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Douglas Thomas offers an indepth history of this important and fascinating subculture contrasting mainstream images of hackers with a detailed firsthand account of the computer underground Thomas studies novels and films Neuromancer WarGames Hackers and The Matrix and reveals contemporary views of hackers as technological wizards hightech pranksters and virtual criminals Thomas then examines the court cases of Kevin Mitnick and Chris Lamprecht to determine how hackers are defined as criminals Thomas finds that popular hacker stereotypes express the publics anxieties about the information age far more than they do the reality of hacking
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So far the Science Wars have generated far more heat than light Combatants from one or the other of what C P Snow famously called the two cultures science versus the arts and humanities have launched bitter attacks but have seldom engaged in constructive dialogue about the central issues In The One Culture Jay A Labinger and Harry Collins have gathered together some of the worlds foremost scientists and sociologists of science to exchange opinions and ideas rather than insults The contributors find surprising areas of broad agreement in a genuine conversation about science its legitimacy and authority as a means of understanding the world and whether science studies undermines the practice and findings of science and scientists The One Culture is organized into three parts The first consists of position papers written by scientists and sociologists of science which were distributed to all the participants The second presents commentaries on these papers drawing out and discussing their central themes and arguments In the third section participants respond to these critiques offering defenses clarifications and modifications of their positions Who can legitimately speak about science What is the proper role of scientific knowledge How should scientists interact with the rest of society in decision making Because science occupies such a central position in the world today such questions are vitally important Although there are no simple solutions The One Culture does show the reader exactly what is at stake in the Science Wars and provides a valuable framework for how to go about seeking the answers we so urgently need Contributors include Constance K Barsky Jean Bricmont Harry Collins Peter Dear Jane Gregory Jay A Labinger Michael Lynch N David Mermin Steve Miller Trevor Pinch Peter R Saulson Steven Shapin Alan Sokal Steven Weinberg Kenneth G Wilson
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When it was originally published Hybrid Cultures was foundational to Latin American cultural studies This nowclassic work features a new introduction in which Nestor Garcia Canclini calls for a cultural politics to contain the damaging effects of globalization and responds to relevant theoretical developments over the past decadeGarcia Canclini questions whether Latin America can compete in a global marketplace without losing its cultural identity He moves with ease from the ideas of Gramsci and Foucault to economic analysis from appraisals of the exchanges between Octavio Paz and Jorge Luis Borges to Chicano film and grafitti Hybrid Cultures at once clarifies the development of democratic institutions in Latin America and reveals that the most destructive ideological trends are still going strong
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In this thoughtful and highly readable book Noël Sturgeon illustrates the myriad and insidious ways in which American popular culture depicts social inequities as natural and how our images of nature interfere with creating solutions to environmental problems that are just and fair for all Why is it she wonders that environmentalist messages in popular culture so often naturalize themes of heroic male violence suburban nuclear family structures and US dominance in the world And what do these patterns of thought mean for how we envision environmental solutions like green businesses recycling programs and the protection of threatened speciesAlthough there are other books that examine questions of culture and environment this is the first book to employ a global feminist environmental justice analysis to focus on how racial inequality gendered patterns of work and heteronormative ideas about the family relate to environmental questions Beginning in the late 1980s and moving to the present day Sturgeon unpacks a variety of cultural tropes including ideas about Mother Nature the purity of the natural and the allegedly close relationships of indigenous people with the natural world She investigates the persistence of the myth of the frontier and its extension to the frontier of space exploration She ponders the popularity and occasional controversy of penguins and penguin family values and questions assumptions about human warfare as naturalThe book is intended to provoke debatesamong college students and graduate students among their professors among environmental activists and among all citizens who are concerned with issues of environmental quality and social equality
