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  • Historical Intersections of Intercultural Studies (I)

    Tracing Genealogies, Trajectories, Diversifications

    by Michael Steppat ...
    Series Book 1 - Intercultural Research
    Like culture itself, the field of intercultural studies is a product of historical events and encounters. The values, norms, beliefs, and experiences of previous generations shape our current perspectives and procedures in this field. Inversely, our intercultural positionality also leads to different interpretations of history. We know that the same events will belong to different stories and ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • Historical Intersections of Intercultural Studies (ll)

    Directions and Dynamics

    Edited by Michael Steppat, Steve J. Kulich ...
    Series Book 2 - Intercultural Research
    Like culture itself, the field of intercultural studies is a product of historical events and encounters. The values, norms, beliefs, and experiences of previous generations shape our current perspectives and procedures in this field. Inversely, our intercultural positionality also leads to different interpretations of history. We know that the same events will belong to different stories and ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • Punishing Transgression in Honor Culture and Face Culture

    by Mine Krause, Yan Sun, Michael Steppat ...
    Series Book 37 - Cross Cultural Communication
    In the world’s so-called honor and face cultures, certain values and codes related to the protection of a family’s stainless reputation are deep-rooted. When they are violated by what is perceived as an immoral action, and the respective transgression becomes known, the honor not only of the deviant, but also of the in-group itself is damaged. This leads to stigmatization followed by collective ... Read more

    $66.59 USD

  • Honor, Face, and Violence

    Cross-Cultural Literary Representations of Honor Cultures and Face Cultures

    by Mine Krause, Yan SUN, Michael Steppat ...
    Series Book 34 - Cross Cultural Communication
    Honor-related values are a source of gendered inequality and of violence. In so-called honor cultures, traditionally located in parts of the Middle East, Mediterranean regions, North Africa, and South America, honor translates into women’s roles as dictated by family ideology. There is a direct link between male reputation and the female body. In these matters, East Asian face cultures are similar ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • The Boundaries of Meaning and the Formation of Law

    Legal Concepts and Reasoning in the English, Arabic, and Chinese Traditions

    by Sharron Gu ...
    Gu's original perspective on legal history challenges established theories of law based on political science, sociology, and philosophy. She argues that language at a specific time and place determines how the law works in each culture. As each language accumulates too many meanings and connotations, the law becomes inflated by rulings, interpretations, and codified cases that overlap and ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • Violent Phenomena

    Essays Toward the Future of Literary Translation

    by Kavita Bhanot, Jeremy Tiang ...
    “These essays, deftly blending the political and the personal, offer fresh, galvanizing, and passionate perspectives on literary translation.”—Jhumpa LahiriA manifesto in 22 essays, Violent Phenomena breaks stale rules about who can and should translate, envisioning a future more reflective of the beautiful polyphony of literature in all languages.?What would it take to unlearn centuries of ... Read more

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  • Tazz’Unt

    Ecology, Social Order and Ritual in the Tessawt Valley of the High Atlas of Morocco

    by Helene E. Hagan ...
    Tazzunt presents a group of Berbers (Imazighen), the Ait Arbaa, who live in the Tessawt Valley of the High Atlas of Morocco, eking out a meager existence from the eroded soil of their rugged environment, by harvesting turnips, millet and maize, and one cash crop of walnuts. They depend also on a simple form of summer pasture. Tazzunt means limit: and it refers to an annual ritual which gathers ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Words for a Small Planet

    Ecocritical Views

    by Annie M. Ingram, Eduardo Barros-Grela, Sylvie Housiel, Yomna Al-Abdulkareem, Chinyere Okafor, Colette Balmain, Hessa Al-Kahlan, Iman Adawy Hanafy, Christopher Justice, Anna E. Hiller, Federico A. Chalupa, Andrew Belyea ...
    Ecocriticism has matured beyond nature writing, beyond writing about nature. The essays in this volume look at the broader cultural, historical, sociological, and psychological implications of ecology in written, visual, and sound culture. In keeping with our sense of a global community, these essays are representative of international scholarship on ecology and the environment, and display the ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Literature in Translation

    Teaching Issues and Reading Practices

    Edited by Maier, Francoise Massardier-Kenney ...
    Series series Translation Studies
    New pedagogy for studying literature in translationIn the last several decades, literary works from around the world have made their way onto the reading lists of American university and college courses in an increasingly wide variety of disciplines. This is a cause for rejoicing. Through works in translation, students in our mostly monolingual society are at last becoming acquainted with the ... Read more

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  • Violence and Civilization

    Edited by Roderick Campbell ...
    Series Book 4 - Oxbow/Joukowsky Institute Publication
    This collection of essays begins with the premise that violence, in its relationship to order, is a central element of history. Taking a broad definition of violence, including structural and symbolic violence, the contributions move beyond the problematic of civilization’s mitigating or foundational role, instead seeing violence as inherently social, and, perhaps, socially inherent (if variable). ... Read more

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  • Arabic Literature for the Classroom

    Teaching Methods, Theories, Themes and Texts

    Edited by Mushin al-Musawi ...
    Arabic Literature for the Classroom argues for a more visible presence of Arabic within the humanities and social sciences, stressing the need to make Arabic literature available as a world literature, without damaging its own distinctive characteristics.The nineteen chapters which make up this book broach theoretical and methodical cultural concerns in teaching literatures from non-American ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Sexuality in the Arab World

    Edited by Samir Khalaf, John Gagnon ...
    Arab cultural discourse has been slow to respond to changing sexual behaviour. The contributors to this collection pick up the slack, ranging across such disciplines as literature, history, sociology and psychology. Is Damascus the 'chastity capital' of the Middle East, where perceptions of wealth and class fuel female rivalries? How do gay men cruise in Beirut? How do young women in Tunis cope ... Read more

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