Restoring Layered Landscapes: History, Ecology, and Culture
Marion Hourdequin and David G. Havlick
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Restoring Layered Landscapes brings together historians, geographers, philosophers, and...
Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai
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Water sprites, mountain goblins, shape-shifting animals, and the monsters known as yƓkai have long...
Asian Flavours: Creating Architecture for Culinary Culture
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Ceremonies, rituals und traditions - as well as the fascinating combinations of flavours and...
Sexagon: Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National Culture
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In contemporary France, particularly in the banlieues of Paris, the figure of the young, virile,...
Progressive Commercialization of Airline Governance Culture
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Progressive Commercialization of Airline Governance Culture analyzes the transition of the airline...
The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack: Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures
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WINNER of the 2013 Katharine Briggs Award This book uses the nineteenth-century legend of...
Sounding New Media: Immersion and Embodiment in the Arts and Culture
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Sounding New Media examines the long-neglected role of sound and audio in the development of new...
Football and Colonialism: Body and Popular Culture in Urban Mozambique
Nuno Domingos and Harry G. West
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In articles for the newspaper O Brado Africano in the mid-1950s, poet and journalist Jose...
The Cinematic Eighteenth Century: History, Culture, and Adaptation
Steven Thomas and Srividhya Swaminathan
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This collection explores how film and television depict the complex and diverse milieu of the...