Indiana University Press: 1129 books
State and Culture in Postcolonial Africa
Enchantings
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
How has the state impacted culture and cultural production in Africa? How has culture challenged and transformed the state and our understandings of its nature, functions, and legitimacy? Compelled by complex realities on the ground as well as interdisciplinary scholarly debates on the state-culture...
Highlife Saturday Night
Popular Music and Social Change in Urban Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Highlife Saturday Night captures the vibrancy of Saturday nights in Ghana—when musicians took to the stage and dancers took to the floor—in this penetrating look at musical leisure during a time of social, political, and cultural change. Framing dance band "highlife" music as a central medium...
Human Rights and African Airwaves
Mediating Equality on the Chichewa Radio
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Human Rights and African Airwaves focuses on Nkhani Zam'maboma, a popular Chichewa news bulletin broadcast on Malawi’s public radio. The program often takes authorities to task and questions much of the human rights rhetoric that comes from international organizations. Highlighting obligation and...
by John H Hanson, Patrick O'Meara
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
Since the publication of the first edition in 1977, Africa has established itself as a leading resource for teaching, business, and scholarship. This fourth edition has been completely revised and focuses on the dynamism and diversity of contemporary Africa. The volume emphasizes contemporary culture–civil...
Evil in Africa
Encounters with the Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2015
William C. Olsen, Walter E. A. van Beek, and the contributors to this volume seek to understand how Africans have confronted evil around them. Grouped around notions of evil as a cognitive or experiential problem, evil as malevolent process, and evil as an inversion of justice, these essays investigate...
Pedagogy
The Question of Impersonation
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1995
In Pedagogy: The Question of Impersonation, authors argue that teaching is a performance that incorporates the personal in acts of "im-personation." After David Crane's prefatory "postscript," George Otte recommends that students pretend, writing from various perspectives; Indira Karamcheti suggests...
Cultures of Vision
Images, Media, and the Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 1995
This is a very strong, thought-provoking [volume]... "—George Marcus
As home photographs shift from the print format to digital technology and as video moves from the television screen to multimedia, it is crucial to develop new strategies of interpreting and analyzing these images.
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by Marcia Landy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Despite claims about the end of history and the death of cinema, visual media continue to contribute to our understanding of history and history-making. In this book, Marcia Landy argues that rethinking history and memory must take into account shifting conceptions of visual and aural technologies....
by Vera Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
What was the role of historians and historical societies in the public life of imperial Russia? Focusing on the Society of Zealots of Russian Historical Education (1895–1918), Vera Kaplan analyzes the network of voluntary associations that existed in imperial Russia, showing how they interacted...
Boats on the Marne
Jean Renoir's Critique of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Boats on the Marne offers an original interpretation of Jean Renoir’s celebrated films of the 1930s, treating them as a coherent narrative of philosophical response to the social and political crises of the times. Grounded in a reinterpretation of the foundational film-philosopher André Bazin,...
China's Brave New World
And Other Tales for Global Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2007
If Chairman Mao came back to life today, what would he think of Nanjing’s bookstore, the Librairie Avant-Garde, where it is easier to find primers on Michel Foucault’s philosophy than copies of the Little Red Book? What does it really mean to order a latte at Starbucks in Beijing? Is it possible...
The Growth of American Government, Revised and Updated Edition
Governance from the Cleveland Era to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
American government evolved over the generations since the mid-nineteenth century. The changing character of these institutions is a critical part of the history of the United States. This engaging survey focuses on the evolution of public policy and its relationship to the constitutional and political...
Yearning for the New Age
Laura Holloway-Langford and Late Victorian Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
This biography of an unconventional woman in late 19th Century America is a study of the search for individual autonomy and spiritual growth.
Laura Holloway-Langford, a “rebel girl” from Tennessee, moved to New York City, where she supported her family as a journalist. She soon became famous...
IN Writing
Uncovering the Unexpected Hoosier State
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Fueled by an insider’s view of Indiana and the state’s often surprising connections to the larger world, IN Writing is revelatory. It is Indiana in all its glory: sacred and profane; saints and sinners; war and peace; small towns and big cities; art, architecture, poetry and victuals. It’s about...