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Indiana University Press Dolly Parton Gender and Country Music
Book SynopsisLeigh H. Edwards explores Partons roles as musician, actor, author, philanthropist, and entrepreneur to show how her gender subversion highlights the challenges that can be found even in the most seemingly traditional form of American popular music. As Parton depicts herself as simultaneously "real" and "fake," she offers new perspectives on country music's claims of authenticity.Trade ReviewA stellar exploration of how Parton deftly balanced traditional country aesthetics with her willingness to rebel against those same trappings by completely owning her image and how she performed her femininity. Thanks to thorough research that digs into Parton's personal statements across her autobiography, social media outlets, and interviews in a variety of mediums, the reader is presented with a woman completely in control of who she is, her art, and how people interact with her. -- Adam P. Newton * BeardedGentlemenMusic.com *With her generous, comprehensive examination of Parton's image and career, Edwards makes a valuable contribution to studies of celebrity, gender, music, media, and popular culture that should be useful to scholars working in any of these areas. -- Jennifer Lynn Jones * Celebrity Studies *"The new book Dolly Parton, Gender, and Country Music investigates the character behind the chart-topping musician we've come to know and love." * Shondaland *Dolly Parton, Gender, and Country Music is a timely full-length monograph on a figure who has endured on the national and international scene for more than one-half century. Fittingly, this study is authored by a leading scholar of contemporary popular culture. The keyword in Dolly Parton, Gender, and Country Music is 'transgression,' for Professor Edwards demonstrates the terms by which, over decades, Parton's personae both conform to well-established patterns of identity and simultaneously subvert them. -- Cecelia Tichi, Journal of Popular Music Studies The book moves seamlessly from the mythology of Dolly Parton and the crafting of her gender persona to the singer's performance within different types of frameworks through Hollywood, crossover markets, and the digital stage. Edwards has allowed us to look deeper into how that combination of femininity has been a platform of change for both Parton and our perception of her persona, while opening the door for exploration of how Parton's influence may help craft the careers of future performers. * The Journal of Popular Culture *The book is full of solid arguments for the worthiness of Parton as a scholarly subject, including the complexities and juxtapositions of her life as a media figure with an enduring career. * Music Reference Services Quarterly *Overall, Dolly Parton, Gender, and Country Music examines Parton's trailblazing career in the male-dominated world of country music through the lens of gender themes and identity, including the expansion of her media empire of music, movies, theme park, and numerous other efforts. * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *Deftly introduces the public and private Dolly Parton in this well-researched study of a cultural phenomenon. * AudioFile *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Dolly Mythology1. "Backwoods Barbie": Dolly Parton's Gender Performance2. My Tennessee Mountain Home: Early Parton and Authenticity Narratives3. Parton's Crossover and Film Stardom: The "Hillbilly Mae West"4. Hungry Again: Reclaiming Country Authenticity Narratives5. "Digital Dolly" and New Media FandomsConclusion: Brand Evolution and DollywoodWorks CitedIndex
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Indiana University Press Work Social Status and Gender in PostSlavery
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWork, Social Status, and Gender in Post-Slavery Mauritania is a brilliantly written book employing elegant and accessible language. While it focuses primarily on Harāīn women's experiences in Kankossa, Mauritania, it provides important insights into the question of non-elites' accessibility to elite forms of Islam and related status. It thus makes a significant contribution to the scholarship on gender, social hierarchy, economics, Islam, slavery, and dress. Policymakers, scholars, graduate students, and undergraduate students who are interested in global studies of slavery, gender, social hierarchy, and Islam will surely find the book worth reading.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsNote on Transliteration and LanguageIntroduction: I Will Make You My Servant: Social Status, Gender, and Work1. From Black to Green: Changing Political Economy and Social Status in Kankossa2. "We Work for Our Lives": Revaluing Femininity and Work in a Post-slavery Market3. Joking Market Women: Critiquing and Negotiating Gender Roles and Social Hierarchy4. Women's Market Strategies: Building Social Networks, Protecting Resources, and Managing Credit 5. Making People Bigger: Wedding Exchange and the Creation of Social Value6. Embodying and Performing Gender and Social Status through the Malafa (Mauritanian veil)Conclusion: Social Rank in the Neoliberal EraGlossaryBibliographyIndex
£20.99
Indiana University Press Global Mountain Regions
Book SynopsisNo matter where they are located in the world, communities living in mountain regions have shared experiences defined in large part by contradictions. Trade ReviewGlobal Mountain Regions is an outstanding addition to the inventory of the interdisciplinary field of montology, the study of mountains. For any scholar or student interested in the human dimensions of mountain regions, many if not all of the essays will be valuable references. * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsContentsSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "Hard Times" 1: Introduction: Listening to Voices across Global Mountain Regions Ann Kingsolver and Sasikumar BalasundaramSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "Mother Jones' Farewell (I Was There)" 2: After Coal, through FilmTom Hansell and Patricia Beaver Song Lyrics by Si Kahn: "Wigan Pier" 3: Mountains, Coal, and Life in British Columbia and West Virginia Paul S. Ciccantell4: Black Diamonds Crystal Good5: Historicizing Poverty and Marginalization in the Southern Mountain Regions of Malawi Tony MilanziSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "Momma Was a Union Woman" 6: Voices for Community Rights in Amazonia Monica ChujíSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "Blue Ridge Mountain Refugee"7: Indigenous Social Movements in Mountain RegCarmen Martinez Novo, Shannon Elizabeth Bell, Subhadra Mitra Channa, Annapurna Devi Pandey, and Luis Alberto Tuaza CastroSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "People Like You"8: Rebuilding Mountain Communities after Natural and Human-Made DisastersJude L. Fernando, Lina Maria Calandra, Stephanie McSpirit, Pam Oldfield Meade, Jeremy Paden and Shaunna L. ScottSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "The Border Line"9: Moving Heaven and Earth behind MountainsDaniel JosephSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "Black Gold"10: Environment, Health, and JusticeMary K. Anglin, Gregory V. Button, and Dolores Molina-RosalesSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "When the Morning Breaks"11: Circulating News in Rural China and AppalachiaAl Cross and You You12: Thinking About the FutureJane Jensen, Marco Pitzalis, Mir Afzal Tajik, and Alan J. DeYoung13: Jirga: Everyday Peace-Building in Rural Mountain Communities of PakistanSajjad Ahmad Jan14: Mapping and Measuring Digital Divides in Mountain RegionsStanley D. Brunn and Maria ParadisoSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "My Old Times"15: Artifacts of HomeSaakshi Joshi16: Resonating with the TreesJasper Waugh-QuasebarthSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "Traveler"17: Appalachian and Carpathian ExchangesJessica Murray and Iryna Galuschchak18: Appalachian and Columbian Connections through Cerulean Warbler MigrationRegina Donour19: Experience and ExpertiseLisa B. Markowitz20: Sustainable Livelihoods in Extreme LandsDipak R. PantSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "Aragon Mill"21: Comparing Rural Livelihood Transitions in the Catalan and Sardinian Regions of Europe and the Appalachian Region of the United StatesDomenica Farinella, Ann Kingsolver, Ismael Vaccaro, and Oriol BeltranSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "Wild Rose of the Mountain"22: Honey Corridors in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve and Appalachian Coal Production Areas Tammy Horn Potter and Kunal SharmaSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "The Gap ($8,825) an Hour"23: Agricultural Sovereignty and Arabica Coffee Production in EthiopiaAklilu RedaSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "The Flume"24: Creating Sustainable Post-extraction Livelihoods in the Central Appalachian CoalfieldsNathan HallSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "Gone, Gonna Rise Again"25: Reforestation Can Contribute to a Regenerative Economy in Global Mining RegionsChristopher D. Barton, Kenton Sena, and Patrick N. AngelSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "We're Still Here"26: Palestinian Responsible Tourism for Cross-Cultural UnderstandingAsma Jaber and Michel AwadSong Lyrics by Si Kahn: "A Time for Us All"27: Conclusion: Looking Toward the Future in Global Mountain RegionsFelix Bivens, Sasikumar Balasundaram, and Ann KingsolverIndex
£26.25
Indiana University Press Migrant Anxieties
Book SynopsisDuring a period of heightened global concerns about the movement of immigrants and refugees across borders, Migrant Anxieties explores how filmmakers in Italy have probed the tensions accompanying the country's shift from an emigrant nation to a destination point for over five million immigrants over the course of three decades.Trade ReviewMigrant Anxieties is a compelling, up-to-date analysis of Italian migration cinema since the 1990s in a transnational perspective, under the critical lens of race, class, gender, and nationality. * Modern Language Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. After 1989: Projecting the Balkans2. Traffic from the East: Gender, Labor, and Biopolitics3. African Immigration in the 1990s4. Migration, Masculinity, and Italy's New Urban Geographies5. Imagining an Expanded Mediterranean Borderscape6. Living with Difference: From Noir to MelodramaAfterword: Accented and Transnational Filmmaking in ItalyFilmographyBibliographyIndex
£22.49
Indiana University Press On the Word of a Jew Religion Reliability and
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe book is scrupulously documented allowing the reader to follow up with further information on any given aspect of this topic. Highly recommended for all adult and secondary school Judaica collections * AJL Reviews *At a time when questions of Jewish "(dis)loyalty" are once again appearing in the headlines, this timely volume offers directions to begin untangling the historial roots and trajectories of the dynamics of trust -- Noam Sienna * Church History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: On the Word of a Jew, or Trusting Jewish History / Nina Caputo and Mitchell B. Hart Section One: To Swear an Oath1. Oaths, Vows, and Trust in the Bible / Robert S. Kawashima 2. "And in most of their business transactions they rely on this": Some Reflections on Jews and Oaths in the Commercial Arena in Medieval Europe / Ephraim Shoham-Steiner3. The Oath of a Jew in the Thirteenth Century English Legal Context / Joshua Curk 4. What is an Infidel?: Jewish Oaths and Jewish History in the Making of English Trust and Tolerance / Mitchell B. Hart 5. Trusting Adolphe Crémieux: Jews and Republicans in Nineteenth-Century France / Lisa Leff Section Two: The Business of Trust 6. "A kind of republic and neutral nation:" Commerce, Credit, and Conspiracy in Early Modern Europe / Joshua Teplitsky7. Jewish Peddlers and Non-Jewish Customers in the New World: Between Profit and Trust / Hasia Diner 8. Belonging and Trustworthiness: Jewish Businessmen in the Public Rhetoric around the "Trustworthy Businessman" in Post-World War I Germany / Stefanie Fischer Section Three: Intimacy of Trust 9. The Voice of a Jew? Petrus Alfonsi's Dialogi contra judaeos and the Question of True Conversion / Nina Caputo 10. A Return to Credibility? The Rehabilitation of Repentant Apostates in Medieval Ashkenaz / Rachel Furst 11. The Jewish Physician as Respondent, Confidant, and Proxy: The Case of Marcus Herz and Immanuel Kant / Robert Leventhal Section Four: The Politics of Trust 12. Perspectives from the Periphery: The East India Company's Jewish Sepoys, Anglo-Jewry, and the Image of "the Jew" / Mitch Numark 13. Between Honor and Authenticity: Zionism as Theodor Herzl's Life-Project / Derek Jonathan Penslar 14. The Most Trusted Jew in America: Jon Stewart's Earnestness / Shaina Hammerman
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Indiana University Press Topophrenia Place Narrative and the Spatial
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Tally writes tersely and elegantly of the Odyssey, The Divine Comedy, of Moby-Dick (notably 'The Chart' sequence), Ulysses, Tolkein's 'middle worlds,' and, soon after, Thomas More and of the relation of utopia to fantasy and science fiction. If space belongs to the form and purpose of the novel, it also applies to Topophrenia in general. ... Ambitious in scope, the strength of Topophrenia is found in how it makes its case."—Peta Mitchell, author (with Jane Stadler and Stephen Carleton) of Imagined Landscapes: Geovisualizing Australian Spatial Narratives"With Topophrenia Robert Tally discerns, first, how literature invents and produces space, and second, what the creative imagination does with space. These become the ground of a critical praxis addressing the conditions of the world in which we live. Blending close analysis with dialectics, Tally's book is a compelling study of the complex relations of literature and geography."—Tom Conley, author of An Errant Eye: Poetry and Topography in Early Modern FranceTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Cartographic ImperativePart I: Place in Geocritical Theory and Practice1. Topophrenia2. Introducing Geocriticism3. Geocritical SituationsPart II: Spatial Representation in Narrative4. The Mise-en-Abyme of Literary Cartography5. The Space of the Novel6. Theatrum GeographicumPart III: Fantasy and the Spatial Imagination7. Adventures in Literary Cartography8. In the Suburbs of Amaurotum9. Beyond the Flaming Walls of the WorldConclusion: A Map of the PyreneesBibliographyIndex
