Lei Niʻihau
Shell Lei of Niʻihau
Karahee from the Cane Fields
Writing from the Coolie Diaspora
Historical Investigations in West Maui
Green Star Japan
Esperanto and the International Language Question, 1880–1945
Enduring Erosions
Environmental Displacement and Relocation on India’s Sinking Coasts
Dialogues with a Trickster
On the Margins of Myth and Ethnography in the Marshall Islands
The Practice of Human Resource Management in Canada
The Haunted West
Memory and Commemoration at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West
An engrossing exploration of conflicting and complex narratives about the American West and its Native American heritage, violent colonial settlement, and natural history
Hopis and the Counterculture
Traditionalism, Appropriation, and the Birth of a Social Field
This book addresses how the Hopi became icons of the followers of alternative spiritualities and reveals one of the major pathways for the appropriation of Indigenous identities that exploded in the 1960s. Exploring the new social field that developed to spread these ideas, the book documents the biographies of Ammon Hennacy, Craig Carpenter, Frank Waters, and the Firesign Theatre, among others.
The Purple One
Prince, Race, Gender, and Everything in Between
An electric collection of essays and reflections on an enigmatic musical legend
Sickly Vapors
Disease and Doctoring in the Old South
An examination of southern healthcare history from colonial days through the Civil War and Reconstruction
Memory Work
White Ignorance and Black Resistance in Popular Magazines, 1900-1910
How post-Reconstruction periodicals used opposing rhetorical strategies to shape public memory
Frankie McIntosh and the Art of the Soca Arranger
A richly contextualized memoir from a celebrated soca arranger and musician
Conversations with Lenard D. Moore
A fundamental collection of sixteen interviews with the esteemed writer and former president of the Haiku Society of America
Bayou Dilemma
Louisiana in Crisis and Change
Powerful perspectives on the historical and present-day challenges facing the state of Louisiana