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In Amma's Healing Room
Gender and Vernacular Islam in South India
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2006
[I]t is extremely salubrious to see the ways Islam works in the lives of ordinary people who are not politicized in their religious lives.... No other book on South Asia has material like this." —Ann Grodzins Gold
In Amma’s Healing Room is a compelling study of the life and thought of a...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
This book offers a fresh and diverse perspective on home musical activities of young children from a variety of countries, including; Brazil, Denmark, Greece, Israel, Kenya, the Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, South Africa,Taiwan, the UK, and the United States. Narrowing their study to seven-year-olds...
Islamic Education in Africa
Writing Boards and Blackboards
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Writing boards and blackboards are emblematic of two radically different styles of education in Islam. The essays in this lively volume address various aspects of the expanding and evolving range of educational choices available to Muslims in sub-Saharan Africa. Contributors from the United States,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
What is the future of Continental philosophy of religion? These forward-looking essays address the new thinkers and movements that have gained prominence since the generation of Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, and Levinas and how they will reshape Continental philosophy of religion in the years to come....
by F. Thomas Burke
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
F. Thomas Burke believes that pragmatism, especially as it has been employed in politics and social action, needs a reassessment. He examines the philosophies of William James and Charles S. Peirce to determine how certain maxims of pragmatism originated. Burke contrasts pragmatism as a certain set...
Game Time
Understanding Temporality in Video Games
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Preserving, pausing, slowing, rewinding, replaying, reactivating, reanimating. . . . Has the ability to manipulate video game timelines altered our cultural conceptions of time?
Video game scholar Christopher Hanson argues that the mechanics of time in digital games have presented a new model...
Happily Ever After
The Romance Story in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Find your one true love and live happily ever after." The trials of love and desire provide perennial story material, from the Biblical Song of Songs to Disney’s princesses, but perhaps most provocatively in the romance novel, a genre known for tales of fantasy and desire, sex and pleasure. Hailed...
The Figure of Nature
On Greek Origins
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Broaching an understanding of nature in Platonic thought, John Sallis goes beyond modern conceptions and provides a strategy to have recourse to the profound sense of nature operative in ancient Greek philosophy. In a rigorous and textually based account, Sallis traces the complex development of the...
Zimbabwe's Cinematic Arts
Language, Power, Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
This timely book reflects on discourses of identity that pervade local talk and texts in Zimbabwe, a nation beset by political and economic crisis. As she explores questions of culture that play out in broadly accessible local and foreign film and television, Katrina Daly Thompson shows how viewers...
The Grace of Four Moons
Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Because clothing, food, and shelter are basic human needs, they provide excellent entries to cultural values and individual aesthetics. Everyone gets dressed every day, but body art has not received the attention it deserves as the most common and universal of material expressions of culture. The...
by Elisha P Renne
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
The author of this book, Elisha Renne, is a senior scholar who is well respected for her work in Northern Nigeria. She is an anthropologist with concerns about medicine, dress, women's and gender studies, and material culture.
This book examines the history of Islamic reform movements in...
African Fashion, Global Style
Histories, Innovations, and Ideas You Can Wear
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
African Fashion, Global Style provides a lively look at fashion, international networks of style, material culture, and the world of African aesthetic expression. Victoria L. Rovine introduces fashion designers whose work reflects African histories and cultures both conceptually and stylistically,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Frieda Ekotto, Kenneth W. Harrow, and an international group of scholars set forth new understandings of the conditions of contemporary African cultural production in this forward-looking volume. Arguing that it is impossible to understand African cultural productions without knowledge of the structures...
Composing for the Screen in Germany and the USSR
Cultural Politics and Propaganda
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2007
Despite the long history of music in film, its serious academic study is still a relatively recent development and therefore comprises a limited body of work. The contributors to this book, drawn from both film studies and musicology, attempt to rectify this oversight by investigating film music from...