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Performing Culture presents a detailed and probing account of cultural studies' changing fixations with theory, method, policy, text, production, audience and the micro-politics of the everyday.
John Tulloch encourages academics and students to take seriously the need...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-10-27
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`This book represents a significant intervention and, as such, should be used on numerous cultural studies courses. In its intellectual honesty and clarity Tudor's book will stand as an authoritative basis for further developments in the coming years' - David...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-09-24
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This concise and accessible textbook overviews the place and continuing centrality of the concept of class in cultural studies and sociology.
The book reopens the debates over class and culture that were very nearly closed down in postmodernism. Andrew Milner offers...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-07-15
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This volume offers a comparative, cross-cultural history of dreams. The essays examine a wide range of texts concerning dreams, as culled from a rich variety of religious contexts: China, India, the Americas, classical Greek and Roman antiquity, early Christianity, and...
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Oxford University Press
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1999-07-08
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In this groundbreaking work, Robert Baum seeks to reconstruct the religious and social history of the Diola communities in southern Senegal during the precolonial era, when the Atlantic slave trade was at its height. Baum shows that Diola community leaders used a...
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Oxford University Press
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1999-05-13
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Seven years after the publication of the first edition, Spain is still different, but it is changing, too?modernizing rapidly and participating as an active member of the European Union. While thoroughly updating her original work, Helen Wattley-Ames has maintained her...
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Intercultural Press
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1999-03-01
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Anthony Giddens is widely recognized as one of the most important sociologists of the post-war period. This is the first full-length work to examine Giddens' social theory. It guides the reader through Giddens' early attempt to overcome the duality of structure and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1998-09-24
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Alfred Gell puts forward a new anthropological theory of visual art, seen as a form of instrumental action: the making of things as a means of influencing the thoughts and actions of others. He argues that existing anthropological and aesthetic theories take an...
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OUP Oxford
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1998-07-09
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Alfred Gell puts forward a new anthropological theory of visual art, seen as a form of instrumental action: the making of things as a means of influencing the thoughts and actions of others. He argues that existing anthropological and aesthetic theories take an...
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OUP Oxford
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1998-07-09
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This book develops the dual themes that languages can differ widely in their vocabularies, and are also sensitive indices to the cultures to which they belong. Wierzbicka seeks to demonstrate that every language has "key concepts," expressed in "key words," which...
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Oxford University Press
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1997-08-07
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This book develops the dual themes that languages can differ widely in their vocabularies, and are also sensitive indices to the cultures to which they belong. Wierzbicka seeks to demonstrate that every language has "key concepts," expressed in "key words," which...
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Oxford University Press
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1997-08-07
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This major text offers a critical reappraisal of the contemporary practice of cultural studies. It focuses in particular on the contribution of cultural studies to the understanding of media, communications and popular cultures in contemporary societies. The...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1997-04-14
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Why and how do contemporary questions of culture so readily become highly charged questions of identity? The question of cultural identity lies at the heart of current debates in cultural studies and social theory. At issue is whether those identities which defined the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1996-04-04
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This fascinating book explores the interface between global processes, identity formation and the production of culture.
Examining ideas ranging from world systems theory to postmodernism, Jonathan Friedman investigates the relations between the global and the local,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1994-10-05
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A stimulating appraisal of a crucial contemporary theme, this comprehensive analysis of globalizaton offers a distinctively cultural perspective on the social theory of the contemporary world.
This perspective considers the world as a whole, going beyond conventional...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1992-07-27
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In this book leading social scientists from many countries analyze the extent to which we are seeing a globalization of culture. Is a unified world culture emerging? And if so, how does this relate to existing cultural divisions and to the autonomy of the nation state?...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1990-07-03
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"Crime and Custom in Savage Society" represents Bronislaw Malinowski's major discussion of the relationship between law and society. Throughout his career he constructed a coherent science of anthropology, one modeled on the highest standards of practice and theory....
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2024-04-05
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"The Classic Collection of Alfred C. Haddon: Illustrated" is a comprehensive anthology showcasing the influential works of Alfred C. Haddon, a prominent figure in the field of anthropology. This collection features illustrated editions of some of Haddon's most notable...
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Andrii Ponomarenko
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2024-03-18
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"Primitive Culture" by Edward Burnett Tylor is a seminal work in the field of anthropology, offering a comprehensive exploration of the origins and development of human culture. In this illustrated edition, Tylor's groundbreaking theories are accompanied by visual...
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Andrii Ponomarenko
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2024-03-14
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