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  1. Press "ONE" for English
    Language Policy, Public Opinion, and American Identity
    Author: Schildkraut, Deborah J.
    Published: [2007]
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9781400849338
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    Subjects: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie; Language policy / United States; English language / Political aspects / United States; Public opinion / United States; Group identity / United States; English-only movement; Amerikaans; Taalpolitiek; Publieke opinie; Nationale identiteit; Öffentliche Meinung; Nationalbewusstsein; Sprachpolitik; English language / Political aspects; Group identity; Language policy; Public opinion; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Englisch; Nationalbewusstsein; Politik; Interessenvertretung; Mehrsprachigkeit; Nationalbewusstsein; Englisch; Sprachpolitik; Gruppenidentität
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    Press "ONE" for English examines how Americans form opinions on language policy issues such as declaring English the official language, printing documents in multiple languages, and bilingual education. Deborah Schildkraut shows that people's conceptions of American national identity play an integral role in shaping their views. Using insights from American political thought and intellectual history, she highlights several components of that identity and shows how they are brought to bear on debates about language. Her analysis expands the range of factors typically thought to explain attitudes in such policy areas, emphasizing in particular the role that civic republicanism's call for active and responsible citizenship plays in shaping opinion on language issues. Using focus groups and survey data, Schildkraut develops a model of public conceptions of what it means to be American and demonstrates the complex ways in which people draw on these conceptions when forming and explaining their views. In so doing she illustrates how focus group methodology can help yield vital new insights into opinion formation. With the rise in the use of ballot initiatives to implement language policies, understanding opinion formation in this policy area has become imperative. This book enhances our understanding of this increasingly pressing concern, and points the way toward humane, effective, and broadly popular language policies that address the realities of American demographics in the twenty-first century while staying true to the nation's most revered values
  2. Representing Italy through food
    Contributor: Naccarato, Peter (Herausgeber); Nowak, Zachary (Herausgeber); Eckert, Elgin K. (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, London

    "Italy has long been romanticized as an idyllic place. Italian food and foodways play an important part in this romanticization - from bountiful bowls of fresh pasta to bottles of Tuscan wine. While such images oversimplify the complex reality of... more

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    "Italy has long been romanticized as an idyllic place. Italian food and foodways play an important part in this romanticization - from bountiful bowls of fresh pasta to bottles of Tuscan wine. While such images oversimplify the complex reality of modern Italy, they are central to how Italy is imagined by Italians and non-Italians alike. Representing Italy through Food is the first book to examine how these perceptions are constructed, sustained, promoted, and challenged. Recognizing the power of representations to construct reality, the book explores how Italian food and foodways are represented across the media - from literature to film and television, from cookbooks to social media, and from marketing campaigns to advertisements. Bringing together established scholars such as Massimo Montanari and Ken Albala with emerging scholars in the field, the thirteen chapters offer new perspectives on Italian food and culture. Featuring both local and global perspectives - which examine Italian food in the United States, Australia and Israel - the book reveals the power of representations across historical, geographic, socio-economic, and cultural boundaries and asks if there is anything that makes Italy unique. An important contribution to our understanding of the enduring power of Italy, Italian culture and Italian food - both in Italy and beyond. Essential reading for students and scholars in food studies, Italian studies, media studies, and cultural studies"...

     
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  3. Representing Italy through food
    Contributor: Naccarato, Peter (Herausgeber); Nowak, Zachary (Herausgeber); Eckert, Elgin K. (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, London

    "Italy has long been romanticized as an idyllic place. Italian food and foodways play an important part in this romanticization - from bountiful bowls of fresh pasta to bottles of Tuscan wine. While such images oversimplify the complex reality of... more

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    "Italy has long been romanticized as an idyllic place. Italian food and foodways play an important part in this romanticization - from bountiful bowls of fresh pasta to bottles of Tuscan wine. While such images oversimplify the complex reality of modern Italy, they are central to how Italy is imagined by Italians and non-Italians alike. Representing Italy through Food is the first book to examine how these perceptions are constructed, sustained, promoted, and challenged. Recognizing the power of representations to construct reality, the book explores how Italian food and foodways are represented across the media - from literature to film and television, from cookbooks to social media, and from marketing campaigns to advertisements. Bringing together established scholars such as Massimo Montanari and Ken Albala with emerging scholars in the field, the thirteen chapters offer new perspectives on Italian food and culture. Featuring both local and global perspectives - which examine Italian food in the United States, Australia and Israel - the book reveals the power of representations across historical, geographic, socio-economic, and cultural boundaries and asks if there is anything that makes Italy unique. An important contribution to our understanding of the enduring power of Italy, Italian culture and Italian food - both in Italy and beyond. Essential reading for students and scholars in food studies, Italian studies, media studies, and cultural studies"...

