Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture Theory
Author : Anu Kannike
Publisher :
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 12,19 MB
Release : 2020
Category :
ISBN : 9789949033034
Author : Anu Kannike
Publisher :
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 12,19 MB
Release : 2020
Category :
ISBN : 9789949033034
Author : Anu Kannike
Publisher :
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 39,74 MB
Release : 2020
Category :
ISBN : 9789949033034
Author : Doris Bachmann-Medick
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,33 MB
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3110669544
How can we approach possible but unknown futures of the study of culture? This volume explores this question in the context of a changing global world. The contributions in this volume discuss the necessity of significant shifts in our conceptual and epistemological frameworks. Taking into account changing institutional research settings, the authors develop pathways to future cultural research, addressing the crucial concerns of the cultural and social worlds themselves. The contributions thereby utilize contact zones within a wide range of disciplines such as cultural anthropology, sociology, cultural history, literary studies, the history of science and bioethics as well as the environmental and medical humanities. Examining emerging inter- and transdisciplinary points of reference, the volume invites scholars in the humanities and social sciences to take part in a conversation about theories, methods, and practices for the future study of culture.
Author : Barbara Adam
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 37,55 MB
Release : 1995-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0814706444
An overview of cultural theory after postmodernism which provides a user-friendly introduction for students. Theorists assess the postmodernist project, mapping out the future terrain for a critical approach to cultural theory.
Author : Deborah Stevenson
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,69 MB
Release : 2003-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0335227988
*What is distinctive about urban life? *What key trends have shaped the contemporary city? *How have the city and urban cultures been explained by sociology and cultural studies? This is the first book to explore cities and urban life from the perspectives of both sociology and cultural theory. Through an interdisciplinary approach and use of case material, the book demonstrates that the 'real' city of physicality and struggle and the 'imagined' city of representations are entwined in the construction of urban cultures. Starting with a comparison of the rural and the urban, the book considers ways of imagining the city and of conceptualising urban cultures. It goes on to investigate the implications of several pivotal urban and cultural trends, such as the use of the arts and local cultures in city re-imaging, and the ways in which modernism, postmodernism and globalisation have shaped the built environment and the orientation of academic enquiry. Also examined is the way in which representations of the urban landscape in film, literature, art, and popular texts, have informed dominant ideas about the way certain city spaces - including city centres, urban waterfronts, and so-called 'global cities' - should look, function and 'feel'. Designed as a text for undergraduate courses in cultural studies, sociology and wider social science, this book traces the development of urban environments from the nineteenth century to the present, and illuminates the nature of urban life.
Author : Anu Kannike
Publisher :
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 28,77 MB
Release : 2013
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ISBN : 9789949323944
Author : Fernando Poyatos
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9027220417
The traditional gulf between the theory and practice of literature and the various areas subjoined under anthropology has hindered the development of some very fruitful perspectives in the realm of poetics and the general theory of literature (particularly in its narrative forms). Poyatos' initial idea of literary anthropology as the study of people and their cultural manifestations through their national literatures - without doubt the richest source of documentation of human life-styles and the most advanced form of our projection in time and space and of communicating with contemporary and future generations - has been enriched by the thoughts of a multi-cultural group of scholars from both anthropology and literature who at a first symposium on the subject attempted to define this area leaving the way open to many more research possibilities.
Author : Mieke Bal
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 32,24 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804730679
Cultural analysis is devoted to understanding the past as part of the present, as what we have around us. The essays gathered here represent the current state of an emerging field of enquiry.
Author : Leo Douw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 11,45 MB
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136178333
First Published in 1999. This volume is a product of the research programme of the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, entitled International Social Organization in East and Southeast Asia: Qiaoxiang Ties during the Twentieth Century. The programme will run from 1996-2000 (for a fuller description, please see the Appendix chapter). The book was prepared during a workshop at the International Convention of Asian Scholars, 25-8 June 1997, Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands.
Author : Julie Thompson Klein
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 24,29 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780814320884
In this volume, Julie Klein provides the first comprehensive study of the modern concept of interdisciplinarity, supplementing her discussion with the most complete bibliography yet compiled on the subject. Spanning the social sciences, natural sciences, humanities, and professions, her study is a synthesis of existing scholarship on interdisciplinary research, education and health care. Klein argues that any interdisciplinary activity embodies a complex network of historical, social, psychological, political, economic, philosophical, and intellectual factors. Whether the context is a short-ranged instrumentality or a long-range reconceptualization of the way we know and learn, the concept of interdisciplinarity is an important means of solving problems and answering questions that cannot be satisfactorily addressed using singular methods or approaches.