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(P/B) MODERN GREECE
The glorious, classical legacy of Greece is universally revered. But this legacy has come at a price. How will Greece ever move beyond its ties with the past? Is there such a thing as modern Greece? This book is the first to present an alternative cultural history of Greece. Beginning with the growth of Greece as a nation-state through to the present, it shows how modern Greece has long been undervalued and neglected. From the compositional process of the first National Poet to the first feminist text, the first sustained Marxist treatise ...
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(P/B) GENDER AND MIGRATION IN SOUTHERN EUROPE

(P/B) EMPIRE OF THE SENSES
With groundbreaking contributions by Marshall McLuhan, Oliver Sacks, Italo Calvino and Alain Corbin, among others, Empire of the Senses overturns linguistic and textual models of interpretation and places sensory experience at the forefront of cultural analysis. The senses are gateways of knowledge, instruments of power, sources of pleasure and pain - and they are subject to dramatically different constructions in different societies and periods. Empire of the Senses charts the new terrains opened up by the sensual revolution in scholarshi...
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(P/B) THE FASHION READER
Fashion today is produced and consumed globally. It is dependent on a rapidly changing infrastructure influenced by art, popular culture, technological innovation, politics, and trade regulations. Moreover, fashion constantly references ideas and cultures from around the world, both past and present. The Fashion Reader is designed for students, scholars, and anyone interested in contemporary fashion. The book brings together the key writings on the subject, covering the history, culture, and business of fashion. The extracts are drawn fr...
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(P/B) GUERILLA MOVEMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA

(P/B) PORNIFICATION

(P/B) RETHINKING ANTHROPOLOGY

(P/B) WORLD ANTHROPOLOGIES
Since its inception, anthropology's authority has been based on the assumption that it is a unified discipline emanating from the West. In an age of heightened globalization, anthropologists have failed to discuss consistently the current status of their practice and its mutations across the globe. World Anthropologies is the first book to provoke this conversation from various regions of the world in order to assess the diversity of relations between regional or national anthropologies and a contested, power-laden Western discourse. Can a...
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(P/B) THE AUDITORY CULTURE READER

(P/B) FILM - THE KEY CONCEPTS

(P/B) AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

(P/B) ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE BUSHMAN

(P/B) PLAYBOYS IN PARADISE

(P/B) REPRESENTING MEN - CULTURAL PRODUCTION & PRODUCERS

(P/B) PROPERTY IN QUESTION
How has it come about that indigenous cultures, body parts, and sequences of musical notes are considered property? How has the movement from collective to privatized systems affected notions of property? At what point in transaction chains do native cultures, indigenous medicines, or cyberdata become objects and therefore propertized, and what are the social, economic, and ethical considerations for such transformations?Addressing these hotly contested issues and many more, Property in Question interrogates the very concept of property an...
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(P/B) MARKETS AND MORALITIES - ETHNOGRAPHIES OF POSTSOCIALISM

(P/B) ART RULES - PIERRE BOURDIEU AND THE VISUAL ARTS

(H/B) SHOES - A HISTORY FROM SANDALS TO SNEAKERS

(P/B) ROOTS OF HUMAN SOCIALITY - CULTURE COGNITION & INTERACTION

(P/B) THE POST - SUBCULTURES READER (1859736688)