Indiana University Press: 1129 books
Muslim Women of the Fergana Valley
A 19th-Century Ethnography from Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Muslim Women of the Fergana Valley is the first English translation of an important 19th-century Russian text describing everyday life in Uzbek communities. Vladimir and Maria Nalivkin were Russians who settled in a "Sart" village in 1878, in a territory newly conquered by the Russian Empire. During...
by Alphonso Lingis
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1994
... thought-provoking and meditative, Lingis’s work is above all touching, and offers a refreshingly idiosyncratic antidote to the idle talk that so often passes for philosophical writing." —Radical Philosophy
... striking for the clarity and singularity of its styles and voices as well...
by Edward S. Casey
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
From one of continental philosophy's most distinctive voices comes a creative contribution to spatial studies, environmental philosophy, and phenomenology. Edward S. Casey identifies how important edges are to us, not only in terms of how we perceive our world, but in our cognitive, artistic, and...
The Legacy of Dell Hymes
Ethnopoetics, Narrative Inequality, and Voice
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
The accomplishments and enduring influence of renowned anthropologist Dell Hymes are showcased in these essays by leading practitioners in the field. Hymes (1927–2009) is arguably best known for his pioneering work in ethnopoetics, a studied approach to Native verbal art that elucidates cultural...
Mr. Penrose
The Journal of Penrose, Seaman
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
An 18th century sailor is cast away in a multi-ethnic New World in this long-neglected classic regarded as the first American novel every written.
Mr. Penrose narrates the adventures of a Llewellin Penrose who flees an unhappy home life to seek his fortune on the high seas. Having learned the...
Jewish Youth and Identity in Postwar France
Rebuilding Family and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
At the end of World War II, French Jews faced a devastating demographic reality: thousands of orphaned children, large numbers of single-parent households, and families in emotional and financial distress. Daniella Doron suggests that after years of occupation and collaboration, French Jews and non-Jews...
Communist Daze
The Many Misadventures of a Soviet Doctor
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
This darkly comic memoir “reveal[s] much about the poverty, drunkenness, political corruption, anti-Semitism, and fundamental absurdity of rural life in the Soviet 1960s” (Deborah A. Field author of Private Life and Communist Morality in Khrushchev’s Russia).
Welcome to Gradieshti, a Soviet...
Clio's Battles
Historiography in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
To write history is to consider how to explicate the past, to weigh the myriad possible approaches to the past, and to come to terms with how the past can be and has been used. In this book, prize-winning historian Jeremy Black considers both popular and academic approaches to the past. His focus...
Speaking Pictures
Neuropsychoanalysis and Authorship in Film and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Alistair Fox presents a theory of literary and cinematic representation through the lens of neurological and cognitive science in order to understand the origins of storytelling and our desire for fictional worlds. Fox contends that fiction is deeply shaped by emotions and the human capacity for metaphorical...
Petrarch
The Canzoniere, or Rerum vulgarium fragmenta
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 1999
"Mark Musa, in editing and translating Petrarch’s Canzoniere, has performed a wonderful service to the English-speaking reader. Here, in one volume, are included the poet’s own selection of the best lyric verse he wrote throughout his life, accompanied by brief but useful notes... " —Chronicles
"As...
Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Call of Transcendence
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) was a prolific scholar, impassioned theologian, and prominent activist who participated in the black civil rights movement and the campaign against the Vietnam War. He has been hailed as a hero, honored as a visionary, and endlessly quoted as a devotional writer....
Cruel City
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Under the pseudonym Eza Boto, Mongo Beti wrote Ville cruelle (Cruel City) in 1954 before he came to the world's attention with the publication of Le pauvre Christ de Bomba (The Poor Christ of Bomba). Cruel City tells the story of a young man's attempt to cope with capitalism and the rapid urbanization...
Gaming Representation
Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Video Games
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Recent years have seen an increase in public attention to identity and representation in video games, including journalists and bloggers holding the digital game industry accountable for the discrimination routinely endured by female gamers, queer gamers, and gamers of color. Video game developers...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
This landmark volume compiled by Jacob K. Olupona and Rowland O. Abiodun brings readers into the diverse world of Ifá—its discourse, ways of thinking, and artistic expression as manifested throughout the Afro-Atlantic. Firmly rooting Ifá within African religious traditions, the essays consider...