Let's face it. Whatever attention the ubiquitous brain rot of the smartphone dosed on social media fails to exploit, the AI prompt will surely slurp up as global markets and technologies get in cahoots to harvest the totality of human attention--and, by extension, our self-awareness. Look it up for yourself: More information does not seem to help ......
Readers interested in the role of religion in American history might share the frustration of two scholars who noted in 2010 that "religion is everywhere in American history, but nowhere in American historiography." This collection takes an important step toward correcting that shortcoming: Its dozen essays place religion at the center of the ......
Throughout the twenty-first century, genocide denial has evolved and adapted with new strategies to augment and complement established modes of denial. In addition to outright negation, denial of genocide encompasses a range of techniques, including disputes over numbers, contestation of legal definitions, victim blaming, and various modes of ......
Gender, Race, and the Environment in the Revolt from the Village Movement
The "revolt from the village" literary movement is utterly familiar but generally understudied. In Village Rebels Stephanie Palmer expands the understanding of the 1910s and 1920s movement to include works by white women and African American men and women, redefining the prevailing yet limited conception of the movement. Palmer proposes that a ......
Appearing in English and Ewe, Kofi Anyidoho's poems in Ghananya Revisited are a lyrical tribute to the Ewe-speaking people, exploring themes of tradition, identity, resistance, community, and the evolving Ghanaian experience. Anyidoho's poems speak to us and transform us because they are celebrative: celebrative of wisdom, of social values, of ......
Taking its name from an old map used in the early ages for navigating by ship, Portolan, by Daniela Danz, redirects our gaze from land to the seas, following the routes of container shipping that, in our globalized world, connect us all through tourism, warfare, commerce, and ecological disaster. Between these lines of distribution and ......
Slowness and its related concepts of rhythm and pace are understudied topics in narrative theory. Whereas readers typically invoke narrative rhythm to describe the experiential sense that a narrative accelerates or decelerates during the act of reading, narrative theory generally conceptualizes rhythm as the quantitative relation between the ......
The Coproduction of Social Science and the Pascua Yaqui Tribe in Southern Arizona
In Applying Anthropology, Assembling Community Nicholas Barron examines how members of the borderlands Pascua Yaqui Tribe selectively and creatively incorporated anthropologists, and anthropological research and writing, in their pursuit of cultural revitalization and political recognition in and beyond Southern Arizona. In subtle but impactful ......
Wild places and remote regions, once considered zones where people traveled as "explorers" or lived as peoples of the land, have come under increasing threat from human impact, including climate change. Amid the challenges of intensifying human activity, Antarctica is becoming an "anthropogenic landscape"--and the current governance system may be ......
