Focusing on Japan, France, and the United States, this work reveals how the... Læs mere
Presents a study of globalization and consumerism through an ethnography of Bombay's leading advertising agency. This book traces the rise in India, during the 1980s of mass consumption, as a self-consciously sensuous challenge to the austerities of state-led developmentalism.
Explores the founding discourses of race, hybridity, savagery, and degenercy in the seventeenth and eighteenth century French Caribbean, in particular the way many of these discourses were used to describe French settlers.
The author is a lesbian sex radical, ex-hooker, incest survivor, gypsy child, poor-white-trash, high femme dyke. She is also an award-winning filmmaker, feminist, Left political organiser, public speaker, and journalist. This title presents over twenty years of her writing.
The Colombian activist Juan Gregorio Palechor (1923-1992) dedicated his life to championing indigenous rights in Cauca, a department in the southwest of... Læs mere
This collection looks at Caribbean religious history from the late 18th century to the present including obeah, vodou, santeria,... Læs mere
Essays describing how dramatic, and especially technoscientific, changes in the constitution, organization, and practices of contemporary biomedicine have coalesced since the mid-1980s in biomedicalization, the second transformation of American medicine.
Immigration and globalization have significantly altered Europe's cultural and ethnic landscape, foregrounding questions of national belonging. This title provides an ethnographic analysis of how patterns of national identity are constructed and transformed across generations.
This lavishly illustrated art history situates the work of pioneering mid-twentieth-century Native American artists within the broader canon of American modernism.