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Cultures in Flux

Author : Stephen P. Frank
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400821339
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Cultures in Flux written by Stephen P. Frank and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1994-07-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular culture of urban and rural tsarist Russia revealed a dynamic and troubled world. Stephen Frank and Mark Steinberg have gathered here a diverse collection of essays by Western and Russian scholars who question conventional interpretations and recall neglected stories about popular behavior, politics, and culture. What emerges is a new picture of lower-class life, in which traditions and innovations intermingled and social boundaries and identities were battered and reconstructed. The authors vividly convey the vitality as well as the contradictions of social life in old regime Russia, while also confronting problems of interpretation, methodology, and cultural theory. They tell of peasant death rites and religious beliefs, family relationships and brutalities, defiant peasant women, folk songs, urban amusement parks, expressions of popular patriotism, the penny press, workers' notions of the self, street hooliganism, and attempts by educated Russians to transform popular festivities. Together, the authors portray popular culture not as a static, separate world, but as the dynamic means through which lower-class Russians engaged the world around them. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Daniel R. Brower, Barbara Alpern Engel, Hubertus F. Jahn, Al'bin M. Konechnyi, Boris N. Mironov, Joan Neuberger, Robert A. Rothstein, and Christine D. Worobec.

France in Flux

Author : Ari J. Blatt
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1786949695
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book France in Flux written by Ari J. Blatt and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The changing look and feel of metropolitan France has been a notable preoccupation of French culture since the 1980s. This collection of essays explores concern with space across a range of media, from recent cinema, documentary filmmaking and photographic projects to television drama and contemporary fiction, and examines what it reveals about the fluctuating state of the nation in a post-colonial and post-industrial age.

Culture Class

Author : Martha Rosler
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1934105813
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Culture Class written by Martha Rosler and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013-09-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays Martha Rosler embarks on a broad inquiry into the economic and historical precedents for today's soft ideology of creativity, with special focus on its elaborate retooling of class distinctions. In the creative city, the neutralization or incorporation of subcultural movements, the organic translation of the gritty into the quaint, and the professionalization of the artist combine with armies of eager freelancers and interns to constitute the friendly user interface of a new social sphere in which, for those who have been granted a place within it, an elaborate retooling of traditional markers of difference has allowed class distinctions to be either utterly dissolved or willfully suppressed. The result is a handful of cities selected for revitalization rather than desertion, where artists in search of cheap rent become the avant-garde pioneers of gentrification, and one no longer asks where all of this came from and how. And it may be for this reason that, for Rosler, it becomes all the more necessary to locate the functioning of power within this new urban paradigm, to find a position from which to make it accountable to something other than its own logic. e-flux journal Series edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle

IN TRANSITION: Cultural Identities in the Age of Transnational and Transcultural Flux

Author : Peter Lyssiotis
Publisher : NeMe
ISBN 13 : 9963969518
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book IN TRANSITION: Cultural Identities in the Age of Transnational and Transcultural Flux written by Peter Lyssiotis and published by NeMe. This book was released on 2009-12-12 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Understanding Social Psychology Across Cultures

Author : Peter B Smith
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9781412903660
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Social Psychology Across Cultures written by Peter B Smith and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long-awaited new textbook will be of enormous value to students and teachers in cross-cultural and social psychology. The key strength of Understanding Social Psychology Across Cultures: Living and Working in a Changing World is how it illustrates the ways in which culture shapes psychological process across a wide range of social contexts. It also effectively examines the strengths and limitations of the key theories, methods and instruments used in cross-cultural research.

Cultural and Visual Flux at Early Historical Bagh in Central India

Author : Archana Verma
Publisher : Archana Verma
ISBN 13 : 1407301519
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Cultural and Visual Flux at Early Historical Bagh in Central India written by Archana Verma and published by Archana Verma. This book was released on 2007 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the region around the early historical Buddhist monastery in Bagh, in the state of Madhya Pradesh in central India; a special focus is given to the local cave art. The author argues that the visual art represents the religious assimilation by Buddhism, an approach caused by the process of transformation through three successive phases. The evolution of a Brahmanic class is also traced, together with the impact of Brahmanic ritual and class structures on the artwork of the monastery.

Fluxomics and Metabolic Analysis in Systems Microbiology

Author : Wei Xiong
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889630692
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Fluxomics and Metabolic Analysis in Systems Microbiology written by Wei Xiong and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Faith in Flux

