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Mohen, Jean-Pierre. Les sciences du patrimoine: Identifier, conserver, restaurer. Editions Odile Jacob, 1999.
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Huda, Muhammad Nurul. Methodology, valuation of identified traditional cultural expressions of Bangladesh. LokBangla, 2006.
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Tibbs, Mike. Orchids: An illustrated identifier and guide to cultivation. Aurora Publishing, 1996.
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Tibbs, Mike. Orchids: An illustrated identifier and guide to cultivation. Apple Press, 1990.
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Dardy, Claudine. Objets écrits et graphiques à identifier: Les bibelots de la culture écrite. Harmattan, 2004.
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Ranjan, Rakesh. Issues of Madhesh: Political, social, economic, and cultural issues of Madhesh : issues identified by the non-political leaders of Madhesh. SUPPORT Nepal, 2007.
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Ranjan, Rakesh. Issues of Madhesh: Political, social, economic, and cultural issues of Madhesh : issues identified by the non-political leaders of Madhesh. SUPPORT Nepal, 2007.
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Ranjan, Rakesh. Issues of Madhesh: Political, social, economic, and cultural issues of Madhesh : issues identified by the non-political leaders of Madhesh. SUPPORT Nepal, 2007.
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Facilitating Identification of Madheshi Issues and National-Level Dialogue (Project) and SUPPORT Nepal (Organization), eds. Issues of Madhesh: Political, social, economic, and cultural issues of Madhesh : issues identified by the non-political leaders of Madhesh. SUPPORT Nepal, 2007.
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Tanzania) Workshop to Develop Strategies to Address Research Issues Identified in the National Forest and Beekeeping Programmes (2004 Arusha. Proceedings of a Workshop to Develop Strategies to Address Research Issues Identified in the National Forest and Beekeeping Programmes. United Republic of Tanzania, Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, Forestry and Beekeeping Division, 2004.
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Puzyreva, Yuliya. International legal protection of cultural property in peacetime and wartime. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2024. https://doi.org/10.12737/2137528.
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The monograph examines the complex of international legal foundations and institutional mechanisms for the implementation of the obligations of States in the field of ensuring respect, protection and protection of cultural heritage from criminal encroachments, threats of man-made and natural nature, as well as military operations. The analysis of international legal regimes for the protection of cultural property during armed conflicts has been carried out, and trends in the development of international cooperation in this area have been identified. The international legal regulation of law enforcement cooperation for the protection of cultural property has been studied, as well as modern mechanisms and directions for improving the fight against illegal acts against cultural property have been studied. It is intended for researchers, practicing lawyers, teaching staff, students and postgraduates of law schools.
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Hellemans, Babette. Understanding Culture. Translated by Gioia Marini. Amsterdam University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789089649911.
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This pioneering textbook explores the theoretical background of cultural variety, both in past and present. How is it possible to study 'culture' when the topic covers the arts, literature, movies, history, sociology, anthropology and gender studies? Understanding Culture examines the evolution of a concept with varying meanings depending on changing norms. Offering a long-duration analysis of the relationship between culture and nature, this book looks at the origins of studying culture from an international perspective. Using examples from the several scholarly traditions in the practice of studying culture, Understanding Culture is a key introduction to the area. It identifies the history of interpreting culture as a meeting point between the long-standing historical investigation of 'humanism' and 'postmodernism' and is a comprehensive resource for those who wish to further their engagement with culture as both a historical and contemporary phenomenon.
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Kozlov, Mihail. Ministers of pagan cult in the religious and political life of the Eastern Slavs (IX-XI centuries). INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1058360.
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The subject of historical and cultural research in this monograph was the Institute of ancient servants of pagan cult, including both professional priests (Magi, sorcerers and magicians) and wandering buffoons (musicians, storytellers, guides bears, demons). In the first part of the study identified the main function of ancient Ministers of pagan cults, identified key priestly clans, identified the hierarchical structure of the East Slavic priests, its Charter and the basic sources of financing of the ancient pagan temples and their Ministers. The second part is devoted to the place and role of the old Russian Ministers of pagan cult in the religious and political life of the Eastern Slavs of the IX-XI centuries. 
