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  • Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Heritage in China

    de Michael Rowlands, Beverley Butler, Luo Pan, Zhang Lisheng, Stephan Feuchtwang, Peter Guangpei Ran, Wu Yinling, He Beili, Wang Mingming, Wang Mingming0, Harriet Evans1 ...
    The recent heritage boom in China is transforming local social, economic, and cultural life and reshaping domestic and global notions of China's national identity. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork conducted largely by young anthropologists in China, Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Heritage in China departs from the dominant top-down UNESCO-influenced narrative of cultural heritage ... Leer más

    $105.29 USD

  • Return to Alexandria

    An Ethnography of Cultural Heritage Revivalism and Museum Memory

    de Beverley Butler ...
    Series series UCL Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage Series
    The Bibliotheca Alexandrina was launched with great fanfare in the 1990s, a project of UNESCO and the Egyptian government to recreate the glory of the Alexandria Library and Museion of the ancient world. The project and its timing were curious—it coincided with scholarship moving away from the dominance of the western tradition; it privileged Alexandria’s Greek heritage over 1500 years of Islamic ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

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  • Orienting Istanbul

    Cultural Capital of Europe?

    Edición de Deniz Göktürk, Levent Soysal, Ipek Tureli ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Looking at the globalization, urban regeneration, arts events and cultural spectacles, this book considers a city not until now included in the global city debate.Divided into five parts, each preceded by an editorial introduction, this book is an interdisciplinary study of an iconic city, a city facing conflicting social, political and cultural pressures in its search for a place in Europe and on ... Leer más

    $94.99 USD

  • Colonising Egypt

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    de Timothy Mitchell ...
    Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt. ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Reading Arab Women's Autobiographies

    Shahrazad Tells Her Story

    de Nawar Al-Hassan Golley ...
    Authors of autobiographies are always engaged in creating a "self" to present to their readers. This process of self-creation raises a number of intriguing questions: why and how does anyone choose to present herself or himself in an autobiography? Do women and men represent themselves in different ways and, if so, why? How do differences in culture affect the writing of autobiography in various ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • The Literature of the Lebanese Diaspora

    Representations of Place and Transnational Identity

    de Jumana Bayeh ...
    Series series Written Culture and Identity
    The Lebanese civil war, which spanned the years of 1975 to 1990,caused the migration of hundreds of thousands of Lebanese citizens, many of whom are still writing of their experiences. Jumana Bayeh presents an important and major study of the literature of the Lebanese diaspora. Focusing on novels and writings produced in the aftermath of Lebanon's protracted civil war, Bayeh explores the complex ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Being Arab

    de Samir Kassir ...
    Traducido por Will Hobson ...
    In the years before his assassination in 2005, Samir Kassir became one of Lebanon’s foremost public intellectuals, a fearless critic of tyranny and an inspiring advocate of democracy. In Being Arab, his last book, he calls on the peoples of the Middle East to reject both Western double standards and Islamism in order to take the future of the region into their own hands. With the Arab Spring, ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Ambiguities of Domination

    Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria

    de Lisa Wedeen ...
    Treating rhetoric and symbols as central rather than peripheral to politics, Lisa Wedeen's groundbreaking book offers a compelling counterargument to those who insist that politics is primarily about material interests and the groups advocating for them. During the thirty-year rule of President Hafiz al-Asad's regime, his image was everywhere. In newspapers, on television, and during orchestrated ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • When Greeks and Turks Meet

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Relationship Since 1923

    Edición de Vally Lytra ...
    Series series Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London
    The relationship between the history, culture and peoples of Greece, Turkey and Cyprus is often reduced to an equation which defines one side in opposition to the other.The reality is much more complex and while there have been and remain significant divisions there are many, and arguably more, areas of overlap, commonality and common interest.This book addresses a gap in the scholarly literature ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Contemporary Arab Women Writers

    Cultural Expression in Context

    de Anastasia Valassopoulos ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    This book engages with contemporary Arab women writers from Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon and Algeria. In spite of Edward Said’s groundbreaking reappraisal of the uneven relationship between the West and the Arab world in Orientalism, there has been little postcolonial criticism of Arab writing. Anastasia Valassopoulos raises the profile of Arab women writers by examining how they negotiate contexts ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Conflicted Antiquities

    Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity

    de Elliott Colla ...
    Conflicted Antiquities is a rich cultural history of European and Egyptian interest in ancient Egypt and its material culture, from the early nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth. Consulting the relevant Arabic archives, Elliott Colla demonstrates that the emergence of Egyptology—the study of ancient Egypt and its material legacy—was as consequential for modern Egyptians as it was for ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • When Greeks think about Turks

    The View from Anthropology

    Edición de Dimitrios Theodossopoulos ...
    Series series South European Society and Politics
    Drawing upon anthropological studies that document culturally specific ways of perceiving ethic Others in Greece and Cyprus, this book explores the cultural boundaries of the categories ‘Greek’ and ‘Turk’, and compares views on what it means to be one of these ethnic groups or both. The contributors examine the opinions of diverse social groups, such as ordinary middle-class citizens, ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD