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Book SynopsisThis anthology addresses the relationship between the events of the Nazi genocide and the intellectual concerns of contemporary literary and cultural theory in one volume. It collects together both classic and new theoretical writings.Table of ContentsTheory and experience -- The Drowned and the Saved / Primo Levi -- 'Resentments' / Jean Améry -- Days and Memory Charlotte Delbo -- 'The Camps' / Ruth Kluger -- Historicizing the Holocaust? -- 'On the Public Use of History' / Jürgen Habermas -- 'The "Final Solution": On the Unease in Historical Interpretation' / Saul Friedlander -- 'Historical Understanding and Counterrationality: The Judenrat as Epistemological Vantage' / Dan Diner -- 'The Uniqueness and Normality of the Holocaust' / Zygmunt Bauman -- 'The European Imagination in the Age of Total War' / Omer Bartov -- The Origins of the Nazi Genocide / Henry Friedlander -- Nazi culture, fascism, and antisemitism -- 'The Rhetoric of Hitler's "Battle" / Kenneth Burke -- 'The Psychological Structure of Fascism' / Georges Bataille -- 'Elements of Anti-Semitism' / Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno -- 'The Fiction of the Political' / Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe -- 'Anti-Semitism and National Socialism' / Moishe Postone -- 'Ordinary Men' / Christopher Browning -- Race, gender, and genocide -- 'Floods, Bodies, History' / Klaus Theweleit -- 'Racism and Sexism in Nazi Germany' / Gisela Bock -- 'The Unethical and the Unspeakable: Women and the Holocaust' / Joan Ringelheim -- 'Women and the Holocaust: Analyzing Gender Difference' / Pascale Rachel Bos -- Psychoanalysis, trauma, and memory -- 'Trauma and Experience' / Cathy Caruth -- 'Trauma, Absence, Loss' / Dominick LaCapra -- 'Trauma and Transference' / Saul Friedlander -- 'History Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Some Thoughts on the Representation of Trauma' / Eric L. Santner -- 'Bearing Witness or the Vicissitudes of Listening' / Dori Laub -- Questions of religion, ethics, and justice -- 'Thinking the Tremendum' / Arthur A. Cohen -- 'To Mend the World' / Emil L. Fackenheim -- 'Ethics and Spirit' / Emmanuel Levinas -- Eichmann in Jerusalem / Hannah Arendt -- 'What is a Camp?' / Giorgio Agamben -- The Differend / Jean-François Lyotard -- 'New Political Theology: Out of Holocaust and Liberation' / Gillian Rose -- Literature and culture after Auschwitz -- 'Theses on the Philosophy of History' / Walter Benjamin -- 'Cultural Criticism and Society' / Theodor W. Adorno -- 'Meditations on Metaphysics' / Theodor W. Adorno -- 'Writing and the Holocaust' / Irving Howe -- 'Non-Philosophical Amazement: Writing in Amazement: Benjamin's Position in the Aftermath of the Holocaust' / Sigrid Weigel -- The Writing of the Disaster / Maurice Blanchot -- 'Shibboleth' / Jacques Derrida -- 'Language and Culture after the Holocaust' / Geoffrey H. Hartman -- 'Representing Auschwitz' / Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi -- Modes of narration -- 'The Moral Space of Figurative Discourse' / Berel Lang -- 'Writing the Holocaust' / James E. Young -- 'The Modernist Event' / Hayden White -- 'Against Foreshadowing' / Michael André Bernstein -- 'Deep Memory: The Buried Self' / Lawrence L. Langer -- 'The Return of the Voice: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah' / Shoshana Felman -- Rethiking visual culture -- Reflections of Nazism / Saul Friedlander -- 'Holocaust' / Jean Baudrillard -- 'Anselm Kiefer: the Terror of History, the Temptation of Myth' / Andreas Huyssen -- 'The Aesthetic Transformation of the Image of the Unimaginable: Notes on Claude Lanzmann's Shoah' / Gertrud Koch -- 'In Plain Sight' / Lilliane Weissberg -- Latecomers: negative symbiosis, postmemory, and countermemory -- 'Memory Shot Through with Holes' / Henri Raczymow -- 'Mourning and Postmemory' / Marianne Hirsch -- 'Negative Symbiosis: Germans and Jews after Auschwitz' / Dan Diner -- 'The Countermonument: Memory Against Itself in Germany' / James E. Young -- Uniqueness, comparison, and the politics of memory -- 'Two Kinds of Uniqueness: The Universal Aspects of the Holocaust' / Alan Milchman and Alan Rosenberg -- 'What Was the Holocaust?' / Yehuda Bauer -- The Black Atlantic / Paul Gilroy -- 'Thinking about Genocide' / Mahmood Mamdani -- 'Dare to Compare: Americanizing the Holocaust' / Lilian Friedberg -- The Holocaust in American Life / Peter Novick.

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Book SynopsisCovers the evolution of drug-resistant diseases and HIV/AIDS, along with data on mortality figures and other relevant statistics. This book chronicles perceptions and responses to plague and pestilence over two thousand years of western history.Trade Review"Hays has written a remarkable book. He too has a message: that epidemics are primarily dependent on poverty and that the West has consistently refused to accept this. Hays's book should be in every undergraduate library and be recommended reading, as a whole or in part, in a wide range of history of medicine courses." * Isis *"Required reading for any university-level course on the social history of disease and, indeed, of medicine generally. A masterly and reliable synthesis." * American Historical Review *"This is an impressive piece of work. It delivers more than it promises, for it not only treats epidemics and Western responses to them, but also discusses conflicting ideas about disease in relation to such topics as population, tuberculosis, technology, and empire—and all in a lucid, even-handed, and generous way. A fine and focused overview of a significant range of topics in the history of medicine." -- M. Jeanne Peterson * Indiana University *"In The Burdens of Disease J. N. Hays has synthesized a very large literature dealing with the history of medicine and disease. The result is an original and impressive book that deserves a wide readership. It provides a fascinating perspective on contemporary health issues." -- Gerald Grob * Institute for Health Policy, Rutgers University *"An impressive text. Hays has presented us with a well-researched and insightful thesis, which deserves a wide readership not only among the microbiologically inclined, but also among all those concerned with the impact of microbial disease on public policy." * Bulletin of the Royal College of Pathologists *Table of ContentsList of Tables ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1One: The Western Inheritance: Greek and Roman Ideas about Disease 9Two: Medieval Diseases and Responses 19Three: The Great Plague Pandemic 37Four: New Diseases and Transatlantic Exchanges 62Five: Continuity and Change: Magic, Religion, Medicine, and Science, 500–1700 77Six: Disease and the Enlightenment 105Seven: Cholera and Sanitation 135Eight: Tuberculosis and Poverty 155Nine: Disease, Medicine, and Western Imperialism 179Ten: The Scientific View of Disease and the Triumph of Professional Medicine 214Eleven: The Apparent End of Epidemics 243Twelve: Disease and Power 283 Notes 315 Suggestions for Further Reading 341 Index 357

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Book SynopsisLegendary for a combination of spiritual power, beauty, charisma, showmanship, intimidation, and shrewd business sense, Marie Leveau also was known for her kindness and charity. This book explores social, political, and legal setting in which the lives of Laveau's African and European ancestors became intertwined in nineteenth-century New Orleans.

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Book SynopsisSince the early 1950s, John Paul Lederach has travelled worldwide as a mediation trainer and conflict resolution consultant. He has worked with governments, justice departments, and youth programs in Latin America, the Philippines, Cambodia, Somalia, and Africa. Drawing on his experience, Lederach explains the process and key variables used in teaching conflict resolution.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"What emerges from this deeply critical, at times humorous, foray into African American food history is a theoretical work as sensuous as the subject matter. Witt takes the reader on a journey through popular food discourses and along the way unpacks the signifiers of belonging, resistance, abjection, purity, and lust. Reading Black Hunger, I was reminded that food is not simply good to eat, it is also good to think with."—American Anthropologist"A fascinating look at food’s role in African-American culture."—Chicago Sun-Times"A well-researched and insightful discussion of the creation of mythology about black women and food."—Women’s Review of Books"The work is an impressive collection of cultural artifacts that allow a reader to understand the political implications of purchasing a bottle of Aunt Jemima syrup, or the gender-specific implications that adopting a vegetarian diet may hold for African American women."—MultiCultural Review Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ProloguePart I Servant Problems One "Look Ma, the Real Aunt Jemima!" Consuming Identities under Capitalism Two Biscuits Are Being Beaten: Craig Claiborne and the Epistemology of the Kitchen DominatrixPart II Soul Food and Black masculinity Three "Eating Chitterlings Is Like Going Slumming": Soul Food and Its Discontents Four "Pork or Women": Purity and Danger in the Nation of Islam Five Of Watermelon and Men: Dick Gregory's Cloacal ContinuumPart III Black Female Hunger Six "My Kitchen Was the World": Vertamae Smart Grosvenor's Geechee Diaspora Seven "How Mama Started to Get Large": Eating Disorders, Fetal Rights, and Black Female AppetiteEpilogue Appendix African American Cookbooks Chronological Bibliography of Cookbooks by African Americans Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisWritten by the author of "The Colonizer and the Colonized", this book reevaluates colonialism's legacy.

