Recently added articles from Cultural Analysis:
"I lost my head in Borneo": tourism and the refashioning of the headhunting narrative in Sabah, Malaysia.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2007; Gingging, Flory Ann Mansor ... Abstract Although headhunting is generally believed to be no longer practiced in Sabah, Malaysia, it is a phenomenon of the past that still exists in the collective consciousness of indigenous groups, living through the telling and retelling of stories, not just by individuals, ...
Burgundian regionalism and French republican commercial culture at the 1937 Paris International Exposition.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2007; Whalen, Philip ... Abstract This article discusses how early twentieth-century France developed rustic modernization projects anchored in traditional regional practices. This entailed overcoming political and cultural fears associated with regional allegiances as well as developing regional ...
Orality, inscription and the creation of a new lore.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2007; Chatterji, Roma ... Abstract This essay examines the process by which the discourse of folklore is used to entextualize and recontextualize the oral tradition in West Bengal through a discussion of two contemporary Bangla novels. Motifs from folk tales, myths, and popular epic poems are being ...
Identity-as-form: the mosque in the west (1).(Essay)
Jan 01, 2007; Avcioglu, Nebahat ... Abstract This article is a reconsideration of the ethical conceptual framework developed by Edward Said in his book Orientalism within an art historical context. It focuses primarily on the relationship between form and cultural identity in the architecture of contemporary ...
Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries: Social Categories and Lived Identity in Yucatan.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Brulotte, Ronda L. ... Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries: Social Categories and Lived Identity in Yucatan. By Peter Hervik. New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. xxxi + 214, figures, maps, illustrations, tables, bibliography, index. In Mayan People Within and Beyond Boundaries anthropologist Peter ...
Making Music in the Polish Tatras: Tourists, Ethnographers, and Mountain Musicians.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Tabor, Nathan ... Making Music in the Polish Tatras: Tourists, Ethnographers, and Mountain Musicians. By Timothy J. Cooley. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2005. Pp. xvii+293, introduction, glossary, notes, references cited, illustrations, index, compact disc. Relying ...
Baseball and Country Music.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Guest-Scott, Anthony ... Baseball and Country Music. By Don Cusic. A Ray and Pat Browne Book. Ray B. Browne and Pat Browne, eds. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press/The Popular Press, 2003. Pp. 182, notes, bibliographical essay, bibliography, index. In Baseball and Country Music, Cusic ...
Ad-Hoc Arabism: Advertising, Culture, and Technology in Saudi Arabia.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Gould, Miriam ... Ad-Hoc Arabism: Advertising, Culture, and Technology in Saudi Arabia. By Roni Zirinski. (New York: Peter Lang, 2005. Pp. xiv + 176, introduction, epilogue, notes, bibliography, index, illustrations.) Ad-Hoc Arabism holds as its central premise that advertising is able to ...
The Virtual.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Bench, Harmony ... The Virtual. By Rob Shields. Key Ideas. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp xvi + 246, introduction, notes, bibliography, index, illustrations. The Virtual, a volume in a series of equally ambitious titles (Culture and Racism are other titles in the Key Ideas series), is ...