Cultural studies Books
Columbia University Press Concepts and Categories
Book SynopsisA team of sociologists presents a groundbreaking model of concepts and categorization that can guide sociological and cultural analysis of a wide variety of social situations. Using this model, important yet commonplace phenomena such as routine buying decisions can be quantified in terms of the cognitive distance between concepts.Trade ReviewSocial classification—the establishment of categories and the sorting of entities into those categories—is the critical juncture at which cognition and social organization intersect. As such, it is a central topic that cuts across many fields of sociology and other social sciences. This volume integrates work from the most productive and promising program of theory and research on social classification into a coherent statement that will inform sociological thinking for years to come. -- Paul DiMaggio, New York UniversityThis formal foundation of categorization processes represents a massive step forward in our theoretical understanding of categories, their evolution, and their influence on decisions. The authors do an excellent job of motivating these cognitive foundations in terms of their relevance to sociological questions of interest. -- Olav Sorenson, Frederick Frank ’54 and Mary C. Tanner Professor of Management, Yale School of ManagementConcepts and Categories is at once foundational and generative—the kind of book in which you will fill the margins with new learnings and insights. I highly recommend it both to newcomers to the sociology of markets as well as to established scholars looking for their next novel idea. -- Damon Phillips, Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise, Columbia Business SchoolHannan and collaborators have produced a masterful interdisciplinary intervention, the first to bridge research on the nature of concepts in cognitive psychology and sociological work on organizational and market categories. The book provides solid theoretical foundations tightly linked to formal measurement tools that should prove foundational to future advancements in the field. -- Omar Lizardo, LeRoy Neiman Term Chair Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los AngelesCrisply written and technically rich. . . . Recommended. * Choice *An impeccable search for clearly defined concepts, an articulated theorizing connecting the concepts together logicallyand in natural language, and an exposure that distinguishes definitions, postulates, correlates, and propositions. * Administrative Science Quarterly *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Concepts in Sociological AnalysisPart I. Concepts and Spaces2. Preliminaries3. Semantic Space4. Concepts as Probability Densities in Semantic Space5. Conceptual Spaces: Domains and Cohorts6. Expanding Spaces to Compare Concepts7. Informativeness and DistinctivenessPart II. Applying Concepts8. Categories and Categorization9. Free Categorization10. Concepts, Perception, and InferencePart III. Bridges to Sociological Application11. Conceptual Ambiguity and Contrast12. ValuationPart IV. Concepts in Social Interaction13. The Group Level: Conceptual and Extensional Agreement14. Social Inference and Taken-for-Grantedness15. Broadening the Scope of ApplicationPart V. AppendixesAppendix A: Glossary of Technical TermsAppendix B: Some Elemental First-Order LogicAppendix C: ProofsNotesBibliographyIndex
£27.00
Columbia University Press Big Fiction
Book SynopsisDan Sinykin explores how changes in the publishing industry have affected fiction, literary form, and what it means to be an author.Trade ReviewA "Most Anticipated" Book of 2023 * The Millions *Revelatory . . . Book lovers curious about how the proverbial sausage gets made will want to check this out. * Publishers Weekly *Sinykin’s Big Fiction is a book of major ambition and many satisfactions. Come for the comprehensive reframing of a key phase in U.S. literary history, stay for the parade of interesting people, the fascinating backstories of bestsellers, the electrically entertaining prose. The story of literary publishing in the postwar period has never been told with such verve. -- Mark McGurl, author of Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of AmazonBig Fiction tackles a big subject with deep research, great ambition, and broad mindedness. Sinykin pulls together stories of famous authors and obscure yet central behind-the-scenes players to tell the complex and compelling history of modern publishing. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the too-often-overlooked forces that shape what is published, what is written, and what the future of books might hold. -- Lincoln Michel, author of The Body ScoutTen years from now, Publishing Studies will be central to English departments, and Big Fiction will be a foundational text. Sinykin is precisely the critic I have been waiting for, with the intellectual range to bring rigor to the everyday processes by which publishing shapes how we write, read, and think. -- Martin Riker, author of The Guest LectureIn Big Fiction, Dan Sinykin tells the messy, sprawling story of American publishing in the postwar era through the voices and memories of many of its major figures—editors, agents, executives, authors—creating a rich cultural history any observer of the current literary scene will learn from. Through careful and incisive reading, he insists that books like Ragtime, Beloved, and Infinite Jest have much to tell us about the conditions under which they were published. Following through on Bakhtin’s famous phrase—novels are the genre that represents “the zone of maximum content with the present”—Sinykin wants us to think of novels themselves as conglomerations, shaped by many influences, and in some cases by many hands. Big Fiction is provocative, smart, and disturbing; it deserves a big audience. -- Jess Row, author of The New Earth and White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American ImaginationThis is the book we’ve all been waiting for. Now more than ever, it’s important to grasp how the books that come to shape our imaginations and our understanding of the world are made. Sinykin’s elegant prose and careful analysis pull the curtain back, allowing us new perspectives on book making, book selling, and book promoting. It turns out that everything we thought we knew is a big fiction. -- Dana A. Williams, Howard UniversityThe two most remarkable things about Dan Sinykin's history of how corporate conglomeration in publishing has changed the course of literature are 1) it's never been written before and 2) there was a time, not so long ago, when the merging and acquisition of publishing houses was unthinkable. Sinykin teaches how to read "through a colophon," and that "our outsize attention to the author alone is a trick of history." Sinykin's fascinating history is underlineable on every page. -- Spencer Ruchti * Third Place Books (Seattle, WA) *Big Fiction provides a fascinating overview of American publishing over the past sixty or so years, with many interesting titbits about a large number of significant players and many notable publishing deals. -- M.A. Orthofer * The Complete Review *Big Fiction is a very ambitious book, and the story it tells is sweeping and persuasive. . . . It’s the rare book of literary scholarship that may appeal to readers outside the academy. -- Lee Konstantinou * The Chronicle of Higher Education *This book offers a rich, detailed background explicating the everyday reader’s experience of why books published by big commercial presses seem so much like … books big commercial presses would publish. . . . Any student of publishing would benefit from reading this book. In its pages, publishing seems fascinating and action-packed, but myths that readers might harbor about the industry’s glamor, its sincerity, or the purity of its relationship to art will probably get dispelled. -- Hilary Plum * Los Angeles Review of Books *Sinykin writes with verve and narrative flair as he documents the consolidation of the major publishing houses — and, along the way, overturns the myth of “the romantic author,” that lone genius unfettered by social circumstances or material constraints. . . . The result is a fascinating and informative account of the convulsions roiling the American publishing industry for the past half-century — and a devastating reckoning with the ways in which conglomeration has altered American fiction. -- Becca Rothfeld * Washington Post *For some people, thrill rides are found at Disneyland. For certain types of readers, a thrill ride can be found in Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature, Dan Sinykin's scintillating take on the David and Goliath battle, in which free-spirited publishers fought to hold their own against corporate giants. -- Nell Beram * Shelf Awareness *Full of cogent analysis, ambitious argument, juicy quotes from insiders and a demonstration of the central role of Catholics in American publishing. -- Nick Ripatrazone * America Magazine: The Jesuit Review of Faith & Culture *An excellent history of U.S. trade publishing. -- Tyler Cowen * Marginal Revolution *Big Fiction is sharply written and sharply argued, part of a wave of cutting-edge works of literary history put out by Columbia University Press. -- Scott W. Stern * The New Republic *A fascinating combination of business history and academic literary analysis. -- Morley Walker * Winnipeg Free Press *[A] lively, personality-driven, and original study. -- Greg Barnhisel * Books & Review *Big Fiction’s ambitious project and keen analysis will make it a classic in criticism of contemporary US fiction . . . The grand effect of this grand study is to halt any theorization of contemporary fiction that doesn’t first consider the publishing landscape at that point in time. -- Omid Bagherli * ASAP/Journal *Big Fiction takes the notoriously exclusive and counterintuitive industry of U.S. book publishing and gives its recent history a lucid and unsparing treatment . . . [The book] makes for a demystifying and ultimately empowering read—one of particular value for anyone who feels shut out of the publishing milieu—and will help facilitate our understanding of the culture we have. That understanding is critical as we fight for the culture we want. -- Emmerich Anklam * Protean Magazine *This is the best kind of criticism: a book that told me things I didn’t know . . . illuminated things I thought I knew . . . and made me want to argue back against some of its claims and descriptions. -- Anthony Domestico * Commonweal's Best Books of 2023 *Its unexpected novelty is what gives Sinykin’s project its unique insights, making it a real contribution to our understanding of recent American literary history. -- Adam Fleming Petty * The Bulwark *Big Fiction feels like a major contribution: to our understanding of contemporary literature and literary publishing as an industry, definitely; to literary criticism as a whole, probably; and maybe to our conception of how culture, in general, is made. It is a thoroughly researched, engagingly written, and clear-sighted cultural materialist analysis of the sort that feels almost verboten within the formal and professional fields of artistic production. -- J. Arthur Boyle * Cleveland Review of Books *Dear Reader, you should read Big Fiction. It’s the best treatment of why fiction is the way it is that I’ve ever read. And the stories too! -- Clayton Childress * Public Books *[Big Fiction] teaches us to see contemporary fiction as a field riven by contradiction: conglomeration is poisonous and generative, conservative and democratizing, a force of both austerity and abundance. And while it presents obstacles for nearly all writers, many—especially our best—have found unexpected sources of energy within it. -- Mitch Therieau * Bookforum *Recommended. * Choice Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Mass Market (I): How Mass-Market Books Changed Publishing2. Mass Market (II): How the Mass Market Won the World, Lost Its Soul—Then Lost the World3. Trade (I): How Women Resisted Sexism and Reinvented the Novel 4. Trade (II): How Literary Writers Embraced Genre5. Nonprofits: How Rebels Found Funding and Rejected New York6. Independents: How W. W. Norton Stayed Free and Housed the MisfitsConclusionGlossary of Publishing FiguresNotesIndex