 It is designed for teachers of higher educational institutions, school teachers, students and all those interested in national history and culture.
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Marín-Aguilera, Beatriz, and Stefan Hanß. In-Between Textiles, 1400–1800. Amsterdam University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463729086.
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In-Between Textiles is a decentred study of how textiles shaped, disrupted, and transformed subjectivities in the age of the first globalisation. The volume presents a radically cross-disciplinary approach that brings together world-leading anthropologists, archaeologists, art historians, conservators, curators, historians, scientists, and weavers to reflect on the power of textiles to reshape increasingly contested identities on a global scale between 1400 and 1800. Contributors posit the concept of “in-between textiles,” building upon Homi Bhabha’s notion of in-betweenness as the actual material ground of the negotiation of cultural practices and meanings; a site identified as the battleground over strategies of selfhood and the production of identity signs troubled by colonialism and consumerism across the world. In-Between Textiles establishes cutting-edge conversations between textile studies, critical cultural theory, and material culture studies to examine how textiles created and challenged experiences of subjectivity, relatedness, and dis/location that transformed social fabrics around the globe.
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Florin, Bo, Patrick Vonderau, and Yvonne Zimmermann. Advertising and the Transformation of Screen Cultures. Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462989153.
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Advertising has played a central role in shaping the history of modern media. While often identified with American consumerism and the rise of the 'Information Society', motion picture advertising has been part of European visual culture since the late nineteenth century. With the global spread of ad agencies, moving image advertisements became a privileged cultural form to make people experience the qualities and uses of branded commodities, to articulate visions of a 'good life', and to incite social relationships. Abandoning a conventional delineation of fields by medium, country, or period, this book suggests a lateral view. It charts the audiovisual history of advertising by focussing on objects (products and services), screens (exhibition, programming, physical media), practices (production, marketing), and intermediaries (ad agencies). In this way, the book develops new historical, methodological, and theoretical perspectives.
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Christie, Ian, and Annie Oever, eds. Stories. Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462985841.
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Stories are perceived as central to modern life. Not only in narrative entertainment media, such as television, cinema, theater, but also in social media. Telling/having "a story" is widely deemed essential, in business as well as in social life. Does this mark an intensification of what has always been part of human cultures; or has the realm of "story" expanded to dominate twenty-first century discourse? Addressing stories is an obvious priority for the Key Debates series, and Volume 7, edited by Ian Christie and Annie van den Oever, identifies new phenomena in this field — complex narration, puzzle films, transmedia storytelling — as well as new approaches to understanding these, within narratology and bio-cultural studies. Chapters on such extended television series as Twin Peaks, Game of Thrones and Dickensian explore distinctively new forms of screen storytelling in the digital age. With contributions by Vincent Amiel, Jan Baetens, Dominique Chateau, Ian Christie, John Ellis, Miklós Kiss, Eric de Kuyper, Sandra Laugier, Luke McKernan, José Moure, Roger Odin, Annie van den Oever, Melanie Schiller, Steven Willemsen, Robert Ziegler.
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(Editor), Gordon Rookledge, and Andrew Skelton (Editor), eds. Rookledge's Architectural Identifier of Conservation Areas. Sarema Press (Publishers) Ltd, 1999.
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Crowley-Matoka, Megan. Cultural Factors. Edited by Stuart J. Youngner and Robert M. Arnold. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199974412.013.21.
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This article explores the cultural features of death and dying. Following a broad discussion of death as a problem—materially, socially, and existentially—to which diverse responses have been developed historically and cross-culturally, the concept of culture is defined and explored in terms of the way it has been taken up in the practice of medicine more generally and in discussions about death in particular. Arguing that the “problem of death” in America has increasingly come to be identified as a “problem of culture,” the article takes two classic ethnographies of dying in American hospitals—spaced forty years apart—as a strategic comparative lens through which to examine how key cultural features of death and dying have (and have not) shifted over a particularly critical period in the history of US health care.
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Ferguson, T. J., and Leigh Kuwanwisiwma. Traditional Cultural Properties. Edited by Barbara Mills and Severin Fowles. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199978427.013.9.
