Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities currently takes place at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory. Just as...
For many refugees, economic survival in refugee camps is extraordinarily difficult. Drawing on both qualitative and quantitative research , this volume challenges the reputation of...
Having taken over the leadership of the French school of sociology after the death of his uncle, Emile Durkheim, in 1917, Mauss, celebrated author of...
Having taken over the leadership of the French school of sociology after the death of his uncle, Emile Durkheim, in 1917, Mauss, celebrated author of...
Around the planet, Indigenous people are using old and new technologies to amplify their voices and broadcast information to a global audience. This is the...
Education systems and textbooks in selected countries of the Middle East are increasingly the subject of debate. This volume presents and analyzes the major trends...
The failure of Liberalism' in Germany and its responsibility for the rise of Nazism has been widely discussed among scholars inside and outside Germany. This...
The apparently simple notion that it is contextualization and invocation of context that give form to our interpretations raises important questions about context definition. Moreover,...
The apparently simple notion that it is contextualization and invocation of context that give form to our interpretations raises important questions about context definition. Moreover,...
Just as rhetoric is founded in culture, culture is founded in rhetoric the first half of this central statement from the International Rhetoric Culture Project...
Towards the middle of the 20th century, scholarly research revealed that the fabled Silk Roads, far from being mere trade routes, were cultural highways that...
Everywhere in the world communities and nations organize themselves in relation to water. We divert water from rivers, lakes, and aquifers to our homes, workplaces,...
Judith Kapferer and her collaborators present an insightful volume that interrogates relations between the state and the arts in diverse national and cultural settings. The...
Bruno Kreisky (19111990) is undoubtedly the most prominent and influential politician to emerge in postwar Austria. For some thirty years, he helped to shape his...
Bruno Kreisky (19111990) is undoubtedly the most prominent and influential politician to emerge in postwar Austria. For some thirty years, he helped to shape his...
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Historically, canonic studies of ritual have discussed and explained ritual organization, action, and transformation primarily as representations of broader cultural and social orders. In the...
Historically, canonic studies of ritual have discussed and explained ritual organization, action, and transformation primarily as representations of broader cultural and social orders. In the...
Most critics of the political evolution of JeanPaul Sartre have laid emphasis on his allegedly sympathetic and uncritical attitude to Stalinist Communism due, to a...
Product Description Published on the occasion of Sartre's Centenary, this book helps to understand the man behind the work, offering a psychosocial analysis of JeanPaul...
In this fascinating indepth study of the impact of nostalgia on contemporary American cinema, Christine Sprengler unpicks the history of the concept and explores its...
Product DescriptionIn this highly original approach to the study of the construction of culture, this collection of previously unpublished essays explore the topography of the...
Contrary to popular perceptions, cultural heritage is not given, but constantly in the making: a construction subject to dynamic processes of (re)inventing culture within particular...
Recently considerable interest has developed about the degree to which anthropological approaches to kinship can be used for the study of the longterm development of...