     
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  4. Trauma
    Author: Bond, Lucy; Craps, Stef
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  ROUTLEDGE, London ; Taylor & Francis Group, New York

    Trauma has become a catchword of our time and a central category in contemporary theory and criticism. In this illuminating and accessible volume, Lucy Bond and Stef Craps: provide an account of the history of the concept of trauma from the late... more

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    Trauma has become a catchword of our time and a central category in contemporary theory and criticism. In this illuminating and accessible volume, Lucy Bond and Stef Craps: provide an account of the history of the concept of trauma from the late nineteenth century to the present day examine debates around the term in their historical and cultural contexts trace the origins and growth of literary trauma theory introduce the reader to key thinkers in the field explore important issues and tensions in the study of trauma as a cultural phenomenon outline and assess recent critiques and revisions of cultural trauma research Trauma is an essential guide to a rich and vibrant area of literary and cultural inquiry

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781134106547; 9780203383063; 9781134106684; 9781134106615
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    RVK Categories: EC 2430 ; EC 5410
    Series: New critical idiom
    Subjects: Literatur; Psychisches Trauma; Psychic trauma in literature; HISTORY / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
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  5. Translating worlds
    migration, memory and culture
    Contributor: Wilson, Rita (Herausgeber); Radstone, Susannah (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "This international and interdisciplinary volume explores the relations between translation, migration, and memory. Examining the connections between translation, memory, and migration, the volume brings together humanities researchers from a range... more

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    "This international and interdisciplinary volume explores the relations between translation, migration, and memory. Examining the connections between translation, memory, and migration, the volume brings together humanities researchers from a range of disciplines including history, museum studies, memory studies, translation studies, and literary, cultural, and media studies. The innovatory perspective adopted by Translating Worlds understands translation's explanatory reach as extending beyond the comprehension of one language by another to encompass those complex and multi-layered processes of parsing by means of which the unfamiliar and the familiar, the old home and the new, are brought into conversation and connection. Themes discussed include: · How memories of lost homes act as aids or hindrances to homemaking in new worlds; · How cultural memories are translated in new cultural contexts; · Migration, affect, memory, and translation · Migration, language, and transcultural memory; Migration, traumatic memory, and translation. This edited volume will appeal to humanities researchers and students interested in translation, history, memory studies, literary, cultural and media studies"--...

     
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  6. The monarch and the (non)-human in literature and cinema
    western and global perspectives
    Contributor: Zouidi, Nizar (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "This collection studies the representations of the character of the monarch in literature and cinema. Being a person, an institution, a character archetype and a narrative role, the character of the monarch and other royal or regal characters... more

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    "This collection studies the representations of the character of the monarch in literature and cinema. Being a person, an institution, a character archetype and a narrative role, the character of the monarch and other royal or regal characters oscillate between humanity and the non-human. As such, they are hybrid forms of existence and subjectivity. The authors of this collection explore this hybridity across large spectra of genres, historical periods and cultural contexts. Some of the most prolific and widely-read scholars analyze the archetype of the monarch on the page, the stage and the screen. They cover large swathes of intersecting creative and interpretive territories including ancient epic and religious poetry, Arthurian legends, British Renaissance and modern drama, British horror films, and Hollywood crime and sports films. This collection also features interviews with six prominent comic book writers and artists who discuss the influence of classical royal archetypes on their works"--...

