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Visual Sociology: An Introduction
By Douglas Harper
Why has the visual largely gone missing in sociology done so poorly when done at all? Visual sociology has been part of the sociological vocabulary since Howard S. Becker's 1974 article, 'Photography and Sociology' but until now there has not been a comprehensive text that introduces this area....
June 2011 | 978-0-415-77896-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Okubo Diary (Routledge Revivals): Portrait of a Japanese Valley
By Brian Moeran
First published in 1985, this Routledge Revival is a lively and colourful account of life in the Japanese countryside, as seen through the eyes of an anthropologist who did fieldwork there for four years. Part journal, part ethnographic observation, part social and moral commentary, this very...
November 2010 | 978-0-415-59005-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Cross-Cultural Issues in Art: Frames for Understanding
By Steven Leuthold
Cross-Cultural Issues in Art provides an engaging introduction to aesthetic concepts, expanding the discussion beyond the usual Western theorists and Western examples. Steven Leuthold discusses both contemporary and historical issues and examples, incorporating a range of detailed case studies...
November 2010 | 978-0-415-57800-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Japanese Love Hotels: A Cultural History
By Sarah Chaplin
Drawing on theories of place, consumption and identity, Sarah Chaplin details the evolution of the love hotel in urban Japan since the 1950s. Love hotels emerged in the late 1950s following a ban of licensed prostitution, then were extremely popular in the 1970s, were then legislated against in the...
October 2010 | 978-0-415-48754-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Material Powers: Cultural Studies, History and the Material Turn
Edited by Tony Bennett, Patrick Joyce
This edited collection is a major contribution to the current development of a ‘material turn’ in the social sciences and humanities. It does so by exploring new understandings of how power is made up and exercised by examining the role of material infrastructures in the organisation of state...
September 2010 | 978-0-415-60314-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Museum Materialities: Objects, Engagements, Interpretations
Edited by Sandra Dudley
This is an innovative interdisciplinary book about objects and people within museums and galleries. It addresses fundamental issues of human sensory, emotional and aesthetic experience of objects. The chapters explore ways and contexts in which things and people mutually interact, and raise...
November 2009 | 978-0-415-49218-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Museums in Postcolonial Europe
Edited by Dominic Thomas
The history of European nation-building and identity formation is inextricably connected with museums, and the role they play in displaying the acquired spoils and glorious symbols of geopolitical power in order to mobilize public support for expansionist ventures. This book examines the...
October 2009 | 978-0-415-56135-8 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Making Japanese Heritage
Edited by Christoph Brumann, Rupert A. Cox
This book examines the making of heritage in contemporary Japan, investigating the ways in which particular objects, practices and institutions are ascribed public recognition and political significance. Through detailed ethnographic and historical case studies, it analyses the social, economic,...
September 2009 | 978-0-415-41314-5 | Hardback (Routledge)
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The Culture of Copying in Japan: Critical and Historical Perspectives
Edited by Rupert Cox
This book challenges the perception of Japan as a ‘copying culture’ through a series of detailed ethnographic and historical case studies. It addresses a question about why the West has had such a fascination for the adeptness with which the Japanese apparently assimilate all things foreign and...
May 2009 | 978-0-415-54539-6 | Paperback (Routledge)