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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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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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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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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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This collection discusses the depictions of mothers-in-law in popular culture and provides a different approach to the popularly-held views of mothers-in-law.

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Applying a cultural-economic approach and drawing on interviews with key figures at the sectors leading products, this book unwraps the means through which publishing companies comprehended and addressed the mens magazine audience in the 1990s. It sheds light on the commercial assessment and representation of modern masculine culture.

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Applying a cultural-economic approach and drawing on interviews with key figures at the sectors leading products, this book unwraps the means through which publishing companies comprehended and addressed the mens magazine audience in the 1990s. It sheds light on the commercial assessment and representation of modern masculine culture.

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"The first edited volume to present decolonial critiques of fashion and globalization and explore the dynamics of 'de-globalization' to propose more diverse fashion definitions, practices and aesthetics"--

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A collection of essays by experts in intergroup relations, this volume offers conceptual overviews by which to compare and evaluate acculturation. It also focuses on rethinking the nature of minorities long present in the US and includes suggestions for policy changes and social programmes.

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This book explores the fine line between fiction and history and considers how Frances cultural production has contributed to shaping the image of the French Resistance. Though an examination of the lenses through which France has regarded its recent past, the book offers a key to understanding Frances national psyche.

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This book provides close-textual analysis of traditional and mediated, popular memorials that tackle some of the most significant sources of pain in United States. In doing so, Tiara K. Good argues that pain is highly rhetorical and functions to form collectives and instigate change.

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An exploration of the dish around the world, from the culinary variances of this inherently local dish from cultures across Brazil to West Africa, to a broader account of the universal significance and symbolism of Rice and Beans as a cultural cornerstone amidst forces of globalization and nation-building.