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American Archives - Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Cultureby Shawn Michelle SmithISBN 0691004781 (0-691-00478-1)
Softcover, Princeton University Press
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American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Centuryby Gary GerstleISBN 0691102775 (0-691-10277-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Americas of Asian American Literature: Gendered Fictions of Nation and Transnationby Rachel C. LeeISBN 0691059616 (0-691-05961-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essaysby Northrop FryeISBN 0691069999 (0-691-06999-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays'Book summary:Northrop Frye was one of the most influential 20th-century literary scholars, and Anatomy of Criticism is his most influential book. In this rigorous and readable work of scholarship, Frye feistily champions literary criticism's legitimacy and independence--both by differentiating criticism from other academic disciplines, and by banishing any conception of the critic as "parasite or jackal" (this latter view, Frye notes, is still quite popular, "especially among artists"). The book began as something quite different, and took nearly a decade to write. Frye published his first major work--Fearful Symmetry, on the Romantic poet William Blake--in 1947 and had set out to produce a second tome on Edmund Spencer. But the critical insights accumulating in his fertile mind were too insistent, so the book on Spencer became Anatomy of Criticism.
Anatomy of Criticism remains provocative and enlightening in no small part because of its ambitious breadth. Frye's comprehension of literary history is breathtaking, as is the complexity but also the clarity of his thought. Four chapters treat historical, ethical, archetypal, and rhetorical modes of criticism, bracketed by a "Polemical Introduction" and a "Tentative Conclusion." Frye's ultimate aim is to confirm for the reader that literary criticism is a science in its own right: "Criticism," he says, "is to art what history is to action and philosophy is to wisdom.... And just as there is nothing which the philosopher cannot consider philosophically, and nothing which the historian cannot consider historically, so the critic should be able to construct and dwell in a conceptual universe of his own." Rather than promote any particular critical approach over another, he tries to construct a theoretical structure sturdy and expansive enough to accommodate and inter-relate a broad range of critical approaches. --Russell Prather [via]
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Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern Indiaby Gyan PrakashISBN 0691004536 (0-691-00453-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India'Book summary:Another Reason is a bold and innovative study of the intimate relationship between science, colonialism, and the modern nation. Gyan Prakash, one of the most influential historians of India writing today, explores in fresh and unexpected ways the complexities, contradictions, and profound importance of this relationship in the history of the subcontinent. He reveals how science served simultaneously as an instrument of empire and as a symbol of liberty, progress, and universal reason--and how, in playing these dramatically different roles, it was crucial to the emergence of the modern nation.
Prakash ranges over two hundred years of Indian history, from the early days of British rule to the dawn of the postcolonial era. He begins by taking us into colonial museums and exhibitions, where Indian arts, crafts, plants, animals, and even people were categorized, labeled, and displayed in the name of science. He shows how science gave the British the means to build railways, canals, and bridges, to transform agriculture and the treatment of disease, to reconstruct India's economy, and to transfigure India's intellectual life--all to create a stable, rationalized, and profitable colony under British domination.
But Prakash points out that science also represented freedom of thought and that for the British to use it to practice despotism was a deeply contradictory enterprise. Seizing on this contradiction, many of the colonized elite began to seek parallels and precedents for scientific thought in India's own intellectual history, creating a hybrid form of knowledge that combined western ideas with local cultural and religious understanding. Their work disrupted accepted notions of colonizer versus colonized, civilized versus savage, modern versus traditional, and created a form of modernity that was at once western and indigenous.
Throughout, Prakash draws on major and minor figures on both sides of the colonial divide, including Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, the nationalist historian and novelist Romesh Chunder Dutt, Prafulla Chandra Ray (author of A History of Hindu Chemistry), Rudyard Kipling, Lord Dalhousie, and John Stuart Mill. With its deft combination of rich historical detail and vigorous new arguments and interpretations, Another Reason will recast how we understand the contradictory and colonial genealogy of the modern nation.