£22.79
Indiana University Press Italian Ecocinema Beyond the Human
Book SynopsisItalian Ecocinema Beyond the Human is an ecocritical study of five Italian films. It explores the ways in which on-location filming impacts the relationships between the production crew and the environment, and ultimately the story told in the resulting cinematic narrative.Trade ReviewPart memoir, part close analysis of the films themselves, and illustrated with numerous excellent frame grabs, Past's book casts a dreamlike spell as it contemplates the past, present, and future of the cinema and moves smoothly between environmental issues and aesthetic and practical concerns. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TranslationOn Location: Italian Ecocinema1. Hydrocarbons, Moving Pictures, Time: Red Desert2. Location, Dirty Cinema, Toxic Waste, Storytelling: Gomorrah3. Posthuman Collaboration, Cohabitation, Sacrifice: The Wind Blows Round4. Silence, Cinema, More-than-Human Sound: Le quattro volte5. Volcanoes, Transgenerational Memory, Cinema: Return to the Aeolian IslandsEpilogueBibliographyIndex
£49.50
Indiana University Press Menachem Begin and the IsraelEgypt Peace Proces
Book SynopsisFocusing on the character and personality of Menachem Begin, Gerald Steinberg and Ziv Rubinovitz offer a new look into the peace negotiations between Israel and Egypt in the 1970s. Trade ReviewA painstakingly researched and nuanced examination of Begin's contribution to the success of the peace talks. * Jerusalem Post *The book is a useful Israel-centered counterweight to the existing, mostly US-centered literature. * H-Diplo *Steinberg and Rubinovitz's book is an important and valuable contribution to our understanding of the Israeli–Egyptian peace process and one that deserves to be read widely. * Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs *In many ways, this volume is insightful and valuable, adding to the existing literature on Menachem Begin and his rightist, nationalist government. * The Middle East Journal *One of the challenges in analyzing Begin's role and positions in the Camp David process—indeed, his legacy in general—is the fact that he never published memoirs, or even gave fulsome interviews after leaving office. The authors of [Menachem Begin and the Israel-Egypt Peace Process] seek to restore Begin to his central and essential role. -- Joshua Krasna * Bustan: The Middle East Book Review *
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Indiana University Press Storytime in India
Book SynopsisStorytime in India is an exploration of the stories that come out of ethnographic fieldwork. Helen Priscilla Myers and Umesh Chandra Pandey examine the ways in which their research collecting Bhojpuri wedding songs became interwoven with the stories of their lives, their work together, and their shared experience reading The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Songs and Accessing the Audio FilesPrologueIntroduction: Umesh Explains Storytime1. A Fulbright Grant to Banaras, India2. ToastInterlude I: Lizzy Greystock3. Setting Up Our Apartment in Banaras, 20074. The Daily RoutineInterlude II: Sir Florian5. Arranging an Indian Wedding 6. The Search for a Boy 7. Helen and Umesh Meet8. Viewing the Bride9. The Tilak Talk Begins10. Gangajali11. The Tilak, Explained by Umesh12. Song Journey13. Tilak Songs14. "Dress Him in a Bra and Bodice": Gali for the Tilak15. The Songs Become Personal16. "We Sell Dreams"17. Saguni Songs: "This night is ours"Interlude III: Lady Eustace18. Umesh Remembers Charlotte Wiser19. Matikor: Sashi Interrupts, but We Do Not Hear "A Mare Has Pissed"20. Helen's Pounding Pot21. Umesh Explains GaliInterlude IV. Lucy Morris 22. The Kalas and the Harish23. Arranging a Priest24. Wedding Expenses25. The Island Diaspora: My Introduction to Indian Culture from Far AwayInterlude V: Frank Greystock26. Grannie Music27. Ethnomusicology28. The Turmeric Is PleasingInterlude VI: The Eustace Necklace29. Heat 30. Kissing31. The Bride and Groom go to the Kohabar32. Sahana Songs before the Wedding Ritual: The Blue Blue Horse33. Umesh Tells the Krishna StoryInterlude VII: Lady Linlithgow's Mission, , The Sawab of Mygawb34. And Love35. Kabir36. Great Novels and Lesser Novels37. Trapping the Family Gods Interlude VIII: Mr. Burke's Speeches38. Helen Contracts Typhoid39. Getting the Siri at the Home of the Potter40. My Husband Is the Inspector of PoliceInterlude IX: The Conquering Hero Comes41. The Evil Eye42. Umesh Gets Malaria43. On the Stage, the Bridegroom Puts on His Garments44. Preparing for Winter45. Adorn the Elephant, Adorn the Horse46. The Jaluaa47. The Story of Krishna and the Crocodile: A Song with Many Many Stories48. Umesh Tells the Remainder of the Krishna Story49. More Jaluaa Songs and StoriesInterlude X: Showing What the Miss Fawns Said, and What Mrs. Hittaway Thought50. Charlotte Wiser Leaves Karimganj51. Wedding Night52. Mona's Nacchu Nahawan in Rasalpur53. Protecting the Bride from the Evil EyeInterlude XI: Lizzie and Her Lover54. Arrival at the Janmassa55. Gali for Barati People and Bridegroom56. What about Clothes and Ornaments57. Bhajan InterludeInterlude XII: Lord Fawn at His Office58. Umesh Recalls His Wedding59. Feeding the Wedding Party60. Dwar Puja—The New System61. The Animal Party62. Departure of the Barat Interlude XIII: I Only Thought of It63. The Bridegroom Enters the Courtyard64. The Bride Enters the Courtyard65. Donation of the Virgin Daughter66. Ceremony of the Puffed Rice67. The Sindur Ritual68. The Kohabar Ritual69. Ceremony at the GangesInterlude XIV: Showing What Frank Greystock Did70. Arrival of the Bride in her Sasural, the Gauna71. Love Marriages72. Five Days73. Just One More Song74. Gangajali's StoryInterlude XV: "Doan't Thou Marry for Munny"75. One Last SongInterlude XVI: I'll Give You a Hundred Guinea Broach76. Preparing for China77. Leaving Banaras in 200878. Conclusion Interlude XVII: The Eustace Diamonds79. Umesh Tells a Story from Karimganj 80. A Passage to India81. Bangles in Ballia82. Across the Seven Seas83. Umesh Arranges for the Swan's Quill84. The Religion of Humanity85. StorytimeAppendix: Rituals of the Hindu Wedding in BalliaGlossaryBibliographyIndex
£29.25
Indiana University Press The Birth of a Nation The Cinematic Past in the
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIt is beyond time that we recognize that any discussion of Birth as cinematic art must be grounded in an understanding of Birth as racist propaganda. This is the major contribution of Martin's collection. * H-Slavery *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Revisiting [As it Were] the "Negro Problem" in The Birth of a Nation: Looking Back and in the Present / Michael T. MartinPart I: National/Transnational in Historical Time1. Birth of a Nation's Long Century / Cara Caddoo2. Great Moments From The Birth of a Nation: Collecting and Privately Screening Small Gauge Versions / Andy Uhrich3. D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation: Transnational and Historical Perspectives / Melvyn Stokes4. Defining National Identity: The Birth of a Nation From America to South Africa / Peter Davis5. Is Birth of a Nation a Western? / Alex LichtensteinPart II: Representational and Rhetorical Strategies6. Serial Melodramas of Black and White: The Birth of a Nation and Within Our Gates / Linda Williams7. The Rhetoric of Historical Representation in Griffith's The Birth of a Nation / Lawrence HowePart III: Cinematic Iterations in the Present8. Something Else Besides a Western: Django Unchained's Generic Miscegenations / Paula Massood9. 12 Years a Slave and The Birth of a Nation: Two Moments in Representing Race / Julia Lesage10. Engineering Different Equations in the Wake of Birth of a Nation: Blackface and Racial Politics in Bamboozled and Dear White People / Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris11. Race, Space, Sexuality, and Suffering in The Birth of a Nation and Get Hard / David C. Wall12. Anger or Laughter? The Dialectics of Response in The Birth of a Nation / Chuck KleinhansIndex
£17.99
Indiana University Press Abes Youth
Book SynopsisAbe's Youth offers indispensable reading for anyone hoping to learn about Lincoln's early life.Trade Review"Abe's Youth offers a fascinating, in-depth examination of the future president and the time and environment in which he grew up." -- Johnson County Historical Society"Abe's Youth is positively fascinating, and not just for those who are interested in Abraham Lincoln. This book in many ways provides a history of the first 100 years of Spencer County, IN." -- Kathy Tretter * The Spencer County Leader *Abe's Youth provides a convenient way to access some of the important work of the Indiana Lincoln Inquiry. * Indiana Magazine of History *Table of ContentsForewordPreface IntroductionWorks from Indiana's Lincoln InquiryPart 1: Lincoln's Hoosier Influences1. Lincoln's Boyhood Days in Indiana / Roscoe Kiper2. Lincoln's Environment in Indiana / Roscoe Kiper3. Lincoln in Indiana / William FortunePart 2: Lincoln's Neighbors and Influences4. Lincoln's Indiana Neighbors / Bess V. Ehrmann5. Life of James Gentry Jr. / J. Helen Rhoades6. The Grigsbys / Calder (Bess) Ehrmann7. More Lincoln Memories / Nancy Grigsby Inco8. Biographical Sketch of Josiah and Elizabeth (Anderson) Crawford / Will Adams9. Daniel Grass / Laura Mercy Wright10. The Athe Meeks Sr. Tragedy / Aaron Meeks11. The Mystery of Lincoln's Melancholy / Louis A. Warren12. Lincoln and the Wool-Carder's Beautiful Niece / Jesse N. Weik13. Word Pictures of Pioneer Families and Lincoln Contemporaries / Bess V. Ehrmann14. Interviews with Spencer County Pioneers about 1895 / T. H. Masterson15. Early Days in Spencer County / Daniel HayfordPart 3: Lincoln's Neighborhood and Environment16. The Lincolns and Their Home in Spencer County, Indiana / C. C. Scheeder17. An Interview with James Atlas Jones on the Lincoln Cabin in Spencer County / George H. Honig18. The Lincolns' Eastward Environment / Thomas James de la Hunt19. Some Early Troy History / Sallie Bergenroth20. Early Agriculture in Spencer County, Indiana / David H. Morgan21. Materia Medica of Pioneer Indiana / H. C. KnappPart 4: Lincoln and the Law22. Environment and Opportunities of Lincoln in Indiana / Elbert Hayford23. John A. Brackenridge / Eldora Minor Raleigh24. John Pitcher / Alice L. Harper Hanby25. Judge John Pitcher / John E. CoxPart 5: The Lincoln Inquiry26. The Environments of Abraham Lincoln in Indiana: The Best Witnesses / Anna C. O'Flynn27. The Lincolns in Spencer County / Ida D. Armstrong28. The Artist's Ideal of Lincoln / George H. Honig29. What Indiana Did for Lincoln / Bess V. Ehrmann30. Correspondence Between Lincoln Historians and This Society / John H. IglehartLincoln and Southwestern Indiana ChronologyIndex
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Indiana University Press Vladimir Jabotinskys Russian Years 19001925
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn this interesting and original book, Brian J. Horowitz focuses on Vladimir Jabotinsky's transformation from a supporter of liberalism in Russia to a Zionist who advocated extreme conservatism in the mid- 1920s. -- Abraham Ascher * Studies in Contemporary Jewry An Annual XXXII *In this latest, absorbing book [Vladimir Jabotinsky's Russian Years, 1900-1925] Horowitz focuses on Jabotinsky's years in Russia, drawing on detailed Russian and Hebrew sources. -- Colin Shindler * The Jewish Chronicle *In his careful intellectual history, Vladimir Jabotinsky's Russian Years, 1900-1925, Brian Horowitz shows that Jabotinsky's Revisionist Zionist congress was the crowning glory of his "Russian period," when the Russian-speaking journalist and intellectual enshrined a vision of a Jewish home with a Jewish majority in British Palestine from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River. -- David Shneer, University of Colorado, Boulder * Russian Review *It is Horowitz's personal opinion that Jabotinsky's "outsize image deflates considerably when one compares him to Ben-Gurion". However, a careful, dispassionate reading of this book most probably will convince the objective reader otherwise. And for that result, Horowitz deserves praise. -- Yisrael Medad - Menachem Begin Heritage Center * Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs *Horowitz's book, a critical rethinking of Jabotinsky's Russian years, is a valuable addition to this scholarship, which makes a significant con- ceptual and factual contribution to the historiography of both Russia and her Jews. -- Vassili Schedrin - Queen's University * AJS REVIEW *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Vladimir Jabotinsky and Russia 1. A Zionist in Odessa, circa 1900–03 2. Zionism Before 1905 3. In Revolution and Counterrevolution, 1905–06 4. The Decade between the Revolution of 1905 and World War I (1907–1914) 5. Political Alliances Break, Jabotinsky Goes His Own Way (1907–1914) 6. The Jewish Legion's Russian Inspiration, 1915–1917 7. Post-War Disappointments, Palestine 1918–1922 8. Russian-Jewish Emigration and the Path to Zionist Revisionism, 1923–1925 9. Russia in the Life and Work of Jabotinsky After 1925 ConclusionBibliography Index
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Indiana University Press From Street to Screen