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Book SynopsisTwelve-year-old Seth wants to prove to his stepfather, the game warden, that he is responsible enough to use his shotgun on his own and shoots his first rabbit without permission. But when he sees poachers slaughter a moose cow and injure her calf, Seth must try to rescue the moose and bring the poachers to justice.Trade Review"A quick-moving adventure that, without preachiness, shows the importance of knowledgeable gun use and respect for wildlife." —Kirkus Reviews"Casanova’s description of the frigid, northern Minnesota landscape is so chillingly vivid a cup of hot chocolate may be in order." —Booklist"A fast-paced adventure story, frequently helped along by Casanova’s precise and evocative descriptions. Seth is a winning character." —School Library Journal

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Flusser transforms gesture to the level of metaphor, offering deep, sometimes metaphysical, interpretation of the human condition. Though it resists being put in a particular disciplinary niche, Gestures will surely become a standard for the many scholars who have already debated or acknowledged the value of Flusser’s claims."—CHOICE"Flusser’s book transcends the time in which it was written."—International Journal of Communication"Flusser's writings have a more accessible style, offering precise examples and analogies to specify key concepts. For this reason, the work of Flusser, especially Gestures, eclectically engages with deconstructive paradigms of philosophy at a level accessible to undergraduate students and academics."—Screen BodiesTable of ContentsContentsTranslator’s PrefaceGesture and Affect: The Practice of a Phenomenology of GesturesBeyond Machines (But Still within the Phenomenology of Gestures)The Gesture of WritingThe Gesture of SpeakingThe Gesture of MakingThe Gesture of LovingThe Gesture of DestroyingThe Gesture of PaintingThe Gesture of PhotographingThe Gesture of FilmingThe Gesture of Turning a Mask AroundThe Gesture of PlantingThe Gesture of ShavingThe Gesture of Listening to MusicThe Gesture of Smoking a PipeThe Gesture of TelephoningThe Gesture of VideoThe Gesture of SearchingAppendix: Toward a General Theory of GesturesTranslator’s NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA lively tour of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century, this book traces the development of America's industrial power and its commercial deployment, at home and abroad. It sets the American story within the dramatic context of the rise and fall of political empires in Europe and Asia and two devastating world wars.Trade Review"A brilliant book in this competitive market. . . . an excellent synthesis of the history of the United States from Theodore Roosevelt's succession to the Presidency in 1901 to Franklin D. Roosevelt's death in 1945 or, actually, the end of the war in the Pacific. . . . [It] reads well and has a compelling fascination." -- Francis M. Carroll,co-author of The Free and the Unfree

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Book SynopsisA holistic study of five key texts of Athenian oratory, this book unravels the complex cultural constructions of sexual labor in classical Athens and offers a new perspective on the history of sex laborers in ancient Greece.Trade Review[Sexual Labor in the Athenian Courts] will be a valuable addition to the library of scholars in Athenian forensic oratory and ancient sexuality and gender. * The Classical Review *[A] splendid and important book...Glazebrook’s demonstration of the potential power of even enslaved sex laborers in Athens is a signal example of the many insights found in this volume. Scholars of Athens, and academics pursuing gender and liberation studies, are alike now indebted to Allison Glazebrook for an outstanding book, well-organized, well-researched and well-written, offering a pioneering approach to the writing of social history. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *A valuable contribution to the field…[Sexual Labor in the Athenian Courts] is a book which will be valuable for new students of sexuality and gender in antiquity and for experienced scholars alike...Glazebrook provides a worthwhile discussion of how the portrayal of sex labourers is used by the orators to expose and test the tensions within Athenian social norms and institutions...the book’s streamlined focus constrains discussions to the Attic orators, resulting in a tight, focused and thorough exploration of sexual labour within the genre. * Journal of Hellenic Studies *Glazebrook’s writing is clear and to the point. The introduction’s explanation of the Athenian court system, with a map indicating potential locations of the courts, reveals two strengths of the book that will be found throughout: incorporating material evidence and maintaining accessibility for nonspecialists...The standout features of the book are its consideration of place and movement, its inclusion of material culture, its amplification of female citizenship, and its accessibility...The book achieves its aims of treating the trope of the sex laborer in the orators as a window into Athenian society. * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Figures A Note to the Reader Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Under the Influence 2. In the Oikos 3. Part of the Family 4. Same-Sex Desire 5. Citizen Sex Slaves Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLiterary evidence is often silent about the lives of women in antiquity, particularly those from the buried cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Even when women are considered, they are often seen through the lens of their male counterparts. In this collection, Brenda Longfellow and Molly Swetnam-Burland have gathered an outstanding group of scholars to give voice to both the elite and ordinary women living on the Bay of Naples before the eruption of Vesuvius. Using visual, architectural, archaeological, and epigraphic evidence, the authors consider how women in the region interacted with their communities through family relationships, businesses, and religious practices, in ways that could complement or complicate their primary social roles as mothers, daughters, and wives. They explore women-run businesses from weaving and innkeeping to prostitution, consider representations of women in portraits and graffiti, and examine how women expressed their identities in the funerary realm. PrTrade ReviewThis volume challenges the reader to look for women in the archaeological record—even where they are not immediately visible—and to hear them in the silences. Giving voice to a wider cross-section of Pompeiian women, this volume makes an excellent contribution not only to Roman material culture studies of Pompeii, but also to female agency in the Roman world more broadly. * Antiquity *These essays do much to make the fascinating archaeological material accessible. * Shepherd *A pathbreaking collection of essays that challenge us to rethink gender-based occupational stereotypes, Roman women’s identities and public participation in spheres exclusively associated with Roman elite men...Challenging familiar elitist-classicist standards dominating past scholarship, this book pushes women’s and gender studies, feminist art history, urban materiality, women’s local involvement and daily lives into a new era of research...this book is very useful for researchers as well as students, with enormous potential to shape future research on Roman women. * CLARA *Women’s Lives, Women’s Voices is an incredibly important and enlightening volume for which its editors and contributors should be commended...Each chapter returns agency to one or another group of women in the Bay of Naples, and these re-centering efforts involve women of many more classes, statuses, and communities than is typical...The volume’s extensive bibliography, high production quality (including seventy-six figures and sixteen full-color plates), and relatively affordable price only enhance its utility and accessibility. * Woman's Art Journal *The contributors bring novel approaches and interpretations to well-studied evidence...This volume offers innovative ways of looking at evidence, helps to correct the scholarly blindness of the past and unveils the diverse lives of the women who dwelt in Pompeii and Herculaneum. * Journal of Roman Culture *Brenda Longfellow and Molly Swetnam-Burland’s Women’s Lives, Women’s Voices: Roman Material Culture and Female Agency in the Bay of Naples…[is] indicative of both the vibrancy of this field and the need for future research. * Opuscula: Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Introduction. Negotiating Silence, Finding Voices, and Articulating Agency (Brenda Longfellow and Molly Swetnam-Burland) Part I. Public and Commercial Identities Chapter 1. Pompeian Women and the Making of a Material History (Lauren Hackworth Petersen) Chapter 2. Women’s Work? Investors, Money-Handlers, and Dealers (Molly Swetnam-Burland) Chapter 3. From Household to Workshop: Women, Weaving, and the Peculium (Lauren Caldwell) Chapter 4. Buying Power: The Public Priestesses of Pompeii (Barbara Kellum) Chapter 5. Real Estate for Profit: Julia Felix’s Property and the Forum Frieze (Eve D’Ambra) Part II. Women on Display Chapter 6. Contextualizing the Funerary and Honorific Portrait Statues of Women in Pompeii (Brenda Longfellow) Chapter 7. Portraits and Patrons: The Women of the Villa of the Mysteries in Their Social Context (Elaine K. Gazda) Chapter 8. “What’s in a Name?” Mapping Women’s Names from the Graffiti of Pompeii and Herculaneum (Erika Zimmermann Damer) Chapter 9. The Public and Private Lives of Pompeian Prostitutes (Sarah Levin-Richardson) Part III. Representing Women Chapter 10. Women, Art, Power, and Work in the House of the Chaste Lovers at Pompeii (Jennifer Trimble) Chapter 11. The House of the Triclinium (V.2.4) at Pompeii: The House of a “Courtesan”? (Luciana Jacobelli) Chapter 12. Sex on Display in Pompeii’s Tavern VII.7.18 (Jessica Powers) Chapter 13. Drawings of Women at Pompeii (Margaret L. Laird) Epilogue. The Complexity of Silence (Allison L. C. Emmerson) List of Contributors Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Combining superb scholarship, a palpable passion for his subject, and a singular sensibility for the art of the moving image, Thomas Lamarre has produced a landmark work in cultural theory and media history. The Anime Machine navigates the intercultural and transmedia complexities of the worlds of anime with expertise and originality. Everyone from the anime enthusiast to the philosopher will come away with a heightened appreciation of one of the defining art forms of our era.” —Brian Massumi, author of Parables for the Virtual“With the help of thinkers such as Deleuze and Guattari, Thomas Lamarre identifies in anime an originary machinic force, one that traverses both animation and cinema, with a capacity for heteropoeisis through technological practices. This is an inspiringly sophisticated and imaginative book.” —Rey Chow, author of Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese FilmsTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: The Anime Machine Part I. Multiplanar Image 1. Cinematism and Animetism 2. Animation Stand 3. Compositing 4. Merely Technological Behavior 5. Flying Machines 6. Full Animation 7. Only a Girl Can Save Us Now 8. Giving Up the Gun Part II. Exploded View 9. Relative Movement 10. Structures of Depth 11. The Distributive Field 12. Otaku Imaging 13. Multiple Frames of Reference 14. Inner Natures 15. Full Limited Animation Part III. Girl Computerized 16. A Face on the Train 17. The Absence of Sex 18. Platonic Sex 19. Perversion 20. The Spiral Dance of Symptom and Specter 21. Emergent Positions 22. Anime Eyes Manga Conclusion: Patterns of Serialization Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom Nausicaä to Sailor Moon, understanding girl heroines of manga and anime within otaku culture.Trade Review"A foundational book illuminating the phenomenon of cool Japan, Beautiful Fighting Girl explains the global desire for images of little girls that kick ass. Sait ’s uncomfortably deep understanding of the particulars of this Japanese phenomenon allows us to finally begin to answer questions about the far-reaching implications of the now nearly universal fetish, of our atomizing technologies of interactivity, and of our obsessions with new media. Its place in contemporary letters is nearly unparalleled and I wouldn’t be surprised if this book gives that once a decade jostle leading to the n-th wave of feminism or a complete reconfiguration of our understanding of male desire." —Jonathan E. Abel, Pennsylvania State UniversityTable of ContentsA Note on the Translation Translator’s Introduction J. Keith Vincent Beautiful Fighting Girl Preface 1. The Psychopathology of Otaku 2. Letter from an Otaku 3. Beautiful Fighting Girls outside Japan 4. The Strange Kingdom of Henry Darger 5. A Genealogy of the Beautiful Fighting Girl 6. The Emergence of the Phallic Girls Afterword to the First Edition (2000) Afterword to the Paperback Edition (2006) Commentary: The Elder Sister of Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals (2006) Hiroki Azuma Notes Index

