Cultures In Motion

Author : Daniel T. Rodgers,Bhavani Raman,Helmut Reimitz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691176178

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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 social space. From the transformations of the meanings and practices of charity during late antiquity and the transit of medical knowledge between early modern China and Europe, to the fusion of Irish and African dance forms in early nineteenth-century New York, these essays follow a wide array of cultural practices through the lens of motion, translation, itinerancy, and exchange, extending the insights of transnational and translocal history. Cultures in Motion challenges the premise of fixed, stable cultural systems by showing that cultural practices have always been moving, crossing borders and locations with often surprising effect. The essays offer striking examples from early to modern times of intrusion, translation, resistance, and adaptation. These are histories where nothing--dance rhythms, alchemical formulas, musical practices, feminist aspirations, sewing machines, streamlined metals, or labor networks--remains stationary. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Celia Applegate, Peter Brown, Harold Cook, April Masten, Mae Ngai, Jocelyn Olcott, Mimi Sheller, Pamela Smith, and Nira Wickramasinghe.

Author : Peter N. Stearns
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300082296

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Kulturens vandringer fra forhistorisk tid til nutiden

Author : European Association of Social Anthropologists
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN : 0415303540

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Reframing Pilgrimage by European Association of Social Anthropologists Pdf

"This book proposes a radical new agenda for pilgrimage studies, considering such travel as just one of the twenty-first century's many forms of cultural mobility". "Prioritizing anthropological arguments about mobility, locality and belonging over analyses of traditional religious studies, contributors examine the meanings of pilgrimage in world religions as well as in non-religious contexts such as 'roots-tourism'."--P.[1].

Author : Harmony Bench
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452962498

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Perpetual Motion by Harmony Bench Pdf

A new exploration of how digital media assert the relevance of dance in a wired world How has the Internet changed dance? Dance performances can now be seen anywhere, can be looped endlessly at user whim, and can integrate crowds in unprecedented ways. Dance practices are evolving to explore these new possibilities. In Perpetual Motion, Harmony Bench argues that dance is a vital part of civil society and a means for building participation and community. She looks at how, after 9/11, it became a crucial way of recuperating the common character of public spaces. She explores how crowdsourcing dance contributes to the project of performing a common world, as well as the social relationships forged when we look at dance as a gift in the era of globalization. Throughout, she asks how dance brings people together in digital spaces and what dance’s digital travels might mean for how we experience and express community. From original research on dance today to political economies of digital media to the philosophy of dance, Perpetual Motion provides an ambitious, invigorating look at a commonly shared practice.

Author : Dirk Hoerder
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0822328348

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Cultures in Contact by Dirk Hoerder Pdf

A landmark work on human migration around the globe, Cultures in Contact provides a history of the world told through the movements of its people. It is a broad, pioneering interpretation of the scope, patterns, and consequences of human migrations over the past ten centuries. In this magnum opus thirty years in the making, Dirk Hoerder reconceptualizes the history of migration and immigration, establishing that societal transformation cannot be understood without taking into account the impact of migrations and, indeed, that mobility is more characteristic of human behavior than is stasis. Signaling a major paradigm shift, Cultures in Contact creates an English-language map of human movement that is not Atlantic Ocean-based. Hoerder describes the origins, causes, and extent of migrations around the globe and analyzes the cultural interactions they have triggered. He pays particular attention to the consequences of immigration within the receiving countries. His work sweeps from the eleventh century forward through the end of the twentieth, when migration patterns shifted to include transpacific migration, return migrations from former colonies, refugee migrations, and distinct regional labor migrations in the developing world. Hoerder demonstrates that as we enter the third millennium, regional and intercontinental migration patterns no longer resemble those of previous centuries. They have been transformed by new communications systems and other forces of globalization and transnationalism.

Author : Jane Desmond
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 082231942X

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Meaning in Motion by Jane Desmond Pdf

On dance and culture

Author : Dena Davida
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781554583775

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Fields in Motion by Dena Davida Pdf

Fields in Motion: Ethnography in the Worlds of Dance examines the deeper meanings and resonances of artistic dance in contemporary culture. The book comprises four sections: methods and methodologies, autoethnography, pedagogies and creative processes, and choreographies as cultural and spiritual representations. The contributors bring an insiders insight to their accounts of the nature and function of these artistic practices, giving voice to dancers, dance teachers, creators, programmers, spectators, students, and scholars. International and intergenerational, this collection of groundbreaking scholarly research points to a new direction for both dance studies and dance anthropology. Traditionally the exclusive domain of aesthetic philosophers, the art of dance is here reframed as cultural practice, and its significance is revealed through a chorus of voices from practitioners and insider ethnographers.