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Traditional cultural properties are significant because of the role they play in the retention and transmission of historically rooted beliefs, customs, and practices of a living traditional community. They are routinely identified and evaluated as historic properties during research activities needed for compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, which requires federal agencies to consider the effects of their undertakings on cultural resources. To be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, traditional cultural properties need to be tangible places (a district, site, building, structure or object), must meet one or more of the National Register eligibility criteria, must have integrity of relationship and condition, must have been important for at least fifty years, and must have definable boundaries. The methods and concepts pertinent to research of traditional cultural properties in the Southwest are reviewed in this chapter.
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Ford, Lyn, and Sherry Norfolk, eds. Supporting Diversity and Inclusion with Story. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216021490.
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Today’s increasingly interconnected and globalized world demands that students be taught to appreciate human diversity and recognize universally held values and beliefs. Authentic, culturally based folktales can lay the foundation for this cultural understanding. Professional storytellers like editors Sherry Norfolk and Lyn Ford are deeply committed to bringing people together through story. In this book, they have identified a group of culturally diverse storytellers whose carefully researched tales authentically reflect the cultures from which they come. The book includes well-crafted, culturally authentic folktales contributed by storytellers of varying cultures and ethnicities. Commentaries from the contributors follow each tale, reflecting on the story and its significance to the culture it represents. Sets of questions for teachers and librarians also accompany each story to facilitate discussion. Teachers, librarians, and information specialists find that stories engage students’ attention and empathy. The commentaries provide insights into the significance of cultural norms, customs, and beliefs represented in the story, and the discussion questions and guides help them drill down with students to achieve deeper understanding. Resource lists of additional relevant materials at the end of each section promote continued learning.
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Quay, Sara, and Gabrielle Watling, eds. Cultural History of Reading. Greenwood, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216963806.
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What is it about some books that makes them timeless? Cultural History of Reading looks at books from their earliest beginnings through the present day, in both the U.S. and regions all over the world. Not only fiction and literature, but religious works, dictionaries, scientific works, and home guides such as Mrs. Beeton's all have had an impact on not only their own time and place, but continue to capture the attention of readers today. Volume 1 examines the history of books in regions throughout the world, identifying both literature and nonfiction that was influenced by cultural events of its time. Volume 2 identifies books from the pre-colonial era to the present day that have had lasting significance in the United States. History students and book lovers alike will enjoy discovering the books that have impacted our world.
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Quay, Sara, and Gabrielle Watling, eds. Cultural History of Reading. Greenwood, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216963790.
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What is it about some books that makes them timeless? Cultural History of Reading looks at books from their earliest beginnings through the present day, in both the U.S. and regions all over the world. Not only fiction and literature, but religious works, dictionaries, scientific works, and home guides such as Mrs. Beeton's all have had an impact on not only their own time and place, but continue to capture the attention of readers today. Volume 1 examines the history of books in regions throughout the world, identifying both literature and nonfiction that was influenced by cultural events of its time. Volume 2 identifies books from the pre-colonial era to the present day that have had lasting significance in the United States. History students and book lovers alike will enjoy discovering the books that have impacted our world.
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Maharaj, Ayon. A Cross-Cultural Inquiry into Divine Infinitude. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190868239.003.0003.
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This chapter investigates the nature of divine infinitude from a cross-cultural perspective by bringing Sri Ramakrishna into conversation with classical Indian philosophers as well as Western philosophers and theologians. Maharaj identifies what is distinctive in Sri Ramakrishna’s conception of divine infinitude within the Indian philosophical context by comparing it with the Vedāntic views of the Advaitin Śaṅkara, the Viśiṣṭādvaitin Rāmānuja, and the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Viśvanātha Cakravartin. The remainder of the chapter ventures into cross-cultural territory. First, Maharaj briefly identifies some striking affinities between Sri Ramakrishna and the medieval Christian theologian Nicholas of Cusa. He then brings Sri Ramakrishna into dialogue with the contemporary analytic theologian Benedikt Paul Göcke, who claims that God is infinite in the radical sense that God “is not subject to the law of contradiction.” Finally, Maharaj triangulates Sri Ramakrishna and Göcke with the Continental philosopher Jean-Luc Marion.