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Book SynopsisCornelia Hahn Oberlander is one of the most important landscape architects of the twentieth century, yet despite her lasting influence, few outside the field know her name. Susan Herrington draws on archival research, site analyses, and numerous interviews with Oberlander and her collaborators to offer the first biography of this adventurous and influential landscape architect.Trade Review“This is a wonderful book about a remarkable woman. Susan Herrington deftly embeds the life and career of Cornelia Oberlander into the trajectory of modern landscape architecture, giving her her rightful place among leading modern designers. Oberlander is a trailblazer for women and for landscape architecture, always addressing Canada’s distinct cultures and landscapes, where she is now a national treasure.” —Kenneth Helphand, University of Oregon, author of Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime.

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Book SynopsisOffers a different view of the relationship of knowledge and practice and of the role of practitioners in educational change. This book offers the notion of inquiry as stance as a challenge to various arrangements and outcomes of schools and other educational contexts.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Mobilizing disparate resources in lyric poetry, personal reflection, and queer theory, Michael Snediker argues for an optimism not reducible to hope and not opposed to knowledge. Queer Optimism demands that we think again about enjoyment, pain, personhood, and whether and how we live our theories. It’s a challenging book of fresh perspectives and previously unwritable sentences." —Rei Terada, author of Looking Away:Phenomenality and Dissatisfaction, Kant to Adorno"Queer Optimism is a major—potentially paradigm-shifting—work in queer theory. I cannot remember the last time I learned so much from reading a work of literary criticism." —Tim Dean, Director of the Humanities Institute, University at Buffalo (SUNY)

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Book SynopsisHow the picturing of insects inspired new ideas about art, science, nature, and commerce Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Specimen LogicI. Insects as Objects and Insects as Subjects: Establishing Conventions for Illustrating Insects1. Joris Hoefnagel’s Imaginary Insects: Inventing an Artistic Identity2. Cutting and Pasting Nature into Print: Ulisse Aldrovandi’s and Thomas Moffet’s Images of Insects 3. Suitable for Framing: Insects in Early Still Life PaintingsII. New Worlds and New Selves4. Between Observation and Image: Representations of Insects in Robert Hooke’s Micrographia5. Stitches, Specimens, and Pictures: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Processing of the Natural WorldConclusion: Discipline and SpecimenizeAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisContains everything that is needed to run a successful mathematical circle for a full year. The materials, distributed among 29 weekly lessons, include detailed lectures and discussions, sets of problems with solutions, and contests and games. In addition, the book shares some of the know-how of running a mathematical circle.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preliminaries Session plans Introduction How to solve a problem Knights and liars How to turn lies into truth Mathematical auction Word problems and common sense More word problems Odd and even numbers I. Magic paper cups Odd and even numbers II. Definitions and properties Halloween math hockey I Odd and even numbers III. Alternations Weighings an counterfeit coins Mathematical Olympiad I Meet the cube. First lesson in 3d geometry Cross sections. Second lesson in 3d geometry Mathematical auction Combinatorics I Combinatorics II Mathematical hockey II Numerical puzzles I. Runaway digits Numerical puzzles II. Encrypted problems Mathematical Olympiad II Divisibility I. Definition and properties Divisibility II. Prime numbers and prime factorization Mathematical auction Divisibility III. Divisibility rules Divisibility IV. Relatively prime numbers Mathematical games of strategy I Mathematical games of strategy II Mathematical Olympiad III Mathematical contests and competitions Mathematical contests Mathematical auction Mathematical hockey Mathematical Olympiads Short entertaining math games More teaching advice How to be a great math circle teacher Math circle day-to-day More questions? Solutions Bibliography

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Book SynopsisOffers a lively, detailed account of the beginnings of the Judson Dance Theater--a popular centre of dance experimentation in New York's Greenwich VillageTrade Review"Anyone interested in choreography or methods of teaching composition must have this book on the shelf. . . Th[is] book is crucial in understanding our history and in appreciating the shape of dance today. Dancers and choreographers need to read it to learn about their heritage, historians to discover clarity about a rambunctious and exciting period of dance history that has been fuzzy with myth and misunderstanding. . . It must be read."—Sally Sommer, Dance Research Journal (from a review of the 1983 edition)"Ms. Banes is widely respected as the leading scholar/historian writing about this seminal and neglected period of contemporary dance history. . . Her books are indispensable for any serious dance historian or student of this era. . . Democracy's Body is the type of inaugural survey of a period of art that will undoubtedly inspire other books."—Janice Ross, Stanford University"Sally Banes is one of the most influential dance historians in America right now. The Judson Era, which Democracy's Body examines in meticulous detail, is a key moment in American dancing."—Mindy Aloff, Dance Critic, The New YorkerTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi 1. Robert Dunn's Workshop 1 2. "A Concert of Dance" at Judson Church 35 3. The Judson Workshop 71 4. The Plot Thickens 107 5. Dance in the Sanctuary and in the Theater 131 6. From Great Collective to Bus Stop 165 Notes 215 Illustrations 247 Bibliography 257 Index 263