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Philippe Descola has become one of the most important anthropologists working today and Beyond Nature and Culture has been a major influence in European intellectual life since its French publication in 2005 Here finally it is brought to Englishlanguage readers At its heart is a question central to both anthropology and philosophy what is the relationship between nature and culture Cultureas a collective human making of art language and so forthis often seen as essentially different from nature which is portrayed as a collective of the nonhuman world of plants animals geology and natural forces Descola shows this essential difference to be however not only a specifically Western notion but also a very recent one Drawing on ethnographic examples from around the world and theoretical understandings from cognitive science structural analysis and phenomenology he formulates a sophisticated new framework the four ontologies animism totemism naturalism and analogismto account for all the ways we relate ourselves to nature By thinking beyond nature and culture as a simple dichotomy Descola offers nothing short of a fundamental reformulation by which anthropologists and philosophers can see the world afresh
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The Culture of Jazz is a collection of essays that view jazz from an anthropological perspective It focuses on aspects of jazz culture and the ways in which jazz scrutinizes the American lifestyle Jazz musicians filter their perspective on culture based on African roots They have an obligation to tell truth to power and provide views of alternative realities These essays explore many dimensions of the jazz life and its perspectives on cultural realities Heavily influenced by the perspectives of Neil Leonard and Alan Merriam The Culture of Jazz covers a broad range of topics making it an unparalleled compilation
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A foundational work in the study of the globalization of cultureFirst published in 1991 Culture Globalization and the WorldSystem is one of the inaugural books discussing the increasing tendency of cultural practices to cross national boundaries Now widely available in the United States for the first time and updated with a new preface these influential essays by a distinguished group of cultural critics lay the groundwork for a vital new field of inquiryCulture Globalization and the WorldSystem views culture through different prisms and categories including race gender ethnicity class and nation The contributors consider how socially organized systems of meaning are produced and represented Drawing from sociology art history film studies and anthropology these essays provide paradigms for understanding cultures and the representation of identity in the world as a single place
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This volume showcases dynamic developments in the field of manuscript research that go beyond traditional textual iconographic or codicological studies Using stateoftheart conservation technologies scholars investigate how four manuscriptsthe Galvin Murúa the Getty Murúa the Florentine Codex and the Relación de Michoacánwere created and demonstrate why these objects must be studied in a comparative context The forensic study of manuscripts provides art historians anthropologists curators and conservators with effective methods for determining authorship identifying technical innovations and contextualizing illustrated histories This information in turn allows for more nuanced arguments that transcend the information that the written texts and painted images themselves provide The book encourages scholars to think broadly about the manuscripts of colonial Mexico and Peru in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and employ new techniques and methods of research
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Cultures have long defined themselves through biological elements to prove their strength and longevity from cherry blossoms in Japan to amber waves of grain in the United States In Ecology without Culture Christine L Marran introduces the concept of biotropesmaterial and semiotic figures that exist for human perceptionto navigate how and why the material world has proven to be such an effective medium for representing culture A bold and timely reconsideration of ecocriticism Ecology without Culture insists on decentering questions of culture to highlight the materiality of poetry film and prose fictionMarran argues that ecocriticism can critique ecological realities more effectively from outside the frame of human exceptionalism Through discussions of primarily nonAnglophone literature poetry and cinema about toxic events in contemporary history from the depiction of slow violence in documentary by Tsuchimoto Noriaki to the powerful poetry of Ishimure MichikoMarran argues that ecocriticism must find a way to engage culture without making the perpetuation of ethnos and anthropos the endgame of ecopoliticsnbspUsing the biological foundations and geological time scales of textual worlds to more deeply critique cultural humanism Marran ultimately contends that the chief stumbling block to ecological thinking is not the image of nature but the image of culture
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With a new introduction by the authors this paperback edition of Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture takes the complete body of work of a major novelist as the basis for rethinking ethnographic representation and crosscultural analysisAuthors Handler and Segal have approached Jane Austens writing as a source for interpreting the cultural ideology of kinship social rank courtship and marriage in Austens England Arguing against the conventional reading of Austen as portrayer and upholder of a wellordered society they evaluate the rhetorical techniques that make Austen an effective ethnographer of diverse though intertwined social realities They show that Austen undercuts any and all claims to truth universally acknowledgedthat is to objective positive knowledge of human affairsJane Austen and the Fiction of Culture invites the reader to confront an ethnography of another time and place whose insights have a direct bearing on contemporary concerns in the humanities and human sciences