Author : Devaka Premawardhana
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812249984
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Faith in Flux written by Devaka Premawardhana and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologist Devaka Premawardhana arrived in Africa to study the much reported "explosion" of Pentecostalism, the spread of which has indeed been massive. It is the continent's fastest growing form of Christianity and one of the world's fastest growing religious movements. Yet Premawardhana found no evidence for this in the province of Mozambique where he worked. His research suggests that much can be gained by including such places in the story of global Christianity, by shifting attention from the well-known places where Pentecostal churches flourish to the unfamiliar places where they fail. In Faith in Flux, Premawardhana documents the ambivalence with which Pentecostalism has been received by the Makhuwa, an indigenous and historically mobile people of northern Mozambique. The Makhuwa are not averse to the newly arrived churches—many relate to them powerfully. Few, however, remain in them permanently. Pentecostalism has not firmly taken root because it is seen as one potential path among many—a pragmatic and pluralistic outlook befitting a people accustomed to life on the move. This phenomenon parallels other historical developments, from responses to colonial and postcolonial intrusions to patterns of circular migration between rural villages and rising cities. But Premawardhana primarily attributes the religious fluidity he observed to an underlying existential mobility, an experimental disposition cultivated by the Makhuwa in their pre-Pentecostal pasts and carried by them into their post-Pentecostal futures. Faith in Flux aims not to downplay the influence of global forces on local worlds, but to recognize that such forces, "explosive" though they may be, never succeed in capturing the everyday intricacies of actual lives.

The Psychological Foundations of Culture

Author : Mark Schaller
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 113564814X
Total Pages : 663 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book The Psychological Foundations of Culture written by Mark Schaller and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003-09-12 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is it that cultures come into existence at all? How do cultures develop particular customs and characteristics rather than others? How do cultures persist and change over time? Most previous attempts to address these questions have been descriptive and historical. The purpose of this book is to provide answers that are explanatory, predictive, and relevant to the emergence and continuing evolution of cultures past, present, and future. Most other investigations into "cultural psychology" have focused on the impact that culture has on the psychology of the individual. The focus of this book is the reverse. The authors show how questions about the origins and evolution of culture can be fruitfully answered through rigorous and creative examination of fundamental characteristics of human cognition, motivation, and social interaction. They review recent theory and research that, in many different ways, points to the influence of basic psychological processes on the collective structures that define cultures. These processes operate in all sorts of different populations, ranging from very small interacting groups to grand-scale masses of people occupying the same demographic or geographic category. The cultural effects--often unintended--of individuals' thoughts and actions are demonstrated in a wide variety of customs, ritualized practices, and shared mythologies: for example, religious beliefs, moral standards, rules for the allocation of resources, norms for the acceptable expression of aggression, gender stereotypes, and scientific values. The Psychological Foundations of Culture reveals that the consequences of psychological processes resonate well beyond the disciplinary constraints of psychology. By taking a psychological approach to questions usually addressed by anthropologists, sociologists, and other social scientists, it suggests that psychological research into the foundations of culture is a useful--perhaps even necessary--complement to other forms of inquiry.

Flux Control in Biological Systems

Author : Ernst-Detlef Schulze
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0323139426
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book Flux Control in Biological Systems written by Ernst-Detlef Schulze and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehending and modelling biomass production, nutrient, and water fluxes in biological systems requires understanding control mechanisms at various levels of organiztion. This new book, with 16 pages of four-colorplates, compares patterns and mechanisms of regulation-starting from enzyme reactions and ending at the population and ecosystem level. By doing so, the book investigates the general principles of how fluxes are adjusted and regulated. Such principles areessential for preparing effective models and for predicting human impacts on ecosystems. Flux Control in Biological Systems: From Enzymes to Populations and Ecosystems will be an essential personal library addition for student and professional environmental biologists, ecologists, physiologists, biochemists, botanists, microbiologists, soil scientists, and zoologists; as well as anyone who investigate patterns of matter and energy transfer in biological systems of different levels of complexity. * Presents the mechanisms of flux control * Explains the similarities of flux control at various levels of complexity and organization * Demonstrates how fluxes are adjusted in complex systems of interacting groups of organisms

Forces of Art

Author : Valiz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9787949209589
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Forces of Art written by Valiz and published by . This book was released on 2020-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Flux

Author : April Rinne
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1523093617
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Flux written by April Rinne and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover eight powerful mindset shifts that enable leaders and seekers of all ages to thrive in a time of unprecedented change and uncertainty. Being adaptable and flexible have always been hallmarks of effective leadership and a fulfilling life. But in a world of so much—and faster-paced—change, and an ever-faster pace of change, flexibility and resilience can be stretched to their breaking points. The quest becomes how to find calm and lasting meaning in the midst of enduring chaos. A world in flux calls for a new mindset, one that treats constant change and uncertainty as a feature, not a bug. Flux helps readers open this mindset—a flux mindset—and develop eight “flux superpowers” that flip conventional ideas about leadership, success, and well-being on their heads. They empower people to see change in new ways, craft new responses, and ultimately reshape their relationship to change from the inside out. April Rinne defines these eight flux superpowers: • Run slower. • See what's invisible. • Get lost. • Start with trust. • Know your “enough.” • Create your portfolio career. • Be all the more human (and serve other humans). • Let go of the future. Whether readers are sizing up their career, reassessing their values, designing a product, building an organization, trying to inspire their colleagues, or simply showing up more fully in the world, enjoying a flux mindset and activating their flux superpowers will keep readers grounded even when the ground is too often shifting beneath them.

