usual gracious style, he has moved cultural psychology a great distance forward.An immensely important book. Cole is a leading researcher and theorist whose work has for decades provided impetus for advancement in our understanding of culture and mind, and this volume offers readers a big step forward. In it, Cole integrates cultural and historical ideas with the traditional findings and approaches of psychology, and he relates very important theoretical concepts to empirical work on cognition and learning in everyday life. By coordinating cultural ideas with processes of individual development as well as species development, this volume helps move the field beyond the nature-nurture dichotomy. Cultural Psychology is a valuable contribution that is sorely needed.This clear and engaging introduction to cultural psychology will have a major impact on a wide range of readers, and its sociohistoric approaches to mind will bear reading and rereading at more advanced levels. Cultural Psychology promises to be a very important book.Table of ContentsForeword by Sheldon H. White Introduction Enduring Questions and Disputes Cross-Cultural Investigations Cognitive Development, Culture, and Schooling From Cross-Cultural Psychology to the Second Psychology Putting Culture in the Middle Phylogeny and Cultural History A Cultural Approach to Ontogeny The Cognitive Analysis of Behavior in Context Creating Model Activity Systems A Multilevel Methodology for Cultural Psychology The Work in Context Notes References Acknowledgments Index
£33.11
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Future West Utopia and Apocalypse in Frontier
Book SynopsisWhat is the future of the American West? This book look at works of utopian, dystopian, and apocalyptic science fiction to show how narratives of the past and future powerfully shape our understanding of the present-day West.
£37.76
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Indians in Unexpected Places
Book SynopsisChronicles how Indians came to represent themselves in Wild West shows, Hollywood films, sports, music, and their use of the automobile. This book examines longstanding stereotypes of Indians as invariably violent, suggesting that, even as such views continued in American popular culture, they were also transformed by the violence at Wounded Knee.Trade ReviewDeloria is as good a cultural historian as there is writing today. Here he takes what in lesser hands would be the ephemera of American Indian life and uses it to illuminate a whole world not apart from American society but locked in the heart of it. - Richard White, author of It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own: A History of the American West ""A provocative, intriguing, and fascinating book that demonstrates a new sophistication in cultural studies about identity and power, continuity and change, and authenticity and artifice."" - George Lipsitz, author of American Studies in a Moment of Danger ""Deloria's endpoint is to quiz stereotypes for their impact on ideological discourse, which he accomplishes with humor, grace, and depth. Highly recommended."" - Choice ""Subtle and complex, this fascinating, well-researched book will no doubt find its way into unexpected places of honor in American cultural studies."" - Santa Fe New Mexican ""An excellent book that reveals a secret history of Indian modernity too often obscured by our powerful wish to associate Indians with the traditional, the primitive, and 'the blanket.'"" - Werner Sollors, author of Neither Black Nor White Yet Both
£22.91
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Projecting Paranoia
Book SynopsisThe ghostly presence stands in for numerous other ""voices"" in a range of American films. In this synthesis of film and politics, Ray Pratt aims to show how such movies are deeply rooted in post-war American culture and continue to exert an enormous influence on the national imagination.Table of ContentsVisionary Paranoia; Film Politics; The Dark Vision of Film Noir; The Culture of Resistance in the Films of the 1960s; ""You may think you know what's going on here""; Family Values? - The View from Reagan's Closet; ""She was bad news"" - Male Paranoia and Femme Fatales; Women and Sexual Paranoia; Bad Cops and their Politics; From Assassination to Surveillance Society.