     
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    Contributor: Zouidi, Nizar (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9781003362548; 1003362540; 9781003830511; 100383051X; 9781003830528; 1003830528
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    Series: Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture
    Subjects: Kings and rulers in literature; Kings and rulers in motion pictures; Kings and rulers in art; Human beings; Liminality in literature; Liminality in motion pictures; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; HISTORY / Social History
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  7. Branding "Western Music"
    Contributor: Cáceres-Piñuel, María (Herausgeber); Napoli, Alberto (Herausgeber); Strumbl, Melanie (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Peter Lang, Lausanne

    "This edited book aims to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue on the intersections between the coining of the "Western Music" concept and the institutionalised and entrepreneurial management of culture. It studies the emergence of the trademark... more

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    "This edited book aims to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue on the intersections between the coining of the "Western Music" concept and the institutionalised and entrepreneurial management of culture. It studies the emergence of the trademark "Western Music" in relation to the commodification of leisure, the institutionalisation of academic discourses, and the transnational imperial politics of culture. This collective work devotes particular attention to the ways events, such as the virtuosi concert tours, song contests, diplomatic acts, or mass broadcastings have created possibilities for homogenisation and globalisation of a corpus of musical practices, repertoires, and ways of thinking, ambiguously labelled, as "Western" along the long 20th Century." - (Buchrückseite)

     
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    Contributor: Cáceres-Piñuel, María (Herausgeber); Napoli, Alberto (Herausgeber); Strumbl, Melanie (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9783034344555; 3034344554
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    RVK Categories: LR 57470
    DDC Categories: 780
    Series: Publikationen der Schweizerischen Musikforschenden Gesellschaft. Serie II / Publications de la Société Suisse de Musicologie. Série II ; 62
    Subjects: Kulturmanagement; Klassische Musik <Motiv>; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General; Cultural studies; HISTORY / General; Kulturwissenschaften; MUSIC / General; MUSIC / History & Criticism; Music; Musik; Musikgeschichte; PSYCHOLOGY / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Social & cultural history; Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
    Scope: 246 Seiten, Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele
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    Enthält: María Cáceres-Piñuel: Introduction -- Annegret Fauser: Grooves of Empire: Internationalism, Imperialism, and Branding Western Music -- Anja Brunner: On the Need to Overcome Westernization and the Idea of Western Music: Towards a Post-Western Musical Scholarship -- Timothy D. Taylor: Forms of Value and the Rise of the Virtuoso -- Natascha Loges: Branding the German Lied: The Strategies of Julius Stockhausen -- Cla Mathieu: Spanish Guitarists in Early Twentieth-Century Germany: Negotiating Musical Identities in German-Language Guitar Magazines -- Artemis Ignatidou: Symbolic Uses of Functional Musical Text in Late 19th Century Athens: The Case Study of Antonios Sigalas -- Petra van Langen: The Netherlandish School: The Construction of a Trademark -- Olli Heikkinen and Vesa Kurkela: "Art Music Proper" In Changing Orchestral Culture: Two Case Studies of the Institutionalization of Finnish Musical Life in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century -- Markus Mantere and Saijaleena Rantanen: Domesticating Continental Music Practices: Emergence of the Conservatory and Song Festivals in Finland 1880-1930 -- Siwat Chuencharoen: The Transformation of Thai Music within Western Frameworks during the Thai Cultural Reformation in the 1930s -- Meebae Lee: K-Classic: Branding Korean Classical Music -- Mary Horn: Programming the Record, Recording the Program: The Philadelphia Orchestra on Columbia Records, 1944-1946 -- Kerry Brunson: Mass Classical: "Accessibility" and the Atlanta School of Composers -- Peter Kupfer: Branding with Music and Music as Brand: Classical Music in American Television Commercials
  8. The Routledge companion to the anthropology of performance
    Contributor: Miller, Lauren (Herausgeber); Syring, David (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance provides a cutting edge, comprehensive overview of the foundations, epistemologies, methodologies, key topics and current debates, and future directions in the field. It brings together work... more

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    "The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance provides a cutting edge, comprehensive overview of the foundations, epistemologies, methodologies, key topics and current debates, and future directions in the field. It brings together work from the disciplines of anthropology and performance studies, as well as adjacent fields. Across 31 chapters, a diverse range of international scholars cover topics including: - Faith - Ritual - Theatre - Storytelling - Music - Dance -Textiles -Land Acknowledgements -Indigenous Identity - Visual Arts - Embodiment - Cognition - Healing - Festivals - Politics - Activism - The Law - Race & Ethnicity - Gender & Sexuality - Class - Religion & Spirituality - Disability - Leisure, Gaming, & Sport In addition, the included appendix offers Tools, Exercises, and Activities designed by contributors as useful suggestions to readers, both within and beyond academic contexts, to take the insights of performance anthropology into their work. This is a valuable reference for scholars and upper-level students in anthropology, performance studies, and related disciplines, including religious studies, art, philosophy, history, political science, gender studies, and education"--...

