The Celebrity Monarch
Empress Elisabeth and the Modern Female Portrait
Allegory and the Poetic Self
First-Person Narration in Late Medieval Literature
Visualizing Genocide
Indigenous Interventions in Art, Archives, and Museums
The Title of Totonicapán
This work is the first English translation of the complete text of the Title of Totonicapán, one of the most important documents composed by the K’iche’ Maya in the highlands of Guatemala, second only to the Popol Vuh.
Steinbeck’s Imaginarium
Essays on Writing, Fishing, and Other Critical Matters
Latinx Poetics
Essays on the Art of Poetry
Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry collects personal and academic writing from Latino, Latin American, Latinx, and Luso poets about the nature of poetry and its practice.
Isotope Research in Zooarchaeology
Methods, Applications, and Advances
Ingredients for Revolution
A History of American Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses
Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the trailblazing restaurant Mother Courage of New York City, Ingredients for Revolution is the first history of the more than 230 feminist and lesbian-feminist restaurants, cafes, and coffeehouses that existed in the United States from 1972 to the present.
Born with a Copper Spoon
A Global History of Copper, 1830–1980
Born with a Copper Spoon tells the fascinating and far-reaching story of one of the world’s most important metals.
Becoming Catawba
Catawba Indian Women and Nation-Building, 1540–1840
The story of Catawba women who experienced sweeping changes to their world but held onto traditional customs that helped them create and preserve a Catawba identity and build a nation
How Schools Meet Students' Needs
Inequality, School Reform, and Caring Labor
Drawing on conversations with teachers and classroom observations in two elementary schools, How Schools Meet Students' Needs explores the factors that enable and constrain teachers in their efforts to meet students' needs and the consequences of how schools organize this work on teachers' labor and students' learning.
The "Puerto Rican Problem" in Postwar New York City
Spirits in the Consulting Room
Eight Tales of Healing
Reading Homer's Iliad
Prestige Television
Cultural and Artistic Value in Twenty-First-Century America
Prestige Television explores how an array of 21st century US programming is produced and received in ways that elevate select series above the competition in a saturated market. Essays focusing on diverse series, ranging from widely recognized constituents such as The Americans to contested examples like Queen of the South highlight how contributing authors extend conceptions of the genre beyond expected parameters.
Prestige Television
Cultural and Artistic Value in Twenty-First-Century America
Prestige Television explores how an array of 21st century US programming is produced and received in ways that elevate select series above the competition in a saturated market. Essays focusing on diverse series, ranging from widely recognized constituents such as The Americans to contested examples like Queen of the South highlight how contributing authors extend conceptions of the genre beyond expected parameters.
Photo-Attractions
An Indian Dancer, an American Photographer, and a German Camera
A groundbreaking study of global modernity and the cultural interchange between America and South Asia, Photo-Attractions uses a rare and unpublished set of 1938 photographs taken by the photographer Carl Van Vechten of the Indian dancer Ram Gopal in exotic costumes to raise provocative questions about race, sexual identity, photographic technology, colonial histories, and transcultural desires.
Opting Out
Women Messing with Marriage around the World
Opting Out offers sensitive and powerful ethnographic portrayals of women in Africa, Asia, and Latin America who are quietly opting out of marriage. Across these diverse geographic contexts,this edited volume shows that women are the (often unwitting, mostly unacknowledged) protagonists of profound changes in marriage, gender, and kinship.
Opting Out
Women Messing with Marriage around the World
Opting Out offers sensitive and powerful ethnographic portrayals of women in Africa, Asia, and Latin America who are quietly opting out of marriage. Across these diverse geographic contexts,this edited volume shows that women are the (often unwitting, mostly unacknowledged) protagonists of profound changes in marriage, gender, and kinship.
Intoxication
An Ethnography of Effervescent Revelry
Why do people across cultures gather regularly to intoxicate themselves? Vivid and at times deeply personal, Intoxication offers new insights into a wide variety of intoxicating experiences, from the intimate feeling of connection among concertgoers to the adrenaline-fueled rush of a fight to the thrill of jumping off a balcony into a swimming pool. Sébastien Tutenges shows what it means and feels to move beyond the ordinary into altered states in which the transgressive, spectacular, and unexpected takes place.
Families We Need
Disability, Abandonment, and Foster Care’s Resistance in Contemporary China
Families of the Heart
Surrogate Relations in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel
Families of the Heart introduces surrogate families as a new literary device for analyzing a set of novels by Defoe, Richardson, Haywood, and Burney. This radical convention with its feminist and egalitarian potential, Campbell argues, allowed female protagonists to navigate the social world before and beyond marriage across the long eighteenth century.
Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities
Creole Soul
Zydeco Lives
A vividly photographed journey through the world of zydeco music
Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge
Building a Community Archive
A collection of digital stories from the Humanizing Deportation project that reveals a uniquely expert point of view of Mexican and Central American migrant experiences: those of the migrants themselves.
Going Up the Country
Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s
A fascinating collaboration from two scholars working in the South during a crucial point in blues history
Cornerstone at the Confluence
Navigating the Colorado River Compact's Next Century
The Chouteaus
First Family of the Fur Trade
The story of the family that founded St. Louis and contributed to opening the West to American expansion.