Book SynopsisCharles Burnett's 1977 film, Killer of Sheep is one of the towering classics of African American cinema. As a deliberate counterpoint to popular blaxploitation films of the period, it combines harsh images of the banality of everyday oppression with scenes of lyrical beauty, and depictions of stark realism with flights of comic fancy. From Street to Screen: Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep is the first book-length collection dedicated to the film and designed to introduce viewers to this still relatively unknown masterpiece. Beginning life as Burnett's master's thesis project in 1973, and shot on a budget of $10,000, Killer of Sheep immediately became a cornerstone of the burgeoning movement in African American film that came to be known variously as the LA School or LA Rebellion. By bringing together a wide variety of material, this volume covers both the politics and aesthetics of the film as well as its deeper social and contextual histories. This expansive and incisive critical coTrade Review"With From Street to Screen, Michael T. Martin and David C. Wall thoughtfully assemble some of the most compelling scholarship on Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep, providing an essential collection of essays for those who want to understand the cinematic impact of Burnett and his seminal American film. The engaging essays situate, historicize, and textually examine the deeply poetic and neo-realist rendering of Black life in Burnett's film while the inclusion of the screenplay, biography, and filmography lend this compendium to a range of pedagogical impulses."—Samantha N. Sheppard, Cornell University, author of Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen"Michael Martin and David Wall bring long-awaited attention to a film that reflects the pioneering spirit of L.A Rebellion filmmakers. Their edited collection gathers a series of texts that inform the poetic politics of Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep, a unique film to date about how to survive in 1970's Watts. A historical and filmic landmark, Killer of Sheep captures the ghetto and its residents in beautiful black and white cinematography."—Delphine Letort, author of The Spike Lee Brand: A Study of Documentary Filmmaking"A masterpiece of American cinema, Killer of Sheep finally receives a much-deserved sustained study of its form, style, and fascinating production history. From Street to Screen brings together rich contextualizing essays, original readings, an in-depth interview with director Charles Burnett, and the film's original screenplay. A comprehensive sourcebook, this volume is an indispensable companion to the film and to independent Black cinema more generally."—Allyson Nadia Field, University of Chicago, author of Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsKiller of Sheep: Charles Burnett and the Poetry of Oppression David C. Wall and Michael T. MartinPART ONE: Situating Killer of Sheep: Time/Place/CircumstanceCinema and Black Liberation (David E. James)Struggles for the Sign in the Black Atlantic: Los Angeles Collective of Black Filmmakers (Michael T. Martin)Charles Burnett: A Reconsideration of Third Cinema (Amy Ongiri)Charles Burnett—Consummate Cineaste (Michael T. Martin)PART TWO: Reading Killer of SheepToward a Geo-Cinematic Hermeneutics: Representations of Los Angeles in Non-Industrial Cinema – [Charles Burnett's] Killer of Sheep (David E. James) An Aesthetic Appropriate to Conditions: Killer of Sheep, (Neo) Realism, and the Documentary Impulse (Paula J. Massood)Neo-Realism Meets the Blues in Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep (Keith Mehlinger) Killer of Sheep (James Naremore)Killer of Sheep (Jeffrey Skoller) Nous revenons à nos moutons: Regarding Animals in Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep (Sarah O'Brien) PART THREEScreenplayBiography and FilmographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Religious Intimacies Intersubjectivity in the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Scholars of Christianity have long acknowledged spiritual friendship as a powerful concept and model for human relationships from its origins through the seventeenth century. These thoughtful and probing essays convincingly show that ties built upon affect, family, and shared convictions have continued to inform lived religious experience in modern times and shape western Christianity in significant, sometimes surprising ways."—Jodi Bilinkoff, University of North Carolina at Greensboro"Dunn and Moore have brought together a rich collection of essays which use intimate relationships to chart a course between "solitude and society" providing an original lens through which to examine religion in the modern Christian West. By broadening the narrow view of intimacy beyond the privacy of heteronormative marriage, this book demonstrates the ongoing political, public, and theological significance of friendship and embodied, affective relationship in the modern age."—Tamsin Jones, Trinity CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction: Recovering Relationships as a Path through the Modern Christian West / Mary Dunn and Brenna Moore 1. Body, Subjectivity, and Society in Religious Studies / Constance M. Furey2. "Thine Own by Adoption": Conversion, Integration, and Fictive Kinship in the Life of Thérèse Oionhaton, Seventeenth-Century Wendat Convert / Emma Anderson 3. Making Miracles Efficacious: Katherine Tekakwitha, Miraculous Cures, and Relational Networks in Seventeenth-Century New France / Mary Dunn 4. Søren Kierkegaard and Religious Sensibility: Communion in Intimate Life / Edward F. Mooney5. Henry Adams, Clover Adams, and the Death of the Real / Amy Hollywood6. Objects of Devotion: Intimacy and Material Relations in Mexican Catholicism / Jennifer Scheper Hughes7. The Rhetoric of Solitude and the Practice of Friendship: Reading Catholic Intellectual History in the Study of Religion / Brenna Moore8. A Vocation of Contested Intimacies: U.S. Roman Catholic Priesthood in the Mid-Twentieth Century / John Seitz9. Embracing Nimrod's Legacy: The Erotic, the Irreverence of Fantasy, and the Redemption of Black Theology / Anthony Pinn
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Indiana University Press Religious Intimacies Intersubjectivity in the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Scholars of Christianity have long acknowledged spiritual friendship as a powerful concept and model for human relationships from its origins through the seventeenth century. These thoughtful and probing essays convincingly show that ties built upon affect, family, and shared convictions have continued to inform lived religious experience in modern times and shape western Christianity in significant, sometimes surprising ways."—Jodi Bilinkoff, University of North Carolina at Greensboro"Dunn and Moore have brought together a rich collection of essays which use intimate relationships to chart a course between "solitude and society" providing an original lens through which to examine religion in the modern Christian West. By broadening the narrow view of intimacy beyond the privacy of heteronormative marriage, this book demonstrates the ongoing political, public, and theological significance of friendship and embodied, affective relationship in the modern age."—Tamsin Jones, Trinity CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction: Recovering Relationships as a Path through the Modern Christian West / Mary Dunn and Brenna Moore 1. Body, Subjectivity, and Society in Religious Studies / Constance M. Furey2. "Thine Own by Adoption": Conversion, Integration, and Fictive Kinship in the Life of Thérèse Oionhaton, Seventeenth-Century Wendat Convert / Emma Anderson 3. Making Miracles Efficacious: Katherine Tekakwitha, Miraculous Cures, and Relational Networks in Seventeenth-Century New France / Mary Dunn 4. Søren Kierkegaard and Religious Sensibility: Communion in Intimate Life / Edward F. Mooney5. Henry Adams, Clover Adams, and the Death of the Real / Amy Hollywood6. Objects of Devotion: Intimacy and Material Relations in Mexican Catholicism / Jennifer Scheper Hughes7. The Rhetoric of Solitude and the Practice of Friendship: Reading Catholic Intellectual History in the Study of Religion / Brenna Moore8. A Vocation of Contested Intimacies: U.S. Roman Catholic Priesthood in the Mid-Twentieth Century / John Seitz9. Embracing Nimrod's Legacy: The Erotic, the Irreverence of Fantasy, and the Redemption of Black Theology / Anthony Pinn
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Indiana University Press Provenance and Early Cinema
Book SynopsisRemnants of early films often have a story to tell. As material artifacts, these film fragments are central to cinema history, perhaps more than ever in our digital age of easy copying and sharing. If a digital copy is previewed before preservation or is shared with a researcher outside the purview of a film archive, knowledge about how the artifact was collected, circulated, and repurposed threatens to become obscured. When the question of origin is overlooked, the story can be lost. Concerned contributors in Provenance and Early Cinema challenge scholars digging through film archives to ask, How did these moving images get here for me to see them? This volume, which features the conference proceedings from Domitor, the International Society for the Study of Early Cinema, 2018, questions preservation, attribution, and patterns of reuse in order to explore singular artifacts with long and circuitous lives.Trade ReviewAt a critical moment like this for international research, putting our artifacts back into their productive context seems to be an increasingly urgent duty. This volume has the merit of questioning the search for a new point of view, a new way to study film sources: a perspective that is more than ever necessary in the digital age, in which copying and sharing have become lightning-fast operations. -- Coraline Refort * Drammaturgia *The scope of the text is such that a researcher with a pre-existing interest in provenance will undoubtedly find both definition and inspiration here, while scholars from other areas will likely find new and novel ways by which to integrate prove- nance into the frameworks of their research. -- James Lewis Shelton * Early Popular Visual Culture *Table of ContentsDomitor Series - PrécisIntroduction: Provenance and Early Cinema: From Preservation and Collection to Circulation and RepurposingPart I: Studying Provenance: From Analog to Digital1. Film Provenance: A Framework for Analysis2. Origins: Early Films and Archival Collections3. From Provenience to Provenance: The Kerstrat d'Hauterives Collection4. Provenance and Film Historiography: 1910s Films at the George Eastman Museum5. Issues of Provenance and Attribution for the Canon: Bookending Robert Paul6. Shattered Provenance in the Digitization of Early Color FilmsPart II: Preservation and Collection7. Dreaming in Color: The Image and the Artifact8. Where Did the Costumes in Early Cinema Come From?9. Thinking with Provenance: Drawing Trajectories in the Francis Doublier Collection at the George Eastman Museum10. Revisiting the Films of Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planète: A Material Survey11. The Thanhouser Studio Filmography: Analysis and Extant Prints12. The Great War at Scale: New Opportunities for Provenance in World War I Collections at the National Archives (NARA)Part II: Circulation13. Chicago's "Censored Casualties" and the Provenance of Archive Prints14. What Made the Mechanicals Move? Postcards in Transit15. "The End of a Foreign Monopoly": Bausch and Lomb and the Wartime Provenance of Optical Glass16. Pathé Films in Brazil: The Archives of "Marc Ferrez & Sons" (1908-1916)17. Establishing the Provenance of Early Advertising Films: Film Catalogs and the Creation of the Non-theatrical Market18. A Journey on the World's Most Northerly Railway: The Renaming and Remaking of Swedish Industrial Films19. In Search of "The Edison Biograph Company": Film History through Philippine Archives20. Ownership, Exploitation, Stewardship: Tracking the Footage of the 1911-1913 Australian Antarctic ExpeditionPart IV: Repurposing21. Finding Early Cinema in the Avant-Garde: Research and Investigation22. Ernie Gehr's The Collector (2003) and Ernie Gehr the Collector23. Flicker: Thom Andersen Takes Muybridge to the Movies24. Provenance on Ice: Frozen Time and the Dawson City Collection25. Praxis as Media Historiography: The Peep Box's "Expanding View" as Virtual Reality26. How Newspaper Novels and Their Illustrations Shaped Japanese Films27. Archival Object or Object Lesson? Bricolage as Process and as Concept in the Edmundo Padilla CollectionAppendices28. French Language Essay: Germain Lacasse, La collection de Kerstrat-d'Hauterives, de sa provenience à sa provenance 29. French Language Essay: Priska Morrissey, D'où viennent les costumes du cinéma des premiers temps ? 30. Dryden Theatre Screening ProgramIndex
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Indiana University Press Deleuze Bergson MerleauPonty
