University Of Nebraska Press imprint: 513 books
Invisible Reality
Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Winner of the 2018 John C. Ewers Book Award
Winner of the 2018 Donald Fixico Book Award
Rosalyn R. LaPier demonstrates that Blackfeet history is incomplete without an understanding of the Blackfeet people’s relationship and mode of interaction with the “invisible reality” of the supernatural...
Hunting Caribou
Subsistence Hunting along the Northern Edge of the Boreal Forest
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Denésuliné hunters range from deep in the Boreal Forest far into the tundra of northern Canada. Henry S. Sharp, a social anthropologist and ethnographer, spent several decades participating in fieldwork and observing hunts by this extended kin group. His daughter, Karyn Sharp, who is an archaeologist...
by Joey Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Modern manhood is confusing and complicated, but Joey Franklin, a thirtysomething father of three, is determined to make the best of it. In My Wife Wants You to Know I’m Happily Married, he offers frank, self-deprecating meditations on everything from male-pattern baldness and the balm of blues...
by Cortney Davis
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
In the venerable tradition of caregivers writing about the healing arts—a tradition peopled by the likes of Anton Chekhov, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Walker Percy, and Denise Levertov—Cortney Davis brings to poetry the experience, insight, and compassion of a nurse practitioner who...
Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River
A. Irving Hallowell and Adam Bigmouth in Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
In Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River Jennifer S. H. Brown presents the dozens of stories and memories that A. Irving Hallowell recorded from Adam (Samuel) Bigmouth, son of Ochiipwamoshiish (Northern Barred Owl), at Little Grand Rapids in the summers of 1938 and 1940. The stories range widely...
When the Crowd Didn't Roar
How Baseball's Strangest Game Ever Gave a Broken City Hope
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
The date is April 29, 2015. Baltimore is reeling from the devastating riots sparked by the death in police custody of twenty-five-year-old African American Freddie Gray. Set against this grim backdrop, less than thirty-six hours after the worst rioting Baltimore has seen since the assassination of...
Undesirable Practices
Women, Children, and the Politics of the Body in Northern Ghana, 1930–1972
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Undesirable Practices examines both the intended and the unintended consequences of “imperial feminism” and British colonial interventions in “undesirable” cultural practices in northern Ghana. Jessica Cammaert addresses the state management of social practices such as female circumcision,...
Morta Las Vegas
CSI and the Problem of the West
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Through all its transformations and reinventions over the past century, “Sin City” has consistently been regarded by artists and cultural critics as expressing in purest form, for better or worse, an aesthetic and social order spawned by neon signs and institutionalized indulgence. In other words,...
In Praise of Harmony
The Teachings of Abbé Georg Joseph Vogler
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In Praise of Harmony is the first critical and biographical study of Vogler to appear in English.
Frozen in Time
A Minnesota North Stars History
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
In 1967 the National Hockey League decided to double its size from six teams to twelve. This expansion was the first of its kind, and Minnesota, with its rich hockey history, was a natural choice for a new franchise. Thus the Minnesota North Stars were born.
Frozen in Time examines the organization’s...
To Come to a Better Understanding
Medicine Men and Clergy Meetings on the Rosebud Reservation, 1973–1978
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
To Come to a Better Understanding analyzes the cultural encounters of the medicine men and clergy meetings held on Rosebud Reservation in St. Francis, South Dakota, from 1973 through 1978. Organized by Father Stolzman, a Catholic priest studying Lakota religious practice, the meetings fit the goal...
Fight for Old DC
George Preston Marshall, the Integration of the Washington Redskins, and the Rise of a New NFL
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
In 1932 laundry-store tycoon George Preston Marshall became part owner of the Boston Braves franchise in the National Football League. To separate his franchise from the baseball team, he renamed it the Redskins in 1933 and then in 1937 moved his team to Washington DC, where the team won two NFL...
Playtexts
Ludics in Contemporary Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
“Not hubris but the ever self-renewing impulse to play calls new worlds into being.”—Nietzsche Parents and politicians have always taken play seriously. Its formative powers, its focus, its energy, and its ability to signify other things have drawn the attention of writers from Plato and Schiller...
One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Rare voices in fiction, the lives of the working class consume this collection. Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist brings to life the narratives of midwestern blue-collar workers. In these sixteen stories, author Dustin M. Hoffman invites readers to peek...