This fully revised seventh edition of Kinship and Gender: An Introduction explores kinship in today's globalized, increasingly mobile world, and how family structures continue to influence the varied roles that men and women play in different cultures.
By analyzing how artistic and curatorial practices can activate processes and generate structures that facilitate dialogical spaces of communication between curators, artists and their publics, The Curatorial Complex addresses the social dimensions of knowledge production for the ways people and art come together in the curated encounter.
UNION FOR THE HEADLINES, A TRIAL FOR THE TIMECelebrity romances have always captured the public's imagination, playing out like soap operas seized upon by fans and tabloids alike.
Exploring Anthropology through Folklore and Mythology is a comprehensive textbook which examines how people around the world express themselves culturally, and how these practices provide a window into the diversity of human culture.
Ten Arab Filmmakers provides an up-to-date overview of the best of Arab cinema, offering studies of leading directors and in-depth analyses of their most important films.
Bei Hitze, Hagel, Kälte oder Trockenheit, als Mittel zur Brandbekämpfung und Abwendung von Wassergefahren hielt man Hostien für allgegenwärtig und allmächtig.
In the early twenty-first century, white-owned farms in Zimbabwe were subject to large-scale occupations by black urban dwellers in an increasingly violent struggle between national electoral politics, land reform, and contestations over democracy.
For millennia, the rituals of death and remembrance have been fixed by time and location, but in the twenty-first century, grieving has become a virtual phenomenon.
Wir alle werden in eine bestimmte Kultur hineingeboren, in eine bestimmte Sprache, in bestimmte Denk-, Verhaltens- und Handlungsmuster, die nicht wir selbst erfinden, sondern die uns vorgegeben werden und in die wir durch einen Sozialisationsprozess hineinwachsen.
This book explores how social and mobile media have been used in political campaigns since 2008, examining how social media are already being implemented as well as how these types of messaging platforms might be used in the future.
HipHop-Kultur ist global: In jeder Sprache wird gerappt, gesampelt wird alles, von Soul Funk Breaks über Klassik bis hin zum folkloristischen Bläsersatz und auf Youtube tanzen B-Boys aus der ganzen Welt vor Wänden voller Graffiti.
Exploring Film through Bad Cinema offers an overview of the practice of film analysis through a specific focus on the concept of "e;bad"e; cinema within a series of broad cultural and historical contexts.
This fifth edition of the bestselling textbook is a major new revision, continuing to provide a concise introduction to the key concepts of semiotics in accessible and jargon-free language.
Black Mirror: Allegories for the Atomised addresses the ways that media and communications technologies shape our relationships with society, with others, and ultimately, with ourselves.