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The Romance of Commerce and Culture is a lively and provocative history of how art and intellect formed an alliance with consumer capitalism in the midtwentieth century and put Aspen Colorado on the map
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In 1495 the Spanish humanist Antonio de Nebrija published a SpanishtoLatin dictionary that became a best seller Over the next century it was revised dozens of times in nine European cities As these dictionaries made their way around the globe in this age of encounters their lists of Spanish words became frameworks for dictionaries of nonLatin languages What began as Spanish to Latin became Spanish to Arabic French English Tuscan Nahuatl Mayan Quechua Aymara Tagalog and moreTracing the global influence of Nebrijas dictionary Byron Ellsworth Hamann in this interdisciplinary deeply researched book connects pagan Rome Muslim Spain Aztec Tenochtitlan Elizabethan England the Spanish Philippines and beyond revealing new connections in world history The Translations of Nebrija recreates the travels of people books and ideas throughout the early modern world and reveals the adaptability of Nebrijas text tracing the ways heirs and pirate printers altered the dictionary in the decades after its first publication It reveals how entries in various editions were expanded to accommodate new concepts such as for indigenous languages in the Americasa process with profound implications for understanding preHispanic art architecture and writing It shows how words written in the margins of surviving dictionaries from the Americas shed light on the writing and researching of dictionaries across the early modern worldExploring words and the dictionaries that made sense of them this book charts new global connections and challenges many assumptions about the early modern world
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Long after the establishment of printing in England many writers and composers still preferred to publish their work through handwritten copies Texts so transmitted included some of the most distinguished poetry and music of the seventeenth century along with a rich variety of political scientific antiquarian and philosophical writings While censorship was one reason for this persistence of the older practice scribal publication remained the norm for texts that were required only in small numbers or whose authors wished to avoid the stigma of printThis is the first book to consider the trade in manuscripts as an important supplement to that in printed books and to describe the agencies that met the need for rapid duplication of key texts
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This book is first and foremost an exploration of Taishôera narrative fiction Every major film studio produced earthquake films and authors from Inovelists to modernists proletarian writers to popular fiction writers wrote something on the earthquake In every case preexisting attitudes toward their work shaped the way these people represented the earthquake and yet the overwhelming destruction and mass suffering also posed particular challenges in representation How could one show the pain without exploitation Other scholars have looked at some of these groups of writers or filmmakers individually but there are no studies looking at how they each tackled a similar subject The Great Kanto Earthquake is an understudied event that has only recently caught the attention of scholars By focusing on the way it was represented in high and low culture This book gives insight into how people experienced the disaster and how they interpreted it in the years following This book sho
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An immigrant daughter who returned to her mothers home town Giovanna Del Negro spent a year doing intensive fieldwork in the homes and public spaces of Sasso She reveals the diverse reactions that Sassani have to industrialization changing gender roles immigration and the proliferation of the global media Unlike accounts that focus exclusively on largescale social forces or universal theories of historical change this study set against the backdrop of Italys mid1990s corruption scandals centres on the experiences of ordinary people and the culturally specific ways that modernity reveals itself in a particular place Del Negro focuses on the passeggiata and her evocative descriptions of dressing walking courting and socializing in the piazza paint a vivid picture of this event Sassani pride themselves on their urbane sophistication only half jokingly referring to their town as our little Paris Del Negro shows how different segments of Sassani society older women and teenage girls motorbike boys and established professionals use passeggiata performances to depict themselves as modern stake their place in the towns collective selfimage and debate the meaning of modernity Examining everything from Sassani interpretations of tabloid television and soap operas to community games and postcards Del Negro casts her net wide to illuminate the local culture Richly sophisticated yet highly accessible this innovative study speaks to contemporary debates about modernity and globalization
