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Barbara Adam & Stuart Allan
Theorizing Culture [PDF ebook]
An Interdisciplinary Critique After Postmodernism

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This highly original and timely volume engages scholars from the breadth of social science and the humanities to provide a critical perspective on cultural forms, practices and identities. It looks beyond the postmodern debate to reinstate the critical dimension in cultural analysis, providing a "student-friendly" introduction to key contemporary issues such as the body, AIDS, race, the environment and virtual reality.Theorizing Culture is essential reading for undergraduate courses in cultural and media studies and sociology, and will have considerable appeal for students and scholars of critical theory, gender studies and the history of ideas.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 224 ● ISBN 9780203137017 ● Editor Barbara Adam & Stuart Allan ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2002 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2286577 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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