World Culture

Author : Frank J. Lechner,John Boli
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781405141178

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World Culture, EPZ Edition by Frank J. Lechner,John Boli Pdf

This book explores the development, content, and impact of world culture. Combining several of the most fruitful theoretical perspectives on world culture, including the world polity approach and globalization theory, the book gives a historical treatment of the development of world culture and assesses the complex impact of world culture on people, organizations, and societies. This is a provocative, synthetic, and grounded interpretation of world culture that is essential for any student or scholar of globalization and world affairs. Traces world culture back from the mid-19th century to the present day Includes numerous illustrations of key issues and empirical research Written in lively, accessible language for the student and general scholar

Author : Amy Tan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101007150

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The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan Pdf

"Remarkable...mesmerizing...compelling.... An entire world unfolds in Tolstoyan tide of event and detail....Give yourself over to the world Ms. Tan creates for you." —The New York Times Book Review Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past—including the terrible truth even Helen does not know. And so begins Winnie's story of her life on a small island outside Shanghai in the 1920s, and other places in China during World War II, and traces the happy and desperate events that led to Winnie's coming to America in 1949. The Kitchen God's Wife is "a beautiful book" (Los Angeles Times) from the bestselling author of novels like The Joy Luck Club and The Backyard Bird Chronicles, and the memoir, Where the Past Begins.

Author : Christian Strasser,Adrian Ellis,Irene Preißler,Gail Lord,Matthias Sauerbruch,Erwin Uhrmann,Louisa Hutton,Vitus H. Weh
Publisher : Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3903572195

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World Culture Districts by Christian Strasser,Adrian Ellis,Irene Preißler,Gail Lord,Matthias Sauerbruch,Erwin Uhrmann,Louisa Hutton,Vitus H. Weh Pdf

Cultural districts are playing a key cultural and social role throughout the world in the twenty-first century. They offer an incomparable density of art and culture and have a profound influence on the development of cities and regions. ?World Culture Districts? presents the first-ever overview of this phenomenon, featuring fifteen of the most important cultural districts on six continents. The range of different kinds of cultural districts and their respective influence on space and society is revealed, and essays by international experts such as Gail Lord, Adrian Ellis, Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton, Vitus H. Weh and Christian Strasser shed light on current issues surrounding their development and impact.00CULTURE DISTRICTS Alserkal Avenue Dubai, United Arab Emirates, LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura Lugano, Switzerland, Museumsinsel Berlin Berlin, Germany, Quartier des Spectacles Montréal, Quebec, Canada, The GoDown Arts Centre Nairobi, Kenya, Gorky Park and Garage Museum of Contemporary Art Moscow, Russia, M9 Mestre, Italy, MuseumsQuartier Wien Vienna, Austria, Southbank Centre London, United Kingdom, Töölönlahti Helsinki, Finland, Instituto Inhotim Brumadinho, Brazil, MASS MoCA North Adams, Massachusetts, USA, Poblenou District Barcelona, Spain, The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora ?tautahi Christchurch, New Zealand, West Kowloon Cultural District Hong Kong, China.

Author : Jürgen Schriewer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317358633

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World Culture Re-Contextualised by Jürgen Schriewer Pdf

