Channeling Cultures: Television Studies from India By Biswarup Sen (editor), Abhijit Roy (editor)
2014 | 282 Pages | ISBN: 0198092059 | PDF | 2 MB
Television is probably the most important mass medium in India today. In this pioneering volume of television studies reputed scholars from across the globe address a series of questions that help us gain a deeper understanding of its nature and function within contemporary Indian society: What makes television occupy a pivotal place in India's public and private cultures? How has television changed from the early days of Doordarshan to the current age of set top boxes and hundreds of channels? What makes news, soap opera and Reality TV an integral part of our daily lives? Why is our popular culture so orchestrated by the 4 Cs (cricket, crime, cinema and celebrity)? Why is television indispensable at times of crises like a 'terrorist' attack? How different is regional television from its national and global counterparts? By analyzing different aspects of content, policy, and broadcasting philosophy, the volume enables the reader to arrive at a deeper understanding of the role television plays in representing and constructing Indian modernity.

Human Evolution: Bones, Cultures, and Genes
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031141563 | 524 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 81 MB
*It incorporates the most recent fossil discoveries and interpretations.*It balances the discussion between descriptions of fossils and interpretations of behavior of hominins in different time periods.*It includes current findings of genomics into understanding the more recent stages of human evolution. This important subdiscipline is badly underserved by current texts.*It consistently addresses the relationship of evidence to our current hypotheses and interpretations.

Comparing Legal Cultures By David Nelken (editor)
1997 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 1855218984 | PDF | 58 MB
This volume cross-examines mainstream approaches to studying legal culture (e.g. those of Friedman and Blankenburg). It includes debates over the concept of legal culture and a variety of case studies of different legal cultures.

Bonnie G. Smith, Marc Van De Mieroop, Richard von Glahn, "Crossroads and Cultures, Volume I: To 1450: A History of the World's Peoples"
English | 2012 | pages: 629 | ISBN: 0312442130 | PDF | 240,8 mb
Crossroads and Cultures: A History of the World's Peoples incorporates the best current cultural history into a fresh and original narrative that connects global patterns of development with life on the ground. As the title, "Crossroads," suggests, this new synthesis highlights the places and times where people exchanged goods and commodities, shared innovations and ideas, waged war and spread disease, and in doing so joined their lives to the broad sweep of global history. Students benefit from a strong pedagogical design, abundant maps and images, and special features that heighten the narrative's attention to the lives and voices of the world's peoples.Test drive a chapter today. Find out how.

Heidi Reynolds-Stenson, "Cultures of Resistance: Collective Action and Rationality in the Anti-Terror Age "
English | ISBN: 1978823738 | 2022 | 186 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Cultures of Resistance provides new insight on a long-standing question: whether government efforts to repress social movements produce a chilling effect on dissent, or backfire and spur greater mobilization. In recent decades, the U.S. government's repressive capacity has expanded dramatically, as the legal, technological, and bureaucratic tools wielded by agents of the state have become increasingly powerful. Today, more than ever, it is critical to understand how repression impacts the freedom to dissent and collectively express political grievances. Through analysis of activists' rich and often deeply moving experiences of repression and resistance, the book uncovers key group processes that shape how individuals understand, experience, and weigh these risks of participating in collective action. Qualitative and quantitative analyses demonstrate that, following experiences of state repression, the achievement or breakdown of these group processes, not the type or severity of repression experienced, best explain why some individuals persist while others disengage. In doing so, the book bridges prevailing theoretical divides in social movement research by illuminating how individual rationality is collectively constructed, mediated, and obscured by protest group culture.

Cultures of Computation and Quantification in the Ancient World:
Numbers, Measurements, and Operations in Documents from Mesopotamia, China and South Asia
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030983609 | 1279 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 48 MB

Andrew L. Russell, "Ada's Legacy: Cultures of Computing from the Victorian to the Digital Age "
English | ISBN: 1970001518 | 2015 | 262 pages | PDF | 34 MB
Ada's Legacy illustrates the depth and diversity of writers, thinkers, and makers who have been inspired by Ada Lovelace, the English mathematician and writer. The volume, which commemorates the bicentennial of Ada's birth in December 1815, celebrates Lovelace's many achievements as well as the impact of her life and work, which reverberated widely since the late nineteenth century. In the 21st century we have seen a resurgence in Lovelace scholarship, thanks to the growth of interdisciplinary thinking and the expanding influence of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Ada's Legacy is a unique contribution to this scholarship, thanks to its combination of papers on Ada's collaboration with Charles Babbage, Ada's position in the Victorian and Steampunk literary genres, Ada's representation in and inspiration of contemporary art and comics, and Ada's continued relevance in discussions around gender and technology in the digital age. With the 200th anniversary of Ada Lovelace's birth on December 10, 2015, we believe that the timing is perfect to publish this collection of papers. Because of its broad focus on subjects that reach far beyond the life and work of Ada herself, Ada's Legacy will appeal to readers who are curious about Ada's enduring importance in computing and the wider world.

Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures: Sickness, Health, and Local Epistemologies (Medicine and the Body in Antiquity) By Ulrike Steinert (editor)
2020 | 322 Pages | ISBN: 1138571121 | PDF | 6 MB
Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures puts historical disease concepts in cross-cultural perspective, investigating perceptions, constructions and experiences of health and illness from antiquity to the seventeenth century.Focusing on the systematisation and classification of illness in its multiple forms, manifestations and causes, this volume examines case studies ranging from popular concepts of illness through to specialist discourses on it. Using philological, historical and anthropological approaches, the contributions cover perspectives across time from East Asian, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cultures, spanning ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome to Tibet and China. They aim to capture the multiplicity of disease concepts and medical traditions within specific societies, and to investigate the historical dynamics of stability and change linked to such concepts.Providing useful material for comparative research, the volume is a key resource for researchers studying the cultural conceptualisation of illness, including anthropologists, historians and classicists, among others.

Digital Cultures, Lived Stories and Virtual Reality By Thomas Maschio
2021 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 0367479303 | PDF | 9 MB
This book focuses on the meaning and experience of digital practice, emerging from work in the world of business and drawing on recent anthropological thinking on digital culture. Tom Maschio suggests that the digital is a space of a new "story culture" and considers the lived experience of new technologies. The chapters cover: storytelling in journalism and business with the new technology of virtual reality, the emerging meanings of social media and community building in the digital space, the uses and meanings of visual imagery online, and the cultural meanings of smartphone technology use and the "mobile life." The book incorporates ideas from humanistic anthropology and phenomenology in order to bring business problems into alignment with human concerns and desires, and to show the application of anthropological ideas to real-world issues. As well as anthropologists, the book will be valuable to business students and professionals interested in the digital realm.

Cultures of Silence: The Power of Untold Narratives
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032071702 | 230 Pages | PDF (True) | 4.2 MB
This book investigates the notion of silence as both an oppressing instrument and a powerful tool of resistance under the lenses and practices of cultural production.