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In Sickness and in Wealth
Migration, Gendered Morality, and Central Java
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
In Sickness and Wealth looks at migration from the unusual perspective of the migrant-origin community rather than the migrant abroad.
This book is a powerful text that stands alone on its own merits, but also fits well with two other works recently published by IUP: Deirdre McKay’s An...
by Elena I. Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
From the time of the Crimean War through the fall of the Tsar, the question of what to do about the Russian empire's large Muslim population was a highly contested issue among educated Russians both inside and outside the government. As formulated in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Muslim Question...
by Yitzhak Berger
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Yitzhak Berger advances a distinctive and markedly original interpretation of the biblical book of Jonah that resolves many of the ambiguities in the text. Berger contends that the Jonah text pulls from many inner-biblical connections, especially ones relating to the Garden of Eden. These connections...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
The problem of evil has been an extremely active area of study in the philosophy of religion for many years. Until now, most sources have focused on logical, metaphysical, and epistemological issues, leaving moral questions as open territory. With the resources of ethical theory firmly in hand, this volume provides lively insight into this ageless philosophical issue.
by Eric Marty
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
For English-speaking readers, this book serves as an introduction to an important French intellectual whose work, especially on the issues of antisemitism and anti-Zionism, runs counter to the hostility shown toward Jews by some representatives of contemporary critical theory. It presents for the...
Ornaments and Other Ambiguous Artifacts from Franchthi
Volume 1, The Palaeolithic and the Mesolithic
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
The famous Franchthi Cave excavations in Greece brought to light an exceptionally long sequence of ornaments, spanning from the earliest Upper Palaeolithic to the end of the Neolithic. This volume focuses on the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic ornaments and ornamental species, which constitute one of...
Les Industries lithiques taillées de Franchthi (Argolide, Grèce), Volume 1
Présentation générale et industries Paléolithiques, Fascicle 3
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
With the long-awaited publication of these three volumes we have the first thorough documentation of one of the most important prehistoric sites in the Mediterranean, that of Franchthi Cave in the Argolid Peninsula of Greece." —American Anthropologist
... an exceptional contribution to the...
The Bonanza Trail
Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of the West
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Searching for gold in the American West was not for the faint of heart. To reach the fabled gold fields of California, prospectors penetrated the boundless high Sierras and the Rockies and crossed the desert wastes of Arizona, Utah, and Nevada. Waves of would-be miners poured into the golden gulches...
An Ode to Salonika
The Ladino Verses of Bouena Sarfatty
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Through the poetry of Bouena Sarfatty (1916-1997), An Ode to Salonika sketches the life and demise of the Sephardi Jewish community that once flourished in this Greek crossroads city. A resident of Salonika who survived the Holocaust as a partisan and later settled in Canada, Sarfatty preserved the...
Pink 2.0
Encoding Queer Cinema on the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
In an era where digital media converges with new technologies that allow for cropping, remixing, extracting, and pirating, a second life for traditional media appears via the internet and emerging platforms. Pink 2.0 examines the mechanisms through which the internet and associated technologies both...
Live from Dar es Salaam
Popular Music and Tanzania's Music Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
When socialism collapsed in Tanzania, the government-controlled music industry gave way to a vibrant independent music scene. Alex Perullo explores the world of the bands, music distributors, managers, and clubs that attest to the lively and creative music industry in Dar es Salaam. Perullo examines...
Beyond Versailles
Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and the Formation of New Polities after the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
The settlement of Versailles was more than a failed peace. What was debated at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919–1920 hugely influenced how nations and empires, sovereignty, and the international order were understood after the Great War—and into the present. Beyond Versailles argues thatthis...
Playing to Win
Sports, Video Games, and the Culture of Play
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
In this era of big media franchises, sports branding has crossed platforms, so that the sport, its television broadcast, and its replication in an electronic game are packaged and promoted as part of the same fan experience. Editors Robert Alan Brookey and Thomas P. Oates trace this development back...
by Adriana Varga
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
“A truly comprehensive, multi-perspective, and up-to-date survey of the undeniable role of music in Woolf ’s life and writings” (Music and Letters).
Through Virginia Woolf's diaries, letters, fiction, and the testimony of her contemporaries, this fascinating volume explores the inspiration...