"Why is there currently such strong academic and popular interest in 'the body' in contemporary societies? What factors shape our conceptions of the body, its naturalness, health and normality? What is the mind-body dualism and why should it matter? This book examines these and …
4e de couv.: National Museums is the first book to explore the national museum as a cultural institution in a range of contrasting national contexts. Composed of new studies of countries that rarely make a showing in the English-language studies of museums, this book reveals how…
"Mandated to foster a sense of national cohesion The National Film Board of Canada's Still Photography Division was the country's official photographer during the mid-twentieth century. Like the Farm Security Administration and other agencies in the US, the NFB used photographs …
Qu'y a-t-il de commun entre les romans à énigmes de Dan Brown, thrillers ésotérico-religieux devenus best-sellers internationaux, et la masse des pamphlets d'extrême droite dénonçant des complots organisés par des puissances occultes ou semi-occultes visant à installer un "gouve…
Qu'y a-t-il de commun entre les romans à énigmes de Dan Brown, thrillers ésotérico-religieux devenus best-sellers internationaux, et la masse des pamphlets d'extrême droite dénonçant des complots organisés par des puissances occultes ou semi-occultes visant à installer un "gouve…
This volume continues the author's investigations into the differences among people within organizations in different cultures. The work represents a theory of self-presentation and face within a cross-cultural context and an approach ranging from the individual to the organizat…
Although the archaeology of food has long played an integral role in our understanding of past cultures, the archaeology of cooking is rarely integrated into models of the past. The cooks who spent countless hours cooking and processing food are overlooked and the forgotten play…