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Anthropos Today: Reflections on Modern Equipmentby Paul RabinowISBN 0691115664 (0-691-11566-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Around Proustby Richard E. GoodkinISBN 0691015082 (0-691-01508-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Around Proust'Book summary:A study in obsession, Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu is seemingly a self-sufficient universe of remarkable internal consistency and yet is full of complex, gargantuan digressions. Richard Goodkin follows the dual spirit of the novel through highly suggestive readings of the work in its interactions with music, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and cinema, and such literary genres as epic, lyric poetry, and tragedy. In exploring this fascinating intertextual network, Goodkin reveals some of Proust's less obvious creative sources and considers his influence on later art forms. The artistic and intellectual entities examined in relation to Proust's novel are extremely diverse, coming from periods ranging from antiquity (Homer, Zeno of Elea) to the 1950s (Hitchcock) and belonging to the cultures of the Greek, French, German, and English-speaking worlds. In spite of this variety of form and perspective, all of these analyses share a common methodology, that of "digressive" reading. They explore Proust's novel not only in light of such famous passages as those of the madeleine and the good-night kiss, but also on the basis of seemingly small details that ultimately take us, like the novel itself, in unexpected directions.
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Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Lightby Leonard ShlainISBN 0688123058 (0-688-12305-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empireby Katie TrumpenerISBN 0691044805 (0-691-04480-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Bearing Witnessby Wendy GriswoldISBN 0691058296 (0-691-05829-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Black Musicby Imamu Amiri BarakaISBN 0688243444 (0-688-24344-4)
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Blues People: Negro Music in White Americaby Imamu Amiri BarakaISBN 068818474X (0-688-18474-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politicsby Susan Friend HardingISBN 0691089582 (0-691-08958-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watchers Guide, Volume 3by Christopher Golden, Nancy Holder, Keith R. A. DecandidoISBN 0689869843 (0-689-86984-3)
Softcover, Simon Spotlight Entertainment
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From the first vampire staking to the last glimpse of Sunnydale, Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a genre-busting hit, attracting millions of fans worldwide. The last three seasons ran the gamut from an episode without music to a musical episode, from the arrival of a teenage sister to the death of Buffy (again).
Now the third volume in this best-selling series of companions will break down every episode of seasons five, six, and seven -- from the villains and the victims to quotables and love bytes -- as well as take a wide-ranging look back at the entire run of the show.
Additional features:
" Flashback Foreshadowing: A line-by-line deconstruction of the portents in the season four finale, "Restless"
" "Lost" lines of dialogue, stage directions, and descriptions cut from the original teleplays
" The Trio's Pop-Culture Explosion: Mastering the references of Geek Speak
" Critical (and not-so) essays from a variety of contributors on topics from Buffy's romantic optimism to Dawn's unfulfilled potential
Seven years, 144 episodes, 3 Slayers, 3 principals, 2 networks, 2 vampires with souls, 2 Watchers, 2 pigs, 1 Master, 1 Mayor, and 1 hit show (with tons of Potentials): It all adds up to one must-have volume! [via]
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A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1980by Robert Beverley RayISBN 0691101744 (0-691-10174-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissanceby J. R. HaleISBN 0689122004 (0-689-12200-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Eraby Seyla BenhabibISBN 0691048630 (0-691-04863-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era'Book summary:How can liberal democracy best be realized in a world fraught with conflicting new forms of identity politics and intensifying conflicts over culture? This book brings unparalleled clarity to the contemporary debate over this question. Maintaining that cultures are themselves torn by conflicts about their own boundaries, Seyla Benhabib challenges the assumption shared by many theorists and activists that cultures are clearly defined wholes. She argues that much debate--including that of "strong" multiculturalism, which sees cultures as distinct pieces of a mosaic--is dominated by this faulty belief, one with grave consequences for how we think injustices among groups should be redressed and human diversity achieved. Benhabib masterfully presents an alternative approach, developing an understanding of cultures as continually creating, re-creating, and renegotiating the imagined boundaries between "us" and "them."
Drawing on contemporary cultural politics from Western Europe, Canada, and the United States, Benhabib develops a double-track model of deliberative democracy that permits maximum cultural contestation within the official public sphere as well as in and through social movements and the institutions of civil society. Agreeing with political liberals that constitutional and legal universalism should be preserved at the level of polity, she nonetheless contends that such a model is necessary to resolve multicultural conflicts.
