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University of Minnesota Press Beautiful Fighting Girl
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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University of Minnesota Press Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFrom Publishers WeeklyIn this acerbic collection of essays, Comanche cultural critic and art curator Smith (Like a Hurricane) riffs on the romantic stereotypes of Indian as “spiritual masters and first environmentalists,” as tragic victims of technology and civilization, as primal beings brimming with nomad authenticity, their every artifact a gem of folk art. Such tropes, he complains, hide the riotous complexity of the modern Indian experience, which he visits in pieces that explore his grandfather's Christian church, Sitting Bull's savvy manipulation of his media image (he had an agent) and the author's own Comanche forebears, who were both “world-class barbarians” and avid adopters of the white man's gadgetry. These loose-limbed essays range all over the landscape, from Hollywood westerns to the 1973 siege of Wounded Knee to (somewhat obscurely) the contemporary Indian art scene. Smith doesn't entirely square his view of Indians as “just plain folks” with his advancing of a unique Indian cultural perspective, but his keen, skeptical eye makes such ironies both amusing and enlightening.
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University of Minnesota Press The Amalgamation Waltz Race Performance and the
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University of Minnesota Press Dialectical Materialism
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University of Virginia Press Cornelia Hahn Oberlander Making the Modern
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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Teachers' College Press Inquiry as Stance Practitioner Research for the
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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University of Minnesota Press Queer Optimism
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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University of Minnesota Press The Biology of Human Starvation Volume I
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University of Minnesota Press The Insect and the Image
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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MP-AMM American Mathematical Mathematical Circle Diaries Year 1 Complete
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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Duke University Press Democracys Body
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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Duke University Press Evolutions Eye
Book SynopsisElaborates on author's pioneering work on developmental systems by spelling out that work's implications for the fields of evolutionary theory, developmental and social psychology, feminism, and epistemology.Trade Review“Oyama writes elegantly and from a deep intellectual base. This alternative view to the dominant genetic determinism will be of interest to all who seek a more complex view of human nature. It is an excellent book, beautifully composed.”—Katherine Nelson, City University of New York“Susan Oyama's Ontogeny of Information provided a navigational chart for researchers seeking to avoid the shoals of the nature-nurture dichotomy. Here, in Evolution's Eye, she good-humoredly unmasks the rhetorical stratagems of reflexive genecentrism, while continuing to strengthen the case for the integrative, multifocal approach of developmental systems theory.”—Helen E. Longino, University of Minnesota“To think of nature and nurture as two distinct categories is not only wrong, Susan Oyama convincingly argues, but doing so hobbles our attempts to understand the nature of development and evolution at every level. Hers is a voice that needs to be heard.”—Evelyn Fox Keller, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part 1: Looking at Development and EvolutionTransmission and Construction: Levels and the Problem of Heredity What Does the Phenocopy Copy? Originals and Fakes in Biology Ontogeny and the Central Dogma: Do We Need the Concept of GeneticProgramming in Order to Have an Evolutionary Perspective? Stasis, Development, and Heredity: Models of Stability and Change The Accidental Chordate: Contingency in Developmental Systems Part 2: Looking at Ourselves Essentialism, Women, and War: Protesting Too Much, Protesting TooLittle The Conceptualization of Nature: Nature as Design Bodies and Minds: Dualism in Evolutionary Theory How Shall I Name Thee? The Construction of Natural Selves Evolutionary and Developmental Formation: Politics of the Boundary Notes References Index
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Duke University Press Raising the Dead
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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Duke University Press Area Impossible
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Duke University Press The Look of a Woman
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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University of Nebraska Press The Martyrs of Córdoba
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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Duke University Press Fungible Life Experiment in the Asian City of
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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Ohio University Press Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa
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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Ohio University Press Nation of Outlaws State of Violence
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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MT - University of Pennsylvania Press From Virile Woman to WomanChrist Studies in
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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LUP - University of Georgia Press Stirring the Mud On Swamps Bogs and Human Imagination
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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Duke University Press Adornos Aesthetic Theory at Fifty
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Duke University Press Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in
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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MD - Duke University Press Miller M Slaves to Fashion
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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Duke University Press Reframing Bodies
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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Duke University Press Becoming Beside Ourselves
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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Duke University Press Art for a Modern India 19471980
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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MD - Duke University Press Crossing the Water A Photographic Path to the
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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Duke University Press Signal and Noise
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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Princeton University Press Snow Crystals
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University of Minnesota Press Surface Encounters Thinking with Animals and Art
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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MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Story of Corn
Book SynopsisA unique compendium, drawing on history and mythology, science and art, anecdote and image, personal narrative and epic to tell the extraordinary story of the grain that built the New World. Betty Fussell has given us a true American saga, interweaving the histories of the indigenous peoples who first cultivated the grain and the European conquerors who appropriated and propagated it.
