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This article aims to introduce the Extended Case Method (ECM) as an approach to qualitative social research. As an approach, the ECM rooted in the ethnography approach in the anthropological tradition and developed in the sociological tradition research. With reference to Michael Buroway (1998) as a developer of ECM and some articles that used ECM as a method, this paper outlines the basic concepts of ECM, their advantages and infirmity, and the application of theories in social research by using ECM. As an extended case, there are four aspects that extend on ECM, namely intervention, processes, structuration, and reconstruction (theory). The advantage of ECM is their four extending. Rather than the infirmity of ECM rooted from their advantage, namely domination, silencing, objectification, and normalization. The use of theory in ECM was carried out from the beginning to the end of the study. Base on their characteristics, ECM very feasible to use to understanding borderless society and ambiguity of case study on research of social science in general, and ethnography especially.

This paper draws on music therapeutic, neuroscientific, and philosophical literature to posit three aspects of musical engagement that qualify music as an unusually accessible stimulus: 1) audition as a means of self-orientation 2) music's instigation of self-referential thought, and 3) the lower threshold required for processing musical meaning compared to linguistic meaning. This accessibility renders music a promising therapeutic stimulus for people living with a disorder of consciousness or other cognitive disorders, as clinical studies suggest. Moreover, this paper argues that culturally sensitive music theory and cognition can help maximize music's therapeutic potential by clarifying the variables that influence the accessibility of musical stimuli. Specifically, by complicating the research findings from participant cohorts dominated by members of Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) societies, music theory and cognition can illuminate how cultural context impacts the manner and extent to which listeners derive therapeutic benefit from musical structures. This suggests that there is fertile ground for future collaborative work between music therapists, cognitivists, and theorists.

Emerging from profound political change in Eastern Europe, Latin America and Africa, and coupled with a proliferation of market economies and commercial interpenetrations of hitherto closed societies, the international system has become a global village, where the rules of conduct of economic enterprise entail intricacies and sensitivities heretofore largely incongruous to mainstream organization theory

AbstractThis article discusses a cross-cultural negotiation process between a new Japanese university and an established American university to create a joint business venture – a dual-degree program. The parties failed to sign a contract, and there were indicators during negotiations pointing to the likelihood of a failed outcome. Negotiation style convergence was evident, with the Japanese adopting an erabi ('either-or') style and the Americans an awase ('more-or-less') style. The 7-Step framework used to structure the negotiation discussion may be better suited to analyzing Japanese negotiation processes than American. The implications will be of value to Japanese and American/Western businesspeople or educational administrators involved in joint venture-type negotiations.

Anthropology and the Predicaments of Holism / Nils Bubandt, Ton Otto -- Rethinking Holism in Ethnographic Practice. Beyond the Whole in Ethnographic Practice? / Ton Otto, Nils Bubandt -- Holism and the Expectations of Critique in Post-1980s Anthropology / George E Marcus -- Worlding the Matsutake Diaspora / Anna Tsing -- The Whole beyond Holism / Martin Holbraad -- Beyond Cultural Wholes?. Beyond Cultural Wholes? / Ton Otto, Nils Bubandt -- The Whole is a Part / Marshall Sahlins -- Lingual and Cultural Wholes and Fields / Alan Rumsey -- Deep Wholes / Mark Mosko -- Beyond Structural Wholes?. Beyond Structural Wholes? / Nils Bubandt, Ton Otto -- Louis Dumont and a Holist Anthropology / Bruce Kapferer -- From Wholes to Collectives / Philippe Descola -- Holism and the Transformation of the Contemporary Global Order / Jonathan Friedman -- Beyond Social Wholes?. Beyond Social Wholes? / Nils Bubandt, Ton Otto -- Proportional Holism / Rane Willerslev, Morten Axel Pedersen -- One Past and Many Pasts / Eric Hirsch, Daniele Moretti -- Drawing Together / Tim Ingold.

This second volume builds on the initial groundwork laid by Ecocinema Theory and Practice by examining the ways in which ecocritical cinema studies have matured and proliferated over the last decade, opening whole new areas of study and research.

Featuring fourteen new essays organized into three sections around the themes of cinematic materialities, discourses, and communities, the volume explores a variety of topics within ecocinema studies from examining specific national and indigenous film contexts to discussing ecojustice, environmental production studies, film festivals, and political ecology. The breadth of the contributions exemplifies how ecocinema scholars worldwide have sought to overcome the historical legacy of binary thinking and intellectual norms and are working to champion new ecocritical, intersectional, decolonial, queer, feminist, Indigenous, vitalist, and other emergent theories and cinematic practices. The collection also demonstrates the unique ways that cinema studies scholarship is actively addressing environmental injustice and the climate crisis.

This book is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of ecocritical film and media studies, production studies, cultural studies, and environmental studies.

"Laura Chrisman's Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory: A Reader was published in 1993. It quickly became a landmark of postcolonial studies. This timely new book offers insights into the field she helped establish. Both polemical and scholarly, Postcolonial contraventions is challenging in its analysis of black Atlantic studies, colonial discourse analysis and postcolonial theory. She provides important new paradigms for understanding imperial literature, Englishness, and black transnationalism. Her concerns range from the metropolitan centre of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, to fatherhood in Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk; from the marketing of South African literature to cosmopolitanism in Chinua Achebe; from utopian discourse in Benita Parry to Frederic Jameson's theorisation of empire. Chrisman also critically engages with postcolonial intellectuals Paul Gilroy, David Lloyd, Anne McClintock, Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak and Robert Young, uncovering conservatism from unexpected quarters. The book joins a growing chorus of materialist voices within postcolonial studies, and addresses an urgent need for greater attention to the political, historical and socio-economic elements of cultural production. This book will be of interest to students, researchers and teachers of postcolonial studies, theory and literature; black diaspora and Atlantic studies; imperialism and Victorian literature of empire, and British literature of the nineteenth century"--Publisher's description

1. The problem of social change in the technological society -- 2. The individual in the great society -- 3. The containment of social change in industrial society -- 4. Political preface to Eros and civilization, 1966 -- 5. Beyond one-dimensional man -- 6. Cultural revolution -- 7. The historical fate of bourgeois democracy -- 8. Watergate : when law and morality stand in the way -- 9. A revolution in values -- 10. Letters -- 11. Afterword.

Laura Chrisman's Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory: A Reader was published in 1993. It quickly became a landmark of postcolonial studies. This timely new book offers insights into the field she helped establish. Both polemical and scholarly, Postcolonial contraventions is challenging in its analysis of black Atlantic studies, colonial discourse analysis and postcolonial theory. She provides important new paradigms for understanding imperial literature, Englishness, and black transnationalism. Her concerns range from the metropolitan centre of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, to fatherhood in Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk; from the marketing of South African literature to cosmopolitanism in Chinua Achebe; from utopian discourse in Benita Parry to Frederic Jameson's theorisation of empire. Chrisman also critically engages with postcolonial intellectuals Paul Gilroy, David Lloyd, Anne McClintock, Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak and Robert Young, uncovering conservatism from unexpected quarters. The book joins a growing chorus of materialist voices within postcolonial studies, and addresses an urgent need for greater attention to the political, historical and socio-economic elements of cultural production. This book will be of interest to students, researchers and teachers of postcolonial studies, theory and literature; black diaspora and Atlantic studies; imperialism and Victorian literature of empire, and British literature of the nineteenth century.