Geography is the key that unlocks the door to the world’s wonders. There are, of course, many ways of viewing the world and its diverse physical and human features. In this series - MODERN WORLD CULTURES - the emphasis is on people and their cultures. As you step through the geographic door into the ten world cultures covered in this series, you will come to better know, understand, and appreciate the world’s mosaic of peoples and how they live. You will see how different peoples adapt to, use, and change their natural environments. And you will be amazed at the vast differences in thinking, doing, and living practiced around the world.
Geography is the key
that unlocks the door to the world’s wonders. There are, of course, many ways
of viewing the world and its diverse physical and human features. In this
series - MODERN WORLD CULTURES - the emphasis is on people and their cultures.
As you step through the geographic door into the ten world cultures covered in
this series, you will come to better know, understand, and appreciate the
world’s mosaic of peoples and how they live. You will see how different peoples
adapt to, use, and change their natural environments. And you will be amazed at
the vast differences in thinking, doing, and living practiced around the world.
The MODERN WORLD CULTURES series was developed in response to many requests
from librarians and teachers throughout the United States and Canada.
Geography is the key that unlocks the door to the world’s wonders. There are, of course, many ways of viewing the world and its diverse physical and human features. In this series - MODERN WORLD CULTURES - the emphasis is on people and their cultures. As you step through the geographic door into the ten world cultures covered in this series, you will come to better know, understand, and appreciate the world’s mosaic of peoples and how they live. You will see how different peoples adapt to, use, and change their natural environments. And you will be amazed at the vast differences in thinking, doing, and living practiced around the world. The MODERN WORLD CULTURES series was developed in response to many requests from librarians and teachers throughout the United States and Canada.
Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and
Footwear through the Ages provides a broad overview of costume traditions of
diverse cultures from prehistoric times to the present day. The five-volume set
explores various items of human decoration and adornment, ranging from togas to
turbans,necklaces to tennis shoes, and discusses why
and how they were created,the people who made them, and
their uses. More than just a description of what people wore and why, this set
also describes how clothing, headwear, body decorations, and footwear reflect
different cultural, religious, and societal beliefs.
Volume 1 covers the ancient world, including prehistoric man and the
ancient cultures of
Egypt,
Mesopotamia,
India,
Greece, and
Rome. Key issues covered in this volume
include the early use of animal skins as garments, the introduction of fabric
as the primary human body covering, and the development of distinct cultural
traditions for draped and fitted garments.
Edward Said makes one of the strongest cases ever for the aphorism, "the pen is mightier than the sword." This is a brilliant work of literary criticism that essentially becomes political science. Culture and Imperialism demonstrates that Western imperialism's most effective tools for dominating other cultures have been literary in nature as much as political and economic. He traces the themes of 19th- and 20th-century Western fiction and contemporary mass media as weapons of conquest and also brilliantly analyzes the rise of oppositional indigenous voices in the literatures of the "colonies." Said would argue that it's no mere coincidence that it was a Victorian Englishman, Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, who coined the phrase "the pen is mightier . . ." Very highly recommended for anyone who wants to understand how cultures are dominated by words, as well as how cultures can be liberated by resuscitating old voices or creating new voices for new times.