Narrow your search
Listing 1 - 10 of 29 << page
of 3
>>
Sort by

Book
Les Guise et leur paraître
Author:
ISBN: 9782869063082 9782753532588 Year: 2013 Publisher: Rennes Presses universitaires de Rennes

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Une plongée dans la culture matérielle de la noblesse du XVI siècle qui recontextualise les objets du passé en décrivant leur dimension culturelle et sociale et en prenant comme point d'observation la maison de Guise. L'auteure s'interroge sur les enjeux que sous-tendaient la consommation d'une famille ducale et comment les Guise se procuraient les biens nécessaires à la tenue de leur rang.


Book
New mobilities regimes in art and social sciences.
Authors: --- ---
ISBN: 1409450929 1409450937 1317088328 1317088336 9781409450931 9781306169677 1306169674 9781409450924 9781409471714 1409471713 9781409450924 9781315598000 9781317088318 9781317088325 9781138269262 1315598000 9781317088332 Year: 2013 Publisher: Farnham Ashgate

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

New Mobilities Regimes analyses how global mobilities are changing the world of today and the role of political and economic power. Bringing together essays by leading scholars and social scientists, including John Urry, Mimi Sheller and Bülent Diken with the work of well-known artists and art theorists such as Jordan Crandall, Ursula Bieman, Gülsün Karamustafa and Dan Perjovschi this book is a unique document of the cross-disciplinary mobility and power discourse. The specific design, integrating the text and art elements to create a singular dialogue makes for an exciting intellectual and ae


Book
Tourism, magic and modernity : cultivating the human garden.
Author:
ISBN: 9780857452016 0857452010 9780857452023 9781782383215 9781782383222 1782383220 1283326434 9786613326430 0857452029 9781283326438 6613326437 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York Berghahn

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

"Drawing from extended fieldwork in La Réunion, in the Indian Ocean, the author suggests an innovative re-reading of different concepts of magic that emerge in the global cultural economics of tourism. Following the making and unmaking of the tropical island tourism destination of La Réunion, he demonstrates how destinations are transformed into magical pleasure gardens in which human life is cultivated for tourist consumption. Like a gardener would cultivate flowers, local development policy, nature conservation, and museum initiatives dramatise local social life so as to evoke modernist paradigms of time, beauty and nature. Islanders who live in this 'human garden' are thus placed in the ambivalent role of 'human flowers', embodying ideas of authenticity and biblical innocence, but also of history and social life in perpetual creolisation."--P. [4] of cover.


Book
The Masked Media
Author:
ISBN: 9027977771 9783110829082 3110829088 9789027977779 Year: 2013 Volume: 59 Publisher: Berlin Boston


Book
Highlife Saturday night : popular music and social change in urban Ghana.
Author:
ISBN: 9780253007254 9780253007292 9780253007339 Year: 2013 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana university press


Book
Iberian modalities : a relational approach to the study of culture in the Iberian peninsula
Author:
ISBN: 9781846318337 9781781386750 Year: 2013 Publisher: Liverpool Liverpool University Press


Book

Book
Envisioning eden : mobilizing imaginaries in tourism and beyond.
Author:
ISBN: 9780857459039 0857459031 9781845457600 1845457609 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford Berghahn Books

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

As tourists we demand the same standards of service wherever we go, yet we always want the destination to be distinctive. Based on fieldwork in Tanzania & Indonesia, this book explores how tourism fantasies are rewarded in an increasingly homogenised world.

Art and agency : an anthropological theory
Author:
ISBN: 9780198280149 0198280149 0198280130 9780198280132 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

In Art and Agency, Alfred Gell formulates an anthropological theory of visual art that focuses on the social context of art production, circulation, and reception. As a theory of the nexus of social relations involving works of art, this work suggests that in certain contexts, art-objects substitute for persons and thus mediate social agency. Diversely illustrated and based on European, Polynesian, Melanesian, and Australian sources, Art and Agency was completed just before Gell's death at the age of fifty-one in January 1997. It embodies the intellectual bravura, lively wit, vigor, and erudition for which he was admired, and will stand as an enduring testament to one of the most gifted anthropologists of his generation.


Book
An anthropology of architecture
Author:
ISBN: 9781845207830 9781845207823 9780857853011 9780857853004 1845207831 1845207823 0857853015 9781003084457 1003084451 0857853007 0857853015 1000183904 1000180727 1474214177 Year: 2013 Publisher: London Bloomsbury

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

"With a focus on domestic space...the book explains how anthropologists think about public and private boundaries, gender, sex and the body, the materiality of architectural forms and materials, building technologies and architectural representations."-- Back cover.

Listing 1 - 10 of 29 << page
of 3
>>
Sort by