The Nature of Biological Systems as Revealed by Thermal Methods

Author : Dénes Lörinczy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402022190
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Biological Systems as Revealed by Thermal Methods written by Dénes Lörinczy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-02-21 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Af ter a kind mo ti va tion by Judit Si mon (Ed i tor-in-Chief of the Jour nal of Ther mal Anal y s is and Cal o ri m e t r y, Kluwe r Ac a dem ic Pub lis her) and ne go ti a tions with po- si ble con tri bu tors - lasting for m ore than one year - it was de cided to write a book about the ap pli ca tion of ther mal meth ods in bi ol ogy. Its aim was to be a guide how to per form ex per i ments and what kind of in for mation m ight be gained by them. We tried to col lect in for mation tha t could be achieved only dur ing a long per sonal pra- tice. In this way sci en tists from bi ol ogy and med i cine, e. g., who are not so skilled in phys ics and math e mat ics may re al ize very soon the beauty and power of this tool at one hand. On the other hand, those sci en tists with better back ground in nat u ral sc- ences can be more sensitive to find out exciting biological problems.

Worldview Flux

Author : Jim Norwine
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739101384
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Worldview Flux written by Jim Norwine and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most salient feature of the postmodern world, believe geographers Jim Norwine and Jonathan M. Smith, is a new set of beliefs, attitudes, and assumptions that are not yet well developed or widely diffused, so that few if any postmodern people are entirely of the new world or the old. People are "perplexed," their values inchoate. Worldview Flux defines and describes the nature of perplexity and documents the shifts and changes of the postmodern world that lead to it, attending especially to the ways changes are experienced in particular places and human communities. In theoretical chapters contributors explain the reasons for our disoriented and disorienting world; empirical chapters describe strategies developed by individuals and communities to preserve, recover, or reinvent lost values, meaning, and identity. This volume is an accessible, engaging, and thought-provoking exploration of cultural geography in our time.

Cultures of Commemoration

Author : Keith L. Camacho
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824860314
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Cultures of Commemoration written by Keith L. Camacho and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1941 the Japanese military attacked the US naval base Pearl Harbor on the Hawaiian island of O‘ahu. Although much has been debated about this event and the wider American and Japanese involvement in the war, few scholars have explored the Pacific War’s impact on Pacific Islanders. Cultures of Commemoration fills this crucial gap in the historiography by advancing scholarly understanding of Pacific Islander relations with and knowledge of American and Japanese colonialisms in the twentieth century. Drawing from an extensive archival base of government, military, and popular records, Chamorro scholar Keith L Camacho traces the formation of divergent colonial and indigenous histories in the Mariana Islands, an archipelago located in the western Pacific and home to the Chamorro people. He shows that US colonial governance of Guam, the southernmost island, and that of Japan in the Northern Mariana Islands created competing colonial histories that would later inform how Americans, Chamorros, and Japanese experienced and remembered the war and its aftermath. Central to this discussion is the American and Japanese administrative development of "loyalty" and "liberation" as concepts of social control, collective identity, and national belonging. Just how various Chamorros from Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands negotiated their multiple identities and subjectivities is explored with respect to the processes of history and memory-making among this "Americanized" and "Japanized" Pacific Islander population. In addition, Camacho emphasizes the rise of war commemorations as sites for the study of American national historic landmarks, Chamorro Liberation Day festivities, and Japanese bone-collecting missions and peace pilgrimages. Ultimately, Cultures of Commemoration demonstrates that the past is made meaningful and at times violent by competing cultures of American, Chamorro, and Japanese commemorative practices.

Deserting from the Culture Wars

Author : Maria Hlavajova
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262362953
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Deserting from the Culture Wars written by Maria Hlavajova and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artists and writers consider a tactical desertion from the "culture wars"--a refusal to be distracted, an embrace of the emancipatory understanding of culture. Deserting from the Culture Wars reflects upon and intervenes in our current moment of ever-more polarizing ideological combat, often seen as the return of the "culture wars." How are these culture wars defined and waged? Engaging in a theater of war that has been delineated by the enemy is a shortcut to defeat. Getting out of the reactive mode that produces little but a series of Pavlovian responses, this book proposes a tactical desertion from the culture wars as they are being waged today--a refusal to play the other side's war games, an unwillingness to be distracted.

Clash of Cultures

Author : Brian M. Fagan
Publisher : AltaMira Press
ISBN 13 : 1461666791
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Clash of Cultures written by Brian M. Fagan and published by AltaMira Press. This book was released on 1997-11-26 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Europe it was called the Age of Discovery. To the rest of the world, it often meant slavery, epidemic disease, cultural genocide, and wholesale social and economic changes. What happened in the period when Europe first came in contact with the rest of the world? In this new edition of Brian Fagan's Clash of Cultures, the best-selling author offers a series of fascinating cases on the impact of cultural contact, including cultures such as those of the Huron fur traders, South African Khoi Khoi, Tahitians, Japanese, and Aztecs. Each case provides a description of the pre-European culture, the short-term impacts of European contact, and long-term changes caused by the clash of two cultures. Fagan also explores the many advances in the general literature on this period such as the "people without history," world systems analysis, and the debate over Captain Cook. Ideal for courses in cultural anthropology, world history, historical archaeology, ethnic studies, or area studies, as well as for the general reader.