Postcolonial theory is central to many scholarly debates around the world. Some of these debates have become rather sterile and are characterized by a repetitive reworking of old issues, focusing on cultural questions of language and identity in particular. Margaret A. Majumdar …
Postcolonial theory is central to many scholarly debates around the world. Some of these debates have become rather sterile and are characterized by a repetitive reworking of old issues, focusing on cultural questions of language and identity in particular. Margaret A. Majumdar …
Postcolonial theory is central to many scholarly debates around the world. Some of these debates have become rather sterile and are characterized by a repetitive reworking of old issues, focusing on cultural questions of language and identity in particular. Margaret A. Majumdar …
Handbook of the cultural foundations of learning
In this book Shepherd and Wicke make a bold and original contribution to the understanding of music as a form of human expression. They argue that music is fundamental to social life. Music is not merely a form of leisure or entertainment: it is central to the very formation and…
Cultural theory and popular culture: a reader
This is a companion volume to the fourth edition of 'Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction'. Its aim is to provide a map of the development of the study of popular culture across the field of cultural theory from the postdisciplinary perspective of cultural studie…
This is a companion volume to the fourth edition of 'Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction'. Its aim is to provide a map of the development of the study of popular culture across the field of cultural theory from the postdisciplinary perspective of cultural studie…
Culture and social theory
by Wildavsky, Aaron B., Swedlow, Brendon, Chai, Sun-KI, Lockhart, Charles
These essays use a common interpretive framework to show how economic and other concepts are socially constructed, how political philosophers and the workings of democracy can be understood, and how rational choice theories might be given wider application and greater discrimina…
Intellectually based on the work of anthropologist Mary Douglas, this volume presents a typology of five ways of life - egalitarianism, fatalism, individualism, hierarchy and autonomy - to serve as an analytic tool in examining people, culture and politics.