The traditional martial arts genre known as wuxia (literally "martial chivalry") became popular the world over through the phenomenal hit Crouching Ti ...
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Blinde Evolution lautet ein Motto der Rechtswissenschaft nach ihren theologischen und metaphysischen Entt?uschungen. Das Werk bietet eine vorz?gliche ...
Explores the development of the Chinese martial arts novel.
In Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception Yuri Tsivian examines the development of cinematic form and culture in Russia, from its late nine ...
This book brings post-Berlin Wall Europe and European cinema to full visibility and into the fray of current debates on cultural identity, transnation ...
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This paper represents an inquiry on the use of history and cultural heritage in the metal scene. It is an attempt to show how history and cultural her ...
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Forty years after the fact, 1960s counterculture---personified by hippies, protest, and the Summer of Love---basks in a nostalgic glow in the popular ...
Nick Cave is now widely recognized as a songwriter, musician, novelist, screenwriter, curator, critic, actor and performer. From the band, The Boys Ne ...
Using cultural anthropology to analyze debates that reverberate throughout the human sciences, George E. Marcus and Michael M. J. Fischer look closely ...
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A leading name in anthropology, Conrad Philip Kottak continues to define student learning in the cultural anthropology course. Cultural Anthropology o ...
Referring to a past that never was, dГ©jГ vu shares a structure not only with fiction, but also with the ever more sophisticated effects of media tec ...
The Kindle edition of this encyclopedia does not have live links between the table of contents and the entries in the main text. Consequently it is im ...
This innovative book explores the way Western anthropologists use studies of ethnicity to 'interpret' local cultures. Mary Rack raises critical issues ...
