This wide-ranging text challenges a range of ideas about domestic culture. It examines how the meanings of domestic life are produced across a range of discourses and practices, from architecture, lifestyle media and advertising to home decoration, cooking and watching television.

This volume explores two themes - historical traditions in early modern India et Mughal political culture as manifest in the cultures of history writing in Bengal. It analyses the interaction between Islamic cultural traditions in the South Asian sub-continent with Indic, vernacular traditions.

This volume contains the proceedings of a conference on reproduction in domestic ruminants. It examines advances in the field, and gives examples of how this knowledge is being exploited to improve the health and welfare of ruminant farm animals.

Although ‘home’ is central to most people’s experience of everyday life, the meaning of home is often taken for granted. In this accessible and student-friendly introduction to domestic cultures, Joanne Hollows surveys current thinking and approaches to demonstrate why home is so central to our lives. Domestic Cultures examines which meanings and values have been associated with home and demonstrates how these have been transformed and reworked in different historical contexts. The book shows that while certain meanings of domestic culture are frequently produced ‘for us’, these can be negotiated and resisted through everyday home-making practices. She demonstrates how elements of domesticity have been dislocated and mobilized within public life. This wide-ranging text challenges a range of ideas about domestic culture. It examines how the meanings of domestic life are produced across a range of discourses and practices, from architecture, lifestyle media and advertising to home decoration, cooking and watching television. The book demonstrates how domestic cultures are not only linked to particular ideas about gendered identities, but how they are also differentiated by class, race and sexuality. Domestic Cultures is a key introductory text for media, sociology and cultural studies students.

A study of the civilizations of the Zuni Indians, the natives of Dobu, and the Kwakiutl Indians.