£80.00
Columbia University Press Cities of the Dead
Book SynopsisJoseph Roach reveals how performance can revise the unwritten past, comparing patterns of remembrance and forgetting in how communities forge their identities and imagine their futures. He examines the syncretic performance traditions of Europe, Africa, and the Americas in the urban sites of London and New Orleans.Table of ContentsPreface to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary EditionPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Introduction: History, Memory, and Performance2. Echoes in the Bone3. Betterton’s Funeral4. Feathered Peoples5. One Blood6. Carnival and the LawEpilogue: New FrontiersReferencesIndex
£90.00
Columbia University Press On the Edge
Book SynopsisOn the Edge probes precarity in contemporary China through the lens of the dark and angry cultural forms that chronic uncertainty has generated.Trade ReviewHillenbrand examines the precarity of life for the outcasts of Chinese capitalism, indispensable yet unwanted, living in a state that she calls “zombie citizenship.” Her analysis of a wide range of fractious, rebarbative cultural productions by China’s underclass reveals how links between precarity, labor, life, and art generate new spaces for understanding protest, class, exploitation, and control. -- Leigh K. Jenco, author of Changing Referents: Learning Across Space and Time in China and the WestBrilliant and perceptive, this book explores “precarity” as an affective and material human condition in China. Expressed through art forms and cultural practices, precarity unleashes unmanageable and undisciplined feelings that haunt the regime as much as society. This is one of the most original works on contemporary China I have ever read. -- Ching Kwan Lee, author of The Social Question in the 21st Century: A Global ViewRevealing vital connections between creativity and precarity, On the Edge features incisive and nuanced analyses of Chinese avant-garde art, migrant worker poetry and video, documentary cinema, and livestreaming performances. This inspiring book should be essential reading for all students of contemporary art, media, and society. -- Jie Li, author of Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist ChinaOn the Edge engages with precarity as a critical issue of our time. Coupled with its theoretical sophistication, the scope of its subject matter, its analytical strength, and its eloquence, this makes it a key intervention. Combining social engagement and aesthetic sensitivity, this scholarship is as imaginative as it is rigorous. -- Maghiel van Crevel, author of Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and MoneyHillenbrand is as searing and uncompromising in her critique of the power of the state and neoliberal market as she is sensitive and compassionate to rural migrant labourers. The book is definitely not “China for Dummies”, nor will it leave you with a feelgood aftertaste. But you’ll be rewarded with a deeper appreciation of the moral complexity that is essential to understanding China. -- Wanning Sun * The Conversation's "Best books of 2023" *Table of ContentsPreface: Trial by FireAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Grasping the Precarious1. The Delegators2. The Ragpickers3. The Vocalists and the Ventriloquists4. The Cliffhangers5. The MicrocelebritiesConclusion: Viral PrecarityNotesReferencesIndex
£105.30
Columbia University Press On the Edge
Book SynopsisOn the Edge probes precarity in contemporary China through the lens of the dark and angry cultural forms that chronic uncertainty has generated.Trade ReviewHillenbrand examines the precarity of life for the outcasts of Chinese capitalism, indispensable yet unwanted, living in a state that she calls “zombie citizenship.” Her analysis of a wide range of fractious, rebarbative cultural productions by China’s underclass reveals how links between precarity, labor, life, and art generate new spaces for understanding protest, class, exploitation, and control. -- Leigh K. Jenco, author of Changing Referents: Learning Across Space and Time in China and the WestBrilliant and perceptive, this book explores “precarity” as an affective and material human condition in China. Expressed through art forms and cultural practices, precarity unleashes unmanageable and undisciplined feelings that haunt the regime as much as society. This is one of the most original works on contemporary China I have ever read. -- Ching Kwan Lee, author of The Social Question in the 21st Century: A Global ViewRevealing vital connections between creativity and precarity, On the Edge features incisive and nuanced analyses of Chinese avant-garde art, migrant worker poetry and video, documentary cinema, and livestreaming performances. This inspiring book should be essential reading for all students of contemporary art, media, and society. -- Jie Li, author of Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist ChinaOn the Edge engages with precarity as a critical issue of our time. Coupled with its theoretical sophistication, the scope of its subject matter, its analytical strength, and its eloquence, this makes it a key intervention. Combining social engagement and aesthetic sensitivity, this scholarship is as imaginative as it is rigorous. -- Maghiel van Crevel, author of Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and MoneyHillenbrand is as searing and uncompromising in her critique of the power of the state and neoliberal market as she is sensitive and compassionate to rural migrant labourers. The book is definitely not “China for Dummies”, nor will it leave you with a feelgood aftertaste. But you’ll be rewarded with a deeper appreciation of the moral complexity that is essential to understanding China. -- Wanning Sun * The Conversation's "Best books of 2023" *Table of ContentsPreface: Trial by FireAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Grasping the Precarious1. The Delegators2. The Ragpickers3. The Vocalists and the Ventriloquists4. The Cliffhangers5. The MicrocelebritiesConclusion: Viral PrecarityNotesReferencesIndex
£28.50
University of Illinois Press Defending Their Own in the Cold
Book SynopsisA visual and textual journey through the cultural contributions of Puerto Rican artists in the United StatesTrade ReviewReceived an Honorable Mention in the Frank Bonilla Book Award Competition from the Puerto Rican Studies Association (PRSA), 2012. "A book that will undoubtedly have an impact on US Puerto Rican Studies by expanding the repertoire of authors, works, and approaches that have traditionally defined the field."--Moreno: New Perspectives in U.S. Puerto Rican Cultural and Literary Studies"Defending Their Own in the Cold brings to the fore a vibrant intellectual and artistic tradition. . . . Zimmerman, in beautifully rendered prose, captures the largesse of this tradition with the empathy of an insider and the expertise of an accomplished theoretician. His text is more than a defense, as the title may imply, but literary, artistic, and social analysis at its very best."--Centro Journal"A healthy addition to any Latino Studies course focusing on art or literary movements. Defending Their Own in the Cold provides an introduction to contemporary cultural representation of Latinos and Puerto Ricans in the Midwest. Reflexive collections such as his offer both scholars and students a glimpse into the ways Puerto Ricans in the United States defend their own despite dominant misrepresentations of Latino's integration and self-empowerment."--Latino Studies"The author introduces insightful and provocative arguments about U.S. Puerto Rican cultural experiences and provides compelling illustrations. This is an important reference text that will undoubtedly stimulate further research."--Edna Acosta-Belen, coauthor of Puerto Ricans in the United States: A Contemporary PortraitTable of ContentsPreface ix Introduction xiii 1. Puerto Rican and Chicano Crossovers in Latino Film and Music Culture 1 2. The Flag and Three Rican Artists 21 3. U.S. Puerto Rican Literature 50 4. Puerto Rican Poets in Chicago 80 5. Carmen Pursifull: Dancing from New York to Anglo Illinois 112 6. Cuban–Puerto Rican Relations and Final Projections 130 Notes 145 Bibliography 157 Index 181
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Peruvian Lives across Borders Power Exclusion
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Recommended." --Choice"Impressive and highly engaging. Hits all the right notes as it takes up transnational migration, a shifting sense of home, and what Cristina Alcalde persuasively calls exclusionary cosmopolitanism among middle class Peruvians."--Florence E. Babb, author of The Tourism Encounter: Fashioning Latin American Nations and Histories"A compelling ethnographic case study of middle- and upper-class Peruvian migration to the United States, Canada, and Germany. Alcalde offers her readers a unique analysis of the gendered and sexuality-driven intricacies of return."--Ulla Berg, author of Mobile Selves: Migration, Race, and Belonging in Peru and the US
£81.90
University of Illinois Press Mormons Musical Theater and Belonging in America
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFinalist: Best Book of Criticism, Association of Mormon Letters, 2019-2020 "Johnson's examination of Mormonism and its exploitation of musicals for a theology of voice is fascinating and richly informative, and his second volume about the network of truth, falsehood, and belief in non-coastal musical theatre productions is an especially impressive accomplishment." --Studies in Musical Theatre"Johnson's book provides a look at a community with a very distinct and resilient common identity, at the ways in which that common identity emerged musically from the nineteenth century, and at the ways in which the special embodiment of theatrical and musical performance has shaped individuals into concert with that identity. . . . For late nineteenth and twentieth-century history of musical theatre, Johnson offers a valuable text." --Theatre Journal"Constructing a formidable thesis drawing on history, theology, anthropology, musicology, theatre, performance, and cultural theory, Johnson has produced a captivating read with a skillfully crafted set of arguments to elucidate this inimitably American religion. . . . This is a captivating and scholarly read that helps unravel this complex religion for specialist and non-academic audiences alike." --Journal of Religion and Popular Culture"In this book about voice and religion, Johnson successfully carves out a place for his own powerful and well-researched voice." --Mormon Studies Review"Johnson's work is truly interdisciplinary. . . . on almost every page, the reader is introduced to something surprising and provocative. Mormons, Musical Theater, and Belonging in America is a welcome addition to the growing field of American religious performance studies." --BYU Studies Quarterly"Through careful historiography and close attention to sound, Johnson expertly maps the intersections of voice studies, Mormon doctrine, race and religion, and the worlds of American musical theater. Mormons, Musical Theater, and Belonging in America convinces us that theology, theatricality, nationality, and vocality are entwined in Mormonism and extend in fascinating ways into American popular culture."--Jeffers Engelhardt, author of Singing the Right Way: Orthodox Christians and Secular Enchantment in Estonia"This book adds to our understanding of the broad question that so many Mormon scholars have grappled with: the relationship between the faith and the nation. It extends the study of the faith into the critical arena of popular expression, and it helps us think more thoroughly about the place of Mormonism in modern American life." --Juvenile Instructor"Mormon theatre has been studied before, whether as Victorian vignette or parochial propaganda. But here Jake Johnson illuminates theatricality in religion itself, with Mormonism as his focus. I encountered surprises throughout, the kind that stay with you like corrective lenses."--Michael Hicks, author of The Mormon Tabernacle Choir: A Biography "Recommended." --Choice "Jake Johnson meaningfully explores many of the big issues and events in Mormonism. . . .Moreover, he does so with a novel approach few blog posts and podcasts do. If you think you can benefit from a fresh look at the history of Mormonism, and I submit most of us would, Mormons, Musical Theater, and Belonging in American is a great opportunity." --Wheat Tares