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Strutz, Ruth Compaan. ACTION STRATEGIES AND OBSTACLES TO IMPROVING THE IMAGE OF NURSING AS IDENTIFIED BY NURSE EXECUTIVES (EXECUTIVE NURSES). 1991.
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Rose, Carol. Giants, Monsters, and Dragons. ABC-CLIO, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400657085.
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A richly illustrated encyclopedia that describes individual beings in their cultural context, grouping them across cultures and explaining common mythological themes. This illustrated encyclopedia not only identifies and describes individual beasts in their cultural context, but also groups them together across cultures and discusses common mythological strands and conceits. An extensive bibliography and useful appendixes assist further learning for students of all levels.
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Fiddian, Robin. Setting the Political and Cultural Agenda. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198794714.003.0001.
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The chapter identifies elements of a postcolonial sensibility in prose works of Borges during the period 1925–32. The historical threshold is the centenary, in 1924, of the conclusion of the wars of independence from Spain, which granted freedom to territories historically under the rule of the Viceroyalty of Peru (and from 1776, the Viceroyalty of the River Plate), including modern-day Argentina. Key themes include the challenge of recreating a cultural tradition in the 1920s, which Borges conveniently views as a tabula rasa; the rejection of nationalist ideology; and the assertion of a criollo Argentine identity which occasionally dovetails with a continental, pan-American identity that is shared, in turn, with the United States. Texts discussed include ‘The Complaint of Every criollo’, ‘The Full Extent of My Hope’, Evaristo Carriego, ‘The Other Whitman’, and ‘Paul Groussac’. Authors mentioned include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rudyard Kipling, Frantz Fanon, and José Hernández.
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Kishore, Shweta. Indian Documentary Film and Filmmakers. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474433068.001.0001.
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Independent documentary is enjoying a resurgence in post-reform India. But in contemporary cinema and media cultures, where ‘independent’ operates as an industry genre or critical category, how do we understand the significance of this mode of cultural production? Based on detailed onsite observation of documentary production, circulation practices and the analysis of film texts, this book identifies independence as a 'tactical practice’, contesting the normative definitions and functions assigned to culture, cultural production and producers in a neoliberal economic system. Focusing on selected filmmakers, the book establishes how they have reorganised the dominance of industrial media, technology and social relations to develop practices that build upon principles of de-economisation, artisanship and interdependence.
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Crawley, LaVera, and Jonathan Koffman. Ethnic and cultural aspects of palliative care. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199656097.003.0009.
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This chapter attempts to identify ‘differences that make a difference’ when individuals and groups negotiate institutions and practices for palliative and end-of-life care. Two influences on the practice of palliative care-immigration and health disparities-are examined. The World Health Organization definition of palliative care specifies two goals: improving quality of life of patients and families and preventing and relieving suffering. It identifies three ‘colour blind’ strategies for meeting those goals: early identification, impeccable assessment, and (appropriate) treatment. Lastly, the definition addresses four domains of care: (1) problems related to pain, (2) physical conditions, (3) the psychosocial, (4) and the spiritual. This chapter specifically addresses these goals, strategies, and domains in relation to delivering quality palliative care in cross- or multicultural settings.
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Montilla, Patricia M., ed. Latinos and American Popular Culture. Praeger, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400677250.
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This book offers a complete overview of the contributions of U.S. Latinos to American popular culture and examines the emergence of the U.S. Latino identity. According to the 2010 Census, Latinos represent more than 16 percent of the total population and are the largest and fastest-growing minority group in the United States. Their vast contributions to popular culture are visible in nearly every aspect of American life and are as diverse as the countries and cultures of origin with which Latinos identify themselves. This book provides a historical overview of the developments in U.S. Latino culture and highlights the most recent expressions of Latino life in American popular culture. With coverage of topics like Latino representations in television, radio, film, and theater; U.S. Latino literature and art; Latino sports stars in baseball, basketball, boxing, football, and soccer; and contemporary pop music; this book will appeal to general readers and be a useful and engaging resource for high school and college students. The work examines the cultural ties that U.S. Latinos maintain with their country of origin or that of their ancestors, explains why language is a critical cultural marker for Latinos, and identifies how Latinos are changing American popular culture. Insightful information on U.S. Latino identity issues and prevalent cultural stereotypes is also included.
