Focusing on the works of Chikamatsu Shuko, Shiga Naoya, and Kasai Zenzo, Edward Fowler explores the complex and paradoxical…

Countless attempts have been made to appropriate the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche for diverse cultural and political ends,…

Challenging the theories of development and labor, this title explores how highly politicized labor movements could arise…

Combining anthropology, history, and postmodern theory, this book examines the changing relation of writing and authority in…

This work explores the performances and transactions that lie at the heart of public events in contemporary Anakalang,…

Explores beliefs and practices surrounding aging in a rural Bengali village. This book focuses on how villagers' visions of…

Mimesis, the notion that art imitates reality, has long been recognized as one of the central ideas of Western aesthetics.…

Identifies and interprets the extraordinary character of Leninist regimes, their political corruption, extinction, and…

An analysis of the gendered political ecology brought about by conflicting local interests and changing developmental…

Through essays, articles, and interviews, this title presents the reader with the momentous changes in Poland and…

Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) is widely regarded as one of the most original and intellectually challenging figures within…

Illness has changed in the postmodern era - roughly the period since World War II - as dramatically as technology,…

In this engaging study, the authors put casuistry into its historical context, tracing the origin of moral reasoning in…

This text offers an analysis of welfare policies and practices in Hungary from 1948 to the last decade of the 20th century.…

This text is a mix of social history, literary analysis, political biography and murder mystery. It explores and analyzes…

Until now our understanding of marriage in China has been based primarily on observations made during the twentieth century.…

This collection of essays challenges the notion that Japan's present cultural identity is the simple legacy of its…

Advocates of 'new musicology' claim that technical methods of music analysis are conservative, elitist, positivist, and…

Analyzing the ways US culture has been formed and transformed in the 80s and 90s by its response to the Vietnam War and the…

Explores the transition from oral to written history that is taking place in tribal Jordan, a transition that reveals the…

The rise of Christianity to the dominant position it held in the Middle Ages remains a paradoxical achievement. Early…

This study of Max Nordau, Ephraim Moses Lilien, and Vladimir Jabotinsky reconceives the intersection of the European fin de…

Masks are found world-wide in connection with seasonal festivals, rites of passage, and curative ceremonies. A comparison of…

This anecdotal narrative explores the community lives of New England's working women and men, both black and white, in the…

Offers a critique and substantial revision of the historic theories of scientific rationality and progress. This book…

This volume leads the reader through the maze of social, cultural, economic and political changes in 12 Central and Eastern…

This work takes an anthropological approach to the fundamental question of what makes life worth living. It considers the…

This text presents an exploration of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. The work of contemporary artist Mary Kelly has been…

A collection of essays that consider the ways in which violence shapes subjectivity and acts upon people's capacity to…

Examines the ethical question of whether enhancement of human life justifies the use of animals for research. She shows how…

These essays provide an introduction to economics for historians. The book shows how to use economic thinking, economic…

An analysis of the complicated relationship between two cinemas - Hollywood's and Nazi Germany's - in this theoretically and…

Explores the complex relationship between alphabet and language as well as the ways the two elements are socially defined by…

This text tells the poignant and puzzling story of how, earlier this century, in spite of the power of anti-Semitic…

From her perspective as both a participant and an observer, the author of this study examines the nonviolent direct action…

Helps all those concerned with understanding the tradition that has shaped Japanese culture and religion. This book is of…

Rhoda Kanaaneh examines the changing notions of sexuality, family and reproduction among Palestinians living in Israel. She…

This text probes the shape and texture of mass images in Casablanca, from posters, films, and videotapes to elections,…

These essays ask how patients and practitioners know what they know - what evidence of disease or health they consider…

This collection of essays paints a portrait of American Protestantism at the beginning of the 21st century - a denomination…

Based on a wealth of literary and historical documentation, this study places Tokugawa homosexuality in a global context,…

Based on original research, this book demonstrates conclusively and in details how the transmission of ancient skepticism…

Considering the formidable theoretical, ethical, and practical issues that confront ethnomusicologists who direct such…

An innovative exploration of religion in the U.S. - Mexican borderlands. Constructs genealogies of the major traditions…

Illuminating the course of American broadcasting, this work offers a comprehensive view of the National Broadcasting Company…

Investigates how social change and social preservation transpire among the urban poor. This work provides data on urban…

Challenges the widely held notion that Mexico's colonial period is the source of many of that country's ills. This study…

Features leading scholars across several disciplines who investigate the nature of liberalism and modernity in imperial…