Stanford University: 1318 books
by Hendrik Kraay
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Official and popular celebrations marked the Brazilian empire's days of national festivity, and these civic rituals were the occasion for often intense debate about the imperial regime. Hendrik Kraay explores the patterns of commemoration in the capital of Rio de Janeiro, the meanings of the principal...
Alone at the Altar
Single Women and Devotion in Guatemala, 1670-1870
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
By 1700, Guatemala's capital was a mixed-race "city of women." As in many other cities across colonial Spanish America, labor and migration patterns in Guatemala produced an urban female majority and high numbers of single women, widows, and female household heads. In this history of religious...
Dolores del Río
Beauty in Light and Shade
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Dolores del Río's enormously successful career in Hollywood, in Mexico, and internationally illuminates issues of race, ethnicity, and gender through the lenses of beauty and celebrity. She and her husband left Mexico in 1925, as both their well-to-do families suffered from the economic downturn...
Thinking Its Presence
Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
When will American poetry and poetics stop viewing poetry by racialized persons as a secondary subject within the field? Dorothy J. Wang makes an impassioned case that now is the time. Thinking Its Presence calls for a radical rethinking of how American poetry is being read today, offering its own...
From Boas to Black Power
Racism, Liberalism, and American Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
From Boas to Black Power investigates how U.S. cultural anthropologists wrote about race, racism, and "America" in the 20th century as a window into the greater project of U.S. anti-racist liberalism. Anthropology as a discipline and the American project share a common origin: their very...
by John McCumber
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Hegel's critique of Kant was a turning point in the history of philosophy: for the first time, the concrete, situated, and in certain senses "naturalistic" style pioneered by Hegel confronted the thin, universalistic, and argumentatively purified style of philosophy that had found its most...
The Autumn of Dictatorship
Fiscal Crisis and Political Change in Egypt under Mubarak
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The Egyptian protests in early 2011 took many by surprise. In the days immediately following, commentators wondered openly over the changing situation across the Middle East. But protest is nothing new to Egypt, and labor activism and political activism, most notably the Kifaya (Enough) movement,...
Mixing Musics
Turkish Jewry and the Urban Landscape of a Sacred Song
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
This book traces the mixing of musical forms and practices in Istanbul to illuminate multiethnic music-making and its transformations across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It focuses on the Jewish religious repertoire known as the Maftirim, which developed in parallel with "secular"...
Mongrels or Marvels
The Levantine Writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
The writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff (1917–1979) offer a refreshing reassessment of Arab-Jewish relations in the Middle East. A member of the bourgeois Jewish community in Cairo, Kahanoff grew up in a time of coexistence. She spent the years of World War II in New York City, where she launched...
Ottoman Ulema, Turkish Republic
Agents of Change and Guardians of Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
To better understand the diverse inheritance of Islamic movements in present-day Turkey, we must take a closer look at the religious establishment, the ulema, during the first half of the twentieth century. During the closing years of the Ottoman Empire and the early decades of the Republic of Turkey,...
Life as Politics
How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Prior to 2011, popular imagination perceived the Muslim Middle East as unchanging and unchangeable, frozen in its own traditions and history. In Life as Politics, Asef Bayat argues that such presumptions fail to recognize the routine, yet important, ways in which ordinary people make meaningful change...
Passive Revolution
Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2009
Over the last decade, pious Muslims all over the world have gone through contradictory transformations. Though public attention commonly rests on the turn toward violence, this book's stories of transformation to "moderate Islam" in a previously radical district in Istanbul exemplify another...
Five Long Winters
The Trials of British Romanticism
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
This book argues that the British government's repression of the 1790s rivals the French Revolution as the most important historical event for our understanding the development of Romantic literature. Romanticism has long been associated with both rebellion and escapism, and much Romantic historicism...
Great Clarity
Daoism and Alchemy in Early Medieval China
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2006
This is the first book to examine extensively the religious aspects of Chinese alchemy. Its main focus is the relation of alchemy to the Daoist traditions of the early medieval period (third to sixth centuries). It shows how alchemy contributed to and was tightly integrated into the elaborate body...