£23.70
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Good Gossip
Book SynopsisThis work suggests that gossip has unexpected virtues. The contributors argue that gossip contributes to community cohesion and helps individuals better understand their own predicaments, problems and personal idiosyncrasies in the light of knowledge about the life experiences of others.Trade ReviewGossip is inherently democratic, concerned with private life rather than public issues, 'idle,' in the sense that it is not instrumental or goal oriented. Yet it can serve to expand our consciousness of what life is about in ways that are effectively inaccessible to other modes of inquiry." —Ronald de Sousa from Good Gossip"This topic is interesting and in need of serious study. The book is partially an attempt to exonerate gossip from its bad reputation by pointing to the various positive values it may promote. A worthy contribution to the study of gossip." —Irwin Goldstein, Davidson College
£18.95
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Daughters of Aquarius Women of the Sixties
Book SynopsisFocusing on women of the counterculture, this book describes how gender was perceived within the movement, with women taking on much of the responsibility for sustaining communes. It examines the lives of younger runaways and daughters who shared the lifestyle.Trade ReviewBrings to life the passions and struggles and - yes - confusions of hippie women, moving beyond the stereotypes of hippie chick and earth mother to restore the women of the counterculture to their rightful place in the history of American feminism.... A much-needed book. Beth Bailey, author of Sex in the Heartland ""Forty years later, the myths and stereotypes (particularly about women) that helped dismiss and marginalize the counterculture still prevail in the media, academia, and in our fuzzy collective national memory. Lemke-Santangelo takes a necessary step in interpreting the historical and cultural importance of hippie women. Relying on extensive primary sources, her book is realistic, sophisticated, and long overdue."" Roberta Price, author of Huerfano: A Memoir of Life in the Counterculture
£30.56
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Material Culture A Research Guide
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£23.96
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Bondarchuks War and Peace Literary Classic to
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£55.33
Pluto Press Race Nature and Culture
Book SynopsisTakes the study of race beyond Western notions of the individual
£25.19
State University Press of New York (SUNY) Beyond Dichotomies
Book SynopsisConfronts the cultural challenges of globalization.Beyond Dichotomies examines literary texts, cultural production, and concrete local practices within the context of modernity and globalization by focusing on the ways in which some societies confront the complexity of cultures reflected in new forms of knowledge, narratives, and subjectivities. The contributors explore how particular societies negotiate the relations between the global and the local, and use a geographical, comparative perspective combined with an interdisciplinary approach to offer a diversity of views and illuminate the cultural impact of globalization on different societies around the world: Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. These societies face complex questions regarding people''s histories, identities, and cultures that embody the ambivalence, contradictions, and anxieties generated by the process of globalization. The contributors provide a compelling conclusion for a rethinking and reconfiguration of cultures and intercultural relations in today''s global world in which dichotomized representations coexist with a discourse of globalization.
£25.62
John Wiley & Sons We Do Not Want the Gates Closed between Us
Book SynopsisIn the 1860s and 1870s, the US government forced most western Native Americans to settle on reservations. These ever-shrinking pieces of land were meant to relocate, contain, and separate these Native peoples. This book tells the story of how Native Americans resisted this effort by building vast intertribal networks.
£19.76
Beacon Press The Colonizer and the Colonized With the Original
Book SynopsisFirst published in English in 1965, this timeless classic explores the psychological effects of colonialism on colonized and colonizers alike.
£999.99
MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Teaching Performance Studies
Book SynopsisAn organized treatment of performance studies theory, practice and pedagogy. The 18 essays by scholars and educators seek to reflect the emergent and contested nature of performance studies, a field that looks at the broad range of human performance from everyday conversation to formal theatre.Trade Reviewrecounts a wide variety of teaching methods, experiences, theories, and approaches. All of it fits under the big performance studies tent.... An elusive, playful, embodied, multifaceted, protean operation: Teaching performance studies is very much a creative art. - Richard Schechner, from the ForewordTable of ContentsIntroduction - The Power of Transformation in Performance Studies Pedagogy, Nathan Stucky and Cynthia Wimmer; Theatre Studies/Cultural Studies/Performance Studies - The Three Unities, Joseph Roach; Critical Performative Pedagogy - Fleshing Out the Politics of Liberatory Education, Elyse Lamm Pineau; Speaking of God - Performance Pedagogy in the Theological School, Richard F. Ward; The Queer Performance that Will Have Been - Student-Teachers in the Archive, Craig Gringrich-Philbrook; Performance Theory in an Anthropology Programme, William O. Beeman; The Poetics and Politics of Practice - Experience, Embodiment, and the Engagement of Scholarship, Michelle Kisliuk; Performance Studies, Pedagogy, and Bodies in/as the Classroom, Judith Hamera; Deep Embodiment - The Epistemology of Natural Performance, Nathan Stucky; Action, Structure, Task and Emotion - Theories of Acting, Emotion, and Performer Training from a Performance Studies Perspective, Phillip B. Zarrilli; Performing the Mystory - A Textshop in Autoperformance, Michael S. Bowman and Ruth Laurion Bowman; Teaching in the Borderlands, Joni L. Jones; The Dialogics of Performance and Pedagogy, Arthur J. Sabatini; Improvising Disciplines - Performance Studies and Theatre, Linda M. Park-Fuller; ""I Dwell in Possibility - "" -Teaching Consulting Applications for Performance Studies, Cynthia Wimmer; Performative In(ter)ventions - Designing Future Technologies Through Synergetic Performance, Eric Dishman; Theatre of the Oppressed with Students of Privilege - Practising Boal in the American College Classroom, Bruce McConachie; Performance Studies, Neuroscience, and the Limits of Culture, John Emigh.