Author : John Randolph,Eugene M. Avrutin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0252037030

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Russia in Motion by John Randolph,Eugene M. Avrutin Pdf

Since its rapid imperial expansion in the seventeenth century, Russia's politics, society, and culture have exerted a profound influence on movement throughout Eurasia. The circulation of people, information, and things across Russian space transformed populations, restructured collective and individual identities, and created enduring legacies. This volume represents the latest discoveries of scholars attempting to rediscover this experience, and to understand its lasting meaning for today. These gathered essays tell a broad range of stories, involving a remarkable cross-section of historical actors: imperial visionaries, stage-coach entrepreneurs, religious pilgrims, tourists, disability activists and metropolitan police, among others. The book illuminates three major themes: the role of human mobility in Russian governance; the processes by which people decide where and how to move; and the political and cultural power of different kinds of movement. A strong contribution to our understanding of the history of Russia and the Soviet Union, this volume offers new models of research for historians, sociologists, political scientists, and others who are seeking to integrate the study of human mobility into their work. Contributors are Eugene M. Avrutin, Alexandra Bekasova, Faith Hillis, Gijs Kessler, Diane P. Koenker, Chia Yin Hsu, Eileen Kane, Anne Lounsbery, Matthew Light, Sarah D. Phillips, John Randolph, Anatolyi Remnev, Jeff Sahadeo, Frithjof Benjamin Schenk, Charles Steinwedel, Willard Sunderland, and Elena Tyuryukanova.

Author : Su Lin Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107108332

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Cities in Motion by Su Lin Lewis Pdf

A social history of cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia's ethnically diverse port cities, seen within the global context of the interwar era.

Author : Kuang-Hui Yeh
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-23
Category : Ethnopsychology
ISBN : 3030071618

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Asian Indigenous Psychologies in the Global Context by Kuang-Hui Yeh Pdf

Author : Diana C. Pheysey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134889952

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Organizational Cultures by Diana C. Pheysey Pdf

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Kate Fitch,Judy Motion
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351788243

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Popular Culture and Social Change by Kate Fitch,Judy Motion Pdf

Popular Culture and Social Change: The Hidden Work of Public Relations argues the complicated and contradictory relationship between public relations, popular culture and social change is a neglected theoretical project. Its diverse chapters identify ways in which public relations influences the production of popular culture and how alternative, often community-driven conceptualisations of public relations work can be harnessed for social change and in pursuit of social justice. This book opens up critical scholarship on public relations in that it moves beyond corporate understandings and perspectives to explore alternative and eclectic communicative cultures, in part to consider a more optimistic conceptualisation of public relations as a resource for progressive social change. Fitch and Motion began with an interest in identifying the ways in which public relations both draws on and influences the production of popular culture by creating, promoting and amplifying particular narratives and images. The chapters in this book consider how public relations creates popular cultures that are deeply compromised and commercialised, but at the same time can be harnessed to advocate for social change in supporting, reproducing, challenging or resisting the status quo. Drawing on critical and sociocultural perspectives, this book is an important resource for researchers, educators and students exploring public relations theory, strategic communication and promotional culture. It investigates the entanglement of public relations, popular culture and social change in different social, cultural and political contexts – from fashion and fortune telling to race activism and aesthetic labour – in order to better understand the (often subterranean) societal influence of public relations activity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401202756

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Books in Motion by Anonim Pdf

Books in Motion addresses the hybrid, interstitial field of film adaptation. The introductory essay integrates a retrospective survey of the development of adaptation studies with a forceful argument about their centrality to any history of culture—any discussion, that is, of the transformation and transmission of texts and meanings in and across cultures. The thirteen especially composed essays that follow, organised into four sections headed ‘Paradoxes of Fidelity’, ‘Authors, Auteurs, Adaptation’, ‘Contexts, Intertexts, Adaptation’ and ‘Beyond Adaptation’, variously illustrate that claim by problematising the notion of fidelity, highlighting the role played by adaptation in relation to changing concepts of authorship and auteurism, exploring the extent to which the intelligibility of film adaptations is dependent on contextual and intertextual factors, and making a claim for the need to transcend any narrowly-defined concept of adaptation in the study of adaptation. Discussion ranges from adaptations of established classics like A Tale of Two Cities, Frankenstein, Henry V, Le temps retrouvé, Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice, ‘The Dead’ or Wuthering Heights, to contemporary (popular) texts/films like Bridget Jones’s Diary, Fools, The Governess, High Fidelity, The Hours, The Orchid Thief/Adaptation, the work of Doris Dörrie, the first Harry Potter novel/film, or the adaptations made by Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and Walt Disney. This book will appeal to both a specialised readership and to those accessing the dynamic field of adaptation studies for the first time.

Author : Urmila Mohan,Laurence Douny
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000185409

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The Material Subject by Urmila Mohan,Laurence Douny Pdf

The Material Subject emphasises how bodily and material cultures combine to make and transform subjects dynamically. The book is based on the French Matière à Penser (MaP) school of thought, which draws upon the ideas of Mauss, Schilder, Foucault and Bourdieu, among others, to enhance the anthropological study of embodiment, practices, techniques, materiality and power. Through theoretical sophistication and empirical field research, case studies from Europe, Africa and Asia bring MaP’s ideas into dialogue with other strands of material culture studies in the English-speaking world. These studies mediate different scales of engagement through a sensori-motor, affective and cognitive focus on practices of making and doing. Examples range from the precarity of professional divers in French public works to the gendered subjectivity of female carpet weavers in Morocco, from the ways Swiss watchmakers transmit craft knowledge to how Hindu devotees in India make efficacious use of altars, and from the enskilment of Paiwan indigenous people in Taiwan to the prestige of women’s wild silk wrappers in Burkina Faso. The chapters are organised according to domains of practice, defined as 'matter of' work and technology, heritage, politics, religion and knowledge. Scholars and students with an interest in material culture will gain valuable access to global research, rooted in a specific intellectual tradition.

Author : Jane C. Desmond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:993454712

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Meaning in Motion by Jane C. Desmond Pdf