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Modern Transformations of the China-Southeast Asia Borderlands
Christianity has become one of the most powerful markers of identity in the mountainous borderlands of China and Southeast Asia, also known as Zomia. This region is home to tens of millions of people-including the Ahmao, the Kachin, the Lisu, and many other tribes-all living at a far remove from the population centers of the lowlands. This volume ......
Theological Generosity in Black Pentecostal Thought
Pentecostalism is often characterized as either an ecstatic movement, centrally involving speaking in tongues, healing, and prophecy, or an exclusivist one, aligned with North American white evangelicalism. Yet there is a vibrant Black Pentecostal tradition stretching back more than a century that is both theologically complex and deeply grounded ......
What role does desire play in the making of art objects? Art historians typically answer this question by referring to historical evidence about an artists sexual identity or to particular kinds of imagery. But what about anonymous artists? Or works whose subject matter is mainstream?
For centuries, Africa has been the center of the global trade in gold. Synonymous with wealth and power in African cultures, this precious metal was also central to the emergence of Europe's colonial empires and the contemporary world made in their wake. Black and gold have thus always been conjoined and yet set in opposition: blackness as ......
In 1792 in rural San Salvador, Juana Aguilar was accused of committing what the authorities called a "heinous" crime. Aguilar was suspected of being a "hermaphrodite," and while this in and of itself was not a crime, determining Aguilar's sex would resolve whether the relationships Aguilar had with women were criminal. Aguilar's possessions were ......
This volume presents the results of five seasons of excavation (1977-1987) in Field III at Tell Halif, Israel, conducted under the Lahav Research Project. This report provides a comprehensive record of the site's Field III stratigraphy, architecture, and material culture from the Early Bronze III (ca. 2700-2200 BCE) and from the Late Bronze II ......
Beauty, Aging, and Cosmetics in Early Modern Europe
The pursuit of youth and beauty transcends time periods. As now, women in the early modern period also sought to turn back the clock using cosmetic recipes promising beauty and clear, younger-looking skin.
More than an amusement park linked to a chocolate empire, Hershey Park in its early years was an extension of industrialist Milton Hershey's paternalistic capitalism. Hershey sought to avoid the labor strife seen in other industries by giving his workers a better deal. He provided employees with affordable homes, free schools, utility subsidies, ......
As Dutch merchants became drivers of the transatlantic slavery business in the seventeenth century, Dutch art increasingly used Blackness to signal slavery and servitude. In this brilliant and pathbreaking work, Angela Vanhaelen proposes new ways of looking at Dutch paintings that do not equate Blackness with enslavement. Vanhaelen reframes the ......
