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Cross-cultural research methods in psychology
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ISBN: 9780521765251 0521765250 9780521758420 0521758424 9780511779381 9780511858031 0511858035 9780511860645 0511860641 0511857160 9780511857164 0511861540 1107217377 1282941968 9786612941962 0511779380 0511859775 0511858906 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Cross-cultural research is now an undeniable part of mainstream psychology and has had a major impact on conceptual models of human behavior. Although it is true that the basic principles of social psychological methodology and data analysis are applicable to cross-cultural research, there are a number of issues that are distinct to it, including managing incongruities of language and quantifying cultural response sets in the use of scales. Cross-Cultural Research Methods in Psychology provides state-of-the-art knowledge about the methodological problems that need to be addressed if a researcher is to conduct valid and reliable cross-cultural research. It also offers practical advice and examples of solutions to those problems and is a must-read for any student of culture.


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Bridging : how Gloria Anzaldúa's life and work transformed our own
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ISBN: 0292734719 0292725558 Year: 2011 Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press,

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The inspirational writings of cultural theorist and social justice activist Gloria Anzaldúa have empowered generations of women and men throughout the world. Charting the multiplicity of Anzaldúa's impact within and beyond academic disciplines, community trenches, and international borders, Bridging presents more than thirty reflections on her work and her life, examining vibrant facets in surprising new ways and inviting readers to engage with these intimate, heartfelt contributions. Bridging is divided into five sections: The New Mestizas: "transitions and transformations"; Exposing the Wounds: "You gave me permission to fly in the dark"; Border Crossings: Inner Struggles, Outer Change; Bridging Theories: Intellectual Activism with/in Borders; and "Todas somos nos/otras": Toward a "politics of openness." Contributors, who include Norma Elia Cantú, Elisa Facio, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Aída Hurtado, Andrea Lunsford, Denise Segura, Gloria Steinem, and Mohammad Tamdgidi, represent a broad range of generations, professions, academic disciplines, and national backgrounds. Critically engaging with Anzaldúa's theories and building on her work, they use virtual diaries, transformational theory, poetry, empirical research, autobiographical narrative, and other genres to creatively explore and boldly enact future directions for Anzaldúan studies. A book whose form and content reflect Anzaldúa's diverse audience, Bridging perpetuates Anzaldúa's spirit through groundbreaking praxis and visionary insights into culture, gender, sexuality, religion, aesthetics, and politics. This is a collection whose span is as broad and dazzling as Anzaldúa herself.


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Korean masculinities and transcultural consumption
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ISBN: 9789888028665 9789888028672 9888028669 9888028677 9888053639 988220712X 9789888053636 9789882207127 Year: 2011 Publisher: Hong Kong Hong Kong University Press

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This book investigates the transcultural consumption of hybrid South Korean masculinities in contemporary South Korean popular culture. It focuses on the Japanese middle-aged female fandom of an actor - Bae Yong-Joon (aka. Yonsama) - the middle class Singaporean female fandom of a pop-star Rain, and the Western online cult fandom of a film, Oldboy.


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Obesity : cultural and biocultural perspectives
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ISBN: 1283864355 0813552389 9780813552385 9780813548906 081354890X 9780813548913 0813548918 9781283864350 Year: 2011 Publisher: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press,

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In a world now filled with more people who are overweight than underweight, public health and medical perspectives paint obesity as a catastrophic epidemic that threatens to overwhelm health systems and undermine life expectancies globally. In many societies, being obese also creates profound personal suffering because it is so culturally stigmatized. Yet despite loud messages about the health and social costs of being obese, weight gain is a seemingly universal aspect of the modern human condition. Grounded in a holistic anthropological approach and using a range of ethnographic and ecological case studies, Obesity shows that the human tendency to become and stay fat makes perfect sense in terms of evolved human inclinations and the physical and social realities of modern life. Drawing on her own fieldwork in the rural United States, Mexico, and the Pacific Islands over the last two decades, Alexandra A. Brewis addresses such critical questions as why obesity is defined as a problem and why some groups are so much more at risk than others. She suggests innovative ways that anthropology and other social sciences can use community-based research to address the serious public health and social justice concerns provoked by the global spread of obesity.