£81.90
University of Illinois Press Autochthonomies Transnationalism Testimony and
Book SynopsisAn enriching, interpretive mode that focuses on the transnational connections between subjects of African descent as the central pole for investigation. This journey of radical new process invites readers to see creations by artists of African descent as legible within the context of African diasporic historical and cultural debates.Trade Review"Thoroughly ambitious, philosophically rich, and rigorously interdisciplinary, Autochthonomies is a worthwhile read. . . . From the onset, it is clear that this book is far from a convention study of African diasporic cultures." --New West Indian Review"A richly layered and thought-provoking text. . . . Chancy seeks to reorientate the academic lens through which African diasporic cultures are viewed." --Ethnic and Racial Studies"The strength of this volume lies in the author's detailed textual analyses, both of works that fall short of centering the epistemologies and ontologies of black people and of those that do so effectively. . . . Recommended." --Choice”In its critique of Western rationality, Enlightenment categories, and hierarchical orderings, this book makes a significant contribution. Chancy uses race and gender theory in smart and provocative ways. Her elucidation of difficult texts and contexts is clear and convincing. The research is well presented, the arguments well developed, and the conclusions intellectually satisfying.”—Françoise Lionnet, author of Writing Women and Critical Dialogues: Subjectivity, Gender, and Irony
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Unruly Cinema History Politics and Bollywood
Book SynopsisTrade Review”A rigorous and monumental historical study of Bombay-produced Hindi cinema, which addresses the paradoxes of Bollywood's histories in highly engaging as well as truly enlightening ways. This is an essential study of Indian popular cinema and its indomitability.”—Catherine Grant, coauthor of The Videographic Essay: Criticism in Sound and Image”The longue durée of Bollywood is the subject of Unruly Cinema. A lively and textured account of the contradictory development of mainstream Hindi cinema as an industrial product, on the one hand, and an art form, on the other, this book is a must read for students of South Asian film, the culture industry, and discourses of globalization.”—Keya Ganguly, author of Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Mongolian Sound Worlds
Book SynopsisMusic cultures today in rural and urban Mongolia and Inner Mongolia emerge from centuries-old pastoralist practices that were reshaped by political movements in the twentieth century. Mongolian Sound Worlds investigates the unique sonic elements, fluid genres, social and spatial performativity, and sounding objects behind new forms of Mongolian music--forms that reflect the nation's past while looking towards its globalized future. Drawing on fieldwork in locations across the Inner Asian region, the contributors report on Mongolia's genres and musical landscapes; instruments like the morin khuur, tovshuur, and Kazakh dombyra; combined fusion band culture; and urban popular music. Their broad range of concerns include nomadic herders' music and instrument building, ethnic boundaries, heritage-making, ideological influences, nationalism, and global circulation. A merger of expert scholarship and eyewitness experience, Mongolian Sound Worlds illuminates a diverse and ever-changing musicalTrade Review"The authors and editors whose contributions are part of Mongolian Sound Worlds have produced an admirable work that balances depth and breadth, rigor and accessibility, fascinating detail and wider thematic arcs, while also greatly enhancing the representation of Central Asian music and culture within ethnomusicological literature." --Journal of Folklore Research ReviewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viiTransliteration, Naming, and Place Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ixCompanion Website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xiiiIntroduction: Mongolian Sound Worlds: Opening SnapshotsSUNMIN YOON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1PART ONE: LANDSCAPES AND SOUNDSCAPESInterlude: Song about the SteppeK. OKTYABR AND JENNIFER C. POST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .171. Sound, Music, Pastoralism, and Nature in Mongolian Sound WorldsJENNIFER C. POST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21PART TWO: ETHNICITY AND DIVERSITYInterlude: Musical Journeys in Inner Mongolia and BeyondTAMIR HARGANA AND CHARLOTTE D’EVELYN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .532. Music and Ethnic Identity in Inner MongoliaCHARLOTTE D’EVELYN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613. The Politics of Regional and Ethnic Identities in Contemporary Mongolian Urtyn DuuSUNMIN YOON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 854. Gendered Musicality in the Altai MountainsREBEKAH PLUECKHAHN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111PART THREE: MATERIAL AND SOCIAL HISTORYInterlude: Consistency, Patience, and Perseverance: Maintaining the Fiddle-Making TraditionBAYARSAIKHAN BADAMSÜREN AND PETER K. MARSH . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1295. The Horsehead Fiddle: A Biographical HistoryPETER K. MARSH AND CHARLOTTE D’EVELYN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1356. The Tovshuur and Oirad Identity in Mongolia’s Western ProvincesOTGONBAYAR CHULUUNBAATAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1557. Social Lives of the Dombyra and Its Makers in Western MongoliaJENNIFER C. POST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170PART FOUR: HERITAGE AND GLOBALIZATIONInterlude: Everything Has Two Sides: An InterviewANDREW COLWELL AND D. TSERENDAVAA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1978. Chandman’ and Beyond: Heritage-making of Mongolian Khöömii in Past and PresentJOHANNI CURTET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2039. Mongolian Music, Globalization, and NomadismANDREW COLWELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22710. “We Were Born with Global Ambition”: Continuity, Innovation, and a New Chapter in the Development of Mongolian Popular MusicPETER K. MARSH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .281
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University of Illinois Press Mormons Musical Theater and Belonging in America
Book SynopsisThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints adopted the vocal and theatrical traditions of American musical theater as important theological tenets. As Church membership grew, leaders saw how the genre could help define the faith and wove musical theater into many aspects of Mormon life. Jake Johnson merges the study of belonging in America with scholarship on voice and popular music to explore the surprising yet profound link between two quintessentially American institutions. Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Mormons gravitated toward musicals as a common platform for transmitting political and theological ideas. Johnson sees Mormons using musical theater as a medium for theology of voice--a religious practice that suggests how vicariously voicing another person can bring one closer to godliness. This sounding, Johnson suggests, created new opportunities for living. Voice and the musical theater tradition provided a site for Mormons to negotiate their way Trade ReviewFinalist: Best Book of Criticism, Association of Mormon Letters, 2019-2020 "Johnson's examination of Mormonism and its exploitation of musicals for a theology of voice is fascinating and richly informative, and his second volume about the network of truth, falsehood, and belief in non-coastal musical theatre productions is an especially impressive accomplishment." --Studies in Musical Theatre"Johnson's book provides a look at a community with a very distinct and resilient common identity, at the ways in which that common identity emerged musically from the nineteenth century, and at the ways in which the special embodiment of theatrical and musical performance has shaped individuals into concert with that identity. . . . For late nineteenth and twentieth-century history of musical theatre, Johnson offers a valuable text." --Theatre Journal"Constructing a formidable thesis drawing on history, theology, anthropology, musicology, theatre, performance, and cultural theory, Johnson has produced a captivating read with a skillfully crafted set of arguments to elucidate this inimitably American religion. . . . This is a captivating and scholarly read that helps unravel this complex religion for specialist and non-academic audiences alike." --Journal of Religion and Popular Culture"In this book about voice and religion, Johnson successfully carves out a place for his own powerful and well-researched voice." --Mormon Studies Review"Johnson's work is truly interdisciplinary. . . . on almost every page, the reader is introduced to something surprising and provocative. Mormons, Musical Theater, and Belonging in America is a welcome addition to the growing field of American religious performance studies." --BYU Studies Quarterly"Through careful historiography and close attention to sound, Johnson expertly maps the intersections of voice studies, Mormon doctrine, race and religion, and the worlds of American musical theater. Mormons, Musical Theater, and Belonging in America convinces us that theology, theatricality, nationality, and vocality are entwined in Mormonism and extend in fascinating ways into American popular culture."--Jeffers Engelhardt, author of Singing the Right Way: Orthodox Christians and Secular Enchantment in Estonia"This book adds to our understanding of the broad question that so many Mormon scholars have grappled with: the relationship between the faith and the nation. It extends the study of the faith into the critical arena of popular expression, and it helps us think more thoroughly about the place of Mormonism in modern American life." --Juvenile Instructor"Mormon theatre has been studied before, whether as Victorian vignette or parochial propaganda. But here Jake Johnson illuminates theatricality in religion itself, with Mormonism as his focus. I encountered surprises throughout, the kind that stay with you like corrective lenses."--Michael Hicks, author of The Mormon Tabernacle Choir: A Biography "Recommended." --Choice "Jake Johnson meaningfully explores many of the big issues and events in Mormonism. . . .Moreover, he does so with a novel approach few blog posts and podcasts do. If you think you can benefit from a fresh look at the history of Mormonism, and I submit most of us would, Mormons, Musical Theater, and Belonging in American is a great opportunity." --Wheat Tares
£17.99
University of Illinois Press Autochthonomies
Book SynopsisIn Autochthonomies, Myriam J. A. Chancy engages readers in an interpretive journey. She lays out a radical new process that invites readers to see creations by artists of African descent as legible within the context of African diasporic historical and cultural debates. By invoking a transnational African/diasporic lens and negotiating it through a lakou or yard space, we can see such identities transfigured, recognized, and exchanged. Chancy demonstrates how the process can examine the salient features of texts and art that underscore African/diasporic sensibilities and render them legible. What emerges is a potential for richer readings of African diasporic works that also ruptures the Manichean binary dynamics that have dominated previous interpretations of the material. The result: an enriching interpretive mode focused on the transnational connections between subjects of African descent as the central pole for reader investigation.A bold challenge to established schTrade Review"Thoroughly ambitious, philosophically rich, and rigorously interdisciplinary, Autochthonomies is a worthwhile read. . . . From the onset, it is clear that this book is far from a convention study of African diasporic cultures." --New West Indian Review"A richly layered and thought-provoking text. . . . Chancy seeks to reorientate the academic lens through which African diasporic cultures are viewed." --Ethnic and Racial Studies"The strength of this volume lies in the author's detailed textual analyses, both of works that fall short of centering the epistemologies and ontologies of black people and of those that do so effectively. . . . Recommended." --Choice”In its critique of Western rationality, Enlightenment categories, and hierarchical orderings, this book makes a significant contribution. Chancy uses race and gender theory in smart and provocative ways. Her elucidation of difficult texts and contexts is clear and convincing. The research is well presented, the arguments well developed, and the conclusions intellectually satisfying.”—Françoise Lionnet, author of Writing Women and Critical Dialogues: Subjectivity, Gender, and Irony
