Manufacturing Otherness
Missionaries were key players in the “spiritual conquest” of the New World, imposing dominant values while also mediating between cultures. This book shows how Indigenous cultures entered these areas of negotiation to produce their own cultural subjectivity.
Many Floridas
This collection of feminist essays envisions change for women in Florida. Authors write from various intersections of class, race, and sexuality to bridge the gap between theory and practice, making meaningful connections between the academy and the community.
Mapping Appetite
This collection of case studies explores the representation of food in cultural texts, from post-colonial fiction to magazines and cookbooks. The essays show how food narratives reveal crucial issues of gender, nation, race, and power in contemporary culture.
Mapping Channels between Ganges and Rhein
Explore the centuries-long fascination between India and Germany. This book charts their complex, entangled exchange in literature, philosophy, and politics, providing a vital overview of current research on their shared history.
The borders between leisure and work are becoming more and more blurred. Such border-crossing is the leitmotif of this book, which has a multidisciplinary scope for scholars and students interested in leisure’s effects on social cohesion.
Mapping Migration
This anthology considers culture and identity in Indian diaspora communities in Southeast Asia and the UK. It shows how cultural practices, including the use of performance, food, and religion, demonstrate how traditions are preserved, as well as adapted, in new contexts.
Mapping the History of Folklore Studies
The articles here provide rich insights into the historical dynamics of folkloristic thought with its shifting geographies, shared spaces, centres and borderlands. By focusing on intellectual collaboration, they reveal the limitations inherent in current scholarship.
Mapping the Self
This collection of essays explores place, identity, and nationality in our globalised world. With a global perspective, these critical works assert the power of film, poetry, and novels to define and contest identity, from the national to the individual.
Mapping the Tribal Economy
India’s tribes have been marginalised, their way of life transformed. This book examines the critical issues of land alienation and labour exploitation, focusing on tribal mobilisation and the fight for justice and restoration in Andhra Pradesh.
This book explores views of marriage, husbands, and wives in Anglo-American anti-proverbs. It analyzes their nature, qualities, and behaviours as revealed through these proverb transformations, appealing to both general readers and specialists alike.
Marronnage and Arts
Marronnage, the quest for freedom during Slavery, has infiltrated social relationships and the arts. This book explores how revolt is incarnated in bodies and voices through music and dance, from the French West Indies to Madagascar and Brazil.
Masculinities and Music
Performer and teacher Scott Harrison offers a passionate, humorous, and serious look at men and music. Combining personal stories with academic research, this book explores why men and boys struggle to participate in music and how they can re-engage.
As men and women question gender roles, this book examines masculine expression across Europe, Africa, and the Americas. In this collection, authors write about men’s challenges, friendships, and outcasts to foster understanding and tolerance of all sexualities.
Masculinity and the Other
Men have been defined as much by their relations to other men as to women. This collection brings together scholars from fields including literature and history to examine the forms of ‘otherness’ against which ideas of masculinity have been defined.
Material Worlds
This volume examines how the intangible is made real, how culture mediates our experience of the world, and what about the real resists transcription. Analyses include attempts to inscribe the soul and the material manifestations of capitalism and empire.
Matriculture, Shamanism, and the Authority of Women
This book explores intersections between matriculture—the cultural worlds of women—and power in societies worldwide. Contributors analyze the forces that support or suppress women’s authority and agency, pointing to the social benefits of a thriving matriculture for all.
Max Weber on China
Cotesta throws light on the problem-riddled Max Weber, a man lacerated by tragic contradictions, a great intellectual, nationalistic yet cosmopolitan. This investigation of his private life reveals a tender man, who, at a time of overwhelming conflict, sought true life in love.
Media Agoras
This collection of essays presents up-to-date perspectives on the media’s role in constructing a more inclusive society. From theoretical debates to empirical analyses, this book presents a critical overview of crucial debates in contemporary European societies.
Media researchers and journalists consider what happens in the wake of a terrorist attack: how the people affected communicate and how terrorists use social media. This collection will appeal to academic readers and anyone interested in this contemporary global problem.
Media and Politics
This publication explores the relations between politics and various types of media as expressed in different areas of the world, namely Europe, Asia, the Americas, and the Middle East.