£31.46
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Making Caribbean Dance
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£26.06
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Black Fascisms African American Literature and
Book SynopsisAddresses the startling fact that many African American intellectuals in the 1930s sympathized with fascism, seeing in its ideology a means of envisioning new modes of African American political resistance. This book surveys the work and thought of several authors to have an understanding of Depression-era African American literary culture.Trade ReviewBlack Fascisms bravely goes against the grain of much received opinion about the main currents in modern African American literature and intellectual history; it has a good story to tell, and it tells it well and convincingly. - Eric Sundquist, UCLA, author of Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America
£27.95
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Mad Princes of Renaissance Germany
Book SynopsisDuring the 16th century close to 30 German dukes, landgraves, margraves and counts, plus one Holy Roman emperor, were known as mad - so mentally disordered that steps had to be taken to remove them from office or to obtain medical care for them. This book studies them as a group and in context.
£17.05
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Cultural Heritage Management A Global
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£22.46
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Language of Flowers A History
Book SynopsisTraces the phenomenon of ascribing sentimental meaning to floral imagery from its beginnings in Napoleonic France through its later transformations in England and America. At the heart of the book is a depiction of what the three most important flower books from each of the countries divulge about the period and the respective cultures.
£44.96
University of Pennsylvania Press Faux Real
Book SynopsisFrom Leatherette to Naugahyde, men and women have devoted enormous energy to making fake leather seem real. Faux Real explores this borderland of the almost-real, the ersatz, and the fake, illuminating a centuries-old culture war between the authentic and the imitative.Trade Review"A sound researcher and an engaging writer. . . . Kanigel intelligently takes time to address the philosophical question of the importance of faux versus real." * Publishers Weekly *"Fantastic cultural history. Smart and sensual prose. You'll never look at your Manolos the same way again." * Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash *"Kanigel's book is an easy and pleasurable read. . . . A tribute to leather's physical and tactile properties and to humankind's ingenuity and persistence in attempting to imitate them." * Design and Culture *
£22.79
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Women Writers of the Beat Era Autobiograhy and
Book SynopsisThe Beat Generation defined an experimental zeitgeist that endures to today. Yet left out of this picture are the Beat women, who produced a large body of writing from the 1950s through the 1970s and beyond. In Women Writers of the Beat Era, Mary Paniccia Carden gives voice to these female writers and demonstrates how their work redefines our understanding of “Beat”.
£23.36
MP-SYR Syracuse University P We Are Iraqis Aesthetics and Politics in a Time
Book SynopsisShowcases written and visual contributions by Iraqi artists, writers, poets, filmmakers, photographers, and activists. Contributors explore the way Iraqis retain, subvert, and produce art and activism as ways of coping with despair and resisting chaos and destruction.
