Indiana University Press imprint: 1080 books
Global Nollywood
The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Global Nollywood considers this first truly African cinema beyond its Nigerian origins. In 15 lively essays, this volume traces the engagement of the Nigerian video film industry with the African continent and the rest of the world. Topics such as Nollywood as a theoretical construct, the development...
Spiders of the Market
Ghanaian Trickster Performance in a Web of Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
The Ghanaian trickster-spider, Ananse, is a deceptive figure full of comic delight who blurs the lines of class, politics, and morality. David Afriyie Donkor identifies social performance as a way to understand trickster behavior within the shifting process of political legitimization in Ghana, revealing...
The Calls of Islam
Sufis, Islamists, and Mass Mediation in Urban Morocco
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2013
The sacred calls that summon believers are the focus of this study of religion and power in Fez, Morocco. Focusing on how dissemination of the call through mass media has transformed understandings of piety and authority, Emilio Spadola details the new importance of once–marginal Sufi practices...
by John Sallis
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
What is the effect of light as it measures the seasons? How does light leave different traces on the terrain—on a Pacific Island, in the Aegean Sea, high in the Alps, or in the forest? John Sallis considers the expansiveness of nature and the range of human vision in essays about the effect of light...
The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume X
Volume X: The Memoirs of Han China, Part III
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
In The Grand Scribe’s Records: Volume X, readers can follow Ssu-ma Qian’s depiction of the later years of the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han (r. 140–87 BC). The volume begins with four chapters describing the Han’s attempts to subdue states north, east, south and west of the empire. The subsequent...
The War of 1948
Representations of Israeli and Palestinian Memories and Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
The 1948 War is remembered in this special volume, including aspects of Israeli-Jewish memory and historical narratives of 1948 and representations of Israeli-Palestinian memory of that cataclysmic event and its consequences. The contributors map and analyze a range of perspectives of the 1948 War...
The Long 1968
Revisions and New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
From the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, revolutions in theory, politics, and cultural experimentation swept around the world. These changes had as great a transformative impact on the right as on the left. A touchstone for activists, artists, and theorists of all stripes, the year 1968 has taken on...
Schumann's Virtuosity
Criticism, Composition, and Performance in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Considered one of the greatest composers—and music critics—of the Romantic era, Robert Schumann (1810–1856) played an important role in shaping nineteenth-century German ideas about virtuosity. Forging his career in the decades that saw abundant public fascination with the feats and creations...
Latin American Women Dramatists
Theater, Texts, and Theories
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 1999
The book highlights the many possibilities of the innovative work of these dramatists, and this will, it is to be hoped, help the editors to achieve one of their other key goals: productions of the plays in English." —Times Literary Supplement
This thoughtfully crafted book with its insightful...
China's Battle for Korea
The 1951 Spring Offensive
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Between November 1950 and the end of fighting in June 1953, China launched six major offensives against UN forces in Korea. The most important of these began on April 22, 1951, and was the largest Communist military operation of the war. The UN forces put up a strong defense, prevented the capture...
by David Dolata
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Written for musicians by a musician, Meantone Temperaments on Lutes and Viols demystifies tuning systems by providing the basic information, historical context, and practical advice necessary to easily achieve more satisfying tuning results on fretted instruments. Despite the overwhelming organological...
FTM
Female-to-Male Transsexuals in Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
In this ground-breaking study, Aaron Devor provides a compassionate, intimate, and incisive look at the life experiences of forty-five trans men. Emerging into 21st-century political and social conversations, questions persist. Who are they? How do they come to know themselves as men? What do they...
Globalizing Music Education
A Framework
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
How do globalization and internationalization impact music education around the world? By acknowledging different cultural values and priorities, Alexandra Kertz-Welzel’s vision challenges the current state of international music education and higher education, which has been dominated by English-language...
Forest and Labor in Madagascar
From Colonial Concession to Global Biosphere
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Protecting the unique plants and animals that live on Madagascar while fueling economic growth has been a priority for the Malagasy state, international donors, and conservation NGOs since the late 1980s. Forest and Labor in Madagascar shows how poor rural workers who must make a living from the forest...