Nature, Culture, and Society, Palsson

Автор: Chernyshova
Название: Soviet Consumer Culture in the Brezhnev Era
ISBN: 0415687543 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415687546
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: After decades of turmoil and trauma, the Brezhnev era brought stability and an unprecedented rise in living standards to the Soviet Union, enabling ordinary people to enjoy modern consumer goods on an entirely new scale. This book analyses the politics and economics of the state’s efforts to improve living standards, and shows how mass consumption was often used as an instrument of legitimacy, ideology and modernization. However, the resulting consumer revolution brought its own problems for the socialist regime. Rising well-being and the resulting ethos of consumption altered citizens’ relationship with the state and had profound consequences for the communist project.The book uses a wealth of sources to explore the challenge that consumer modernity was posing to Soviet ‘mature socialism’ between the mid-1960s and the early 1980s. It combines analysis of economic policy and public debates on consumerism with the stories of ordinary people and their attitudes to fashion, Western goods and the home. The book contests the notion that Soviet consumers were merely passive, abused, eternally queuing victims and that the Brezhnev era was a period of ‘stagnation’, arguing instead that personal consumption provided the incentive and the space for individuals to connect and interact with society and the regime even before perestroika. This book offers a lively account of Soviet society and everyday life during a period which is rapidly becoming a new frontier of historical research.

Автор: Vannini Phillip
Название: Senses in Self, Society, and Culture
ISBN: 0415731046 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415731041
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture is the definitive guide to the sociological and anthropological study of the senses. Vannini, Waskul, and Gottschalk provide a comprehensive map of the social and cultural significance of the senses that is woven in a thorough analytical review of classical, recent, and emerging scholarship and grounded in original empirical data that deepens the review and analysis. By bridging cultural/qualitative sociology and cultural/humanistic anthropology, The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture explicitly blurs boundaries that are particularly weak in this field due to the ethnographic scope of much research. Serving both the sociological and anthropological constituencies at once means bridging ethnographic traditions, cultural foci, and socioecological approaches to embodiment and sensuousness. The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture is intended to be a milestone in the social sciences' somatic turn.

Автор: Myres
Название: Mediterranean Culture
ISBN: 1107697964 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107697966
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Originally published in 1943, this book presents the content of the Frazer Lecture in Social Anthropology for that year, which was delivered by John L. Myres at Cambridge University. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in anthropology and Mediterranean culture.

Автор: James Fairhead
Название: Science, society and power
ISBN: 0521535662 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521535663
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book brings science to the heart of debates about globalisation, exploring the globalisation of science and its contrasting effects in Guinea, one of the world`s poorest countries, and Trinidad, a more prosperous and industrialised island. It takes a unique ethnographic approach, drawing from anthropology, development and science studies.