     
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  9. FINDING MY WAY;
    REFLECTIONS ON SOUTH AFRICAN LITERATURE
    Author: Brown, Duncan
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  ROUTLEDGE, ABINGDON ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "This book offers a series of reflections on the field of South African literature from the perspective of 2020. It emerges from Duncan Brown's experiences of three decades of working in this field of writing and scholarship, and is both a personal... more

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    "This book offers a series of reflections on the field of South African literature from the perspective of 2020. It emerges from Duncan Brown's experiences of three decades of working in this field of writing and scholarship, and is both a personal intellectual exploration and an engagement with the institutional history of literary studies in South Africa and elsewhere. Several interrelated questions are woven through the chapters: recovering 'the literary'; literary studies 'after theory'; religion and spirituality; 'other' modes of writing and reading; re-readings; South African literary history postapartheid; canonicity; national/transnational identity; and multilingualism and translation. As well as being a book about the changing field of South African literature, Finding My Way is also a series of attempts to find more creative, engaging and intriguing modes of writing about literature and the humanities more generally. It is a book that seeks to recover a sense of the imaginative, the literary, the affective, not only as things to value in the literary texts we read, but also as ways of understanding and reading texts, as ways of writing criticism - of registering how books make us feel, as well as how they make us think."--Publsher...

     
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  10. Globalization and planetary ethics
    new terrains of consciousness
    Contributor: Malhotra, Simi (Herausgeber); Singh, Shraddha A. (Herausgeber); Rizvi, Zahra (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "This volume is a critical investigation into the contemporary phenomenon of the dissensus of the globe and the planet, and the new terrains of consciousness that need to be negotiated towards a possibility for transformation. It examines the... more

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    "This volume is a critical investigation into the contemporary phenomenon of the dissensus of the globe and the planet, and the new terrains of consciousness that need to be negotiated towards a possibility for transformation. It examines the possibilities of alternate, sustainable modes of being and existing in a world which requires a unified, ethical, biopolitical worldview. The book explores themes like philosophical posthumanism and planetary concerns; disruption of cultural and intellectual inequality; bodily movement through nomadic subjectivity; dystopic spatialities of game(re)play; globalization, and speculative imaginaries of the body; and theory of multiplicity. It also discusses impact of COVID on human beings, role of the neoliberal media, the question of rights of robots and cyborgs in sci-fi movies, and representation of refugees in literature. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of English literature, political philosophy, cultural studies, literary cultures, post-colonial studies, critical theory, and social anthropology"--...

     
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  11. Temporalities in/of crises in Anglophone literatures
    Contributor: Baumbach, Sibylle (Herausgeber); Neumann, Birgit (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "Literary works play a crucial role in modelling and conceptualising temporalities. This becomes particularly apparent in times of crises, which put conventionalised temporal patterns and routines under pressure. During crises, past, present, and... more

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    "Literary works play a crucial role in modelling and conceptualising temporalities. This becomes particularly apparent in times of crises, which put conventionalised temporal patterns and routines under pressure. During crises, past, present, and future appear to collapse into each other and give way to temporal disjunction and rupture. Offering pluralised and context-sensitives approaches to temporalities in and of crises, this volume explores how literature's engagement with crises suggests both the need for and possibility of rethinking 'time'. The volume is committed to exploring the affordances of specific genres and their potential in pointing beyond temporalities of crises to facilitate a sense of futurity. Individual essays are grounded in recent theories of temporality and literary form, which are related to novel advancements in ecocriticism, queer studies, affect theory, and postcolonial studies. The chapters cover a broad range of examples from different literary genres to reveal the knowledge of literature about temporalities in and of crises"--...