Book SynopsisDeleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty: The Logic and Pragmatics of Creation, Affective Life, and Perception offers the only full-length examination of the relationships between Deleuze, Bergson and Merleau-Ponty. Henri Bergson (18591941), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), and Gilles Deleuze (19251995) succeeded one another as leading voices in French philosophy over a span of 136 years. Their relationship to one another's work involved far more than their overlapping lifetimes. Bergson became both the source of philosophical insight and a focus of criticism for Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze. Deleuze criticized Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology as well as his interest in cognitive and natural science. Author Dorothea Olkowski points out that each of these philosophers situated their thought in relation to their understandings of crucial developments and theories taken up in the history and philosophy of science, and this has been difficult for Continental philosophy to grasp. She articulates the difTrade Review"Expertly detailed by Dorothea Olkowski, this book reveals the profound implication and importance of understandings of ontology, multiplicity, and the sensible on phenomenology."—Gregg Lambert, author of To Have Done with the State of Exception, Syracuse University"Dorothea Olkowski extracts from these three philosophers a sense of how to understand the outcomes and prospects of "continental" metaphysical thought today, avoiding both a logicist or scientific reduction of space, time, and experience to the objective framework and a classically phenomenological or transcendental-idealist location of the basis of metaphysics."—Paul Livingston, author of The Politics of Logic, The University of New Mexico"In this deeply original study, Dorothea Olkowski gives a lucid and erudite version of the ideas connecting Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty and Peirce. Surprisingly, yet convincingly, complex arguments about formalism and logic explain why they respond differently to the problem of the relation of thought to life."—James Williams, Deakin University"Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty offers a fresh, cutting-edge, and profoundly original examination of the complex relations between Deleuze, his inspiration Bergson, and his seeming "rival" Merleau-Ponty. Olkowski adeptly weaves through disparate domains – including aesthetics, physics, logic, philosophy of time, semiotics, mathematics, pragmatics, metaphysics, and phenomenology – to ultimately pave a way to address and answer the question: can philosophy itself become something new? Beautifully written, inspiring, and utterly compelling, Olkowski's book makes great advances in our understanding of these thinkers, all while proving exciting and enjoyable to read."—Corry Shores, author of The Logic of Gilles Deleuze: Basic Principles"In her most recent opus, Dorothea E. Olkowski brilliantly takes her readers on a journey in the realms of arts and sciences that leads to the Cosmos in the company of the key figures of contemporary continental philosophy. A must for an insightful exploration of Deleuze/Guattari's pragmatic thinking and its interconnections with Bergson and Merleau-Ponty."—Alain Beaulieu, Laurentian UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty1. Naturalism, Formalism, Phenomenology, and Semiology in Postmodern Philosophy2. Deleuze and Guattari's Critique of Logic3. Bergson and Bergsonism4. Duration, Motion, and Temporalization: Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty5. Phenomenology and the Event: Merleau-Ponty's Radical Concepts6. The Philosophy of the Event: The Dark Precursor, the Chaos, and the CosmosBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Understanding Climate Change through Religious
Book SynopsisHow can religion help to understand and contend with the challenges of climate change? Understanding Climate Change through Religious Lifeworld, edited by David Haberman, presents a unique collection of essays that detail how the effects of human-related climate change are actively reshaping religious ideas and practices, even as religious groups and communities endeavor to bring their traditions to bear on mounting climate challenges. People of faith from the low-lying islands of the South Pacific to the glacial regions of the Himalayas are influencing how their communities understand earthly problems and develop meaningful responses to them. This collection focuses on a variety of different aspects of this critical interaction, including the role of religion in ongoing debates about climate change, religious sources of environmental knowledge and how this knowledge informs community responses to climate change, and the ways that climate change is in turn driving religious change. Trade ReviewThis anthology will be valuable for scholars interested in religion, climate communication, and Indigenous cultures. The book, or selected chapters from it, would be appropriate for upper-level undergraduate or graduate courses in anthropology, area studies, environmental studies, and religion. -- Cybelle Shattuck - Western Michigan University * H-Environment *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Multiple Perspectives on an Increasingly Uncertain WorldRecombinant Responses1. Climate Change Never Travels Alone2. Climate Change, Moral Meteorology and Local Measures at Quyllurit'i, a High Andean Shrine3. Religious Explanations for Coastal Erosion in Narikoso, FijiLocal Knowledge4. "Nature Can Heal Itself"5. Maya Cosmology and Contesting Climate Change in Mesoamerica6. Anthropogenic Climate Change, Anxiety, and the SacredLoss, Anxiety, and Doubt7. The Vanishing of Father White Glacier8. Loss and Recovery in the HimalayasReligious Transformations9. Angry Gods and Raging Rivers10. Recasting the SacredConclusion: Religion and Climate ChangeList of ContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press On Beauty and Measure
Book SynopsisOn Beauty and Measure features renowned philosopher John Sallis' commentaries on Plato's dialogues the Symposium and the Statesman. Drawn from two lecture courses delivered by Sallis, they represent his longest and most sustained engagement to date with either work. Brilliantly original, Sallis's close readings of Plato's dialogues are grounded in the original passages and also illuminate the overarching themes that drive the dialogues.
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Indiana University Press What Folklorists Do
Book SynopsisWhat can you do with a folklore degree? Over six dozen folklorists, writing from their own experiences, show us. What Folklorists Do examines a wide range of professionalsboth within and outside the academy, at the beginning of their careers or holding senior management positionsto demonstrate the many ways that folklore studies can shape and support the activities of those trained in it. As one of the oldest academic professions in the United States and grounded in ethnographic fieldwork, folklore has always been concerned with public service and engagement beyond the academy. Consequently, as this book demonstrates, the career applications of a training in folklore are manyadvocating for local and national causes; shaping public policy; directing and serving in museums; working as journalists, publishers, textbook writers, or journal editors; directing national government programs or being involved in historic preservation; teaching undergraduate and graduate students; producing musiTrade ReviewTimothy Lloyd, former Executive Director of theAmerican Folklore Society, has assembled a valuablecompendium of 76 short essays by folklorists, mostlyNorth Americans, exploring an impressively broadrange of professional options and careers. . . . What Folklorists Do is an important, exciting and accessible book that I wouldrecommend to anyone with any interest in folklore. -- Timothy H. Evans * Journal of Folklore and Education *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Researching and TeachingDoing Fieldwork, by Tom MouldIntegrating Fieldwork and Library Research, by Elissa R. HenkenCollaborating Across Disciplines, by Sheila BockPracticing Internationalism, by Dorothy NoyesConnecting Folklore Studies to Digital Humanities, by John LaudunUsing Big Data in Folklore Scholarship, by Timothy R. TangherliniUnderstanding the Information Technology World Ethnographically, by Meghan McGrathDoing Public Humanities, by Danille ChristensenServing a Campus as an International Scholar, by Ziying YouWorking as an Independent Scholar, by Luisa Del GiudiceTeaching at a Community College, by David J. PugliaTeaching Undergraduate Students, by David Todd LawrenceTeaching Graduate Students, by Ray CashmanTeaching in an Interdisciplinary Department, by Tom DuBoisTeaching Medical Professionals, by Bonnie Blair O'ConnorTeaching Writing, by Martha C. SimsIntegrating Vernacular and Mainstream Science in Teaching, by Sandra Bartlett Atwood2. Leading and ManagingLeading at a University, by Patricia A. TurnerChairing a Department, by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaDirecting an Academic Program, by Michael Ann WilliamsManaging an Academic Program, by Cassie Rosita PattersonBuilding an Online School, by Sara Cleto and Brittany WarmanPerforming Diplomacy, by Valdimar HafsteinLeading a Federal Government Agency, by Bill IveyDirecting a Federal Government Office, by Elizabeth PetersonLeading in a Consulting Firm, by Malachi O'ConnorDirecting Communications Strategy, by Katy CluneDirecting a Learned Society, by Jessica A. TurnerDirecting a Museum, by Jason Baird JacksonDirecting a Non-Profit Organization, by Ellen McHaleDirecting a Recording Label, by Daniel SheehyCoordinating Research Projects, by Diana Baird N'DiayeManaging Regional Arts Programs, by Teresa HollingsworthManaging a State Government Program, by Steven Hatcher3. Communicating and CuratingArchiving for Preservation, Access, and Understanding, by Terri M. JordanBuilding and Providing Access to Library Collections, by Moira MarshCurating in a Changing Museum World, by Carrie HertzProducing Audio Ethnography, by Rachel HopkinTranslating Language, Place, and Performance, by Levi S. GibbsCritiquing Internet Culture, by Andrea KittaCommunicating and Educating Online, by Jeana JorgensenCreating Educational Content, by Jon KayDesigning Visual Communications, by Meredith A. E. McGriffPresenting Ethnography Graphically, by Andy KolovosPortraying and Preserving Culture through Documentation, by Tom RankinBecoming a Journalist, by Russell FrankEditing a Scholarly Journal, by Ann K. FerrellPublishing Scholarly Books, by Amber Rose CederströmProducing Festivals, by Maribel AlvarezLeading Cultural Tours, by Joan L. SaverinoPerforming Music and Theater, by Kay TurnerPerforming Stand-Up Comedy, by Ian BrodiePracticing the Act of Writing, by Michael Dylan FosterUsing Folklore in Fiction and Poetry, by Norma Elia CantúWriting Textbooks, by Lynne S. McNeillWriting for Education and Advocacy, by Stephen Winick4. Advocating and PartneringAdvocating for Community, by Howard L. SacksAdvocating for Communities and Their Environments, by Mary HuffordUsing Ethnography for Community Advocacy, by Miguel GandertCommunity Organizing, by Jacqueline L. McGrathConnecting University and Community, by Katherine BorlandExploring Home, by Langston Collin WilkinsAdvocating for Labor, by James P. LearyAdvocating for People with Disabilities, by Amy ShumanAdvocating for Poetry, by Steve ZeitlinAdvocating for a Region, by Thomas A. McKeanAdvocating through Consultancy, by Susan EleuterioCreating Public Policy, by Diane E. GoldsteinAnalyzing Public Policy, by Leah LowthorpBecoming a Politician, by Jodi McDavidAssisting Social Services Clients, by Nelda Ault-DyslinCollaborating with K-12 Teachers, by Ruth OlsonPartnering with K-12 Education, by Lisa RathjeExpanding Definitions of Regional Cultural Heritage, by Nicole MusgraveMentoring, by Wanda G. AddisonPreserving Historic Buildings and Environments, by Laurie Kay SommersAbout the Editor
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Indiana University Press What Folklorists Do
Book SynopsisWhat can you do with a folklore degree? Over six dozen folklorists, writing from their own experiences, show us. What Folklorists Do examines a wide range of professionalsboth within and outside the academy, at the beginning of their careers or holding senior management positionsto demonstrate the many ways that folklore studies can shape and support the activities of those trained in it. As one of the oldest academic professions in the United States and grounded in ethnographic fieldwork, folklore has always been concerned with public service and engagement beyond the academy. Consequently, as this book demonstrates, the career applications of a training in folklore are manyadvocating for local and national causes; shaping public policy; directing and serving in museums; working as journalists, publishers, textbook writers, or journal editors; directing national government programs or being involved in historic preservation; teaching undergraduate and graduate students; producing musiTrade ReviewTimothy Lloyd, former Executive Director of theAmerican Folklore Society, has assembled a valuablecompendium of 76 short essays by folklorists, mostlyNorth Americans, exploring an impressively broadrange of professional options and careers. . . . What Folklorists Do is an important, exciting and accessible book that I wouldrecommend to anyone with any interest in folklore. -- Timothy H. Evans * Journal of Folklore and Education *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Researching and TeachingDoing Fieldwork, by Tom MouldIntegrating Fieldwork and Library Research, by Elissa R. HenkenCollaborating Across Disciplines, by Sheila BockPracticing Internationalism, by Dorothy NoyesConnecting Folklore Studies to Digital Humanities, by John LaudunUsing Big Data in Folklore Scholarship, by Timothy R. TangherliniUnderstanding the Information Technology World Ethnographically, by Meghan McGrathDoing Public Humanities, by Danille ChristensenServing a Campus as an International Scholar, by Ziying YouWorking as an Independent Scholar, by Luisa Del GiudiceTeaching at a Community College, by David J. PugliaTeaching Undergraduate Students, by David Todd LawrenceTeaching Graduate Students, by Ray CashmanTeaching in an Interdisciplinary Department, by Tom DuBoisTeaching Medical Professionals, by Bonnie Blair O'ConnorTeaching Writing, by Martha C. SimsIntegrating Vernacular and Mainstream Science in Teaching, by Sandra Bartlett Atwood2. Leading and ManagingLeading at a University, by Patricia A. TurnerChairing a Department, by Debra Lattanzi ShutikaDirecting an Academic Program, by Michael Ann WilliamsManaging an Academic Program, by Cassie Rosita PattersonBuilding an Online School, by