Cultures

What do Mesoamerica, Greece, Byzantium, Island, Chad, Ethiopia, India, Tibet, China and Japan have in common? Like many other cultures of the world, they share a particular form of cultural heritage:

An interdisciplinary collection exploring the practices and cultures of mapping in the arts, humanities and social sciences. It features contributions from scholars in critical cartography, social ant

Bridging Cultures explores the experiences of international women faculty as they acculturate to the US academy. In a series of memoirs, these women reflect on their gendered personal experiences as “

Crossing Cultures brings together scholars in the field of reception and translation studies to chart the individual and institutional agencies that determined the reception of Anglophone authors in t

This groundbreaking book is the first comparative analysis of the relative strengths of global bioregions. Growth Cultures investigates the rapidly growing phenomena of biotechnology and sets this stu

Asian Celebrity Cultures in the Digital Age represents the first comprehensive study on the transformations of celebrity cultures in increasingly globalised and digitalised Asian societies. It discusses relations between Asian celebrities and digital media across emerging phenomena in celebrity practices, cultures, politics, fandom, and economies. Highlighting original case studies from prominent Asian societies, including India, China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea, and Japan, this book sheds much-needed light on the de-Westernisation and internationalisation of celebrity studies and is essential reading for scholars and students in celebrity, fandom, digital media and communication, and cultural studies.

★ 橫跨歐亞非的文明之路，一本看懂「絲綢之路」如何改變世界★ 超過80位國際學者聯手，權威解析古代全球交流網絡★ 地圖×影像×考古×文化，重現人類歷史最壯闊的連結當世界重新思考文化與權力的版圖，「絲綢之路」再次成為理解歷史與未來的關鍵。本書由知名學者Susan Whitfield主編，集結全球八十餘位專家，從草原、山脈、河谷到沙漠與海洋，重建這條橫跨歐亞非的古代交流網絡。商品、信仰、科技與思想在此流動，促成文明的碰撞與融合。透過精緻地圖、豐富影像與考古發現，本書不僅呈現歷史，更帶領讀者看見文化如何在差異之中綻放。這不只是過去的故事，更是理解當代世界的重要線索。As world powers realign their cultural, economic and political outlooks, there is no better time to consider how Afro-Eurasia's complex network of ancient trade routes - which spanned the vastness of the steppe, vertiginous mountain ranges, fertile river plains and forbidding deserts across the continents and on to the seas beyond - fostered economic activity and cultural, political and technological communication. From silk to slaves, fashion to music, religion to science the movement of interaction of goods, people and ideas was crucial to the flourishing of peoples and their cultures across this vast region. Edited by Susan Whitfield, an established authority on the subject, with contributions from over 8

Introduces indigenous Australian cultures; discusses important beliefs, traditions, and customs; and explores how the cultures are changing in the twenty-first century.

Introduces Native American cultures; discusses important beliefs, traditions, and customs; and explores how the cultures are changing in the twenty-first century.

Meeting Place: Encounters across Cultures in Hong Kong, 1841–1984 presents detailed empirical studies of day-to-day interactions between people of different cultures in a variety of settings. The broa

This new textbook explores communication in international management, Communication Across Cultures provides a comprehensive overview of the field, summarizing the key theoretical perspectives and in

Different cultures experience happiness differently. Traditionally, the West is considered materialistic, and happiness is said to come from achievement and acquisition. The East is said to be more pe

Crossroads and Cultures: A History of the World’s Peoples incorporates the best current cultural history into a fresh and original narrative that connects global patterns of development with life on t

"This book examines the rhetorical strategy of using hybrid narratives, which permits an author to bridge cultures via literary technique. Strategies covered include multilingualism, magical realism,

Global market competition and the political responses to globalization transform urban societies and states, and thus the cultures of capital cities in contemporary Europe. Vienna’s cultural district

International migrations have become a central topic in the humanitiesin the last years. The present volume brings together anumber of essays exploring the cultures of migration in variouscontexts. It

New Media Cultures provides a comprehensive analysis of the value of cultural studies in the face of new media, and the changes necessary for cultural studies to tackle the issues that new media prese

Surfing, punk rock, "Dawson's Creek, " teen movies, MTV, and S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders" are among the many popular cultural texts examined in "American Youth Cultures." The ten essays gathered here

Nineteen essays written by anthropologists, physicians, community health specialists, historians, sociologists, and others address medical knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside the United States a

In Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities, John Wei brings light to the germination and movements of queer cultures and social practices in today’s China and Sinophone Asia. While many scholars attribu

‘South Asian Media Cultures’ examines a wide range of media cultures and practices from across South Asia, using a common set of historical, political and theoretical engagements.? In the context of s

Simon Featherstone's Postcolonial Cultures is a clearly written introduction to the study of postcolonial cultures, and it broadens the reach of postcolonial theory and criticism. The book covers cur

Smartphone Cultures explores emerging questions about the ways in which this mobile technology and its apps have been produced, represented, regulated and incorporated into everyday social practices,

Since the initial publication of Cultures@SiliconValley fourteen years ago, much has changed in Silicon Valley. The corporate landscape of the Valley has shifted, with tech giants like Google, Faceboo

Since the initial publication of Cultures@SiliconValley fourteen years ago, much has changed in Silicon Valley. The corporate landscape of the Valley has shifted, with tech giants like Google, Faceboo

In this volume, edited by Kringelbach (U. of Oxford, England) and Skinner (Queen's U. Belfast, Northern Ireland), anthropologists engage with dance through three themes: dance and globalization; touri

A Journey Through Cultures addresses one of the hottest topics in contemporary HCI: cultural diversity amongst users. For a number of years the HCI community has been investigating alternatives to enh

This anthology focuses on empirical studies comparing cultures in relation to central positive psychological topics. The book starts out with an introductory chapter that brings together the main idea

Arguing that the rise of the digital world is on par with the historical role of religion in society, Doueihi, a professor of literature at the Univeriste Laval, Quebec, presents this discussion of th

This book offers an insight into the complex spatial and social realities of globalization, from city-like informal markets in Moscow and the post-war self-urbanization in Kosovo to the border economi

"Economists agree about many things--contrary to popular opinion--but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought." So begins the first chapter of Cultu

The term culture in its anthropological sense did not enter the American lexicon with force until after 1910—more than a century after Herder began to use it in Germany and another thirty years after

The guitar is one of the most evocative instruments in the world. It features in music as diverse as heavy metal, blues, indie and flamenco, as well as Indian classical music, village music making in

Other Cultures

Debating the practices of museums, galleries, and festivals, Exhibiting Cultures probes the often politically charged relationships among aesthetics, contexts, and implicit assumptions that govern how

在第二次世界大戰之前，”禮義之邦”不接受中西婚姻，不論是在英國還是中國。Kong確實於1881年與倫敦的Alice Walkden結婚。有人認為這是有史以來第一次英中婚姻。儘管已經有一些關黑人嫁給白人的消息，而白人與巴基斯坦結婚等等，幾乎沒有關於西方人嫁給中國人的文章。由丹·沃特斯（Dan Waters）博士研究和撰寫，他以自身經歷過半個世紀這樣的婚姻，《One Couple Two Cultur

A major new edition of the classic work that revolutionized the way business is conducted across cultures and around the globe. It provides leaders and managers with practical strategies to embrace di

In the wide-ranging and innovative essays of Cultures in Motion, a dozen distinguished historians offer new conceptual vocabularies for understanding how cultures have trespassed across geography and