University Of Nebraska Press imprint: 513 books
Salish Blankets
Robes of Protection and Transformation, Symbols of Wealth
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Salish Blankets presents a new perspective on Salish weaving through technical and anthropological lenses. Worn as ceremonial robes, the blankets are complex objects said to preexist in the supernatural realm and made manifest in the natural world through ancestral guidance. The blankets are protective...
Monstrous Nature
Environment and Horror on the Big Screen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Godzilla, a traditional natural monster and representation of cinema’s subgenre of natural attack, also provides a cautionary symbol of the dangerous consequences of mistreating the natural world—monstrous nature on the attack. Horror films such as Godzilla invite an exploration of the complexities...
It's a Question of Space
An Ordinary Astronaut's Answers to Sometimes Extraordinary Questions
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Having spent over 150 days on his first tour of the International Space Station, it’s safe to say that Clayton C. Anderson knows a thing or two about space travel. Now retired and affectionately known as “Astro Clay” by his many admirers on social media and the Internet, Anderson has fielded...
Governing Affect
Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Roberto E. Barrios presents an ethnographic study of the aftermaths of four natural disasters: southern Honduras after Hurricane Mitch; New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina; Chiapas, Mexico, after the Grijalva River landslide; and southern Illinois following the Mississippi River flood. Focusing...
Wrapped in the Flag of Israel
Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
In Wrapped in the Flag of Israel, Smadar Lavie analyzes the racial and gender justice protest movements in the State of Israel from the 2003 Single Mothers’ March to the 2014 New Black Panthers and explores the relationships between these movements, violence in Gaza, and the possibility of an Israeli...
Becoming Melungeon
Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Appalachian legend describes a mysterious, multiethnic population of exotic, dark-skinned rogues called Melungeons who rejected the outside world and lived in the remote, rugged mountains in the farthest corner of northeast Tennessee. The allegedly unknown origins of these Melungeons are part of what...
Never Land
Adventures, Wonder, and One World Record in a Very Small Plane
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
According to W. Scott Olsen, there are two reasons for flying. The first is just to get somewhere. The second has nothing to do with destination. It is this second reason, expressing our deepest curiosity and our longings for infinity, grace, and clarity, that Never Land explores. At once frankly...
Get Me Through Tomorrow
A Sister's Memoir of Brain Injury and Revival
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
On August 4, 2004, Jason Crigler was onstage in a New York City nightclub when a blood vessel burst in his brain. The thirty-four-year-old guitarist, a fixture in the downtown music scene who had played with Marshall Crenshaw, Linda Thompson, and John Cale, narrowly survived the bleed. A string of...
Practiced Citizenship
Women, Gender, and the State in Modern France
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Over fifty years ago sociologist T. H. Marshall first opened the modern debate about the evolution of full citizenship in modern nation-states, arguing that it proceeded in three stages: from civil rights, to political rights, and finally to social rights. The shortcomings of this model were clear...
by Wright Morris
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
"'Judge Howard Potter, one of the most respected and influential citizens of a suburban town outside of Philadelphia, lies dead after a long and wearying illness. He is survived by the five people who knew him best and whose lives were deeply influenced by him. . . .Through the thoughts and reminiscences...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
2018 Best Collaborative Project from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
In the last thirty years scholarship has increasingly engaged the topic of women’s alliances in early modern Europe. The Politics of Female Alliance in Early Modern England expands our knowledge of yet another...
I'm Not Like Everybody Else
Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and American Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Despite the presence of the Flaming Lips in a commercial for a copier and Iggy Pop’s music in luxury cruise advertisements, Jeffrey T. Nealon argues that popular music has not exactly been co-opted in the American capitalist present. Contemporary neoliberal capitalism has, in fact, found a central...
We Want Fish Sticks
The Bizarre and Infamous Rebranding of the New York Islanders
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
The NHL’s New York Islanders were struggling. After winning four straight Stanley Cups in the early 1980s, the Islanders had suffered an embarrassing sweep by their geographic rivals, the New York Rangers, in the first round of the 1994 playoffs. Hoping for a new start, the Islanders swapped out...
The Naked Mountaineer
Misadventures of an Alpine Traveler
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The Naked Mountaineer recounts a series of solo journeys to some of the world’s most exotic peaks in places such as Switzerland, Japan, and Borneo. However, it is far from the typical heroic mountain-expedition book. Although Steve Sieberson did reach many summits, in most cases his travels were...