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Jane Tompkins (born 1940) is an American literary scholar who has worked on canon formation, feminist literary criticism, and reader response criticism. [1] She has also coined and developed the notion of cultural work in literary studies [2] [3] and contributed to the new historicist form of literary criticism that emerged in the 1980s.
The purpose of symbolic and interpretive anthropology can be described through a term used often by Geertz that originated from Gilbert Ryle, "Thick Description."By this what is conveyed, is that since culture and behavior can only be studied as a unit, studying culture and its smaller sections of the structure, thick description is what details the interpretation of those belonging to a ...
book about the history and culture of Unix programming by Eric S. Raymond (with added proviso) CC BY-ND 1.0 [6] A Briefer History of Time: 1999: 2004 [7] science humor book by Eric Schulman: CC BY-ND-NC 1.0: Archimedes Palimpsest: 3rd century BC: 2008: reconstructed and released by OPenn as Free Cultural Works: CC BY [8] [9] [10] Free Culture: 2004
The circuit of culture is a theory or framework used in the area of cultural studies. The theory was devised in 1997 by a group of theorists when studying the Walkman cassette player. The theory suggests that in studying a cultural text or artifact you must look at five aspects: its representation, identity , production, consumption and regulation.
The convention also affirms that "Cultural diversity can be protected and promoted only if human rights and fundamental freedoms, such as freedom of expression, information and communication, as well as the ability of individuals to choose cultural expressions, are guaranteed" [46] in a manner against a cultural relativism that may undermine ...
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The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World is a nonfiction social sciences and sociology book by sociologist Paul H. Ray and psychologist Sherry Ruth Anderson (born 1942).
Over on the other side of the comic book pond, James Gunn is getting ready to launch his version of the DC Universe in bombastic fashion with “Superman,” previously titled “Superman: Legacy ...