Cultural Studies

Greece and Greek mean different things to different people. The historian, of course, will inform us that all Western civilisation has Greece for i...

This handbook explores essential philosophical questions about the experience of difference and the other in African societies. The contributions g...

Two pervading factors in any life-world that are discussed, but never explicated are time and concrete action. No doubt, social theory (as well as ...

Humans have always depended upon natural ecosystems to supply a range of services useful for their survival and well-being. However, with widesprea...

While organisations have become central for thinking and structuring contemporary social action, existing perspectives on what they are and how to ...

Stereotypes result in deceptive generalizations about groups and are held in a manner that renders them as derogatory. As such, this volume advocat...

For the last two decades, the world has been constantly facing challenges having completely new qualities: the growing tension between West and Eas...

This yearbook deals with discourse within and across different cultures.

This book investigates the praise poetry genre of the Dagombas of northern Ghana. The art of drumming, performed by court figures known as drummers...

The field of nanocomposites involving organic or inorganic materials is a rapidly rising area of research and application development. In general n...

Translating Across Cultures is a collection of nine papers given at the 21st BAS/British and American Studies conference, held in Timioara in May 2...

The Astronaut: Cultural Mythology and Idealised Masculinity interrogates the historical and cultural dynamics of one of the most revered icons of t...

To conceive the entrance of the individual to the culture, Bruner proposes the idea of an education susceptible to adapt a culture to the needs its...

Ethnography has become something of a buzzword in recent years. It is talked about and invoked in disciplines ranging from anthropology and ethnolo...

This book on cultural heritage uses several points of view. Included are theories on cultural heritage preservation such as the cult of ancient mon...