Social Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
The Expanding World Ayahuasca Diaspora
Appropriation, Integration and Legislation
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
During its expansion from the Amazon jungle to Western societies, ayahuasca use has encountered different legal and cultural responses. Following on from the earlier edited collection, The Expanding World Ayahuasca Diaspora continues to explore how certain alternative global religious groups, shamanic...
The Anthropology of Performance
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
The Anthropology of Performance is an invaluable guide to this exciting and growing area. This cutting-edge volume on the major advancements in performance studies presents the theories, methods, and practices of performance in cultures around the globe. Leading anthropologists describe the range...
Not Straight, Not White
Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
This compelling book recounts the history of black gay men from the 1950s to the 1990s, tracing how the major movements of the times—from civil rights to black power to gay liberation to AIDS activism—helped shape the cultural stigmas that surrounded race and homosexuality. In locating the rise...
Psychotherapy and Religion in Japan
The Japanese Introspection Practice of Naikan
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Naikan is a Japanese psychotherapeutic method which combines meditation-like body engagement with the recovery of memory and the reconstruction of one's autobiography in order to bring about healing and a changed notion of the self.
Based on original anthropological fieldwork, this fascinating...
Samuel Steward and the Pursuit of the Erotic Sexuality, Literature, Archives
Sexuality, Literature, Archives
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Samuel Steward and the Pursuit of the Erotic: Sexuality, Literature, Archives examines one of the most fascinating sexual renegades of the twentieth century and the social, cultural, pedagogical, and erotic projects with which he was engaged. This innovative collection, edited by Debra A. Moddelmog...
Culture in the Marketplace
Gender, Art, and Value in the American Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2001
In the early twentieth century, a group of elite East coast women turned to the American Southwest in search of an alternative to European-derived concepts of culture. In Culture in the Marketplace Molly H. Mullin provides a detailed narrative of the growing influence that this network of women had...
Hopi Basket Weaving
Artistry in Natural Fibers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
"With the inborn wisdom that has guided them for so long through so many obstacles, Hopi men and women perpetuate their proven rituals, strongly encouraging those who attempt to neglect or disrespect their obligations to uphold them. One of these obligations is to respect the flora and fauna...
From Class Struggle to the Politics of Pleasure
The Effects of Gramscianism on Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This book examines the rise of cultural studies and evaluates its strengths and weaknesses. The author raises searching questions about the originality of cultural studies and its political motivation. Written with zest and a judicious sense of purpose it is a landmark work in cultural studies media and the sociology of culture.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory provides a rich overview of the analytical frameworks and theoretical concepts that feminist theorists have developed to analyze the known world. Featuring leading feminist theorists from diverse regions of the globe, this collection delves into forty-nine subject...
by Tim Ambler, Morgen Witzel, Chao Xi
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
China has changed dramatically since the first edition of Doing Business in China was published in 2000, but the second, third and now this fourth edition have kept pace with the rapid developments. China is now far more international but the fundamental business culture has not altered greatly. The...
The Yearbook of China's Cultural Industries 2011
Editorial Board of the Yearbook of Chinas Cultural Industries
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
The Yearbook of Chinas Cultural Industries is a large comprehensive, authoritative and informative annual which accurately records and reflects the annual development of cultural industries in China. It is also a large reference book with abundant information on cultural industries in China and a...
by Shannon Latkin Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Over the course of the 20th century, there have been three primary narratives of American national identity: the melting pot, Anglo-Protestantism, and cultural pluralism/multi-culturalism. This book offers a social and historical perspective on what shaped each of these imaginings, when each came...
Unveiling Whiteness in the Twenty-First Century
Global Manifestations, Transdisciplinary Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Unveiling Whiteness in the Twenty-First Century: Global Manifestations, Transdisciplinary Interventions is a tightly interconnected and richly collaborative book that will advance our understanding of why it is so difficult to re-form and reimagine whiteness in the twenty-first century. Composed after...
by Nahum Dimitri Chandler
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
X—The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought offers an original account of matters African American, and by implication the African diaspora in general, as an object of discourse and knowledge. It likewise challenges the conception of analogous objects of study across dominant ethnological...