The three essays, independently written and richly armored with tables, figures, and appendices, do not present a common front on Morocco (though at times they tend at least stylistically to appropriate the field). They are all based on intensive anthropological fieldwork in and…
Middletown: a study in American culture
by Lynd, Robert Staughton, Lynd, Helen Merrell
fromHarvest book
"The pioneer study in depth, now classic, of the day-by-day life of a typical, mid-continent American urban community at the quarter-century mark. In his Foreword, Clark Wissler calls it "a pioneer attempt to deal with a sample American community after the manner of social anthr…
This is a revisionist study of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century rural origins of modern Egypt, dealing with the first phase of the rise of the modern state and the country's incorporation into the world economy. Professor Cuno uses previously underexploited sources - court…
This book is dedicated to the notion that human lives are enriched by participation in a social community that is integrated into the natural landscape of a particular place. The writers explore the loss of community, the philosophical foundations of communities, Amish communiti…
Literatuuropgave : p. 174-186. Met reg. Review and synthesis of the literature on the social organization and interpretation of media culture and the arts. Based on the premise that recorded cultures, such as film, television, literature, drama, music, and the plastic arts, cann…
How does the media shape and frame culture? How does media entertainment vary under different conditions of production and consumption? What types of meanings and ideologies do these modes of production convey and how do they change over time? How does media culture differ from …
The phrase `production of culture' is concerned with how the organizations in which culture is produced and disseminated affect the nature of culture itself. Yet there is no clear consensus on what is meant by this phrase. Crane, in reviewing and synthesizing current research, p…
Leila Ahmed brengt met dit boek een eigenzinnige bijdrage aan het debat over vrouwen en islam. Zij doet dit vanuit historisch perspectief, door ontwikkelingen te beschrijven in het islamitisch discours over vrouw en sekse vanaf de Oudste Tijden tot nu. Centraal staat de vraag of…
This book addresses contemporary geographical issues in the Mediterranean Basin from a perspective that recognizes the physical characteristics & cultural interactions which link the different Mediterranean states as a known geographic entity.