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Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters Building on this work and the study of space social relations gender and power in the Old South Stephanie Camp examines the everyday containment and movement of enslaved men and especially enslaved women In her investigation of the movement of bodies objects and information Camp extends our recognition of slave resistance into new arenas and reveals an important and hidden culture of oppositionCamp discusses the multiple dimensions to acts of resistance that might otherwise appear to be little more than fits of temper She brings new depth to our understanding of the lives of enslaved women whose bodies and homes were inevitably political arenas Through Camps insight truancy becomes an act of pursuing personal privacy Illegal parties frolics become an expression of bodily freedom And bondwomen who acquired printed abolitionist materials and posted them on the walls of their slave cabins even if they could not read them become the subtle agitators who inspire more overt acts The culture of opposition created by enslaved womens acts of everyday resistance helped foment and sustain the more visible resistance of men in their individual acts of running away and in the collective action of slave revolts Ultimately Camp argues the Civil War years saw revolutionary change that had been in the making for decades
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Despite Cultures Format Paperback sold at 41.56 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Despite Cultures examines the strategies and realities of the Soviet statebuilding project in Tajikistan during the 1920s and 1930s Based on extensive archival research Botakoz Kassymbekova analyzes the tactics of Soviet officials at the center and periphery that produced imitated and improvised governance in this Soviet southern borderland and in Central Asia more generally She shows how the tools of violence intimidation and coercion were employed by Muslim and European Soviet officials alike to implement Soviet versions of modernization and industrialization In a region marked by ethnic linguistic and cultural diversity the Soviet plan was to recognize these differences while subsuming them within the conglomerate of official Soviet culture As Kassymbekova reveals the local ruling system was built upon an intricate network of individuals whose stated loyalty to communism was monitored through a chain of command that stretched from Moscow through Tashkent to DushanbeStalinabad The system was tenuously based on individual leaders who struggled to decipher the language of Bolshevism and maintain power through violent repression
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The intellectual trends Good discusses include what he calls the New Sectarianism which rejects individuality in favour of collective identities based on race gender and sexual preference Presentism which rejects the notion of history as a continuous narrative in favour of seeing the past as interpretable in any way that suits the political interests of the present and a hermeneutic of suspicion in which literary texts are seen as masks for discreditable political motives Good demonstrates that these trends culminate in the prisonlike carceral vision of Michel Foucault and his followers the view that culture is ideology and that culture does not free humans but incarcerates them Good contrasts this view with the liberal vision of culture and society represented by Northrop Frye concluding with an analysis of the relationship between antihumanist theory among academics and the managerial practices of university administrations which he argues neglect or reject basic humanistic values such as free individuality aesthetic greatness and autonomous inquiry
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The contributors to this text offer multifaceted explorations of how Chinese Americans have shaped their ethnic culture and identities to claim recognition in Americas multiracial multicultural democratic state
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Angela Ray provides a refreshing new look at the lyceum lecture system as it developed in the United States from the 1820s to the 1880s She argues that the lyceum contributed to the creation of an American public at a time when the country experienced a rapid change in land area increasing immigration and a revolution in transportation communication technology and social roles nbspnbspnbspnbsp The history of the lyceum in the nineteenth century illustrates a process of expansion diffusion and eventual commercialization In the late 1820s a politically and economically dominant culturethe white Protestant northeastern middle classinstitutionalized the practice of public debating and public lecturing for education and moral uplift In the 1820s and 1830s the lyceum was characterized by organized groups in cities and towns particularly in the Northeast and the Old Northwest now the Midwest These groups were established to promote debate to create a setting for study and to provide a forum for members lecturing By the 1840s and 1850s however most lyceums concentrated on the sponsorship of public lectures presented for institutional profit as well as public instruction and entertainment Eventually lyceum lectures became a commercial enterprise and desirable platform for celebrities who wished to expand their incomes from lecturing
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