Culture Crossroads

Author : Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh,Stephen E. Nash,Steven R. Holen,Stephen Edward Nash
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781607320258

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Crossroads of Culture by Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh,Stephen E. Nash,Steven R. Holen,Stephen Edward Nash Pdf

The hectic front of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science hides an unseen back of the museum that is also bustling. Less than 1 percent of the museum's collections are on display at any given time, and the Department of Anthropology alone cares for more than 50,000 objects from every corner of the globe not normally available to the public. This lavishly illustrated book presents and celebrates the Denver Museum of Nature & Science's exceptional anthropology collections for the first time. The book presents 123 full-color images to highlight the museum's cultural treasures. Selected for their individual beauty, historic value, and cultural meaning, these objects connect different places, times, and people. From the mammoth hunters of the Plains to the first American pioneer settlers to the flourishing Hispanic and Asian diasporas in downtown Denver, the Rocky Mountain region has been home to a breathtaking array of cultures. Many objects tell this story of the Rocky Mountains' fascinating and complex past, whereas others serve to bring enigmatic corners of the globe to modern-day Denver. Crossroads of Culture serves as a behind-the-scenes tour of the museum's anthropology collections. All the royalties from this publication will benefit the collections of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science's Department of Anthropology.

Author : Rubinstine Manukia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Christianty and culture
ISBN : 1988572711

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Culture Crossroads by Rubinstine Manukia Pdf

"Pasifika people are at a crossroads and need to decide whether to retain their traditional cultural values and practices, to adopt those of the majority of New Zealanders or find a middle pathway to the future. They feel under pressure in their lives in Aotearoa. In response, many older Pasifika people and those raised in the Pacific Islands choose to run Aotearoa churches and take part in the life of their church in the same way they did in the islands. This brings them comfort and a feeling of security. Younger Pasifika people and those born or raised mainly in New Zealand are caught between the expectations of their parents and wider family to adhere to island culture and traditions and wanting to live a freer Kiwi lifestyle. They must learn to put the needs of their immediate family and children first and are disciplined in how they handle their finances and their giving to their churches and extended family."--Back cover.

Author : Elizabeth Dillenburg,Howard Paul Louthan,Drew B. Thomas
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004462342

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Print Culture at the Crossroads by Elizabeth Dillenburg,Howard Paul Louthan,Drew B. Thomas Pdf

This book investigates the importance of printing in early-modern Central Europe, revealing a complicated web of connections linking printers and scholars, Jews and Christians, from the Baltic to the Adriatic.

Author : Jaqueline Berndt,Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134102907

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Manga's Cultural Crossroads by Jaqueline Berndt,Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer Pdf

Focusing on the art and literary form of manga, this volume examines the intercultural exchanges that have shaped manga during the twentieth century and how manga’s culturalization is related to its globalization. Through contributions from leading scholars in the fields of comics and Japanese culture, it describes "manga culture" in two ways: as a fundamentally hybrid culture comprised of both subcultures and transcultures, and as an aesthetic culture which has eluded modernist notions of art, originality, and authorship. The latter is demonstrated in a special focus on the best-selling manga franchise, NARUTO.

Author : Patrice Pavis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134928101

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Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture by Patrice Pavis Pdf

Pavis analyses the political and aesthetic consequences of cultures meeting at the crossroads of theatre, looking at productions including Brook's Mahabharata, Cixous/Mnouchkine's Indiande, and Barba's Faust.

Author : Asma Hichri,Samira Mechri
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781527570467

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Culture at the Crossroads by Asma Hichri,Samira Mechri Pdf

This collection explores the interfaces of culture, gender, and power from politico-religious, linguistic, legal and historiographic perspectives. More importantly, the contributions gathered here examine culture’s manifestations in different socio-economic, political, theoretical, and discursive contexts. Being aware of “the crisis in humanities,” researchers, scholars and experts seek to relocate culture and cultural studies within academia and analyze the epistemological relationship between culture and education, while also trying to eschew and refashion the stale conventional methodologies of approaching culture as an academic subject. Is it possible to go beyond the “crisis in humanities” by valorizing culture in social and human sciences, on the one hand, and natural and exact sciences, on the other, especially when we take into consideration the escalation of fundamentalist, extremist and xenophobic tendencies all over the globe? How can we approach the issues of ethics and teaching humanities and sciences? This book moves beyond conventional conceptions of culture that associate it with knowledge and enlightenment to suggest a holistic view of culture that enacts the dialectics of power, nationality, class, gender, and ethnicity in an ever-shifting transnational context. Engaging readers in a lively intellectual and cultural debate, this volume is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students, teachers, critics, and scholars from various academic fields and disciplines, including historiography, cultural studies, anthropology, political science, literature and critical theory.

Author : Jacek Fabiszak,Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka,Bartosz Wolski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783642219948

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Crossroads in Literature and Culture by Jacek Fabiszak,Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka,Bartosz Wolski Pdf

The book contains a selection of papers focusing on the idea of crossing boundaries in literary and cultural texts composed in English. The authors come from different methodological schools and analyse texts coming from different periods and cultures, trying to find common ground (the theme of the volume) between the apparently generically and temporarily varied works and phenomena. In this way, a plethora of perspectives is offered, perspectives which represent a high standard both in terms of theoretical reflection and in-depth analysis of selected texts. Consequently, the volume is addressed to a wide scope of both scholars and students working in the field of English and American literary and cultural studies; furthermore, it will be of interest also to students interested in theoretical issues linked with investigations into literature and culture.

