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Culture and cultural processes Including social change, structuralism, diffusion, etc.

  • Chiefdoms, Collapse and Coalescence in the Early American Southby Robin Beck

    Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 72.00

    Offers a new framework for understanding the transformation of the Native American South during the first centuries of the colonial era. more...

  • Work's Intimacyby Melissa Gregg

    Wiley 2013; US$ 19.95

    This book provides a long-overdue account of online technology and its impact on the work and lifestyles of professional employees. It moves between the offices and homes of workers in the new "knowledge" economy to provide intimate insight into the personal, family, and wider social tensions emerging in today’s rapidly changing work environment.... more...

  • Tales from Facebookby Daniel Miller

    Wiley 2013; US$ 19.95

    Facebook is now used by nearly 500 million people throughout the world, many of whom spend several hours a day on this site. Once the preserve of youth, the largest increase in usage today is amongst the older sections of the population. Yet until now there has been no major study of the impact of these social networking sites upon the lives of their... more...

  • The End of Tradition?by Nezar Alsayyad

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 75.00

    Rooted in real world observations, this book questions the concept of tradition - whether contemporary globalization will prove its demise or whether there is a process of simultaneous ending and renewing. In his introduction, Nezar Alsayyad discusses the meaning of the word 'tradition' and the current debates about the 'end of tradition'. Thereafter... more...

  • Thriving in the Crosscurrentby James Kenney

    Quest Books 2012; US$ 16.95

    "Are we living in an age of moral decay or moral growth?" James Kenney asks his audiences in talks in the U.S. and abroad. The pessimists win out, citing everything from road rage to economic crisis, religious fanaticism, global violence, and environmental disasters. But the good news, says Kenney, is that what we see is not what we get. We misperceive... more...

  • Connectionsby Stephen P. Reyna

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 45.95

    Have you ever wondered how the internal space of our brain connects with the external space of society? Drawing on hermeneutics and neuroscience Stephen Reyna develops an anthropological theory that explains the relationship between the biological and the cultural. Recent popular interest in the brain is evident, and now social anthropologists are... more...

  • Rethinking National Identity in the Age of Migrationby Migration Policy Institute; Bertelsmann Stiftung

    Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung 2012; US$ 32.34

    Hauptbeschreibung Greater mobility and migration have brought about unprecedented levels of diversity that are transforming communities across the Atlantic in fundamental ways, sparking uncertainty over who the "we" is in a society. As publics fear loss of their national identity and values, the need is greater than ever to reinforce the bonds that... more...

  • Cultural Studies 11.3by Lawrence Grossberg; Della Pollock

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95

    This intriguing issue represents the truly international and interdisciplinary nature of contemporary work in cultural studies. Cultural Studies has reflected the discipline in becoming ever more global in scope and perspective. more...

  • Exploring Bordersby Giuseppe Mantovani

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 34.95

    In Exploring Borders Giuseppe Mantovani highlights and explores the ways in which culture acts as a framework organising our experience. He emphasises the differences across and between cultures and examines the depths to which these can go. He also analyses the functions of culture, including: mediation, meaning-making, and forming a repertory of... more...

  • Mapping the Futuresby John Bird; Barry Curtis; Tim Putnam; Lisa Tickner

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 45.95

    There are now new experiences of space and time; new tensions between globalism and regionalism, socialism and consumerism, reality and spectacle; new instabilities of value, meaning and identity - a dialectic between past and future. How are we to understand these? Mapping the Futures is the first of a series which brings together cultural theorists... more...