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University of Minnesota Press Foucault
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University of Minnesota Press Brain of the Earths Body Art Museums and the
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Ohio University Press Black Lawyers White Courts The Soul of South
Book SynopsisIn the struggle against apartheid, one often overlooked group of crusaders was the coterie of black lawyers who overcame the Byzantine system that the government established oftentimes explicitly to block the paths of its black citizens from achieving justice.Now,
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Duke University Press Immediations
Book SynopsisPooja Rangan interrogates participatory documentary's humanitarian ethos of "giving a voice to the voiceless" in documentaries featuring marginalized subjects, showing how it reinforces the films' subjects as the "other" and reproduces definitions of the human that exclude non-normative modes of thinking, being, and doing.Trade Review“Rangan moves diagonally across disciplinary boundaries and media forms, tracing the past and future of theory and practice concerning participatory documentary. Immediations offers substantial theoretical matrices for scholars to contend with going forward, and new challenges for interdisciplinary practitioners.” -- Joel Neville Anderson * Visual Studies Workshop *“Immediations marks an important contribution to documentary and anthropology studies, making exemplary use of multidisciplinary research to explore more deeply the human power structures and their relationship to the politics of representation.” -- Almudena Escobar López * Film Quarterly *"Pooja Rangan’s Immediations is a provocative, polemical, and vital book for thinking through the often problematic humanitarian impulse to give the camera to the Other. . . . Immediations is a bold, refreshing book that I simply cannot stop thinking about." -- Ryan Watson * Cinema Journal *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary 1 1. Feral Innocence: The Humanitarian Aesthetic of Dematerialized Child Labor 23 2. Bare Liveness: The Eyewitness to Catastrophe in the Age of Humanitarian Emergency 61 3. "Having a Voice": Toward an Autistic Counterdiscourse of Documentary 103 4. The Documentary Art of Surrender: Humane-itarian and Posthumanist Encounters with Animals 151 Conclusion. The Gift of Documentary 191 Notes 197 Bibliography 223 Index 241
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MD - Duke University Press Violence in a Time of Liberation
Book SynopsisThis ethnographic analysis of violence that broke out in a South African gold mine soon after apartheid ended in 1994 shows how violence comes to be blamed on ethnic differences retrospectively—and often wrongly.Trade Review“Violence in a Time of Liberation is an absorbing and exceptionally clear-sighted analysis of violence and ethnic consciousness in South Africa. Focused on a specific set of events that occurred at a gold mine in the mid-1990s, Donald L. Donham brings vivid ethnographic description and analysis to bear on some of the thorniest questions faced by social analysts of violence. His book is lucidly written and cunningly constructed, with a substantial narrative pull. It is a very significant contribution both to scholarly understandings of contemporary South African society and to theoretical debates around ethnic violence.”—James Ferguson, author of Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order“Taking off from a single episode, Donald L. Donham provides readers with a rich account that makes an important point: ethnic identification is often more the consequence of violence than the cause. Since people involved may, in retrospect, interpret an event using ethnic categories, understanding the complexity of the processes leading up to violence requires peeling away layers of backward projection and reconstructing the flow of events, tasks Donham performs here with sensitivity and insight.”—Frederick Cooper, author of Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History“A prescient narrative of mine violence. Based on a study of a mine called Cinderella, it provides a piercing and lucid exposition of the path to this violence in a post-1994 moment. . . . Violence in a Time of Liberation offers an exemplary example of how historical ethnography can be used to study violence. It probes us to give time and labour to understand better what has happened, even if its meanings remain elusive. For violence, too, is a way of remembering our disappointed hope.