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Illustrations; Preface; Chapter 1-Introduction; Chapter 2-Memory, Space/Place, Tourism: Paradigms and Problems; Chapter 3-Unpacking "Dark" Tourism; Chapter 4-Consumption, Meaning, Commemoration; Chapter 5-Marking Memorial Spaces, Making Dialogic Memoryscapes; Chapter 6-The Material Culture of Violence and Commemoration in Public Display; Chapter 7-The Social Life of Things: Material and Visual Culture of Travel and Personal Historiography; Chapter 8-Conclusion: The Contest of Meaning and Cultures of Commemoration; Appendix; Notes; References; Index; About the Author.

Cover; Women and Mass Consumer Society in Postwar France; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; THE CONSENSUS FOR MODERNIZATION: STATE PLANNING; THE ROLE OF THE CITIZEN CONSUMER; WOMEN'S CITIZENSHIP, "NORMALCY," AND THE BABY BOOM; ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK; 1: Consumers for the Nation: Women, Politics, and Citizenship; CREATING A VOICE FOR THE CONSUMER; DEFINING WOMEN'S CITIZENSHIP; THE POLITICS OF EVERYDAY LIFE; 2: The Productivity Drive in the Home and Gaining Comfort on Credit; PRODUCTIVITY IN THE HOME.

This new textbook addresses the neglect of practical research methods in cultural studies. It provides students with clearly written overviews of research methods in cultural studies, along with guidelines on how to put these methods into operation. It advocates a multi-method approach, with students drawing from a pool of techniques and approaches suitable for their own topics of investigation

Writing about artisans -- Before and after 1500: how artisan organization may have emerged in the Ottoman lands -- Services to the state -- Guildsmen of Istanbul and Cairo -- Provincial craftspeople and merchant networks -- Changes in Istanbul guilds -- Cairo: from military penetration of artisan guilds to the state monopolies of Mehmed Ali Paș̦a -- Political roles of craftsmen -- Provincial craftsmen: how guilds adapted to new circumstances -- 1850 to 1914: a different state, a different economy and the disappearance of the guilds

Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa is a collection of ten studies by the most prominent historians of the region. Slavery was more important in the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa than often has been assumed, and Africans from the interior played a more complex role than was previously recognized

"We have never been German" : the economy of digging in Russian Kaliningrad / Olga Sezneva -- Practicing poetry : a career without a job / Ailsa Craig -- Hot glass : the calorific imagination of practice in glassblowing / Erin O'Connor -- State power as field work : culture and practice in the French survey of historic landmarks / Alexandra Kowalski -- New and improved nations : branding national identity / Melissa Aronczyk -- Facts in the city : how London accountants simplify decisions / Matthew Gill -- Managing doubt : professional wrestling jargon and the making of "smart fans" / Marion Wrenn -- Beauty at the gallery : sentimental education and operatic community in contemporary Buenos Aires / Claudio Benzecry -- The erotic life of electric hair clippers : a social history / Alton Phillips -- Practicing authorship : the case of Brecht's plays / Monika Krause

A comprehensive survey of the relationship between work and society in Japan explores the context for individual choices about work. These include the structuring of labour markets, social policy and the influences of globalization. The book affords penetrating insights into Japanese society and challenges current thinking on the subject

Passive voice theories in religious sociology -- Goods as a system of communication -- Money: The contempt of ritual ; Raffia cloth distribution in the Lele economy ; Primitive rationing -- Food as a system of communication: Food studied as a system of communication ; Food as an art form ; The Food Art Exhibition ; Food is not feed -- Good taste: review of Pierre Bourdieu, La distinction -- Population control in primitive groups -- Lele economy compared with the Bushong: a study of economic backwardness -- The exclusion of economics -- Cultural bias -- Maurice Halbwachs, 1877-1945 -- Judgements on James Frazer -- The debate on the Holy: review of The making of late antiquity / by Peter Brown

This article presents an empirical study that investigated and compared two "big data" text analysis methods: dictionary-based analysis, perhaps the most popular automated analysis approach in social science research, and unsupervised topic modeling (i.e., Latent Dirichlet Allocation [LDA] analysis), one of the most widely used algorithms in the field of computer science and engineering. By applying two "big data" methods to make sense of the same dataset—77 million tweets about the 2012 U.S. presidential election—the study provides a starting point for scholars to evaluate the efficacy and validity of different computer-assisted methods for conducting journalism and mass communication research, especially in the area of political communication.

Agent-based modeling has become increasingly popular in recent years, but there is still no codified set of recommendations or practices for how to use these models within a program of empirical research. This article provides ideas and practical guidelines drawn from sociology, biology, computer science, epidemiology, and statistics. We first discuss the motivations for using agent-based models in both basic science and policy-oriented social research. Next, we provide an overview of methods and strategies for incorporating data on behavior and populations into agent-based models, and review techniques for validating and testing the sensitivity of agent-based models. We close with suggested directions for future research.

Risk plays a central role in decision making. Accordingly, risk has been a popular research topic for more than four decades. Finding a generic definition of risk is hard, since this term is used in many areas such as economics, political science, management science, and medical research. However, one thing in common is that risk is always related to both the negative outcomes and uncertainty. In addition, we know that risk is normally subjective and constructed by a human's perception process. But indeed how do people perceive risks? Is there any model capable of describing this procedure and predicting people's perceived risk? In this article, we focus on empirical studies of perceived risk.

The article is devoted to the problem of revising assessment of the work of the outstanding British engraver and publisher Thomas Bewick. Traditionally, it is considered in the context of the general history of engraving development, mostly not connected with either animalistics or scientific editions. In this regard, T. Bewick's works of artistic significance belong to natural-scientific illustrations and are used in popular science editions. The erroneous assessment of his works is associated with a widespread stereotype in which scientific illustration is considered as something of low artistic value. The purpose of this research is to study the genesis of T. Bewick's creativity by analyzing his main works. Of particular interest is the research of the artistic features of woodcut technique, which, thanks to T. Bewick, has found a new life. It is traced the evolution of the engraver's work from his early period to mature one. The complexity of Bewick's talent is noted not only as an engraver of book illustrations, but also as an engraver of bookplates. The characteristic of the technique of cutting a design into hardwood cut across is given, the innovative methods thanks to which Bewick has brought this type of an engraving to a new level of book illustration are revealed. Based on the memoirs of Bewick, the author traces the history of the creation of his main books — "A General History of the Quadrupeds" and "A History of British Birds". It is noted that illustrations by G. Buffon and H. White served as additional sources for "A History of British Birds" despite the use of his own sketches. The author analyses the illustrations and engravings from these books, which are kept in the collections of the Research and Scientific Department of Rare Books (Museum of Book) of the Russian State Library. The structural features of the brief descriptions of "A General History of the Quadrupeds" are considered. Particular attention is paid to the style of the vignettes, which present an integral part of Bewick's creative credo. Such features of Bewick's illustrations as realism, as well as the depiction of humorous genre scenes and jokes are revealed. The author notes that at a late stage of Bewick's art work he rarely uses black cross-hatching, using instead combinations of the wide fields and carefully engraved white spots. The most essential features of Bewick's engraving are revealed: the principle of "white line", hatching with crossed and parallel lines, creation of halftones with very thin strokes and tiny dots. It is emphasized that although Bewick's illustrations have been published in popular scientific publications, they have influenced the development of scientific illustration through their highly artistic execution. It is concluded that woodcut technique allowed to simulate the volume of an image by means of a white stroke.