Impressive strands of research have shown the emergent reality of increasing world-level interconnection in almost every field of social action. As a consequence, theories and models have been developed which are aimed at conceptualising this new reality along the lines of an ‘institutionalised’ World Culture. This offers a new understanding of the worldwide diffusion of specifically modern – i.e. mainly Western – rules, ideologies and organisational patterns, and of attendant harmonisation and standardisation of fields of social action. World Culture theories have not gone unchallenged. Rather, cross-cultural studies have revealed much more complex processes of regional fragmentation and (re-)diversification; of the refraction, appropriation, and hybridisation, through distinct socio-cultural conditioning, of world-level models and ideas; and of the ongoing effectiveness both of structural path-dependencies and of specifically cultural aspects such as collective memories, social meanings, and religious (or ideological) belief systems. Comparative research has thus highlighted an intricate simultaneity of contrary currents: of the increasing world-level interconnection of communication and exchange relations on the one hand, and, on the other, the persistence of context-specific interpretations, translations, and deviation-generating re-contextualisations of world-level forces and challenges. This research provides the theoretical problematique that animates this volume. The chapters explore the conceptual tools and explanatory power of theories and models which do not just oppose or reject World Culture theory, but are instead suited to complementing and differentiating it. The volume offers an enlightening conceptualisation of the intricate interaction of global processes with local agency, and of world-level forces with the self-evolutionary potentials inherent in specific contexts, socio-cultural structures, and distinctive meanings constellations. This book was originally published as a special issue of Comparative Education.

Author : George W. Boudreau,Margaretta M. Lovell
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Material culture
ISBN : 0271081155

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A Material World by George W. Boudreau,Margaretta M. Lovell Pdf

A collection of essays that examine early American cultural, political, and social history through a material lens, exploring the meanings of objects ranging from artworks and domestic furnishings to Penn's Treaty Tree.

Author : Magdi Youssef
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527515611

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The Contemporary Arab Contribution to World Culture by Magdi Youssef Pdf

This book comprises a selection of papers delivered at a research meeting of the International Association of Intercultural Studies (IAIS) which took place in Paris in March, 2009. As suggested by its title, it addresses prejudices prevailing not only in Western societies, but also in marginalized ones, especially among their Western-oriented intelligentsia. It is often claimed that there exists no ‘serious’ contribution to world culture that is not based on the Western models that prevail worldwide, especially in the aftermath of globalization. This book challenges the projected image of a dominant West serving as a necessary and indispensable model for a dependent, receptive ‘rest of the world.’ It can be read as a necessary decolonization of today’s human knowledge in all disciplines by taking as an example recent Arab contributions in many areas of human knowledge, from the natural sciences to the political economy or architecture. Other marginalized socio-cultures worldwide, like those of Africa, India, Thailand, Persia, and Ireland, should follow suit in presenting an alternative to the extant globalization of Western norms, by offering a truly equal open exchange of human inventions on a world scale.

Author : Linda S. Watts,Kelty Clark-Mahoney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781440870002

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Food and World Culture [2 volumes] by Linda S. Watts,Kelty Clark-Mahoney Pdf

This book uses food as a lens through which to explore important matters of society and culture. In exploring why and how people eat around the globe, the text focuses on issues of health, conflict, struggle, contest, inequality, and power. Whether because of its necessity, pleasure, or ubiquity, the world of food (and its lore) proves endlessly fascinating to most people. The story of food is a narrative filled with both human striving and human suffering. However, many of today's diners are only dimly aware of the human price exacted for that comforting distance from the lived-world realities of food justice struggles. With attention to food issues ranging from local farming practices to global supply chains, this book examines how food’s history and geography remain inextricably linked to sociopolitical experiences of trauma connected with globalization, such as colonization, conquest, enslavement, and oppression. The main text is structured alphabetically around a set of 70 ingredients, from almonds to yeast. Each ingredient's story is accompanied by recipes. Along with the food profiles, the encyclopedia features sidebars. These are short discussions of topics of interest related to food, including automats, diners, victory gardens, and food at world’s fairs. This project also brings a social justice perspective to its content—weighing debates concerning food access, equity, insecurity, and politics.

Author : Miloslav Rechcigl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783112415900

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The Czechoslovak Contribution to World Culture by Miloslav Rechcigl Pdf

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Author : Dean Miller
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781627125772

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Animals and Animal Symbols in World Culture by Dean Miller Pdf

A comprehensive guide to the history of human interaction with the creatures of the earth, air, and water. This book provides historical perspective on mankind's complicated relationship with all creatures, from tiny insects to larger beasts. From the alligator to the wryneck, key animals from every continent are profiled, with articles focusing on how different cultures viewed the creatures with which they shared land, and the ones they considered omens of gods and devils. In addition to the numerous articles on specific animals, there are also entries on the role of animals in Christian art, and how shamans took the form and power of animals in key ceremonies. The work is highly illustrated, and subjects of major interest are provided with individual bibliographies of further reading on the subject at the end of each article.

