Comparative studies of culture and power
By: edited by Fredrik Engelstad.
Contributors: Engelstad, Fredrik, 1944-
Series: Comparative social research ;; v. 21
Publisher: JAI
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Power (Social sciences) -- Cross-cultural studies.; Culture -- Cross-cultural studies.
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction :; title: Power, culture, hegemony -- Frederik Engelstad; title: Doing politics, doing gender, doing power -- Anne Krogstad and Kirsten Gomard; title: Ostentation in comparative perspective : culture and elite legitimation -- Jean-Pascal Daloz; title: Collective memories at "work" : the public remembering of contested pasts -- Anna Lisa Tota; title: Modernisms in action : comparing the relationship between visual arts, social classes and politics in Israeli nation-building -- Graciela Trajtenberg; title: National literature, collective identity and political power -- Fredrik Engelstad; title: Structural power and the construction of markets : the case of rhythm and blues -- Timothy J. Dowd; title: Paradoxes of welfare states and equal opportunities : gender and managerial power in Norway and the USA -- Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund and Toril Sandnes.