Sara Cleto and Brittany WarmanPerforming Diplomacy, by Valdimar HafsteinLeading a Federal Government Agency, by Bill IveyDirecting a Federal Government Office, by Elizabeth PetersonLeading in a Consulting Firm, by Malachi O'ConnorDirecting Communications Strategy, by Katy CluneDirecting a Learned Society, by Jessica A. TurnerDirecting a Museum, by Jason Baird JacksonDirecting a Non-Profit Organization, by Ellen McHaleDirecting a Recording Label, by Daniel SheehyCoordinating Research Projects, by Diana Baird N'DiayeManaging Regional Arts Programs, by Teresa HollingsworthManaging a State Government Program, by Steven Hatcher3. Communicating and CuratingArchiving for Preservation, Access, and Understanding, by Terri M. JordanBuilding and Providing Access to Library Collections, by Moira MarshCurating in a Changing Museum World, by Carrie HertzProducing Audio Ethnography, by Rachel HopkinTranslating Language, Place, and Performance, by Levi S. GibbsCritiquing Internet Culture, by Andrea KittaCommunicating and Educating Online, by Jeana JorgensenCreating Educational Content, by Jon KayDesigning Visual Communications, by Meredith A. E. McGriffPresenting Ethnography Graphically, by Andy KolovosPortraying and Preserving Culture through Documentation, by Tom RankinBecoming a Journalist, by Russell FrankEditing a Scholarly Journal, by Ann K. FerrellPublishing Scholarly Books, by Amber Rose CederströmProducing Festivals, by Maribel AlvarezLeading Cultural Tours, by Joan L. SaverinoPerforming Music and Theater, by Kay TurnerPerforming Stand-Up Comedy, by Ian BrodiePracticing the Act of Writing, by Michael Dylan FosterUsing Folklore in Fiction and Poetry, by Norma Elia CantúWriting Textbooks, by Lynne S. McNeillWriting for Education and Advocacy, by Stephen Winick4. Advocating and PartneringAdvocating for Community, by Howard L. SacksAdvocating for Communities and Their Environments, by Mary HuffordUsing Ethnography for Community Advocacy, by Miguel GandertCommunity Organizing, by Jacqueline L. McGrathConnecting University and Community, by Katherine BorlandExploring Home, by Langston Collin WilkinsAdvocating for Labor, by James P. LearyAdvocating for People with Disabilities, by Amy ShumanAdvocating for Poetry, by Steve ZeitlinAdvocating for a Region, by Thomas A. McKeanAdvocating through Consultancy, by Susan EleuterioCreating Public Policy, by Diane E. GoldsteinAnalyzing Public Policy, by Leah LowthorpBecoming a Politician, by Jodi McDavidAssisting Social Services Clients, by Nelda Ault-DyslinCollaborating with K-12 Teachers, by Ruth OlsonPartnering with K-12 Education, by Lisa RathjeExpanding Definitions of Regional Cultural Heritage, by Nicole MusgraveMentoring, by Wanda G. AddisonPreserving Historic Buildings and Environments, by Laurie Kay SommersAbout the Editor
£66.60
Indiana University Press Pleading the Blood
Book SynopsisThe definitive look at one of the most important Black art films and original filmmakers of the 1970s. Bill Gunn's Ganja & Hess (1973) has across the decades attained a sizable cult following among African American cinema devotees, art house aficionados, and horror fans, thanks to its formal complexity and rich allegory. Pleading the Blood is the first full-length study of this cult classic. Ganja & Hess was withdrawn almost immediately after its New York premiere by its distributor because Gunn's poetic re-fashioning of the vampire genre allegedly failed to satisfy the firm's desire for a by-the-numbers blaxploitation horror flick for quick sell-off in the urban market. Its current status as one of the classic works of African American cinema has recently been confirmed by the Blu-ray release of its restored version, by its continued success in screenings at repertory houses, museums, and universities, and by an official remake, Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014), directed by Spike Lee,Trade Review"There is no doubt that Professor Sieving's book will make an indispensable addition to the history of 1970s Black filmmaking and the beginning of what we now consider Black art cinema. Within the broader field of film studies, it offers an important contribution to industry studies, independent cinema history, and offers valuable insights into the formation of what later came to be known as the "art cinema" paradigm in film studies. Clearly written, the book acts also as an accessible intellectual biography of a Black artist who consistently fought against external impositions to his freedom of expression (both personal and artistic). Because it does not overlap with existing works, it can begin to prepare the terrain for a history of post-war Black independent filmmaking (and especially Black art cinema) to be finally written."—Alessandra Raengo, author of Critical Race Theory and Bamboozled."Sieving has produced the definitive history and critical assessment of Ganja & Hess that will be an indispensable companion to an elusive film and an enigmatic director and effectively argues for the significance of both to the history of American cinema. Those already familiar with the film will learn a tremendous amount and those new to the film will encounter a rich artifact whose history intersects with the major figures of African American artistic thought and political aesthetics."—Allyson Nadia Field, author of Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity"This volume confirms that Christopher Sieving is one of our finest film historians. Pleading the Blood is impeccably researched and well written and confirms the place of honor that Ganja and Hess, and especially Bill Gunn, should have in the cinematic canon."—Gerald Butters, Aurora University"Sieving's Pleading the Blood is an exhaustive study of a cinematic masterpiece about bloodlust and its talented, enigmatic writer-director. The book is a sweeping tutorial in what happens when ingenious creativity comes up against industrial timidity and prosaicness. The result is illuminating lessons in genre and the economic imperatives of film production as well as identity politics and discrimination."—Robin R. Means Coleman, Ida B. Wells and Ferdinand Barnett Professor of Communication Studies, Northwestern UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsGanja & Hess: CreditsIntroduction1. Awakening: Kelly-Jordan Enterprises and the Black Movie Boom2. Vision: Bill Gunn and the Black Man Apart3. Creation: The Making of Ganja & Hess4. Judgment: The Reception and Revival of Ganja & Hess 5. Resurrection: Ganja & Hess's Life After DeathConclusion: Ganja & Hess after Gunn, Gunn after Ganja & HessNotesBibliographyAbbreviations for Archival Sources
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Indiana University Press Cultivating Perception through Artworks
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Cultivating Perception through Artworks is written with an acuity that is as refreshing as it is empowering and is an indispensable guide for those of us wishing to think accurately and compassionately within today's contexts of global challenge and strife. Fielding's art-based cultivations of embodied perception help practitioners deviate from the varied cognitive-linguistic systems and binary logics in which we are embedded and through which all manner of inequities are rationalized and allowed to proliferate. Her demonstrations reveal how we may reconfigure our often-overstimulated senses and learn to trust them as means of "encountering alterity without appropriation, domination, or fusion"."—Jorella Andrews, Goldsmiths, University of London"In Cultivating Perception through Artworks, Fielding radiantly presents the reader with living encounters with artworks in which painting unveils the invisible, seemingly floating sculptures mark time, and poetry tells stories that cannot be told—thus disclosing the ethical, political, and cultural potential of her rich notion of embodied perceptual cognition. With a distinctive feminist, critical phenomenological approach, Fielding thinks alongside artworks, adroitly interweaving perception with reflection in the quest for respectful attunement to alterity and an openness to 'the movement of life.'"—Mariana Ortega, author of In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self"In this important work, Helen A. Fielding shows us what it would mean to think and perceive with artworks, bringing them to life on the page in ways that teach us to do philosophy differently. Engaging with Merleau-Ponty, as well as Arendt, Irigaray, Heidegger and others, Fielding brings phenomenology and art to bear on, and to speak to, one another. This delicate and insightful balance means that Fielding's phenomenological approach and her theoretical analyses flow from the artworks with which she stays, critically transforming how phenomenology takes place. More than a question of application or description, this is an intertwining that shows phenomenology of art at its best."—Alia Al-Saji, McGill UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionEnacting Ethics1. Perceptual Ethics2. The Ethics of Embodied LogosEnacting Politics3. Experiencing Public Space4. Building Different WorldsEnacting Culture5. Polyphonic Attunement6. Decolonizing ReasonBibliographyIndex
£20.99
Indiana University Press Profit Margins The American Silent Cinema and
Book SynopsisAn important read for film studies and the history of marketing, Profit Margins exposes the fascinating truth surrounding the invention of cinema advertising techniques and the resulting rhetoric of class division.Trade Review"Groskopf's book turns existing literature on its head by showing that advertising actually was in and all around cinema long before radio. . . . The author has collected a wealth of archival materials that enable him to carefully study the spread of advertising-related ideas and their adoption in terms of methods, devices, and business models."—Patrick Vonderau, author of Films that Sell: Moving Pictures and Advertising"In this meticulously researched, detailed and lively account, Groskopf unearths the lost connections between consumer advertising and the earliest American movie theaters. His fascinating illustrations and archival finds demonstrate that many current efforts to market to media audiences have long roots."—Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, author of Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy"In Profit Margins, Jeremy Groskopf uncovers intriguing connections between the film and advertising industries in the early 20th century. Convincingly argued, fluidly written, and supported by an impressive range of archival sources, Groskopf sheds light on the formative struggles that defined the early theatrical experience and its business model. From this we see how today's digital advertising practices date back to innovations made during the early years of cinema."—Alisa Perren, Associate Professor, University of Texas at AustinTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Advertising Looks at Cinema1. The Front Cover Medium: Lantern Slides, Temporality, and the Commercial Break2. Screen Sugar Pills: The Advertising Trailer and the Commercialized Intermission3. Watch This Space: Peripheral Advertising Through Technologies4. The Cinema Wants to Be Free: Parks, Tickets, and Advertiser-Funded CinemaConclusion: Intemperate ProclamationsBibliographyIndex
£52.50
Indiana University Press Theorizing Colonial Cinema
Book SynopsisA fascinating read combining film and Asian studies, Theorizing Colonial Cinema reveals new contexts within film theory, history, and ideologies as it centers the question of the colonial perspective and emphasizes how the present is constantly entangled with the colonial past.Trade Review"With this excellent anthology, the history of colonization finally receives the full reckoning it deserves in articulations of film history and theory. By accounting for the legacies, stages, stagings, and afterlives of imperialism writ large and small in cinemas of or about Asia, the authors of this collection teach us how profoundly our historical and conceptual understanding of film transforms when we begin from the time and place of the colony. This is a ground shift that can no longer be ignored."—Priya Jaikumar, author of Where Histories Reside: India as Filmed Space"There was a time when writing about cinema was mostly about cinema from Western European countries and the US, spoken in one of the six European languages of Western modernity. No longer. Storytelling in moving images and non-Western languages carries within them praxes of living rooted in colonial legacies absent in the hegemonic history of Western cinematography. Theorizing Colonial Cinema is written by a majority of scholars that inhabits and endures colonial legacies and are embedded in the soundtrack languages of these moving images. This book is a landmark that complements and surpasses Third Cinema's heritage of the '60s and '70s."—Walter D. Mignolo, author of The Politis of Decolonial Investigations"A brilliant intervention into history, film, and cultural studies that goes far beyond the national cinema rubric and conventional binaries such as colonizer/colonized, white/non-white, East/West, anthropos/humanitas, theory/text, human/animal – this work by leading scholars of colonialism and film excavates cultural production and its political unconscious under colonialism to show not only the entanglements of colonialism and film but also the coloniality of cinema itself and the inevitable return of the repressed through the Cold War and postmillennial moments. A major work that will make many waves across disciplines and areas of specialization."—Takashi Fujitani, author of Race for Empire, University of TorontoTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsOn Romanization, Naming and TranslationIntroduction, by Nayoung Aimee Kwon and Takushi OdagiriPart I: "Time and Racialized Other: Colonial Modernity and Early Cinema"1. Time, Race, and the Asynchronous in the Colonial Documentaries of Malaya, by Nadine Chan2. Facing Malcontent Colonial Korean Comrades: A Typology of Colonial Cinema in Asia's Socialist Alliances, by Moonim Baek3. Colonial-Era Film Theory, Spectatorship, and the Problem of Internalization, by Aaron Gerow4. Chinese Cinema's Other: Wrangling over "China-humiliating" Films (ruHua pian), by Yiman Wang5. World Export: Melodramas of Colonial Conquest, by Jane Marie GainesPart II: "Divided Mis-en-Scène: Colonial Cinema and Cold War Afterimages"6. Tarzan/Taishan and Other Orphans: Taiwan's Melodrama of Decolonization, by Zhang Zhen7. What Is an Auteur? Hŏ Yŏng/Hinatsu Eitarō/Huyung Between (Post)Colonial Indonesia, Japan, and Korea, by Thomas A. C. Barker and Nikki J. Y. LeePart III: "Millennial Hauntings: Rising Global Asian Cinemas"8. Cinema's Coloniality, by Takushi Odagiri9. A Hallucinatory History of the Philippine-American War: Khavn's Balangiga: Howling Wilderness, by José B. Capino10. Millennial Vengeance: Park Chan-Wook's Agassi (The Handmaiden) and the Return of Postcolonial Japonisme, by Nayoung Aimee KwonIndex
