This indispensable and unique volume is at once a history of and a pathfinder for the future of the Great Law, the governing principles behind the long-standing Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Focused on the Duck Creek Oneida people of Wisconsin, Seeds of Tomorrow draws together a wide range of tribal voices, from elders and community members to young ......
Coalescing around themes of family and belonging, the past's influence on the present, and the ways we define ourselves, In the Shadow of the Architect is a collection that dazzles. What happens when one's mentor is larger-than-life? How do we establish our sense of self? Where do we turn when we don't know how to make sense of the world? In ......
Dear Future Occupants is a wild and weird ride, poignantly exploring themes of family, sexuality, and addiction. This colonial gothic novel opens in 1979, when patriarch Bud, with dubious restaurant experience, uses his wife's inheritance to purchase a diner in hopes of proving himself. When he relocates his family to his conservative fictional ......
How have we gained knowledge about women in the ancient Roman Republic? Roman historians were uniformly male, as were most historians of ancient Rome until quite recently. In the historiography handed down to us by Enlightenment-era scholars, women generally played marginal and often sexualized roles, relegated to the footnotes by historians who ......
In the second century CE, the multiethnic, multilingual, and religiously diverse Roman Empire grew to its greatest extent. To maintain order, Rome relied heavily on strict social hierarchies, established not only through legal frameworks like citizenship but also through cultural markers (such as clothing and language) and personal traits (such as ......
"Where are you from?" For Catherine Jagoe, a set of complicated assumptions often lies behind this seemingly banal question. While partly an immigrant narrative, Jagoe's memoir in essays is not so much-or not only-about moving to the US and putting down roots but rather more about feeling perpetually in-between and never quite "home." Throughout, ......
Gender, Language, and Belonging in Southeast Africa
Southeasternmost Africa is home to a large variety of speech communities, including Nguni, East Bantu, Khoi, and San-the legacy of a long and complicated history of migration, interaction, assimilation, and disaggregation between many peoples. With detailed, careful analysis, Raevin Jimenez guides readers through a thousand years of human ......
Most people today encounter ancient Greek vases as static, untouchable artifacts safely out of reach behind glass, in the quiet of a museum gallery. Once, however, these vessels were also useful objects, made to be held, filled, and generally used in a variety of settings, from the ritual to the quotidian. This volume considers these ancient vases ......
In his many best-selling books, Yi-Fu Tuan seizes big, metaphysical issues and considers them in uniquely accessible ways. Human Goodness is evidence of this talent and is both as simple, and as epic, as it sounds. Genuinely good people and their actions, Tuan contends, are far from boring, naive, and trite; they are complex, varied, and ......