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Book SynopsisSuitable for students and scholars of American culture, African-American literature, literary theory, gender studies, queer theory, and cultural studies, this book presents an exploration of death's relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture.Trade Review“Raising the Dead is a tour de force filled with provocative, original, and imaginative observations and insights. Sharon Holland draws on a dazzling range of influences and interprets an impressive array of diverse cultural forms as she asks and answers crucial questions about ancestry, origins, and heritage in African American and Native American life and culture.”—George Lipsitz, University of California, San Diego“A thorough, challenging, and compelling investigation of the themes of subjectivity, death, and their interrelation in twentieth-century American literature and culture.”—Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside“A work of theoretical power and brilliant interpretive prowess.”—Wahneema Lubiano, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsAcknoweldgments ix Introduction: Raising the Dead 1 1 Death and the Nations Subjects 13 2 Bakulu Discourse: Bodies Made "Flesh" in Toni Morrison's Beloved 41 3 Telling the Story of Genocide in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead 68 4 (Pro)Creating Imaginative Spaces and Other Queer Acts 103 5 "From this Moment Forth, We Are Black Lesbians": Querying Feminism and Killing the Self in Consolidated's Business of Punishment 124 6 Critical Conversations at the Boundary between Life and Death 149 Epilogue 175 Notes 183 Selected Bibliography 209 Index 227

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Book SynopsisEric Plemons explores the ways in which facial feminization surgery is changing the ways in which trans- women are not only perceived of as women, but in the ways it is altering the project of surgical sex reassignment and the understandings of what sex means.Trade Review"This is a well-written and thought-provoking contribution not only to transgender studies but also to our debate about how we necessarily and constantly refashion ourselves." -- Sander L. Gilman * Critical Inquiry *“An exceptionally well-written book, based on highly engaged fieldwork . . . and filled with elegant and innovative theoretical insights about the material (in)stability and social urgency of sex/gender.” -- Christine Labuski * American Anthropologist *“A wonderfully terse and insightful first book. Eric Plemons’s work counts as the best of trans studies.” -- Cressida J. Heyes * American Journal of Bioethics *“In The Look of a Woman, Eric Plemons gives us a very thoughtful, well-researched, and important statement about the role of facial feminization surgery in trans-medicine.” -- Juliana Hansen * Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery *“The Look of a Woman is a new and important examination of the world of trans medicine, particularly the question of gendered identity, facial physiognomy, and most importantly the face-to-face determination of sex. An excellent and enriching engagement.” -- Bernadette Wegenstein * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"In both style and content this book is eminently teachable: a great demonstration of how to build and hone an argument. It is an admirably slim volume, afforded its modest size by Plemons’ writerly technique. The prose is lucid and not unnecessarily adjectival. The more complex ideas benefit from a clarifying portrayal that will bring non-academic readers on side. . . . The book’s clarity lends it an effortless feel, which I suspect is actually an effect of labour at every scale: word, sentence, chapter, argument. This labour has certainly paid off: The Look of a Woman is a lovely addition to anthropology’s bookshelves." -- Courtney Addison * The Australian Journal of Anthropology *"This book brilliantly raises some fundamental and very broad questions about the link between medicine and social norms, sex and gender, the body and the self." -- Andrae Thomazo * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. On Origins 21 Interlude. The Procedures 39 2. Femininity in the Clinic 43 Interlude. Celebrate! 67 3. Cutting as Caring 71 4. Recognition and Refusal 89 Interlude. My Adam's Apple 109 5. The Operating Room 113 6. And After 135 Conclusion 151 Notes 157 References 169 Index 185

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Book SynopsisCites the fears of radical Christians that conversions to Islam were on the increase and that more Christians were being assimilated into Arab Muslim culture. This title investigates the origins of this "martyrs' movement" in Cordoba, then flourishing as a center of Islamic culture. It presents a fresh view at apogee of al-Andalus, Muslim Spain.

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Book SynopsisIn Fungible Life Aihwa Ong traces the revolutionary scientific developments in Asia by investigating how biomedical centers in Biopolis, Singapore and China mobilize ethnicized "Asian" bodies and health data for genomic research.Trade Review"Anyone interested in cosmopolitan flows of knowledge and risk will find this book of value, as the phenomena that it describes and the methodologies that Ong uses seem to me to be readily transferable. . . . I particularly enjoy the way Ong fits the situated nature of her own authorship, including her Asian background, her family history of cancer and so on, seamlessly into her account. . . . [A] beautiful and engaging piece of writing and an important contribution to a wide spectrum of knowledge." -- Flora Samuel * Times Higher Education *"Embracing a new frontier, Ong’s latest work tackles our fear of the unknown in genomic research, concerns about multiple levels of research ethics, and our curiosity about genomic research’s implications for Chinese and Asian identity, which in turn has implications for human identity as a whole. This book on biomedical research is suitable for graduate students and scholars interested in the production of knowledge, science and technology studies, medical anthropology and sociology, ethnic studies, public health, and broadly Asian Studies." -- Fang Xu * New Books Asia *"This book is an essential contribution to a comparative anthropology of biosentinels through a refined and accessible ethnography of two biotech centers in Singapore and Shenzhen, showing how a future is taking shape in which Asia will play a prominent role." -- Frederic Keck * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Ong's book is a deep dive in the complex role of the state, universities, firms, research stars, and knowledge about genetics in shaping the development of Singapore, in particular, as a key space in the development of scientific knowledge. After reading it you can better understand why universities like Duke and Imperial College seek (and need) to have a formal institutional presence in Singapore, and in association with key national partner universities like NUS and NTU. The Ong book, thus, provides insights on the geographical-, historical-, and sectoral -specific developments that these universities are currently navigating." -- Kris Olds * Inside Higher Ed *“Fungible Life is an important addition to the growing literature in area-specific science studies, and an important intervention in the anthropology of science scholarship on racialised science. . . . Well worth the investment for anyone interested in how race, ethnicity and science are made in Asia today.” -- Katherine A. Mason * The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology *“Ong skillfully provides an accessible and lucid account of the intersection of ethnicity, biopolitics and uncertainties in Asia’s bioscientific world. Fungible Life is a valuable addition to fields such as the anthropology of Asia, medical anthropology, and science and technology studies. It is also highly accessible for readers of various levels.” -- Yifeng Cai * Social Anthropology *"The productive uncertainties and ethnic heuristics that Aihwa Ong examines in her study of Singapore’s Biopolis enrich our understanding of ethnicity in postgenomic Asia. These are the major contributions of Fungible Life." -- Wen-Ching Sung * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsPrologue: Enigmatic Variations ix Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction: Inventing a City of Life 1 Part I. Risks 1. Where the Wild Genes Are 29 2. An Atlas of Asian Diseases 51 3. Smoldering Fire 73 Part II. Uncertainties 4. The Productive Uncertainty of Bioethics 93 5. Virtue and Expatriate Scientists 113 6. Perturbing Life 136 Part III. Known Unknowns 7. A Single Wave 157 8. "Viruses Don't Carry Passports" 174 9. The "Athlete Gene" in China's Future 197 Epilogue: A DNA Bridge and an Octopus's Garden 223 Notes 239 Bibliography 257 Index 271

