This book, grounded in archival research and close examination of artworks from The Poor Clares convent of Corpus Domini, explores the visual culture and social history of an early modern Franciscan women’s community.
This book examines China's heritage practices since the 1990s heritage turn through diverse case studies using multiple disciplinary approaches
This original investigation of the hitherto-unexamined organization 'Chinese Communist Youth League' uses a... Læs mere
Drawing on ethnographic research conducted at Moscow's wholesale markets from 2013 to 2016, Vietnamese Migrants in Russia: Mobility in Times... Læs mere
The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema illustrates how global horror film depictions of children re-conceptualised childhood at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and considers the cultural conditions surrounding their emergence.
Richly illustrated reconstruction - equal parts social history, anthropology, and survival chronicle - of the journey of 30 castaways from the Dutch ship Amstelveen.
What is music, and what does it mean to humans? How do we process it, and how do we create it? Musician Leo Samama discusses these and many other questions while shaping a vibrant picture of music's importance in human lives both past and present.
This book is a contribution to an aesthetics of cinema rooted in Marxist theory. Rather than focusing on the role that certain films, or the... Læs mere
Violence and Trolling on Social Media: History, Affect, and Effects of Online Vitriol unpacks discourses, metaphors, dynamics, and framing on social media. This book... Læs mere
This book offers the most comprehensive accounts yet of professional itineraries of three women in the silent film in the Netherlands, France and North America.
This book encompasses the contributions presented at the scientific symposium of prominent scientists who gathered in 2016 in Husum, Germany, a landmark event in sharing knowledge on the common history, landscape, cultural heritage of the Wadden Sea Region.
This work reframes the Victorian encounter with the Dolomites through the lens of Grand Tour memories, revealing a distinctive Silver Age of Mountaineering defined by ethnographic rather than imperialistic approaches.