     
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    Contributor: Baumbach, Sibylle (Herausgeber); Neumann, Birgit (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781003348122; 1003348122; 9781000922974; 1000922979; 9781000922905; 1000922901
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    RVK Categories: HN 1101
    Series: Routledge studies in contemporary literature
    Subjects: Literatur; Krise; Temporalität; English literature; Space and time in literature; Crises in literature; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
  12. Playwriting in Europe
    mapping ecosystems and practices with fabulamundi
    Author: Laera, Margherita
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, London ; Taylor & Francis Group

    This book maps contemporary playwriting and theatre translation practices and ecologies in the European continent. Whether you are a scholar researching contemporary drama and translation, or a theatre practitioner looking for ways to navigate... more

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    This book maps contemporary playwriting and theatre translation practices and ecologies in the European continent. Whether you are a scholar researching contemporary drama and translation, or a theatre practitioner looking for ways to navigate theatrical conventions in other countries, this book is for you. Through questionnaires and one-to-one interviews with key stakeholders, Dr Laera collects qualitative and quantitative data about how each national theatre culture supports living dramatists, what conventions drive the production and translation (or lack thereof) of contemporary plays, and what perceptions are held by gatekeepers, theatre-makers and other cultural operators about the theatre system in which they work. Through country-by-country descriptions and analyses; interviews with playwrights, translators, directors and gatekeepers; a list of key facts and best practices; and a rigorous assessment of its methodologies, this volume is indispensable for those interested in contemporary European theatre practice.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781003049432; 1003049435; 9781000653458; 1000653455; 9781000653427; 1000653420
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    Series: Routledge advances in theatre & performance studies
    Subjects: Playwriting; European drama; Translating and interpreting; Theater; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Playwriting; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (1 volume), illustrations (black and white)
  13. Behold the proverbs of a people
    proverbial wisdom in culture, literature, and politics
    Author: Mieder, Wolfgang
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  University Press of Mississippi, Jackson

    "The thirteen chapters of this book comprise an intriguing and informative entry into the world of proverb scholarship, illustrating that proverbs have always been and continue to be wisdom's international currency. The first section of the book... more

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    "The thirteen chapters of this book comprise an intriguing and informative entry into the world of proverb scholarship, illustrating that proverbs have always been and continue to be wisdom's international currency. The first section of the book focuses on the field of paremiology (proverb studies) in general, the spread of Anglo-American proverbs in Europe, and the phenomenon of modern proverbs. The second section analyzes the use of proverbs in the world of politics, including a chapter on President Obama, while the third concentrates on the uses of proverbs in literature. The final section ends with detailed cultural studies of the origin, history, dissemination, use, function, and meaning of specific proverbs.Noted scholar Wolfgang Mieder shows that proverbs matter in culture, literature, and politics. Proverbs remain part and parcel of oral and written communication, and, he demonstrates, they deserve to be studied from a range of viewpoints. While various chapters deal with a variety of issues and approaches, they cohere through a rhetorical perspective that looks at the text, texture, and context of proverbs as speech acts that make a noteworthy impact on culture and society. Whether proverbs appear in everyday speech, on the radio, on television, in films, on the pages of newspapers or magazines, in advertisements, in literary works, or in political speeches, they serve as formulaic verbal devices to add authoritative weight through tradition, convention, and wisdom"--...

     
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781626740761; 1626740763
    RVK Categories: EC 7355
    Series: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    Subjects: Proverbs; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays
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  14. Embodiment of a nation
    human form in American places
    Author: Tichi, Cecelia
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

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  15. A landscape of travel
    the work of tourism in rural ethnic China
    Author: Chio, Jenny
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  University of Washington Press, Seattle, Washington

    "While the number of domestic leisure travelers has increased dramatically in reform-era China, the persistent gap between urban and rural living standards attests to ongoing social, economic, and political inequalities. The state has widely touted... more