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Book SynopsisMaking and Unmaking Public Health in Africa explores how medical professionals and patients, government officials, and ordinary citizens approach questions of public health as they navigate contemporary landscapes of NGOs and transnational projects, faltering state services, and expanding privatization.Trade Review“The essays are in the very best tradition of medical anthropology: they display intimate political engagement, are genuinely comparative, speak to each other, and…accessibly written. …The volume opens up new vistas on public health, and challenges what we take for granted.” * African Affairs *“Public health in Africa—as elsewhere—is no longer strictly public. Public and private providers are involved in national and transnational partnerships that divide responsibility for health and welfare among a number of agencies and actors. These clear and powerful essays set out this new landscape, exploring how medical professionals and patients, government officials and citizens approach questions of health. This text is required reading for anyone interested in contemporary Africa.”“[The chapters] provide a fascinating range of ethnographically rich and theoretically subtle accounts of and insights into the diverse and often ambiguous practices of ‘public health’ across Africa. …One of the most impressive things about this volume is its integration and coherence…The result is a landmark publication that I believe will become a key text of enduring value – particularly to scholars and practitioners in the fields of public health, global health, and medical anthropology – but also to a much wider audience within and beyond anthropology.” * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *“A powerful and complex picture of what ‘public health’ is in Africa today as commitments to national health systems are being reshaped through the dramatic rise of ‘global health.’ This set of ethnographically rich and historically sensitive essays illustrates the forms of inequality that structure efforts to building health care institutions and that configure debates over who is responsible for the health and care of particular individuals. It is a must read for both Africanists interested in medicine and public health professionals who care about Africa.”“This volume contributes significantly to the rapidly developing scholarship of public health and global health in African contexts, considered either as a collection of excellent chapters or taken as the sum of its parts. … [It] is also book-ended with trenchant, provocative commentaries on the operative theories and current practices of public health in Africa.…Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa is an ideal fit for teaching the history or anthropology of public health at the undergraduate or graduate level.” * Social History of Medicine *“Though the historical and anthropological literature on public health in Africa has tended to focus on the ‘health’ part of the equation, the chapters in this volume interrogate the meaning of the ‘public’ aspect.…Prince and Marsland argue that in recent years ‘widening global and national inequalities and the emptying out of the public as an inclusive terrain’ has led to a shift in health care provision to ‘the arena of the market and of nongovernmental and transnational organizations’ in most African settings. Individual chapters examine how Africans across the continent interpret and negotiate this chaotic, fractured terrain in a variety of contexts… Recommended.” * Choice *“Any medical anthropologist who works in Africa will want this book in a nearby library. Those of us who study African biomedicine and biomedical research, whether anthropologists or historians, will find it particularly valuable. …As a whole, this excellent collection enlarges the scope of public health and challenges readers to think deeply about who is responsible for African health—and for the many threats to it.” * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *“This superb new edited volume is extraordinarily timely and important.” * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of Contents* Acknowledgments * Introduction Situating Health and the Public in Africa Historical and Anthropological Perspectives RUTH J. PRINCE * Part I WHOSE PUBLIC HEALTH? * One The Peculiarly Political Problem behind Nigeria's Primary Health Care Provision MURRAY LAST * Two Who Are the "Public" in Public Health? Debating Crowds, Populations, and Publics in Tanzania REBECCA MARSLAND * Three The Qualities of Citizenship Private Pharmacists and the State in Senegal after Independence and Alternance NOEMI TOUSIGNANT * Part II REGIMES AND RELATIONS OF CARE * Four Regimes of Homework in AIDS Care Questions of Responsibility and the Imagination of Lives in Uganda LOTTE MEINERT * Five "Home-Based Care Is Not a New Thing" Legacies of Domestic Governmentality in Western Kenya HANNAH BROWN * Six Technologies of Hope Managing Cancer in a Kenyan Hospital BENSON A. MULEMI * Part III EMERGING LANDSCAPES OF PUBLIC HEALTH * Seven The Publics of the New Public Health Life Conditions and "Lifestyle Diseases" in Uganda SUSAN REYNOLDS WHYTE * Eight Navigating "Global Health" in an East African City RUTH J. PRINCE * Nine The Archipelago of Public Health Comments on the Landscape of Medical Research in Twenty-First-Century Africa P. WENZEL GEISSLER * Bibliography * Contributors * Index

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Book SynopsisNation of Outlaws, State of Violence is the first extensive history of Cameroonian nationalism to consider the global and local influences that shaped the movement within the French and British Cameroons and beyond.Trade Review“Meredith Terretta’s book constitutes a highly significant contribution to the historiography of Cameroon, West Africa, and African nationalism more generally.… In challenging conventional political and cultural understandings of Cameroonian nationalism and its chronological development, the [work] makes important theoretical contributions to the field … and serves as an important model for future studies of African nationalism.”“In following the paths of Cameroonian nationalists where they actually lead, Meredith Terretta’s study does a number of things that no previously published histories of Cameroon’s decolonization have done.” * African Studies Quarterly *“This book is a valuable contribution to the current effort to reframe and reinvigorate our understanding of the nationalist period in African history. … Scholars seeking to understand the character of African nationalism have in [it] a wealth of ideas about how better to capture its substance, complexity, and vitality.” * Histoire Sociale *“A well-researched addition to the growing literature on African nationalism(s)…. Terretta provides Cameroonians with a history that the country’s various postcolonial governments tried to hide.” * Africa Spectrum *“Terretta’s history of the anticolonial insurgency that bedeviled central Cameroon in the years immediately before and after independence in 1960 will likely become the standard English-language history of that important but obscure conflict.…Terretta indicates important parallels between the UPC and the Algerian Front de libération nationale while insisting on the significance of pan-African networks of freedom fighters…Highly recommended.” * Choice *“The subject matter of Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence is significant, the story movingly tragic and revealing of Cameroon’s postcolonial morass, and the research has an admirable depth and breadth.”

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Book Synopsis"Barbara Newman has written an erudite and wonderful book... From Virile Woman to WomanChrist should be required reading in every university-level women's studies course."-Caroline Walker Bynum, The Catholic Historical ReviewTrade Review"Barbara Newman has written the most wide-ranging and throughly researched study to date of women's religious literature of the Middle Ages. Ranging across time . . . regional and linguistic borders . . . and genres, Newman provides enough examples to sink an armada of skeptics who would dismiss medieval female piety as somehow unrepresentative of high medieval culture. The range of examples is itself dazzling, and students of religious and feminist history will treasure this book. . . . But to prodigious learning and careful scholarship Newman adds . . . a writer's gift for being both clear and engaging. . . . From Virile Woman to WomanChrist is not only good scholarship but a good read." * Studies in the Age of Chaucer *"Newman skillfully searches out explicit and implied attitudes toward the female sex. She uncovers, in addition to expected differences, a key contrast in what is meant by formation for each sex. . . . This book makes splendid contributions to religious and literary studies on more than one front. . . . The sheer comprehensiveness of the texts, themes, and persons integrated into this study recommends it to a wide readership." * Speculum *"In this engaging, informative work, Barbara Newman intends to explore 'women's gender-specific dilemmas, choices, and ways of being Christian during the period from approximately 1100 through 1500.' . . . The important work of Newman certainly helps us to understand the background of the emergence of this still very 'intricate web' . . . of religious and intellectual teachings by women." * The Journal of Religion *"Barbara Newman has written an erudite and wonderful book. Drawing on and in many ways surpassing the flood of work on medieval religious women produced in the past fifteen years . . . , she gives us a set of learned, thoughtful, and interrelated essays, written in lucid and beautiful prose. . . . From Virile Woman to WomanChrist should be required reading in every university-level women's studies course-for its method, its substance, and its prose." * Caroline Walker Bynum, The Catholic Historical Review *Table of ContentsIllustrations Introduction 1. Flaws in the Golden Bowl: Gender and Spiritual Formation in the Twelfth Century 2. Authority, Authenticity, and the Repression of Heloise 3. "Crueel Corage": Child Sacrifice and the Maternal Martyr in Hagiography and Romance 4. On the Threshold of the Dead: Purgatory, Hell, and Religious Women 5. La Mystique Courtoise: Thirteenth-Century Beguines and the Art of Love Excursus 1. Hadewijch and Abelard Excursus 2. Gnostics, Free Spirits, and "Meister Eckhart's Daughter" 6. WomanSpirit, Woman Pope 7. Renaissance Feminism and Esoteric Theology: The Case of Cornelius Agrippa Epilogue Abbreviations Notes Appendix A: Religious Literature of Formation, 1075-1225 Appendix B: Glossary of Religious Women Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisContains nine essays which explores the allure of bogs, swamps, and wetlands. Detailing the land of carnivorous plants, swamp gas, and bog men, this work establishes a separate ground for thoughts about mythology, literature, Eastern spirituality, and human longing.Trade ReviewHurd is a consummate naturalist, writing with the grace and precision of a Peter Matthiessen or an Annie Dillard. - Los Angeles Times ""Delving into these wetlands, [Hurd] finds in their array of strange fauna and flora an objective correlative to the place in the mind where artistic inspiration occurs: a place of blurred borders, shifting identity, and strange odors, of rot and death, of Zen peacefulness."" - New Yorker ""Hurd's poetic inquiry into the life and margins of marshy terrain takes us on a magic-filled metaphorical mystery tour of human desire."" - Utne

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“A classic in subaltern studies as well as in postcolonial studies.”—José Rabasa, University of California, Berkeley“A remarkable achievement.”—Patricia Seed, Rice University“Full of sparkling ideas and written in vivid and compelling prose.”—Arjun Appadurai, University of Chicago“Guha’s contributions to historiography are fundamental to colonial and postcolonial studies. By directing our focus to the question of consciousness or self-awareness in the making of peasant rebellions in colonial India, he corrects and redirects the writing of history.”—Sara Castro-Klarén, Johns Hopkins University“The most significant—and potentially the most influential—work of social theory since Michel Foucault’s Dicipline and Punish.”—John Beverley, University of Pittsburgh“Very unusual and original. Guha presents a new set of conceptual categories to understand the peasant situation in the postcolonial era. His work has transcended the local boundaries of India and has inspired the foundation of similar research projects in the Latin American field such as the Latin American Subaltern Studies Group.”—Ileana Rodriguez, Ohio State University“Written in a concise, easy-to-read style and offering a wealth of examples to illustrate each point, Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India is the kind of book that our students desperately crave.”—Marcia Stephenson, Purdue UniversityTable of ContentsForeward to the Duke Edition ix Preface xv Abbreviations xvii 1. Introduction 1 2. Negation 18 3. Ambiguity 77 4. Modality 109 5. Solidarity 167 6. Transmission 220 7. Territorality 278 8. Epilogue 333 Glossary 339 Bibliography 345 Index 355