£26.96
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia At Home and Astray The Domestic Dog in Victorian
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£32.25
Syracuse University Press Memory Ireland Volume 4 James Joyce and Cultural
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£35.06
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Pleasure Zones Bodies Cities Spaces
Book SynopsisThe essays collected in this volume apply queer theory in a consideration of the human body as a vehicle for understanding relationships between people and place. The book examines the body as an entity constructed by gender, sexuality, race, class, nationality and disability.Table of Contents- "Upstairs/Downstairs - Place Matters, Bodies Matter," Jon Binnie, Robin Peace, and Robyn Longhurst; - "Trim, Taught, Terrific, and Pregnant," Robyn Longhurst; - "Producing Lesbians: Canonical Properties," Robin Peace; - "(Dis)Comforting Identities," Ruth Holliday; - "Fragments for a Queer City," David Bell; - "The Erotic Possibilities of the City," Jon Binnie
£15.26
MP-SYR Syracuse University P The Art and Artists of the Fifth Zionist Congres
Book SynopsisIlluminating the Jewish art exhibition at the Fifth Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, in 1901, this study looks at its contributions to art and Jewish history and culture. Cultural Zionism was for the first time included into the official agenda, an important step for the politics of Zionism.
£36.51
LUP - University of Georgia Press Thinking Animals
Book SynopsisIn a world increasingly dominated by human beings, the survival of other species becomes more and more questionable. This book offers an alternative to an ""us or them"" mentality, proposing that other species are integral to humanity's evolution and exist at the core of our imagination.
£37.46
University of Minnesota Press Celebrity and Power
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction to the Second Edition. Celebrity in the Digital Era: A New Public IntimacyCelebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary CulturePrefacePart I1. Tracing the Meaning of the Public Individuals2. Conceptualizing the Collective: The Mob, the Crowd, the Mass, and the Audience3. Tools for the Analysis of the Celebrity as a Form of Cultural PowerPart II4. The Cinematic Apparatus and the Construction of the Film Celebrity5. Television’s Construction of the Celebrity6. The Meanings of the Popular Music Celebrity: The Construction of Distinctive Authenticity7. The System of CelebrityPart IIIThe Embodiment of Affect in Political CultureConclusion: Forms of Power/Forms of Public SubjectivityCoda: George, Celebrities, and the Shift in Political/Popular CultureNotesIndex
£27.62
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Imagined Identities Identity Formation in the
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£36.51
LUP - University of Georgia Press Folk Visions and Voices
Book SynopsisSampling virtually all of the old-time styles within the musical traditions still extant in north Georgia, Folk Visions and Voices is a collection of eighty-two songs and instrumentals, enhanced by photographs, illustrations, biographical sketches of performers and examples of their narratives, sermons, tales and reminiscences.Trade Review“The Rosenbaums have made a splendid contribution to our understanding of both southern culture and history.” - Georgia Historical Quarterly“This book shows its editor in the roles of interviewer, interpreter of social-scientific data, annotator, discographer, and artist; he plays them all with great success. From the beginning of his artistic career, Rosenbaum has specialized in American folklife scenes. These paintings, depicting the lives and aspirations of the informants, give the collection an expressiveness we hardly meet in folksong books.” - Ethnomusicology
£23.70
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Molas Dress Identity Culture
Book SynopsisMolas, the distinctive blouses made and worn by Kuna women in Panama, are collected by thousands of enthusiasts as well as by anthropological museums all over the world. This book, based on original research, explores the origin of the mola in the early twentieth century, how it became part of the everyday dress of Kuna women, and its role in creating Kuna identity.
£36.51
The Swedenborg Society Swedenborg Review 0.04
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MP-MAS Uni of Massachusetts Autobiography and Postmodernism
Book SynopsisThese essays set out to explore the connections between autobiography and postmodernism. They examine the response of various writers to the culturally specific pressures of genre; how these constraints are negotiated; and what self-representation reveals about the politics of identity.
£23.70
MP-MQU Marquette University Bibliography of Metropolitan Milwaukee
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£21.56
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Ideology and PreColumbian Civilizations
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£19.76
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Desaf237os diferencias y deformaciones de la ciud
Book SynopsisDesafios, diferencias y deformaciones de la ciudadania se inserta dentro del creciente interes en los estudios sobre ciudadania al tener como objetivo el entender las diferentes formas en las que las politicas-economicas neoliberales cuestionan, controvierten e incluso mutan el concepto de ciudadania.