Analyzing in detail the transformation of citizenship practices in European Union countries, Benhabib concludes that flexible citizenship, certain kinds of legal pluralism and models of institutional powersharing are quite compatible with deliberative democracy, as long as they are in accord with egalitarian reciprocity, voluntary self-ascription, and freedom of exit and association. The Claims of Culture offers invaluable insight to all those, whether students or scholars, lawyers or policymakers, who strive to bridge the gap between the theory and practice of cultural politics in the twenty-first century.
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Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Raceby Amy Gutmann, K. Anthony AppiahISBN 0691059098 (0-691-05909-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Color Consciousness: The Political Morality of Race'Book summary:In America today, the problem of achieving racial justice--whether through "color-blind" policies or through affirmative action--provokes more noisy name-calling than fruitful deliberation. In Color Conscious, K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, two eminent moral and political philosophers, seek to clear the ground for a discussion of the place of race in politics and in our moral lives. Provocative and insightful, their essays tackle different aspects of the question of racial justice; together they provide a compelling response to our nation's most vexing problem.
Appiah begins by establishing the problematic nature of the idea of race. He draws on the scholarly consensus that "race" has no legitimate biological basis, exploring the history of its invention as a social category and showing how the concept has been used to explain differences among groups of people by mistakenly attributing various "essences" to them. Appiah argues that, while people of color may still need to gather together, in the face of racism, under the banner of race, they need also to balance carefully the calls of race against the many other dimensions of individual identity; and he suggests, finally, what this might mean for our political life.
Gutmann examines alternative political responses to racial injustice. She argues that American politics cannot be fair to all citizens by being color blind because American society is not color blind. Fairness, not color blindness, is a fundamental principle of justice. Whether policies should be color-conscious, class conscious, or both in particular situations, depends on an open-minded assessment of their fairness. Exploring timely issues of university admissions, corporate hiring, and political representation, Gutmann develops a moral perspective that supports a commitment to constitutional democracy.
Appiah and Gutmann write candidly and carefully, presenting many-faceted interpretations of a host of controversial issues. Rather than supplying simple answers to complex questions, they offer to citizens of every color principled starting points for the ongoing national discussions about race.
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Coming of Age in the Milky Wayby Timothy FerrisISBN 0688058892 (0-688-05889-2)
Hardcover, Daedalus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coming of Age in the Milky Way'Book summary:From prehistoric times through Copernicus, Newton, and Einstein, to today's "supersymmetry" theories of spacetime, this narrative details our most priceless treasure--our conception of the universe at large. 2 cassettes. [via]
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Corrupting Youth: Political Education, Democratic Culture, and Political Theoryby J. Peter EubenISBN 0691048282 (0-691-04828-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Crisis Of The Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis Of The Failure Of Black Leadershipby Harold CruseISBN 0688038867 (0-688-03886-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge-And Why We Mustby Kalle LasnISBN 0688178057 (0-688-17805-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge-And Why We Must'Book summary:America is no longer a country but a multimillion-dollar brand, says Kalle Lasn and his fellow "culture jammers". The founder of Adbusters magazine, Lasn aims to stop the branding of America by changing the way information flows; the way institutions wield power; the way television stations are run; and the way the food, fashion, automobile, sports, music, and culture industries set agendas. With a courageous and compelling voice, Lasn deconstructs the advertising culture and our fixation on icons and brand names. And he shows how to organize resistance against the power trust that manages the brands by "uncooling" consumer items, by "dermarketing" fashions and celebrities, and by breaking the "media trance" of our TV-addicted age.
A powerful manifesto by a leading media activist, Culture Jam lays the foundations for the most significant social movement of the early twenty-first century -- a movement that can change the world and the way we think and live.
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Dancer from the Danceby Andrew HolleranISBN 0688033571 (0-688-03357-1)
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The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physicsby Gary ZukavISBN 0688084028 (0-688-08402-8)
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The Wu Li Master dances with his student. The Wu Li Master does not teach, but the student learns. The Wu Li Master always begins at the center, the heart of the matter.... This book deals not with knowledge, which is always past tense anyway, but with imagination, which is physics come alive, which is Wu Li.... Most people believe that physicists are explaining the world. Some physicists even believe that, but the Wu Li Masters know that they are only dancing with it.
