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Understanding culture : a handbook for students in the humanities / Babette Hellemans.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resource (178 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles, portraitsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789048530090
  • 9048530091
Other title:
  • Handbook for students in the humanities
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HM623 .U534 2017
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Contents:
Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Classics -- 2. Man and Mentality -- 3. Language -- 4. The Silence of the Archives -- 5. Non-Western Cultures -- 6. Image, Memory, and Practice -- Glossary -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Index.
Subject: This pioneering textbook explores the theoretical background of cultural variety, both in past and present. How is it possible to study 'culture' when the topic covers the arts, literature, movies, history, sociology, anthropology and gender studies? Understanding Culture examines the evolution of a concept with varying meanings depending on changing norms. Offering a long-duration analysis of the relationship between culture and nature, this book looks at the origins of studying culture from an international perspective. Using examples from the several scholarly traditions in the practice of studying culture, 'Understanding Culture' is a key introduction to the area. It identifies the history of interpreting culture as a meeting point between the long-standing historical investigation of 'humanism' and 'postmodernism' and is a comprehensive resource for those who wish to further their engagement with culture as both a historical and contemporary phenomenon. Keywords: history of mentality, psychoanalysis, Marxism, linguistic structuralism, cultural analysis, gender studies, agency, Zeitgeist, discourse, anthropology, memory-studies.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Classics -- 2. Man and Mentality -- 3. Language -- 4. The Silence of the Archives -- 5. Non-Western Cultures -- 6. Image, Memory, and Practice -- Glossary -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Index.

This pioneering textbook explores the theoretical background of cultural variety, both in past and present. How is it possible to study 'culture' when the topic covers the arts, literature, movies, history, sociology, anthropology and gender studies? Understanding Culture examines the evolution of a concept with varying meanings depending on changing norms. Offering a long-duration analysis of the relationship between culture and nature, this book looks at the origins of studying culture from an international perspective. Using examples from the several scholarly traditions in the practice of studying culture, 'Understanding Culture' is a key introduction to the area. It identifies the history of interpreting culture as a meeting point between the long-standing historical investigation of 'humanism' and 'postmodernism' and is a comprehensive resource for those who wish to further their engagement with culture as both a historical and contemporary phenomenon. Keywords: history of mentality, psychoanalysis, Marxism, linguistic structuralism, cultural analysis, gender studies, agency, Zeitgeist, discourse, anthropology, memory-studies.

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