Author : Gustav Jahoda
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Ethnopsychology
ISBN : 0674177754

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Crossroads Between Culture and Mind by Gustav Jahoda Pdf

Author : Sara K. Barker,Brenda M. Hosington
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004242036

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Renaissance Cultural Crossroads by Sara K. Barker,Brenda M. Hosington Pdf

In Renaissance Cultural Crossroads: Translation, Print and Culture in Britain, 1473-1640, twelve scholars assemble the latest interdisciplinary research in the fields of translation and print in Britain and appraise for the first time the connection between the two. The section Translation and Early Print discusses how translation shaped the beginnings of British book production. 'Translation, Fiction and Print' examines some Italian and Spanish literary translations and their paratexts. Instruction through Translation demonstrates how translators established an international fund of knowledge. Shaping Mind and Nation through Translation focusses on translations specifically disseminating knowledge of medicine, navigation, military matters, and news. The volume constitutes a timely contribution to the ever-expanding fields of translation studies and print history but is also relevant to cultural, social and intellectual history.

Author : Dmitri N Shalin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429966057

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Russian Culture At The Crossroads by Dmitri N Shalin Pdf

The reexamination of values that began during the USSRs last years continues today in the search for a new Russian culture, one rooted in the pre-Soviet past but dynamic and evolving. Multi-textual, polyphonic, and contradictory, the current Russian cultural discourse is richly reflected in these essays by a diverse group of authors from Russian and American academic and cultural circles. The chapters explore specific cultural domains, surveying Russian and Soviet beliefs and behaviors, and highlighting the range of choices that Russians are facing at this critical juncture. }During the waning years of Soviet power, glasnost laid bare the distress of people trapped in a system they despised but felt powerless to change. The reexamination of values that began then continues today in the search for a new Russian culture, one rooted in the pre-Soviet past but dynamic and evolving, enabling Russians to meet the challenges they face in the contemporary world. Multi-textual, polyphonic, and contradictory, the current Russian cultural discourse is richly reflected in these essays by a diverse group of authors from Russian and American academic and cultural circles. Each chapter focuses on a particular cultural domain, surveying the historical origins of Russian beliefs and behaviors, exploring their Soviet and post-Soviet permutations, and highlighting the range of choices that Russians are facing at this critical juncture. The decisions they make will shape their society and culture for generations to come.Illuminating the universal significance of the Soviet experience, this volume raises provocative questions about the social, political, and economic sources of cultural change.

Author : Tara F. Deubel,Hélène Tissières,Scott M. Youngstedt
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443862899

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Saharan Crossroads by Tara F. Deubel,Hélène Tissières,Scott M. Youngstedt Pdf

Saharan Crossroads: Exploring Historical, Cultural, and Artistic Linkages between North and West Africa counteracts the traditional scholarly conception of the Sahara Desert as an impenetrable barrier dividing the continent by employing an interdisciplinary lens to examine myriad interconnections between North and West Africa through travel, trade, communication, cultural exchange, and correspondence that have been ongoing for several millennia. Saharan Crossroads offers a unique contribution to existing scholarship on the region by uniting a diverse group of African, European, and American scholars working on various facets of trans-Saharan history, social life, and cultural production, and bringing their work together for the first time. This trilingual volume includes eleven chapters written in English, five chapters in French, and three chapters in Arabic, reflecting the multicultural nature of the Sahara and this international project. Saharan Crossroads explores historical and contemporary connections and exchanges between populations living in and on both sides of the Sahara that have led to the emergence of distinctive cultural and aesthetic expressions. This contact has been fostered by a series of linkages that include the trans-Saharan caravan trade, the spread of Islam, the migration of nomadic pastoralists, and European colonization. The book includes three major sections: (1) history, culture, and identity; (2) trans-Saharan circulation of arts, music, ritual performance, and architecture; and (3) religion, law, language, and writing. While the gaze of international political analysts has turned toward the Sahara to follow problematic developments that pose serious threats to human rights and security in the region, it is especially timely to recall that the people and countries of the Sahelo-Saharan world have maintained long histories of peaceful coexistence, interdependence, and cooperation that are too often overlooked in the present.

Author : Adam Gussow
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781469633671

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Beyond the Crossroads by Adam Gussow Pdf

The devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He's not just the music's namesake ("the devil's music"), but a shadowy presence who haunts an imagined Mississippi crossroads where, it is claimed, Delta bluesman Robert Johnson traded away his soul in exchange for extraordinary prowess on the guitar. Yet, as scholar and musician Adam Gussow argues, there is much more to the story of the devil and the blues than these cliched understandings. In this groundbreaking study, Gussow takes the full measure of the devil's presence. Working from original transcriptions of more than 125 recordings released during the past ninety years, Gussow explores the varied uses to which black southern blues people have put this trouble-sowing, love-wrecking, but also empowering figure. The book culminates with a bold reinterpretation of Johnson's music and a provocative investigation of the way in which the citizens of Clarksdale, Mississippi, managed to rebrand a commercial hub as "the crossroads" in 1999, claiming Johnson and the devil as their own.

Author : Monisha Ahmed,Clare Harris
Publisher : Marg Publications
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015069127994

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Ladakh by Monisha Ahmed,Clare Harris Pdf

This is the first book to combine essays on the history and ongoing production of art in Ladakh and to recognize both Buddhist and Islamic contributions to the cultural environment. Drawing on recent research in the region, Ladakh: Cultu re at the Crossroads covers subjects ranging from the analysis of key sites and prominent

Author : Marc Pachter,Charles Landry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Culture
ISBN : 1873667132

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Culture at the Crossroads by Marc Pachter,Charles Landry Pdf

Author : Harry Justin Elam,Kennell A. Jackson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0472068407

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Black Cultural Traffic by Harry Justin Elam,Kennell A. Jackson Pdf

Fresh takes on key questions in black performance and black popular culture, by leading artists, academics, and critics