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Explores the importance of the senses and emotions in the way people dress, and how they attach value and significance to clothing. This work features essays that present historical, contemporary and global views, from British imperial dress in India, to revolutionary Socialist dress. It offers a different perspective on this topic.

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While African American dress has long been noted as having a distinctive edge, many people may not know that debutante balls feature young men and women dressed in conventional symbols of male hegemony and female purity. This text discusses how dress is a site for the renegotiation of identity.

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While African American dress has long been noted as having a distinctive edge, many people may not know that debutante balls feature young men and women dressed in conventional symbols of male hegemony and female purity. This text discusses how dress is a site for the renegotiation of identity.

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Clothing occupies a complex and important position in relation to human experience. It gives form to society's ideas about the sacred and secular, about exclusion and inclusion, about age, beauty, sexuality and status. This title explores the meanings that garments held in early modern England.

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Clothing occupies a complex and important position in relation to human experience. It gives form to society's ideas about the sacred and secular, about exclusion and inclusion, about age, beauty, sexuality and status. This title explores the meanings that garments held in early modern England.

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For ninety years, young society women in San Antonio, Texas have donned custom-designed dresses and trains to take part in the Coronation of a queen and her court. This book presents a study of social elites in Western society through a material culture analysis of the Coronation costumes worn by the Euro-American debutantes.

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Looking at alcohol consumption across cultures, this book examines what drinking means to the people who consume or refuse to consume. Drawing on fieldwork, it situates consumption within the context of wider cultural practices and reveals how class, ethnicity, and nationalism are all expressed through this very popular commodity.

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Looking at alcohol consumption across cultures, this book examines what drinking means to the people who consume or refuse to consume. Drawing on fieldwork, it situates consumption within the context of wider cultural practices and reveals how class, ethnicity, and nationalism are all expressed through this very popular commodity.

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To its critics, the automobile is a voracious consumer of irreplaceable energy resources, a leading polluter of the environment, and a destroyer of cohesive communities.

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We have developed into a culture that is over-reliant upon pharmaceutical and recreational drugs; where drugs are incessantly advertised and promoted to us via our mass media. This is a collection of essays highlighting the links between contemporary society's over-reliance on both media and drugs.

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We have developed into a culture that is over-reliant upon pharmaceutical and recreational drugs; where drugs are incessantly advertised and promoted to us via our mass media. This book examines this parallel, promoting a critical awareness of the significant impact of drugs and media on individuals, society and our wider human culture.

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This book helps readers better understand their own relationships - as players, designers, consumers, and citizens - with digital role playing games.

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This book helps readers better understand their own relationships - as players, designers, consumers, and citizens - with digital role playing games.

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"Covers the political, social, cultural, economic, and technological implications that EA's FIFA has in the shaping of the modern culture of football"--

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Providing a fresh reevaluation of '70s in popular music, this book contextualizes the era in terms of both radio history and cultural analysis. It focuses on the emergence of commercial music radio "formats", which refer to distinct musical genres aimed toward specific audiences. It makes a case for the significance of early '70s formatting.

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Providing a fresh reevaluation of '70s in popular music, this book contextualizes the era in terms of both radio history and cultural analysis. It focuses on the emergence of commercial music radio "formats", which refer to distinct musical genres aimed toward specific audiences. It makes a case for the significance of early '70s formatting.

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This book analyzes cultures of eating together in Malaysia and Singapore. It explores everyday spaces, such as street stalls, hawker centers, and coffee shops. Reflecting on these as sites for people's different culinary exchanges, the book captures resonances of national, ethnic, cosmopolitan and multicultural identity.

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This book approaches portrayals of environmental crises in Latin American nations in literature, film, performance, and digital art within the context of the ongoing expansion of globalized neoliberal capitalism from and ecocritical perspective.