Anthropology: Showing 1 to 22 of 22 results where the Subjects is Cultural Studies sorted by Newest to oldest

Critically Capitalist

The Spirit of Asset Capitalism in South Korea

By Bohyeong Kim
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, Asian Studies, Korea, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Cultural Studies
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

An ethnography of South Korea’s lay investors and aspiring millionaires that demonstrates how South Korea’s capitalism thrives on its critiques

Pleasure Grounds of Death

The Rural Cemetery in Nineteenth-Century America

By Joy M. Giguere
Subjects: American Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, History, American History, Cultural Studies, Class Studies

Revealing how landscapes dedicated to the perpetual care of the dead mirrored the transformations and conflicts of the nineteenth century in American society

Singing the Land

Hebrew Music and Early Zionism in America

By Eli Sperling
Subjects: Foreign Language, Modern Hebrew, Jewish Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Music, Ethnomusicology, Diaspora Studies

How song shaped American Zionism

Sounding Dissent

Rebel Songs, Resistance, and Irish Republicanism

By Stephen Millar
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Irish Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

In Belfast’s rebel music scene, Irish republican musicians and audiences engage in ritualized resistance against the British state

The Resonance of Unseen Things

Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny

By Susan Lepselter
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies, American Studies

An interdisciplinary study of how conspiracy theories and stories persist and resonate among different Americans

Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba

By Ruth Behar
Subjects: Caribbean Studies, Latin American Studies, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Literary Studies

An anthology by Cuban and Cuban-American writers, artists, and scholars celebrating a new era of restored relations between Cuba and the U.S.

Cultural Struggles

Performance, Ethnography, Praxis

By Dwight Conquergood
Edited by E. Patrick Johnson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, American Studies

Gathers the essential essays of Dwight Conquergood, performance studies scholar, ethnographer, and activist

Visualizing Secularism and Religion

Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, India

Edited by Alev Cinar & Srirupa Roy
By Maha Yahya
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies

An investigation of the role of religion in the formation of secular-national public spheres in the Middle East and South Asia

My Life as a Night Elf Priest

An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft

By Bonnie Nardi
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Media Studies, New Media, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology
Series: Technologies of the Imagination: New Media in Everyday Life

An anthropologist's analysis of one of the world's most popular online world games

Sensual Relations

Engaging the Senses in Culture and Social Theory

By David Howes
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies

Offers a full-bodied approach to the study of culture in which each sense serves as a potent register of meaning

The Troubles in Ballybogoin

Memory and Identity in Northern Ireland

By William F. Kelleher
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies

A fascinating exploration of how social memory serves to hinder communication and foster disorder in Northern Ireland

Human Rights

Concepts, Contests, Contingencies

Edited by Austin Sarat & Thomas R. Kearns
Subjects: Law, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Political Science
Series: Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought

Brings together essays that examine contestation and contingency in today's human rights politics

The Future of Class in History

What's Left of the Social?

By Geoff Eley & Keith Nield
Subjects: History, Historical Methods and Theory, American Studies, German Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science, Political History, Class Studies

In the struggle between "social" and "cultural" thinking, the refusal to choose sides can be a radical and vital move

The Jesuit and the Incas

The Extraordinary Life of Padre Blas Valera, S.J.

By Sabine Hyland
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Studies, History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Series: History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds

The story of the life and untimely death of a persecuted priest in colonial Peru and the controversy over mysterious, recently discovered documents about him

Altering States

Ethnographies of Transition in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Edited by Daphne Berdahl, Matti Bunzl, and Martha Lampland
Subjects: Anthropology, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Cultural Studies, Political Science, Comparative Politics

Analyzes the social and cultural aspects of transition