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Hall, Richard A. Pop Goes the Decade. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400699061.
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Part of the Pop Goes the Decade series, this book looks at one of the most memorable decades of the 20th century, highlighting pop culture areas such as film, television, sports, technology, advertising, fashion, and art. All in the Family. Barry Manilow, Donna Summer, and Olivia Newton-John; Styx, Led Zeppelin, and The Jackson Five. Jaws, Rocky, The Exorcist, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Pop Goes the Decade: The Seventies takes a sweeping look at all of the cultural events and developments that made the 1970s a highly memorable era of change and new thinking. This book explores the cultural and social framework of the 1970s, focusing on pop culture areas that include film, television, sports, technological innovations, clothing, and art. A timeline highlights significant cultural moments, and a ""controversies in pop culture"" section explores the pop culture items and moments of the 1970s that shocked the public and challenged underlying social mores. The book also includes a ""Game Changers"" section that identifies the public figures and celebrities who had the largest influence during the decade, a technology section that explains how media, news, and culture were shared, and a ""Legacy"" section that identifies concepts and events from the 1970s that still affect Americans today.
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Lapidus, Alec. Second Language Cultural Negotiation and Visual Literacy. Lexington Books, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978728066.
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Second Language Cultural Negotiation and Visual Literacy looks at the theory behind cultural learning at the intersection of culture, visuals, and emotions and offers a theoretical and practical foundation upon which teachers can build. Bringing to light theoretical work from multilingual sources, this book illuminates the process of second language cultural negotiation as subjective, affective, and reliant on imagination and applies this theoretical basis to using comics inside and outside the classroom. It re-examines the popular Vygotskian concept of meaning making in the Zone of Proximal Development and identifies sequential art as a unique and legitimate academic medium that can enable cultural negotiation in a diverse and increasingly globalized society. This book explores the mechanism employed by English language learners reading comics to make meaning. Lapidus establishes interdisciplinary research as a valuable form of research and draws upon the concept of multiliteracies to illuminate the multimodal nature of meaning making. Presenting theory and its practical ramifications, this book will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students, language teachers, and anyone who enjoys exploring the way humans learn.
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Condon, Vaneta Mabley. Student identified factors related to the academic success or progress of culturally diverse baccalaureate nursing students. 2000.
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Condon, Vaneta Marilyn Mabley. STUDENT IDENTIFIED FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACADEMIC SUCCESS OR PROGRESS OF CULTURALLY DIVERSE BACCALAUREATE NURSING STUDENTS. 1996.
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Croken, Ryan. Obama bin Laden [sic]. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038860.003.0009.
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This chapter examines the cultural “confusion” that existed in the United States between Osama bin Laden and Barack Obama. It uses the cultural slippages (Obama/Osama), conspiratorial elisions (Obama is Osama), and religious assumptions (Obama, like Osama, is Muslim) that surround Osama and Obama as points for analyzing racialized dynamics that underlie narratives of U.S. exceptionalism, military power, and global dominance. It identifies some of the myriad streams through which popular culture effects its messages: T-shirts, web tools (photo morphing), memes, hip-hop, tweets, YouTube videos, and the like. Attending to these media formats is an essential component of examining sense-making across the complexities of U.S. cultures. The chapter argues that the “confusion” between Osama and Obama is more than just difficulty with name pronunciation, lack of familiarity with Islam, or merging of nonwhite skin color, but is instead a complex negotiation of racial intersections with national narratives.
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Darwent, Christyann, and John Darwent. The Enigmatic Choris and Old Whaling Cultures of the Western Arctic. Edited by Max Friesen and Owen Mason. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199766956.013.22.
