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History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1
From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
"No one has done so much as Mr. Eliade to inform literature students in the West about 'primitive' and Oriental religions. . . . Everyone who cares about the human adventure will find new information and new angles of vision."—Martin E. Marty, New York Times Book Review
Off-Screen Cinema
Isidore Isou and the Lettrist Avant-Garde
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
One of the most important avant-garde movements of postwar Paris was Lettrism, which crucially built an interest in the relationship between writing and image into projects in poetry, painting, and especially cinema. Highly influential, the Lettrists served as a bridge of sorts between the earlier...
by Marshall Sahlins
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
"The main thrust of this book is to deliver a major critique of materialist and rationalist explanations of social and cultural forms, but the in the process Sahlins has given us a much stronger statement of the centrality of symbols in human affairs than have many of our 'practicing' symbolic...
Poetics in a New Key
Interviews and Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Marjorie Perloff writes in her preface to Poetics in a New Key that when she learned David Jonathan Y. Bayot wanted to publish a collection of her interviews and essays, she was “at once honored and mystified.” But to Perloff’s surprise and her readers’ delight, the resulting assembly not...
Downtown Ladies
Informal Commercial Importers, a Haitian Anthropologist and Self-Making in Jamaica
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
The Caribbean “market woman” is ingrained in the popular imagination as the archetype of black womanhood in countries throughout the region. Challenging this stereotype and other outdated images of black women, Downtown Ladies offers a more complex picture by documenting the history of independent...
The Great Paleolithic War
How Science Forged an Understanding of America's Ice Age Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Following the discovery in Europe in the late 1850s that humanity had roots predating known history and reaching deep into the Pleistocene era, scientists wondered whether North American prehistory might be just as ancient. And why not? The geological strata seemed exactly analogous between America...
Concerning Consequences
Studies in Art, Destruction, and Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Kristine Stiles has played a vital role in establishing trauma studies within the humanities. A formidable force in the art world, Stiles examines the significance of traumatic experiences both in the individual lives and works of artists and in contemporary international cultures since World War...
Sacred Relics
Pieces of the Past in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
A piece of Plymouth Rock. A lock of George Washington’s hair. Wood from the cabin where Abraham Lincoln was born. Various bits and pieces of the past—often called “association items”—may appear to be eccentric odds and ends, but they are valued because of their connections to prominent people...
Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting
Kano Hogai and the Search for Images
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
The Western discovery of Japanese paintings at nineteenth-century world’s fairs and export shops catapulted Japanese art to new levels of international popularity. With that popularity, however, came criticism, as Western writers began to lament a perceived end to pure Japanese art and a rise in...
The Experimenters
Chance and Design at Black Mountain College
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2014
In the years immediately following World War II, Black Mountain College, an unaccredited school in rural Appalachia, became a vital hub of cultural innovation. Practically every major artistic figure of the mid-twentieth century spent some time there: Merce Cunningham, Ray Johnson, Franz Kline, Willem...
by Friedrich von Schiller
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2009
When Schiller completed Wilhelm Tell as a "New Year's Gift for 1805" he foretold that it would cause a stir. He was right. In the midst of Great Power politics a play which drew substance from one of the fourteenth-century liberation movements proved both attractive and inflammatory. Since...
The Lost Species
Great Expeditions in the Collections of Natural History Museums
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
The tiny, lungless Thorius salamander from southern Mexico, thinner than a match and smaller than a quarter. The lushly white-coated Saki, an arboreal monkey from the Brazilian rainforests. The olinguito, a native of the Andes, which looks part mongoose, part teddy bear. These fantastic species are...
Literature Incorporated
The Cultural Unconscious of the Business Corporation, 1650-1850
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Long before Citizens United and modern debates over corporations as people, such organizations already stood between the public and private as both vehicles for commerce and imaginative constructs based on groups of individuals. In this book, John O’Brien explores how this relationship played out...
Parents and Schools
The 150-Year Struggle for Control in American Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Who holds ultimate authority for the education of America's children—teachers or parents? Although the relationship between home and school has changed dramatically over the decades, William Cutler's fascinating history argues that it has always been a political one, and his book uncovers for the...