... Institute of Medicine kappa water goblins Maki Fukuoka supernatural creatures tengu long nosed demons honzōgaku development Hiraga Gennai exhibition network Tamura Ransui Edo curiosity popular culture Members of a cultural circle could achieve distinction through the investment of time...

...This chapter presents some final thoughts from the author, and discusses how human identity is a critical analytical category in studying modern Chinese history. It notes popular culture's influence on paleoanthropology, and considers how popular science changes what we think about China and how...

... Luchino masculinity muscularity shame Vianello Ermenegildo nudity Frederick Rolfe bricolage altars scrapbooks popular culture visual culture I have discussed the opportunities and limitations offered by membership of religious communities both monastic and lay, but members of congregations...

... Goddess and Stubborn Grasshopper, which tells the story of the dictator Sani Abacha. Given the un-ideological character of Nigerian politics, the moralism that Nollywood shares with African popular culture effectively addresses much that matters in governance as well as expressing the grassroots desire...

... Dennis neoliberalism White supremacy bildungsroman developmental narrative digital media escorts Esty Jed growth internet minors sex panic Sluts The Cooper Stockton Kathryn Bond pornography gay subculture contemporary literature popular culture sexuality In the United States in the mid...

... culture. The book also contributes to a growing interest in “sentimentalism's unfinished business.” Discredited by romanticism and modernism, the Western culture of sentiment either disappeared from view or was pushed to the ideological margins. But it has persisted as popular culture, where its dissonant...

...This chapter sums up the key findings of this study about the gangsta culture and criminal self-representation of African Americans in popular culture. It contends that the gangsta image as the apogee of criminal self-representation in African American popular culture constitutes an extremely...

... the activist potential of their union in popular culture beyond the insularity of the art world. “Beautiful Boys” Ono Double Fantasy Lennon and Ono Lennon John Ono Yoko “Watching the Wheels” Lennon “Woman” Lennon “Beautiful Boy Darling Boy ” Lennon Fluxus gender happenings LENONO performative art...

... popular culture nationalism US national identity Antebellum US Civil War exploration Global empire Great Powers He must have read it in the paper: Elisha Kent Kane was sailing from England to Cuba to recover his shattered health. South Carolina planter Lewis M. Hatch saw an opportunity; he could...

...This chapter introduces the key concerns of the book: the use of efficacious words in the form of charms and textual amulets, and the relationship of such words to questions of language, orality, and literacy. It discusses the interplay of "elite" and "popular" culture, with reference to the ideas...

... activity at Europe's geographical and cultural periphery, the book shows that familiar analogies assume unfamiliar and sometimes startling guises in Argentina. The transformation of these analogies in the Argentine context led science—as well as the interaction between science, popular culture, and public...

... forms of mimicry. Play also involved struggle and competition, aptly paralleling training for warfare. Intertwining war and childhood through play was at the core of modern militarism in Japan. Japan engaged children in social mobilization for total war. The youth market for popular culture was already...

.... This chapter examines historicism, postmodernism, and romanticism and considers yet another Pacific Rim commonplace to challenge the very theory of the commonplace that underlies postmodernist thought. The theory is that, at the center of popular culture, there is a commonplace that once functioned as an agora...

...Two issues dominated intellectual culture of the Rhapsodes’ period: Left-wing politics and the power of popular culture. The four critics considered in the book did not push a political line, and their tastes were not dictated by ideology. While Marxists considered popular culture as a mechanism...

... fever” in the early post-Máo period that still burns today. The boundaries between science and popular culture have become more, not less, porous in the post-Máo period. Paleoanthropologists have authored popular accounts of yĕrèn research, which in turn is based on stories told...

... States popular culture Latino Latinoamérica No la chiflen que es cantada. —Mexican Proverb In modernization theory models, the terms Latin America and “the masses” meant more or less the same thing: “backwardness.” If we follow the logic, “the masses” in either Mexico or Peru, at all times, had...