£19.79
University of Illinois Press Unruly Cinema
Book SynopsisTrade Review”A rigorous and monumental historical study of Bombay-produced Hindi cinema, which addresses the paradoxes of Bollywood's histories in highly engaging as well as truly enlightening ways. This is an essential study of Indian popular cinema and its indomitability.”—Catherine Grant, coauthor of The Videographic Essay: Criticism in Sound and Image”The longue durée of Bollywood is the subject of Unruly Cinema. A lively and textured account of the contradictory development of mainstream Hindi cinema as an industrial product, on the one hand, and an art form, on the other, this book is a must read for students of South Asian film, the culture industry, and discourses of globalization.”—Keya Ganguly, author of Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray
£17.99
Indiana University Press Imagining Autism
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLoftis's book does an excellent job of bringing together a range of literary examples and thematizing them as representations of autism. In doing so, and combining this with a very detailed analysis of the works in question, this book contributes a great deal to both disability studies and literary criticism. * Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies *In examining the concerns and misconceptions that drive depictions of people with ASD, Loftis sheds light on the representations that can lead to discrimination against those who have related conditions. * Library Journal *It is to be hoped that this engrossing book will encourage discussion and further work about fictional characters portrayed as autistic, even if not labeled as such. It is a book that will be of value to everyone interested in neurodiversity and the dangers of stereotyping. Itshould also appeal to any one who wants a different perspective on a favorite character. It is highly recommended reading. * H-Disability *Very useful for those interested in disability studies, cultural studies, and literature. . . . Recommended. * Choice *An important and necessary early step in bringing the study of autism into the field of literary studies. * Disability Studies Quarterly *A groundbreaking examination of autism. * Disability & Society *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The Autistic Detective: Sherlock Holmes and his Legacy2. The Autistic Savant: Pygmalion, Saint Joan, and the Neurodiversity Movement3. The Autistic Victim: Of Mice and Men and Flowers for Algernon4. The Autistic Gothic: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Glass Menagerie, and The Sound and the Fury 5. The Autistic Child Narrator: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time6. The Autistic Label: Diagnosing (and Un-Diagnosing) the Girl with the Dragon TattooAfterwordNotesIndex
£11.39
Indiana University Press Everyday Life in the Balkans
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis richly illustrated volume features more than fifty, often beautiful, black-and-white photographs of everyday scenes.Everyday Life in the Balkans is a smart sampler, a best-off that provides short glimpses into late socialist, post-socialist, and recent scholarship. It is highly recommended bedtime reading for any scholar of the region—student or more advanced—interested in looking beyond his or her own nose. * Suedosteuropa *Tthis volume offers invaluable insights into how the people of the Balkans construct their daily life in terms of art, religion, history, and ethnic relations. * KULT online *The edited volume Everyday Life in the Balkans shows us that what is mundane is not at all boring. . . . Overall, this book is a welcome contribution to the literature on both the Balkans and everyday life. Its contributors together paint a vivid composite picture of life in an area that has been misunderstood for so long. This volume will go a long way in countering such misunderstandings by creating familiarity with local cultures and customs. -- Victoria Clement * Europe-Asia Studies *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgements1. Seeing Everyday Life in the Balkans / David W. MontgomerySection I: The (Historical) Context of Everyday Life2. Early Balkan Everyday Life / Andrew Wachtel3. Crimes and Misdemeanors: Scenes of Everyday Life among the Gendarmerie in Ottoman Macedonia, ca. 1900 / Ipek K. Yosmaoğlu4. It's What's Inside That Counts: Furnishing the Modern in the Apartments of Socialist Yugoslavia / Patrick Hyder Patterson5. Consuming Lives: Inside the Balkan Kafene / Mary Neuburger6. Burek, Da! Sociality, Context, and Idiom in Macedonia and Beyond / Keith BrownSection II: The Home(s) of Everyday Life7. Kinship and Safety Nets in Croatia and Kosovo / Carolin Leutloff-Grandits8. "This Much We Know": Domestic Remedies and Quotidian Tricks since Tito's Bosnia / Larisa Jašarević9. Femininity, Fashion, and Feminism: Women's Activists in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Elissa Helms10. That Black Cloud upon Our Family: Everyday Life of Gays and Lesbians in Slovenia / Roman Kuhar11. Between Past and Future: Young People's Strategies for Living a "Normal Life" in Post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina / Monika Palmberger12. "But Where Else Could They Go?" The State, Family, and Private Care in a Bosnian Town / Azra HromadžićSection III: The Livelihoods of Everyday Life13. Cars, Coffee, and "The Crisis": Balkan Migration in Precarious Times / Ana Croegaert14. "We Don't Belong Anywhere": Everyday Life in a Serbian Town Where Immigrants Are Former Refugees / Mila Dragojević15. Neoliberal Spaces of Immorality: The Creation of a Bulgarian Land Market and "Land-grabbing" Foreign Investors / Deema Kaneff16. Making Ends Meet in a Rural Community: The Life and Times of Aleksandar Živojinović / Andrew Konitzer 17. A Lot of Sweat, a Little Bit of Fun, and Not Entirely "Hard Men": Worker's Masculinity in the Uljanik Shipyard / Andrea Matošević18. Perceptions of Balkan Belonging in Post-dictatorship Greece / Daniel M. KnightSection IV: The Politics of Everyday Life19. Neither the Balkans nor Europe: The "Where" and "When" in Present-day Albania / Nataša Gregorič Bon20. Growing Up in Montenegro: A Story of Transformation and Resistance / Jelena Džankić21. War Criminals, National Heroes, and Transitional Justice in Macedonia / Vasiliki P. Neofotistos22. A Lively Border / Čarna Brković and Stef Jansen23. "Politicians Are All Crooks!" Everyday Politics in Bulgaria / Emilia Zankina24. Life among Statues in Skopje / Ilká ThiessenSection V: The Religion(s) of Everyday Life25. "The Hardest Time was the Time without Morality": Religion, Transition, and Social Navigation in Albania / David W. Montgomery26. Ramadan in Prizren / Frances Trix27. The Cross at the Crossroads: The Feast of Slava between Faith and Custom / Milica Bakić-Hayden28. Boundaries of Freedom, Boundaries of Responsibility: Everyday Religious Life of Croatian Catholic Women / Slavica Jakelić29. Religious Boundaries, Komsholuk, and Sharing Sacred Spaces in Bulgaria / Magdalena Lubanska30. The Everyday of Religion and Politics in the Balkans / Albert DojaSection VI: The Art of Everyday Life31. Unintentional Memorials: Everyday Places of Memory in Post-transition Bucharest / Alyssa Grossman32. Between East and West, Folk and Pop, State and Market: Changing Landscapes of Bulgarian Folk Music / Carol Silverman33. Mothers in Balkan Film / Yana Hashamova34. Memories of Foreign Love / Ervin Hatibi35. The Sound of Charcoal Rustling: Drawing from Life in Belgrade / Marko ŽivkovićPostface / David W. MontgomeryIndex
£62.90
Indiana University Press Performing Trauma in Central Africa
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWhile the arguments put forward in Performing Trauma in Central Africa are impressive, the methodological and ethical commitments that buttress the text are even more so. Edmondson's research for the book spans well over adecade and encompasses a rich variety of ethnographic and archival investigations on three continents. * Modern Drama *Edmondson's publication provokes a crucial debate on the humanitarian efforts of performance, particularly in geographic regions of trauma. * TDR: The Drama Review *Edmondson's book is an outstanding addition to the literature on theatre and performance in situations of conflict and post-conflict. It will be an indispensable work for students, academics and activists concerned with the role of the arts in war-affected communities and within the humanitarian sector more broadly. * New Theatre Quarterly *Edmondson deploys her knowledge of the region and her capacity for critical participation to illuminate both the power and the limits of memory * Theatre Journal *[T]his important volume [is] particularly valuable as an honest and accurate critique of art for social change. . . . Essential. * Choice *The author's transparency calls attention to the burden of empire she both carries and casts off whenever possible . . . Edmondson's writing is both trauma-suspect and trauma-informed. * Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of AcronymsIntroduction1. Competitive Memory in the Great Lakes: Touring Genocide2. Marketing Trauma and the Theatre of War in Northern Uganda3. Trauma, Inc. in Postgenocide Rwanda4. Repetition, Rupture, and Ruined: Narratives from the Congo5. Gifted by Trauma: The Branding of Post-Conflict Northern Uganda6. Confessions of a Failed Theatre ActivistAfterword: Faustin Linyekula and the Labors of HopeBibliographyIndex
£66.60
Indiana University Press Performing Trauma in Central Africa
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWhile the arguments put forward in Performing Trauma in Central Africa are impressive, the methodological and ethical commitments that buttress the text are even more so. Edmondson's research for the book spans well over adecade and encompasses a rich variety of ethnographic and archival investigations on three continents. * Modern Drama *Edmondson's publication provokes a crucial debate on the humanitarian efforts of performance, particularly in geographic regions of trauma. * TDR: The Drama Review *Edmondson's book is an outstanding addition to the literature on theatre and performance in situations of conflict and post-conflict. It will be an indispensable work for students, academics and activists concerned with the role of the arts in war-affected communities and within the humanitarian sector more broadly. * New Theatre Quarterly *Edmondson deploys her knowledge of the region and her capacity for critical participation to illuminate both the power and the limits of memory * Theatre Journal *[T]his important volume [is] particularly valuable as an honest and accurate critique of art for social change. . . . Essential. * Choice *The author's transparency calls attention to the burden of empire she both carries and casts off whenever possible . . . Edmondson's writing is both trauma-suspect and trauma-informed. * Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of AcronymsIntroduction1. Competitive Memory in the Great Lakes: Touring Genocide2. Marketing Trauma and the Theatre of War in Northern Uganda3. Trauma, Inc. in Postgenocide Rwanda4. Repetition, Rupture, and Ruined: Narratives from the Congo5. Gifted by Trauma: The Branding of Post-Conflict Northern Uganda6. Confessions of a Failed Theatre ActivistAfterword: Faustin Linyekula and the Labors of HopeBibliographyIndex
£29.70
