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Cultural Studies & the Arts

"Cultural studies" means different things to different people. We take an inclusive approach in framing our list of titles in this area and include ethnographic works, contemporary social theory, explorations of the modern world, and works on mass media. We also include books on architecture, fine arts and performing arts: music, theatre, dance.

Subject Titles

Accidental Ethnography
An Inquiry into Family Secrecy
Christopher N. Poulos (Author), H.L. Goodall , Jr. (Foreword By)
Advocacy and Indigenous Film-Making
Exploration in Visual Anthropology
Birgitte Markussen, Hans Henrik Philipsen
The American Indian Oral History Manual
Making Many Voices Heard
Charles E. Trimble, Barbara W. Sommer, Mary Kay Quinlan
Appropriating Images
The Semiotics of Visual Representation
Keyan Tomaselli
Archaeology is a Brand!
The Meaning of Archaeology in Contemporary Popular Culture
Cornelius Holtorf (Author)
Basketry Technology
A Guide to Identification and Analysis, Updated Edition
J. M. Adovasio
Behind the Eye
Reflexive Methods in Culture Studies, Ethnographic Film, and Visual Media
Toril Jenssen
Betweener Talk
Decolonizing Knowledge Production, Pedagogy, and Praxis
Marcelo Diversi, Claudio Moreira
Black Feminist Archaeology
Whitney Battle-Baptiste (Author)
Box Office Archaeology
Refining Hollywood’s Portrayals of the Past
Julie M. Schablitsky (Editor)
Ceramic Makers' Marks
Erica Gibson (Author)
Coach Fellas
Heritage and Tourism in Ireland
Kelli Ann Costa
Consuming Ancient Egypt
Sally MacDonald (Editor), Michael Rice (Editor)
Creolization
History, Ethnography, Theory
Charles Stewart (Editor)
Cultural Diversity and Discourse Practices in Grade Nine
Lynne V. Wiltse
Cultural Icons
Keyan Tomaselli (Editor), David Scott (Editor)
The Cultural Theorist’s Book of Quotations
Arthur Asa Berger
Curating Oral Histories
From Interview to Archive
Nancy MacKay (Author)
Decolonizing Conservation
Caring for Maori Meeting Houses outside New Zealand
Dean Sully (Editor)
Doing Anthropology in Consumer Research
Patricia L. Sunderland, Rita M. Denny
Erotic Mentoring
Women’s Transformations in the University
Janice Hocker Rushing (Author)
Faking Ancient Mesoamerica
Nancy L. Kelker (Author), Karen O. Bruhns (Author)
Faking the Ancient Andes
Karen O. Bruhns, Nancy L. Kelker
A Fearsome Heritage
Diverse Legacies of the Cold War
John Schofield (Editor), Wayne Cocroft (Editor)
The Folkloral Voice
Ian William Sewall
Giving Comfort and Inflicting Pain
Irena Madjar
Heritage Values in Contemporary Society
George Smith (Editor), Phyllis Mauch Messenger (Editor), Hilary Soderland (Editor)
Imhotep Today
Egyptianizing Architecture
Jean-Marcel Humbert (Editor), Clifford Price (Editor)
Intimate Colonialism
Head, Heart, and Body in West African Development Work
Laurie L. Charlés
Jade Dragon
Sarah Milledge Nelson
Lesotho Herders Video Project
Exploration in Visual Anthropology
Chuck Scott
Living Images
Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum
Janet Picton (Editor), Stephen Quirke (Editor), Paul C. Roberts (Editor)
Looking Two Ways
Documentary Film’s Relationship with Reality and Cinema
Toni de Bromhead
A Millennium of Cultural Contact
Alistair Paterson (Author)
Mourning the Dreams
How Parents Create Meaning from Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Early Infant Death
Claudia Malacrida
National Treasure
Peter Bleed
A Need to Know
The Clandestine History of a CIA Family
H.L. Goodall , Jr. (Author)
The Nordic Eye
Proceedings from NAFA 1
Peter I. Crawford
The Origin of Cultures
How Individual Choices Make Cultures Change
W. Penn Handwerker
The Pedagogic Principal
Rodney Evans
Playbuilding as Qualitative Research
A Participatory Arts-Based Approach
Joe Norris
Positioning Identities
Lesbians’ and Gays’ Experiences with Mental Health Care
Hazel K. Platzer
Prime-Time Society
An Anthropological Analysis of Television and Culture, Updated Edition
Conrad Phillip Kottak
Qualitative Inquiry Under Fire
Toward a New Paradigm Dialogue
Norman K. Denzin
Qualitative Inquiry and Social Justice
Norman K. Denzin, Michael D. Giardina
Reclaiming Heritage
Alternative Imaginaries of Memory in West Africa
Ferdinand de Jong (Editor), Michael Rowlands (Editor)
Reflecting Visual Ethnography
Using the Camera in Anthropological Research
Metje Postma (Editor), Peter I. Crawford (Editor)
Return to Alexandria
An Ethnography of Cultural Heritage Revivalism and Museum Memory
Beverly Butler (Author)
Revision
Autoethnographic Reflections on Life and Work
Carolyn Ellis
Scoping the Amazon
Image, Icon, Ethnography
Stephen Nugent
Searching for Yellowstone
Race, Gender, Family, and Memory in the Postmodern West
Norman K. Denzin
Shamanism and the Origin of States
Spirit, Power, and Gender in East Asia
Sarah Milledge Nelson
Social and Ecological History of the Pyrenees
State, Market, and Landscape
Ismael Vaccaro (Editor), Oriol Beltran (Editor)
Trickster in Tweed
The Quest for Quality in a Faculty Life
Thomas S. Frentz
A Visual Narrative Concerning Curriculum, Girls, Photography Etc.
Hedy Bach
What Objects Mean
An Introduction to Material Culture
Arthur Asa Berger
When a Baby Dies of SIDS
The Parents’ Grief and Search for Reason
Karen Martin
Writing Qualitative Inquiry
Self, Stories, and Academic Life
H.L. Goodall , Jr.

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