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The Modernity Bluff
Crime, Consumption, and Citizenship in Côte d’Ivoire
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
In Côte d’Ivoire, appearing modern is so important for success that many young men deplete their already meager resources to project an illusion of wealth in a fantastic display of Western imitation, spending far more than they can afford on brand name clothing, accessories, technology, and a robust...
Disruptive Acts
The New Woman in Fin-de-Siecle France
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
In fin-de-siècle France, politics were in an uproar, and gender roles blurred as never before. Into this maelstrom stepped the "new women," a group of primarily urban, middle-class French women who became the objects of intense public scrutiny. Some remained single, some entered nontraditional...
Fashion and Its Social Agendas
Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
It has long been said that clothes make the man (or woman), but is it still true today? If so, how has the information clothes convey changed over the years? Using a wide range of historical and contemporary materials, Diana Crane demonstrates how the social significance of clothing has been transformed.
Crane...
The Accompaniment
Assembling the Contemporary
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
In this culmination of his search for anthropological concepts and practices appropriate to the twenty-first century, Paul Rabinow contends that to make sense of the contemporary anthropologists must invent new forms of inquiry. He begins with an extended rumination on what he gained from two of his...
Vaudeville Melodies
Popular Musicians and Mass Entertainment in American Culture, 1870-1929
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
If you enjoy popular music and culture today, you have vaudeville to thank. From the 1870s until the 1920s, vaudeville was the dominant context for popular entertainment in the United States, laying the groundwork for the music industry we know today.
In Vaudeville Melodies, Nicholas Gebhardt...
Four Last Songs
Aging and Creativity in Verdi, Strauss, Messiaen, and Britten
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Aging and creativity can seem a particularly fraught relationship for artists, who often face age-related difficulties as their audience’s expectations are at a peak. In Four Last Songs, Linda and Michael Hutcheon explore this issue via the late works of some of the world’s greatest composers.
Giuseppe...
River Jordan
The Mythology of a Dividing Line
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
As the site of several miracles in the Jewish and Christian traditions, the Jordan is one of the world’s holiest rivers. It is also the major political and symbolic border contested by Israelis and Palestinians. Combining biblical and folkloric studies with historical geography, Rachel Havrelock...
Reading Sounds
Closed-Captioned Media and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
Imagine a common movie scene: a hero confronts a villain. Captioning such a moment would at first glance seem as basic as transcribing the dialogue. But consider the choices involved: How do you convey the sarcasm in a comeback? Do you include a henchman’s muttering in the background? Does the villain...
Rootedness
The Ramifications of a Metaphor
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
People have long imagined themselves as rooted creatures, bound to the earth—and nations—from which they came. In Rootedness, Christy Wampole looks toward philosophy, ecology, literature, history, and politics to demonstrate how the metaphor of the root—surfacing often in an unexpected variety...
Senses of Style
Poetry before Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
In an age of interpretation, style eludes criticism. Yet it does so much tacit work: telling time, telling us apart, telling us who we are. What does style have to do with form, history, meaning, our moment’s favored categories? What do we miss when we look right through it? Senses of Style essays...
What Editors Do
The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Editing is an invisible art where the very best work goes undetected. Editors strive to create books that are enlightening, seamless, and pleasurable to read, all while giving credit to the author. This makes it all the more difficult to truly understand the range of roles they inhabit while shepherding...
Running Science
Optimizing Training and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Running is a deceptively simple sport. At its most basic, you need only shoes and comfortable clothes you don’t mind getting sweaty. Yet each time you lace up, all your body’s moving parts must work together to achieve a gait that will keep you injury-free. Many other factors also affect your...
by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Provence today is a state of mind as much as a region of France, promising clear skies and bright sun, gentle breezes scented with lavender and wild herbs, scenery alternately bold and intricate, and delicious foods served alongside heady wines. Yet in the mid-twentieth century, a travel guide called...
by Margaret Iversen
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Photography is often associated with the psychic effects of trauma: the automatic nature of the process, wide-open camera lens, and light-sensitive film record chance details unnoticed by the photographer—similar to what happens when a traumatic event bypasses consciousness and lodges deeply in...