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  • Highlife Saturday Nightby Nathan Plageman

    Indiana University Press 2012; US$ 23.99

    Highlife Saturday Night captures the vibrancy of Saturday nights in Ghana?when musicians took to the stage and dancers took to the floor?in this penetrating look at musical leisure during a time of social, political, and cultural change. Framing dance band "highlife" music as a central medium through which Ghanaians negotiated gendered and generational... more...

  • Political Communication and Political Culture in England, 1558-1688by Barbara Shapiro

    Stanford University Press 2012; US$ 65.00

    This book surveys the channels through which political ideas and knowledge were conveyed to the English people from the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth I to the Revolution of 1688. Shapiro argues that an assessment of English political culture requires an examination of all means by which this culture was expressed and communicated. While the... more...

  • Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart Englandby Linda Levy Peck

    Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 45.95

    This wide-ranging volume goes to the heart of the revisionist debate about the crisis of government that led to the English Civil War. The author tackles questions about the patronage that structured early modern society, arguing that the increase in royal bounty in the early seventeenth century redefined the corrupt practices that characterized early... more...

  • Siting Cultureby Kirsten Hastrup; Karen Fog Olwig

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 43.95

    Culture has been subject to critical debate in anthropology during the past decade and this is related to a shift in emphasis from the bounded local culture to transnational cultural flows. At the same time that cultural mobility is being emphasized, the people studied by anthropologists are recasting culture as a place of belonging as they construct... more...

  • The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancersby Edward Schieffelin

    Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 34.00

    This classic ethnography, now in its second edition, describes the traditional way of life of the Kaluli, a tropical forest people of Papua New Guinea. The book takes as its focus the nostalgic and violent Gisalo ceremony, one of the most remarkable performances in the anthropological literature. Tracking the major symbolic and emotional themes of... more...

  • Becoming Muslimby Anna Mansson McGinty

    Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 34.00

    While Islam has become a controversial topic in the West, a growing number of Westerners find powerful meaning in Islam. Becoming Muslim is an ethnographic study based on in-depth interviews with Swedish and American women who have converted to Islam. more...

  • The Power of Mythby Joseph Campbell; Bill Moyers

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 16.00

    Finally available in a popularly priced,  non-illustrated, smaller-format edition, which is ideal  for the college market and general reader alike,  this extraordinary best-seller is a brilliant  evocation of the noted scholar's teachings on mythology. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...

  • The Angry Earthby Anthony Oliver-Smith; Susanna Hoffman

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 49.95

    This work takes a close look at disasters and the response of victims in the immediate aftermath and over the long-run. It demonstrates how disasters arise from human propensity to take risks which make them vulnerable to cataclysms, whether natural or technologically related. This collection is the first to adequately represent the cultural, historical... more...

  • Far Fieldby Andrea Polli; Jane Marsching

    Intellect 2011; US$ 20.00

    "Far Field" will be a visually appealing book with numerous rich colour images. It offers cutting edge ideas - a new way to think about the issues surrounding climate change. There is inclusion of fascinating first person accounts of projects at the Poles. "Far Field" is a collection of essays in contemporary cultural studies combined... more...

  • American Cultural Studiesby Neil Campbell; Alasdair Kean

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 41.95

    Praise for previous editions: 'Something of a godsend ... as a teaching resource this book is second to none ... achieves levels of multiplicity rarely, if ever, reached by others.' - Borderlines: Studies in American Culture This third edition of American Cultural Studies has been updated throughout to take into account the developments of... more...