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  Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software

  by Steven Johnson

  A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT TOP 25 FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR AN ESQUIRE MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart" (The Village Voice), takes readers on an eye-opening journey through emergence theory and its applications. Explaining why the whole is... (more)
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  Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature

  by Donna Jeanne Haraway

  Donna Haraway analyses accounts, narratives, and stories of the creation of nature, living organisms, and cyborgs (cybernetic components); showing how deeply cultural assumptions penetrate into allegedly value-neutral medical research.
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  Phylogenesis foa's ark: foreign office architects

  by Bernard Cache, Manuel De Landa, Sandra Knapp, Sanford Kwinter, Detlef Mertins, Mark Wigley

  Phylogenesis --wait, we'll explain the title soon--is structured as a reflection on the work that Foreign Office Architects (FOA) has produced during its first 10 years of practice. With its genesis as a primarily speculative and academic endeavor, FOA has recently expended much energy in the development of a technical arsenal for implementing real projects. Such explorations have been undertaken through a series... (more)
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  Intersections Between Feminist and Queer Theory: Sexualities, Cultures and Identities

  The emergence of queer ideas has unsettled other forms of exploring gender and sexuality, in particular feminism. In response, feminists have been significant critics of queer ideas. This book, through the contribution of important US and UK writers, seeks to explore the debates between feminist and queer theorizing in order to seek out interconnections between the two; they identify new directions in thinking... (more)
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  America's Musical Life: A History

  by Richard Crawford

  "A superb, all-encompassing survey of music in America." — Kirkus Reviews When it comes to American music, America's Musical Life is "the best one-volume history yet on the subject for musicians and enthusiasts, professional or amateur" ( Kirkus Reviews ). "Well-researched and sensitively constructed" ( Library Journal ) and "a book that welcomes the reader, who is happy to keep returning for more" ( Music... (more)
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  Blues People: Negro Music in White America

  by Imamu Amiri Baraka

  "The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's music -- through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel development, jazz... <If> the Negro represents, or is symbolic of, something in and about the nature of American culture, this certainly should be revealed by his characteristic music." So... (more)
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  A Theory of Adaptation

  by Linda Hutcheon

  Are we living in the age of adaptation? In contemporary cinema, of course, there are enough adaptations --based on everything from comic books to the novels of Jane Austen--to make us wonder if Hollywood has run out of new stories. But if you think adaptation can be understood by using novels and films alone, you're wrong. Today there are also song covers rising up the pop charts, video game versions of fairy... (more)
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  Mappings

  by Denis Cosgrove

  Mappings explores what mapping has meant in the past and how its meanings have altered. How have maps and mapping served to order and represent physical, social and imaginative worlds? How has the practice of mapping shaped modern seeing and knowing? In what ways do contemporary changes in our experience of the world alter the meanings and practice of mapping, and vice versa? In their diverse expressions, maps... (more)
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  The American Musical Landscape: The Business of Musicianship from Billings to Gershwin, Updated With a New Preface (Ernest Bloch Lectures, 8)

  by Richard Crawford

  In this refreshingly direct and engaging historical treatment of American music and musicology, Richard Crawford argues for the recognition of the distinct and vital character of American music. What is that character? How has musical life been supported in the United States and how have Americans understood their music? Exploring the conditions within which music has been made since the time of the American... (more)
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  Animal Architects: Building and the Evolution of Intelligence

  by James L. Gould

  From two of the world's most distinguished experts in animal behavior, a radical, creative, and accessible new approach to understanding animal minds through the structures they build. Animal behavior has long been a battleground between the competing claims of nature and nurture, with the possible role of cognition in behavior as a recent addition to this debate. There is an untapped trove of... (more)
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  Architecture, Animal, Human : The Asymmetrical Condition

  by Catherine Ingraham

  The issues of the organic/inorganic, animate/inanimate and natural/technological are of paramount importance in the field of architecture both in current discussions about digital architecture and in classical debates from Vitruvius onwards. This book investigates the complex relationship of architecture to biological life, providing theoretical and historical underpinnings for a variety of contemporary debates in... (more)
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  Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal

  by Cary Wolfe

  Those nonhuman beings called animals pose philosophical and ethical questions that go to the root not just of what we think but of who we are. Their presence asks: what happens when the Other can no longer safely be assumed to be human? This collection offers a set of incitements and coordinates for exploring how these issues have been represented in contemporary culture and theory, from Jurassic Park and the... (more)
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  Hill Folks: A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image

  by Brooks Blevins

  The Ozark region, located in northern Arkansas and southern Missouri, has long been the domain of the folklorist and the travel writer--a circumstance that has helped shroud its history in stereotype and misunderstanding. With Hill Folks , Brooks Blevins offers the first in-depth historical treatment of the Arkansas Ozarks. He traces the region's history from the early nineteenth century through the end of the... (more)
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  In Search of Authenticity: The Formation of Folklore Studies

  by Regina Bendix

  Authenticity is a notion much debated, among discussants as diverse as cultural theorists and art dealers, music critics and tour operators. The desire to find and somehow capture or protect the authentic narrative, art object, or ceremonial dance is hardly new. In this masterful examination of German and American folklore studies from the eighteenth century to the present, Regina Bendix demonstrates that ... (more)
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  Ethnomimesis: Folklife and the Representation of Culture

  by Robert Cantwell

  Wide-ranging and provocative, this book will fascinate all those intrigued by how we create and perpetuate our representations of folklife and culture. Ethnomimesis is Robert Cantwell's word for the process by which we take cultural influences, traditions, and practices to ourselves and then manifest them to others. Ethnomimesis is an element of ordinary social communication, but springing out of it, too, is... (more)
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  Bluegrass Breakdown: The Making of the Old Southern Sound

  by Robert Cantwell

  This is a detailed work placing bluegrass music into a historical, as well as musicological, cultural, and imaginative context. Robert Cantwell has taught at Kenyon College, the University of Iowa, Georgetown University, and the University of North Carolina. "Bluegrass Breakdown" is his first book, and it won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and the Ambassador of Honour Book Award.
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  Insect Nations - Visions of the Ant World from Kropotkin to Bergson (Axis Series)

  by Simon King

  This is an essay in Cultural Entomology; unlike most works in this field, however, which owe a great deal to anthropology or to the study of comparative religions, this essay is determinedly modern in focus. The starting point for this essay are those few pages early on in Mutual Aid (1902) in which Kropotkin discusses the social insects and, in particular, ants. Kropotkin argues that ants have 'renounced the... (more)
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  Eight Words for the Study of Expressive Culture

  Group. Art. Text. Genre. Performance. Context. Tradition. Identity. No matter where we are - in academic institutions, in cultural agencies, at home, or in a casual conversation - these are words we use when we talk about creative expression in its cultural contexts. "Eight Words for the Study of Expressive Culture" is a thoughtful, interdisciplinary examination of the keywords that are integral to the formulation... (more)
• Toward New Perspectives in FolkloreRichard Bauman

  

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  Toward New Perspectives in Folklore

  by Richard Bauman

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  Chaosmosis: An Ethicoaesthetic Paradigm

  by Felix Guattari

  Text: English (translation) Original Language: French