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The Business of Creativity: Toward an Anthropology of Worth

The Business of Creativity: Toward an Anthropology of Worth

Brian Moeran

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Moeran, Brian, 1944The business of creativity: toward an anthropology of worth / Brian Moeran. pages cm- (Anthropology and business; 1) Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Magic of Fashion: Ritual, Commodity, Glamour

The Magic of Fashion: Ritual, Commodity, Glamour

Brian Moeran

Drawing on 20 years of ethnographic fieldwork and anthropological theory, anthropologist Brian Moeran argues that fashion magazines are able to cast a spell over their readers by using practices and rituals found in age-old magical and ...
The Business of Creativity: Toward an Anthropology of Worth

The Business of Creativity: Toward an Anthropology of Worth

Brian Moeran

In The Business of Creativity, Brian Moeran, a leading scholar and writer on the creative industries, takes the sacred relic of creativity out of the crypt and airs it in the ethnographic alley.
Language and Popular Culture in Japan

Language and Popular Culture in Japan

Brian Moeran

Brian Moeran. First published in 1989 by Manchester University Press This edition first published in 2011 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX144RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge ...
A New English Music: Composers and Folk Traditions in ...

A New English Music: Composers and Folk Traditions in ...

Tim Rayborn

Letter from Moeran to Arnold Dowbiggin, February 18, 1931, quoted in Self, E.J. Moeran, 74. 104. Eric Fenby is unclear about this, noting that Moeran eventually did arrive at the destination of his companions (Delius' home) by taxi, but that ...
Advertising cultures

Advertising cultures

Brian Moeran

While this link may come as a surprise to those who consider the former to be firmly rooted in commerce and the latter in culture, this book clearly shows that these two fields share a remarkable number of convergences.
?kubo Diary (Routledge Revivals): Portrait of a Japanese Valley

?kubo Diary (Routledge Revivals): Portrait of a Japanese Valley

Brian Moeran

Throughout, the book questions the premises of participant observation, which has become a mainstay of modern anthropology.
The Music of E.J. Moeran

The Music of E.J. Moeran

Geoffrey Self

Chronological examination of Moeran's output, from his early piano and chamber music and tone-poems to the late masterpieces of the Cello Concerto and Cello Sonata.
Unwrapping Japan: Society and Culture in Anthropological ...

Unwrapping Japan: Society and Culture in Anthropological ...

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Moeran'sChapter 7 can bereadon twolevels, each of which includes anumber of implications for anthropology. Onone level this pieceisa personal account of Moeran's experience in theart world of Japanese ceramics. Assuch an account ...
Ethnography at Work

Ethnography at Work

Brian Moeran

Ethnography at Work provides an introduction to the way that anthropologists study social systems in business.
In the Nature of Landscape: Cultural Geography on the ...

In the Nature of Landscape: Cultural Geography on the ...

David Matless

Composer Ernest Moeran, whose father had been vicar at Bacton on the Norfolk coast, collected in Broadland between 1913–15 and 1921–7, publishing 17 ' Songs Collected in Norfolk' in the JFSS (Moeran et al 1922), and arranging Six Folk ...
The Business of Ethnography: Strategic Exchanges, People and ...

The Business of Ethnography: Strategic Exchanges, People and ...

Brian Moeran

The Business of Ethnography is a clarion call for anthropologists to rethink their discipline beyond traditional fieldwork sites.
Asian Media Productions

Asian Media Productions

Brian Moeran

A substantial book on the social practices and cultural attitudes of people producing, reading, watching and listening to different kinds of media in Japan, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore and India.
A Japanese Advertising Agency: An Anthropology of Media and ...

A Japanese Advertising Agency: An Anthropology of Media and ...

Brian Moeran

This is the only book of its kind - written by an anthropologist who spent twelve months doing fieldwork in a major Tokyo agency and who has spent the past 30 years studying and living in Japan.
A Japanese Advertising Agency: An Anthropology of Media and ...

A Japanese Advertising Agency: An Anthropology of Media and ...

Brian Moeran

This is the only book of its kind - written by an anthropologist who spent twelve months doing fieldwork in a major Tokyo agency and who has spent the past 30 years studying and living in Japan.
A Japanese Advertising Agency: An Anthropology of Media and ...

A Japanese Advertising Agency: An Anthropology of Media and ...

Brian Moeran

This is a formal account of the structure and organization of a large Japanese advertising agency.
Exploring Creativity: Evaluative Practices in Innovation, ...

Exploring Creativity: Evaluative Practices in Innovation, ...

Brian Moeran

Explores creativity and accompanying evaluative practices in a series of richly textured ethnographic case studies of creative industries.
Folk Art Potters of Japan: Beyond an Anthropology of Aesthetics

Folk Art Potters of Japan: Beyond an Anthropology of Aesthetics

Brian Moeran

This is a study of a group of potters living in a small community in the south of Japan, and about the problems they face in the production, marketing and aesthetic appraisal of a kind of stoneware pottery generally referred to as mingei, ...
Women, Media and Consumption in Japan

Women, Media and Consumption in Japan

Brian Moeran

First book of its kind to examine images of women in Japanese consumerism. Explores a variety of media targeted at women - in particular magazines, but also television, popular literature and consumer trends. Covers visual and print media.
Women, Media and Consumption in Japan

Women, Media and Consumption in Japan

Brian Moeran

First book of its kind to examine images of women in Japanese consumerism. Explores a variety of media targeted at women - in particular magazines, but also television, popular literature and consumer trends. Covers visual and print media.
Asian Media Productions

Asian Media Productions

Brian Moeran

Carolyn S. Stevens and Shuhei Hosokawa 'You really can't talk about music on this show, can you?' (Shin'ya, drummer of Luna Sea) Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ, June 8 1998 This chapter provides an analysis of televised Japanese music ...
Asian Media Productions

Asian Media Productions

Brian Moeran

Carolyn S. Stevens and Shuhei Hosokawa 'You really can't talk about music on this show, can you?' (Shin'ya, drummer of Luna Sea) Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ, June 8 1998 This chapter provides an analysis of televised Japanese music ...
The Words and Music of Brian Wilson

The Words and Music of Brian Wilson

Christian Matijas-Mecca

... Doin' Somethin': Uncovering Brian Wilson's Lost Bedroom Tapes,” Brian Chidester's addresses a purported collection of unreleased, incomplete, or unfinished songs Wilson recorded in the 1970s. Brian's reticence to produce a substantial ...
Vintage Keating:

Vintage Keating:

Brian Carroll

Brian Carroll. First published in Australia in 2010 by Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd PO Box 6125, Dural Delivery Centre ... Title: ISBN: Notes: Subjects: Dewey Number: Carroll, Brian, 1930- Vintage Keating : his wit and wisdom / Brian Carroll .
Strangled

Strangled

Brian McGrory

In all of his Jack Flynn thrillers, "Brian McGrory knows how to tell a great story"! { Richmond Times-Dispatch, VA) Praise for bestselling author Brian McGrory and STRANGLED "Brian McGrory delivers suspense, action, and brains from the first  ...

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