“ -- Matthew Willhelm-Solomon * Mail & Guardian *“This is a beautifully produced book…. It is also beautifully written, thoughtful, intelligent, meticulous in making arguments, and humble in making its case and in acknowledgement of others’ work. For those who are interested in debates about the often violent ambiguities of “liberation” (in South Africa and elsewhere), this is a must read. It is also a masterpiece of anthropological narrative in its own right. Like any engaging detective story, it will be widely read.” -- T. Dunbar Moodie * Anthropos *“This is a carefully analyzed, clearly written, and beautifully produced book. Donham’s careful attention to detail is nicely enhanced by South African photographer Santu Mofokeng’s work ....[It] is an important book with implications for analysis of many conflicts in the world that are all too easily dismissed as ethnic or religious. Donham leads us to see that these labels are not completely wrong but that they fail to incorporate the multiple dimensions in which the conflicts are embedded.” -- Thomas V. McClendon * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“What is particularly enjoyable about this book is the way in which Donham brings together multiple scales of analysis and discourses to demonstrate how ethnicity came to legitimate violence in the moment and explain the murders in retrospect…In sum, Donham’s monograph is an excellent example of ethnographic work on ethnicity that would provide excellent fodder for courses on nationalism, ethnicity, ethnic violence, and South Africa.” -- David M. Hoffman * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Working with an award-winning photographer Santu Mofokeng, Donham was able to capture in both word and image the grittiness and hardships of compound life. In truth, the use of image and text is powerful. . . . This book represents a kind of “reckoning” with a world in transition, with violence, with capitalism that surely extends far beyond South African studies to entice readers concerned with such questions almost anywhere.” -- Anne Maria Makhulu * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsPreface ix Groups at Cinderella in 1994 xi Local Timeline in Relation to National Liberation xiii Introduction 1 1. Picturing a South African Gold Mine 11 Photo gallery by Santu Mofokeng 25 2. White Stories 45 3. Ways of Dying 69 4. Good Friday at Cinderella 88 5. Freeing Workers and Erasing History 110 6. Unionization from Above 125 7. Motives for Murder 151 8. The Aftermath. "They Were Enjoying Our Freedom" 174 Conclusion 186 Postscript. Doing Fieldwork at the End of Apartheid 189 Notes 197 Bibliography 217 Index 231
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University of Nebraska Press Youve Always Been Wrong
Book SynopsisA fitful interloper among the Surrealists, the author rejected all forms of dogmatic thought, whether religious, philosophical, aesthetic, or political. He combined his skepticism about Western metaphysics with mystic's effort to maintain intense wakefulness to the present moment and to the irreducible particularity of all objects and experience.
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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma A Treatise on the Astrolabe
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Fordham University Press A Jesuit Challenge Edmond Campions Debates at
Book SynopsisIn 1581, after four days of debating six leading Anglican divines at the Tower of London, Jesuit Edmund Campion (1540-1581) was put to death because he would not deny his faith. This volume contains Catholic manuscripts of those debates.Trade Review...provides invaluable insights into the mind and soul of Edmund Campion, and highlights many of the issues that so tragically tore his world asunder. * —Catholic Historical Review *
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The University of North Carolina Press Cold War Liberation
Book SynopsisAn innovative reinterpretation of the relationships forged between African revolutionaries and the countries of the Warsaw Pact, Cold War Liberation is a bold addition to debates about policy-making in the Global South during the Cold War.