Author : M.H.T. Sutedja-LIem
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004253513

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Heirs to World Culture by M.H.T. Sutedja-LIem Pdf

This volume brings together new scholarship by Indonesian and non-Indonesian scholars on Indonesia’s cultural history from 1950-1965. During the new nation’s first decade and a half, Indonesia’s links with the world and its sense of nationhood were vigorously negotiated on the cultural front. Indonesia used cultural networks of the time, including those of the Cold War, to announce itself on the world stage. International links, post-colonial aspirations and nationalistic fervour interacted to produce a thriving cultural and intellectual life at home. Essays discuss the exchange of artists, intellectuals, writing and ideas between Indonesia and various countries; the development of cultural networks; and ways these networks interacted with and influenced cultural expression and discourse in Indonesia. With contributions by Keith Foulcher, Liesbeth Dolk, Hairus Salim HS, Tony Day, Budiawan, Maya H.T. Liem, Jennifer Lindsay, Els Bogaerts, Melani Budianta, Choirotun Chisaan, I Nyoman Darma Putra, Barbara Hatley, Marije Plomp, Irawati Durban Ardjo, Rhoma Dwi Aria Yuliantri and Michael Bodden.

Author : Jagdeep S. Chhokar,Felix C. Brodbeck,Robert J. House
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1484 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135703790

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Culture and Leadership Across the World by Jagdeep S. Chhokar,Felix C. Brodbeck,Robert J. House Pdf

Culture and Leadership Across the World: The GLOBE Book of In-Depth Studies of 25 Societies is the second major publication of GLOBE (Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness), a groundbreaking, large-scale project on international management research featuring contributions from nearly 18,000 middle managers from 1,000 organizat

Author : K. Anderson-Levitt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403980359

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Local Meanings, Global Schooling by K. Anderson-Levitt Pdf

Is there one global culture of schooling, or many national and local cultures? Do educational reforms take school systems on diverging or parallel paths? These case studies from five continents use ethnography and history to challenge the sweeping claims of sociology's world culture theory (neo-institutionalism). They demonstrate how national ministries of education and local schools re-invent every reform. Yet the cases also show that teachers and local reformers operate 'within and against' global models. Anthropologists need to recognize the global presence in local schooling as well as local transformation of global models. This is a collection that scholars in the field of the anthropology of education will not want to be without.

Author : Anthony D. King
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Acculturation
ISBN : 1452901538

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Culture, Globalization and the World System by Anthony D. King Pdf

Author : David Held
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134329946

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A Globalizing World? by David Held Pdf

Today's news media is full of references to 'globalization' - a buzz word that is quickly becoming ubiquitous. But what exactly is globalization? What are its main driving forces? Does it truly embrace all aspects of our lives, from economics to cultural developments? A Globalizing World? examines these and other key questions in a highly accessible fashion, offering a clear and intelligent guide to the big ideas and debates of our time. In doing so, it does not take one particular stance for or against globalizaton; rather, it examines the arguments and evidence about its nature, form and impact. After introducing the main theoretical positions of those who have studied the subject, key chapters look at the changing form of modern communication and cultural industries, trade patterns and financial flows of the world economy, and whether or not the 'new political world order' is qualitatively different from the old state system. This is essential reading for all students of politics, economics and international relations.

Author : G. Barton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137315922

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Informal Empire and the Rise of One World Culture by G. Barton Pdf

Informal empire is a key mechanism of control that explains much of the configuration of the modern world. This book traces the broad outline of westernization through elite formations around the world in the modern era. It explains why the world is western and how formal empire describes only the tip of the iceberg of British and American power.