Indiana University Press Everyday Life in the Balkans
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis richly illustrated volume features more than fifty, often beautiful, black-and-white photographs of everyday scenes.Everyday Life in the Balkans is a smart sampler, a best-off that provides short glimpses into late socialist, post-socialist, and recent scholarship. It is highly recommended bedtime reading for any scholar of the region—student or more advanced—interested in looking beyond his or her own nose. * Suedosteuropa *Tthis volume offers invaluable insights into how the people of the Balkans construct their daily life in terms of art, religion, history, and ethnic relations. * KULT online *The edited volume Everyday Life in the Balkans shows us that what is mundane is not at all boring. . . . Overall, this book is a welcome contribution to the literature on both the Balkans and everyday life. Its contributors together paint a vivid composite picture of life in an area that has been misunderstood for so long. This volume will go a long way in countering such misunderstandings by creating familiarity with local cultures and customs. -- Victoria Clement * Europe-Asia Studies *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgements1. Seeing Everyday Life in the Balkans / David W. MontgomerySection I: The (Historical) Context of Everyday Life2. Early Balkan Everyday Life / Andrew Wachtel3. Crimes and Misdemeanors: Scenes of Everyday Life among the Gendarmerie in Ottoman Macedonia, ca. 1900 / Ipek K. Yosmaoğlu4. It's What's Inside That Counts: Furnishing the Modern in the Apartments of Socialist Yugoslavia / Patrick Hyder Patterson5. Consuming Lives: Inside the Balkan Kafene / Mary Neuburger6. Burek, Da! Sociality, Context, and Idiom in Macedonia and Beyond / Keith BrownSection II: The Home(s) of Everyday Life7. Kinship and Safety Nets in Croatia and Kosovo / Carolin Leutloff-Grandits8. "This Much We Know": Domestic Remedies and Quotidian Tricks since Tito's Bosnia / Larisa Jašarević9. Femininity, Fashion, and Feminism: Women's Activists in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Elissa Helms10. That Black Cloud upon Our Family: Everyday Life of Gays and Lesbians in Slovenia / Roman Kuhar11. Between Past and Future: Young People's Strategies for Living a "Normal Life" in Post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina / Monika Palmberger12. "But Where Else Could They Go?" The State, Family, and Private Care in a Bosnian Town / Azra HromadžićSection III: The Livelihoods of Everyday Life13. Cars, Coffee, and "The Crisis": Balkan Migration in Precarious Times / Ana Croegaert14. "We Don't Belong Anywhere": Everyday Life in a Serbian Town Where Immigrants Are Former Refugees / Mila Dragojević15. Neoliberal Spaces of Immorality: The Creation of a Bulgarian Land Market and "Land-grabbing" Foreign Investors / Deema Kaneff16. Making Ends Meet in a Rural Community: The Life and Times of Aleksandar Živojinović / Andrew Konitzer 17. A Lot of Sweat, a Little Bit of Fun, and Not Entirely "Hard Men": Worker's Masculinity in the Uljanik Shipyard / Andrea Matošević18. Perceptions of Balkan Belonging in Post-dictatorship Greece / Daniel M. KnightSection IV: The Politics of Everyday Life19. Neither the Balkans nor Europe: The "Where" and "When" in Present-day Albania / Nataša Gregorič Bon20. Growing Up in Montenegro: A Story of Transformation and Resistance / Jelena Džankić21. War Criminals, National Heroes, and Transitional Justice in Macedonia / Vasiliki P. Neofotistos22. A Lively Border / Čarna Brković and Stef Jansen23. "Politicians Are All Crooks!" Everyday Politics in Bulgaria / Emilia Zankina24. Life among Statues in Skopje / Ilká ThiessenSection V: The Religion(s) of Everyday Life25. "The Hardest Time was the Time without Morality": Religion, Transition, and Social Navigation in Albania / David W. Montgomery26. Ramadan in Prizren / Frances Trix27. The Cross at the Crossroads: The Feast of Slava between Faith and Custom / Milica Bakić-Hayden28. Boundaries of Freedom, Boundaries of Responsibility: Everyday Religious Life of Croatian Catholic Women / Slavica Jakelić29. Religious Boundaries, Komsholuk, and Sharing Sacred Spaces in Bulgaria / Magdalena Lubanska30. The Everyday of Religion and Politics in the Balkans / Albert DojaSection VI: The Art of Everyday Life31. Unintentional Memorials: Everyday Places of Memory in Post-transition Bucharest / Alyssa Grossman32. Between East and West, Folk and Pop, State and Market: Changing Landscapes of Bulgarian Folk Music / Carol Silverman33. Mothers in Balkan Film / Yana Hashamova34. Memories of Foreign Love / Ervin Hatibi35. The Sound of Charcoal Rustling: Drawing from Life in Belgrade / Marko ŽivkovićPostface / David W. MontgomeryIndex
£29.70
Indiana University Press Performing Tsarist Russia in New York
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Performing a la Russe: Music, Migration, and the White Russians in 1920s Harlem2. New York's Russian Vogue: The Fox Trotsky and Other Musical Delights3. Emigration at the Boundary: Russian DPs, the Second Generation, and Soviet Song in the World War II Era4. Radio Liberty, Vernon Duke, and the 'Internal' Russian Voice in Cold War Broadcasting5. Old Russia at The Pierre: Music, Dancing, and Enchantment in Twenty-First Century New York EpilogueBibliographyIndex
£59.50
Indiana University Press Performing Tsarist Russia in New York
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Performing a la Russe: Music, Migration, and the White Russians in 1920s Harlem2. New York's Russian Vogue: The Fox Trotsky and Other Musical Delights3. Emigration at the Boundary: Russian DPs, the Second Generation, and Soviet Song in the World War II Era4. Radio Liberty, Vernon Duke, and the 'Internal' Russian Voice in Cold War Broadcasting5. Old Russia at The Pierre: Music, Dancing, and Enchantment in Twenty-First Century New York EpilogueBibliographyIndex
£25.19
Indiana University Press The Diary
Book SynopsisThe diary as a genre is found in all literate societies, and these autobiographical accounts are written by persons of all ranks and positions. The Diary offers an exploration of the form in its social, historical, and cultural-literary contexts with its own distinctive features, poetics, and rhetoric.Trade Review"This book is an important contribution to pedagogy and knowledge. With its capaciousness and its surprises, it is much like a diary itself—adhering to a particular form, but also pressing against its conventions."—Lara Kriegel, Associate Professor of History and English; Director, Victorian Studies Program; Co-Editor, Victorian Studies, Indiana University"This impressive collection spans a wide array of theoretical approaches, considers several cultures, and examines the diary across its history and in its many subgenres. From the lives of ordinary teenagers to the victims of the Holocaust, the diaries considered here range across the breadth of human experience. The essays are uniformly well written as one after another offers unexpected and intriguing insights. Everyone interested in diaries and genre theory will want to read this volume."—Gary Saul Morson, Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities , Northwestern University"People have been writing diaries for more than a millennium, but only during the last fifty years have scholars given serious attention to the theory and practices of this most personal of literary forms. The Diary: The Epic of Everyday Life brings together 27 essays by leading diary scholars in an informative and engaging survey. Examining examples from 12 countries on 6 continents, the authors deal with different varieties of the genre (diaries of private life, of travel, of conflict) in its handwritten, printed, and online incarnations."—Peter Heehs, author of Writing the Self: Diaries, Memoirs, and the History of the Self"This impressive collection is an anatomy, a geography, and a history of the diary in all its incarnations, from papyrus to online. Batsheva and Dan Ben-Amos have brought major theorists and critics together with scholars working at the cutting edge of diary and new media. The result is an indespensible guide to 'The Epic of Everyday Life.'"—Craig Howes, Director, Center for Biographical Research, University of Hawaii at Mānoa"The cream of the crop of diary experts from many different countries writing about many different aspects of the genre – this is a book to be read very carefully to learn from it, and use it as an inspiration to complement it with even more reflections from life writing scholars from even more countries."—Monica Soeting, editor of European Journal of Life WritingTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Batsheva Ben-Amos and Dan Ben-AmosPart I: Diary Theories1. The Practice of Writing a Diary / Philippe Lejeune and Catherine Bogaert, translated by Dagmara Meijers-Troller2. Feminist Interpretations of the Diary / Kathryn Carter3. The Diary Among Other Forms of Life Writing / Julie RakPart II: The Creation of a Diary Canon4. British Diary Canon Formation / Dan Doll5. The Diary in France and French-Speaking Countries / Michel Braud, translated by Dagmara Meijers-Troller6. The American Diary Canon / Steven E. Kagle7. Personal Writings and the Quest of National Identity in Brazil / Sergio da Silva BarcellosPart III: The Transformation of the Manuscript8. The Difficult Publication History of the Diaries of Anne Frank / Suzanne L. Bunkers 9. Digitized Diary Archives / Desirée Henderson Part IV: The Travel Diary10. British and North American Travel Writing and the Diary / Tim Youngs11. Travel Diaries in Australia / Agnieszka Sobocinska12. Travel Diaries in Imperial China / James M. HargettPart V: The Private Diary13. The Contemporary Personal Diary in France / Françoise Simonet-Tenant, translated by Dagmara Meijers-Troller14. Writing the Self, Writing History in Palestine / Kimberly Katz15. Sharing Secrets in Nineteenth-Century America / Marilyn Ferris Motz16. The Literary Author as Diarist / Elizabeth PodnieksPart VI: The Diary in Political Conflict17. The American Civil War: Confederate Women's Diaries / Kimberly Harrison18. The Archive as a Diary of Resistance: Hendrik Witbooi, Nama Revolutionary, 1884-1905 / Elizabeth Baer19. Diary and Narrative: French Soldiers in World War I / Leonard V. Smith20. The Stalin-Era Diary / Jochen Hellbeck21. On Holocaust Diaries / Batsheva Ben-Amos22. Estonian Women's Deportation Diaries / Leena Kurvet-KosaarPart VII: Online Diaries23. From Puritans to Fitbit: Self-Improvement, Self-Tracking, and How to Keep a Diary / Kylie Cardell24. Online Diaries and Blogs / Jill Walker-Rettberg25. A Journey through Two Decades of Online Diary Community / Lena Buford26. Geocities and Diaries on the Early Web / James BakerIndex
£67.15
Indiana University Press The Diary
