Cultural studies

This book delves into the intricate interplay of political, economic, and philosophic forces that have shaped popular culture, fashion, social movements and societies.

This book is an extrapolation of the research I conducted for my doctoral thesis about my people's struggle to come to terms with native title claim processes, in which we are required to prove our connection to land, culture and kin.

Covering a period of 2000 years, this book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the devil's role in the Western tradition and draws from history, religion, art, literature, media studies, and anthropology to provide a multifaceted view of the devil over time.

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A cultural clearinghouse of the American 1960s and 70s told through the story of the periods most important forgotten comedy group.

This handbook offers a critical introduction to Indian Indie cinema, exploring its subversion of dominant ideas, aesthetics and narratives; its inclusion of marginal and alternative experiences and ideologies; its relationship with audiences; and its defiance of norms followed by commercial Bollywood cinema.

This book offers a profound exploration of the classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber, recognized as a masterpiece of traditional Chinese literature.

This book discusses the the beginning of writing and the Beginning of Biblical Literature.

This unique book demonstrates the central importance of visual media to the significance of British Punk rock pioneers the Sex Pistols, beginning with their nation-shocking television interview with Bill Grundy in December 1976.

Prison is seen by most people as an inevitable part of the penal system, but there is a growing awareness that its effects on offenders are rarely beneficial and may be positively harmful.

Whether in search of adventure and opportunity or fleeing poverty and violence, millions of people migrated to Argentina in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

This book provides an overview of research and best practices associated with heritage tourism, with a particular focus on Vietnam, in conversation with heritage tourism in other Asian contexts.

Solidarity of Strangers is a crucial intervention in feminist, multicultural, and legal debates that will ignite a rethinking of the meaning of difference, community, and participatory democracy.

This book provides an overview of research and best practices associated with heritage tourism, with a particular focus on Vietnam, in conversation with heritage tourism in other Asian contexts.

Drawing on time use diary analysis, this unique and detailed study fills in the larger narrative about what it takes, hour by hour, to navigate academic motherhood with a rhetoric and composition career.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

The Great Convergence explores the existential foundations of human consciousness and the deep existential dimensions of reality, as well as their connection to the concept of The Creator.

This monumental study demonstrates the power of culture to define the meaning of labor.

This book discusses how Africa has been understood and defined across various academic fields.

Matthew Williamson''s book argues that the representation of hunger and appetite was central to political debate in early modern drama.

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This is the first book to unpack the history and significance of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, the frontispiece of the most watched event on Earth.

This book presents the findings from original research about court interpreting in the disciplines of humanities and social sciences from a linguistic perspective.

Weltweit sind Rechtspopulisten auf dem Vormarsch.

From the New York Times bestselling author of How Do I Un-Remember This?

In this book, Lori Nel Johnson examines the work of Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937), Meta Warrick Fuller (1877-1968), and F.

The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers is a unique and valuable resource for historians and astronomers alike.

The result of thirty-five years of thought and research on culture by one of the best and most literate writers in sociology, this wide-ranging review of the meaning and study of culture is Bennett Berger at his best.

Patterson follows the fortunes of Virgil's Eclogues from the Middle Ages to our own century.

Considering the potential and peril of Domestic Abuse-Related Death Reviews (DARDRs) in England and Wales as a way of learning from domestic abuserelated deaths, this book examines what DARDRs - first known as Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs) - are understood as being for, what is used by and in DARDRs, and how DARDRs are themselves used.

Collaboration and Co-Creation in Museums, Heritage, and the Arts examines collaborative practices in museums, heritage and the arts.

This book proposes the 'signature role TV star' as a new theoretical category of stardom by evaluating Adam West as a quintessential example of this type of figure.