"Analyses cultures of eating together in Malaysia and Singapore. It explores everyday spaces, such as street stalls, hawker centers, and coffee shops. Reflecting on these as sites for people's "different" culinary exchanges, the book captures resonances of national, ethnic, cosm…
"Analyses cultures of eating together in Malaysia and Singapore. It explores everyday spaces, such as street stalls, hawker centers, and coffee shops. Reflecting on these as sites for people's "different" culinary exchanges, the book captures resonances of national, ethnic, cosm…
Exploring intersections and alliances across the often competing categories of race, class, gender, and sexuality, Writing Women's Communities contributes to current public debates about multiculturalism, feminism, identity politics, the academy as a site of political activism, …
1. The market economy of love -- 2. The authenticity of online intimacy -- 3. The dateless and the desperate -- 4. Online deception, offline disaster -- 5. Seeking stimulation online -- 6. The quest for kink. The focus of this book is on the media representations of the use of …
Par l'analyse des fondements de la politesse, système régulateur des relations sociales, cet ouvrage offre une image renouvelée de la politesse et du savoir-vivre comme une des composantes de la citoyenneté.
Famous objects : treasures, trophies, and warrior power -- Grand spectacle : material culture and contingency -- The politics of sociability : gift giving and ritual performance -- Lordly sport : raptors, falconry, and the control of land -- Severed heads and salvaged swords : t…
This title investigates the significance of material culture and sociability in late 16th-century Japan, focusing in particular on the career and afterlife of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616), the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate. The story of Ieyasu illustrates the close ties betwe…
"In Spectacular Accumulation, Morgan Pitelka investigates the significance of material culture and sociability in late sixteenth-century Japan, focusing in particular on the career and afterlife of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616), the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate. The story of …
Author(s)Brown, JamesLanguageEnglishShow full item recordLiving in a networked world means never really getting to decide in any thoroughgoing way who or what enters your "space" (your laptop, your iPhone, your thermostat . . . your home). With this as a basic frame-of-reference…
