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“Mummymania”:mummies,museums and popular culture

Journal of Biological Research, 2021
This lecture presents the major findings of the first anthropological study of British and American “mummymania”, the public fascination with ancient Egyptian mummies, and its associated myth, the mummy’s curse: a belief that those who interfere with ...
Jasmine Day
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Teaching Japanese Popular Culture

The ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts, 2010
Japanese popular culture has arrived on American college campuses as never before. Student interest in Japanese manga (comic books), anime (animated films and television shows), and video games drives much of the enrollment in Japanese courses and ...
Van Symons
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Mapping American Popular Culture

RSA Journal, 2013
Introduction to the Special Section "Mapping American Popular Culture" 
Leonardo Buonomo
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Borges and Popular Culture [PDF]

Hispanic Research Journal, 2013
The ‘greatness’ of Jorge Luis Borges is something of an invention of the 1960s and after, based on the reception, often through translation, of a relatively small body of work from the 1940s (most notably the stories collected in Ficciones and El Aleph [1944 and 1949]).
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Emigration as popular culture [PDF]

, 2005
This article explores the symbolic dimensions of emigration by enquiring into the relationship between emigration as a social phenomenon in Morocco, and Moroccan popular culture.
Sabry, T., Sabry, Tarik
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Introduction—Popular Cultures and the Law [PDF]

Continuum, 2005
In Bristol, a breastfeeding mother is ejected from a pub on the grounds that she has brought a minor into a drinking establishment, and that a pub is no place for a 'proper' mother. In Austria, public strollers through the city square are confronted with the sight of supposed asylum seekers in a large container, and are asked to vote online, reality TV
Collis, Christy, Bainbridge, Jason
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Popular Culture: Supracultural Communication

Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2012
The basic questions which stem from theoretical inquiry into popular culture can be summed up as follows: whose culture is this and in what way should it be approached.
Bojan Žikić
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Tours of the Browne Popular Culture Library

, 2020
Tours will be offered of the Browne Popular Culture Library, on the 4th floor of the Jerome Library.
Browne Popular Culture Library
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STUDYING SILENCE IN POPULAR CULTURE [PDF]

, 2019
This article explains the impetus for and execution of a team-taught, interdisciplinary class in silence using popular culture materials and practices, such as silent film, music, meditation, and mime.
Lindvall, Terry, Jackson, Kathy Merlock
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Interrogating American Popular Culture

Res Rhetorica, 2018
Rather than relegating the study of rhetoric to the past, and confining it to its traditional analyses of ceremonial, forensic, and political speeches, the author argues that it has much to say to and about contemporary popular culture.
ROBERT WESTERFELHAUS
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