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Book SynopsisPresents the cultural and literary history of black dandyism from the 1700s to the 1960s.Trade Review“Miller’s study incites a much-needed dialogue between existing scholarship on the figure of the dandy—particularly its performative queering of modern narratives of masculinity and nationhood—and the legacies of imperialism and slavery that attest to the constant, if silent, presence of race and racializing discourse in those same narratives. . . . [A]n absorbing and timely study of the black dandy.” - Jaime Hanneken, Comparative Literature“Encompassing the genres of drama, fiction, photography, film, and sculpture, Miller's study highlights the ways in which diaspora can be located in the image and the imagination of the body and its garments. . . . The value of Miller's text is in its historical range.” - Alisa K. Braithwaite, Modern Fiction Studies“Monica L. Miller's book is the first of its kind: a lengthy written study of the history of black dandyism and the role that style has played in the politics and aesthetics of African and African American identity. She draws from literature, film, photography, print ads, and music to reveal the black dandy's underground cultural history and generate possibilities for the future. . . . [U]ncanny feats of scholarship that illustrate ways in which the figure of the black dandy has been an elephant-in-the-room — albeit a particularly well-dressed one.” - D. Scot Miller, San Francisco Bay Guardian“A model for cultural studies, Slaves to Fashion brings the rich,interdisciplinary scholarship of the black dandy into the twenty-first century, serving the fields of both black and American studies.” - Pamela J. Rader, MELUS“Miller has performed a cultural excavation, sifting through fragments of visual and literary culture to trace a history of black style and assemble the first history of black dandyism. Her work deserves a place among the finer recent contributions to black performance studies. . . .” - Kristin Moriah, Callaloo“Monica L. Miller’s close readings dazzle, and her historical reach—confident and unforced—is as long as the transnational arc of black dandyism here is wide. Arresting, discerning, responsible, and urgent, Slaves to Fashion is path-breaking. Literary criticism, visual history, and black Atlantic studies never looked so good.”—Maurice O. Wallace, author of Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men’s Literature and Culture, 1775–1995“Revising and augmenting scholarship on minstrelsy, literary representations of blackness, and black sartorial aesthetics and visual culture, Slaves to Fashion is an impressive and meticulously researched treatise on the history of the black dandy. It fills a gap in the scholarship on the cultural politics of black self-fashioning.”—E. Patrick Johnson, author of Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity“Encompassing the genres of drama, fiction, photography, film, and sculpture, Miller's study highlights the ways in which diaspora can be located in the image and the imagination of the body and its garments. . . . The value of Miller's text is in its historical range.” -- Alisa K. Braithwaite * Modern Fiction Studies *“Miller has performed a cultural excavation, sifting through fragments of visual and literary culture to trace a history of black style and assemble the first history of black dandyism. Her work deserves a place among the finer recent contributions to black performance studies. . . .” -- Kristin Moriah * Callaloo *“Miller’s study incites a much-needed dialogue between existing scholarship on the figure of the dandy—particularly its performative queering of modern narratives of masculinity and nationhood—and the legacies of imperialism and slavery that attest to the constant, if silent, presence of race and racializing discourse in those same narratives. . . . [A]n absorbing and timely study of the black dandy.” -- Jaime Hanneken * Comparative Literature *“Monica L. Miller's book is the first of its kind: a lengthy written study of the history of black dandyism and the role that style has played in the politics and aesthetics of African and African American identity. She draws from literature, film, photography, print ads, and music to reveal the black dandy's underground cultural history and generate possibilities for the future. . . . [U]ncanny feats of scholarship that illustrate ways in which the figure of the black dandy has been an elephant-in-the-room — albeit a particularly well-dressed one.” -- D. Scot Miller * San Francisco Bay Guardian *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Stylin' Out 1 1. Mungo Macaroni: The Slavish Swell 27 2. Crimes of Fashion: Dressing the Part from Slavery to Freedom 77 3. W. E. B. Du Bois's "Different Diasporic Race Man 137 4. "Passing Fancies": Dandyism, Harlem Modernism, and the Politics of Visuality 176 5. "You Look Beautiful Like That": Black Dandyism and the Histories of Black Cosmopolitanism 219 Notes 291 Bibliography 347 Index 371

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Book SynopsisShows the capacities of film and video to bear witness to the cultural, political, and psychological imperatives of the AIDS crisis. This book explains how queer films and videos made in response to the AIDS epidemics in North America, Europe, Australia, and South Africa challenge assumptions about historical trauma and politics of gay visibility.Trade Review“And although he does a solicitous and richly nuanced job of situating these works in the ever-shifting cultural dynamics of their production and reception, Reframing Bodies does much more than provide a descriptive and historicist re-appraisal of these video/film texts (although in this enterprise it is both detailed and insightful). Beyond the particularity of Hallas’ interest in AIDS, homosexuality and representation, Reframing Bodies will also be essential reading for scholars and students of both memory/trauma studies and film/media studies more generally.” -- Dion Kagan * Screening the Past *“And although he does a solicitous and richly nuanced job of situating these works in the ever-shifting cultural dynamics of their production and reception, Reframing Bodies does much more than provide a descriptive and historicist re-appraisal of these video/film texts (although in this enterprise it is both detailed and insightful). Beyond the particularity of Hallas’ interest in AIDS, homosexuality and representation, Reframing Bodies will also be essential reading for scholars and students of both memory/trauma studies and film/media studies more generally.” - Dion Kagan, Screening the Past“Hallas looks at reframings of film and video conventions like autobiography, home movies, song, museum installations, and news reports. . . . It is wonderful to see attention given to this important archive. One wishes these were all on DVD and that Hallas could offer commentary as one viewed them! In his thoroughness, Hallas collects a wide range of voices in a kind of fraternity, but one based in a n embrace of complexity and difference and never denying the multifaceted trauma of AIDS. Taken together, they say something different than what each could say alone.” -- Chael Needle * A&U Magazine *“Hallas looks at reframings of film and video conventions like autobiography, home movies, song, museum installations, and news reports. . . . It is wonderful to see attention given to this important archive. One wishes these were all on DVD and that Hallas could offer commentary as one viewed them! In his thoroughness, Hallas collects a wide range of voices in a kind of fraternity, but one based in a n embrace of complexity and difference and never denying the multifaceted trauma of AIDS. Taken together, they say something different than what each could say alone.” - Chael Needle, Art & Understanding“This book presents an original and intriguing re-evaluation of queer film and videos made between the mid-1980’s and the early 2000’s in response to the AIDS epidemic. . . . Reframing Bodies expands our understanding of the political importance of visual media to the act of witnessing and the ongoing efforts of AIDS activism.” - James Polchin, Gay and Lesbian Review/ Worldwide“This book presents an original and intriguing re-evaluation of queer film and videos made between the mid-1980’s and the early 2000’s in response to the AIDS epidemic. . . . Reframing Bodies expands our understanding of the political importance of visual media to the act of witnessing and the ongoing efforts of AIDS activism.” -- James Polchin * Gay & Lesbian Review *“This excruciating, tender and evocative book not only produces a timeline of politicized queer corporeal action but peels back the intrinsic value between intersubjectivity and representation. Reframing Bodies explores the boundaries of visuality and visibility through an archive of AIDS activism and queer social history that leaves no rock unturned.” -- Stephanie Rogerson * Fuse Magazine *“With Reframing bodies, Roger Hallas has written a complex yet accessible book that manages to recapture the sense of urgency animating earlier queer AIDS media. But it is not nostalgic. It is also a moving work that reminds us that the AIDS crisis is far from over and that our duties to those afflicted have not abated.” - David Caron, Culture, Health & Sexuality“This is an important, informative, persuasive and timely book. . . . Reframing Bodies is a significant testament and testimony, itself bearing witness to a criminally unrecorded and underexamined time in our lives.” - Monica B. Pearl, Screen“This is an important, informative, persuasive and timely book. . . . Reframing Bodies is a significant testament and testimony, itself bearing witness to a criminally unrecorded and underexamined time in our lives.” -- Monica B. Pearl * Screen *“This excruciating, tender and evocative book not only produces a timeline of politicized queer corporeal action but peels back the intrinsic value between intersubjectivity and representation. Reframing Bodies explores the boundaries of visuality and visibility through an archive of AIDS activism and queer social history that leaves no rock unturned.” - Stephanie Rogerson, Fuse Magazine“With Reframing bodies, Roger Hallas has written a complex yet accessible book that manages to recapture the sense of urgency animating earlier queer AIDS media. But it is not nostalgic. It is also a moving work that reminds us that the AIDS crisis is far from over and that our duties to those afflicted have not abated.” -- David Caron * Culture, Health & Sexuality *“Roger Hallas ensures that HIV/AIDS activist media receives its critical due by showing not only its historical importance but also its formal complexity. Through his passionate engagement, keen sensitivity to shifting contexts of reception, and sophisticated account of the testimonial function of the moving image, he keeps this body of activist media, and its political and memorial legacies, alive for the future. ”—Ann Cvetkovich, author of An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures“Roger Hallas is perhaps today’s leading expert on AIDS and the ‘queer moving image,’ and with Reframing Bodies he takes AIDS cultural studies in a variety of new, compelling directions. He makes important contributions about the practices and politics of homosexuality’s cultural visibility, the representational strategies mobilized around AIDS as a historical trauma experienced by gay men, and the ways that queer moving images allow us to rethink spectatorship, bearing witness, and trauma.”—Alexandra Juhasz, author of AIDS TV: Identity, Community, and Alternative Video“In this incisive and well-written volume, Hallas argues that ‘reframing’ is fundamental to the success of AIDS films and videos in bearing witness to tragedy and trauma while putting forward or holding open alternative imaginings of social existence.” -- Steven Epstein * GLQ *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Historical Trauma and the Performance of Talking Heads 35 2. The Embodied Immediacy of Direct Action: Space and Movement in AIDS Video Activism 77 3. Related Bodies: Resisting Confession in Autobiographical AIDS Video 113 4. Queer Anachronism and the Testimonial Space of Song 151 5. Gay Cinephilia and the Cherished Body of Experimental Film 185 6. Sound, Image, and the Corporeal Implication of Witnessing 217 Afterword 241 Notes 253 Bibliography 291 Index 307

