Duke University Press: 2463 books
Gods in the Bazaar
The Economies of Indian Calendar Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2007
Gods in the Bazaar is a fascinating account of the printed images known in India as “calendar art” or “bazaar art,” the color-saturated, mass-produced pictures often used on calendars and in advertisements, featuring deities and other religious themes as well as nationalist leaders, alluring...
Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World
System, Scale, Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
In this collection of essays, leading cultural theorists consider the meaning and implications of world-scale humanist scholarship by engaging with Immanuel Wallerstein’s world-systems analysis. The renowned sociologist developed his influential critical framework to explain the historical and continuing...
Native Hubs
Culture, Community, and Belonging in Silicon Valley and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2007
Most Native Americans in the United States live in cities, where many find themselves caught in a bind, neither afforded the full rights granted U.S. citizens nor allowed full access to the tribal programs and resources—particularly health care services—provided to Native Americans living on reservations....
Indian Given
Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
In Indian Given María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo addresses current racialized violence and resistance in Mexico and the United States with a genealogy that reaches back to the sixteenth century. Saldaña-Portillo formulates the central place of indigenous peoples in the construction of national spaces...
Racial Transformations
Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2006
Moving beyond the black-white binary that has long framed racial discourse in the United States, the contributors to this collection examine how the experiences of Latinos and Asians intersect in the formation of the U.S. nation-state. They analyze the political and social processes that have racialized...
In Darkness and Secrecy
The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2004
In Darkness and Secrecy brings together ethnographic examinations of Amazonian assault sorcery, witchcraft, and injurious magic, or “dark shamanism.” Anthropological reflections on South American shamanism have tended to emphasize shamans’ healing powers and positive influence. This collection...
Lending Power
How Self-Help Credit Union Turned Small-Time Loans into Big-Time Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Established by Martin Eakes and Bonnie Wright in North Carolina in 1980, the nonprofit Center for Community Self-Help has grown from an innovative financial institution dedicated to civil rights into the nation's largest home lender to low- and moderate-income borrowers. Self-Help's first capital...
Stigmas of the Tamil Stage
An Ethnography of Special Drama Artists in South India
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2005
A study of the lives of popular theater artists, Stigmas of the Tamil Stage is the first in-depth analysis of Special Drama, a genre of performance unique to the southernmost Indian state of Tamilnadu. Held in towns and villages throughout the region, Special Drama performances last from 10 p.m. until...
Maturing Masculinities
Aging, Chronic Illness, and Viagra in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Maturing Masculinities is a nuanced exploration of how older men in urban Mexico incorporate aging, chronic illness, changing social relationships, and decreasing erectile function into their conceptions of themselves as men. It is based on interviews that Emily A. Wentzell conducted with more than...
Jungle Laboratories
Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
In the 1940s chemists discovered that barbasco, a wild yam indigenous to Mexico, could be used to mass-produce synthetic steroid hormones. Barbasco spurred the development of new drugs, including cortisone and the first viable oral contraceptives, and positioned Mexico as a major player in the global...
by Lawrence Grossberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
Lawrence Grossberg is one of the leading figures in cultural studies internationally. In Cultural Studies in the Future Tense, he offers a powerful critique of the present state of cultural studies and, more broadly, of the intellectual left, especially in the Anglo-American academy. He develops a...
Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold
Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953–1968
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2004
The Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Tingler, the Mole People—they stalked and oozed into audiences’ minds during the era that followed Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein and preceded terrors like Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street) and Chucky (Child’s Play). Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold...
Production Culture
Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
In Production Culture, John Thornton Caldwell investigates the cultural practices and belief systems of Los Angeles–based film and video production workers: not only those in prestigious positions such as producers and directors but also many “below-the-line” laborers, including gaffers, editors,...
Games of Property
Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner's Go Down, Moses
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2003
In Games of Property, distinguished critic Thadious M. Davis provides a dazzling new interpretation of William Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses. Davis argues that in its unrelenting attention to issues related to the ownership of land and people, Go Down, Moses ranks among Faulkner’s finest and most...