Author: Margaret Dikovitskaya
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: visual, cultural, culture, study
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0262541882
ISBN-13: 9780262541886

In recent years, visual culture has emerged as a growing and important interdisciplinary field of study. Visual culture regards images as central to the representation of meaning in the world. It encompasses "high" art without an assumption of its higher status. But despite the current proliferation of studies and programs in visual culture, there seems to be no consensus within the field itself as to its scope and objectives, definitions, and methods. In Visual Culture, Margaret Dikovitskaya offers an overview of this new area of study in order to reconcile its diverse theoretical positions a

Author: Margaret Dikovitskaya
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: visual, cultural, culture, study
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 2005-05-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 026204224X
ISBN-13: 9780262042246

In recent years, visual culture has emerged as a growing and important interdisciplinary field of study. Visual culture regards images as central to the representation of meaning in the world. It encompasses "high" art without an assumption of its higher status. But despite the current proliferation of studies and programs in visual culture, there seems to be no consensus within the field itself as to its scope and objectives, definitions, and methods. In Visual Culture, Margaret Dikovitskaya offers an overview of this new area of study in order to reconcile its diverse theoretical positions a

Authors:Margaret Diane LeCompte, Jean Schensul, Margaret Wee
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Keywords: toolkit, vol, ethnographer, partnerships, roles, research, researcher
Number of Pages: 175
Published: 1999-08-19
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0761989730
ISBN-13: 9780761989738

Book six of the Ethnographer’s Toolkit series discusses the special requirements that doing ethnographic research imposes on its practitioners. The authors first describe how the work of ethnographers is inextricably tied to type of person the ethnographer is, the particular social and cultural context of the research site, and the tasks and responsibilities that ethnographers assume in the field. The book then examines how ethnographers assemble research teams, establish partnerships with individuals and institutions in the field, and work collaboratively with a wide range of people and

Authors:Sue Blundell, Margaret Williamson, Margaret Williams
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: greece, ancient, feminine, sacred
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1998-05-11
List price: $40.95
ISBN-10: 0415126630
ISBN-13: 9780415126632

In Classical Greece women were almost entirely excluded from public life. Yet the feminine was accorded a central place in religious thought and ritual. The public symbolism of religion included powerful figures like Hera, Artemis and Athene; female worshippers often breached the boundary between public and private space; and both men and women negotiated gendered identities through their performance of ritual. This volume is a lively and colorful exploration of the ways in which religion and ritual reveal women’s importance in the Greek polis, showing how ideologies about female roles a

Authors:Margaret B. Hastings, Amanda J. Squires, Margaret B.
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
Keywords: person, older, rehabilitation
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2002-02
List price: $50.75
ISBN-10: 0748754709
ISBN-13: 9780748754700

The book is divided into an easily accessible three-part structure. Part one covers the demographics and epidemiology of care of older people. Part two discusses the philosophy of rehabilitation and includes implications of the recent NHS Plan and Framework. Part three addresses the practice of rehabilitation in line with the policies implications. A case study runs throughout with each specialist detailing a care plan appropriate to their field.

Authors:Margaret A. Gallego, Sandra Hollingsworth, Margaret
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Keywords: literacy, series, teachers, college, language, standard, challenging, school, counts
Number of Pages: 325
Published: 2000-08-01
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 0807739723
ISBN-13: 9780807739723

This text raises questions about the privileged discourse of schooling, then reports research-based solutions. The authors, concerned about lives and literacies traditionally excluded from public-sector classrooms and the resulting disenfranchisement, propose an alternative set of literacies.

Authors:Sue Blundell, Margaret Williamson, Margaret Williams
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: greece, ancient, feminine, sacred
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1998-05-11
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 0415126622
ISBN-13: 9780415126625

In Classical Greece women were almost entirely excluded from public life. Yet the feminine was accorded a central place in religious thought and ritual. The public symbolism of religion included powerful figures like Hera, Artemis and Athene; female worshippers often breached the boundary between public and private space; and both men and women negotiated gendered identities through their performance of ritual. This volume is a lively and colorful exploration of the ways in which religion and ritual reveal women’s importance in the Greek polis, showing how ideologies about female roles a