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    "While the number of domestic leisure travelers has increased dramatically in reform-era China, the persistent gap between urban and rural living standards attests to ongoing social, economic, and political inequalities. The state has widely touted tourism for its potential to bring wealth and modernity to rural ethnic minority communities, but the policies underlying the development of tourism obscure some complicated realities. In tourism, after all, one person's leisure is another person's labor. A Landscape of Travel investigates the contested meanings and unintended consequences of tourism for those people whose lives and livelihoods are most at stake in China's rural ethnic tourism industry: the residents of village destinations. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Pingan (a Zhuang village in Guangxi) and Upper Jidao (a Miao village in Guizhou), Jenny Chio analyzes the myriad challenges and possibilities confronted by villagers who are called upon to do the work of tourism. She addresses the shifting significance of migration and rural mobility, the visual politics of tourist photography, and the effects of touristic desires for "exotic difference" on village social relations. In this way, Chio illuminates the contemporary regimes of labor and leisure and the changing imagination of what it means to be rural, ethnic, and modern in China today. Jenny Chio is assistant professor of anthropology and associated faculty in film and media studies at Emory University. A Landscape of Travel is about China becoming a nation that travels, and one way of traveling is to be a tourist. Tourism is of course only one mode through which China's mobility expresses itself, and we must remember that most villages have no tourists at all. But if we want to understand why tourists see and experience what they do. and how this reflects China as a nation that travels, [this book] is both delightful and essential."--The foreword by Stevan Harrell"This book explores how 'travel' can be a useful framework with which to better understand how rural China is changing. While it has not been uncommon to view rural China as an increasingly 'mobilized' landscape of excess labor seeking better livelihoods in the cities, Chio's study approaches mobility in both more abstract and broad-ranging terms. Her work offers an important contribution. Anyone interested in ethnography, ethnicity in China, and anthropologies of tourism will find A Landscape of Travel interesting."--Tim ... Machine generated contents note:Landscape, Mobility, Visuality --1.Similar, with Minor Differences --Tale of Two Villages --2.Peasant Family Happiness --New Socialist Countryside --3.Leave the Fields without Leaving the Countryside --Orders of Mobility --4."Take a Picture with Us" --Politics of Appearance --5.Ability to Be Different --Socialities and Subjectivities.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 0295805064; 0295993669; 0295993650; 9780295993669; 9780295993652; 9780295805061
    RVK Categories: QQ 925 ; LB 57440
    Series: Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Subjects: Rural tourism; Ethnicity; Ethnic relations; Ethnicity; Rural conditions; Rural tourism; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural; China; HISTORY ; Asia ; China; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Industries ; General
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (327 pages), illustrations, map, photographs
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  16. America's digital army
    games at work and war
    Author: Allen, Robertson
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln ; London

    "America's Digital Army is an ethnographic study of the link between interactive entertainment and military power, drawing on Robertson Allen's fieldwork observing video game developers, military strategists, U.S. Army marketing agencies, and an... more

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    "America's Digital Army is an ethnographic study of the link between interactive entertainment and military power, drawing on Robertson Allen's fieldwork observing video game developers, military strategists, U.S. Army marketing agencies, and an array of defense contracting companies that worked to produce the official U.S. Army video game, America's Army. Allen uncovers the methods by which gaming technologies such as America's Army, with military funding and themes, engage in a militarization of American society that constructs everyone, even nonplayers of games, as virtual soldiers available for deployment. America's Digital Army examines the army's desire for "talented" soldiers capable of high-tech work; beliefs about America's enemies as reflected in the game's virtual combatants; tensions over best practices in military recruiting; and the sometimes overlapping cultures of gamers, game developers, and soldiers. Allen reveals how binary categorizations such as soldier versus civilian, war versus game, work versus play, and virtual versus real become blurred...if not broken down entirely...through games and interactive media that reflect the U.S. military's ludic imagination of future wars, enemies, and soldiers."... "An ethnographic study based on scholar Robertson Allen's years of behind-the-scenes ethnographic fieldwork within the work environments of the video game developers, military strategists, enlisted soldiers, and defense contractors who produced the official U.S. Army video game, "America's Army.""...

     
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    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780803285293; 9781496201911; 9781496200617
    RVK Categories: MG 70940
    Series: Anthropology of contemporary North America
    Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; GAMES / Video & Electronic; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Gesellschaft; Computer war games; Computer war games; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; GAMES / Video & Electronic; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Militär; Digitalisierung; Computerspiel
    Scope: xii, 199 Seiten
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  17. Representing Italy through food
    Contributor: Naccarato, Peter (Publisher); Nowak, Zachary (Publisher); Eckert, Elgin K. (Publisher)
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, London

    "Italy has long been romanticized as an idyllic place. Italian food and foodways play an important part in this romanticization - from bountiful bowls of fresh pasta to bottles of Tuscan wine. While such images oversimplify the complex reality of... more