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MP-AMM American Mathematical Computability Theory
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is only a 200 page book, but it covers a wealth of material...[A] clear, concise introduction that would be ideal for a one-term undergraduate course...Recommended." - CHOICE"This short text does an excellent job of covering those topics that should be included in an undergraduate introduction to computability theory... There are both appropriate exercises and enticing doorways to open topics and current research. The exposition is precise, but still conversational. I believe my students will enjoy reading this text." - Jeffry L. Hirst, Zentralblatt MATHTable of Contents Introduction Background Defining computability Working with computable functions Computing and enumerating sets Turing reduction and Post’s problem Two hierarchies of sets Further tools and results Areas of research Mathematical asides Bibliography Index
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Duke University Press The Camera as Historian
Book SynopsisPhotographic historian Edwards looks at the popularity of the amateur photographic survey movement in England between the mid-1880s and the end of World War I, when over a thousand amateur photographers took well over 50,000 photographs documenting nearby churches, cottages, and other local features. Edwards sees this movement as a form of popular history.Trade Review"The Camera as Historian offers groundbreaking insights into the entangled relations of photography and history, the recording impulse in modern British history, the complex links between visual practices and the historical imagination, and the intellectual and cultural traditions that frame representations of the past. It is significant as the first in-depth look at the fascinating and important work of the British survey movement: its participants, driving impulses, economies, audiences, values, and successes and failures. The book is made all the more important by Elizabeth Edwards's insistence on attention to the ways that photographs were produced and translated, and her demonstration of a mode of historical interpretation that not only links critical theory and archival practice, but illustrates their inseparability."—Jennifer Tucker, author of Nature Exposed: Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science"In this magnificent study, Elizabeth Edwards approaches the photographic survey movement in England above all as a practice: a relation between photographers, photographic technologies, photographs, and the material traces of the past in landscapes. This practice, as Edwards shows in rich detail, was extensive, amateur, public, local, and reflexive. With its empirical depth and conceptual reach, this book enhances immensely our understanding of the mediation of both history and geography by photography."—Gillian Rose, author of Doing Family Photography: The Domestic, the Public and the Politics of Sentiment“The The Camera as Historian provides a dense amount of information about the photographic survey movement, as well as aspects of Victorian and Edwardian Britain that shaped the survey movement. . . . But the content and ideas are interesting and provide an original perspective, making any extra effort in the read a tremendously worthwhile venture.” -- Mary Desjarlais * Photogram *“The Camera as Historian is unquestionably a major work of the new photographic history. As I have indicated it is now the benchmark study of mass photographic practice; it is inventively conceived, meticulously researched, and full of new ways of thinking about photography, history, and many other things.” -- Steve Edwards * Oxford Art Journal *“[A] fascinating and remarkable new book. . . . It is also a pleasure to use, being beautifully produced, with (as would be expected) a wonderful collection of photographs, magnificently reproduced—and. . . it is outstandingly good value.” -- Alan Crosby * Local Historian *“Probably because of the scope, British survey photography has lacked extensive studies, so this thoughtful analysis by Edwards of a complex set of practices and narratives is welcome. . . . Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above.” -- S. Spencer * Choice *“This is a great book on a great subject by a great author (and, yes, by a great publisher as well, for the amount and quality of the often never published images in this well designed and impressive volume is exemplary). . . . If good history is a dialogue between past, present and future, then The Camera as History is best history.” -- Jan Baetens * Leonardo Reviews *”This is the only comprehensive monograph on the survey movement, for which Edwards has identified 73 surveys, or regional bodies of work that were focused on particular towns, counties, and cities. Her analysis of the pictures is commendable as she describes the ‘historical imagination’ that these amateur photographers articulated through the surveys. . . . Serious researchers on this topic will appreciate the thorough work offered here, which is well documented in notes and appendixes.” -- Eric Linderman * Library Journal *“Essential and exciting reading for anyone interested in the