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The Choris (750–400 B.C.) and Old Whaling (1150–850 B.C.) cultures are both enigmatic manifestations in the archaeological record in a time of significant cultural “flux” in northwestern Alaskan prehistory. Both cultures represent potential first occurrences in the region—novel lithic assemblage and housing forms (implying the movement of new people into the region) and the possibility of whaling in the case of Old Whaling, and the introduction of pottery and new communal house structures for Choris. However, most of the solid evidence for Choris comes from primarily two locations—Choris Peninsula and Onion Portage, and thus far Old Whaling has only been identified at Cape Krusenstern. The chapter explores both of these archaeological cultures, their chronology and geographic distribution, associated artifacts, subsistence economy, and how they articulate with broader culture history of the western Arctic.
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Erez, Miriam. From Local to Cross-Cultural to Global Work Motivation and Innovation. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879228.003.0005.
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This chapter examines three phases of a programmatic research on work motivation. Phase one focuses on research on work motivation prior to considering the effect of culture on work motivation. This research identifies two boundary conditions of the goal-setting theory of motivation—knowledge of results, and goal commitment—two necessary conditions for goals to affect performance. It continues to examine the effect of participation in goal setting on goal acceptance and its consequent performance and discovers cross-cultural differences in the effect of participation on goal acceptance and performance. This has opened up phase two, which focuses on cross-cultural differences and similarities in work motivation. Phase three has paralleled the change toward a global, culturally diverse and geographically dispersed work context. This context stimulates new research questions and research paradigms that have specifically focused on understanding how to motivate employees’ behaviors in the global context and enhance their sense of belongingness to their multicultural teams.
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Dickson, Melissa. Cultural Encounters with the Arabian Nights in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474443647.001.0001.
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Aladdin, Sinbad, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Scheherazade winding out her intricate tales to win her nightly stay of execution: the stories of the Arabian Nights are a familiar and much-loved part of the English literary inheritance. But how did these tales become so much a part of the British cultural landscape? This book identifies the nineteenth century as the beginning of the large-scale absorption of the Arabian Nights into British literature and culture. It explores how this period used the stories as a means of articulating its own experiences of a rapidly changing environment. It also argues for a view of the tales not as a depiction of otherness, but as a site of recognition and imaginative exchange between East and West, in a period when such common ground was rarely found.
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Maharaj, Ayon. A Cross-Cultural Approach to the Problem of Evil. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190868239.003.0009.
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This chapter adopts a cross-cultural approach to the problem of evil by bringing Sri Ramakrishna into conversation with recent analytic philosophers. Maharaj begins by exploring the philosophical resonances between Sri Ramakrishna’s skeptical theism and William Alston’s skeptical theist refutation of William Rowe’s argument from evil. On the one hand, Maharaj draws on Alston’s skeptical theist response to Rowe as a means of developing and defending Sri Ramakrishna’s own skeptical theist position. On the other, Maharaj argues that Alston’s failure to consider Indian karma-based theodicies significantly weakens his argument. Maharaj then brings Sri Ramakrishna’s saint-making theodicy into dialogue with Hick’s “soul-making” theodicy. Hick’s convincing arguments for the necessity of evil in a soul-making environment lend support to Sri Ramakrishna’s saint-making theodicy. However, Maharaj also identifies major weaknesses in Hick’s soul-making theodicy, which stem from Hick’s assumption of a one-life-only paradigm and his neglect of mystical experience. On this basis, Maharaj argues that Sri Ramakrishna’s mystically grounded saint-making theodicy, which presupposes the doctrines of karma and rebirth, has significant advantages over Hick’s theodicy.
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Aliverti, Ana. Strangers in our Midst. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198814887.003.0009.
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This chapter explores the legal construction of culture and cultural difference in criminal litigation. Drawing on empirical material and reported judgments from English courts, the chapter documents the content of appeals to culture and identifies the pitfalls of their exploitation in criminal litigation. Cultural difference is not a neutral marker to separate social groups in the courtroom. Rather it is often deployed to explain behaviour in relation to specific groups, and is loaded with prejudices and stereotypical representations of racialized minorities. As a legal strategy in criminal litigation, it has worrying effects. These appeals to culture fix individuals into separate and essentialized categories, and prevent an assessment of individual conduct; they conceal structural social inequalities, racism, and discrimination, and the role of the law in perpetuating them; and extra-territorialize undesirable behaviour, norms, and values.