Book SynopsisThe diary as a genre is found in all literate societies, and these autobiographical accounts are written by persons of all ranks and positions. The Diary offers an exploration of the form in its social, historical, and cultural-literary contexts with its own distinctive features, poetics, and rhetoric.Trade Review"This book is an important contribution to pedagogy and knowledge. With its capaciousness and its surprises, it is much like a diary itself—adhering to a particular form, but also pressing against its conventions."—Lara Kriegel, Associate Professor of History and English; Director, Victorian Studies Program; Co-Editor, Victorian Studies, Indiana University"This impressive collection spans a wide array of theoretical approaches, considers several cultures, and examines the diary across its history and in its many subgenres. From the lives of ordinary teenagers to the victims of the Holocaust, the diaries considered here range across the breadth of human experience. The essays are uniformly well written as one after another offers unexpected and intriguing insights. Everyone interested in diaries and genre theory will want to read this volume."—Gary Saul Morson, Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities , Northwestern University"People have been writing diaries for more than a millennium, but only during the last fifty years have scholars given serious attention to the theory and practices of this most personal of literary forms. The Diary: The Epic of Everyday Life brings together 27 essays by leading diary scholars in an informative and engaging survey. Examining examples from 12 countries on 6 continents, the authors deal with different varieties of the genre (diaries of private life, of travel, of conflict) in its handwritten, printed, and online incarnations."—Peter Heehs, author of Writing the Self: Diaries, Memoirs, and the History of the Self"This impressive collection is an anatomy, a geography, and a history of the diary in all its incarnations, from papyrus to online. Batsheva and Dan Ben-Amos have brought major theorists and critics together with scholars working at the cutting edge of diary and new media. The result is an indespensible guide to 'The Epic of Everyday Life.'"—Craig Howes, Director, Center for Biographical Research, University of Hawaii at Mānoa"The cream of the crop of diary experts from many different countries writing about many different aspects of the genre – this is a book to be read very carefully to learn from it, and use it as an inspiration to complement it with even more reflections from life writing scholars from even more countries."—Monica Soeting, editor of European Journal of Life WritingTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Batsheva Ben-Amos and Dan Ben-AmosPart I: Diary Theories1. The Practice of Writing a Diary / Philippe Lejeune and Catherine Bogaert, translated by Dagmara Meijers-Troller2. Feminist Interpretations of the Diary / Kathryn Carter3. The Diary Among Other Forms of Life Writing / Julie RakPart II: The Creation of a Diary Canon4. British Diary Canon Formation / Dan Doll5. The Diary in France and French-Speaking Countries / Michel Braud, translated by Dagmara Meijers-Troller6. The American Diary Canon / Steven E. Kagle7. Personal Writings and the Quest of National Identity in Brazil / Sergio da Silva BarcellosPart III: The Transformation of the Manuscript8. The Difficult Publication History of the Diaries of Anne Frank / Suzanne L. Bunkers 9. Digitized Diary Archives / Desirée Henderson Part IV: The Travel Diary10. British and North American Travel Writing and the Diary / Tim Youngs11. Travel Diaries in Australia / Agnieszka Sobocinska12. Travel Diaries in Imperial China / James M. HargettPart V: The Private Diary13. The Contemporary Personal Diary in France / Françoise Simonet-Tenant, translated by Dagmara Meijers-Troller14. Writing the Self, Writing History in Palestine / Kimberly Katz15. Sharing Secrets in Nineteenth-Century America / Marilyn Ferris Motz16. The Literary Author as Diarist / Elizabeth PodnieksPart VI: The Diary in Political Conflict17. The American Civil War: Confederate Women's Diaries / Kimberly Harrison18. The Archive as a Diary of Resistance: Hendrik Witbooi, Nama Revolutionary, 1884-1905 / Elizabeth Baer19. Diary and Narrative: French Soldiers in World War I / Leonard V. Smith20. The Stalin-Era Diary / Jochen Hellbeck21. On Holocaust Diaries / Batsheva Ben-Amos22. Estonian Women's Deportation Diaries / Leena Kurvet-KosaarPart VII: Online Diaries23. From Puritans to Fitbit: Self-Improvement, Self-Tracking, and How to Keep a Diary / Kylie Cardell24. Online Diaries and Blogs / Jill Walker-Rettberg25. A Journey through Two Decades of Online Diary Community / Lena Buford26. Geocities and Diaries on the Early Web / James BakerIndex
£26.99
Indiana University Press Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This important volume opens up what has, to date, been the relatively Anglocentric field of amateur film studies to encompass a broad range of media cultures, practices, and geographies."—Alice Lovejoy, author of Army Film and the Avant Garde"These essays capture moments, instances, and movements that give depth and resonance to the study of alternative cinematic practices."—Mark Neumann, author of Recording Culture and On the Rim"Traversing an impressive range of historical and geographical case studies, Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures brilliantly challenges the long-standing divides that have traditionally shaped the field of cinema studies—between amateur and professional, private and public, leisure and politics, domestic and avant-garde, and margin and center. In so doing, it reveals the scope of research that is possible when we let go of preconceptions about what kind of media is historically valuable and worthy of study. A convincing demonstration of the rewards of a deeply materialist approach to cinema studies."—Zoë Druick, Professor and Director of the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University"Salazkina and Fibla-Gutiérrez's wonderful collection provides a new and exciting account of the amateur's place in film and media history. These fascinating and meticulously researched essays reveal how amateur cinema is linked to key moments of global film history and prefigured the rise of contemporary user-generated media making practices. The significance of this book will resonate far beyond amateur film research."—Charles Tepperman, author of Amateur Cinema: The Rise of North American Moviemaking, 1923-1960"This inspiring volume shows us just how much we risk missing when we ignore nonprofessional media's globally varied past and prolific present. Using amateur films from around the world to raise fundamental questions about cinema's genealogy and function, these original essays offer nothing short of a reconfiguration of film history. This book changes the way we think of world cinemas."—Priya Jaikumar, author of Where Histories Reside: India as Filmed SpaceTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures / Masha Salazkina and Enrique Fibla-GutiérrezPart I: Medium Specificity and Expanded Media Ecologies1. Understanding (Amateur) Cinema: Epistemology and Technology / Benoît Turquety2. Crossing the Amateur Line: The Lesson of Even—As You and I / James Rosenow3. "I Give You a Toast to the Pioneers!" The Movie Maker Ten Best Video Competition 1982-1983 / Graeme R. Spurr4. From Insiders to Outsiders: Tracing Amateurism in Chinese Independent Documentary of the 1990s and the 2000s / Margherita VivianiPart II: Institutions, Industry, and the State5. Seeking Advice: A Political Economy of Israeli Commemorative Home Videos / Laliv Melamed6. Amateur Film in the Factory: Forms and Functions of Amateur Cinema in Corporate Media Culture / Yvonne Zimmermann7. The Ambitions of Amateur Film in Vichy France / Julie Guillaumot8. On the Amateur Origins of Fernando Birri's Documentary School of Santa Fe / Mariano Mestman and Christopher MoorePart III: Politics of Legitimization and Subversion9. The Wind from the South: Experiences of Substandard Filmmaking in Galicia in the 1970s / Pablo La Parra-Pérez10. Super 8 in Mexico / Jesse Lerner11. The Videogiornale: Social Movements and Amateur Media Technologies in Bologna Between the Late 1980s and the Early 1990s / Diego Cavallotti12. "A Vital Human Place" for the Counterculture: Fifth Estate and Amateur Film Culture in Detroit, 1965-1967 / Joseph DeLeon13. Ingvars Leitis's Subversive Ethnographic Documentaries, 1975–1989: Cover Stories and National Representation in Soviet Latvia / Inese StrupulePart IV: Transnational Networks: Amateur Cinema Travels14. Worldly Matters: Distributed Histories of Tunisian Amateur Cinema and the Screening of Nontheatrical Film / Samhita Sunya15. Early International Super 8 Film Festivals: The Case of Caracas 1976-1980 / Isabel Arredondo16. A Gift to Mother: "The Most Universally Appealing Kind of Film That Any Amateur Can Hope to Make" / Maria Vinogradova17. Postcards from Yiddishland: Amateur Filmmaking and Vernacular Yiddish Culture / Rachel Webb JekanowskiIndex
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Indiana University Press Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and
Book SynopsisFor too long, the field of amateur cinema has focused on North America and Europe. In Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures, however, editors Masha Salazkina and Enrique Fibla-Gutierrez fill the literature gap by extending that focus and increasing inclusivity. Through carefully curated essays, Salazkina and Fibla-Gutierrez bring wider meaning and significance to the discipline through their study of alternative cinema in new territories, fueled by different historical and political circumstances, innovative technologies, and ambitious practitioners. The essays in this volume work to realize the radical societal democratization that shows up in amateur cinema around the world. In particular, diverse contributors highlight the significance of amateur filmmaking, the exhibition of amateur films, the uses and availability of film technologies, and the inventive and creative approaches of filmmakers and advocates of amateur film. Together, these essays shed new light oTrade Review"This important volume opens up what has, to date, been the relatively Anglocentric field of amateur film studies to encompass a broad range of media cultures, practices, and geographies."—Alice Lovejoy, author of Army Film and the Avant Garde"These essays capture moments, instances, and movements that give depth and resonance to the study of alternative cinematic practices."—Mark Neumann, author of Recording Culture and On the Rim"Traversing an impressive range of historical and geographical case studies, Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures brilliantly challenges the long-standing divides that have traditionally shaped the field of cinema studies—between amateur and professional, private and public, leisure and politics, domestic and avant-garde, and margin and center. In so doing, it reveals the scope of research that is possible when we let go of preconceptions about what kind of media is historically valuable and worthy of study. A convincing demonstration of the rewards of a deeply materialist approach to cinema studies."—Zoë Druick, Professor and Director of the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University"Salazkina and Fibla-Gutiérrez's wonderful collection provides a new and exciting account of the amateur's place in film and media history. These fascinating and meticulously researched essays reveal how amateur cinema is linked to key moments of global film history and prefigured the rise of contemporary user-generated media making practices. The significance of this book will resonate far beyond amateur film research."—Charles Tepperman, author of Amateur Cinema: The Rise of North American Moviemaking, 1923-1960"This inspiring volume shows us just how much we risk missing when we ignore nonprofessional media's globally varied past and prolific present. Using amateur films from around the world to raise fundamental questions about cinema's genealogy and function, these original essays offer nothing short of a reconfiguration of film history. This book changes the way we think of world cinemas."—Priya Jaikumar, author of Where Histories Reside: India as Filmed SpaceTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures / Masha Salazkina and Enrique Fibla-GutiérrezPart I: Medium Specificity and Expanded Media Ecologies1. Understanding (Amateur) Cinema: Epistemology and Technology / Benoît Turquety2. Crossing the Amateur Line: The Lesson of Even—As You and I / James Rosenow3. "I Give You a Toast to the Pioneers!" The Movie Maker Ten Best Video Competition 1982-1983 / Graeme R. Spurr4. From Insiders to Outsiders: Tracing Amateurism in Chinese Independent Documentary of the 1990s and the 2000s / Margherita VivianiPart II: Institutions, Industry, and the State5. Seeking Advice: A Political Economy of Israeli Commemorative Home Videos / Laliv Melamed6. Amateur Film in the Factory: Forms and Functions of Amateur Cinema in Corporate Media Culture / Yvonne Zimmermann7. The Ambitions of Amateur Film in Vichy France / Julie Guillaumot8. On the Amateur Origins of Fernando Birri's Documentary School of Santa Fe / Mariano Mestman and Christopher MoorePart III: Politics of Legitimization and Subversion9. The Wind from the South: Experiences of Substandard Filmmaking in Galicia in the 1970s / Pablo La Parra-Pérez10. Super 8 in Mexico / Jesse Lerner11. The Videogiornale: Social Movements and Amateur Media Technologies in Bologna Between the Late 1980s and the Early 1990s / Diego Cavallotti12. "A Vital Human Place" for the Counterculture: Fifth Estate and Amateur Film Culture in Detroit, 1965-1967 / Joseph DeLeon13. Ingvars Leitis's Subversive Ethnographic Documentaries, 1975–1989: Cover Stories and National Representation in Soviet Latvia / Inese StrupulePart IV: Transnational Networks: Amateur Cinema Travels14. Worldly Matters: Distributed Histories of Tunisian Amateur Cinema and the Screening of Nontheatrical Film / Samhita Sunya15. Early International Super 8 Film Festivals: The Case of Caracas 1976-1980 / Isabel Arredondo16. A Gift to Mother: "The Most Universally Appealing Kind of Film That Any Amateur Can Hope to Make" / Maria Vinogradova17. Postcards from Yiddishland: Amateur Filmmaking and Vernacular Yiddish Culture / Rachel Webb JekanowskiIndex
