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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...
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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...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2004-04-14
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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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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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Mark Tully is incomparable. No one has a greater understanding of the passions, the contradictions, the humour, the tragedy and the staggering resilience that constitute India. In his long awaited new book, he delves further than ever before into this country of one...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2003-11-27
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`This book is a goldmine for students…it is brilliantly conceptualized and brilliantly executed. With this book cultural studies finally comes of age methodologically' - Professor Norman K Denzin, Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois
Doing...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2003-10-15
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Globalization is a highly debated term, and struggles over its meaning are played out in a variety of ways, from academe and the media to the streets of Seattle, Melbourne and Genoa.
This book provides a welcome introduction to the discourses, practices and...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2003-03-21
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`Alan McKee presents a student friendly introduction to the analysis of cultural texts. The book highlights the cultural differences in interpretation with an array of fascinating examples. Textual Analysis is written in an accessible style with several useful case...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2003-03-04
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`A Short Histrory of Cultural Studies will prove a seminal text for its author's erudition, wit and unmatched ability to re-embed abstract concepts and debates where they belong - in rich historical, political and cultural contexts' - Cultural Studies Review
'Hartley's...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2002-12-04
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Hitherto, cultural theory and empirical work on culture have outstripped cultural policy. This book rectifies the peculiar imbalance in the field of Cultural Studies by offering the first comprehensive and international work on cultural policy. Fully alive to the...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2002-11-19
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'This is an Excellent textbook and a valuable addition to the growing field of 'how to' books providing advice and guidance for practitioners and students wishing to undertake fieldwork of an ethnographic nature.... this books deserves to be high on your reading list'
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Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2002-11-07
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'His wealth of scholarship and sharp insights make this a very fine book indeed. It is probably the fullest statement of Raymond Williams's enduring influence upon cultural studies' - Jim McGuigan, University of Loughborough
'An accessible, engaging book' - TOPIA:...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2002-06-12
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'The book is an important read for persons who practice or study within the field. Anyone with experience or interest in the topic will come away with a deepened understanding of debates within cultural studies and with an array of nfew questions and ideas to pursue....
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2002-03-26
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