Civilisation Recast

Civilisation Recast
Author: Stephan Feuchtwang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2019-07-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108484344
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Shows what humanity has borrowed and shared as a common heritage.

Caste, Kinship, and Community

Caste, Kinship, and Community
Author: Satadal Dasgupta
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1993
Genre: Bagdis
ISBN: 9780863112799
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With reference to the Dule Bagdis, cultivating and fishing caste in West Bengal.

Classes, Citizenship and Inequality

Classes, Citizenship and Inequality
Author: T. K. Oommen
Publisher: Pearson Education India
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2010
Genre: Citizenship
ISBN: 9788131730812
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Rejecting the obsolete methodology of comparisons between categories,

Folklore, Public Sphere, and Civil Society

Folklore, Public Sphere, and Civil Society
Author: M. D. Muthukumaraswamy
Publisher: NFSC www.indianfolklore.org
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2004
Genre: Folklore
ISBN: 8190148141
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In the Indian context; papers presented at a symposium held at New Delhi in 2002.

Inventing Popular Culture

Inventing Popular Culture
Author: John Storey
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2009-02-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1405172657
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John Storey, a leading figure in the field of Cultural Studies, offers an illuminating and vibrant account of the development of popular culture. Addressing issues such as globalization, intellectualism, and consumerism, Inventing Popular Culture presents an engaging assessment of one of the most debated concepts of recent times. Provides a lively and accessible history of the concept of popular culture by one of the leading experts in the field. Traces the invention and reinvention of the concept of popular culture from the eighteenth-century “discovery” of folk culture to contemporary accounts of the cultural impact of globalization. Examines the relationship between the concept of popular culture and key issues in cultural analyses such as hegemony, postmodernism, identity, questions of value, consumerism, and everyday life.

Folk, Region, and Society

Folk, Region, and Society
Author: Howard Washington Odum
Publisher:
Total Pages: 512
Release: 1964
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:
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The editors have sought to suggest in the title of these selected papers the range, complexity, and unity of Odum's thought as he moved from the Afro-American and black folksongs to the folk society and folk sociology, from race relations and the southern region to regionalism and regional-national planning, from folkways to technicways and stateways, and from social values to social action. Originally published in 1964. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Performing Wales

Performing Wales
Author: Lisa Lewis
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2018-05-15
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1786832437
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This book uses ideas from performance studies to examine Welsh culture as performance. Focusing on three aspects central to the investigation – notions of people, memory and place, all of which are central to definitions of Welsh cultural performance – the book explores these aspects in relation to specific case studies taken from the museum, from heritage, festival, and theatre.