visual culture of this period. Edwards’s achievement is to make the activities of one group—or linked groups—of people speak to the nation’s sense of itself and of how its physical character should be preserved and remembered. No less important is the way in which she makes us think about how photography may best be understood as history and what its responsibilities may be.” -- Kate Flint * Journal of British Studies *“Building on her groundbreaking work on anthropological photography, The Camera as Historian establishes Edwards as a role model in the field of photographic history. Addressing both the concerns of theory and the riches of the archive, Edwards exposes the foibles of these Edwardian amateurs without any bad-faith assumption of chauvinism. Adorned with over a hundred illustrations and a useful bibliography, scholars and graduate students in the fields of photography, visual culture, social, and cultural history will receive multiple dividends from reading and discussing this book.” -- Nicole Hudgins * Journal of Social History *“Edwards demonstrates a true mastery over her material and an adept use of critical theory, such that the book remains wholly engaging. The Camera as Historian positions Edwards as anexemplar in the writing of history and ethnography within the fields of photography and visualculture. With over one hundred illustrations and a comprehensive bibliography of primary andsecondary sources, this book will surely remain a useful reference on British survey photography and a model historiography of both British history and photography.” -- Taylor J. Acosta * Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide *"I am Australian, and thus very distant in space and experience from these landscapes — but just holding and looking through Edwards’s beautiful book fills me with nostalgia and longing for a landscape I have never known.... Erudite and nuanced, this rich and suggestive book raises many issues and points to further work." -- Jane Lydon * Victorian Studies *Table of ContentsPreface xi Acknowledgments xiii 1. "Sacred Monuments of the Nation's Growth and Hope": Amateur Photography and Imagining the Past 1 2. "A Credit to Yourself and Your Country": Amateur Photographers and the Survey and Record Movement 31 3. Unblushing Realism: Practices of Evidence, Style, and Arachive 79 4. "To Be a Source of Pride": Local Histories and National Identities 123 5. "Doomed and Threatened": Photography, Disappearance, and Survival 163 6. "To Quicken the Instincts": Photographs 7. Afterlives and Legacies: An Epilogureas Public History 209 7. Afterlives and Legacies: An Epilogue 243 Appendix 259 Illustrations 269 Notes 273 Bibliography 305 Index 321
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Duke University Press Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra
Book SynopsisLooks at the vernacular cosmopolitanism of a group of jazz players in Ghana, who have traveled widely, played with American jazz greats, and blended Coltrane with local instruments and philosophy. This book describes their cosmopolitan outlook as an accoustemology, a way of knowing the world through sound.Trade Review"How to evoke the brilliant insight and empathy of Steven Feld's acoustemological memoir of music and musicians in Accra? To start, imagine E. T. Mensah, Shirley Temple, John Coltrane, and Ludwig van Beethoven riding (quasi-legally) in the back of a vividly motto-festooned Ghanaian trotro truck, cool-running a memory-drenched, complexly overlapping soundscape of highlife evergreens, Afriphonic jazz hollers, hallelujah choruses, ratcheting sewer toads, and honking India-rubber bulb horns. Centered on the voices, stories, and ambitions of a compelling cast of characters—Ghanaian musicians whose diversely linked experiences chart the layered, contradictory flows and deep reefs of globalization—Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra is a fundamental and stimulating contribution to the literature on musical cosmopolitanism and the study of contemporary urban culture in Africa.”—Christopher Waterman, Dean, UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture"Steven Feld has written an astonishing book: at once a sweetly told adventure story, biographies of some very important but virtually unknown African musicians, a shrewd look at the world we live in and think we know, and hidden within it all, a sly critique of the history of jazz."—John F. Szwed, Director, Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University“[A] vital statement about the infinitely nuanced nature of cultural exchange between Africa and America, and how our fullest understanding of jazz history might be furthered by enquiries like this.” -- Kevin Le Gendre * Jazzwise *“A successful fusion of anthropology and aesthetics that illuminates the musical and cultural links—and differences—between African and American jazz, this is also a fascinating memoir of one person’s attempt to understand the urban culture of Ghana in an age of globalization.” * Publishers Weekly *“Feld reveals the high degree of cosmopolitanism in jazz-pop related musics and the huge role that race and class play in constraining the players. Deciphering the intertextuality of African American life