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Based on a wide range of field studies, Sir Raymond Firth discusses the geographical and historical factors that determine the development of racial groups; The book provides a framework for understanding all human societies and interpreting the changes that take place within them.

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Highlights how humor serves as a powerful tool for resistance, dialogue, and self-reflection in Africa

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A cross-disciplinary study of the role of fashion in contemporary society, and its relationship with individual identity and the self.

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A cross-disciplinary study of the role of fashion in contemporary society, and its relationship with individual identity and the self.

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This study provides an interdisciplinary analysis of Taiwanese popular culture over the last two decades. It examines various shifts in the countrys identity politics and argues that its uncertain political position is a key factor in such changes.

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This study provides an interdisciplinary analysis of Taiwanese popular culture over the last two decades. It examines various shifts in the countrys identity politics and argues that its uncertain political position is a key factor in such changes.

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With ideological divisions polarizing society, this book introduces Ideologically Challenging Entertainment (ICE), which uses multiple perspectives to help audiences connect with those holding different world views. A case study of a production using the ICE model shows audiences responding with greater tolerance and acceptance of others.

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The relationship between ignorance and surprise and a conceptual framework for dealing with the unexpected, as seen in ecological design projects.

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Scholars from science, art, and humanities explore the meaning of our new image worlds and offer new strategies for visual analysis.

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Now they were faced with a new country and a new set of images to deal with just as Germany exerts itself more powerfully than ever on the world economic scene.

How much attention has this new Germany received in the American media, and how accurate are the new portrayals

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This study surveys a wide range of writings and ideas out of Africa by people of African descent on the various ways in which "insiders" and "outsiders", "self" and "otherness" have been imagined and defined from African perspectives. Five interviews with leading writers conclude the book.

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French Studies, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Sociology, History/Cultural History. Specific chapters will be of relevance to: Cultural Policy, Popular Music Studies, Literary Studies, Film and TV Studies, Linguistics -- .

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Available in English for the first time, Imperfect Garden is both an approachable intellectual history and a bracing treatise on how we should understand and experience our lives. In it, one of France's most prominent intellectuals explores the foundations, limits, and possibilities of humanist thinking. Through his critical but sympathetic excavat

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A short, polemical study of the persistence of imperial nostalgia in modern British culture, politics, heritage and media.

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A short, polemical study of the persistence of imperial nostalgia in modern British culture, politics, heritage and media. -- .

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Nine times out of ten, if someone accuses you of getting your facts wrong, what they're actually saying is that they don't like what you've done with them.


The facts in this book will aim to amuse and astound, and sometimes even to change the way you see the world.

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This work is invaluable as supplemental reading for courses in American history, American literature, and American studies.

In Search of America devotes an entire section to the early problems of the young nation in achieving intellectual and artistic, as well as political, independence.