10th Ed. — Routledge, 2017. — 663 p. — ISBN10: 113822345X, 13 978-1138223455. In today's global business environment, it is vital that individuals and organizations have sophisticated global leadership skills. Communication and understanding of different cultures is paramount to business success. This new edition of the bestselling textbook, Managing Cultural Differences,...
Boston: Beacon Press, 1998. — 516 p. In this captivating collection of unpublished and published essays, one of our most important scholars, Paula Gunn Allen, explores the symbiotic relationship between Native American culture and the larger Western world. Through her own history and that of other Native peoples, she searches for a connection that will link the eco-spiritual...
1 edition. — Sage Publications Ltd, 2007. — 664 p. — (The Cultures and Globalization Series). Analyzing the relationship between globalization and cultures is the core objective of this volume. In it leading experts track cultural trends in all regions of the world, covering issues ranging from the role of cultural difference in politics and governance to heritage conservation,...
New York: Irin Publishing, 2016. — 172 p. "In the Shadows of the Ancestors" follows leading Afro-American journalist and writer Hassan Ansah into his penetrating voyage back to his ancestral land. The writing is both an inspirational and transformational journey into the collective heart, mind, and history of the African Diaspora. Based on the author's personal meetings and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 226 p. This book develops the first integrated, critical-historical examination of the terms, narratives and assumptions constructing present day notions of participation and value, and the relations between them. Histories of Cultural Participation, Values and Governance proposes a radical re-evaluation of these relationships, organized in two...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 226 p. This book develops the first integrated, critical-historical examination of the terms, narratives and assumptions constructing present day notions of participation and value, and the relations between them. Histories of Cultural Participation, Values and Governance proposes a radical re-evaluation of these relationships, organized in two...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 314 p. Oxford Historical Monograph which offers a suitably academic account of how Britons understood the identity of native American peoples in the pre-1776 era, through travelogues, missionary anecdotes, cartoons and other media. Catalogue: Social History. Keywords: prejudice, racism, missionary, Indian This book may attract a higher postage...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 250 p. Anti-imperial Interaction across the Colonial Borderline: Introduction Cross-national Intertextuality Networks of Resistance The Irish Boer War and The United Irishman India the Starting Point: Cross-National Self-Translation in 1900s Calcutta. From all points do the paths converge: A Unique Encounter A Warlike Spirituality The...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 288 p. Indian Arrivals 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire explores the rich and complicated landscape of intercultural contact between Indians and Britons on British soil at the height of empire, as reflected in a range of literary writing, including poetry and life-writing. The book's four decade-based case studies, leading from 1870 and the...
Steinkopf, 2003. 136 S. ISBN: 978-3-7985-1961-9 Inhalt: ‚Körperwelten‘ und kein Ende. Zur Einführung. Schnalke Th. Demokratisierte Körperwelten. Kriz W. Neuartig präparierte Anatomie — ausgezeichnet durch die Akzeptanz der Besucher Putz, R. Der Anatom, das Leben und der Tod Winkelmann A. Der endgültige Abschied vom Leib? Wittig B. Was Gene bestimmen und was nicht Wetz Franz...
Springer, 1999. — 360 p. Nature and Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective presents 20 essays which explore diverse cultural interpretations of the earth's surface. Contrasted with each other and with the potentially cosmopolitan culture of science, these detailed studies of ways in which different cultures conceptualise nature appear in the context of global environmental...
Oxford University Press, Inc, 2006. — 337 p. Like a fragrant biryani studded with bits of sweet and savory relishes, every page of this history of Indian cuisine offers some revelation about the origins of Indian food and its spread to the West. Historian Collingham traces how successive invasions of the subcontinent contributed new ingredients and novel cooking techniques that...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 352 p. This imaginative book tells the history of India and its rulers through their food. It follows the story of curry as it spread from the courts of Delhi to the balti houses of Birmingham. Curry is the product of India's long history of invasion. In the wake of the Mughal conquerors, an army of cooks brought Persian recipes to northern...
Thames Hudson, 2014. — 288 p. — ISBN13: 9780500252086. On the day after 9/11, foreign newspapers ran headlines announcing “We Are All Americans Now.” Though the sentiment was not new, it was also not quite the same as when Henry Luce announced in 1941, the inauguration of what he called “the American Century,” during which the US was to raise all men “from the level of the...
University of Toronto Press, 2019. — 256 p. With contributions from historians, literary critics, and geographers, Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. Leaving behind grand narratives of discovery, these essays collectively restore a degree of symmetry and contingency to our...
UNESCO, 2006. — 207 p. A text published by UNESCO in collaboration with the International research center for Japanese studies and the Research Center for moral science (Japan). A description of the international symposium on cultural and Transversal meeting which mainly reflects on cultural diversities, transversal and shared nature of values between Eastern and western world...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 352 p. Professor Jack Goody builds on his own previous work to extend further his highly influential critique of what he sees as the pervasive eurocentric or occidentalist biases of so much western historical writing. Goody also examines the consequent 'theft' by the West of the achievements of other cultures in the invention of (notably)...
Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988. — 454 p. — ISBN10: 0887067956; ISBN13: 978-0887067952 Halbfass' objective is to discuss the "philosophical dialogue" between India and Europe from the days of the antiquity up to the present era, thus excluding the most recent developments. One hopes that Halbfass is planning to write a supplementary volume dealing with the...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 196 p. The texts, images and events of the ancient world have been used both as sources of authority and exploitation in politics, culture and society and as icons of resistance and contest. How classical culture is transplanted into new contexts, how texts are translated and performed and how Greek and Roman values are perceived and used...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 312 p. — (Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception). Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 312 p. — (Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception). Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and...
