Cultures in Flux
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Release | : 1994-01-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781400815937 |
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Release | : 1994-01-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781400815937 |
Author | : Stephen P. Frank |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 1994-07-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400821339 |
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.
Author | : Ari J. Blatt |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2019-03-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1786949695 |
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.
Author | : Peter Lyssiotis |
Publisher | : NeMe |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2009-12-12 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9963969518 |
Author | : Martha Rosler |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-09-06 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1934105813 |
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
Author | : Symposium Memory culture in flux |
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Release | : 2022 |
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Author | : Jim Norwine |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780739101384 |
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.
Author | : Paul Kouri |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-08-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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"Spears Shattered: Tradition and Modernity in Cultural Flux" delves into the complex interplay between tradition and modernity within a rapidly changing global landscape. Through a series of insightful essays and narratives, the book examines how cultural identities evolve and adapt in response to shifting societal norms, technological advancements, and globalization. From indigenous communities preserving ancient customs amidst modernization to urban centers grappling with the impact of globalization on local traditions, each chapter offers a nuanced exploration of cultural flux. Readers are invited to contemplate the challenges and opportunities presented by these transformations, as well as the enduring resilience of cultural heritage in the face of change.
Author | : Archana Verma |
Publisher | : Archana Verma |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Bagh (India) |
ISBN | : 1407301519 |
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.
Author | : Brian M. Fagan |
Publisher | : AltaMira Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1997-11-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1461666791 |
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.