and music requires an expert like Steven Feld. He has done a masterful job.” -- Philip K. Bock * Journal of Anthropological Research *“In addition to his effective usage of the storytelling mode, Feld provides an exemplary illustration of the seamless integration of multiple roles as a documentary filmmaker, musician, anthropologist, historian, and tour promoter. . . . Feld realizes that not all Ghanaians would view these musicians as cosmopolitans, but that fact seems to actually reinforce his discussion of the discourse on cosmopolitanism and its relationship to race, class, and other structures of power. Indeed, he opens many doors for his readers and tells us stories of why these types of music making are important beyond Ghana. He leads us to a more refined understanding of cosmopolitanism, not to provide a series of answers, but to provoke in each of us more thoughtful questions about our music, our research, and ourselves.” -- Dave Wilson * Ethnomusicology Review *“The chapters in which Feld listens and retells the stories of these mercurial musicians are compelling, and throw up original and profound material. . . . Feld is brilliant at articulating the multiple overlapping narratives and experiences that both obfuscate and animate diasporic dialogues, and in that process his book attains its own world-historical significance.” -- Tony Herrington * The Wire *“This fascinating book opens up jazz from the African perspective. Whether he’s discussing with Nortey the Africanization of his saxophone and his absolute dedication to the music of John Coltrane or explaining Ghanaba’s musical relationship with Max Roach, Feld brings a full picture to the broadening cultural aspects of Africans playing their own type of jazz.” -- Jon Ross * DownBeat *“With rich and diverse examples, Feld demonstrates the pervasiveness of cosmopolitan outlooks among jazz musicians in Accra, whether mobile or immobile, socially powerful or powerless, rich or poor… Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra is an important theoretical intervention in ‘cosmopolitanism from below’ and a powerful narrative about jazz as an African diasporic art form from the standpoint of musicians in Accra.” -- Stephen Hager * Notes *“Jazz Cosmopolitanism is a lively and important book, one that uses the vehicles of dialogue and sound to unearth the complex cultural and political dynamics that connect a group of urban Africans to the diaspora and wider world. It is a fun, invigorating, and worthwhile read. . . . Jazz Cosmopolitanism is a book that continues to resonate when finally put down. I highly recommend picking it up.” -- Nate Plageman * Journal of African History *“A thoroughly humane and endearing narrative account of Feld’s attempt in Ghana, encumbered by the title ‘prof,’ recording and photographic equipment, a car, and many of the resources one expects from a citizen of the wealthiest nation on earth,to try and engage with and understand Accra’s musical landscape and especially those aspects of it which relate to jazz. It’s a joy to read. . . .” * African Jazz *“Feld’s brilliant work should have a broad impact and appeal, offering significant contributions and interventions to interdisciplinary discourses on jazz, Ghanaian music, cosmopolitanism, as well as (urban) Africa and its diaspora.” -- Paul Schauert * African Music *“An absolute delight. . . . Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra will not only become one of the most important studies in jazz scholarship; it will also provide a provocative indication of where and how culturally oriented music studies might develop.” -- Ronald Radano * Journal of Popular Music Studies *“A text to listen to... Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra is a prime example of substantial academic research presented in an accessible way.... With his combination of academic depth, collaborative approach, and aesthetic sensibility in this book, as in his other work, Steven Feld is a guiding light for us all: musicians, filmmakers, anthropologists in Ghana and further afield.” -- Helena Wulff * Visual Anthropology Review *Table of ContentsOpus xi Four-Bar Intro "The Shape of Jazz to Come" 1 Vamp In, HeadAcoustemology in Accra: On Jazz Cosmopolitanism 11 First Chorus, with TranspositionGuy Warren / Ghanaba: From Afro-Jazz to Handel via Max Roach 51 Second Chorus, Blow FreeNii Noi Nortey: From Pan-Africanism to Afrifones via John Coltrane 87 Third Chorus, Back InsideNii Otoo Annan: From Toads to Polyrhythm via Elvin Jones and Rashied Ali 119 Fourth Chorus, Shout to the GroovePor Por: From Honk Horns to Jazz Funerals via New Orleans 159 Head Again, Vamp OutBeyond Diasporic Intimacy 199 "Dedicated to You" 245 Horn Backgrounds, Riffs Underneath 249 Themes, Players 299
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Duke University Press Visual Time
