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Chinese Media in Africa: Perception, Performance, and Paradox is a contribution to the debate on Chinese media expansion into Africa. Interviews bring to light the paradoxical nature of Chinese media organizations that both preach equality with Africa and simultaneously promote Chinese hegemony in the media.

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This collection examines chocolate's history as well as its use in literature, art, music, and folklore, as a subject for psychology and childrearing, and as an important product for business. While chocolate may be seen as food of the gods, it is consumed around the world by all ages and classes.

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Compiled by the great Neo-Confucian philosopher Chu Hsi (1130-1200), the Family Rituals is a manual for the private performance of the standard Chinese family rituals: initiations, weddings, funerals, and sacrifices to ancestral spirits. This translation makes the work, which is the most important text of its kind in the last thousand years of Chin

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Looks at the diverse content and often surprising impact of the many films that have dealt with the figure of Christ. This work reveals how these depictions have helped determine, and have been determined by, particularly American notions of who Jesus was, how he died, and what he means for both religious and secular cultures.

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At the time of Marshall McLuhan's death in 1980, his was a major voice in our understanding on media and society. While the author dismisses McLuhan's basic theory that the medium is the message, he points to McLuhan's importance, and argues for a re-examination of McLuhan as an artist and a poet.

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Despite the growth of digital media, traditional FM radio airplay still remains the essential way for musicians to achieve commercial success. Climbing the Charts examines how songs rise, or fail to rise, up the radio airplay charts. Looking at the relationships between record labels, tastemakers, and the public, Gabriel Rossman develops a clear pi

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How is the relationship between the Japanese state and Japanese society mediated by the press Does the pervasive system of press clubs, and the regulations underlying them, alter or even censor the way news is reported in Japan This book presents an overview of the relationship between the press, politics, and the public.

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Drawing examples from a range of African cultures, this book focuses on the art patronage systems that stimulate production, consumption, commodification and cultural meaning, and emphasizes the importance of cloth to aesthetic and cultural expression in African societies.

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Drawing examples from a range of African cultures, this book focuses on the art patronage systems that stimulate production, consumption, commodification and cultural meaning, and emphasizes the importance of cloth to aesthetic and cultural expression in African societies.

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Social scientists, though interested in fashion theories, have rarely addressed the material qualities of clothing. In contrast, traditional studies of dress have focused on textiles but neglect the context within which dress becomes consumed as clothing. This book aims to combine these two 'camps' through a material culture approach to clothing.

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In recent years, there has been a spate of books theorizing fashion. Few, however, take on board the artefactual nature of cloth. In contrast, costume historians have looked closely at garments, but have shown less concern with how clothing is informed by social structures.

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This encyclopedia surveys, from a cross-cultural perspective, the similarities and differences between clowns and tricksters in world cultures. It presents each character in the context of the culture in which he or she is found.

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A celebration of the 100th birthday of the crossword puzzle.

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This book draws from, and is supported by, a decade of ethnographic research undertaken with videogames development companies located in Australia and the USA. It explores key contemporary issues in participatory media culture, including questions of technology, labour and professional expertise.

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This book draws from, and is supported by, a decade of ethnographic research undertaken with videogames development companies located in Australia and the USA. It explores key contemporary issues in participatory media culture, including questions of technology, labour and professional expertise.

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Looks at how the internet is transforming our culture, providing outlets for human potential. From lolcats to tools for tracking voter fraud and ethnic violence, this book shows how we're using our cognitive surplus for the better, and what it means for the future.

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He also develops an alternative interpretation of Macedonian national formation.

The contentious issue of Macedonian national minorities in the southern Balkans is examined as well as the issue of the Albanian movements toward self-determination and succession in Kosovo and western Macedonia.

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This work assesses the role and character of comedy and fantasy in colonial societies from India to Ireland, Australia to Cuba, Africa to North America. It deals with both oral and written traditions, the history of comic and fantastic discourse, visual, theatrical and literary representations.

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Over the past few generations, expectations of comfort, cleanliness and convenience have altered radically, but these dramatic changes have largely gone unnoticed. This book brings together the sociology of consumption and technology to investigate the evolution of these changes.

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Over the past few generations, expectations of comfort, cleanliness and convenience have altered radically, but these dramatic changes have largely gone unnoticed. This book brings together the sociology of consumption and technology to investigate the evolution of these changes.