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Indiana University Press Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy
Book SynopsisHighlighting the multifaceted experience of music within Jewish communities, Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy sheds new light on the place of music in complex, previously misunderstood environments.Trade ReviewBowring, Cypess, and Malamut's collection provides valuable insights into this unique and colorful period of Jewish history, a zigzag of alternating oppression and acceptance, a complex of negotiated identities. -- Joshua R. Jacobson * Early Music America *Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of Musical ExamplesList of TablesEditorial PrinciplesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction, by Rebecca Cypess1. Written in Italian, Heard as Jewish: Reconsidering the Notated Sources of Italian Jewish Music , by Francesco Spagnolo2. Miriam's Timbrel: The Decameron as Exodus, by Aaron Beck3. Traces of Jewish Music and Culture at the Urbino Court of Federico da Montefeltro , by J. Drew Stephen4. The Peripatetic Career of a Converted Jew: The Music Theorist Pietro Aaron , by Bonnie J. Blackburn5. A Fire, a Fight, and a Knight: Elye Bokher in Verse and Song , by Avery Gosfield6. The Bassanos at the Court of Henry VIII: A Story of Cooperation and Protection , by Dongmyung Ahn7. Jewish and Converted Musicians and Musical Instruments Makers in Southern Italy in the Fifteenth through Early Seventeenth Centuries, by Luigi Sisto8. Salamone Rossi's Songs of Solomon: The Pleasures and Pains of Marginality, by Stefano Patuzzi9. Orality and Literacy in the Worlds of Salamone Rossi , by Rebecca Cypess and Lynette Bowring10. L'Accademia degli Impediti: A Reevaluation , by Liza MalamutBibliography: Manuscript SourcesPrinted SourcesPrinted ScoresDiscographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Beyond Piety and Politics
Book SynopsisBy highlighting the dynamic societal and political implications of religious devotion, Beyond Piety and Politics offers a fascinating new theoretical perspective on Islam.Trade Review"Beyond Piety and Politics is an important contribution to the study of religion and politics. This well-written, carefully documented study nuances our understanding of religiosity by considering how religious groups' standings in society and vis-à-vis the state shape individuals' attitudes. It pushes the field to dismiss blunt conceptions of religiosity, focusing on how these groups navigate state and society."—Ellen Lust, University of Gothenburg"This is an excellent and sophisticated book that examines the sources of religious preferences and outlooks. It insightfully argues that communal associations shape religious outlooks and these outlooks influence political and social worldviews. The authors advance a nuanced and context-driven understanding of religion in the everyday lives of citizens in MENA."—Amaney A. Jamal, Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsDedicationList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Religious Communities, the State, and Religious Outlooks2. Attitudes of the Devout: The Nature of the Substance or the Nurture of Relationship?3. Empirical Foundations of Religious Outlooks4. The Individual and Contextual Determinants of Muslim Religious Outlooks in MENA5. Islam and Support for Democracy6. Temporal Change in Religious Outlooks and Political Preferences7. Islam and Distributive PreferencesConclusionAppendix AAppendix BBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Frontiers of Belonging
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book makes important contributions to scholarship in the fields of anthropology and refuge/migration studies. Most ethnographies of forced migration tend to focus on adult refugees. Lems provides an intimate, close-up look into the experiences of teenage unaccompanied minors."—Nell Gabiam, Iowa State University"Frontiers of Belonging beautifully and tragically renders the concept of 'exclusive inclusion' by exploring the stories of several unaccompanied refugee youth in Switzerland. . . . It calls our attention to the vast discrepancy between who refugees know themselves to be and what the Swiss bureaucracy, and the pedagogical agents (pedagogues) who come into everyday contact with refugees believes they are. . . . It is emotionally evocative and thought provoking."—Jennifer Riggan, Arcadia UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. On Doing "Being Normal"2. The Model(led) Pupil3. The Poster Child of Integration4. The Unlucky Many5. The Integration Pilot6. Existential Balancing ActsBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Remapping Cold War Media
Book SynopsisWhy were Hollywood producers eager to film on the other side of the Iron Curtain? How did Western computer games become popular in socialist Czechoslovakia's youth paramilitary clubs? What did Finnish commercial television hope to gain from broadcasting Soviet drama?Cold War media cultures are typically remembered in terms of an East-West binary, emphasizing conflict and propaganda. Remapping Cold War Media, however, offers a different perspective on the period, illuminating the extensive connections between media industries and cultures in Europe's Cold War East and their counterparts in the West and Global South. These connections were forged by pragmatic, technological, economic, political, and aesthetic forces; they had multiple, at times conflicting, functions and meanings. And they helped shape the ways in which media circulates todayfrom film festivals, to satellite networks, to coproductions. Consideringfilm, literature, radio, photography, computer games, and television,RemaTrade ReviewIn some ways, the volume reminds me of a thoughtfully organized musical album in that it tells a story with a beginning, middle and an end. Despite having multiple authors, the story develops logically from one chapter to the next—quite an accomplishment. -- Patryk Babiracki, author of Soviet Soft Power in Poland: Culture and the Making of Stalin's New Empire, 1943–1957Wide-ranging in its Cold War geography, rigorously internationalist, and focused on the concept of media over a variety of forms and methods, Lovejoy and Pajala's volume will set the standard for any future scholarship on the topic. -- Rossen Djagalov, author of From Internationalism to PostcolonialismBallasted by primary sources in all relevant languages, together these meticulously researched essays complicate, through the fluid logic of media, the conventional epochal and geopolitical fault lines of post-WWII cultures. An indispensable volume. -- Nataša Ďurovičová, coeditor of World Cinemas, Transnational PerspectivesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on Translation and Transliteration1. Introduction, by Alice Lovejoy and Mari PajalaPart I: Mobile Forms2. Stalin Boulevard: Panoramic Vistas and Urban Planning in Eastern European Photobooks, by Katie Trumpener3. The Peace Train: Anticosmopolitanism, Internationalism, and Jazz on Czechoslovak Radio during Stalinism, by Rosamund Johnston4. Soviet Drama with Commercial Breaks: Living the Cold War in 1970s Finnish Television, by Anu KoivunenPart II: Distribution, Adaptation, Reception5. Soviet Cinema in 1960s Cuba: Between Cold War Logics and Thirdworldist Affinities, by Masha Salazkina6. From the Antechamber to the International Stage: Early-Career Directors from Hungary at the Mannheim Film Festival in the Late 1970s, by Sonja Simonyi7. Manic Miners of the World, Unite! How the British Hit Computer Game Got a Second Life in Czechoslovakia, by Jaroslav Švelch8. Between Scripts: Radio Berlin International (RBI) and Its Swedish Audience in November 1989, by Marie CronqvistPart III: Translation9. On Soviet Spoken Cinema, by Elena Razlogova10. A GDR Writer in America: Christa Wolf's Visit to Oberlin and the Circulation of Her Writing as World Literature, by Brangwen Stone11. Translating Cold War Internationalism: Allegoresis in Ryszard Kapusìcinìski's Literary Reportage, by Marla Zubel12. Traveling with the President: Finnish-Soviet State Visits and 1970s Television Diplomacy, by Laura SaarenmaaPart IV: Infrastructure and Production13. Hollywood Going East: State-Socialist Studios' Opportunistic Business with American Producers, by Petr Szczepanik14. Envisioning the Revolutionary South: The Soviet-Italian Coproduction Life is Beautiful (1979), by Stefano Pisu15. Dividing the Cosmos? INTELSAT, Intersputnik, and the Development of Transnational Satellite Communications Infrastructures during the Cold War, by Christine Evans and Lars Lundgren16. Spy from the Cloud: From Big Brother to Big Data, by Anikó ImreIndex
£26.59
Indiana University Press Digital Evangelicals
Book SynopsisWhen it comes to evangelical Christianity, the internet is both a refuge and a threat. It hosts Zoom prayer groups and pornographic videos, religious revolutions and silly cat videos. Platforms such as social media, podcasts, blogs, and digital Bibles all constitute new arenas for debate about social and religious boundaries, theological and ecclesial orthodoxy, and the internet's inherent danger and value. In The Digital Evangelicals, Travis Warren Cooper locates evangelicalism as a media event rather than as a coherent religious tradition by focusing on the intertwined narratives of evangelical Christianity and emerging digital culture in the United States. He focuses on two dominant media traditions: media sincerity, immediate and direct interpersonal communication, and media promiscuity, communication with the primary goal of extending the Christian community regardless of physical distance. Cooper, whose work is informed by ethnographic fieldwork, traces these conflicting paradiTrade ReviewShedding light on the profound phenomenon of digital evangelicalism, this book sparkles with illuminating insights on the contemporary tensions and paradoxes of religious authority, as well as the vital role of new media for religious organizing in a datafied world. The Digital Evangelicals assembles a range of multimodal data across platforms to help us think more deeply about the communicative constitution of religious authority, authenticity and community. -- Pauline Hope Cheong, co-editor of Digital Religion, Social Media and Culture: Perspectives, Practices and FuturesThe Digital Evangelicals is much-needed intervention in a field chock full of books telling you what so-called evangelicals "really are" or "really should be." Cooper's attention to the discourses that define the boundaries of evangelical identity and community offer an important corrective to the search for the best definition of evangelicalism. Drawing on a unique archive of digital sources, The Digital Evangelicals shows how claims about "authentic" evangelicalism are really battles over authority and power. -- Michael J. Altman, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of AlabamaThe Digital Evangelicals is an ambitious, impressive, unprecedented work. Part cultural history, part critical textual analysis, part ethnography, it is more than the sum of these parts. Cooper's book demands a fundamental reconsideration of what it means to analyze evangelicalism as a hybrid online-offline cultural form. -- James Bielo, author of Emerging Evangelicals: Faith, Modernity, and the Desire for AuthenticityThe Digital Evangelicals is an impressive text. In addition to detailing how today's emerging evangelicals engage new media, Cooper also provides a framework for rethinking what, exactly, this thing called 'evangelicalism' even is. Through richly detailed ethnographies of Twitter debates, Instagram rituals, and Zoom church services, the book charts how communities constitute evangelicalism through media—and how social media might play a role in evangelicalism's undoing. The book is impressive both for its breadth of its analysis and the depth of its theoretical critique. -- Christopher Cantwell, co-editor of Introduction to Digital Humanities: Research Methods in the Study of ReligionTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Media and Message1. Media Sincerity and Promiscuity: Origins2. Evangelical Media Ecologies from Print to the Internet3. Evangelical Theories of the DigitalPart II: Authenticity Construction across New Media: Case Studies4. #FareWellRobBell: Heresy Discourse and the Horizontalization of Authority5. Feminist Publics and the Progressive Evangelical Blogosphere6. Instagram, Authenticity, AffectPart III: Local Technologies in a Global World7. Emerging Midwestern Evangelicals and Digital Media8. Media Ambivalence in Emerging EvangelicalismConclusion: Zoom Church, Cancel Culture, and the Exportation of Evangelical MediaAppendixGlossaryBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Crossroads of a Continent Missouri Railroads
Book SynopsisCrossroads of a Continent: The Missouri Railroad tells the story of the state's railroads and their vital role in American history.
