Society & culture: general books

Drawing on rich empirical data from ethnography and digital ethnography, Contesting Chineseness: Nationality, Class,...  Read More >>

Through a detailed analysis of the films of Straub and Huillet, the works they adapted, and Objectivist poems and...  Read More >>

This collection of ten essays represents a new and significant contribution to the study of recipe books from the...  Read More >>

Zomia is a term coined in 2002 to describe the broad swath of mountainous land in Southeast Asia that has always...  Read More >>

This ethnography explores how Balinese citizens produce postcolonial intimacy-a complex interaction of claims to...  Read More >>

The contributions in this volume provide critical insights into how the changing state–civil society relationship...  Read More >>

This book focuses on cross-border marriages between mainland Chinese women and Hong Kong men, a phenomenon which...  Read More >>

A classic of great insight and profundity by noted Chinese thinker, educator and social reformist Liang Shuming,...  Read More >>

What was possible for a woman to achieve at an early modern court? By analysing the experiences of a wide range...  Read More >>

This book examines the intersection of translation and the culture of gift-giving in early modern England, arguing...  Read More >>

This is the first monograph systematically to apply modern principles of ecotheology to early medieval literature...  Read More >>

This study traces the socio-political effects of immigration on Singapore and its population, a topic that has been...  Read More >>

Consists of eleven essays that explore how artists have imaginatively engaged with this monumental human drama,...  Read More >>

This book examines the desire for, and intoxication with destruction as it appears in cultural objects and representation,...  Read More >>

This collection features cutting edge research by scholars across disciplines seeking to understand the role and...  Read More >>

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This volume focuses on the portant challenge of the less successful educational outcomes of second-generation migrants....  Read More >>

Drawing on ethnographic research conducted at Moscow's wholesale markets from 2013 to 2016, Vietnamese Migrants...  Read More >>

This book examines China's heritage practices since the 1990s heritage turn through diverse case studies using multiple...  Read More >>

This collection presents the Barrandov Studios as one of the largest and oldest film studios in Europe, the studio's...  Read More >>

This book critically examines the post-2003 popular protests in Iraq that resulted in thousands of civilian deaths...  Read More >>

Visual Culture of Post-Industrial Europe investigates visual cultural projects in Europe from the 1970s onwards...  Read More >>

This text explores issues related to the global crises of our time: reason, science, and the environment by revisiting...  Read More >>

This book examines performative interventions that can generate a re-imagining of local publics — both spatially...  Read More >>

This book provides a systematic overview of the global city debate and competing theoretical notions, as well as...  Read More >>