Duke University Press Books imprint: 2462 books
by
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 1995
Traditional jazz studies have tended to see jazz in purely musical terms, as a series of changes in rhythm, tonality, and harmony, or as a parade of great players. But jazz has also entered the cultural mix through its significant impact on novelists, filmmakers, dancers, painters, biographers, and...
by
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 1995
The study of jazz comes of age with this anthology. One of the first books to consider jazz outside of established critical modes, Jazz Among the Discourses brings together scholars from an array of disciplines to question and revise conventional methods of writing and thinking about jazz.
Challenging...
by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 1994
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is best known as a cultural and literary critic, as one of the primary forces behind the development of queer and gay/lesbian studies, and as author of several influential books: Tendencies, Epistemology of the Closet, and Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire....
Surviving against the Odds
Village Industry in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2009
Read the foreword by Mara Soetoro-Ng
President Barack Obama’s mother, S. Ann Dunham, was an economic anthropologist and rural development consultant who worked in several countries including Indonesia. Dunham received her doctorate in 1992. She died in 1995, at the age of 52, before having...
Unsettling Accounts
Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2008
An Argentine naval officer remorsefully admits that he killed thirty people during Argentina’s Dirty War. A member of General Augusto Pinochet’s intelligence service reveals on a television show that he took sadistic pleasure in the sexual torture of women in clandestine prisons. A Brazilian military...
Bound For the Promised Land
African American Religion and the Great Migration
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 1997
Bound for the Promised Land is the first extensive examination of the impact on the American religious landscape of the Great Migration—the movement from South to North and from country to city by hundreds of thousands of African Americans following World War I. In focusing on this phenomenon’s...
Mapping Yorùbá Networks
Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2004
Three flags fly in the palace courtyard of Òyótúnjí African Village. One represents black American emancipation from slavery, one black nationalism, and the third the establishment of an ancient Yorùbá Empire in the state of South Carolina. Located sixty-five miles southwest of Charleston, Òyótúnjí...
by Yvette Christiansë
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 1999
In Castaway Yvette Christiansë presents an epic yet fragmented poetic story set off the coast of Africa on the island of St. Helena: Napoleon Bonaparte’s final place of exile, a port of call for the slave trade, and birthplace of the poet’s grandmother. Amid echoes of racialized identity and...
The Body of War
Media, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Break-up of Yugoslavia
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
In The Body of War, Dubravka Žarkov analyzes representations of female and male bodies in the Croatian and Serbian press in the late 1980s and in the early 1990s, during the war in which Yugoslavia disintegrated. Žarkov proposes that the Balkan war was not a war between ethnic groups; rather, ethnicity...
by Antoinette Burton, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2007
Santha Rama Rau was one of the best known South Asian writers in postwar America. Born into India’s elite in 1923, Rama Rau has lived in the United States since the 1940s. Although she is no longer well known, she was for several decades a popular expert on India. She provided an insider’s view...
Political Myth
On the Use and Abuse of Biblical Themes
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
In this provocative and necessary work, Roland Boer, a leading biblical scholar and cultural theorist, develops a political myth for the Left: a powerful narrative to be harnessed in support of progressive policy. Boer focuses on foundational stories in the Hexateuch, the first six books of the Bible,...
Reckoning
The Ends of War in Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2009
Following the 1996 treaty ending decades of civil war, how are Guatemalans reckoning with genocide, especially since almost everyone contributed in some way to the violence? Meaning “to count, figure up” and “to settle rewards and punishments,” reckoning promises accounting and accountability....
Harnessing Farms and Forests in the Low-Carbon Economy
How to Create, Measure, and Verify Greenhouse Gas Offsets
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
As the United States moves to a low-carbon economy in order to combat global warming, credits for reducing carbon dioxide emissions will increasingly become a commodity that is bought and sold on the open market. Farmers and other landowners can benefit from this new economy by conducting land management...
Energopolitics
Wind and Power in the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Between 2009 and 2013 Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer conducted fieldwork in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec to examine the political, social, and ecological dimensions of moving from fossil fuels to wind power. Their work manifested itself as a new ethnographic form: the duograph—a combination of...