Book SynopsisExamining the notion of time in art history, Keith Moxey argues that looking at a work of art creates an experience of time for the viewer distinct from the work's place in the history of art.Trade Review“Every page is graced with an erudite yet refreshingly accessible writing style—a rare feat these days—which makes the reader feel excessively smart. . . . If you are not afraid to come away with more questions than you started with, this book definitely belongs within easy reach on your shelf. It is a book to anyone interested in the philosophy of time, the nature of art, and the ever-growing contemporary discourses of history and art history.” -- SeungJung Kim * Art in America *“Though it is a far-reaching critique of the kind of historicism that contents itself with studying the past without regard for the present, Keith Moxey’s Visual Time: The Image in History is not an attempt to liberate us from history. On the contrary, it is a critique of historicism in the name of history, and it never loses sight of the urgent issues that have fueled historicism, especially in the last century.” -- Amy Knight Powell * CAA Reviews *“Due to the breadth and variety of content and theory, the book should have wide-ranging application for art historians working in a number of geographic regions and time periods, and it should benefit those working in theory as well as object-based scholarship. . . . Moxey’s work is another valuable foray into a rich field, and it has the potential to reshape art historical discourse.” -- James Fishburne * Comitatus *"This book, with its sophisticated language and discussion of methodological and historiographical insights, will be key reading for graduate students and scholars across art history and related fields. While the case studies pertain largely to sixteenth-century northern European works, Moxey's thoughtful and provocative consideration of issues related to time, history, periodization, style, aesthetics, and presence in the interpretation of objects from the past will appeal to all who are grappling with these theoretical issues." -- Joyce de Vries * Sixteenth Century Journal * "Affect and historicism—dueling presences within any art experience—animate Keith Moxey’s superb new collection of essays on Northern Renaissance painting." -- Christopher P. Heuer * Renaissance Quarterly *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I. Time 9 1. Is Modernity Multiple? 11 2. Do We Still Need a Renaissance? 23 3. Contemporaneity's Heterochronicity 37 Part II. History 51 4. Visual Studies and the Iconic Turn 53 5. Bruegel's Crows 77 6. Mimesis and Iconoclasm 107 7. Impossible Distance 139 Conclusion 173 Bibliography 177 Index 199
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Duke University Press Virtual War and Magical Death
Book SynopsisThe contributors to this provocative collection scrutinize the relations between anthropology and contemporary global war, contending that modern high-tech warfare is analogous to rituals of magic and sorcery, and examining the U.S. military's exploitation of ethnographic research.Trade Review"Virtual War and Magical Death is a creative project that is bound to stimulate constructive conversation. It inserts contemporary technologies of warfare, particularly the U.S. Army's Human Terrain System, into sociocultural anthropology's current reflections on its theoretical and methodological practices, as well as the purposes of ethnographic inquiry within and beyond the discipline."—Carol J. Greenhouse, author of The Paradox of Relevance: Ethnography and Citizenship in the United States"By placing in brackets conventional ways of contrasting modernity and premodernity, the contributors to this groundbreaking collection of essays bring into startling relief the phenomenological commonalities that underlie warfare and witchcraft, militarism and magic, while offering radically new insights into the virtual and ritual dimensions of violence and the 'war on terror.'"—Michael Jackson, author of Life Within Limits: Well-being in a World of Want“The book is strongly recommended, not least to those who are tasked with finding out whether ‘smart’ warfare does what it says on the box.” -- Paul Richards * Journal of Military History *“[E]nchanting, ethnographic- and analysis-full…. this volume gathers some of anthropology’s most knowledgeable war scholars who collectively identify the enormous scope of contemporary virtual war in its multiple meanings and applications.” -- Alisse Waterston * The Australian Journal of Anthropology *"The volume elegantly frames early-twenty-fi rst-century militarism as a form of magical thinking. The result is a collection that successfully, and productively, brings into dialogue chapters that cover the origins of the US military’s Human Terrain Systems and drone warfare programs with chapters on diamond diggers in rural Tanzania and the expansion of police violence in postwar Guatemala." -- Danny Hoffman * Journal of Anthropological Research *"A powerful critique of the hubristic illusion perpetuated by the military, that the infinite diversity, ambiguity and creativity of the social may be tamed through proper techno-cultural management." -- Malay Firoz * Social Anthropology *"This is a valuable collection…. It is a fine tribute to Neil Whitehead, whose insights on why we kill each other will be sorely missed." -- Chris Hables Gray * Technology and Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Virtual War and Magical Death / Neil L. Whitehead and Sverker Finnström 1 1. Ethnography, Knowledge, Torture, and Silence / Neil L. Whitehead 26 2. The Role