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    "Italy has long been romanticized as an idyllic place. Italian food and foodways play an important part in this romanticization - from bountiful bowls of fresh pasta to bottles of Tuscan wine. While such images oversimplify the complex reality of modern Italy, they are central to how Italy is imagined by Italians and non-Italians alike. Representing Italy through Food is the first book to examine how these perceptions are constructed, sustained, promoted, and challenged. Recognizing the power of representations to construct reality, the book explores how Italian food and foodways are represented across the media - from literature to film and television, from cookbooks to social media, and from marketing campaigns to advertisements. Bringing together established scholars such as Massimo Montanari and Ken Albala with emerging scholars in the field, the thirteen chapters offer new perspectives on Italian food and culture. Featuring both local and global perspectives - which examine Italian food in the United States, Australia and Israel - the book reveals the power of representations across historical, geographic, socio-economic, and cultural boundaries and asks if there is anything that makes Italy unique. An important contribution to our understanding of the enduring power of Italy, Italian culture and Italian food - both in Italy and beyond. Essential reading for students and scholars in food studies, Italian studies, media studies, and cultural studies"...

     
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  18. The Re-Enchantment of the world
    the value of spirit against Industrial Populism
    Author: Stiegler, Bernard
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, New York ; London

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9781441167347; 144116734X; 9781441150561; 1441150560
    RVK Categories: MS 6950
    Series: Philosophy, aesthetics and cultural theory
    Subjects: PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Industries / Social aspects; Technology / Social aspects; Philosophy: aesthetics; Array; Technologie; Sozialer Wandel; Ästhetik; Industrie
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    "Bernard Stiegler's work on the intimate relations between the human and the technical have made him one of the most important voices to have emerged in French philosophy in the last decade. At the same time both an accessible summation of that work and a continuation of it, The Re-Enchantment of the World advances a critique of consumer capitalism that draws on Freud and Marx to construct an utterly contemporary analysis of our time. The book explores the cognitive, affective, social and economic effects of the 'proletarianization' of the consumer in late capitalism and the resulting destruction of the consumer's savoir-vivre. Reflecting the collective work of his activist organisation, Ars Industrialis, Stiegler here sets forth an alternative path to that of 'industrial populism', one that appeals to the force of the human spirit. The Re-Enchantment of the World also includes the manifesto of Ars Industrialis and an account of the organisation's 2005 summit in Tunis"--

    "Influential French Philosopher Bernard Stiegler lays out his thinking on capitalism, technology and culture and his Ars Industrialis organisation"--
  19. Working across cultures
    applications and exercises
    Author: Gannon, Martin J.
    Published: c2001
    Publisher:  Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, Calif.

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    ISBN: 0761913386; 1452221928; 9780761913382; 9781452221922
    Subjects: Interkulturelles Management; Interkulturelles Verstehen; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Cross-cultural orientation; Culture / Research; Culture / Study and teaching; Social problems; Culture; Culture; Cross-cultural orientation; Social problems; Interkulturelles Management; Interkulturelle Kompetenz
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 143 p.)
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    1 - Understanding Cross-Cultural Differences -- - 2 - Dimensions of Culture: Part I -- - 3 - Dimensions of Culture: Part II -- - 4 - Cultural Metaphors -- - 5 - Cultures as Processes, Outcomes, and Emotional Expression -- - 6 - Sociolinguistics -- - 7 - Additional Behaviors Across Cultures -- - 8 - Cross-Cultural Negotiations -- - 9 - Metaphor in Depth: The German Symphony -- - 10 - Metaphor in Depth: The Japanese Garden -- - 11 - Training Videos and Web Sites

    Drawing from over 15 years of cross-cultural training experience, the author has assembled a diverse number of engaging exercises that can be quickly implemented with minimal effort. Self-administered questionnaires, case studies, culture-focused interviews, and pro and con debates are just a few of the wide range of activities to enrich the classroom
  20. Mal'uocchiu
    ambiguity, evil eye, and the language of distress
    Author: Migliore, Sam
    Published: c1997
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Ont.