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Pennsylvania State University Press Among the Bone Eaters
Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary study of the relationship between hyenas and the people of Harar, Ethiopia.Trade Review“[This] book is nothing short of amazing.”—William Hageman Chicago Tribune“I shouldn’t say that I envy Marcus for his intimacy with hyenas, because intimacy is the world’s best way of gaining knowledge of an animal, and there’s no such thing as too much knowledge about hyenas. Instead, I should acknowledge the deep gratitude I feel, and that all of us should feel, about this work that he’s done and the possibilities it offers. If we knew all animals as he knows hyenas, we’d save the world.”—Elizabeth Marshall Thomas “In Among the Bone Eaters, Marcus Baynes-Rock takes us on a journey that challenges what we think we know about humans and other animals. Hyenas do certainly like us for food, but sometimes they also like us as collaborators, as community members, and maybe even as friends. This rigorous, personal, and enticing account of the hyenas and humans of Harar dares us to expand our horizons and rethink humans’ roles as members of a multitude of multispecies relationships.”—Agustín Fuentes,University of Notre Dame“Among the Bone Eaters is a fascinating read. Most readers will be surprised to learn about the very close, reciprocal, and mutually beneficial relationships that have evolved between resident carnivorous spotted hyenas and people in Harar—and how overcoming fear led to enduring friendships. This book touches on a very timely topic, namely, human-animal relationships (anthrozoology) in a human-dominated world in which these sorts of encounters are not only inevitable but also essential to understanding.”—Marc Bekoff,author of Rewilding Our Hearts: Building Pathways of Compassion and Coexistence “Most of us accept that humans are enmeshed in multispecies relationships, but the case of the hyenas and humans of Harar shakes us out of our complacency. Marcus Baynes-Rock scientifically, personally, and beautifully introduces us to a new world of possibilities—and to the wide spectrum of interspecies relationships.”—Agustín Fuentes,University of Notre Dame“This is a compelling account of the intersecting worlds of humans and hyenas in a shared architectural landscape. Baynes-Rock shares with us his intimate experiences developing social relations with hyenas as well as humans, thereby confounding distinctions between ethology and ethnography. By extending anthropology’s intersubjective approach to nonhumans, he explores the overlapping dynamics of hyena and human lifeworlds, producing a work that will undoubtedly make a significant contribution to the emerging field of multispecies ethnography.”—Piers Locke,University of Canterbury“Through a rich narrative, filled with the people, events, sights, and sounds of the distant city of Harar, we are invited to share space, place, and time with the least likely compatriot for humans: the spotted hyena. Marcus Baynes-Rock guides us into a world that is simultaneously strange and familiar, and we leave transformed. This book is great anthropology, a great story, and most importantly—it will change the way you think about being human with other animals.”—Agustín Fuentes,University of Notre Dame“Among the Bone Eaters isn’t precisely a natural history of the spotted hyena, nor is it precisely an ethnography of the Harari. Instead, it’s an utterly remarkable combination of the two, a portrait of a human community forging a working relationship with Africa’s second-largest carnivore.”—Steve Donoghue Open Letters Monthly“Among the Bone Eaters is a probing look at the complex relationship between humans and wild animals. . . . Baynes-Rock’s immersive account is told with sharp-eyed, self-effacing prose, and he leaves nothing out—Ethiopia’s sluggish bureaucracy, the town’s maze-like geography, and even the Oromo woman he meets and eventually marries. It’s as much a travelogue as it is a research study.”—Chelsea Leu Sierra“The important thing to remember is that this is not a book just about hyenas or just about Hararis; it’s about both, all held together with its greater-than-the-sum-of-its-parts third element of the curious and fascinating societal adaptations made by both parties that has enabled the humans and hyenas of Harar to live in balance together. Truly, it is a book quite unlike any other you’ve likely ever read.”—John E. Riutta The Well-Read Naturalist“Among the Bone Eaters will appeal to a general audience interested in learning more about hyenas and the subtle aspects of their interactions with humans as well as to professional anthropologists and ethnographers.”—Choice“Remarkable. . . . This is a delightful book, full of fascinating portraits of humans and hyenas in a remote corner of the world where ancient lines of animosity are blurred.”—Milbry C. Polk The Explorers JournalTable of ContentsContentsForeword by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Past Finding Around Harar 2 Lines of Reason for Hyenas 3 Between Different Relations 4 You Hyenas 5 The Legend of Ashura 6 On the Tail of a Hyena 7 Encounters with the Unseen 8 Reflections from a Hyena Playground 9 Death, Death, and Rhetoric 10 Blood of the Hyena 11 Across a Human/Hyena Boundary 12 A Host of Other Ideas 13 Returning to Other Hyenas 14 Talking Up Hyena Realities 15 Looking Through a Hyena Hole Notes Bibliography Index
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Penn State University Enlightenment Anthropology
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University of Texas Press Mayas in the Marketplace
Book SynopsisDrawing on over a decade of fieldwork, Walter Little presents the first ethnographic study of Maya handicraft vendors in the international marketplace.Trade Review[A]n important addition to the literature on ethnic arts in Latin America, tourism, cultural identity, social change, and globalization. * The Americas *This book is not only very readable, but also highly informative in the subject area of performance, as well as place, and how indigenous peoples have become engaged in, and deal with, that slippery phenomenon called globalization. * Journal of Latin American Geography *Walter E. Little paints a complex and nuanced portrait of Maya identity formation in Mayas in the Marketplace. * American Ethnologist *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Subjectivity and Fieldwork among Kaqchikel Vendors Chapter 1. Guatemala as a Living History Museum Chapter 2. Place and People in a Transnational Borderzone City Chapter 3. Antigua Típica Markets and Identity Interaction Chapter 4. Mercado de Artesanía Compañía de Jesús and the Politics of Vending Chapter 5. Gendered Marketplace and Household Reorganization Chapter 6. The Places Kaqchikel Maya Vendors Call Home Chapter 7. Home as a Place of Exhibition and Performance in San Antonio Aguas Calientes Chapter 8. Marketing Maya Culture in Santa Catarina Palopó Conclusion: Traditions and Commodities Epilogue Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press TextMex
Book SynopsisAn original, provocative, and highly entertaining deconstruction of familiar Mexican stereotypes in American popular culture.Trade Review"Marvels! Rompecabezas! And cartoons that bite into the mind appear throughout this long-awaited book that promises to reshape and refocus how we see Mexicans in the Americas and how we are taught and seduced to mis/understand our human potentials for solidarity. This is the closest Latin@ studies has come to a revolutionary vision of how American culture works through its image machines, a vision that cuts through to the roots of the U.S. propaganda archive on Mexican, Tex-Mex, Latino, Chicano/a humanity. Nericcio exposes, deciphers, historicizes, and 'cuts-up' the postcards, movies, captions, poems, and adverts that plaster dehumanization (he calls them 'miscegenated semantic oddities') through our brains. For him, understanding the sweet and sour hallucinations is not enough. He wants the flashing waters of our critical education to become instruments of restoration. In this book, Walter Benjamin meets Italo Calvino and they morph into Nericcio. Orale!" David Carrasco, Harvard UniversityTable of Contents Nonhallucinatory Prefatory Palabras... Backstory: A Decidedly Odd Tale of What Happened When Hollywood Killed Vaudeville, Postcards Boomed, and the United States Invaded Mexico Seductive Hallucination Gallery One | An Interstice. Being the First of Several Summary Interruptions of the Drearily Semantic in Favor of the Deliciously Semiotic, a Frontera of Sorts Chapter One. Hallucinations of Miscegenation and Murder: Dancing along the Mestiza/o Borders of Proto-Chicana/o Cinema with Orson Welles's Touch of Evil Chapter Two. When Electrolysis Proxies for the Existential: A Somewhat Sordid Meditation on What Might Occur if Frantz Fanon, Rosario Castellanos, Jacques Derrida, Gayatri Spivak, and Sandra Cisneros Asked Rita Hayworth Her Name at the Tex[t]-Mex Beauty Parlor Chapter Three. Autopsy of a Rat: Sundry Parables of Warner Brothers Studios, Jewish American Animators, Speedy Gonzales, Freddy López, and Other Chicano/Latino Marionettes Prancing about Our First World Visual Emporium; Parable Cameos by Jacques Derrida; and, a Dirty Joke Chapter Four. Lupe Vélez Regurgitated; or, Jesus's Kleenex: Cautionary, Indigestion-Inspiring Ruminations on "Mexicans" in "American" Toilets Seductive Hallucination Gallery Two | An Interstice the Second. Being a Second Archive of Visual Pathogens Chapter Five. XicanOsmosis: Frida Kahlo and Mexico in the Eyes of Gilbert Hernandez Conclusion: (with apologies to Friedrich Nietzsche) "Have I Been Understood? XicanOsmosis versus the Tex[t]-Mex" Notes Bibliography Credits Index
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University of Texas Press Batos Bolillos Pochos and Pelados
Book SynopsisTable of Contents* List of Figures * List of Tables * Borderlife Interview Projects * Preface * Acknowledgments * Introduction * Chapter 1. "Mama, Nosotros Somos Migrantes": South Texas Farmworkers, 1950-1990 (with Cruz C. Torres and Juanita Valdez Cox) * Chapter 2. "A Nice House": The Colonias of South Texas * Chapter 3. "Only a Maid": Undocumented Domestic Workers in South Texas (with Cruz C. Torres) * Chapter 4. Social Class on the South Texas-Mexico Border * Chapter 5. The Pain of Gain: Fifty Years of Anglo-Hispanic Relations in South Texas Schools (with Maria Olivia Villarreal Solano) * Chapter 6. From Mexicanos to Mexican Americans * Chapter 7. "!Ahi Viene el Bolillo!": Anglo Newcomers to South Texas * Chapter 8. Black, Brown, and White: Race and Ethnicity in South Texas * Appendix A: Student Interviewers * Appendix B: Borderlife Interview Surveys * Notes * Bibliography * Index
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University of Washington Press American Sabor
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University of Washington Press American Sabor
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University of Washington Press Heaven Earth and Man in the Book of Changes
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe appearance of these lectures together in English for the first time is welcome ... each explores significant concepts and images from the text. Topics covered include the creative principle, wanderings of the spirit, and the building of one's own city as a state of formation. The essays on the concept of time, human events and their meaning, and the interaction of heaven, earth, and man are especially insightful. Choice
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University of Washington Press Shakespeare in American Life
