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This book analyzes contemporary challenges and solutions to problems facing rural communities. The idea of reinvention is offered as a description of how rural communities adapt by changing focus to alternative economic development strategies and by focusing on improved quality of life. The image of rural given is one of dynamism and resiliency.

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This book analyzes contemporary challenges and solutions to problems facing rural communities. The idea of reinvention is offered as a description of how rural communities adapt by changing focus to alternative economic development strategies and by focusing on improved quality of life. The image of rural given is one of dynamism and resiliency.

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This book examines language ideologies and market exploitation in the television industry. Television networks owned by large media conglomerates are trying to reach U.S. Latino viewers with English-language programming. As these networks enter Hispanic television, they redefine the Latino audience to closely resemble the mainstream population.

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This work is a study of the role of mass media in political change, specifically the recent changes in the Soviet Union. The use of the media to define the new Russia is shown. Those involved in Russian studies, media studies, international studies, and similar fields should be interested in this work.

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This collection explores technologies and the broad relations they form with the world and how such relational technologies of our datafied and biometric lifeworlds intersect with and redefine our embodied selves.

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Proposes a new set of disciplines for a human science, based on a relativistic view of knowledge and a naturalist view of human nature. The author addresses the major current issues in the philosophy of social science and designs his theory for cross-cultural application.

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This book explores ruins whose intersections of symbolic messaging and material experience critique the modern project. By investigating ghost towns, industrial relics, prison sites, and other locales associated with dark tourism, contributors provide unique insights into contemporary rhetorics and performances of public life.

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States that Americans have never been more religious than they are at the dawn of the twenty-first century. This book features essays by major scholars from the fields of anthropology, history, literary criticism, and religion in order to enrich critical discourse about religion and culture.

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A series of essays discussing the portrayal of religion on prime time entertainment TV.

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Dress provides a window for viewing the culture of a community, because it visually attests to its salient ideas, fundamental concepts and categories. This text examines how the metaphor of appearance is used within religious groups in the USA, to express religiosity, ethnicity and gender norms.

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Dress provides a window for viewing culture, because it visually attests to the salient ideas, concepts and categories fundamental to that culture. This text examines how the metaphor of appearance is used within religious groups in the USA, to express religiosity, ethnicity and gender norms.

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This book explores the emergence and expansion of global kosher and halal markets with a particular focus on the UK and Denmark. -- .

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This book examines the condition of religious organizations or teachings within a different culture where one or more indigenous religions are already present.

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This volume looks at headline-grabbing scandals involving American religious figures from the 19th century to the present, showing how the media and society in general reacted to these controversies.

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Remake Television: Reboot, Re-use, Recycle examines multiple definitions of television remakes, from reboots to adaptations and sequels. It addresses cross-cultural issues while also interrogating the changing contexts and challenges posed by generational and media format shifts.

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Offering a compelling inquiry into public events ranging from the building of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial through ethnic community fairs to pioneer celebrations, this title explores the stories, ideas, and symbols behind American commemorations over the last century.

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This book examines the creation of futuristic memories through cinematic symbols relating to future interactions between humans and artificial intelligence.

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Britons spend an average of four hours a day watching television - television has become our national obsession. This work reveals the alarming reality of what television is actually doing to us physically, emotionally, intellectually and socially. It also show us how we can re-establish control away from the remote control.

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Covering the Renaissance and Reformation, this volume offers information on contributors to the culture of Western civilization. Rather than focusing on political and military figures, it covers such figures as religious leaders, scientists, artists, writers, musicians and scholars.

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Being Mara Brock Akil examines the body of work of the showrunner who produced Girlfriends, The Game, Being Mary Jane, and Love Is___ . Grounded in Black Feminist Thought, this book analyzes themes that define Black womanhood and examine audience reception and social media interaction.

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Being Mara Brock Akil examines the body of work of the showrunner who produced Girlfriends, The Game, Being Mary Jane, and Love Is___ . Grounded in Black Feminist Thought, this book analyzes themes that define Black womanhood and examine audience reception and social media interaction.

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This collection provides a cross-cultural comparative analysis, both qualitative and quantitative, of how Islam is represented in the media in various countries, from Western Europe to Russia, China, and India.