Springer, 2016. — 285 p. The book explores the growing tension between indigenous education, the teaching and learning of native knowledge, cultural heritage and traditions and the dynamics of globalization from the Asian perspective. It brings together a distinguished and multidisciplinary group of Asian scholars and practitioners from Nepal, Korea, India, Japan, Thailand,...
Rutgers University Press, 1994. — 382 p. Spanning the globe and the centuries, linguist Frances Karttunen tells the stories of sixteen men and women who served as interpreters and guides to conquerors, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, and anthropologists. These interpreters acted as uncomfortable bridges between two worlds; their own marginality, the fact that they belonged...
Duke University Press, Durham and London 2016, 202 p. ISBN: 978-0-8223-6056-8 (hardcover: alk. paper). ISBN: 978-0-8223-6072-8 (pbk. : alk. paper). ISBN: 978-0-8223-7459-6 (e-book). In The Chicken and the Quetzal, Paul Kockelman theorizes the creation, measurement, and capture of value by recounting the cultural history of a village in Guatemala's highland cloud forests and its...
Springer, 2010. — 524 p. Soil has been called the final frontier of environmental research. The critical role of soil in biogeochemical processes is tied to its properties and place - porous, structured, and spatially variable, it serves as a conduit, buffer, and transformer of water, solutes and gases. Yet what is complex, life-giving, and sacred to some, is ordinary, even...
Blackwell Publishing 2005. — 218 p. Winner of the 2006 Frantz Fanon Prize for Outstanding Work in or on the Caribbean Thought in the English Language “What's in a name? This vigorous, politically engaged essay reveals the 'colonial matrix of power' behind the invention of the term Latin America. A timely and significant contribution to de-colonial theory and to debates about...
University of Minnesota Press, 2003. — 224 p. Join the conversation as an earth scientist and a Native American elder - wise men from two cultures - explore the natural history of the Lake Superior region, examining both the science and the spirit of the land. As the geologist carefully presents a modern scientific perspective, the storyteller eloquently recounts a traditional...
New York - London - Toronto - Sydney - Singapore: The Free Press, 2003. — 263 p. The Syllogism and the Tao. Philosophy, Science, and Society in Ancient Greece and China. The Social Origins of Mind. Economics, Social Practices, and Thought. Living Together vs. Going It Alone. Social Life and Sense of Self in the Modern East and West. "Eyes in Back of Your Head" or "Keep Your Eye...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009. - 196 p. Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this seminal text asks if there is cultural life after the 'clash of civilizations' and global McDonaldization. Internationally award-winning author Jan Nederveen Pieterse argues that what is taking place is the formation of a global mZlange, a culture of hybridization. From this...
University of California Press, 2003. — 1066 p. — ISBN: 0-520-22821-9. A grand synthesis of unprecedented scope, Literary Cultures in History is the first comprehensive history of the rich literary traditions of South Asia. Together these traditions are unmatched in their combination of antiquity, continuity, and multicultural complexity, and are a unique resource for...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 276 p. — ISBN10: 1350091790, 13 978-1350091795. Material Culture in Russia and the USSR comprises some of the most cutting-edge scholarship across anthropology, history and material and cultural studies relating to Russia and the Soviet Union, from Peter the Great to Putin. Material culture in Russia and the USSR holds a particularly important role,...
University of Tartu Press, 2019. — 349 p. — (Studia Orientalia Tartuensia. Series Nova). — ISBN: 9789949031764. The region of the Middle East has been called the cradle of mankind. This volume studies historical, cultural, religious, social and political legacies, which play a central role in obstructing intercultural dialogue in the Middle East. The region became home to...
Nicholas Brealey Publishing London, 1997. ISBN: 1-85788-176-1 - 276 p. Many managers understand that cultural differences affect the process of doing business, but many underestimate just how much. This book aims to dispel the idea that there is only one way to manage and encourages readers to get to know their culture before doing business with others. The author explores the...
Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 349 p. Annotation In this ground-breaking book, Anna Wierzbicka brings psychological, anthropological and lingusitic insights to bear on our understanding of the way emotions are expressed and experienced in different cultures, languages, and social relations. The expression of emotion in the face, body and modes of speech are all explored...
Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 361 p. — ISBN10: 0521599717. In this ground-breaking new book, Anna Wierzbicka brings psychological, anthropological and lingusitic insights to bear on our understanding of the way emotions are expressed and experienced in different cultures, languages, and culturally-shaped social relations. The expression of emotion in the face, body and...
Oxford University Press, 1992. — 496 p. — ISBN10: 0195073266. Not everything that can be said in one language can be said in another. The lexicons of different languages seem to suggest different conceptual universes. Investigating cultures from a universal, language:independent perspective, this book rejects analytical tools derived from the English language and Anglo culture...
Springer, 2009. — 363 p. "Indigenous Peoples, Consent and Benefit Sharing" is the first in-depth account of the Hoodia bioprospecting case and use of San traditional knowledge, placing it in the global context of indigenous peoples’ rights,consent and benefit-sharing. It is unique as the first interdisciplinary analysis of consent and benefit sharing in which philosophers apply...
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