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  • The Orient Strikes Back

    A Global View of Cultural Display

    par Joy Hendry ...
    Collections series Materializing Culture
    At the turn of the 20th Century, Japanese ‘villages' and their exotic occupants delighted and mystified visitors to the Great Exhibitions and Worlds' Fairs . At the beginning of the 21st Century, Japanese tourists have reversed the gaze and now may visit a range of European ‘countries', as well as several other cultural worlds, without ever leaving the shores of Japan. This book suggests that ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

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  • The Whole Picture

    The colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it

    par Alice Procter ...
    "Probing, jargon-free and written with the pace of a detective story... [Procter] dissects western museum culture with such forensic fury that it might be difficult for the reader ever to view those institutions in the same way again. " Financial Times'A smart, accessible and brilliantly structured work that encourages readers to go beyond the grand architecture of cultural institutions and see ... En savoir plus

    $3.99 CAD

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  • Japanese Love Hotels

    A Cultural History

    par Sarah Chaplin ...
    Collections series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    Drawing on theories of place, consumption and identity, Sarah Chaplin details the evolution of the love hotel in urban Japan since the 1950s. Love hotels emerged in the late 1950s following a ban of licensed prostitution, then were extremely popular in the 1970s, were then legislated against in the 1980s and are now perceived as ‘leisure’, ‘fashion’ or ‘boutique’ hotels.Representing a timely ... En savoir plus

    $104.99 CAD

  • Exhibiting Cultures

    The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display

    par Ivan Karp ...
    Debating the practices of museums, galleries, and festivals, Exhibiting Cultures probes the often politically charged relationships among aesthetics, contexts, and implicit assumptions that govern how art and artifacts are displayed and understood. The contributors—museum directors, curators, and scholars in art history, folklore, history, and anthropology—represent a variety of stances on the ... En savoir plus

    $21.59 CAD

  • Theatre

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Marvin Carlson ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    From before history was recorded to the present day, theatre has been a major artistic form around the world. From puppetry to mimes and street theatre, this complex art has utilized all other art forms such as dance, literature, music, painting, sculpture, and architecture. Every aspect of human activity and human culture can be, and has been, incorporated into the creation of theatre. In this ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Return of Curiosity

    What Museums are Good For in the Twenty-first Century

    par Nicholas Thomas ...
    Over the last twenty years museums have proliferated, attracting new audiences and assuming new prominence in public life. The Return of Curiosity offers a fresh perspective on museums and what they may now be good for. Nicholas Thomas argues that what is special about museums are their collections, which are not just rich resources for reflection, but creative technologies that enable people to ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD

  • Re-Imagining the Museum

    Beyond the Mausoleum

    par Andrea Witcomb ...
    Collections series Museum Meanings
    Re-Imagining the Museum presents new interpretations of museum history and contemporary museum practices.Through a range of case studies from the UK, North America and Australia, Andrea Witcomb moves away from the idea that museums are always 'conservative' to suggest they have a long history of engaging with popular culture and addressing a variety of audiences. She argues that museums are key ... En savoir plus

    $88.99 CAD

  • Japanese Tourism and Travel Culture

    Modifié par Sylvie Guichard-Anguis, Okpyo Moon ...
    Collections series Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
    This book examines Japanese tourism and travel, both today and in the past, showing how over hundreds of years a distinct culture of travel developed, and exploring how this has permeated the perceptions and traditions of Japanese society. It considers the diverse dimensions of modern tourism including appropriation and consumption of history, nostalgia, identity, domesticated foreignness, and the ... En savoir plus

    $97.99 CAD

  • Museum Frictions

    Public Cultures/Global Transformations

    Modifié par Ivan Karp, Corinne A. Kratz, Lynn Szwaja, Tomas Ybarra-Frausto ...
    Museum Frictions is the third volume in a bestselling series on culture, society, and museums. The first two volumes in the series, Exhibiting Cultures and Museums and Communities, have become defining books for those interested in the politics of museum display and heritage sites. Another classic in the making, Museum Frictions is a lavishly illustrated examination of the significant and varied ... En savoir plus

    $47.99 CAD

  • Religion in Museums

    Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    Modifié par Gretchen Buggeln, Crispin Paine, S. Brent Plate ...
    Bringing together scholars and practitioners from North America, Europe, Russia, and Australia, this pioneering volume provides a global survey of how museums address religion and charts a course for future research and interpretation. Contributors from a variety of disciplines and institutions explore the work of museums from many perspectives, including cultural studies, religious studies, and ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • Festivals, Tourism and Social Change

    Remaking Worlds

    Modifié par David Picard, Prof. Mike Robinson ...
    Collections Livre 8 - Tourism and Cultural Change
    This book explores the links between tourism and festivals and the various ways in which each mobilises the other to make social realities meaningful. Drawing upon a series of international cases, festivals are examined as ways of responding to various forms of crisis - social, political, economic - and as a way of re-making and re-animating spaces and social life. Importantly, this book locates ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Locating Imagination in Popular Culture

    Place, Tourism and Belonging

    Modifié par Nicky van Es, Stijn Reijnders, Leonieke Bolderman, Abby Waysdorf ...
    Collections series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    Locating Imagination in Popular Culture offers a multi-disciplinary account of the ways in which popular culture, tourism and notions of place intertwine in an environment characterized by ongoing processes of globalization, digitization and an increasingly ubiquitous nature of multi-media.Centred around the concept of imagination, the authors demonstrate how popular culture and media are becoming ... En savoir plus

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