| Author | : Charles Lindholm |
| Publisher | : Oneworld |
| Total Pages | : 488 |
| Release | : 2007-07 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : |
In this newly revised and updated edition, Lindholm provides a comprehensive introduction to psychological anthropology, deftly tracing the growth of the field, introducing the key theorists, and covering a broad range of contemporary topics such as identity, emotions, symbolic systems, and the psychology of groups.
| Author | : Stuart Hall |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 323 |
| Release | : 1996-04-04 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1446229203 |
Why and how do contemporary questions of culture so readily become highly charged questions of identity? The question of cultural identity lies at the heart of current debates in cultural studies and social theory. At issue is whether those identities which defined the social and cultural world of modern societies for so long - distinctive identities of gender, sexuality, race, class and nationality - are in decline, giving rise to new forms of identification and fragmenting the modern individual as a unified subject. Questions of Cultural Identity offers a wide-ranging exploration of this issue. Stuart Hall firstly outlines the reasons why the question of identity is so compelling and yet so problematic. The cast of outstanding contributors then interrogate different dimensions of the crisis of identity; in so doing, they provide both theoretical and substantive insights into different approaches to understanding identity.
| Author | : Vera da Silva Sinha |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2020-04-30 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027261245 |
The dynamics of language, culture and identity are a major focus for many linguists and cognitive and cultural researchers. This book explores the inextricable connection that language has with cultural identity and cultural practices, with a particular emphasis on how they contribute to shaping personal identity. The volume brings together selected peer-reviewed papers from the 7th International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind with other specially commissioned chapters. Like the conference, this book aims to enhance mutual understanding among researchers from diverse disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, offering a wealth of insights to a wide range of readers on recent culturally oriented cognitive studies of language.
| Author | : Jonathan Friedman |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 1994-12-09 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780803986381 |
This fascinating book explores the interface between global processes, identity formation and the production of culture. Examining ideas ranging from world systems theory to postmodernism, Jonathan Friedman investigates the relations between the global and the local, to show how cultural fragmentation and modernist homogenization are equally constitutive trends of global reality. With examples taken from a rich variety of theoretical sources, ethnographic accounts of historical eras, the analysis ranges across the cultural formations of ancient Greece, contemporary processes of Hawaiian cultural identification and Congolese beauty cults. Throughout, the author examines the interdependency of world market and local cultural
| Author | : Jean-François Bayart |
| Publisher | : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS |
| Total Pages | : 332 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9781850656609 |
Does the West impose its own definition of human rights and democracy on the rest of the world? Does globalization threaten British, French or other European iedntities? Is African culture compatible with multi-party politics? This text aims to answer these and other questions.
| Author | : Fred Davis |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2013-11-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 022616795X |
What do our clothes say about who we are or who we think we are? How does the way we dress communicate messages about our identity? Is the desire to be "in fashion" universal, or is it unique to Western culture? How do fashions change? These are just a few of the intriguing questions Fred Davis sets out to answer in this provocative look at what we do with our clothes—and what they can do to us. Much of what we assume to be individual preference, Davis shows, really reflects deeper social and cultural forces. Ours is an ambivalent social world, characterized by tensions over gender roles, social status, and the expression of sexuality. Predicting what people will wear becomes a risky gamble when the link between private self and public persona can be so unstable.
| Author | : Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2014-08-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1443865591 |
Questions of identity and identification are among the most important evolving concerns of contemporary cultural studies. Through processes of personal identification with discursively constructed subject positions, identities emerge across a wide range of cultural practices in the course of social interactions involving the use of language and other semiotic systems manifested in cultural artefacts of various kinds. The present collection includes a selection of papers on the topic of identity and identification in cultural studies today. Incorporating theoretical contributions and practical case studies, this monograph adds to contemporary debates on identity-forging practices from various theoretical positions in different social, historic and national contexts. The chapters of this volume range from overtly theoretical discussions on the construction of identities and subjectivities in post-modernity, to examinations of the crucial role of (print) media in identity-construction and -representation processes in contemporary social formations through an insight into other key issues in cultural studies, such as gender politics and the construction of femininities, the hybridization of identities in the context of postcolonial work, and the interplay between collective identities and discourses on nation.
| Author | : Erich S. Gruen |
| Publisher | : Getty Publications |
| Total Pages | : 546 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0892369698 |
Cultural identity in the classical world is explored from a variety of angles.
| Author | : Kevin V. Mulcahy |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 2016-11-21 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1137435437 |
This book places the study of public support for the arts and culture within the prism of public policy making. It is explicitly comparative in casting cultural policy within a broad sociopolitical and historical framework. Given the complexity of national communities, there has been an absence of comparative analyses that would explain the wide variability in modes of cultural policy as reflections of public cultures and cultural identity. The discussion is internationally focused and interdisciplinary. Mulcahy contextualizes a wide variety of cultural policies and their relation to politics and identity by asking a basic question: who gets their heritage valorized and by whom is this done? The fundamental assumption is that culture is at the heart of public policy as it defines national identity and personal value.
