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Social Justice Journalism: A Cultural History ofSocial Movement Media from Abolition to #womensmarch argues that to better understand the evolution, impact, and future of digital social justice media we need to understand their connections to a venerable print culture...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2019-08-02
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Christmas in Tudor times was a period of feasting, revelry and merrymaking ‘to drive the cold winter away’. A carnival atmosphere presided at court, with a twelve-day-long festival of entertainments, pageants, theatre productions and ‘disguisings’, when even the king...
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Vintage Digital
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2018-10-04
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The National Border Patrol Museum (NBPM) in El Paso, Texas, presents a view of the history, culture, and life along the U.S.-Mexico border that is not offered in any other museum in the world. Moreover, it provides an opportunity to study and understand people and life...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-06-29
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Since its beginnings in the middle of the 19th century, fashion has been narrated through multiple media, both visual and verbal, and for such different purposes as marketing and advertising, art, costume history, social research and cultural dissemination. In this...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-06-29
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This book focuses on the development of Italian American cultural identity throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Italy is becoming a destination, rather than a starting point for immigrants. Immigration remains a source of tension and debate both in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-06-22
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School violence has become our new American horror story, but it also has its roots in the way it comments on western values with respect to violence, shame, mental illness, suicide, humanity, and the virtual. Beyond Columbine: School Violence and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-05-26
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50 common cultural mistakes made in business are presented in the form of short conversations which show that there's always a reason why people do the strange things they do, the reason is almost never to upset you, and there's always a way round.The Art of Doing...
Editeur :
John Murray Business
Parution :
2017-03-23
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Computerspiele wie «Dragon Age: Inquisition», «Guild Wars 2» oder «Star Wars: The Old Republic» versprechen ihrem Publikum großartige, nachgerade «epische» Inhalte. Dieses Buch zeigt, wie sie das erreichen und welche Rolle dabei der Rezeption deutschsprachiger Epik des...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-03-16
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This volume examines representations and explorations of travel ideals in contemporary international cinema. It assembles work from a diverse range of academic fields including anthropology, sociology, ethnography, cinema, culture, tourism, communication and language...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-08-05
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The Doppelgänger – the double, twin, mirror image or alter ego of someone else – is an ancient and universal theme that can be traced at least as far back as Greek and Roman mythology, but is particularly associated with two areas of study: psychology, and German...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-29
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This collection of essays on popular culture and politics in the Americas presents the study of ethnographic and historical data from different countries: Canada, United States, Mexico, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. Each chapter brings to light a distinct focus on the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-04-08
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This encyclopedia aims to provide a ready reference to various aspects of American culture. The time frame is from the colonial period to the end of the 20th century. The areas covered are fine arts (painting, sculpture, photography); performing arts (music, ballet,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-01
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This book investigates the Matthean use of bread and the breaking of bread in light of cognitive conceptual metaphor, which are not only intertwined within Matthew’s narrative plots but also function to represent Matthew’s communal identity and ideological vision. The...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-07-20
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In the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, all five of the Chief Ministers since 1967 have been former actors. This provocative book debunks the notion of Bollywood as the synecdoche of Indian cinema to explore the hitherto less studied, yet highly influential cinema in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-06-26
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Discourses about food, especially on social media, affect the dietary choices of many people on a daily basis all over the world. In recognition of this phenomenon, the selection of 25 ethnological essays in this volume explores the effects of the digital age on...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-04-30
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In this pioneering book, Joseph Shaules presents exciting new research from cultural psychology and neuroscience. It sheds light on the hidden influence of culture on the unconscious mind, and helps people get more out of their intercultural journeys.The Intercultural...
Editeur :
John Murray Business
Parution :
2015-01-05
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Die in diesem Buch versammelten Beiträge deuten auf die Vielschichtigkeit der Märchenproblematik hin und verweisen schnittpunktartig auf Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede in dem aus dem polnischen und dem deutschsprachigen Kulturkreis stammenden Forschungsmaterial. Im...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-17
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As surprising as it might seem now, during the late eighteenth century many early Americans asked themselves, "How could a person of one race come to be another?" Racial thought at the close of the eighteenth century differed radically from that of the nineteenth...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-12-30
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This book draws together the results of extensive research into the complex relationships that some modern European and Argentinean writers have enjoyed with food and wine. The European writers considered include Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, Honoré de Balzac,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-19
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Sally Howard, a self-confessed child of the Western Sexual Revolution, sets out on a sexploration through modern India by train, plane and auto-rickshaw. From the heat of anti-rape protest on the streets of New Delhi to the cool hills of Shimla, playground of the Raj;...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2013-11-07
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