Nationalkaraktär

Images of the North: histories, identities, ideas

by Sverrir Jakobsson

fromStudia imagologica

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"This interdisciplinary volume seeks to examine and explore the various issues surrounding image construction, identity making and representations of the North, as well as the interconnectedness between those issues. The aim is to elucidate the multiple aspects of the idea of th…

American civil religion: what Americans hold sacred

by Gardella, Peter

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"The United States has never had an officially established national church. Since the time of the first British colonists, it has instead developed a strong civil religion that melds God and nation. In a deft exploration of American civil religious symbols -- from the Liberty Be…

Angels in America: a gay fantasia on national themes

by Kushner, Tony

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"This new edition of Tony Kushner's masterpiece is published with the author's recent changes and a new introduction in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of its original production. One of the most honored American plays in history, Angels in America was awarded two Tony …

The Punic Mediterranean: identities and identification from Phoenician set…

fromBritish School at Rome studies

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The role of the Phoenicians in the economy, culture and politics of the ancient Mediterranean was as large as that of the Greeks and Romans, and deeply interconnected with that 'Classical' world, but their lack of literature and their Oriental associations mean that they are muc…

Becoming Turkish: nationalist reforms and cultural negotiations in …

by Yılmaz, Hale

fromModern intellectual and political history of the Middle East

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This book examines the modernist nation-building processes in post-Ottoman Turkey through a perspective that stresses social and cultural dimensions and everyday negotiations of the Kemalist reforms. Drawing on archival evidence and oral interviews, the author asks how the refor…

Ambition, a history: from vice to virtue

by King, Casey, (William Casey)

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This book explores ambition's transformation, tracing attitudes from classical antiquity to early modern Europe to the New World and America's founding.

Family trees: a history of genealogy in America

by Weil, François

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The quest for roots has been an enduring American preoccupation. Over the centuries, generations have sketched coats of arms, embroidered family trees, establish local genealogical societies, and carefully filled in the blanks in their Bibles, all in pursuit of self-knowledge an…

The cultural politics of nationalism and nation-building: ritual and performance in the forging of nations

by Woods, Eric Taylor, Tsang, Rachel

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"The role of performance and rituals is central to the study of nationalism and ethnicity. This book explores, debates and evaluates the role of rituals and performances in the emergence, persistence and transformation of nations, nationalisms and national identity"--

Japanese beyond words: how to walk and talk like a native speaker

by Horvat, Andrew

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Japanese Beyond Words How to Walk and Talk Like a Native Speaker Andrew Horvat Lively anecdotes and smart observations on over 70 often-overlooked areas of physical and situational communication in Japanese (gestures, bowing, humor, visiting, socializing, disagreeing). This mate…

Return from the natives: how Margaret Mead won the Second World War and lo…

by Mandler, Peter

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Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and '30s, was determined to show that anthropology could tackle the psychology of the most complex, modern societies in ways useful for waging the Second World War. Thi…

National museums: new studies from around the world

by Knell, Simon J.

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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 these nation…