Cultural Studies
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South Sea Island: Geography of Pleasure [Hardback]
Frits Andersen (Author)
£46.00ISBN: 9788771849134
Published by : Aarhus University Press
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South Sea Island. The Geography of Pleasure is a literary history of European, Russian and American travelogues, films, paintings, philosophical treatises, all fascinated by the Polynesian islands. Our ideas of nature, growth and sustainability ar... .... Learn More -
Region Out of Place: The Brazilian Northeast and the World, 1924-1968 [Hardback]
Courtney J. Campbell (Author)
£43.00ISBN: 9780822946212
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Latin American Series
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Central Asia: Context for Understanding [Hardback]
David Montgomery (Editor)
£56.00ISBN: 9780822946786
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Central Eurasia in Context
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Central Asia is a diverse and complex region of the world often characterized in the West as being difficult to access. Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding offers the most comprehensive introduction to the region available. Combining thematic... .... Learn More -
Wearables 01: Magazine on Wearable Heritage [Paperback]
Jolanda Bos (Editor)
£20.00ISBN: 9789492940179
Published by : Blikvelduitgevers Publishers
Series: Wearables
Volume: 1
Wearables is an annual magazine edition, attractively illustrated, bringing together a variety of ethnographic topics on costume and jewellery traditions, placed in their cultural setting. .... Learn More -
African Dolls: A Private Collection [Hardback]
Jan Wychers (Author); Jolanda Bos (Author)
£27.00ISBN: 9789492940162
Published by : Blikvelduitgevers Publishers
Series: The Private Collection Series
Volume: 1
This private collection of African dolls, sometimes spontaneously decorated with beadwork, are witnesses of people's hopes and beliefs. The book is richly illustrated with overviews and detailed photographs of the objects and, apart from a descrip... .... Learn More -
Arab and Jewish Women in Kentucky: Stories of Accommodation and Audacity [Paperback]
Nora Rose Moosnick (Author)
£19.00ISBN: 9780813154602
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History Series
Outwardly it would appear that Arab and Jewish immigrants comprise two distinct groups with differing cultural backgrounds and an adversarial relationship. Yet, as immigrants who have settled in communities at a distance from metropolitan areas, b... .... Learn More -
Journal of the Himalayan Institute of Cultural Heritage Studies [Paperback]
Sonali Gupta (Editor)
£22.00ISBN: 9789492940186
Published by : Blikvelduitgevers Publishers
Series: Journal of the Himalayan Institute of Cultural and Heritage Studies
Volume: 1
The Journal of the Himalayan Institute of Cultural and Heritage Studies is an endeavor to include research oriented articles on the Himalayas from different sections of academia which includes and is not limited to archaeology, anthropolo... .... Learn More -
The Assault on Elisha Green: Race and Religion in a Kentucky Community [Hardback]
Randolph Paul Runyon (Author)
£24.00ISBN: 9780813152387
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
On June 8, 1883, Rev. Elisha Green was traveling by train from Maysville to Paris, Kentucky, when about forty students from the Millersburg Female College crowded onto the train at Millersburg accompanied by George T. Gould, the school's president... .... Learn More -
Drowned Town [Hardback]
Jayne Moore Waldrop (Author)
£18.00ISBN: 9781950564156
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
"They had been told their sacrifice was for the public good. They were never told how much they would miss it, or for how long."
Drowned Town explores the multigenerational impact caused by the loss of home and illuminates the joys and so... .... Learn More -
That's Entertainment: Spectacle, Amusement, and Leisure Culture [Paperback]
Michele Fadda (Editor); Sara Pesce (Editor)
£23.00ISBN: 9788869771798
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Out of Series
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The 20th century witnessed the collapse of the traditional separation between the realm of 'official' culture and that of 'popular' entertainment. This event produced dramatic consequences at all levels of social life in the West, especially in th... .... Learn More
