Gibril R. Cole, "The Krio of West Africa: Islam, Culture, Creolization, and Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century "
English | ISBN: 082142047X | 2013 | 280 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Sierra Leone's unique history, especially in the development and consolidation of British colonialism in West Africa, has made it an important site of historical investigation since the 1950s. Much of the scholarship produced in subsequent decades has focused on the "Krio," descendants of freed slaves from the West Indies, North America, England, and other areas of West Africa, who settled Freetown, beginning in the late eighteenth century. Two foundational and enduring assumptions have characterized this historiography: the concepts of "Creole" and "Krio" are virtually interchangeable; and the community to which these terms apply was and is largely self-contained, Christian, and English in worldview.

Reformations and their Impact on the Culture of Memoria By Truus van Bueren, Paul Cockerham, Caroline Horch, Martine Meuwese, Thomas Schilp
2016 | 426 Pages | ISBN: 2503568548 | PDF | 7 MB
This volume presents cultural studies approaches to different modes of memoria (the original medieval way of commemoration), taking into account specific confessional contexts. It mainly focuses on the consequences of political, religious and social reforms in the period from 1200 to 1800. Scholars from multiple subject areas in the field of cultural studies evaluate if, and to what extent, reform processes and political or social change have influenced different practices of memoria.Since customs of commemoration of the dead (and the living) serve as a means of self-reassurance for a society, they allow significant insights into what the respective societies were grounded upon. This volume delivers the first discipline-specific and methodologically diverse approach to the consequences of different reforms on memoria.In this way this overview creates a 'history of memoria' throughout the centuries.In der vorliegenden Publikation werden unterschiedliche Ausprägungen der memoria, des ursprünglich mittelalterlichen Gedenkwesens, kulturwissenschaftlich und konfessionsspezifisch dargestellt. Dabei stehen die Folgen politischer, religiöser und sozialer Reformen im Zeitraum von 1200 bis 1800 im Fokus. Forscher aus verschiedenen Fächern und mehrerer Länder haben sich mit unterschiedlichen Aspekten memorialen Handelns beschäftigt und untersucht, inwiefern Veränderungen und Neuordnungen die Praxis der memoria beeinflusst haben.Im Umgang mit den Toten vergewissert sich eine Gesellschaft ihrer selbst. So vermag das Gedenken an Lebende und Verstorbene bedeutsame Aufschlüsse geben.Den Auswirkungen unterschiedlicher Reformen, insbesondere der Reformation, auf die memoria wird hier zum ersten Mal methodisch wie fachspezifisch nachgegangen.Aus diesem Überblick entsteht auch eine „Geschichte der memoria" durch mehrere Jahrhunderte.

Anna Malinowska, "Materiality and Popular Culture: The Popular Life of Things "
English | ISBN: 1138657808 | 2016 | 284 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book critically approaches contemporary meanings of materiality and discuses ways in which we understand, experience, and engage with objects through popular culture in our private, social and professional lives. Appropriating Arjun Appadurai's famous phrase: "the social life of things", with which he inspired scholars to take material culture more seriously and, as a result, treat it as an important and revealing area of cultural studies, the book explores the relationship between material culture and popular practices, and points to the impact they have exerted on our co-existence with material worlds in the conditions of late modernity.

English | ASIN: B09B2ZKQCW | 2021 |MP3|M4B | ~08:07:00 | 230 MB
Mark Brake, Matt Godfrey (Narrator), "The Science of Science Fiction: The Influence of Film and Fiction on the Science and Culture of Our Times"
Media headlines declare this the age of automation. The TV talks about the coming revolution of the robot, tweets tell tales of jets that will ferry travelers to the edge of space, and social media reports that the first human to live for a thousand years has already been born. The science we do, the movies we watch, and the culture we consume is the stuff of fiction that became fact, the future imagined in our past - the future we now inhabit.

Monteith American Culture In The 1960s
pdf | 1.45 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 978-0748619474 | Author: Graham | Year: 2008

Life in Culture: Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling By Lionel Trilling; Adam Kirsch
2018 | 464 Pages | ISBN: 0374185158 | EPUB | 1 MB
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Daniel B. Rowland, "God, Tsar, and People: The Political Culture of Early Modern Russia "
English | ISBN: 150175372X | 2020 | 420 pages | PDF | 51 MB
God, Tsar, and People brings together in one volume essays written over a period of fifty years, using a wide variety of evidence―texts, icons, architecture, and ritual―to reveal how early modern Russians (1450-1700) imagined their rapidly changing political world.

Palgrave Studies in Audio Visual Culture Andra Ivanescu Popular Music in the Nostalgia Video Game The Way It Never Sounded
pdf | 1.86 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B07MJW2DVT | Author: Andra Ivănescu | Year: 2019

Studies Theatre Hist Culture Michael V Pisani Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth Century London and New York University Of Iowa Press
pdf | 3.06 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B00KJBG1M6 | Author: Pisani, Michael V.(Author) | Year: 2014

Prohibitions and Psychoactive Substances in History, Culture and Theory by Susannah Wilson
2019 | ISBN: 0367257637, 103209253X | English | 288 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This volume is a new contribution to the dynamic scholarly discussion of the control and regulation of psychoactive substances in culture and society. Offering new critical reflections on the reasons prohibitions have historically arisen, the book analyses "prohibitions" as ambivalent and tenuous interactions between the users of psychoactive substances and regulators of their use. This original collection of essays engages with contemporary debates concerning addiction, intoxication and drug regulation, and will be of interest to scholars in the arts, humanities and social sciences interested in narratives of prohibition and their social and cultural meanings.