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Dyson, Omari, Judson Jeffries, and Kevin Brooks, eds. African American Culture. Greenwood, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400607592.
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Covering everything from sports to art, religion, music, and entrepreneurship, this book documents the vast array of African American cultural expressions and discusses their impact on the culture of the United States. According to the latest census data, less than 13 percent of the U.S. population identifies as African American; African Americans are still very much a minority group. Yet African American cultural expression and strong influences from African American culture are common across mainstream American culture—in music, the arts, and entertainment; in education and religion; in sports; and in politics and business.African American Culture: An Encyclopedia of People, Traditions, and Customscovers virtually every aspect of African American cultural expression, addressing subject matter that ranges from how African culture was preserved during slavery hundreds of years ago to the richness and complexity of African American culture in the post-Obama era. The most comprehensive reference work on African American culture to date, the multivolume set covers such topics as black contributions to literature and the arts, music and entertainment, religion, and professional sports. It also provides coverage of less-commonly addressed subjects, such as African American fashion practices and beauty culture, the development of jazz music across different eras, and African American business.
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French, Doran C., and Hoi Shan Cheung. Peer Relationships. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190847128.003.0007.
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This chapter examines how adolescents’ peer relations are contextualized within cultural norms and values. Across cultures, differences in demography, time use, and activity settings are identified as contributors to the varying patterns observed in adolescent social networks, friendships, and romantic relationships. This chapter also reviews status hierarchies related to peer acceptance and rejection, popularity, and bullying in different cultures and discusses the contributions of peers to adolescents’ academic success and engagement in deviant behaviors. We conclude with a recommendation to conduct more research on peer relationships outside of North America, especially focusing on time use and peer activities, cultural norms and values, neurological development and the impact of these on adolescent social competence and risk-taking behavior.
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Wong, Y. Joel, and Tao Liu. Dialecticism and Mental Health. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199348541.003.0019.
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Dialecticism, a cultural worldview commonly found in East Asian cultures, embraces the Taoist notion of yin (negative and passive) and yang (positive and active), which represents opposing elements that coexist harmoniously in all things in the world, including the self. This chapter explores four broad areas at the interface of dialecticism and mental health. It begins with a review of research on dialectical lay beliefs about mental health. The influence of dialecticism on mental health outcomes is then analyzed, as well as how dialecticism can be incorporated into conceptualizations and assessments of mental health. The chapter concludes with a discussion of how dialecticism can inform culturally competent clinical interventions. Throughout the chapter, gaps in the literature are identified and future directions given for research on dialecticism and mental health.
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Blacklock, Mark. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198755487.003.0001.
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Introducing the question of why space should be considered to have dimensions, the Introduction proceeds to describe the scope and method of the book. It indicates its intellectual debt to the ideas described by Bruno Latour in We Have Never Been Modern (1993) and its intention to trace ‘quasi-objects’ that disturb the separation of nature and culture. It outlines its frame of reference in the work of scholars of the history of mathematics and late nineteenth-century culture including Joan Richards, Brian Rotman, Mary Poovey, Roger Luckhurst, Jeremy Gray, and Linda Dalrymple Henderson. It describes the historical range of the work, with a focus on the period from 1869 to 1907, outlines the contents of each chapter, and identifies the approach to cultural history of the book as a form of ‘cultural phenomenology’.
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White, Michele. Women’s Nail Polish Blogging and Femininity. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039577.003.0008.
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This chapter demonstrates the ways nail polish bloggers have conceptualized the limits and the limitations of femininity without narrowly defining femininity. Nail polish bloggers, informed by general cultural perceptions, understand polish as feminine. In a related manner, society identifies nail polish as a low form. Yet nail bloggers also trouble cultural conceptions of normative femininity through their inability and resistance to wholly describing and identifying the feminine. These bloggers critique some aspects of feminine culture and identify the expectations that prevent them from moving beyond certain applications and norms. They emphasize the produced aspects of their nails and bodies and thereby undermine the idea that women and femininity are natural states.
