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A wide-ranging collection of writings on emerging political structures in cyberspace.

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This book examines the mediated construction of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and its rise to public and political prominence by way of its direct connection with the NFL. More broadly, this book explores how this relationship situates in and through the sports/media complex.

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In this book, Ofelia Miriam Ortega describes the social, economic, and political realities in Cuba, the Caribbean and Latin America as the contexts of Cuban feminist theology.

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An anthropological study of food. It focuses on taste and flavour using an original interpretation of Alfred Gell's theory of the 'art nexus'. Grounded in ethnography, it explores the notion of cooking as an embodied skill and artistic practice. It examines the integral role and concept of 'flavour' in everyday life.

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An anthropological study of food. It focuses on taste and flavour using an interpretation of Alfred Gell's theory of the 'art nexus'. It explores the notion of cooking as an embodied skill and artistic practice. Including recipes to allow readers to practise the art of Mexican cooking, it offers a model for understanding food anthropologically.

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TV cookery shows hosted by celebrities. On-line grocers and restaurant review sites. Competitive eating contests, fairs and food blogs. Food plays a vital social role, offering status for those who conform to their culture's culinary norms. Culinary Capital analyzes this phenomenon in action across the landscape of contemporary culture.

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TV cookery shows hosted by celebrities. On-line grocers and restaurant review sites. Competitive eating contests, fairs and food blogs. Food plays a vital social role, offering status for those who conform to their culture's culinary norms. Culinary Capital analyzes this phenomenon in action across the landscape of contemporary culture.

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This book offers a new approach to the evolving genre of films that center on the acts of eating and cooking, from the classics to later box-office hits. The author explores significant tropes, including the transcultural feast and the obsessive chef, to reveal how these films construct vicarious pleasure for the viewers who consume them.

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Originally published: Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2010.

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Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives.

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This bold and original study looks at the performance of identity in the public sphere, using the concept of 'plumage' to capture the countless elements that go together to make up a shared identity. -- .

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This bold and original study looks at the performance of identity in the public sphere, using the concept of 'plumage' to capture the countless elements that go together to make up a shared identity. -- .

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This work explores different aspects of the encounter between males and Swedish sexual and cohabitation culture, and analyses this encounter in relationship to the important elements in the cultural processes and patterns that have shaped immigrant male gender-role socialisation.

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Portrays the crosscurrents created at the interface of urban industrial and rural peasant spheres. This book shows how wage labor was adopted by country folk who maintained ties to small-scale cultivation and indigenous traditions. It examines the cultural issues that animate peasant-worker life.

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This collection of readings provides the reader with a basic introduction to the topic and concepts of cultural diversity as it has come to characterize the culture of the United States. No other book is as complete in its coverage of the diverse cultural groupings that make up the American culture.

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This collection of readings provides the reader with a basic introduction to the topic and concepts of cultural diversity as it has come to characterize the culture of the United States. No other book is as complete in its coverage of the diverse cultural groupings that make up the American culture.

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The first A-to-Z encyclopedia devoted to the breast, providing insight into the historical magnitude and cultural significance of this body part in art, history, fashion, medicine, and more.

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An A-to-Z encyclopedia devoted to the penis, offering refreshing, thoughtful, and wide-ranging insight into how we have thought about this malleable, meaningful body part over the centuries and across cultures.

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Intended for students, general readers, vegetarians, and vegans, as well as those interested in animal welfare and liberation, this A-Z encyclopedia explores the historical and cultural significance of vegetarianism in the United States and beyond.

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In this study, chapter authors examine the growth of gerontology as a discipline, the phenomenon of ageism as a socio-cultural concept, identity politics in which older persons are perceived as belonging to a subculture, and images of the older body in cultural perspective.