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This volume charts the changing aspects of gender in Russia's cultural and social history from the late seventeenth century to the Stalinist era and the collapse of the Soviet Union. The works, while focusing on women as a primary subject, highlight in particular gender difference, the construction of both femininity and masculinity in a culture that has undergone major transformation and disruptions over the period of three centuries.

This book is the culmination of 15 years of research and travels that have taken the author completely around the world twice, as well as on other travels in the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and around the Pacific rim. Its purpose has been to try to understand the role of cultural differences within nations and between nations, today and over centuries of history, in shaping the economic and social fates of peoples and of whole civilizations. Focusing on four major cultural areas - that of the British, the Africans (including the African diaspora), the Slavs of Eastern Europe, and the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere - Conquests and Cultures reveals patterns that encompass not only these peoples but others and help explain the role of cultural evolution in economic, social, and political development.

Marks reviews 'Food in Russian History and Culture' edited by Musya Glants and Joyce Toomre.

Preface -- Skinhead history -- Racist and non-racist skins : an analysis of why they, join, stay, and quit -- Gay skinheads: a part of or apart from the skinhead moment -- Female skinheads -- Skinhead music : the beat goes on -- Exploring skinhead identity through an analysis of skinhead websites -- Social networks, and social media -- Conclusion: who is a true skinhead?

Spirits in Culture, History, and Mind. Jeannette Marie Mageo and Alan Howard. eds. New York: Routledge, 1996. 282 pp.

The last ten years have seen interest in Jainism increasing, with this previously little-known Indian religion assuming a significant place in religious studies. Studies in Jaina History and Culture breaks new ground by investigating the doctrinal differences and debates amongst the Jains rather than presenting Jainism as a seamless whole whose doctrinal core has remained virtually unchanged throughout its long history. The focus of the book is the discourse concerning orthodoxy and heresy in the Jaina tradition, the question of omniscience and Jaina logic, role models for women and female identity, Jaina schools and sects, religious property, law and ethics. The internal diversity of the Jaina tradition and Jain techniques of living with diversity are explored from an interdisciplinary point of view by fifteen leading scholars in Jaina studies. The contributors focus on the principal social units of the tradition: the schools, movements, sects and orders, rather than Jain religious culture in abstract. Peter Flügel provides a representative snapshot of the current state of Jaina studies that will interest students and academics involved in the study of religion or South Asian cultures.

The article takes aim at a core difficulty with many current conceptualizations of "historical"culture – that of striking a balance between the common attribution of special privilege to thediscipline of history and professional historians and a potential, emerging democratization oftalk about the past. Seeking some working middle ground is seen as particularly timely giventhe contemporary media culture environment where sentiment appears to increasingly favourchoosing one's positioning relatively freely from facts and expertise. To this end, views presentedunder the umbrella term of historical culture, which largely appear to reserve a curatorial rolefor the various history professionals, are complemented by more explicitly emancipatoryorientations from debates on perceived shifts in public focus to heritage and memory as wellas from key postmodern-inspired approaches to thinking about the past. Several terminologicalrecommendations are argued for, chief among them a reconceptualization of the overall fieldin terms of history culture, whereby professional history and popular and public "parahistory"practices might more readily be viewed as on equal footing.

Abstract The article takes aim at a core difficulty with many current conceptualizations of "historical" culture — that of striking a balance between the common attribution of special privilege to the discipline of history and professional historians and a potential, emerging democratization of talk about the past. Seeking some working middle ground is seen as particularly timely given the contemporary media culture environment where sentiment appears to increasingly favour choosing one's positioning relatively freely from facts and expertise. To this end, views presented under the umbrella term of historical culture, which largely appear to reserve a curatorial role for the various history professionals, are complemented by more explicitly emancipatory orientations from debates on perceived shifts in public focus to heritage and memory as well as from key postmodern-inspired approaches to thinking about the past. Several terminological recommendations are argued for, chief among them a reconceptualization of the overall field in terms of history culture, whereby professional history and popular and public "parahistory" practices might more readily be viewed as on equal footing.