Cultural Studies
Valeria Graziano deposited Learning from #Syllabus in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 1 day, 6 hours agoOn the phenomenon of online hashtag syllabi as a digital tool used by recent political movements, particularly in the US, to instigate processes of political pedagogy.
Gil Rodman deposited Cultural Studies Is Ordinary in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 days, 6 hours agoIn “Culture Is Ordinary,” Raymond Williams challenged the then prevalent notion that “culture” is a phenomenon possessed only by social elites and educated highbrows, and attempted to replace it with a more expansive vision of culture as something commonly found at all levels of a social hierarchy. A truly democratic society, he insisted, could n…[Read more]
Sabine LAMOUR deposited Déjouer le silence: Contre discours sur les femmes en Haitii in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week agoLe mouvement féministe haïtien vient de célébrer ses 100 ans: occasion idéale pour réfléchir à la réalité des Haïtiennes, tout en y intégrant des courants de pensée européens, américains et panafricains.Le mouvement féministe haïtien vient de célébrer ses 100 ans: occasion idéale pour réfléchir à la réalité des Haïtiennes, tout en y in…[Read more]
Sabine LAMOUR deposited Partir pour mieux s’enraciner ou retour sur la fabrique du poto-mitan en Haiti in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week agoBook chapter of: Dejouer le silence: contre discours sur les femmes haïtiennes
Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited The TV Show ‘Game of Thrones’ as an Educational Axis to Teach Medieval Hispanic Cultures in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week, 3 days agoThis article shows how I have been lately combining my research in the cultural
history of the Spanish Middle Ages and Early Renaissance with the TV show Game
of Thrones for teaching purposes. I have been able to design a capstone seminar to
attract students interested in the popular medievalising TV fiction, proving them
than most of the…[Read more]Bill Hughes started the topic ‘Some curious disquiet’: Polidori, the Byronic vampire, and its progeny in the discussion
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week, 5 days agoOpen Graves, Open Minds presents: ‘Some curious disquiet’: Polidori, the Byronic vampire, and its progeny. A symposium for the bicentenary of The Vampyre
6-7 April 2019, Keats House, HampsteadJohn Polidori published his tale The Vampyre in 1819. It is well known that his vampire emerged out of the same storytelling contest at the Villa Dio…[Read more]
Narasimhananda Swami deposited Yoga Taravali of Acharya Shankara Prabuddha Bharata January 2019 in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 weeks agoYoga-Taravali of Acharya Shankara
Translated by Swami NarasimhanandaTaylor R. Genovese deposited “Death is a disease”: Cryopreservation, neoliberalism, and temporal commodification in the U.S. in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 1 day agoIn this article, I will be focusing specifically on cryopreservation and two of the American biotechnomedical tenets introduced by Robbie Davis-Floyd and Gloria St. John in their technocratic model of medicine: the “body as machine” and “death as defeat.” These axioms are embraced by both the biotechnomedical establishment as well as the cryopre…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Book Review Crossing the Lines of Caste by Adheesh Sathaye H-Net March 2019 in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 1 day agoThis book is an example of how well cultural history can be written along with a critical analysis of textual sources. This book explores the various facets of the Hindu Brahmin identity and its relevance in the present. This book is a great resource for scholars of Sanskrit, Hinduism, mythology, social stratification, folklore, performance,…[Read more]
Glen M Golub deposited On Background To One Godz in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 3 days agoThis Chapter provides simple but valuable insights to Upper Paleo abstract values such as Time, Life After Death, Social Roles, etc. Introduction to ‘Soft Cultural Institutions’. Understanding how abstract valuations become embedded into social structure is especially important in terms of understanding nonverbal language and symbolic sets.
Glen M Golub deposited A Primer of Pictographic Systems (ver. 1.01) in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 3 days agoThis Primer provides a methodology for mitigating subjectivity when attaching meaning to preholocene rock art. It provides an introduction to basic syntax, grammar, and some vocabulary. It identifies four non-verbal languages of the Upper Paleo.
Glen M Golub deposited The Greater Mysteries of Eleusis at Chauvet in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 3 days agoThis is the five image hypothesis for the thesis One Godz which follows.
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Book Review Tragic Views of the Human Condition: Cross-Cultural Comparisons between Views of Human Nature in Greek and Shakespearean Tragedy and the Mahabharata and Bhagavadgita by Lourens Minnema, Prabuddha Bharata March 2015 in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 5 days agoBook Review Tragic Views of the Human Condition: Cross-Cultural Comparisons between Views of Human Nature in Greek and Shakespearean Tragedy and the Mahabharata and Bhagavadgita by Lourens Minnema, Prabuddha Bharata March 2015
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Book Review The Lily of the Field and The Bird of the Air Three Godly Discourses Soren Kierkegaard Prabuddha Bharata June 2018 in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 6 days agoSøren Kierkegaard has left insightful and penetrating texts on the inner life. He gave context to contemplation on and surrender to God. The awareness of agency in a spiritual aspirant creates the obstacle of letting the grace flow freely into one. The lily of the field and the bird of the air breathe a freedom that the conscious agency of a…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Book Review The Buddhist Dead Eds Bryan J Cuevas and Jacqueline I Stone Prabuddha Bharata January 2015 in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 6 days agoBook Review The Buddhist Dead: Practices, Discourses, Representations, Jacqueline I. Stone co-edited with Bryan J. Cuevas
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Book Review The Brahma Kumaris as a Reflexive Tradition by John Wallis Prabuddha Bharata April 2009 in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 6 days agoBook Review The Brahma Kumaris as a Reflexive Tradition by John Wallis
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Book Review Swaraj: Thoughts of Gandhi, Tilak, Aurobindo, Raja Rammohun Roy, Tagore & Vivekananda by Amulya Ranjan Mohapatra Prabuddha Bharata February 2012 in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 6 days agoBook Review Swaraj: Thoughts of Gandhi, Tilak, Aurobindo, Raja Rammohun Roy, Tagore & Vivekananda by Amulya Ranjan Mohapatra
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Book Review Sites of Asian Interaction: Ideas, Networks and Mobility, eds. Tim Harper and Sunil Amrith Prabuddha Bharata March 2015 in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 weeks agoBook Review, Sites of Asian Interaction: Ideas, Networks and Mobility, eds. Tim Harper and Sunil Amrith, Prabuddha Bharata March 2015
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review Why Grow Up Susan Neiman Prabuddha Bharata October 2016 in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 weeks agoThis book shows the importance of growing up and how childhood and adolescence is overrated. Basing on Rousseau’s philosophy Neiman shows us how it is important to understand the deeper aspects of life and to understand philosophy.
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review Unconditional Equality Ajay Skaria Reading Religion October 2018 in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 1 day agoMohandas Karamchand Gandhi, popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, is credited with having rekindled the ancient Indian discourse of an interrelation between spirituality, religion, and politics. This has been mostly studied from the perspective of faith or spirituality. The last five decades or so have seen rising scholarship on the not-so-spiritual…[Read more]
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