£23.96
University of Toronto Press Where Am I in the Picture
Book SynopsisDrawing on unique visual methods, Where Am I in the Picture? explores researcher positionality in transnational studies of rurality.Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments 1. Where Am I in the Picture? An Introduction Claudia Mitchell, Relebohile Moletsane, and Katarina Giritli Nygren Section One: Rural Travelscapes 2. Travelling in Circles along Roads Less Travelled in Awe of Open Spaces Lisa Starr and Claudia Mitchell 3. Saskatchewan Song Cycle: Trans Readings of a Land Survey in the Canadian West Lou Sheppard 4. Taking to the Woods: Towards Decentralized Research in Protest Movements Angelika Sjöstedt 5. Picturing Transrurality: Connecting Rural People and Places across Borders April Mandrona Section Two: Girlhoods and Rurality as Context 6. Picturing Rurality: Towards a Shared Understanding of What It Means to Study Rurality in Two Country Contexts Katja Gillander Gådin and Naydene de Lange 7. Drawing Myself into the Picture: What Does It Mean to Be a Rural-Origin Student in an Urban University? Samukelisiwe Khumalo 8. “Beyond Getting Something”: Reflections on Researching the Closure of a Rural Municipality’s Maternity Ward Emelie Larsson 9. A Button Thief or a Researcher? Entangled Selves, Positionality, and Knowledge Production Sara Nyhlén Section Three: Positionality and the Rural 10. “Hey, Mlungu!”: Positionality in Participatory Visual Research in Post-apartheid South Africa Lisa Wiebesiek and Astrid Treffry-Goatley 11. Acting like a Skank: Reflections on a Researcher’s Involvement in the Production of Participatory Visual Research Texts in a Rural Area Katie MacEntee 12. Positioning Girls in Rural Contexts: Then and Now Ntomboxolo Yamile 13. Positionality at the Centre: Constructing an Epistemological and Methodological Approach for a Western Feminist Doctoral Candidate Conducting Research in the Postcolonial Catherine Vanner 14. Going the Distance: Theorizing Forward in the Time of a “Rural Turn” Claudia Mitchell, Katarina Giritli Nygren, and Relebohile Moletsane Contributors Index
£45.05
University of Massachusetts Press Signifyin(g), Sanctifyin' and Slam Dunking: A
Book SynopsisObservers of American society have long noted the distinctive contribution of African Americans to the nation's cultural life. We find references to African American music and dance, black forms of oral expression, even a black style of playing basketball. But what do such terms really mean? Is it legitimate to talk about a distinct African American aesthetic, or is it simply a vestige of an outmoded racial essentialism? What makes a particular form of cultural expression ""black"", other than the fact that some African Americans may practice it? These are some of the questions addressed in the readings gathered in this volume. The essays spring from a variety of disciplines and cover a range of topics, from the communal ritual of the ring shout to the evolution of rap to the improvisational genius of Michael Jordan. While each piece focuses on a different aspect of African American expressive culture, together they seek to reveal a set of creative principles, techniques and practices - a cultural aesthetic - that is consistent and resilient.
£26.06
University of Arkansas Press A Tough Little Patch of History: Gone with the
Book SynopsisMore than seventy-five years after its publication, Gone with the Wind remains thoroughly embedded in American culture. Margaret Mitchell’s novel and the film produced by David O. Selznick have melded with the broader forces of southern history, southern mythology, and marketing to become, and remain, a cultural phenomenon.A Tough Little Patch of History (the phrase was coined by a journalist in 1996 to describe the Margaret Mitchell home after it was spared from destruction by fire) explores how Gone with the Wind has remained an important component of public memory in Atlanta through an analysis of museums and historic sites that focus on this famous work of fiction. Jennifer W. Dickey explores how the book and film threw a spotlight on Atlanta, which found itself simultaneously presented as an emblem of both the Old South and the New South. Exhibitions produced by the Atlanta History Center related to Gone with the Wind are explored, along with nearby Clayton County’s claim to fame as “the Home of Gone with the Wind,” a moniker bestowed on the county by Margaret Mitchell’s estate in 1969. There’s a recounting of the saga of “the Dump,” the tiny apartment in midtown Atlanta where Margaret Mitchell wrote the book, and how this place became a symbol for all that was right and all that was wrong with Mitchell’s writing.
£34.16