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    ISBN: 1442676949; 9780802009593; 9780802079220; 9781442676947
    RVK Categories: LB 48605 ; LC 40255
    Series: Anthropological horizons ; 10
    Subjects: Mauvais œil; Mauvais œil / Italie / Sicile; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Evil eye; Evil eye; Evil eye; Böser Blick; Kommunikation; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 189 p.)
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  21. Breaking the disciplines
    reconceptions in knowledge, art, and culture
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  I.B. Tauris, London

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 1282528890; 1417557125; 1860649173; 9781282528895; 9781417557127; 9781860649172
    Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Knowledge, Sociology of; Interdisciplinair onderzoek; Cultuur; Onderzoeksmethoden; Ästhetik; Konzeption; Wissenssoziologie; Kultur; Knowledge, Sociology of; Ästhetik; Wissenssoziologie; Konzeption
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (248 pages)
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    The Imperative to Challenge Disciplinary Orthodoxy -- - Thinking Practice: On the concept of an ecology of knowledge - Martin L. Davies -- - Becoming Academics, Challenging the Disciplinarians: A philosophical case-study - Helen C. Chapman -- - Hybrid Objects/Hybrid Methods -- - Real Milk from Mechanical Cows: Invention, creativity and the limits of anthropological knowledge - Mark T. Shutes -- - Clockwork Prayer: A sixteenth-century mechanical monk - Elizabeth King -- - The Research Methods of an Artist-Ethnographer on the Congo Coast of Panama - Arturo Lindsay -- - Performance, Aesthetics and Knowledge -- - Word of Honour - Alphonso Lingis -- - Reconceptualizing a Pictorial Turn: Lessing, Hoffmann, Klee and elements of avant-garde language - Beate Allert -- - Practice as Thinking: Toward feminist aesthetics - Marsha Meskimmon
  22. Visual digital culture
    surface play and spectacle in new media genres
    Author: Darley, Andrew
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  Routledge, London

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  23. Buenos Aires
    perspectives on the city and cultural production
    Author: Foster, David William
    Published: ©1998
    Publisher:  University Press of Florida, Gainesville

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  24. Virginity revisited
    configurations of the unpossessed body
    Published: c2007
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto [Ont.]

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    ISBN: 0802090133; 1442685107; 9781442685109
    RVK Categories: NR 8783
    Series: Phoenix
    Subjects: Christentum; Geschichte; Gesellschaft; HISTORY / Medieval; Jungfräulichkeit; Jungfräulichkeit; Kultur; Motiv; Mythologie; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Virginité / Aspect social; Virginité / Histoire; Virginité / Mythologie; Virginité dans la littérature; Virginity; Virginity in literature; Virginity; Virginity; Jungfräulichkeit
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 204 p.)
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    Introduction / Bonnie MacLachlan -- The invention of virginity on Olympus / Eleanor Irwin -- The virgin choruses of Aeschylus / Judith Fletcher -- The Hippocratic Parthenos in sickness and health / Ann Ellis Hanson -- Why were the vestals virgins? Or the chastity of women and the safety of the Roman state / Holt N. Parker -- 'Only virgins can give birth to Christ': the Virgin Mary and the problem of female authority in late antiquity / Kate Cooper -- Virgo fortis: images of the crucified virgin saint in medieval art / Ilse Friesen -- Amplification of the virgin: play and empowerment in Walter of Wimborne's Marie Carmina / Jenifer Sutherland -- Christ from the head of Jupiter: an epistemological note on Huet's treatment of the Virgin Birth / Thomas Lennon -- 'Sew and snip, and patch together a genius': quilting a virginal identity in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace / Anne Geddes Bailey

    "Virginity Revisited is a collection of essays that examines virginity not as a physical reality but as a cultural artefact. By situating the topic of virginity within a range of historical 'moments' and using a variety of methodologies, Virginity Revisited illuminates how chastity provided a certain agency, autonomy, and power to women. This is a study of the positive and negative features of sexual renunciation, in ancient Greek divinities and mythical women, in Rome's Vestal Virgins, in the Christian martyrs and Mariology in the medieval and early modern period, and in Grace Marks, the heroine of Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace."--BOOK JACKET.
  25. Alternative voices
    (re)searching language, culture, identity--
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne

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    ISBN: 1443849987; 9781443849982
    Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Language and culture; Language and culture; Literatur; Kulturelle Identität; Sprache
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (411 pages)
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    This edited volume presents Alternative Voices in the contexts of present-day and historical globalisation, the emergence of the knowledge society, increased global-local or glocal migration flows, the explosion of social media, and disparate regional growth that have both impacted and shaped the sociocultural fabric of geopolitical spaces across the world. The volume builds upon twenty-seven contributions that focus upon issues related to language, culture and identity from a multidisciplina ..