Duke University Press: 2463 books
So Much Wasted
Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
In So Much Wasted, Patrick Anderson analyzes self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison. Homing in on those who starve themselves for various reasons and the cultural and political contexts in which...
The Oriental Obscene
Violence and Racial Fantasies in the Vietnam Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
The Oriental Obscene is a sophisticated analysis of Americans’ reactions to visual representations of the Vietnam War, such as the photograph of the “napalm girl,” news footage of the Tet Offensive, and feature films from The Deer Hunter to Rambo: First Blood Part II. Sylvia Shin Huey Chong...
Real Country
Music and Language in Working-Class Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2004
In Lockhart, Texas, a rural working-class town just south of Austin, country music is a way of life. Conversation slips easily into song, and the songs are full of conversation. Anthropologist and musician Aaron A. Fox spent years in Lockhart making research notes, music, and friends. In Real Country,...
The Selling Sound
The Rise of the Country Music Industry
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2007
Few expressions of popular culture have been shaped as profoundly by the relationship between commercialism and authenticity as country music has. While its apparent realism, sincerity, and frank depictions of everyday life are country’s most obvious stylistic hallmarks, Diane Pecknold demonstrates...
Freedom with Violence
Race, Sexuality, and the US State
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
In Freedom with Violence, Chandan Reddy develops a new paradigm for understanding race, sexuality, and national citizenship. He examines a crucial contradiction at the heart of modernity: the nation-state’s claim to provide freedom from violence depends on its systematic deployment of violence against...
by Didier Eribon, Michèle Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2004
A bestseller in France following its publication in 1999, Insult and the Making of the Gay Self is an extraordinary set of reflections on “the gay question” by Didier Eribon, one of France’s foremost public intellectuals. Known internationally as the author of a pathbreaking biography of Michel...
Indigenous Mestizos
The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919–1991
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2000
In the early twentieth century, Peruvian intellectuals, unlike their European counterparts, rejected biological categories of race as a basis for discrimination. But this did not eliminate social hierarchies; instead, it redefined racial categories as cultural differences, such as differences in education...
Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes
At the Crossroads of History and Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 1995
Until now, Andean peasants have primarily been thought of by scholars as isolated subsistence farmers, "resistant" to money and to different markets in the region. Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes overturns this widely held assumption and puts in its place a new perspective...
by Marc Becker, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
In June 1990, Indigenous peoples shocked Ecuadorian elites with a powerful uprising that paralyzed the country for a week. Militants insisted that the government address Indigenous demands for land ownership, education, and economic development. This uprising was a milestone in the history of Ecuador’s...
Emperors in the Jungle
The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2003
Emperors in the Jungle is an exposé of key episodes in the military involvement of the United States in Panama. Investigative journalism at its best, this book reveals how U.S. ideas about taming tropical jungles and people, combined with commercial and military objectives, shaped more than a century...
Lenin Reloaded
Toward a Politics of Truth, sic vii
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
Lenin Reloaded is a rallying call by some of the world’s leading Marxist intellectuals for renewed attention to the significance of Vladimir Lenin. The volume’s editors explain that it was Lenin who made Karl Marx’s thought explicitly political, who extended it beyond the confines of Europe,...
by Michael Löwy, Robert Sayre, Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields—not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. In Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre formulate a theory that defines romanticism...
Constituent Moments
Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
Since the American Revolution, there has been broad cultural consensus that “the people” are the only legitimate ground of public authority in the United States. For just as long, there has been disagreement over who the people are and how they should be represented or institutionally embodied....
Projections of Power
The United States and Europe in Colonial Southeast Asia, 1919–1941
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
Throughout its history, the United States has been both imperialistic and anticolonial: imperialistic in its expansion across the continent and across oceans to colonies such as the Philippines, and anticolonial in its rhetoric and ideology. How did this contradiction shape its interactions with European...