... irresistibly emerged as a cosmopolis. The conflict between Almoravid and Almohad ideals could be best seen in the history of Marrakech. In relating the story of the mouth veil, the chapter shows how it was as much about the transformation of religious and ethnic identity as it was about the flipping of gender...

...Acculturation is an increasingly important strand in scholarship on the ancient world, and one that is vital to the understanding of its history. Communities do not, by and large, have a single, monolithic identity. One of the crucial factors in evaluating cultural identities and cultural change...

... with serious issues that are perhaps more recognisable, if not more relevant, in Scotland than elsewhere. These two films in particular use a comedic mode to examine Scotland's changing national identity in an increasingly global context. American Cousins Battle of the Sexes The Childhood Trilogy comedy...

...This book examines the role of Stalinist cinema in the production of history, and in legitimising Stalinism and producing a new identity of the people of the Soviet Union. It is about how Stalinist art works with time, the past and memory, and it is also about Stalinist art per se, understood...

...The rapidly changing pattern of transnational communication and the subsequent emergence of the new media and information revolution are often assumed to have a powerful impact on identities and cultures worldwide; but there is little agreement about how information flows actually interact...

...This chapter argues that when constructing a Deleuzian moral philosophy, it will be important to keep in mind the negative aspects of this strong relation drawn between Deleuze's critique of identity, his division of death into two, and his demonstrations that it is only death as impersonal...

...This chapter examines how borders define minorities (and a majority), and how borders are related to state authority and ‘identity’. It serves as a continuation of the analysis of the relationship between state authority, population, territory and identity. The first section determines the material...

...Chapter 5 concentrates on questions of national identity and nationalism, exploring music’s role in the (de)construction of English identity in Orlando, Between the Acts and The Years. It takes as its focal points the early music and folk music...

... of identity. It also determines that the range of Brown's work and the variety of philosophical viewpoints where these works are compared shows that Brown is, in reality, a major thinker of community. Brown George Mackay Gray Alasdair Linklater Eric Murray Brian Murray Rowena Orkney regional fiction...

...This chapter discusses aspects of resistance to and participation in the ascendancy of tartanism as a normative form of Scottish identity and its corresponding effect on Gaelic identity in nineteenth-century North America, especially regarding language. It reports that tartanism's rise coincided...

...This chapter examines the Scotch comic and its projection of Scottish identity alongside other ‘national’ stage representations popular in Scottish music halls at the time, which would also have contributed to creating ‘an inclusive model of the national culture as the sum of all current cultural...

...This chapter considers ways in which the use of tartan in performance, often in the form of the kilt, in the last fifty years has been recognised by audiences both nationally and internationally as a Scottish emblem. It notes that the various ways in which identity may be created often focus...

... where notions of Scottishness and national identity meet discourses of commerce, creativity, and authenticity. It discusses tartan and popular music culture in two broad eras: 1. Rock and roll to glam: tradition and showing out, 1954–75; 2. Punk and its legacy: irony, subversion, and new authenticities...

... for this analysis offer valuable mappings of France’s global situation. These mappings are revealed by an analysis of issues of language, accents, working practices, and mobility, and offer new ways of framing French identity. Gainsbourg Charlotte globalisation immigration cinema Kaurismäki Aki Le Havre...

...This chapter contextualises White’s stories of self within contemporary scholarship on narrative identity. White’s search for an exploration of her illness that would account for her psychic turmoil and inexplicable behaviour is consistent with the emphasis in such scholarship that narrative...

...This chapter looks at the concept and practice of recognition so often associated with identity politics and multiculturalism. The chapter shows how recognition and representation are mutually implied. Representations must be recognised and taken up in order to have force; and recognition is always...

...The narrative turn in philosophy, beginning in philosophy of history in the 1970s and entering philosophy of selfhood in the 1980s with the work of MacIntyre and Ricoeur, runs parallel to an increasing emphasis on practical rather than metaphysical personal identity. More recently, however...

...The ‘Narrative Self-Constitution Approach’ addresses deficiencies in the dominant neo-Lockean, psychological continuity approach to personal identity. In particular, narrativity offers a deeper ‘phenomenal unity’ than simple psychological continuity is capable of, and also allows us to make...

... in the psychological approach. Yet the narrative approach also inherits the neo-Lockean emphasis on the past as determining identity, whereas the self is fundamentally about the future. Death is crucial on this picture, not as allowing for the possibility of a final meaning to our...

... and of national identity. Such ambiguities often merged into the forms and themes of the same film-text, helping to create a genre composed of varied narratives that reflect not only different times, but also different attitudes existing within any given time. It argued, therefore, that the formal and thematic...