Indiana University Press imprint: 1080 books
Art World City
The Creative Economy of Artists and Urban Life in Dakar
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Art World City focuses on contemporary art and artists in the city of Dakar, a famously thriving art metropolis in the West African nation of Senegal. Joanna Grabski illuminates how artists earn their livelihoods from the city’s resources, possibilities, and connections. She examines how and why...
Ten Arab Filmmakers
Political Dissent and Social Critique
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Ten Arab Filmmakers provides an up-to-date overview of the best of Arab cinema, offering studies of leading directors and in-depth analyses of their most important films. The filmmakers profiled here represent principal national cinemas of the Arab world—Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine,...
Art Themes
Choices in Art Learning and Making
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Flexible in approach and full of colorful examples, this textbook provides a basic introduction to what art is and can be in the lives of people who do not necessarily think of themselves as "artists." You will be taught about a variety of art themes, genres, materials, and processes that...
The Picture of Abjection
Film, Fetish, and the Nature of Difference
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2008
Tina Chanter resolves a fundamental problem in film theory by negotiating a middle path between "gaze theory" approaches to film and spectator studies or cultural theory approaches that emphasize the position of the viewer and thereby take account of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Chanter...
The Melodramatic Thread
Spectacle and Political Culture in Modern France
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2007
In France, both political culture and theatrical performances have drawn upon melodrama. This "melodramatic thread" helped weave the country’s political life as it moved from monarchy to democracy. By examining the relationship between public ceremonies and theatrical performance, James R. Lehning...
Palestinian Music and Song
Expression and Resistance since 1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Drawing from a long history of indigenous traditions and incorporating diverse influences of surrounding cultures, music in Palestine and among the millions of Palestinians in diaspora offers a unique window on cultural and political events of the past century. From the perspective of scholars, performers,...
Performing al-Andalus
Music and Nostalgia across the Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Performing al-Andalus explores three musical cultures that claim a connection to the music of medieval Iberia, the Islamic kingdom of al-Andalus, known for its complex mix of Arab, North African, Christian, and Jewish influences. Jonathan Holt Shannon shows that the idea of a shared Andalusian heritage...
Trickster Theatre
The Poetics of Freedom in Urban Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Trickster Theatre traces the changing social significance of national theatre in Ghana from its rise as an idealistic state project from the time of independence to its reinvention in recent electronic, market-oriented genres. Jesse Weaver Shipley presents portraits of many key figures in Ghanaian...
The Last Century of Sea Power, Volume 2
From Washington to Tokyo, 1922–1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
In this second volume of his history of naval power in the 20th century, H. P. Willmott follows the fortunes of the established seafaring nations of Europe along with two upstarts—the United States and Japan. Emerging from World War I in command of the seas, Great Britain saw its supremacy weakened...
Worker-Mothers on the Margins of Europe
Gender and Migration between Moldova and Istanbul
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Following Moldovan women who "commute" for six to twelve months at a time to work as domestics in Istanbul, Worker-Mothers on the Margins of Europe explores the world of undocumented migrants from a postsocialist state. Leyla J. Keough examines the gendered moral economies that shape the perspectives...
The Last Century of Sea Power, Volume 1
From Port Arthur to Chanak, 1894–1922
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
The transition to modern war at sea began during the period of the Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895) and the Spanish-American War (1898) and was propelled forward rapidly by the advent of the dreadnought and the nearly continuous state of war that culminated in World War I. By 1922, most of the elements...
Touching America's History
From the Pequot War through WWII
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Things you can see and touch can bring to mind the time when the items were made and used. In Touching America’s History, Meredith Mason Brown uses twenty objects to summon up major developments in America’s history. The objects range in date from a Pequot stone axe head probably made before the...
Horned Armadillos and Rafting Monkeys
The Fascinating Fossil Mammals of South America
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
South America is home to some of the most distinctive mammals on Earth—giant armadillos, tiny anteaters, the world’s largest rodent, and its smallest deer. But the continent once supported a variety of other equally intriguing mammals that have no close living relatives: armored mammals with tail...
by Patricia Owen-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
In The Contemplative Mind in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Patricia Owen-Smith considers how contemplative practices may find a place in higher education. By creating a bridge between contemplative practices and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), Owen-Smith brings awareness...