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Working together in Vanuatu : research histories, collaborations, projects and reflections
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ISBN: 1921862343 1921862351 9781921862359 9781921862342 Year: 2011 Publisher: Canberra, Australia : ANU Press,

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This collection is derived from a conference held at the Vanuatu National Museum and Cultural Centre (VCC) that brought together a large gathering of foreign and indigenous researchers to discuss diverse perspectives relating to the unique program of social, political and historical research and management that has been fostered in that island nation. While not diminishing the importance of individual or sole-authored methodologies, project-centered collaborative approaches have today become a defining characteristic of Vanuatu's unique research environment. As this volume attests, this environment has included a dynamically wide range of both ni-Vanuatu and foreign researchers and related research perspectives, most centrally including archaeologists and anthropologists, linguists, historians, legal studies scholars and development practitioners. This emphasis on collaboration has emerged from an ongoing awareness across Vanuatu's research community of the need for trained researchers to engage directly with pressing social and ethical concerns, and out of the proven fact that it is not just from the outcomes of research that communities or individuals may be empowered, but also through their modes and processes of implementation, as through the ongoing strength and value of the relationships they produce. With this in mind, the papers presented here go beyond the mere celebration of collaboration by demonstrating Vanuatu's specific environment of cross-cultural research as a diffuse set of historically emergent methodological approaches, and by showing how these work in actual practice.


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Liszt's transcultural modernism and the Hungarian-gypsy tradition
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ISBN: 1580467849 1580463231 Year: 2011 Publisher: Rochester : University of Rochester Press,

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Some of Franz Liszt's most renowned pieces -- most famously his Hungarian Rhapsodies -- are written in a nineteenth-century Hungarian style known as verbunkos. Closely associated with the virtuosic playing tradition of the Hungarian-Gypsy band, the meaning and uses of this style in Liszt's music have been widely taken for granted and presented as straightforward. Taking a novel transcultural approach to nineteenth-century modernism, Shay Loya presents a series of critiques and sensitive music analyses that demonstrate how the verbunkos idiom, rich and artful in itself, interactedin myriad ways with Liszt's multiple cultural identities, compositional techniques, and modernist aesthetics. Even supposedly familiar works such as the Rhapsodies emerge in a new light, and more startlingly, we find out how the idiom inhabits and shapes works that bear no outward marks of nationality or ethnicity. Particularly surprising is its role in the famously enigmatic compositions of Liszt's old age, such as Nuages gris and Bagatelle sans tonalit�.

We are pleased to announce that Liszt's Transcultural Modernism and the Hungarian-Gypsy Tradition is one of twowinners of the 2014 Alan Walker Book Award, given by the American Liszt Society.

Shay Loya is a Lecturer at City University London and is a board member of the Society for Music Analysis (UK).

