i Widely considered the most complex of human emotions, romantic love both shapes and reflects core societal values, its expression offering a window into the cultural zeitgeist. In popular culture, ...romantic love has long been a mainstay of film, television and music. The gap between fictitious narratives of love and real-life ones is, however, usually wide--American's expectations of romance and affection often transcend reality. Tracing the history of love in American culture, this book offers insight into both the national character and emotional nature.
Imaging and Imagining Palestine is the first comprehensive study of photography during the British Mandate period (1918–1948). It addresses well-known archives, photos from private collections never ...available before and archives that have until recently remained closed. This interdisciplinary volume argues that photography is central to a different understanding of the social and political complexities of Palestine in this period. While Biblical and Orientalist images abound, the chapters in this book go further by questioning the impact of photography on the social histories of British Mandate Palestine. This book considers the specific archives, the work of individual photographers, methods for reading historical photography from the present and how we might begin the process of decolonising photography. "Imaging and Imagining Palestine presents a timely and much-needed critical evaluation of the role of photography in Palestine. Drawing together leading interdisciplinary specialists and engaging a range of innovative methodologies, the volume makes clear the ways in which photography reflects the shifting political, cultural and economic landscape of the British Mandate period, and experiences of modernity in Palestine. Actively problematising conventional understandings of production, circulation and the in/stability of the photographic document, Imaging and Imagining Palestine provides essential reading for decolonial studies of photography and visual culture studies of Palestine." - Chrisoula Lionis, author of Laughter in Occupied Palestine: Comedy and Identity in Art and Film. "Imaging and Imagining Palestine is the first and much needed overview of photography during the British Mandate period. From well-known and accessible photographic archives to private family albums, it deals with the cultural and political relations of the period thinking about both the Western perceptions of Palestine as well as its modern social life. This book brings together an impressive array of material and analyses to form an interdisciplinary perspective that considers just how photography shapes our understanding of the past as well as the ways in which the past might be reclaimed." - Jack Persekian, Founding Director of Al Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art in Jerusalem. "Imaging and Imagining Palestine draws together a plethora of fresh approaches to the field of photography in Palestine. It considers Palestine as a central node in global photographic production and the ways in which photography shaped the modern imaging and imagining from within a fresh regional theoretical perspective." - Salwa Mikdadi, Director al Mawrid Arab Center for the Study of Art, New York University Abu Dhabi. Readership: Anyone interested in the Middle East, Palestinian history, history of photography, Middle Eastern visual culture, religious and Orientalist imaging, decolonising photography, cultural studies, and cultural histories.
Drawing on twenty years of research, this book examines the
historical perspective of a Pacific people who saw "globalization"
come and go. Suau people encountered the leading edge of
missionization ...and colonialism in Papua New Guinea and were active
participants in the Second World War. In Memory of Times to
Come offers a nuanced account of how people assess their own
experience of change over the course of a critical century. It asks
two key questions: What does it mean to claim that global
connections are in the past rather than the present or the future,
and what does it mean to claim that one has lost one's culture, but
not because anyone else took it away or destroyed it?
The book is based on long-term ethnographic research in the Polish-Belarusian borderland. It examines the dynamics of symbolic boundaries between the Catholic and Orthodox believers in their everyday ...lives. By analyzing the space of local cemeteries, rituals, and attitudes related to death, eating practices, and food sharing, the author points to the changing sense of ethnic identity and the feeling of familiarity and otherness. Confessionally mixed neighborhoods and families enable different forms of religious bivalency and become a crucial factor in bridging and crossing ethnic boundaries. Socio-cultural norms and social relations shape the ethnic identity of the borderland’s residents more than the institutional frames of both churches.
Every day Roman urbanites took to the street for myriad tasks, from hawking vegetables and worshipping local deities to simply loitering and socializing. Hartnett takes readers into this thicket of ...activity as he repopulates Roman streets with their full range of sensations, participants, and events that stretched far beyond simple movement. As everyone from slave to senator met in this communal space, city dwellers found unparalleled opportunities for self-aggrandizing display and the negotiation of social and political tensions. Hartnett charts how Romans preened and paraded in the street, and how they exploited the street's collective space to lob insults and respond to personal rebukes. Combining textual evidence, comparative historical material, and contemporary urban theory with architectural and art historical analysis, The Roman Street offers a social and cultural history of urban spaces that restores them to their rightful place as primary venues for social performance in the ancient world.
Named 2022 Book of the Year by the Chicago Writers Association Through ancient temples and the lush greenery of Thailand, to the confines of a stranger's bed and a devouring couch, This Jade World ...chronicles a year of mishap, exploration and experimentation, self-discovery, and eventually healing.
Border culture emerges through the intersection and engagement
of imagination, affinity and identity.
It is evident wherever boundaries separate or sort people and
their goods, ideas or other ...belongings. It is the vessel of
engagement between countries and peoples-assuming many forms,
exuding a variety of expressions, changing shapes-but border
culture does not disappear once it is developed, and it may be
visualized as a thread that runs throughout the process of
globalization.
Border culture is conveyed in imaginaries and productions that
are linked to borderland identities constructed in the borderlands.
These identities underlie the enforcement of control and resistance
to power that also comprise border cultures.
Canada's borders in globalization offer an opportunity to
explore the interplay of borders and culture, identify the
fundamental currents of border culture in motion, and establish an
approach to understanding how border culture is placed and replaced
in globalization.
Published in English.
Society of others Stasch, Rupert
2009., 20090503, 2009, 2009-06-02, 20090101
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This important study upsets the popular assumption that human relations in small-scale societies are based on shared experience. In a theoretically innovative account of the lives of the Korowai of ...West Papua, Indonesia, Rupert Stasch shows that in this society, people organize their connections to each another around otherness. Analyzing the Korowai people's famous "tree house" dwellings, their patterns of living far apart, and their practices of kinship, marriage, and childbearing and rearing, Stasch argues that the Korowai actively make relations not out of what they have in common, but out of what divides them. Society of Others, the first anthropological book about the Korowai, offers a picture of Korowai lives sharply at odds with stereotypes of "tribal" societies.
In his poser, 'Cross-Fertilising Roots and Routes: Ethnicity, Socio-Cultural Regeneration and Planetary Realisations,' Ananta Kumar Giri (2017) employs the notions of roots and routes to show ...possibilities to address problems of politics, culture, and society stemming from nationalist and ethnic self-assertion within a globalised and transmodern world. Specifically, he is interested in avoiding the common pitfalls of violence and absolutism in the processes of political, social and cultural mobilisation predicated upon ideas of ethnicity and nation.
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