Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Anthropology - General

What implication does our perception of time have for how we view the world and how we understand history?

- Provides a guide to non-western conceptualisations of history (in Buddhism and the Australian Dreamtime), which is very rare in existing books.

- Has agenuinely comparative approach in which western empiricism is not assumed as the normal basis for doing history.

- Itts an extremely comprehensive historical survey - ranging from early religions to the contemporary world.

- Meshes together of debates from History, Philosophy and Theology to generate a new argument.

• Covers the entire history of American television, from its urban, middle-class beginnings in the late 40s, to the contemporary impact of new technologies and consolidated corporate.
  
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• Brings together work done in key areas of concern to cultural studies, including globalization, class analysis, media and representational politics, racism, sexism, and heterosexism.
  
• Juxtaposes major theoretical pieces with "micro-literatures" by activists, artists, and teachers who are striving hard to put theory into...

• Brings together work done in key areas of concern to cultural studies, including globalization, class analysis, media and representational politics, racism, sexism, and heterosexism.
  
• Juxtaposes major theoretical pieces with "micro-literatures" by activists, artists, and teachers who are striving hard to put theory into...

• Breaks new ground in an area of study that continues to be a central theme of debate and research across the humanities and social sciences
• Draws on ethnography as a useful means of exploring our everyday social and cultural environments
• Constitutes an important step in developing two key areas of study, the body and ethnography, and the relationship between them
• Brings together an...

• Collects articles that describe and analyze discourse and communication in several channels, including spoken, written, and signed.
  
• Considers various group organizations such as culture/subculture, gender,...

Magic, Simon During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During's superlative work, written over the course of a decade, gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How can the most ordinary arts--and by "magic," During means not the supernatural, but the special effects and conjurings of magic shows--affect people?

Modern Enchantments takes us deeply into the history and workings of modern secular magic, from the legerdemain of Isaac Fawkes in 1720, to the return of real magic in...