duke university press apr 2009 (8 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'In 'The Real Hiphop,' Marcyliena Morgan has written a brilliant account of the origins of hiphop and the process through which it is created and evolves, from its most elemental and raw forms into the highly processed and polished versions that have become the lingua franca of popular American culture over the past few decades. Using her considerable skills as an linguistic anthropologist, Morgan--the founder of the world's only hiphop archive--raises the analysis of hiphop to an entirely new level of scholarship, explicating it as a linguistic, sociological, and political phenomenon. This book is full of astonishing insights and subtle analysis. It is a must read for any student or scholar seeking to understand what is arguably the most important popular cultural phenomenon in the past thirty years.'--Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Analyzes the social and economic conditions--as well as the resistance to these conditions--of the masses of Korean workers in interwar Japan.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Approaches to the ownership of archaeological remains range from smug neocolonial assertions of entitlement to bitter recriminations against even well-intentioned scholars for their alleged (and often real) elision of contemporary local societies. In this unedifying rogues' gallery, a small but growing group of thoughtful exceptions stands out. Actively representative of the new and critically important trend, the authors of this highly original collection deploy a nuanced understanding of cosmopolitanism to challenge the old, easy assumptions and to suggest alternative, politically sensitized, and morally generous understandings. Theirs is an urgent call to accept the challenge of complexity, especially where cultural ethics are concerned. It is also a deeply serious call to rethink the place, indeed the value, of archaeology in a world where bigotry and violence still threaten the very future of humankind.'--Michael Herzfeld, author of 'Evicted from Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - ''Theodor W. Adorno: An Introduction' is a useful survey of Adorno's thought. It is concise, written in plain language, and focused on the most important topics and themes of the theorist's work. Gerhard Schweppenhauser gives basic background about the intellectual and historical context of Adorno's thought and writings, and he makes a convincing case for the internal coherence of a complex and at times apparently heterogeneous body of work.'--Uwe Steiner, Rice University.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An innovative cultural history of the evolution of modern marriage practices in Bengal, Marriage and Modernity challenges the assumption that arranged marriage is an antiquated practice. Rochona Majumdar demonstrates that in the late colonial period Bengali marriage practices underwent changes that led to a valorization of the larger, intergenerational family as a revered, 'ancient' social institution, with arranged marriage as the apotheosis of an 'Indian' tradition. She meticulously documents the ways that these newly embraced 'traditions'-the extended family and arranged marriage-entered into competition and conversation with other emerging forms of kinship such as the modern unit of the couple, with both models participating promiscuously in the new 'marketplace' for marriages, where matrimonial advertisements in the print media and the payment of dowry played central roles. Majumdar argues that together the kinship structures newly asserted as distinctively Indian and the emergence of the marriage market constituted what was and still is modern about marriages in India.Majumdar examines three broad developments related to the modernity of arranged marriage: the growth of a marriage market, concomitant debates about consumption and vulgarity in the conduct of weddings, and the legal regulation of family property and marriages. Drawing on matrimonial advertisements, wedding invitations, poems, photographs, legal debates, and a vast periodical literature, she shows that the modernization of families does not necessarily imply a transition from extended kinship to nuclear family structures, or from matrimonial agreements negotiated between families to marriage contracts between individuals. Colonial Bengal tells a very different story.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Leading anthropologists consider issues of truth, memory, and representation in the aftermath of genocides in the Balkans, Guatemala, Indonesia, East Timor, Germany, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Sudan.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'An extremely provocative and stimulating collection of essays, 'The Culture of Japanese Fascism 'canvasses a wide array of cultural forms--movies, novels, religious rites, material culture, monuments, and architecture--to show the ways that fascist aesthetics saturated a dispersed cultural field. By focusing on thought and culture, it helps us rethink the turn from modernism to fascism, to understand fascism's effects on everyday life, and to reconsider the reigning conceptions of fascist ideology.'--Louise Young, author of 'Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Analysis of political culture in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo during the first decades of the twentieth century, distinguishing ways in which the period's conflicts colored subsequent experiments in democratic and authoritarian rule.