Book SynopsisCelebrates Shakespeare's influence on American culture. This book contains essays which explore Shakespeare's influence on America's cultural history from a variety of perspectives. It includes essays from the colonial period, to the adoption of Shakespeare as an "American genius" in the nineteenth century, to twentieth-century musical comedy.Table of ContentsForeword / Gail Kern PasterIntroduction / Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. VaughanShakespeare Discovers America; America Discovers Shakespeare / Alden T. VaughanMaking Shakespeare American: Shakespeare's Dissemination in Nineteenth-Century America / Virginia Mason VaughanPlaying with (a) Difference: Early Black Shakespearean Actors, Blackface and Whiteface / Francesca T. RoysterShakespeare Film in America: O Brave New World of Bardolatry! / Kenneth S. RothwellShakespeare and the American Musical / Irene G. DashJazzing Up Shakespeare / Douglas M. LanierAmerican Shakespeare Festivals / Yu Jin KoDuty and Enjoyment: The Folgers as Shakespeare Collectors in the Gilded Age / Georgianna ZieglerCatalogue of the Exhibition / Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. VaughanInterlude: American Scrapbooks / Leigh Anne PalmerNotes on Contributors
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University of Washington Press Contagion
Book SynopsisUtilizing the cross-disciplinary approach of global studies, contagion emerges as a vexed trope for globalization itselfTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction The Hydra of Contagion Bruce Magnusson and Zahi Zalloua 1 Rethinking the War on Terror New Approaches to Conflict Prevention and Management in the Post-9/11 World Paul B. Stares and Mona Yacoubian 2 Epidemic Intelligence Toward a Genealogy of Global Health Security Andrew Lakoff 3 The Aesthetic Emergency of the Avian Flu Affect Geoffrey Whitehall 4 Bio Terror Hybridity in the Biohorror Narrative, or What We Can Learn from Our Monsters Priscilla Wald 5 Contagion, Contamination, and Don DeLillo’s Post–Cold War World-System Steps toward a Haptical Theory of Culture Christian Moraru 6 Contagion of Intellectual Traditions in Post-9/11 Novels Alberto S. Galindo Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Debating Muslims Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity and Tradition
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Kings and Clans Ijwi Island and the Lake Kivu
Book SynopsisQuestions the assumption that ""clans"" are static structures that hamper political centralization. By reconstructing the history of kings and clans in the Kivu Rift Valley at a time of social change, this book enlarges our understanding of social process and the growth of state power in Africa.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Between Memory and Reality Family and Community in Rural Wisconsin 18701970
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Rhetorical Bodies
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Reading and Writing the Ambiente Queer Sexualities in Latino Latin American and Spanish Culture
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Dancing Desires Choreographing Sexualities on
Book SynopsisThis text explores the relationship between dancing bodies and sexual identity on the concert stage, in nightclubs, in film, in the courts and on the streets and tracks the intersections of dance and human sexuality in the twentieth century as the definition of each has shifted and expanded.Trade ReviewThis break-through volume opens a long overdue discussion of dance and sexuality. - Joan L. Erdman, Columbia College ""Dancing Desires brings together some of the most influential minds in dance cultural studies. This important book will find an enthusiastic readership among scholars and students of dance studies, performance studies, cultural studies, American studies, and queer studies."" - David Roman, University of Southern California
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Responses to Oliver Stones Alexander Film History and Cultural Studies
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Ukrainian Otherlands Diaspora Homeland and Folk
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Spirit Children Illness Poverty and Infanticide in Northern Ghana
Book SynopsisRefusing to generalize or oversimplify, Aaron R. Denham offers an ethnographic study of the spirit child phenomenon in Northern Ghana that considers medical, economic, religious, and political realities. He examines both the motivations of the families and the structural factors that lead to infanticide, framing these within the context of global public health.Trade ReviewA brilliant, sensitive, and moving book about the heartbreaking phenomenon of infanticide. This is a book to be taken seriously by hospital personnel, public health policymakers, NGO workers, and anyone interested in the fate of the world's most vulnerable young children."" —Alma Gottlieb,coauthor of A World of Babies“Beautifully written. . . . The nuance with which Denham treats ‘infanticide’ contributes broadly to medical anthropology, childhood studies, and religious studies. Highly recommended.” — Choice“This finely written and sensitive book is absolutely ground-breaking.”—Ethos
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University of Wisconsin Press Spirit Children Illness Poverty and Infanticide
Book SynopsisSome babies and toddlers in parts of West Africa are considered spirit children - non-humans sent from the forest to cause misfortune and destroy the family. Aaron Denham offers a nuanced ethnographic study of this phenomenon in Northern Ghana that examines both the motivations of the families and the structural factors that lead to infanticide.Trade ReviewThe work that Denham has carried out and disseminates in this finely written and sensitive book is absolutely ground-breaking."" - Ethos""Denham’s narratives on the human-spirit interactions in Nankani are fascinating. . . . Anyone who did not realise that Denham was born and raised outside of Africa might think that the book was written by a native African who was born and nurtured in this particular culture."" - Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books""Although his book is based on a small community, the nuance with which Denham treats ‘infanticide’ contributes broadly to medical anthropology, childhood studies, and religious studies."" - Choice
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Yale University Press Preschool in Three Cultures Japan China the
Book SynopsisA comparison of Japanese, Chinese and American preschools, discussing how these schools both reflect and affect philosophies of child-rearing and early childhood education and larger social patterns and beliefs in each society.Trade Review"A vivid and persuasive picture of cultural variation in attitudes toward young children."—William Kessen, author of Childhood in China "This book informs the reader that the behavioral and attitudinal traits educators and parents hope to develop in the next generation can be observed in the way children are treated in preschool. While this is hardly a revolutionary idea, the evidence presented to support this proposition make this book extremely valuable. By videotaping typical events in Chinese, U.S. and Japanese preschools the authors were able to get the reactions of educators and parents to what they saw on the tapes. Their reactions show that while Americans value individuality, Japanese value the ability to get along with others. The Chinese, on the other hand, value discipline and selflessness. The differences in class size and pedagogical methods of the teachers are rendered understandable given the differences in values among the three societies. Tobin, Wu,. and Davidson make a convincing case for their argument that schools reflect the ideology and beliefs of the society in which they are located. All those who criticize American schools for their shortcomings should read this book. According to these authors, American schools are what they are because they reflect our society's values."—Yoshimitsu Takei, Associate Professor of Education and Sociology, Pennsylvania State University "Preschool in Three Cultures is a beautifully layered book in which the authors, beginning with 20-minute video tapes of three preschools, create an intricate set of commentaries. As we react ourselves to the preschools the authors describe, and as we read the reactions of Chinese, Japanese, and U.S. educators, the familiar become strange. Self-evident principles in American schools—for example the importance of close adult supervision—become less self-evident, less 'natural.' We come to see our preschools less as 'child-centered' havens and more as institutions that clearly reflect ou0r culture's image of childhood."—Thomas Newkirk, University of New Hampshire "A profound and totally unique comparative culture book. We hope that it is widely read; the video is a must too. Tobin et al, have proposed a new strategy for the American preschool constituency, one which will enable us to create a new synthesis of Old World and New World values."—Emily Firlik, Director of YWCA's Children Center, and Russell Firlik, Sacred Heart University "It is an excellent teaching tool, providing students with opportunities not only to learn about other cultures but to reflect on their own."—Kathleen Hulbert, University of Lowell
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Yale University Press British Art Treasures From Russian Imperial
Book SynopsisIn the 18th century, the Russian Empress Catherine the Great and some of her courtiers developed a taste for British art, and collected some spectacular items. This study tells the story of the acquisition of these treasures and of the cultural relations between Russia and Britain at that time.
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Yale University Press The Politics of Parody A Literary History of
Book SynopsisTrade Review“While the intimate relationship between graphic satire and British literary classics is to some extent self-evident and has already been covered in some detail, [. . .] Taylor brings a new enthusiasm, depth and rigour to this approach.” —Ian Haywood, The Review of English StudiesSelected for Choice's 2019 Outstanding Academic Titles List "Taylor has written the most historically-detailed and theoretically-sophisticated account we have of the interactions between Georgian graphic satire and the literary canon. This is exhilarating, original, powerful scholarship, as illuminating about Macbeth or Paradise Lost or Gulliver's Travels as it is about the caricatures that so vigorously seized upon and re-shaped them."— David Womersley, University of Oxford "An innovative account of Romantic-period graphic satire that brilliantly demonstrates the openness of visual culture to literary analysis. The golden age of caricature has never looked so rich or creative."—Thomas Keymer, University of Toronto"Contesting the notion of Georgian caricature as a popular cultural form, David Frances Taylor masterfully disentangles visual satire’s negotiation of the boundaries between an educated elite and those less able to interpret its literary and political allusions. The graphic satires yield to his exhaustive analysis to reveal a rich context of allusion and parody encompassing Shakespeare, Milton, Bunyan, Swift, and Napoleon. Brimming over with fresh insights and appealing to a broadly interdisciplinary audience, The Politics of Parody will forever change the way we see these fascinating prints."—Felicity Nussbaum, Distinguished Research Professor, UCLA "The Politics of Parody is a fascinating and authoritative study that brings together Taylor's deep knowledge of the golden-age of caricature with his expertise on politics and the theatre to marvelous effect. It is unsurpassed in its field."—Jon Mee, Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism in the 1790s"No one has explored the visual and verbal cultures of the afterlives of eighteenth-century literature quite as systematically and insightfully as Taylor. He is unique in doing justice to the intertextuality—and intermediality—of this era of cultural history.”—Deidre Lynch, Harvard University
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