Culture and the university

Culture and the University

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Ruling Culture

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Beyond Nature and Culture

Deals with a question central to both anthropology and philosophy: what is the relationship between nature and culture? Drawing on ethnographic exampl

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Fashion, Culture, and Identity

A consideration of the role of clothes in establishing personality, and the influence and significance of changing fashion as a social and cultural ph

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Beyond Nature and Culture

Drawing on ethnographic examples from around the world and theoretical understandings from cognitive science, structural analysis, and phenomenology,

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Invention of Culture

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Culture from the Slums

Culture from the Slums explores the history of punk rock in East and West Germany during the 1970s and 1980s, examining how youths mobilized music to

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Culture In The Plural

Since his death in 1986, Michel de Certeau has come to be seen as a founding figure in cultural studies. In this translation of "La Culture au Pluriel

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Culture across the Curriculum

This book will be useful to teachers of psychology across a broad range of courses in the various subfields of the discipline. It provides both conten

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Civil Rights, Culture Wars

In 1970s Mississippi, educators faced a crucial choice between continuing to teach a white supremacist view of history or offering students a more enl

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Imaging Culture

Imaging Culture is a sociohistorical study of the meaning, function, and aesthetic significance of photography in Mali, West Africa, from the 1930s to

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Writing Culture

A collection of essays critiquing ethnography as literature. It explores the ways in which writing culture has changed the face of ethnography over th

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Measuring Culture

Written collectively by a team of leading qualitative and quantitative sociologists of culture, Measuring Culture provides both the definitive introdu

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Destination Culture

Takes the reader on a journey from ethnological artifacts to kitsch. Posing the question, 'What does it mean to show?' this title explores the agency

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Jihadi Culture

A study of the music, films, storytelling, art, and poetry of militants across the globe, from Boko Haram to al-Qaida and from al-Shabaab to the Islam

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Outbreak Culture

An award-winning genetic researcher and a tenacious journalist examine each phase of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, the largest and deadliest of i

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Production Culture

An investigation of the cultural practices and belief systems of Los Angelesbased film and video production workers.

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Augustan Culture

Grand political accomplishment and artistic productivity were the hallmarks of Augustus Caesar's reign (31 BC to AD 14), which has served as a powerfu

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Eating Culture

From ingredients and recipes to meals and menus across time and space, this highly engaging overview illustrates the important roles that anthropology

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Cataloguing Culture

In examining how the technologies of museum bureaucracy – the ledger book, the card catalogue, the database – operate through a colonial lens, Catal

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Building Culture

An unprecedented wave of interest in building new cultural institutions swept through America from the end of the Civil War through the first decade o

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Engineering Culture

Presents an ethnography of the engineering division of a large American high-tech corporation. This book offers a critical analysis of an American com

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Dressing for the Culture Wars

Through the lens of fashion and style, Dressing for the Culture Wars guides us through the competing political and social movements of the culture war

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Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes

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Culture of Male Beauty in Britain

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Culture of the New Capitalism

Looks at the ways the global form of capitalism affects our lives. This book analyzes how changes in work ethic, in our attitudes toward merit and tal

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Free Culture and the City

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Biomedicalization and the Practice of Culture

Over the last twenty years, type 2 diabetes skyrocketed to the forefront of global public health concern. In this book, Mari Armstrong-Hough examines

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Culture and Consumption

Takes a fresh view of the culture of consumption. This book examines the interplay of culture and consumer behavior from the anthropologist's point of

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HSK Standard Course 1 - Textbook

Authorized by Hanban, HSK Standard Course is developed under the joint efforts of Beijing Language and Culture University Press and Chinese Testing International (CTI). With HSK test papers as its primary source, HSK Standard Course is characterized by a humorous style, familiar topics and a scientific course design. Matching the HSK test in all aspects, from the content,...

