The Hangover after the Handover (Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines, #25)
by Helena Y.W. Wu
As a former British colony (1842-1997) and then a Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong has witnessed at all times how relations are formed, dissolved and refashioned amidst changing powers, identities and narratives, given the many names it possessed over the course of history, from 'Barren Rock', 'Fragrant Harbour', 'Port of Incense', 'Pearl of the Orient', 'Asia's World City', 'Vertical City', 'Floating City' to 'City at the End of Time' among others.In the post-handover, post-hangover yea...
Remembering Diana: Cultural Memory and the Reinvention of Authority
by Victor Jeleniewski Seidler
Reading Sport begins with an insightful introduction by the editors that provides theoretical frameworks and analytical tools for reading sport. The selections that follow critically examine how the complexities and intersections of power are reflected in particular high-profile incidents and celebrity athletes. Included are such figures as Dennis Rodman, Nolan Ryan, Michael Jordan, Nancy Lopez, O.J. Simpson, Renee Richards, Nancy Kerrigan, and Tonya Harding. Taken together, the essays demonst...
Respublica Guelpherbytana (Chloe, #6)
The Mediated Myth of Lin Zexu - Social and Cultural Textures of Chinese Society (Culture & Theory)
The Chinese scholar-official Lin Zexu played a crucial role in the First Opium War in the 19th century. Since 1978, the myth surrounding the historical figure is used to legitimise current rulers' political power, to celebrate dominant values, and to promote a certain associated way of life. By analysing Chinese media representations of the myth of Lin Zexu, Angelo Maria Cimino identifies the social and cultural significance of a mediated historical knowledge. He examines cultural products such...
Reading the iPod as an Anthropological Artifact (Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology)
by Lane DeNicola
"The Anthropology of Stuff" is part of a new Series dedicated to innovative, unconventional ways to connect undergraduate students and their lived concerns about our social world to the power of social science ideas and evidence. Our goal with the project is to help spark social science imaginations and in doing so, new avenues for meaningful thought and action. Each "Stuff" title is a short (100 page) "mini text" illuminating for students the network of people and activities that create their...
Musicologist Tawna presents a portrait of how various strata of Americans encountered, performed, and enjoyed music from the dawn of the 19th century to the Civil War. Relying on letters, memoirs, interviews, and other primary sources, he explores settings from the opera house to the saloon and disc
Listening for the Secret (Studies in the Grateful Dead, #1)
by Ulf Olsson
Listening for the Secret is a critical assessment of the Grateful Dead and the distinct culture that grew out of the group's music, politics, and performance. With roots in popular music traditions, improvisation, and the avant-garde, the Grateful Dead provides a unique lens through which we can better understand the meaning and creation of the counterculture community. Marshaling the critical and aesthetic theories of Adorno, Benjamin, Foucault and others, Ulf Olsson places the music group with...
From the author of YES YOU CAN, a fun collection of art and advice culled from government and school citizenship publications from the 1950s-'60s. Brief introduction explaining the Good Citizen concept (that by obeying even minor laws and social conventions we're better people, living in a better country, in a better world) and then the art/advice, divided into chapters starting with Citizenship Starts with You and then The Good Citizen. At Home, In the Family, At Work and School, In the Neighbo...
Wa(h)Re Archaologie: Die Medialisierung Archaologischen Wissens Im Spannungsfeld Von Wissenschaft Und Offentlichkeit
by Marco Kircher
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the YearWhen Duncan Wall visited his first nouveau cirque as a college student in Paris, everything about it—the monochromatic costumes, the acrobats singing Simon and Garfunkel, the juggler reciting Proust—hooked him. Soon he was attending circuses two or three nights a week, and soon after that, he entered the intensively competitive training program at France’s École Nationale des Arts du Cirque. The Ordinary Acrobat is a magical, funny, sometimes scar...
Digitale Korper, Geschlechtlicher Raum: Das Medizinisch Imaginare Des -Visible Human Project-
by Claudia Reiche