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Book SynopsisPresents the investigation that the renowned cultural theorist and mathematician Brian Rotman began in his previous books Signifying Nothing and Ad Infinitum ...the Ghost in Turing's Machine: exploring certain signs and the conceptual innovations and subjectivities that they facilitate or foreclose.Trade Review“Becoming Beside Ourselves is a bold, provocative, and highly original argument about the relation between medial effects and changing manifestations of subjectivity. It traces a sweeping trajectory from what Brian Rotman calls the ‘lettered self,’ associated with alphabetic inscription and the codex printed book, to the subject as distributed assemblage associated with network culture. While others have made parts of this kind of argument before, Rotman’s analysis is unique in placing special emphasis on gesture and revealing its traces in orality and print. In a brilliant synthesis, he mixes evolutionary theory with a Deleuzian view of agent-as-assemblage, arguing that computational media both reveal and perform distributed cognition as a crucial aspect of human being-in-the-world. Essential reading for anyone interested in the interrelations between computational media, contemporary subjectivity, and human evolution.”—Katherine Hayles, University of California, Los Angeles“Brian Rotman’s exciting new text not only adds to his previous work on signifying technology (zero, infinity), it expands his study of abstraction to encompass the construction of subjectivity itself. Becoming Beside Ourselves will open up all kinds of unexplored terrains, from grammatology to psychoanalysis, from the history of technology to the study of culture and religion.”—Fredric Jameson, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsForeword: Machine Bodies, Ghosts, and Para-Selves: Confronting the Singularity with Brian Rotman / Timothy Lenoir ix Preface xxxi Acknowledgments xxxv Aura xxxvii Introduction: Lettered Selves and Beyond 1 Part I 1. The Alphabetic Body 13 2. Gesture and Non-Alphabetic Writing 33 Interlude 3. Technological Mathematics 57 Part II 4. Parallel Selves 81 5. Ghost Effects 107 Notes 139 References 151 Index 163

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Book SynopsisA look at how prominent Indian visual artists created modern art for the postcolonial nation in the years between India's independence in 1947 and 1980.Trade Review“[R]ecommended for libraries with graduate programs in art history and for others looking to expand their modern and non-Western art history collections.” - Melissa Aho, ARLIS/NA Reviews“An interesting contribution, this book will be useful in general and undergraduate libraries. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through faculty/ researchers; general readers.” - E. Findly, Choice“Bringing together a range of disparate but linked examples, Brown's text makes for stimulating reading–an essential text for any student of the arts, postcolonialism, and the interaction of science and arts in the postcolonial context.” - Aparna Sharma, Leonardo“Rebecca Brown’s elegant and conceptually driven account of modernism focuses on the decades following Independence. . . . Brown’s approach is highly satisfying. By cutting across media and juxtaposing artists whose aesthetic commitments and backgrounds are presented as incommensurate within the internal debates of the Indian art world, Brown challenges the specialist. But she also gives the general reader an overarching sense of what conceptual problems faced Indian artists and, just as importantly, why those problems emerged as such. It is a particularly fitting approach for a period of art history that is dominated by studies focusing on single artists, artist groups, and institutions.” - Karin Zitzewitz, Art History“Rebecca M. Brown weaves a rich and layered narrative of Indian postindependence art, connecting painting with a wide range of references that include the architecture of Charles Correa, the ‘high’ cinema of Satyajit Ray, and the demotic art of Bollywood. All the while she balances theoretical sophistication with penetrating insights into the singular achievements of these artists as they negotiate the predicament of local versus global modernism. In the process, she unravels the indebtedness of modernity to colonialism. There has long been a crying need for such a work, and Brown’s pioneering opus fulfills this admirably.”—Partha Mitter, author of The Triumph of Modernism: India’s Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1922–1947“[R]ecommended for libraries with graduate programs in art history and for others looking to expand their modern and non-Western art history collections.” -- Melissa Aho * ARLIS/NA Reviews *“An interesting contribution, this book will be useful in general and undergraduate libraries. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through faculty/ researchers; general readers.” -- E. Findly * Choice *“Bringing together a range of disparate but linked examples, Brown's text makes for stimulating reading–an essential text for any student of the arts, postcolonialism, and the interaction of science and arts in the postcolonial context.” -- Aparna Sharma * Leonardo Reviews *“Rebecca Brown’s elegant and conceptually driven account of modernism focuses on the decades following Independence. . . . Brown’s approach is highly satisfying. By cutting across media and juxtaposing artists whose aesthetic commitments and backgrounds are presented as incommensurate within the internal debates of the Indian art world, Brown challenges the specialist. But she also gives the general reader an overarching sense of what conceptual problems faced Indian artists and, just as importantly, why those problems emerged as such. It is a particularly fitting approach for a period of art history that is dominated by studies focusing on single artists, artist groups, and institutions.” -- Karin Zitzewitz * Art History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The Modern Indian Paradox 1 One. Authenticity 23 Two. The Icon 45 Three. Narrative and Time 75 Four. Science, Technology, and Industry 103 Five. The Urban 131 Epilogue. The 1980s and After 157 Notes 163 References 171 Index 187

