Oxford University Press

A provocative account of the development of modern national culture in India using classical music as a case study. Janaki Bakhle demonstrates how the emergence of an "e;Indian"e; cultural tradition reflected colonial and exclusionary practices, particularly the exclusion of Muslims by the Brahmanic elite, which occurred despite the fact...

In the last few years, popular and scholarly interest in Native women has soared. In SIFTERS, the first volume in the new Viewpoints on American Culture series, Theda Perdue, a recognized Native American and women's historian, has brought together a group of scholars both junior and senior to introduce the reading public and students to the lives...

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Transforming Technology: A Critical Theory Revisited is a revised edition of a book first published by Oxfrod University Press in 1991, Critical Theory of Technology. Feenberg rethinks the relationship between technology, rationality, and democracy, and argues that the degradation of labor, as well as many environmental, educational, and political...

Certain things, like justice, have impersonal value; other things, like your        parents, carry personal value: their value is related to you, and they are, in a        sense, good or bad for you. Rnnow-Rasmussen examines the notion of        'good-for', and provides a new analysis of personal value that justifies its        inclusion within our...