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The Animals Reader: The Essential Classic and Contemporary Writings
Berg Publishers, 2007
The study of animals - and the relationship between humans and other animals - is now one of the most fiercely debated topics in contemporary science and culture. Animals have a long history in human society, providing food, labour, sport and companionship as well as becoming objects for exhibit. More contemporary uses extend to animals as therapy and in scientific testing. As natural habitats continue to be destroyed, the rights of animals to ...
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The Language of Fashion
Roland Barthes
Berg Publishers, 2006
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 ...
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Hearing Cultures: Essays on Sound, Listening and Modernity (Wenner Gren International Symposium Series)
Berg Publishers, 2004
Hearing Cultures is a timely examination of the elusive, often evocative, and sometimes cacophonous auditory sense. It answers such intriguing questions as: Did people in Shakespeare's time hear differently from us? In what way does technology affect our ears? Why do people in Egypt increasingly listen to taped religious sermons? Why did Enlightenment doctors believe that music was an essential cure? What happens acoustically in cross-cultural ...
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Winnie-The-Pooh (Winnie the Pooh) 31 reviews
Berg Publishers, 1993
wonderful!
This book was such a sweet little something to come home to at night. This book isn't just for kids, but for adults too! relax and enjoy!
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Fashion-ology: An Introduction to Fashion Studies (Dress, Body, Culture)
Yuniya Kawamura
Berg Publishers, 2005
This book provides a concise and much-needed introduction to the sociology of fashion. Most studies do not make a clear distinction between clothing and fashion. Kawamura argues that clothing is a tangible product whereas fashion is a symbolic cultural product. She debunks the myth of "the genius designer" and explains that fashion is not about clothes but is a belief. There is an institutional structure, ignored by many fashion theorists, that ...
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Making Short Films: The Complete Guide from Script to Screen, Second Edition
Clifford Thurlow
Berg Publishers, 2008
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The Fashion of Architecture1 review
Bradley Quinn
Berg Publishers, 2003
the fashion of architecture
Is extremely modern, the information is convincing and the point of view of the book is futuristic.
I recommend this book to anybody within the fashion or architecture industry
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Beans: A History 7 reviews
Ken Albala
Berg Publishers, 2007
5 star Fun Informative book
We are a bean eating family, where beans are consumed 3-4 times per week in some form. We used to go to the Bean Festival down in Tracy, CA so we never get tired of eating or learning about beans.
Which makes this book one anyone who loves food archeology, or bean cuisines should at least read if not own. No it doesn't cover everything about beans, but it covers enough to make it worth a ...
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Thinking Through Craft
Glenn Adamson
Berg Publishers, 2007
Co-published in Association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London This book is a timely and engaging introduction to the way that artists working in all media think about craft. Workmanship is key to today’s visual arts, when high ‘production values’ are becoming increasingly commonplace. Yet craft’s centrality to contemporary art has received little serious attention from critics and historians. Dispensing with ...
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Silence of the Sea / Le Silence de la Mer: A Novel of French Resistance during the Second World War by ...9 reviews
Berg Publishers, 2002
Subtle and excellent
"Mais c'est la dernière! Nous ne nous batterons plus: nous nous marierons!"
But it's the last [war]. We will no longer fight each other; We will marry each other!
So says Werner von Ebrennac in this subtly moving novel. Werner is a Nazi soldier living with a Frenchman and his niece who voice their resistance to the occupation with silence. Werner loves France and all things French and ...
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Qualitative Methods in Sports Studies (Sport Commerce and Culture)
Berg Publishers, 2005
This book makes a timely contribution to a broader methodological project as the first systematic examination and explication of qualitative research methods within sports studies. Qualitative Methods in Sports Studies assesses a variety of approaches, ranging from social historical, media text, and personal narrative to ethnographic and interview-based qualitative research methodologies. Drawing on the diversity of sport studies literature, ...
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The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication1 review
Heather Horst, Daniel Miller
Berg Publishers, 2006
Important ethnographic study of cell phones
In a global environment where mobile technologies are making impressive and influential in-roads into many societis and cultures, this ethnographically based study of the impact of cell phones on low-income populations in Jamaica is a valuable piece of scholarship. Based on two-years of ethnographic study in a rural and urban area of Jamaica, Horst and Miller's effort to construct an ...
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Virtual Methods1 review
Berg Publishers, 2005
what do you know across the net?
How easy is it to use the Internet for conducting research with subjects, as compared to traditional real world in-person interviews? This is just one of the issues confronted by Hine. The Internet's pervasive sweep offers a glittering opportunity for researchers to scale up their efforts, without being constrained by geographical extent. So various research fields are struggling to adapt.
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Auto/ethnography: Rewriting the Self and the Social (Explorations in Anthropology)
Berg Publishers, 1997
In departing from the traditional stance taken by anthropologists, who study 'others' ethnographically, this timely book explores forms of self-inscription on the part of both the ethnographer and those 'others' who are studied. Informed by developments in postmodernism, postcolonialism, and feminism, this is an original contribution to the growing dialogue across disciplinary boundaries. The chapters build upon recent reconsiderations of the ...
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Germany and the Causes of the First World War (Legacy of the Great War)1 review
Mark Hewitson
Berg Publishers, 2005
Detailed Analysis of the Start of World War I
It seems like history constantly gets re-written to remove any blame from anybody: contrarian or revisionist historians now claim the Holocaust never happened, Japan doesn't teach their young folk anything about the Rape of Nanking. German historians blame everyone but themselves.
Let's face it, the countries of Europe have a history of going to war with each other just to see who gets to be ...
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The Material Culture Reader
Berg Publishers, 2002
Material culture has finally earned a central place within anthropology. Emerging from the pioneering work done at University College London, this reader brings together for the first time seminal articles that have helped shape the anthropological study of material culture. With topics ranging from the anthropology of art to architecture, landscape studies, archaeology, consumption studies and heritage management, this key text reflects the ...
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The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach1 review
Daniel Miller, Don Slater
Berg Publishers, 2001
The best of academic thinking
"The Internet: an Ethnographic Approach" represents the very best of academic thinking and theorizing on the subject of the 'internet'. Miller and Slater provide us with a remarkable perspective on the ways in which real people, in this case Trinidadians (at home and across all the far flung points of the globe), use the internet. I was lucky enough to read this book in draft and have been ...
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Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life (Materializing Culture)
Judith Attfield
Berg Publishers, 2000
What do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects after the check-out reveal about people and their material worlds? Has the quest for 'the real thing' become so important because the high tech world of total virtuality threatens to engulf us? This pioneering book bridges design theory and anthropology to offer a new and challenging way of understanding the changing meanings of contemporary human-object relations. The act of ...
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The Sari4 reviews
Mukulika Banerjee, Daniel Miller
Berg Publishers, 2004
A Lovely Book
I own about 450 books on India and Indian culture, so when I say this is one of my 2-3 favorite books on India (the other probably being Meeting God by Stephen Huyler), it truly says something about this book.
The Sari is beautiful to look at, and fascinating to read. It draws us into women's lives in a way that is enlightening, personal, and does not play to Western preconceptions.
A ...
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A Phenomenology of Landscape: Places, Paths and Monuments (Explorations in Anthropology)
Christopher Tilley
Berg Publishers, 1997
Offers a new approach to landscape perception. This book is an extended photographic essay about topographic features of the landscape. It integrates philosophical approaches to landscape perception with anthropological studies of the significance of the landscape in small-scale societies. This perspective is used to examine the relationship between prehistoric sites and their topographic settings. The author argues that the architecture of ...
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