Culture

Culture is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.Humans acquire culture through the learning processes of enculturation and socialization, which is shown by the diversity of cultures across societies. A cultural norm codifies acceptable conduct in society; it serves as a guideline for behavior, dress, language, and demeanor in a situation, which serves as a template for expectations in a social group. Accepting only a monoculture in a social group can bear risks, just as …

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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 18 June 2024 English

Throughout the twentieth century in the lands of Yugoslavia, socialists embarked on multiple projects of supranational unification. Sensitive to the vulnerability of small nations in a world of great powers, …

(September 1929). Issue on contemporary Soviet culture. Sig. 313/∏, св1. Courtesy of Narodna biblioteka and I feel sorry for it.” Dubravka Ugrešić, The Culture of Lies, 1995 In 1919, one of the first short stories origins excluded him from the ranks of European culture. “For these children of ours who thirst for Europe socialists into the relatively safer realm of culture, imbuing literary debates with broader questions of the Balkans to ensure total development of culture and political independence.”3 Meanwhile, in the


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 18 June 2024 English

Interactive documentary emerged rapidly from a constellation of changing technologies and practices to much excitement, yet its history is short and its future uncertain. In the mid-2010s Canada was a …

reflecting wider shifts in popular digital visual culture towards forms of interactive, immersive, and embodied consider the i-doc from key angles of documentary culture: the nature of image and “reality,” the ethical (Coulthard and Simpson 2016). The link between culture and land is critical; as Coulthard and Simpson versus the specificities of place, language, and culture that constitute the unique stories featured within Interactivity: Analysing the Webdoc.” Media, Culture and Society 34 (2): 195–210. https://doi. org/10


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 18 June 2024 English

The word "pharmacopoeia" has come to have many meanings, although it is commonly understood to be a book describing approved compositions and standards for drugs. In 1813 the Royal College …

consumption, trade, law, social policy, and popular culture. Its reach is global and includes scholarship on plants, animals, precious metals, commodities, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas commercialization overshadowed the mater- ial culture of medicine’.25 This literature makes little mention held by any society, culture, or group of specialists within a society or culture’. Yet neither definition Exotic botanicals played a vital role in their culture, providing some of their most important remedies


CHB: Coach House Books · 18 June 2024 English

WINNER OF A 2023 PEN TRANSLATES AWARD This punk-like blend of Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives and Samanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream heralds an exciting new voice in international fiction Living …

be expected, all ten authors are men. In our culture, entrepreneurship, a spirit for adventure, and


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2024 English

The revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 led to over 200,000 Huguenots fleeing France. Bryan Banks directs our attention to four authors who advocated for the Huguenots’ right …

Jaucourt became embedded in the intellectual culture of the refuge and began to write. Although he past. Most recently, Jeffrey Burson describes a “culture of enlightening” that cut across various Enlightenments explore them anew through the lens of political culture – a lens that takes into account the insights today.38 A focus on the 17 Introductionpolitical culture of the Huguenot diaspora encourages us to revisit plore the trans-historical origins of refugee culture, especially the emergence of the role that sentimentalism


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2024 English

Since the year 2000, millions of hectares of land in the Global South have been acquired by foreign investors for large-scale agricultural projects, displacing and disrupting rural communities. Women are …

land gov- ernance is tied to identity, place, culture, tradition, and religion, while also governed


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2024 English

Myths and stereotypes surrounding seafarers in the Age of Sail persist to this day. Sailors were celebrated for their courage, strength, and skill, yet condemned for militancy, vice, and fecklessness. …

backward-looking, anti-modern tendency of British culture, but also its counterpart: the technological entrepreneur- with econ- omics, work, business, society, and culture. Most research conceptualises the transition as and moulded the image of the seaman in popular culture. The ‘manly sailor’ who faced the elements with is no single, monolithic masculinity. In any culture and period there are many in- terpretations of pushed back, creating a complex associational culture that empha- sised responsibility and aspiration


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2024 English

Complemented by over 150 rarely seen illustrations, Needle Work moves from coast to coast and across more than one hundred years to provide a key chapter in the history of …

for a better understanding of Canada’s artistic culture both at home and abroad, the Beaverbrook Canadian Canadian art and Canada’s visual and material culture. This series supports and stimulates such scholarship contemporary Canadian art and visual and material culture, including Native and Inuit art, architecture, Histories in Northern North America Material Culture in Motion, c. 1780–1980 Edited by Beverly Lemire As a Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Art History


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 June 2024 English

Since the first edition of this popular text was published in 1984, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms has transformed the role of the courts in Canadian politics. Addressing current …

Song, “Shameful Backlash to Lawyers’ Indigenous Culture Course Shows Why We Need It” 6.11 Key Terms 7 Joyal, “The Charter and Canada’s New Political Culture: Are We All Ambassadors Now?” 10.11 Key Terms


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2024 English

Separated by the world’s longest land border and engaging in over three billion dollars in trade daily, Canada and the United States share security concerns, cultural interests, and a history …

between the two countries,” “underpinned by popular culture cross-over, mutual attrac- tion, and shared values that a special relationship rooted in history and culture has long existed between Russia and Ukraine (Calamur


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