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This examines a significant aspect of contemporary social life: cultural identities and our linguistic means of constructing them. It combines a theoretical re-assessment of processes of identification with case studies of the discourses of three-generation families...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-08-10
Collection :
Language and Globalization
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The Age of Consent; Young People, Sexuality and Citizenship addresses the contentious issue of how children's sexual behaviour should be regulated.The text includes: ·A unique history of age of consent laws in the UK, analysed via contemporary social theory ·A global...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-08-10
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Tensions between Muslim communities and state institutions are endemic in many parts of the world. For decades successive colonial and independent governments in the Philippines have deployed educational policy as a tool to mitigate one such conflict between Muslims and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-07-31
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This revised edition of Deborah Tannen's first discourse analysis book, Conversational Style--first published in 1984--presents an approach to analyzing conversation that later became the hallmark and foundation of her extensive body of work in discourse analysis,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2005-07-21
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Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book examines how the Islamic community in Java, Indonesia, is actively negotiating both modernity and tradition in the contexts of nation-building, globalisation, and a supposed clash of civilizations. The pesantren...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-05-12
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'What McRobbie manages to do so skilfully is to show how each [author], regardless of his or her particular disciplinary location, makes a significant contribution to the project of cultural studies. It should be essential reading for students studying culture' - THES...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2005-04-05
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This book brings to life the social and textual worlds in which the representation of contemporary Greek historical experience has been passionately debated, building on contemporary research in history and anthropology concerning the social production of the past.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-03-15
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Oxford presents, in one convenient and coherently organized volume, 20 influential but until now relatively inaccessible articles that form the backbone of Boyd and Richerson's path-breaking work on evolution and culture. Their interdisciplinary research is based on two...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2005-01-20
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'In quite a profound, high-modernist way, this succinct but comprehensive book deems its subject worthy of careful scholarly analysis. I applaud and recommend it for taking much of the nonsense out of McLuhan' - Topia Journal
'Feted and reviled in his own lifetime,...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-10-20
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`A polished piece of work which takes a cool and dispassionate look at subculture... Meticulous and insightful' - Jim McGuigan, Professor of Cultural Analysis, University of Loughborough
This illuminating book, which explores the idea of subcultures, traces the...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-10-20
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'This is a smart and compelling book. Difficult ideas are presented in an accessible manner, with plenty of supporting illustrations…Students will enjoy the research material and other supporting material. A definite winner!'-
Professor Jay Gubrium, University of...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-09-01
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The golden age of cultural theory (the product of a decade and a half, from 1965 to 1980) is long past. We are living now in its aftermath, in an age which, having grown rich in the insights of thinkers like Althusser, Barthes and Derrida, has also moved beyond them....
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2004-08-26
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`A scholarly lexicon and stimulating "rough guide" for cultural studies as it confronts and navigates the shifting sands of past, present and future' - Tim O'Sullivan, Head of Media and Cultural Production, De Montfort University
`I'm certain undergraduate and...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-05-18
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'There have been few critical engagements with the concept of creativity in recent years, so the authors provide an important contribution in drawing attention to what is arguably at the heart of much of what we most value in culture'
- Douglas Kellner, University of...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-05-07
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`This is a tour de force… It combines luminous discussion of the core conceptual issues of cultural studies, with a hard-headed, practical sense of how research in the field gets done. The result is a seriously smart, comprehensive survey of the whole terrain of...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-04-14
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The book is the most in-depth account of the fossil skull anatomy and evolutionary significance of the 3.6-3.0 million year old early human species Australopithecus afarensis. Knowledge of this species is pivotal to understanding early human evolution, because 1) the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2004-03-11
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'This is the most lucid and engaged account of Stuart Hall's work. Meticulously, and with an exemplary generosity, Helen Davis patiently unravels the threads of Hall's intellectual history. The result is a most useful and thoughtful book, which could prove to be...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-03-09
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The Continuum Concept introduces the idea that in order to achieve optimal physical, mental and emotional development, human beings - especially babies - require the kind of instinctive nurturing as practiced by our ancient relatives. It is a true ‘back to basics’...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2004-01-29
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Since the emergence of religious studies and the social sciences as academic disciplines, the concept of "magic" has played a major role in defining religion and in mediating the relation of religion to science. Across these disciplines, magic has regularly been...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2004-01-15
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When French sociologist Loïc Wacquant signed up at a boxing gym in a black neighborhood of Chicago's South Side, he had never contemplated getting close to a ring, let alone climbing into it. Yet for three years he immersed himself among local fighters, amateur and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2003-12-11
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