Cultural Studies

Der Glaube an Dämonen, Vampire und unruhige Totengeister, die in der unsichtbaren Welt zwischen dem Diesseits und dem Jenseits ihren Aufenthalt hab...

Shapes of Time explores how concepts of time and history were spatialized in early twentieth-century German thought. Michael McGillen locates effor...

How the creative use of pop music in filmthink Saturday Night Fever or Apocalypse Nowhas shaped and shifted music history since the 1960s Quick: Wh...

This edited volume offers innovative perspectives on the study of music as cultural diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), a region ...

Two previously unpublished lectures charting the renowned anthropologists intellectual engagement with the sixteenth-century French essayist Michel...

This Open Access book explores the complex interplay between gender, Islam and sexuality in Indonesia, the country with the world's largest Muslim ...

THE OFFICIAL STORY OF A MUSICAL ICON - TOLD IN FULL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS OWN WORDS 'I went to a lot of trouble to create Boy George and then I...

'A writer of genius' - William Dalrymple'Remarkable' - Kwame Anthony Appiah'Utterly captivating' - Anthony DoerrCan anyone really own a culture? Th...

Within popular culture, death is not the end, but instead a space where the dead can exert agency whilst entertaining the consumer. Popular culture...

Historical Style connects the birth of eighteenth-century British consumer society to the rise of historical self-consciousness. Prior to the eight...

How does culture shape our thinking? In what ways do our social and cultural worlds enter into our mental worlds? How do the communities we belong ...

Following the pattern of From Field to Fork (OUP, 2015) Paul B. Thompson provides a highly readable and up-to-date analysis of contemporary ethical...

Networked Bollywood provides interdisciplinary analysis of the role of the stars in the transformation of Hindi cinema into a global entertainment ...

New Fifth Edition Now Available!Principles of Meat Science provides a comprehensive overview that includes the latest discoveries and principles th...

At first glance, the Ford Foundation and the black power movement would make an unlikely partnership. After the Second World War, the renowned Foun...

Because clothing, food, and shelter are basic human needs, they provide excellent entries to cultural values and individual aesthetics. Everyone ge...

The origins and deeds of the old Goths were constructed by Roman historians in fear of the Goth as a barbarian outsider; at the same time, the Goth...

After humble beginnings as faltering British colonies, the United States acquired astonishing wealth and power as the result of what we now refer t...

A reassessment of how the legacy of ancient philosophy functioned in early modern Europe In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle affirms that despite ...

In the fifteenth-century republic of Florence, political power resided in the hands of middle-class merchants, a few wealthy families, and powerful...

In the tradition of the ecological reading of Marx, this book offers a philosophical reflection on the ecological crisis on the basis of Karl Marx...