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Indiana University Press Defying The Plan
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A valuable contribution to the literature on gender studies and resistance in Palestine and the Middle East by drawing our focus to the body and the realm of [the] intimate as a medium for experiencing subordination, whether through patriarchy or settler-colonialism, and the way the body becomes a means of resistance."—Julie Peteet, University of Louisville"Defying 'The Plan' portrays a nuanced and complex understanding of the relationship between Palestinian women, Palestinian society, and the Zionist state."—Islah Jad, Birzeit UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration and Translation Introduction1. Embodied Citizen Strangers2. Born with a Plan3. Defying Bodies4. Defying Desire5. Defying Intimate Relations6. Defying the Plan: Feminist Selves?ConclusionGlossaryBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Rooted Globalism
Book SynopsisDoes the concept of nationality apply to the economic elite, or have they shed national identities to form a global capitalist class?In Rooted Globalism, Kevin Funk unpacks dozens of ethnographic interviews he conducted with Latin America's urban-based, Arab-descendant elite class, some of whom also occupy positions of political power in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. Based on extensive fieldwork, Funk illuminates how these elites navigate their Arab ancestry, Latin American host cultures, and roles as protagonists of globalization. With the term rooted globalism, Funk captures the emergence of classed intersectional identities that are simultaneously local, national, transnational, and global. Focusing on an oft-ignored axis of South-South relations (between Latin America and the Arab world), Rooted Globalism provides detailed analysis of the identities, worldviews, and motivations of this group and ultimately reveals that rather than obliterating national identities,Trade ReviewKevin Funk's Rooted Globalism challenges the ubiquitous claim that leading capitalists have mentally divorced themselves from the nation-state as they congeal into a placeless hegemonic class with a global consciousness. Funk interviewed dozens of leading capitalists in South America and finds that the identities of these global actors intersect with ethnicity, race, family and ancestral ties, migration histories, nationality, and geography to generate an empirical class consciousness that he calls "rooted globalism." Funk concludes that the borderless one-world theme articulated by transnational corporations and corporate elites is more of a political strategy to intimidate state elites than an accurate representation of their empirical class consciousness. This pathbreaking book will interest scholars in Latin American politics and political economy, but it is a must read for anyone interested in the relationship between globalization, class formation, and the state. -- Clyde W. Barrow, author of The Dangerous Class, University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyHas the ruling class of today's global capitalist system really gone global? Do they share a global worldview or consciousness? Critically probing such crucial questions to understanding our contemporary capitalist dystopia, Rooted Globalism obliterates long-held arguments regarding the existence of a nationless capitalist class imbued with a common global identity. In examining what capitalists actually think and say, the book deftly melds fine-grained empirical research with theoretical rigor in new and innovative ways. -- Alexander Anievas, author of Capital, the State, and War, University of ConnecticutCritics of neoliberal capitalism often make a common mistake: imagining elites as global actors, who also understand themselves as such. Rooted Globalism—rich in theoretical insight and drawn from detailed interviews of Latin American elites—destabilizes this assumption. Kevin Funk demonstrates that the lived worlds of elites are not simply extensions of "global" capitalism's material logics. Instead, capitalism is always cultural, elites are rooted in places and states, and capitalism is far from coherently hegemonic. -- Isaac Kamola, author of Making the World Global: US Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary, Trinity CollegeThe intricacies of class formation in Latin America have been the object of a long tradition of critical scholarship, which tends to focus on the legacies of slavery, indigenous genocide, colonialism, and the weakness of national ruling classes. Kevin Funk brings a breath of fresh air to the field with this very original book about the "rooted globalism" of Arab-Latin American elites. Beyond presenting a wealth of new empirical research on a hitherto relatively neglected social group, the book makes a distinctive theoretical contribution to transnational class studies, challenging commonly held beliefs about the lack of local and cultural roots of transnational elites. -- Felipe Antunes de Oliveira, Queen Mary University of LondonRooted Globalism offers an incisive intervention to grasp the complex identity of the international upper class under neoliberal capitalism in the twenty-first century, evinced by unprecedented inequality. In this book Kevin Funk offers an original account of the converging and diverging forces comprising the world's capitalist class. This book uncovers the nature of the global capitalist class and the deepening global divide which threatens humanity. -- Immanuel Ness, author of Organizing Insurgency, City University of New YorkRooted Globalism traces the complicated political entanglements and economic ambitions of a Latin American elite of Arab origin. Relying on direct access to key protagonists, Funk's analysis of these South-South business linkages is nuanced, theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich. A key contribution to studies of the networked global capitalist class, Funk's book is also a must read for anyone with interest in the evolution of Latin American-Middle East relations, South-South linkages, and international political economy more broadly. -- Omar Dahi, coauthor of South–South Trade and Finance in the Twenty-First Century, Hampshire CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Capitalism and Class in Global Latin America1. Progress and Lacunae in the Study of the "Global Capitalist Class"2. How Latin America Met the Arab World3. The Tradition of Dead Generations: On the Persistence of Place-Based Longings4. Rootless Globalists? On Denationalization and Globality5. "The Flat Pluralist World of Business Class": On Constructing (and Contesting) Corporate Global ImaginariesConclusion: The Future of Global Imaginaries: Thinking Beyond Nativism and Neoliberal PropagandaBibliographyIndex
£46.50
Indiana University Press Between Home and the Front Civil War Letters of
Book SynopsisBetween Home and the Front offers not only a unique first-person account from those that experienced the Civil War but an annotation in meticulous detail to provide valuable historical context for the events, people, and material culture described in the letters.Trade Review"Between Home and the Front uses the words of the Walters family to bring a uniquely personal perspective to the suffering and sacrifices of the American Civil War. This well-referenced book uses letters, maps, and background information to illuminate one family's experiences and losses—the same kind of experiences and losses felt by millions due to war, both then and now."—Terry Reimer, Director of Research, National Museum of Civil War Medicine"Between Home and the Front stands out amid the many published collections of Civil War correspondence in numerous ways. These letters vibrantly capture the daily lives and emotional strains of countless ordinary Americans during the war years. They reflect not just one soldier's experience but a rich network of correspondents: spouses, siblings, and friends. Especially fascinating is the role played by Rachel Walters, farmer's wife-turned-schoolteacher, in orchestrating communications among relations scattered by the upheavals of war. Heidelbaugh and Paone's careful attention to all aspects of this distinctive archive—from its military and social contexts to the materiality of its envelopes—has given us an exceptional primary-source collection that will prove eye opening for any student of the Civil War."—Christopher Hager, Trinity College"This unique collection of letters offers an exceptional glimpse into one Indiana family's tragic Civil War experiences. Taking readers across the eastern and western theaters, the chase for John Hunt Morgan in Ohio, and into the northern home front, Between Home and the Front provides a broad view of the war and will be a boon for scholars and general readers alike."—Jonathan W. White, author of A House Built By Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White HouseTable of ContentsFamily TreesMapsAcknowledgmentsAbout the Letters1. Introduction2. 1861–18623. 18634. 18645. 1865 and Post-War YearsEpilogueAfterwordBibliographyIndex
£37.50
Indiana University Press Problems in Lexicography
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPrefacePart One: Introduction1. A Conference, a Book, and Their Context2. Contents3. Reception4. Text5. Contributors6. NotesPart Two: Problems in Lexicography1. The Preparation of Dictionaries I: Theoretical ConsiderationsA Typological Classification of Dictionaries on the Basis of Distinctive Features, by Yakov MalkielLexicographical Definition in Descriptive Semantics, by Uriel WeinreichWhat Belongs in the Bilingual Dictionary?, by Mary HaasSome Notes on Bilingual Lexicography, by Richard S. Harrell and Ann M. DriscollRecommendations on the Selection of Entries for a Bilingual Dictionary, by Donald C. SwansonComments, by Dean Stoddard Worth2. Structural Linguistics and the Preparation of DictionariesThe Relation of Lexicon and Grammar, by H. A. Gleason, Jr.Lexicography and Grammar, by Henry M. HoenigswaldStructural Linguistics and Bilingual Dictionaries, by Kemp MaloneLexicographical Treatment of Folk Taxonomies, by Harold C. ConklinComments, by James Sledd3. The Preparation of Dictionaries II: Practical ConsiderationsSelection and Presentation of Ready Equivalents in a Translation Dictionary, by Samuel E. MartinProblems in Editing Commercial Monolingual Dictionaries, by C. L. BarnhartUse and Preparation of Specialized Glossaries, by Meredith F. Burrill and Edwin Bonsack, Jr.Meaning Discrimination in Bilingual Dictionaries, by James E. IannucciThe Labeling of National and Regional Variation in Popular Dictionaries, by Allen Walker ReadComments, by William Gedney4. Lexicographical Problems in Specific LanguagesLexicographical Problems in Pashto, by O. L. Chavarría-Aguilar and Herbert PenzlProblems in Modern Greek Lexicography, by Henry and Renée KahaneProblems of Turkish Lexicography, by Andreas TietzeComments, by William S. Cornyn5. AppendicesSummary Report, by Fred D. HouseholderProgram of the ConferenceParticipants in the ConferenceReferencesIndex
£55.50
Indiana University Press Israeli Bourekas Films
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Israeli Bourekas Films offers much needed analysis of the phenomenon popularly called 'Bourekas films' and how they draw on representations of shtetl life from Yiddish literature."—Deborah Starr, author of Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt: Literature, Culture, and Empire"Highly Recommended."—Igeret: The Newsletter of the National Association of Professors of HebrewTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionBirth of the Bourekas: Sallah and Its InnovationsA Thematic Analysis of BourekasMizrahi Self Representation FilmsBourekas and Classical Yiddish LiteratureThe Dynamics of Continuity between Two Disparate CulturesBourekas Legacy: Post-Bourekas and Neo-BourekasBibliographyIndex
£19.19
Indiana University Press Martin Buber
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Buber held that he had not teaching but rather sought to carry on a conversation, inviting others to think along with him about the essential issues of our creaturely and social life. In this deftly edited volume, Sarah Scott brings together essays that engage in a conversation with Buber. As in any genuine conversation it is without closure, free of dogmatic reflexes, and hence illuminates the abiding relevance of that conversation."—Paul Mendes-Flohr, author of Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent"Martin Buber: Creaturely Life and Social Form is a valuable, fresh introduction to Buber's thought."—Steven G. Smith, Millsaps CollegeTable of Contents1. Introduction: A Martin Buber Renaissance, by Sarah ScottPart I: Religious Dialogue2. Martin Buber and Catholic-Atheist Dialogue, by Peter A. Huff3. Reading Martin Buber's Bible: Translation and Commentary, by Claire E. SufrinPart II: Theopolitics4. Is the Dialogue Between Heaven and Earth an I-Thou Relation?, by Samuel Hayim Brody5. The Hasidic Zaddik as Theopolitical Leader, by Yemima HadadPart III: Zionism and Bi-Nationalism6. Exile and Alienation in Martin Buber's Philosophical Anthropology, by William Plevan7. Martin Buber, Metaphysics, and the Aesthetics of Bi-Nationalism, by Zachary J. BraitermanPart IV: Philosophy8. Chaos, Abgrund, and Wirbel: On Buber's Notion of Ambivalence, by Asaf Ziderman9. The Eloquent Muteness of Creatures: Affect and Animals in Martin Buber's Dialogical Writings, by Dustin Atlas10. Monologue Disguised as Dialogue: Almodóvar's Talk to Her and Buber on the "Lovers' Talk", by Sarah ScottList of ContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Climate Change and Resilience in Indiana and