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Romanies --- Music --- Cross-cultural studies --- Bohemians (Romanies) --- Gipsies --- Gitanos --- Gypsies --- Kalderash --- Manush --- Roma (People) --- Romani --- Sinti --- Nomads --- Comparison of cultures --- Inter-cultural studies --- Intercultural studies --- Trans-cultural studies --- Transcultural studies --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Social sciences --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Folk-songs, Gipsy --- Folk-songs, Gypsy --- Gipsy music --- Gypsy music --- Roma music --- Sinti music --- Flamenco music --- History and criticism --- Methodology --- Liszt, Franz, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Hungary --- Macaristan --- Vengerskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Magyar Népköztársaság --- Ungern --- Magyar Tanácsköztársaság --- Hungarian Republic --- Magyar Köztársaság (Republic) --- Oungaria --- Unkari --- Ungarn --- Hongrie --- Ungaria --- Ungheria --- Hungría --- Magyarország (Republic) --- Maďarsko --- Węgry --- Vengrii︠a︡ --- Hongarije --- VNR --- V.N.R. --- Hungaryah --- Hungari --- Hŏnggari --- Ungarii︠a︡ --- Republic of Hungary --- Hongaria --- Hongarye --- Republiek van Hongarye --- Macarıstan Respublikası --- Венгрыя --- Venhryi︠a︡ --- Mađarska --- Republika Mađarska --- Унгария --- Унгарската република --- Ungarskata republika --- Hongria --- República d'Hongria --- Republikang Unggaro --- Unggriya --- Mad̕arská republika --- Republica Ungrese --- Hwngari --- Gweriniaeth Hwngari --- Republik Ungarn --- Ungari --- Ungari Vabariik --- Ουγγαρία --- Δημοκρατία της Ουγγαρίας --- Dēmokratia tēs Oungarias --- República de Hungría --- Hungario --- Hungarujo --- Hungara Respubliko --- Hungaria --- Hungariar Errepublika --- Hungariako Errepublika --- Tjóðveldið Ungarn --- République de Hongrie --- Ungáir --- Poblacht na hUngáire --- Ungaar --- Pobblaght ny h-Ungaar --- 헝가리 --- Hunakalia --- Republik Hongaria --- Ungverjaland --- Lýðveldið Ungverjaland --- הונגריה --- אונגארן --- Мажарстан --- Mazharstan --- Мажарстан Республикасы --- Mazharstan Respublikasy --- Венгрия --- Венгрия Республикасы --- Vengrii︠a︡ Respublikasy --- Jamhuri ya Hungaria --- Madjaristan --- Repúvlika de Madjaristan --- רפובליקא דא מאגיאדיסטאן --- מאגיאדיסטאן --- Маджар --- Madzhar --- Маджар Республика --- Madzhar Respublika --- Respublica Hungarica --- Ungārija --- Ungārijas Republika --- Vengrija --- Vengrijos respublika --- Ungaïa --- Ungri --- Унгарија --- Република Унгарија --- Republika Ungarija --- Ungerija --- Hanekeria --- Унгар --- Ungar --- Tlācatlahtohcāyōtl Hungria --- Hongaarse Republiek --- ハンガリー --- Hangarī --- Hungrii --- Republikken Ungarn --- Ongria --- Republica d'Ongria --- Vengriya --- Vengriya Respublikasi --- Republika Węgierska --- República da Hungria --- Republica Ungară --- Republica Ungaria --- Венгерская Республика --- Vengerskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Lepulika o Hungary --- Republika e Hungarisë --- Unghirìa --- Madžarska --- Republika Madžarska --- Madźary --- Мађарска --- Република Мађарска --- Unkarin tasavalta --- Republiken Ungern --- Unggarya --- Republika ng Unggarya --- Majarstan Jȯmḣu̇rii︠a︡te --- Majoriston --- Macaristan Cumhuriyeti --- Угорщина --- Uhorshchyna --- Мадярщина --- Madi︠a︡rshchyna --- Угорська Республіка --- Uhorsʹka Respublika --- Oгорська Республіка --- Ohorsʹka Respublika --- Ongiri --- Oonguri --- Republik bu Oonguri --- Honharije --- Vengrėjė --- Vengrėjės Respoblėka --- 匈牙利 --- Xiongyali --- 匈牙利共和國 --- Xiongyali gong he guo --- Xiongyali Gongheguo --- Austro-Hungarian Monarchy --- History and criticism. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Liszt, Franz --- List, Frant︠s︡, --- Liszt, Ferenc, --- Liszt, F. --- Liszt, Franciszek, --- List, Ferent︠s︡, --- Liszt, Francesco, --- Lists, F., --- Liszt, Ferencz, --- Liszt, Francisco, --- Franz Liszt. --- Hungarian Rhapsodies. --- cultural identities. --- modern technology. --- modernism. --- modernist aesthetics. --- music analyses. --- transcultural approach. --- verbunkos.

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