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Straus, Joseph. Autism and Postwar Serialism as Neurodiverse Forms of Cultural Modernism. Edited by Blake Howe, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Neil Lerner, and Joseph Straus. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199331444.013.44.
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From their shared beginnings in the mid-1940s on the East Coast of the United States, people classified as autistic and musical works identified as serial or twelve-tone have been described and stigmatized in strikingly similar ways. Both are understood as excessively isolated or alone, with each entity self-contained and self-enclosed. Both are understood as uncommunicative, or communicating in atypical ways, with an excess of private meanings and self-references, and as demonstrating an unproductive preference for routines and rituals. Similar descriptive metaphors have accreted around each, including inaccessible fortresses, incomprehensible aliens, and unfeeling machines. Autism and postwar twelve-tone music may thus be thought of as related forms of cultural modernism (in its postwar American incarnation). This essay both documents the shared stigmatization and pushes back against it. Neurodiversity and cultural diversity require and reward appropriate accommodation, in the recognition that pleasure and value may take many different forms.
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Oleshko, V. F., and E. V. Oleshko. Mass media as a mediator of communicative and cultural memory. Ural University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.15826/b978-5-7996-3074-4.0.
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In the monograph, the process of mediatization is considered in the context of not only the conditions for the development of journalism as a convergent and ubiquitous digitalization of content, but also as a tool for social interaction. Using the example of modern media as a mediator of communicative and cultural memory, the most important indicators of the development of modern Russian society based on civilizational humanistic traditions are identified and systematized. By using the sociological data obtained by the authors of this monograph, as well as studying the practices of identifying representatives of the “analog” and “digital” generations of the mass audience, it is possible to capture significant elements of the process of mediatization. Particular attention is paid to intergenerational communication based on discursive texts and modeling of media activities. The monograph is of interest to philologists, media researchers, specialists in the field of related humanitarian disciplines, and will also be useful to practicing journalists, graduate students, and students of creative specialties.
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Austin, Michael. Vardis Fisher. University of Illinois Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252044090.001.0001.
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This book reevaluates the influence of Mormon religion and regional culture on the work of Western American novelist Vardis Fisher (1895-1968). Fisher was born and raised in an isolated Southern Idaho community established by the Mormons. He was brought up by Mormon parents and educated in Mormon schools. He rejected the Church while a college student and identified as an atheist for most of his life, but he wrote about Mormonism frequently in his work. Vardis Fisher begins with a detailed introduction to Fisher’s life and work and ends with a comprehensive bibliographical essay. Other chapters explore the influence of Mormonism on specific works. Chapter Two examines Fisher’s seven early novels set in the Antelope region of Idaho and argues that they constitute the first significant body of regional literature in the area that demographers have identified as the “Mormon Culture Region.” Chapter Three examines the writing and reception of Children of God, Fisher’s epic 1939 novel of the Mormon migration. Chapter Four explores the Mormon influence on Fisher’s Testament of Man saga, the twelve-volume series of historical novels that Fisher wrote between 1943 and 1960. In each of these chapters, the book identifies and traces aspects of Mormon history, theology, and culture that shape Fisher’s work, concluding that these patterns of influence justify categorizing much of Fisher’s work as “Mormon Literature.”
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Rosewarne, Lauren. American Taboo. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400612374.
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America's often-unspoken morality codes make many topics taboo in "the land of the free." This book analyzes hundreds of popular culture examples to expose how the media both avoids and alludes to how we derive pleasure from our bodies. Flatulence … male nudity … abortion … masturbation: these are just a few of the taboo topics in the United States. What do culturally enforced silences about certain subjects say about our society—and our latent fears? This work provides a broad yet detailed overview of popular culture's most avoided topics to explain why they remain off-limits and examines how they are presented in contemporary media—or, in many cases, delicately explored using euphemism and innuendo. The author offers fascinating, in-depth analysis of the meaning behind these portrayals of a variety of both mundane and provocative taboos, and identifies how new television programs, films, and advertising campaigns intentionally violate longstanding cultural taboos to gain an edge in the marketplace.