of Culture in Wars Waged by Robots: Connecting Drones, Anthropology, and Human Terrain System's Prehistory / David Price 46 3. Cybernetic Crystal Ball: "Forecasting" Insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan / Roberto J. González 65 4. Full Spectrum: The Military Invasion of Anthropology / R. Brian Ferguson 85 5. Today He Is No More: Magic, Intervention, and Global War in Uganda / Sverker Finnström 111 6. The Hostile Gaze: Night Vision and the Immediation of Nocturnal Combat in Vietnam and Iraq / Antonius C. G. M. Robben 132 7. Virtual Soldiers, Cognitive Laborers / Robertson Allen 152 8. Virtual Wars in the Tribal Zone: Air Strikes, Drones, Civilian Casualties, and Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan and Pakistan / Jeffrey A. Sluka 171 9. Propaganda, Gangs, and Social Cleansing in Guatemala / Victoria Sanford 194 10. The Soundtrack to War / Matthew Sumera 214 11. War at Large: Miner Magic and the Carrion System / Koen Stroeken 234 References 251 Contributors 279 Index 281
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Duke University Press Arresting Dress
Book SynopsisTrade Review“[A] slim yet comprehensive look at how an 1863 law against appearing in public dressed as a different sex invited a regime of surveillance upon “problem bodies.” The book covers a lot of ground.” -- Peter Kane * SF Weekly *“[A]s the first in-depth examination of cross-dressing laws in an American city, the book is a valuable contribution to gender studies. It demonstrates convincingly that societal discomfort with difference in gender-expression was historically tied to societal discomfort with other sorts of difference. Both led to the marginalization of “problem bodies.”” -- Lillian Faderman * Women's Review of Books *"Arresting Dress gives one much to think about beyond its well-argued and convincing conclusions. This is what I consider a good book — a scholarly endeavor that causes one to think about how one might look at evidence, arguments, and conceptualizations in different ways.... Arresting Dress is highly recommended, both for the conclusions it draws and for the further thinking and research it encourages." -- Peter Boag * GLQ *"Arresting Dress is an impressive work of history, based in deep archival research, written in engaging prose, woven with smart analysis, and complete with wonderful images from primary sources... that bring the text to life. Never over-theoretical, the work is both approachable for undergraduates as well as useful for specialists. As such, it deserves to be read and assigned widely." -- Emily Skidmore * Journal of American History *"In her compelling historical account of a multiplicity of cross-dressing practices and their incorporation into certain cultural venues and proscription in others, Clare Sears demonstrates the ways in which stabilizing gender and sexuality was central to state-making projects of that time.... [T]he result is a book well worth reading." -- Tey Meadow * American Journal of Sociology *"Sears’s book is important because it historicizes cross-dressing and cross-gender behavior in ways in which it never has been before. Indeed, it is the sort of interdisciplinary study that is often attempted but rarely executed with such interpretive precision.... Despite such scholarly intersections, however, the book is remarkably accessible. A stimulating read for undergraduates, specialists, and general readers." -- Adam Q. Stauffer * Journal of American Studies *"There is much to admire in Sears’ analysis of this topic, especially in her persistent and convincing analysis of how cross-dressing laws interacted with racial politics at the time—two topics that seem unrelated at first glance. Overall Sears gives a nuanced, sensitive and in intelligent reading of a little-known law and its vast consequences for the culture of the city and the nation." -- Ariel Beaujot * Social History *"What is especially admirable about Sears’s text is the depth and breadth of her interdisciplinary archival research that draws together a variety of processes and relations that demonstrate the fascination and outrage with forms of cross-dressing. This is equally well-balanced and supported with an application and articulation of a variety of theoretical perspectives that make this a valuable book about belonging, othering, bodies and dressed appearance, not just historically but with relevance today." -- Shaun Cole * International Journal of Fashion Studies *"Sears deftly uses a variety of well-placed illustrations (newspaper clippings, political cartoons, posters, and photographs) to explain and expand her arguments. She also, in a surprising twist in view of her emphasis on the prevalence of cross-dressing, successfully challenges the popular notion of frontier San Francisco as a ‘wide open' permissive town." -- Nancy C. Unger * Canadian Journal of History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Not Belonging 1 1. Instant and Peculiar 23 2. Against Good Morals 41 3. Problem Bodies, Public Space 61 4. A Sight Well Worth Gazing Upon 78 5. Indecent Exhibitions 97 6. Problem Bodies, Nation-State 121 Conclusion. Against the Law 139 Notes 149 Bibliography 175 Index 191
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