Inside Culture
Title | Inside Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Nick Couldry |
Publisher | SAGE |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 2000-11-13 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780761963868 |
Inside Culture offers a fresh and stimulating reassessment of the direction of cultural studies. Nick Couldry argues without apology for cultural studies as a discipline centred around the interrelations of culture and power, with a clear focus on accountable empirical research that deals with the real complexities of contemporary lives - `inside' culture. Chapters discuss the broad conceptual issues around `cultures', `texts', `the self', and the individual. There are detailed discussions of a range of cultural studies authors which demystify the elaborate language of contemporary cultural studies, with suggestions for further thinking at the end of chapters.
Cultures and Religion in Dialogue
Title | Cultures and Religion in Dialogue PDF eBook |
Author | Raimon Panikkar |
Publisher | Orbis Books |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 2018-06-26 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1608337464 |
We're Friends, Right?
Title | We're Friends, Right? PDF eBook |
Author | William A. Corsaro |
Publisher | Joseph Henry Press |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2003-10-19 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780309087292 |
Sociologists often study exotic cultures by immersing themselves in an environment until they become accepted as insiders. In this fascinating account by acclaimed researcher William A. Corsaro, a scientist "goes native" to study the secret world of children. Here, for the first time, are the children themselves, heard through an expert who knows that the only way to truly understand them is by becoming a member of their community. That's just what Corsaro did when he traded in his adult perspective for a seat in the sandbox alongside groups of preschoolers. Corsaro's journey of discovery is as fascinating as it is revealing. Living among and gaining the acceptance of children, he gradually comes to understand that a child's world is far more complex than anyone ever suspected. He documents a special culture, unique unto itself, in which children create their own social structures and exert their own influences. At a time when many parents fear that they don't spend enough time with their children, and experts debate the best path to healthy development, seeing childhood through the eyes of a child offers parents and caregivers fresh and compelling insights. Corsaro calls upon all adults to appreciate, embrace, and savor their children's culture. He asks us to take a cue from those we hold so precious and understand that "we're all friends, right?"
The Problem of the Idea of Culture in John Paul II
Title | The Problem of the Idea of Culture in John Paul II PDF eBook |
Author | John Corrigan |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2019-11-13 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1498583180 |
In The Problem of the Idea of Culture in John Paul II: Exposing the Disruptive Agency of the Philosophy of Karol Wojtyła, John Corrigan provides a new lens with which to view and understand the philosophy of Karol Wojtyła/John Paul II. He exposes Wojtyła as a major player in contemporary philosophical debates. The work reformulates the “problem of experience” in light of the questions surrounding our idea of culture. Corrigan argues that for Wojtyła the drama of the “problem of experience” manifests in the apparently divergent accounts of the meaning of human experience as presented by the philosophies of being and of consciousness. Solving this conundrum results in an idea of the person capable of explaining human experience in relation to human culture,unfolding the experiences of self-knowledge, conscience, and the ontic-causal relationship of the person to human culture. The first part of the book concerns formal considerations regarding the constitutive aspects of Wojtyła’s approach, while the second part deals with pragmatic considerations drawn from his comments on culture.
Experiments in Plant Tissue Culture
Title | Experiments in Plant Tissue Culture PDF eBook |
Author | John H. Dodds |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1995-01-27 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780521478922 |
This new edition of a highly successful book has been completely revised and updated, and features new illustrations and experiments.
African Modernity and the Philosophy of Culture in the Works of Femi Euba
Title | African Modernity and the Philosophy of Culture in the Works of Femi Euba PDF eBook |
Author | Iyunolu Osagie |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 189 |
Release | 2017-06-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 149854567X |
This book is a significant and original contribution to the ongoing conversation on modernity. It uses the creative and critical works of Nigerian playwright and novelist Femi Euba to demonstrate the place and function of African cultures in modernity and makes the case for the vibrancy of such cultures in the shaping and constitution of the modern world. In addition to a critique of Euba’s fifty-year artistic career, this book offers an account of Euba’s formative relationship with the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature winner Wole Soyinka, during the promising days of the Nigerian theatre in the immediate post-independence period, and the effect of this relationship on Euba’s artistic choices and reflections. Euba contributes to our understanding of Africa’s negotiation of modernity in significant ways, especially in his sensitive reading of Esu, the Yoruba god of fate and chance, as an artistic consciousness whose historical and ideological mobility during New World slavery, during Africa’s colonial period, and in the manifestations in the black diaspora today emblematizes the process we call modernity. By using ritual, myth, and satire as avenues to the debate on modernity, Euba lays emphasis on the transformative possibilities at the crossroads of history. His works engage the psychological interconnections between old gods and new worlds and the dialogic relationship between tradition and modernity. Delineating the philosophical and literary debates that reject an easy division between a stereotypically traditional Africa and a modern West, the author shows how Euba’s plays and novel engage the entwined and intimate relationships between the modern and the traditional in contemporary Africa, and thereby she asserts the global resonance of Euba’s African, and specifically Yoruba, conception of the world. By meticulously collecting, cataloguing, and critiquing Euba’s works, Osagie models a new way of practicing African literary studies and invites us to glimpse narrative genius on the continent that she firmly believes African scholars should both promote and celebrate.
Catholic Culture in the USA
Title | Catholic Culture in the USA PDF eBook |
Author | John Portmann |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2010-02-10 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1441188924 |
This study of Catholicism articulates how theological teachings trickle down from the Vatican and influence decisions about food, marriage, sex, community celebrations, and medical care.