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Understanding Korean Webtoon Culture

The rise of webtoons has altered the Korean cultural market due to the growth of transmedia storytelling—the flow of a story from the original text t

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Language, Culture, and Education

Explores language, culture, and education among immigrants in the United States. Using qualitative and quantitative research methods, it describes the

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Culture and Conflict

Contributions analyse how competing national agendas influenced the development of political life and culture in Scandinavia.

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Ecohumanism and the Ecological Culture

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English Renaissance Manuscript Culture

English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: The Paper Revolution shows how the advent of paper as a cheap and lasting medium of writing helped to create a

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Culture of Conspiracy

Delves deeper into America's conspiracy sub-culture, exploring the rise of 9/11 conspiracy theories, the "birther" controversy surrounding Barack Obam

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Lost Mediterranean Culture

This is the first English-language book to explore Mont’e Prama’s limestone statues—among the most important archaeological discoveries of the past

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Mathematics in Western Culture

This book gives a remarkably fine account of the influences mathematics has exerted on the development of philosophy, the physical sciences, religion,

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Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture

This book examines the theology and ethics of land use through critical biblical exegesis. It explores the biblical writers' pervasive concern for the

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Culture and Anarchy

First published in 1869, Culture and Anarchy debates questions about the nature of culture and society. Arnold asks what good culture can do and how i

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Culture in Nazi Germany

A fresh and insightful history of how the German arts-and-letters scene was transformed under the Nazis

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Economics and Culture

Brings together two very disparate areas, considering both the economic aspects of cultural activity, and the cultural context of economics and econom

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Culture of Fact

Barbara J. Shapiro traces the surprising genesis of the "fact," a modern concept that, she convincingly demonstrates, originated not in natural scienc

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British Culture After Empire

This book follows the afterlives of empire from 1945 to present day, providing an interdisciplinary analysis of how the legacy of empire continues to

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New Culture of Energy

Luce Irigaray reflects on three critical concerns of our time: the cultivation of energy in its many forms, the integration of Asian and Western tradi

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Music, Culture, and Society

The 1990s have seen a growth of interest in questions of music history and meaning, together with their relationships to culture and society. This rea

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Culture of Military Organizations

This examination of military culture shows how it underpins the effectiveness of military organizations. Sixteen case studies focusing on armies, navi

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Race, Culture and Counselling

Includes perspectives on the impact of race, culture, and language in therapy. This book discusses topics such as: issues concerning race and power; t

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Creating a Coaching Culture

Creating a Coaching Culture will help coaches and coaching companies to be more effective in the market place, by using an approach that works to crea

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Police Occupational Culture

At a time of close scrutiny of police culture, this is a thorough and accessible study of its impacts on both practitioners and the people they serve.

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Culture of Curiosity

This book reveals the eighteenth-century home as a site of emergence for science. By rejecting the limiting associations of â€domestic life’, t

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Gothic Queer Culture

Using interdisciplinary cultural studies to examine gothicism in queer art, literature, and thought, Laura Westengard argues that during the twentieth

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Zen and Material Culture

Expanding on previous studies of Zen art history, material/visual culture, and religious practice, Zen and Material Culture focuses on the vast range of "stuff" in Japanese Zen, including beads, bowls, buildings, staffs, statues, rags, robes and even popular retail commodities distributed in America.

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Jazz and American Culture

This book offers an entry point for understanding the comprehensive way this uniquely American artistic form has influenced literature, art, film, and

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Culture of Control

Charts the dramatic changes in crime control and criminal justice that have occurred in Britain and America. This book explains these transformations

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Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology

Using the influential and controversial Writing Culture as a point of departure, the thirteen essays in Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology c

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Slavery and the Culture of Taste

It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste - the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics - exis

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Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe

The updated edition of Charles Nauert's classic account includes a section dealing with the place of women in humanistic culture and an updated bibli

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Popular Culture in the Ancient World

This book provides a fascinating and innovative insight into popular culture in the ancient world. It covers a diverse range of subjects and objects -

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Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture

A study of how various Indian scholars, over the course of a century or more, have rejected the idea of an external origin of the Indo Aryans by quest

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