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsLand AcknowledgmentForeword, by Jeffrey S. Dukes and Melissa Widhalm1. Introduction: Resilience and Climate Change in Indiana, by Janet G. McCabe, Gabriel M. Filippelli, Kimberly A. Novick, and James Shanahan2. Climate and Water Systems, by Ben Kravitz, Douglas Edmonds, Gabriel M. Filippelli, Chanh Kieu, Travis A. O'Brien, Scott Robeson, Paul Staten, Brian Yanites, and Chen Zhu3. Indiana Forest Resilience is a Matter of Scale and Perspective, by Kimberly A. Novick, Sarah Mincey, Rebecca Lave, John Baeten, Justin Maxwell, and Richard Phillips4. Biodiversity and Species Movements: Nurturing and Managing Biodiversity in Indiana, by Ellen D. Ketterson, Daniel Becker, Geoffrey Brown, Allison Byrd, Keith Clay, Adam Fudickar, Matthew Houser, Alex Jahn, Jennifer Ann Lau, and Sarah Wanamaker5. Hoosier Agriculture in a Changing Climate: Our Food and Farming System's History, Contemporary Challenges, and Opportunities to Sow Resilience, by Matthew Houser, James Robert Farmer, Elizabeth Grennan Browning, and John Baeten6. Built Environments and Green Infrastructure: Growing Long-lasting Urban Resilience, by Heather L. Reynolds, Matthew Houser, Samantha L. Hamlin, Dana Habeeb, Jeffrey S. Wilson, Daniel Myers, and Gabriel M. Filippelli7. Resilience and "The Indiana Way": Hoosiers Respond to Environmental Change, by Elizabeth Grennan Browning and Eric Sandweiss8. Communicating Resilience: Challenges and Examples, by Beth Edwards and Nathan Geiger9. Tools and Leadership for Community Resilience, by Janet G. McCabe and Andrea Webster10. Equitability, Health, and Resilience in the Face of Climate Change, by Gabriel M. Filippelli, Dana Habeeb, Jeffrey S. Wilson, and Heather L. Reynolds11. Building Resilience to an Energy Transition in Indiana, by David M. Konisky, Nikolaos Zirogiannis, and Sanya Carley12. Conclusion: Moving Forward Toward Resilience, by Eva Sanders Allen and Lingxi ChenyangContributorsIndex
£15.99
Indiana University Press Wandering Women
Book SynopsisWandering Women: Urban Ecologies of Italian Feminist Filmmakingexploresthe work of contemporary Italian women directors from feminist and ecological perspectives. Mostly relegated to the margins of the cultural scene, and concerned with women's marginality, the compelling films Wandering Women sheds light on tell stories of displacement and liminality that unfold through the act of walking in the city.The unusual emptiness of the cities that the nomadic female protagonists traverse highlights the absence of, and their wish for, life-sustaining communities.Laura Di Bianco contends thatwomen's urban filmmakingwhile articulating a claim for belonging and asserting cinematic and social agencybrings into view landscapes of the Anthropocene, where urban decay and the erasure of nature intersect with human alienation.Though a minor cinema, it is also a powerful movement of resistance against the dominant male narratives about the world we inhabit. Based on interviews with directors,WanderinTrade ReviewLaura Di Bianco combines ecocritical and feminist perspectives with acute awareness of social inequalities as she travels through the landscape of contemporary women's cinema in Italy. For its interdisciplinary outlook, Wandering Women will be of great interest to readers in Italian studies, gender studies, and environmental humanities. They will discover eight remarkable women film directors spanning three generations, who treat the urban environment as a living ecology. -- Giuliana Bruno, Harvard University, author of Streetwalking on a Ruined MapWandering Women invites readers on a lively voyage through Italian urban environments, from Milan to Rome, from Naples to Taranto and Reggio Calabria, following a dynamic canon of films made by Italian women directors. Addressing questions of ideology, geography, ecology, and aesthetics, Di Bianco's engrossing book examines figures both on screen and behind the scenes, showing how innovative filmmakers and their films reciprocally shape cinematic, urban, and affective places. This groundbreaking study is built on Di Bianco's deep knowledge of cinematic history and its many protagonists—directors, production crews, cities, ecologies, landscapes. Wandering Women is a convivial, generative conversation across generations of filmmakers. It is an innovative and timely treatise on ecology, cinema, and the Anthropocene in Italy, one that is destined to become a landmark in Italian film studies. -- Elena Past, author of Italian Ecocinema Beyond the HumanTable of ContentsPreface: Women Make Movies in ItalyAcknowledgmentsNote on TranslationIntroduction: Mapping Italian Women's Filmmaking1. Walking in Resilient Cities: Traveling with CeciliaFegatello: The Nightless City2. Urban Wandering, Scrapbooking, and Filmmaking: As the Shadow, My Tomorrow, Poetry You See MeFegatello: Ophelia Does Not Drown3. Mothers and Daughters: Stories of Survival and Care: The White Space, I Like to WorkFegatello: All About You4. Coming of Age in the City: Garbage, Corpses, and Miracles: Corpo Celeste, Domenica, Lost KissesFegatello: The Macaluso Sisters5. A Psychogeology of the City: N-AbleFegatello: In This WorldEpilogue: The Cities of WomenFilmographyBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press When We Collide
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Epstein-Levi has written the first book in Jewish ethics that neither condescends nor preaches to its reader. This is nothing short of liberation. There are very few academic books that are such a joy to read."—Martin Kavka, Florida State University"Rebecca Epstein-Levi's When We Collide brings rabbinic texts to life, literally. Epstein-Levi looks at how rabbinic texts match up against life, how they illuminate, and are illuminated by, lived sexual experience in the 21st century. Epstein-Levi is not content to stay in the comfortable realm of scholarly theory, though she does that too. She gets into the nuts and bolts of sex – how people actually behave, not how they like to say they behave, or how think they should behave, but how they actually do – to find insights from canonical Jewish traditions that can serve as guidance. Those insights do not come from the usual rabbinic-text suspects, however, but from texts that on the face of it are entirely unrelated to sex – texts on purity, texts with stories about rabbis interacting with other rabbis, texts that issue laws of capital punishment. Epstein-Levi finds in these far-flung and faraway ancient texts the resources – or as Epstein-Levi calls it, the dialogue partners – for a fresh sexual ethics today. She is able to make these connections because she starts with the presumption that sex is social, not separate and private, and that it is bound up with who we are in the fullest sense – in all our sexual, physical, and neuro diversity – and with how our communities operate. As we face a never-ending pandemic and a climate crisis that keeps getting worse, Epstein-Levi's reflections on risk as it relates to social life, sex, and the human experience feel all too timely and utterly pressing. When We Collide helps us to read rabbinic texts and to navigate sexual and social relationships, and it does by bringing the two fields together – rabbinics and sexual ethics – in a totally new way."—Beth Berkowitz, Ingeborg Rennert Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religion, Barnard College.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Groundings1. Textual Intercourse: Grounding Sexual Ethics in Jewish Sources2. Social Intercourse: Why Sex Is Enmeshed in Sociality3. Risky Business: Why Risk Is Inherent in SocialityPart II: Case Studies on Community and Risk4. STIs: Infection, Impurity, and Managing Social Contagion5. BDSM: Risk, Pleasure, and Polymorphous CommunityConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
£46.50
Indiana University Press Independent Africa
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this revealing book, a distinguished historian trains his eyes on the first two decades of Africa's independence. Erudite and judicious to a fault, Emanuel Akyeampong ranges from religion and the arts to economics and politics to weave a fascinating synthesis that does not skimp on the telling detail and the complexities of a variegated continent. Economists and other social scientists interested in the political economy of development will learn much from this book."—Dani Rodrik, Harvard University"In this fascinating book, distinguished historian Emmanuel Akyeampong offers an insightful, nuanced, and comparative analysis of nation building, economic development, and shifting international relations in select post-independent African countries in the 1960s and 1970s. It brilliantly examines the political and economic thought of the new leaders in the context of the dominant development paradigms of the time, as well as the complex development trajectories of their new nations. An impressive achievement that is a must read for anyone who wishes to understand the political and cultural economies of early postcolonial Africa."—Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAcronyms and AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Africa in the Twentieth Century2. Religion, Culture, and the Arts in the Making of the Africa Nation State3. Economic Imaginaries: African Leaders and Development Economics4. Pan-African Socialism: The African Developmental State, Regional Integration, and Worldmaking5. Nkrumah, Cocoa, and the United States: The Vision of an Industrialized African Nation-StateConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Catalonias Human Towers
Book SynopsisTrade Review"On the whole, Catalonia's Human Towers is a marvelous ethnography, reliant on fine-grained insights gained from thorough fieldwork. Her prose is highly accessible, and her text is alive to contemporary concerns within anthropology, performance studies, nationalist studies, and allied disciplines."—Jeremy MacClancy, author of Anthropology in the Public Arena: Historical and Contemporary Contexts"Mariann Vaczi takes us inside the complex embodied collaboration that generates Catalonia's human towers. Celebrated as allegories of national striving, raised literally to new heights by the incorporation of women and girls, transitioning from festival into sport, these ephemeral constructions also anchor support networks and mediate social inclusion. Tracing the practice through the European economic crisis, the Catalan independence referendum, and the COVID-19 pandemic, Vaczi elegantly captures the force of endlessly renewed collective effort against the eternal threat of collapse."—Dorothy Noyes, author of Fire in the Plaça: Catalan Festival Politics After Franco, and Humble Theory: Folklore's Grasp on Social Life."At the intersection of effervescent regional separatism, cultural habits of competition and death-defying risk, multiple activisms, gender tensions, and intergenerational solidarity lies an unusual form of bodily confluence: the Catalan human tower. Mariann Vaczi weaves her vivid ethnographic account, as structured and as intricate as the towers of living bodies she describes, to show us how social actors physically debate the dilemmas of identity in daring, defiant, and demonstrative displays. Through her intensely observed account of the enduring tug-of-war between the sensual and the sensible, Vaczi brings immersive fieldwork and political history into a lively and engaging synergy."—Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University"This lovely book is as intriguing and illuminating as the incredible ten story human towers it describes. Vaczi takes us on a journey into the world of the castells and their Catalan makers in a brilliant exploration of solidarity and complexity at possibility's tottering edge."—Orin Starn, author of The Passion of Tiger Woods: An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal."Catalonia's Human Towers demonstrates how close attention to a visually spectacular sporting event can enhance our understanding of local politics, ethnic relations, and social organization and identity. Mariann Vaczi has produced a magnificent, beautifully written and illustrated contribution to the ethnography of contemporary Iberia and the Mediterranean world. It is a literary and social scientific treasure"—Stanley Brandes, University of California, Berkeley.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Sisyphean AscentVisual Glossary1. From "People of Farts and Burps" to Crowning the Olympic Games2. The Politics, Erotics, and Social Class of Touch and the Body3. Risking the Fall4. Rivalry, Antagonism, and Identity Among the Boys of Valls5. Bones Have No Gender6. The Grace in Every Child7. At the Height of DeathEpilogue: Rebuilding Towers in Messianic Times and the Global PandemicBibliographyIndex
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