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Book SynopsisIn the summer of 2000, the authors were in Santiago de Cuba, a city on the southeastern coast of Cuba. A chance encounter led them to the home of Santiago Castaneda Vera, a priest-practitioner of Santeria and Palo Monte. This book includes images of elaborate Santeria altars and Palo spirit cauldrons, as well as of Santiago and his godchildren.Trade Review“Crossing the Water is an amazing book that takes you on a wondrous journey into the world of Santería, Palo Monte, and Espiritismo. Claire Garoutte and Anneke Wambaugh have gone the extra mile to document the religions honestly and with a healthy respect for the participants and their beliefs. This is truly an extraordinary document about a world of Cuban religious faith that has rarely been visited in such detail by outsiders.”—Eli Reed, Magnum Photos“Crossing the Water is at once mysterious, encompassing, and illuminating. Most importantly, it is a deeply moving journey in which the various parts equal the whole. We must leave aside our predilections and ideas from what we know to enter this very personal territory. Upon repeated viewings and readings, the depth of this project reveals itself. Through the dedication of Claire Garoutte and Anneke Wambaugh we are allowed a meaningful glimpse of a further world elucidated by the images and writings of two who entered it.”—Robert Lyons, photographer, Intimate Enemy: Images and Voices of the Rwandan Genocide, Another Africa, and Egyptian Time“[A]n engaging and valuable ethnography in its own right, one that goes surprisingly far in its contribution to the field of Afro-Cuban religious studies. Written in sensitive and unpretentiously clear prose, the authors are astute observers of the social, emotional, and spiritual nuances of Cuban religious life, making of their foray a potential source of rich data for any scholar wishing to unravel the complex relationships between Afro-Cuban cosmology and practice, matter and deity, person and spirit.” -- Diana Espirito Santo * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *“[A]n extraordinarily rich and detailed ethnographic undertaking combined with a highly personal engagement that is acknowledged and foregrounded throughout. It is this remarkable and beautiful combination of the visual, textual and personal that makes the book very powerful. . . .” -- Bridget Bennett * Bulletin of Latin American Research *“[F]rom a visual perspective Crossing the Water introduces one into an illuminating world of Afro-Cuban spiritualism. From a cultural and historical perspective the photographs provide a better understanding to viewers of the power of Afro-Cuban culture and religion and its impact on the people and their beliefs. Overall, Crossing the Water provokes intensity of human-sprit interactions, sights, smells, sounds, and a vivid choreography of ritual practice.” -- Christina Violeta Jones * The Latin Americanist *"[A] colorfully intimate portraiture of religious practice on the part of its authors. . . . [I]t provides, from its emic perspective, a close look at the quotidian practice of Santiago, a true priest of these 'crossed' religions and guide through their liturgies, rites, and arcane practices." -- Eugenio Matibag * The Americas *"Photographers Garoutte and Wambaugh demystify and celebrate the Afro-Cuban religions of Santería, Palo Monte and Espiritismo. . . What results is a respectful, vibrant account of Afro-Cuban religions, enhanced by more than 150 vivid photographs." (Starred Review) * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. I Bow My Head to the Ground: Santería Thrones and Rituals 25 2. Ver Para Creer (Seeing is Believing): The Prendas and Ritual of PaloMonte 67 3. It's My War Now: The Private Sphere of Santiago's Daily Practice 115 4. I Am Not from Here: Espiritismo and the Congo Spirits of the Dead 157 Afterword: ¿Y la Otra? (And the Other One?): The Nature of Our Collaboration 199 Notes 203 Glossary 227 Bibliography 243 Index 249

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Book SynopsisMainstream media and film theory are based on the ways that media technologies operate in Europe and the United States. This work provides a history and ethnography of media in Nigeria, asking what media theory looks like when Nigeria rather than a European nation or the United States is taken as the starting point.Trade Review“[A]n impressive study. . . . The study represents a door-opener into a wider analysis of the ways in which various parts of the urban society, from colonial times until most recently, negotiate technical and economic changes, create meaning, develop modes of coping and resistance and local cultural styles beyond a simple adaptation to new technological projects.” - Tilo Grätz, Social Anthropology“This insightful, highly stimulating, and well-written book examines how media technologies entered into 20th century northern Nigeria society, and how their initial association with colonial rule, and also their material qualities and the cultural possibilities they enabled, transformed public and social life in sometimes unexpected ways. . . . [A] highly innovative study of colonial and postcolonial urban culture in Africa. It also makes it a highly welcome contribution to scholarship on modernity and postcoloniality, on media and public culture, and to analyses of global media forms and consumption. It will fascinate a wide range of readers, granting stimulating analytical insights into the place of media in urban life.” - Dorothea E. Schulz, American Ethnologist“With considerable analytical power, Larkin explains how to locate cultural texts in an urban space, understand the leisure of social bonding, connect the household into powerful structures of capital and state, and relate technologies of radio and electricity to the political order and the critique of the state and political holders. Recommended. General collections, graduate students, faculty.” - T. Falola, Choice“Larkin’s work is impressive in its theoretical and analytical depth, rich empirical details, and astute observations and summaries about cinema and modernity in urban Nigeria. This work is as much a development communication project as it is an anthropological study or a cinema studies project. . . . [T]he book makes excellent reading for students and scholars in a series of disciplines and sub-disciplines, including international and development communication.” - Sujatha Sosale, Global Media Journal“Larkin has developed a richly researched study of media cultures in Nigeria. Equipped with language skills and a nuanced understanding of local Muslim religious practices and traditions, Larkin offers a vivid account of the emergence of modern Nigerian media infrastructures. . . . Signal and Noise inspires new ways of thinking about what media technologies are, how they have emerged in different ways in different parts of the world, and how local and national Nigerian actors have contended with the forces of the global media economy.” - Lisa Parks, Cinema Journal“A true intellectual tour de force, Signal and Noise should have a major impact on the way we understand Africa in the contemporary period.” - Kenneth W. Harrow, African Studies Review“This eagerly anticipated book is a wonderful contribution to several fields: media studies, cultural studies, African studies, anthropology, and analyses of globalization. Brian Larkin writes with eloquence and passion, and he compels us to rethink our assumptions about the work of transnational media and the formation of identity.”—Purnima Mankekar, author of Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India“This thoughtful, scholarly, and original book links the transnational traffic of media forms to the logics of the colonial state and to the vulnerabilities of large cities in Africa. It will provoke new thinking among Africanists, urbanists, anthropologists, and all students of globalizing media processes. Brian Larkin is a major new voice in the study of media as lived infrastructure in a world of uneven connectivity.”—Arjun Appadurai, author of Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger“[A]n impressive study. . . . The study represents a door-opener into a wider analysis of the ways in which various parts of the urban society, from colonial times until most recently, negotiate technical and economic changes, create meaning, develop modes of coping and resistance and local cultural styles beyond a simple adaptation to new technological projects.” -- Tilo Grätz * Social Anthropology *“A true intellectual tour de force, Signal and Noise should have a major impact on the way we understand Africa in the contemporary period.” -- Kenneth W. Harrow * African Studies Review *“Larkin has developed a richly researched study of media cultures in Nigeria. Equipped with language skills and a nuanced understanding of local Muslim religious practices and traditions, Larkin offers a vivid account of the emergence of modern Nigerian media infrastructures. . . . Signal and Noise inspires new ways of thinking about what media technologies are, how they have emerged in different ways in different parts of the world, and how local and national Nigerian actors have contended with the forces of the global media economy.” -- Lisa Parks * Cinema Journal *“Larkin’s work is impressive in its theoretical and analytical depth, rich empirical details, and astute observations and summaries about cinema and modernity in urban Nigeria. This work is as much a development communication project as it is an anthropological study or a cinema studies project. . . . [T]he book makes excellent reading for students and scholars in a series of disciplines and sub-disciplines, including international and development communication.” -- Sujatha Sosale * Global Media Journal *“With considerable analytical power, Larkin explains how to locate cultural texts in an urban space, understand the leisure of social bonding, connect the household into powerful structures of capital and state, and relate technologies of radio and electricity to the political order and the critique of the state and political holders. Recommended. General collections, graduate students, faculty.” -- T. Falola * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Infrastructure, the Colonial Sublime, and Indirect Rule 16 2. Unstable Objects: The Making of Radio in Nigeria 48 3. Majigi, Colonial Film, State Publicity, and the Political Form of Cinema 73 4. Colonialism and the Built Space of Cinema 123 5. Immaterial Urbanism and the Cinematic Event 146 6. Extravagant Aesthetics: Instability and the Excessive World of Nigerian Film 168 7. Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds: Nigerian Video and the Infrastructure of Piracy 217 Conclusion 242 Notes 257 Bibliography 277 Index 301

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Book SynopsisDeveloping a phenomenology of the animal other through contemporary artTrade Review"Surface Encounters is an insightful consideration of the problematics of animal phenomenology." —Kari Weil, Wesleyan University"Learned and intellectually courageous, Surface Encounters brims with counter-intuitive arguments about what it means to tarry thoughtfully with non-human life. This is nothing less than a scholarly manifesto: compact, lively, and pressing, as much a rousing call for future imaginings as it is a sober analysis in its own right." —David Clark, McMaster UniversityTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Staying on the Surface1. Meat Matters: Distance in Damien Hirst2. Body of Thought: Immanence and Carolee Schneemann3. Making Space for Animal Dwelling: Worlding with Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson4. Contact Zones and Living Flesh: Touch after Olly and Suzi5. A Minor Art: Becoming-Animal of Marcus CoatesCoda: Human, Animal, and Matthew BarneyNotesIndex

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