Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
The Goddess in Hindu-Tantric Traditions
Devi as Corpse
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
The Great Goddess, in her various puranic and tantric forms, is often figured as sitting on a corpse which is identified as Shiva-as-shava (God Shiva, the consort of the Devi and an iconic representation of the Absolute without attributes, the Nirguna Brahman). Hence, most of the existing critical...
Strong Families Around the World
Strengths-Based Research and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The strengths of families from culture to culture, when compared to each other, are remarkably similar and give us common ground around the world upon which to unite and develop mutual understanding. Strengths-Based Research and Perspectives: Strong Families Around the World, provides a conceptual...
Engendering the Buddhist State
Territory, Sovereignty and Sexual Difference in the Inventions of Angkor
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Drawing from more than a decade of field and archival research, this monograph concerns Cambodian cultural history and historiography, with an ultimate aim of broadening and deepening bases for understanding the Cambodian Theravadin politico-cultural complex. The book takes the form of an interdisciplinary...
by Amy Eisenberg, Amy Eisenberg
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Aymara Indians are a geographically isolated, indigenous people living in the Andes Mountains near Chile’s Atacama Desert, one of the most arid regions of the world. As rapid economic growth in the area has begun to divert scarce water to hydroelectric and agricultural projects, the Aymara struggle...
The Cultural Transition
Human Experience and Social Transformation in the Third World and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
This volume makes available a wide variety of cultural perspectives on education and on economic and social progress. Contributors focus on three main questions, the answers to which are vital for understanding the needs of both national policy and personal fulfilment in widely differing cultures....
The Evolution of Cultural Diversity
A Phylogenetic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Virtually all aspects of human behavior show enormous variation both within and between cultural groups, including material culture, social organization and language. Thousands of distinct cultural groups exist: about 6,000 languages are spoken today, and it is thought that a far greater number of...
Heritage Conservation and Japan's Cultural Diplomacy
Heritage, National Identity and National Interest
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Japan’s heritage conservation policy and practice, as deployed through its foreign aid programs, has become one of the main means through which post-World War II Japan has sought to mark its presence in the international arena, both globally and regionally. Heritage conservation has been intimately...
Global Youth?
Hybrid Identities, Plural Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
This innovative collection of studies by international youth researchers, critically addresses questions of ‘global’ youth, incorporating material from regions as diverse as Sydney, Tehran, Dakar and Manila, and advancing our knowledge about young people around the globe. Exploring specific local...
Continuity and Change in Cultural Adaptation to Mountain Environments
From Prehistory to Contemporary Threats
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Up until now, mountain ecosystems have not been closely studies by social scientists as they do not offer a readily defined set of problems for human exploitation as, do for instance, tropical forests or arctic habitats. But the archaeological evidence had shown that humans have been living in this...
by J. Patrick Williams
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Across sociology and cultural studies in particular, the concept of authenticity has begun to occupy a central role, yet in spite of its popularity as an ideal and philosophical value authenticity notably suffers from a certain vagueness, with work in this area tending to borrow ideas from outside...
Arts in Place
The Arts, the Urban and Social Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
This interdisciplinary book explores the role of art in placemaking in urban environments, analysing how artists and communities use arts to improve their quality of life. It explores the concept of social practice placemaking, where artists and community members are seen as equal experts in the process....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Thirty-years of economic transformation has turned China into one of the major players in the global capitalist economy. However, its economic growth has generated rising problems in inequality, alienation, and sustainability with the agrarian crises of the 1990s giving rise to real social outcry...
Making Cultural History
New Perspectives on Western Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This volume contains 17 essays with fresh new approaches to cultural history from 17 authors that belong to different academic disciplines, including archaeology, art history, classical languages, ethnology, fashion studies, history, history of ideas, history of religion, literature studies, and media...
Mestizaje and Globalization
Transformations of Identity and Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
The Spanish word mestizaje does not easily translate into English. Its meaning and significance have been debated for centuries since colonization by European powers began. Its simplest definition is “mixing.” As long as the term has been employed, norms and ideas about racial and cultural relations...