Creating Culture, Performing Community explores the ways in which the people of Santo Santiago de Angahuan, a P'urhepecha community in the state of Michoacan, Mexico, create and curate their cultural practices and how, by doing so, they perform what it means to be an active member of the P'urhepecha community. Through a deep ethnographic account ......
Creating African Fashion Histories examines the stark disjuncture between African self-fashioning and museum practices. Conventionally, African clothing, textiles, and body adornments were classified by museums as examples of trade goods, art, and ethnographic materials--never as "fashion." Counterposing the dynamism of African fashion with ......
Martin Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy reflects his famous philosophical "turning." In this work, Heidegger returns to the question of being from its inception in Being and Time to a new questioning of being as event. Heidegger opens up the essential dimensions of his thinking on the historicality of being that underlies all of his later ......
... a valuable book. It is an important link between the unknown of the Renaissance and the present." -The Triangle of Mu Phi Epsilon Straightforward practicality is the most outstanding characteristic of this book." -Continuo ... a fine and very welcome book that is likely to remain the high standard of lute continuo instruction for some time ......
Supposedly a worthwhile endeavor, scholarly and scientific writing to most people is abstract, impersonal, impractical, and sometimes impossible to read. This book examines this discourse, studies its relation to practical, everyday writing, and tells us why scholarly writing is anything but uniform and monolithic, and worth reading.
Teen films of the 1980s were notorious for treating consent as irrelevant with scenes of boys spying in girls' locker rooms and tricking girls into sex. While contemporary movies now routinely prioritize consent, ensuring date rape is no longer a joke and girls' desires are celebrated, sexual consent remains a problematic and often elusive ideal ......
Teen films of the 1980s were notorious for treating consent as irrelevant with scenes of boys spying in girls' locker rooms and tricking girls into sex. While contemporary movies now routinely prioritize consent, ensuring date rape is no longer a joke and girls' desires are celebrated, sexual consent remains a problematic and often elusive ideal ......
Folklorists study the richness of customary forms of cultural expression and the everyday social worlds in which all people interact and communicate. They use a range of methods-literary, ethnographic, philological, visual, historical, comparative, artifactual-to engage with and learn from diverse peoples, but they also rely on a stock of key ......
Folklorists study the richness of customary forms of cultural expression and the everyday social worlds in which all people interact and communicate. They use a range of methods-literary, ethnographic, philological, visual, historical, comparative, artifactual-to engage with and learn from diverse peoples, but they also rely on a stock of key ......
