Understanding culture : a handbook for students in the humanities / Babette Hellemans.

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Hellemans, Babette S [author.]

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9789048530090
9048530091

Other title:

Handbook for students in the humanities

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Understanding culture.DDC classification:

306.071 23

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HM623 .H45 2017eb

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Contents:

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Classics -- 2. Man and Mentality -- 3. Language -- 4. The Silence of the Archives -- 5. Non-Western Cultures -- 6. Image, Memory, and Practice -- Glossary -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Index.

Summary: This pioneering textbook explores the theoretical background of cultural variety, both in past and present. How is it possible to study 'culture' when the topic covers the arts, literature, movies, history, sociology, anthropology and gender studies? Understanding Culture examines the evolution of a concept with varying meanings depending on changing norms. Offering a long-duration analysis of the relationship between culture and nature, this book looks at the origins of studying culture from an international perspective. Using examples from the several scholarly traditions in the practice of studying culture, 'Understanding Culture' is a key introduction to the area. It identifies the history of interpreting culture as a meeting point between the long-standing historical investigation of 'humanism' and 'postmodernism' and is a comprehensive resource for those who wish to further their engagement with culture as both a historical and contemporary phenomenon. Keywords: history of mentality, psychoanalysis, Marxism, linguistic structuralism, cultural analysis, gender studies, agency, Zeitgeist, discourse, anthropology, memory-studies.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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This pioneering textbook explores the theoretical background of cultural variety, both in past and present. How is it possible to study 'culture' when the topic covers the arts, literature, movies, history, sociology, anthropology and gender studies? Understanding Culture examines the evolution of a concept with varying meanings depending on changing norms. Offering a long-duration analysis of the relationship between culture and nature, this book looks at the origins of studying culture from an international perspective. Using examples from the several scholarly traditions in the practice of studying culture, 'Understanding Culture' is a key introduction to the area. It identifies the history of interpreting culture as a meeting point between the long-standing historical investigation of 'humanism' and 'postmodernism' and is a comprehensive resource for those who wish to further their engagement with culture as both a historical and contemporary phenomenon. Keywords: history of mentality, psychoanalysis, Marxism, linguistic structuralism, cultural analysis, gender studies, agency, Zeitgeist, discourse, anthropology, memory-studies.

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