The first text to address the contentious issues raised by the pursuit of anthropology and archaeology in the world today. Calls into question the traditional, sometimes difficult relationship between western scholars and the contemporary cultures and peoples they study and can easily disturb.
The law is a symbolic construction and therefore rests on a variety of undertakings. What gives law its meaning is, for some, ideology, and for others, the welfare of the majority. However, what is manifest is a conception of the law as a material structure that carries symbols of everyday life. The analyses that are made in the law and semiotics movements show that the law's symbolism cannot be understood by reference only to itself, a strictly 'legal' meaning. It is a symbol that conveys life, a symbol that in itself is contaminated with life, politics, morality and so on.
This handbook compiled in full accord with the requirements of the existing syllabus and curriculum of social studies of Great Britain for pedagogical universities and faculties of foreign languages is intended to provide the students with the most updated information and analysis of the versatile aspects of the contemporary British social scene which experienced major changes of the beginning of the 21st century.
Corsairs are pirates, and pirates come in many different varieties. There are the pirates who fought off the Barbary Coast in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the contemporary pirates who infest the waters of Africa and Asia, and the pirates . . . who look like something else.
It is this narrative, of a newly unrestrained capitalism, restructuring itself and the world it is embedded into (including our own sense of self and identity), on the one hand, and the practical and theoretical forces of resistance on the other, which this book tries to portray amongst contemporary trends as they are filtered through 4 Marxism and Media Studies the media. The key concepts that will be our guide, our compass, derive from Marxism.
