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| Author | : Michał Mokrzan |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 206 |
| Release | : 2024-06-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1805395416 |
Ethnographic research, anthropological theory, and the understanding of the objects of inquiry, are co-created through figuration (using tropes and rhetorical figures) and techniques of persuasion. Delving into descriptive ethnography and theoretical texts spanning across classical monographs and recent texts in cultural anthropology, Culture Figures places rhetoric and rhetoricity as central to the discipline’s self-understanding. It focuses on how understandings of ‘culture’ and social life are shaped and conveyed in cultural anthropology through textual rhetoric. The book demonstrates how processes of using tropes and modes of persuasion underlie the creation of meanings or misunderstandings in society.
| Author | : Francis Mulhern |
| Publisher | : Verso Books |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2016-02-16 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1784781932 |
A bold new vision of the modern English novel The leading critic Francis Mulhern uncovers a hidden history in the fiction of the past century, identifying a central new genre: the condition of culture novel. Reading across and against the grain of received patterns of literary association, tracing a line from Hardy and Forster, through Woolf, Waugh and Bowen, to Barstow, Fowles, Rendell, Naipaul, Amis, Kureishi and Smith, he elucidates the recurring topics and narrative logics of the genre, showing how culture emerges as a special ground of social conflict, above all between classes. The narrative evaluations of culture’s ends—the aspirations and the destinies of those whose lives are the subject of these novels—grow steadily darker over time, and the writing itself grows more introverted. A concluding discussion elicits the characteristics of the English condition of culture novel, in an international setting, and closes in, finally, on the central conundrum of the genre: its uncanny reprise, in its own plane, of the historical arc of the modern labour movement in Britain, from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century through its post-war heyday to the seemingly inexorable decline of recent decades.
| Author | : Konstantinos Blatanis |
| Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780838640081 |
The discussion addresses the task of theater images in a cultural field where the real is mistaken for its reflection, originality constantly played against seriality, at a moment when simulacra, clones, and emulations of selves and texts become firmly established as the norm. The accommodation of pop icons on stage and the results this framing yields constitute this work's primary interests and aims."--Jacket.
| Author | : Marcella Bremer |
| Publisher | : Publishdrive |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023-11-16 |
| Genre | : Job enrichment |
| ISBN | : 9789081982542 |
Do you need your team or organization to be more engaged, innovative, competitive, agile, collaborative and productive? Can you contribute anything to a positive culture at work? Well, you can do more than you might think, as shown both by research and practice! Whether you are a leader, a consultant, or an employee. That's what Marcella Bremer shows in her book "Developing a Positive Culture where People and Performance Thrive".Positive organizations are better at change, more innovative, competitive, profitable, and also contributing more to the world. We can thrive at work, achieve extraordinary performance and make a meaningful contribution. This is a pragmatic and well-researched book on organizational culture change with a foreword by Kim Cameron. Marcella focuses on what you can personally do to create a (more) positive culture where people and performance thrive. Based on renowned models and theories but with hands-on tips to be the change you wish to see on your team. Whether you use Interaction Interventions or Change Circles, you can develop a positive culture where people and performance thrive. If you influence one person, one interaction at a time, you contribute to positive change! Marcella Bremer MScBA works on more positive impact for organizations, people, performance, profit, planet. Develop a positive organizational culture with purpose and impact. She is the co-founder of the culture survey website https: //www.ocai-online.com and the online Positive Culture Academy at https: //www.marcellabremer.com/academy/ Her blog to inspire is at https: //www.marcellabremer.com/blog/
| Author | : Erin Meyer |
| Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2014-05-27 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1610392590 |
An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this insightful and practical guide, perfect for both your work and personal life. Americans precede anything negative with three nice comments; French, Dutch, Israelis, and Germans get straight to the point; Latin Americans and Asians are steeped in hierarchy; Scandinavians think the best boss is just one of the crowd. It's no surprise that when they try and talk to each other, chaos breaks out. In The Culture Map, INSEAD professor Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain in which people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together. She provides a field-tested model for decoding how cultural differences impact international business, and combines a smart analytical framework with practical, actionable advice.
| Author | : Thomas R. Rochon |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2018-06-05 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0691186715 |
Some periods in history are marked by stability in cultural values; at other times, values undergo rapid change. How and why do cultural transformations, such as those affecting race and gender relations, take place? How does one value win acceptance in society when there are conflicting values competing for attention? In Culture Moves, Thomas Rochon addresses this complex process and develops a theory to explain both how values originate and how they spread. In particular, he analyzes the crucial role that small communities of critical thinkers play in developing new ideas and inspiring their dissemination through larger social movements. Rochon develops this theory by drawing from such sources as survey research, content analysis of the mass media, and historical accounts. He focuses mainly on contemporary issues in the United States--such as feminism, civil rights, and environmentalism--but also discusses cases ranging from the French Revolution to the abolition of slavery. He explores the cultural niches--typically universities and research institutes--where new ideas and values evolve and then traces how these ideas play out in society through movements that may have little formal structure. Attention in the media, he argues, is often a deciding move in the contest over public opinion. This book will fundamentally revise how we understand the process of social change and what the prospects are for particular culture moves in the future.
| Author | : William Winlow |
| Publisher | : Frontiers Media SA |
| Total Pages | : 150 |
| Release | : 2019-11-04 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 2889631451 |
There is an emerging view, supported by animal welfare legislation in a number of countries, that some advanced invertebrates are self-aware, sentient beings with the ability to feel pain. Sentience must encompass elements of time and neural complexity, including memory and learning, which leads us to ask: At what convergent point in the evolution of nervous systems does the subjective sensation of pain arise? Here we start to grapple with this issue, particularly with regard to arthropods and cephalopod molluscs, and to consider the most appropriate ways of anesthetizing them to minimize pain wherever possible. We also report on the development of cell culture techniques to understand the actions of the anesthetics being used. A better understanding of sentient creatures, other than ourselves, may eventually assist future development of artificial intelligence, particularly if we are able to perceive whatever common neural features underlie sentience in those animals that possess it.
| Author | : Carsten Levisen |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110294656 |
Presenting original, detailed studies of keywords of Danish, this book breaks new ground for the study of language and cultural values. Based on evidence from the semantic categories of everyday language, such as the Danish concept of hygge (roughly meaning, ‘pleasant togetherness’), the book provides an integrative socio-cognitive framework for studying and understanding language-particular universes. It is argued that the worlds we live in are not linguistically and conceptually neutral, but rather that speakers who live by Danish concepts are likely to pay attention to their world in ways suggested by central Danish keywords and lexical grids. By means of a sophisticated semantic methodology, the author accounts for the meanings of even highly culture-specific and untranslatable linguistic concepts. The book offers new tools for comparative research into the diversity of semantic and cultural systems in contemporary Europe. Additionally, it contributes to the emerging discipline of cultural semantics, and to the ongoing debates of linguistic diversity, metalanguage, and the use of linguistic evidence in studies of culture and social cognition.
| Author | : David R. Kinsley |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 1988-07-19 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0520063392 |
Goddess worship has long been a significant aspect of Hinduism. In this book David Kinsley sorts out the rich yet often chaotic history of Hindu goddess worship.
| Author | : Valeria Chiono |
| Publisher | : Frontiers Media SA |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 2021-04-13 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 2889666956 |
The Research Topic is organized in the framework of the project BIORECAR (grant number: 772168; http://www.biorecar.polito.it/index.html)
