Cultural Studies

Bringing together an international range of contributors from the fields of practice, theory and history, this book takes a fresh look at occupatio...

Anthropology has a critical, practical role to play in contemporary debates about futures. This game-changing new book presents new ways of concept...

While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among ...

Making Homes: Anthropology and Design is a strong addition to the emerging field of design anthropology. Based on the latest scholarship and practi...

While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among ...

This book provides a panoramic overview of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's, a Baroque Genius, appropriation by popular culture. It addresses th...

The pursuit of authenticity is a contemporary obsession. From hipster fixations on artisan coffee and vintage clothing through to the electoral suc...

Since the 1990s there has been a dramatic increase in cultural flows and connections between the countries in the East Asian region. Nowhere is thi...

This book analyses the relationship between comics and cultural memory. By focussing on a range of landmark comics from the twentieth and twenty-fi...

Sports have taken on tremendous importance in the world in which we live. Their social significance - economic, political, and personal - both nati...

How wine has transformed Tibetan land and livesSet in the Sino-Tibetan border region renamed Shangri-La by the Chinese government for tourism promo...

How wine has transformed Tibetan land and livesSet in the Sino-Tibetan border region renamed Shangri-La by the Chinese government for tourism promo...

Is traditional American religion doomed? Traditional religion in the United States has suffered huge losses in recent decades. The number of Ameri...

Suppressed for centuries, the ideas of French philosopher Émilie Du Châtelet are ever relevant today... Just as the Enlightenment was gaining mome...

Within contemporary theory, the concepts of translation and universality have frequently been associated with different and even opposed philosophi...