Authors:Katie Featherstone, Paul Atkinson, Aditya Bharadwa
Publisher: Berg Publisher
Keywords: new, genetics, kinship, family, relations, risky
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-01-14
List price: $105.00
ISBN-10: 1845201787
ISBN-13: 9781845201784

More and more conditions are now identified as having a genetic component, and controversial new genetic technologies potentially have major consequences for social relations and self-identity. How do family members respond to the information that they have a genetically transmitted disease or condition? How do they communicate (or not communicate) about their shared heritage? How do they decide who to tell and who not to tell within their family? Richly illustrated with the real experiences of individuals and families, Risky Relations is essential reading for anthropologists and sociologists

Author: James G. Carrier
Publisher: Berg Publisher
Keywords: market, explorations, anthropology, culture, western, free, meanings
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1997-07-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1859731449
ISBN-13: 9781859731444

For almost twenty years, the ’Free Market’ has been a central feature of public debate in the West, Eastern Europe and elsewhere. In the name of the Market and its supposed benefits, governments and international agencies have imposed massive changes on peoples’ lives.Curiously, scholars have paid little attention to the ways that the idea of the Market is invoked, to what it might mean and how it is being used. This book helps correct that state of affairs. Focusing on the United States, where the Market model is strongest, authors analyze portrayals of the Market, its value

Author: Christine Hine
Publisher: Berg Publisher
Keywords: methods, virtual
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2005-07-08
List price: $105.00
ISBN-10: 1845200845
ISBN-13: 9781845200848

Virtual Methods provides concrete advice for all stages of the research process. Anyone planning a research project involving the Internet will find this book an essential guide.Can offline and online observations be combined? Are online interviews able to produce high quality data? How does a researcher sort through the vast mass of material available? From hyperlink analysis to the sex industry online, case studies sensitively highlight the difficulties researchers face, point out the opportunities to be seized, and offer practical solutions.

Author: Eli Natha
Publisher: Berg Publisher
Keywords: utility, nationalism, ethnicity, germany, citizenship, politics
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2004-10-15
List price: $38.00
ISBN-10: 1859737811
ISBN-13: 9781859737811

Why did German states make it so difficult for foreigners who were not ethnic Germans to become citizens? Was this policy a product of national feeling, and was it shaped by the more state-centered goals of the political elite? Did Nazi citizenship policies perpetuate, or break with, actions of earlier German states? Because Germans felt a cultural attachment to other ethnic Germans, it has traditionally been argued, German states welcomed immigration of ethnic Germans and prevented naturalization of "foreign" individuals. But ethnicity was, in reality, far from the only criteria employed to d

Authors:Norbert Finzsch, Ursula Lehmkuhl,
Publisher: Berg Publisher
Keywords: krefeld, century, historical, symposia, series, twentieth, seventeenth, media, communications, american, german, history, atlantic
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2004-06-12
List price: $121.00
ISBN-10: 1859736793
ISBN-13: 9781859736791

Atlantic Communications examines the development of communications technology and its impact on German-American relations from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. How was different media used or abused politically? How did the structure and process of Atlantic communication change? How did common social spheres emerge? And how was this development influenced by the ways and means of Atlantic communication? Media discussed includes speech, the telegraph, newspapers, and the moving image. How was knowledge about the other side of the Atlantic produced? How did the behavior of media organiz

Author: Michael Carter
Publisher: Berg Publisher
Keywords: dress, culture, barthes, carlyle, classics, fashion
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-03-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1859736068
ISBN-13: 9781859736067

The serious analysis of clothing and fashion has a long history and has been the subject of intense cultural debate since the nineteenth century. Fashion Classics provides an interpretative overview of the groundbreaking and often idiosyncratic writings of eight theorists whose work has profoundly influenced the basis of our contemporary understanding of clothes and the fashion system. Carter fully revives early "fashion theorists"?some canonical and others less well known?and examines them in light of more recent work. From Carlyle?s fantastical character Professor Teufelsdrockh, through the

Authors:Roland Barthes,  Andy Stafford, Michael Carter
Publisher: Berg Publisher
Keywords: fashion, language
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-04-21
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1845203801
ISBN-13: 9781845203801

Roland Barthes, widely regarded as one of the most perceptive critics of the twentieth century, was particularly fascinated by fashion and clothing. This collection brings together all of Barthes’ untranslated writings on fashion, revealing the breadth and insight of Barthes’ long engagement with the history of clothes. The essays range from an analysis of the significance of gemstones and jewelry, to an exploration of Courrèges and Chanel, to a discussion of of hippy style in Morocco, and the role of color in fashion.