Kultura: Culture : international journal for cultural researches
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ISSN: 1857-7725
In: Approaches to Culture Theory
This volume addresses the dynamics of materiality over time and space. In cross-cultural, multi-temporal and interdisciplinary studies the authors examine how things gain meaning and status, generate a multitude of emotions, and feed into the propagation of myths, narratives and discourses. The book is divided according to four themes: soft objects, stoic stories, consuming and the collectable, and waste and technologies. The first section discusses the meanings of the lived environment on the individual and national levels. The second section provides specific examples on the role of things in identity construction. The third section focuses on historical and contemporary aspects of consumption and collecting. The phenomena under scrutiny in the fourth section are moral dilemmas associated with and representations of dirt/waste and advancements in science and technology. Presenting diverse case studies of material culture, the volume points to rich interdisciplinary approaches in cultural theory.
In: Approaches to culture series Volume 3
This volume addresses the dynamics of materiality over time and space. In cross-cultural, multi-temporal and interdisciplinary studies the authors examine how things gain meaning and status, generate a multitude of emotions, and feed into the propagation of myths, narratives and discourses. The book is divided according to four themes: soft objects, stoic stories, consuming and the collectable, and waste and technologies. The first section discusses the meanings of the lived environment on the individual and national levels. The second section provides specific examples on the role of things in identity construction. The third section focuses on historical and contemporary aspects of consumption and collecting. The phenomena under scrutiny in the fourth section are moral dilemmas associated with and representations of dirt/waste and advancements in science and technology. Presenting diverse case studies of material culture, the volume points to rich interdisciplinary approaches in cultural theory.
In: Dissent: a quarterly of politics and culture, Band 58, Heft 1, S. 7-8
ISSN: 1946-0910
ISSN: 1540-5931
In: Proceedings of the annual meeting / American Society of International Law, Band 93, S. 271-278
ISSN: 2169-1118
In: Cultures of Early Modern Europ
In: British journal of political science, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 95-113
ISSN: 0007-1234
Enthält Rezensionen u.a. von Almond, G. A.: The civic culture : political attitudes and democracy in five nations / G. A. Almond and S. Verba. - Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univ. Press, 1963. + Almond, G. A.: The civic culture revisited / G. A. Almond and S. Verba. - London : Sage, 1989
World Affairs Online
In: Key ideas in media and cultural studies
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- A note to the reader -- 1. Introduction -- 'Culture' at The Department for Culture, Media and Sport -- Culture as a Perspective -- The Dangers of Culture -- 2. Landscape -- Culture into Nature -- Nature into Culture -- Cultural Explanation and Its Limits -- 3. A whole way of life -- Patterns of Life -- Dirt as a Cultural System -- The Value and Limits of Cosmology -- 4. Politics -- From Politics to Culture and Back Again -- Religion, Culture, and Women-Who-Cover -- Culture and Capitalism and The Anthropocene -- 5. Experience -- An Argument for Reimagining Culture -- Experiential Maps -- Cultural Aesthetics and Cultural Analysis -- 6. Death -- From My Diary -- In the Kingdom of the Sick -- Teaching Death -- 7. Two cheers for culture? -- Guarding Against Cultural Reductionism -- Embracing Collective Intimacies -- Finding Productive Distance -- Engaging With Culture that Matters -- Bibliography -- Index.
Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human. Defining culture and pinpointing its role in our lives is not, however, so straightforward. Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, is uniquely poised to take on the challenge. In this keenly analytical and acerbically funny book, he explores how culture and our conceptualisations of it have evolved over the last two centuries--from rarified sphere to humble practices, and from a bulwark against industrialism's encroaches to present-day capitalism's most profitable export. Ranging over art and literature as well as philosophy and anthropology, and major but somewhat 'unfashionable' thinkers like Johann Gottfried Herder and Edmund Burke as well as T.S. Eliot, Matthew Arnold, Raymond Williams and Oscar Wilde, Eagleton provides a cogent overview of culture set firmly in its historical and theoretical contexts, illuminating its collusion with colonialism, nationalism, the decline of religion, and the rise of and rule of the 'uncultured' masses. Eagleton also examines culture today, lambasting the commodification and co-option of a force that, properly understood, is a vital means for us to cultivate and enrich our social lives, and can even provide the impetus to transform civil society. -- Inside jacket flap.