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Anthropology

From Here to Tierra del Fuego

Author: Paul Magee
Pub Date: June 2000

Surrealistic in style and content, this intellectual tour guide into the nature of tourists and tourism is a theorist’s field trip, engaged in upside-down anthropology, ethnography, and culture studies to arrive out on the other side of emergent global culture and the nature of personhood. Quirky and difficult, but fun. learn more...

Music and Gender

Author: Edited by Pirkko Moisala and Beverley Diamond
Pub Date: 2000

International scholars engage in a conversation about music and gender in various cross-culture case studies in an effort to determine how music can help individuals, groups, and nations bridge difficult times of changing values. learn more...

Postcolonial America

Author: Edited by C. Richard King
Pub Date: 2000

Interdisciplinary in approach, this volume debates the role of the United States from various perspectives as seen in a contemporary “postcolonial” light, addressing the idea of postcoloniality itself through American studies, anthropology, cultural studies, history, literary criticism, religious studies, and women’s studies. learn more...

Small Town in Mass Society

Class, Power, and Religion in a Rural Community (rev. ed.)

Author: Arthur J. Vidich and Joseph Bensman
Pub Date: 2000

Invaluable for understanding the place of the small town in a growing society, with new material detailing the town’s reaction to the publication of the book learn more...

Zarzuela

Spanish Operetta, American Stage

Author: Janet L. Sturman
Pub Date: October 2000

The first book on this re-emerging Hispanic art-form, bridging classical and popular music, traces the Zarzuela from its beginnings in 17th century Spain to its burgeoning new awareness via the Internet and its role in defining American urban ethnicity. learn more...