Between the founding of Soviet Uzbekistan in 1924 and the Stalinist Terror of the late 1930s, a nationalist cinema emerged in Uzbekistan giving rise to the first wave of national film production and an Uzbek cinematographic elite. In Cinema, Nation...

The founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, came to power in 1923 with a radical and wide-ranging programme of reforms, known collectively as Kemalism. This philosophy – which included adopting a western alphabet and securing a secular...

中央アジアを中心に活動を展開していたソグド商人．紀元前1世紀頃に始まった「シルクロード交易」の歴史的実態とは？　中国・インド方面での交易，ソグディアナ本土での市場拡大，東西ステップ地域・イスラーム圏内における活動を，最終段階の紀元後10世紀まで，史料を元に綿密にたどる．世界的研究者による基本書． 

Proceedings of conference Visions of the Future, Vered Karti Shemtov, Gisèle Sapiro and Anne Simon (Eds.), Dibur Literary Journal, Arcade-Stanford University, issue 6, fall 2018.  The conference was jointly organized by Vered Karti Shemtov (...

Proceedings of conference Visions of the Future, Vered Karti Shemtov, Gisèle Sapiro and Anne Simon (Eds.), Dibur Literary Journal, Arcade-Stanford University, issue 6, fall 2018.  The conference was jointly organized by Vered Karti Shemtov (...

During the last 30 years, the Japanese political economy system has experienced significant changes that are usually not well understood or analysed because of their complexity and contradictions. This book provides new analyses and insights on the...

In the critically acclaimed La Fin de la Pauverté?, Romain D. Huret identifies a network of experts who were dedicated to the post-World War II battle against poverty in the United States. John Angell's translation of Huret's work brings to...

Throughout the Pacific region, people are faced with dramatic changes, often described as processes of “glocalization”; individuals and groups espouse multilayered forms of identity, in which global modes of thinking and doing are embedded in...

The experience of shifting from one social class to another—from a dominated group to a dominant group—raises the question of how the upwardly mobile person relates to his/her group of origin. Stepping into the Elite traces the particular ways in...

Making Taste Public takes an ethnographic approach to show how social relations shape - and are shaped by - the taste of food. Recognizing that different cultures have different taste preferences and flavour principles embedded in cuisine, editors...

Making Taste Public takes an ethnographic approach to show how social relations shape - and are shaped by - the taste of food. Recognizing that different cultures have different taste preferences and flavour principles embedded in cuisine, editors...

La llegada a China de los misioneros europeos en la segunda mitad del siglo XVI es un hito esencial de la «primera mundialización», esa ampliación de los horizontes europeos a escala mundial. Es también el momento en que China hace su aparición en...