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In this new collection of essays, a range of established and emerging cultural critics re-evaluate Richard Hoggart's contribution to the history of ideas and to the discipline of Cultural Studies. They examine Hoggart's legacy, identifying his widespread influence,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2008-10-14
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This book explores the Japanese notion of hakanasa - the evanescence of all things. Responses to this idea have been various and even contradictory: asceticism, fatalism, conformism, hedonism, materialism, and careerism.This book examines the ties between an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-09-29
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In this compelling narrative Piontelli explores the different roles that twins play in societies around the world.In her travels around the world, Piontelli has studied the role of twins, especially throughout Africa, Asia, South America, and the Pacific rim, observing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-09-29
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Finally, the answer to why, when it comes to romance, women are coy and men are just clueless!Men and women ARE different. There are whole shelves full of books, millions of internet sites, and our own parents to tell us that. And anyone over a certain age can tell you...
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Orion
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2008-09-18
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The world's cultures and their forms of creation, presentation and preservation are deeply affected by globalization in ways that are inadequately documented and understood.The Cultures and Globalization series is designed to fill this void in our knowledge. In this...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2008-09-17
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The Cultures and Globalization Series
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China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The speed of its...
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Abacus
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2008-09-04
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Bigger, badder, sharper, ruder, funnier, bestier . . . this all-new companion volume to the 2005 Christmas bestseller IS IT JUST ME OR IS EVERYTHING SHIT? perfectly complements the first book to form the standard reference work on the shittiness of modern life - like a...
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Sphere
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2008-09-04
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If you hate: loft living; bar-clubs; Tony Blair; chick lit; global warming sceptics; Keane; loyalty cards; IKEA; Kabbalah; bling and Richard Curtis...... then you need IS IT JUST ME OR IS EVERYTHING SHIT? - an encylopedic attack on modern culture and the standard...
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Sphere
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2008-09-04
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The “structural method,” first set forth in this epoch-making book, changed the very face of social anthropology. This reissue of a classic will reintroduce readers to Lévi-Strauss's understanding of man and society in terms of...
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Basic Books
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2008-08-05
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From the preeminent anthropologist, a landmark exploration of how culture shapes human society“Shrewd and often illuminating."—New York Times Over his storied career, Clifford...
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Basic Books
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2008-08-04
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This book sets out the case for Hard Green, a conservative environmental agenda. Modern environmentalism, Peter Huber argues, destroys the environment. Captured as it has been by the Soft Green oligarchy of scientists, regulators, and lawyers, modern environmentalism...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2008-08-01
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The ten chapters of «Proverbs Speak Louder Than Words» present a composite picture of the richness of proverbs as significant expressions of folk wisdom as is manifest from their appearance in art, culture, folklore, history, literature, and the mass media.The first...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2008-07-23
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Based on more than five years of anthropological fieldwork in Sao Paulo, Brazil, this book highlights race, class, gender and territory to argue that Brazillian hip hoppers are subjects rather than objects of history and everyday life. This is the first ethnography in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-07-07
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Winner ofThe Boyer Prize from the Society for Psychological Anthropology!!!
This book explores the experience of suffering in order to shed light on the nature of the human self. Using an intimate life history approach, it examines ways people struggle to cope with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-06-23
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Visual Culture Studies presents 13 engaging and detailed interviews with some of the most influential intellectuals working today on the objects, subjects, media and environments of visual culture.
Exploring historical and theoretical questions of vision, the visual...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2008-06-02
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Plunder examines the dark side of the Rule of Law and explores how it has been used as a powerful political weapon by Western countries in order to legitimize plunder – the practice of violent extraction by stronger political actors victimizing weaker ones. Challenges...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-30
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Provides an exciting approach to some of the most contentious issues in discussions around globalization—bioscientific research, neoliberalism, governance—from the perspective of the "anthropological" problems they pose; in other words, in terms of their implications...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-30
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The Islamic Middle East is a rare, thought-provoking account of the origins, nature, and evolution of Islam that provides a historical perspective vital to understanding the contemporary Middle East.
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-30
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In this ground-breaking new book on the Norteña and Sureña (North/South) youth gang dynamic, cultural anthropologist and linguist Norma Mendoza-Denton looks at the daily lives of young Latinas and their innovative use of speech, bodily practices, and symbolic exchanges...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-30
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New Directions in Ethnography
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This book tells the stories of eleven remarkable people in the Islamic world, from a religious musician in Pakistan who sings the sufferings of the saints and hopes to bring reconciliation to his country, to the son of one of the greatest Shi'ite scholars of Iraq who...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-04-28
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