The "new physics" of Zukav's 1979 book comprises quantum theory, particle physics, and relativity. Even as these theories age they haven't percolated all that far into the collective consciousness; they're too far removed from mundane human experience not to need introduction. The Dancing Wu Li Masters remains an engaging, accessible way to meet the most profound and mind-altering insights of 20th-century science. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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Desire and Excess: The 19th Century Culture of Artby Jonah SiegelISBN 0691049149 (0-691-04914-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Desire and Excess: The Nineteenth-Century Culture of Artby Jonah SiegelISBN 0691049130 (0-691-04913-0)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Divine Decadence: Fascism, Female Spectacle, and the Makings of Sally Bowlesby Linda MizejewskiISBN 0691023468 (0-691-02346-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Dollby M. G. LordISBN 0688122965 (0-688-12296-5)
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Freedom & It's Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Libertyby Isaiah BerlinISBN 0691114994 (0-691-11499-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Freedom and Its Betrayal: 6 Enemies of Human Libertyby Isaiah Berlin, Henry HardyISBN 0691090998 (0-691-09099-8)
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From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Filmby Siegfried Kracauer, Leonardo QuaresimaISBN 0691115192 (0-691-11519-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film'Book summary:A landmark, now classic, study of the rich cinematic history of the Weimar Republic, From Caligari to Hitler was first published by Princeton University Press in 1947. Siegfried Kracauer--a prominent German film critic and member of Walter Benjamin's and Theodor Adorno's intellectual circle--broke new ground in exploring the connections between film aesthetics, the prevailing psychological state of Germans in the Weimar era, and the evolving social and political reality of the time. Kracauer's pioneering book, which examines German history from 1921 to 1933 in light of such movies as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, M, Metropolis, and The Blue Angel, has never gone out of print. Now, over half a century after its first appearance, this beautifully designed and entirely new edition reintroduces Kracauer for the twenty-first century. Film scholar Leonardo Quaresima places Kracauer in context in a critical introduction, and updates the book further with a new bibliography, index, and list of inaccuracies that crept into the first edition. This volume is a must-have for the film historian, film theorist, or cinema enthusiast.In From Caligari to Hitler, Siegfried Kracauer--the German-born writer and film critic who shared many ideas and interests with his friend Walter Benjamin--made a startling (and still controversial) claim: films as a popular art provide insight into the unconscious motivations and fantasies of a nation. In films of the 1920s such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, M, Metropolis, and The Blue Angel, he traced recurring visual and narrative tropes that expressed, he argued, a fear of chaos and a desire for order, even at the price of authoritarian rule. The book has become an undisputed classic of film historiography, laying the foundations for the serious study of film.
In From Caligari to Hitler, Siegfried Kracauer made a startling (and still controversial) claim: films as a popular art provide insight into the unconscious motivations and fantasies of a nation. In films of the 1920s, he traced recurring visual and narrative tropes that expressed, he argued, a fear of chaos and a desire for order, even at the price of authoritarian rule. The book has become an undisputed classic of film historiography, laying the foundations for the serious study of film.
Kracauer was an important film critic in Weimar Germany. A Jew, he escaped the rise of Nazism, fleeing to Paris in 1933. Later, in anguish after Benjamin's suicide, he made his way to New York, where he remained until his death in 1966. He wrote From Caligari to Hitler while working as a "special assistant" to the curator of the Museum of Modern Art's film division. He was also on the editorial board of Bollingen Series. Despite many critiques of its attempt to link movies to historical outcomes, From Caligari to Hitler remains Kracauer's best-known and most influential book, and a seminal work in the study of film. Princeton published a revised edition of his Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality in 1997.
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German Question/Jewish Question: Revolutionary Antisemitism from Kant to Wagnerby Paul Lawrence RoseISBN 0691008906 (0-691-00890-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Talesby Maria TatarISBN 0691114692 (0-691-11469-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fallby Christopher HibbertISBN 0688053394 (0-688-05339-4)
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Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in Americaby Daniel Joseph Boorstin, Daniel J. Boorstin Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0689702809 (0-689-70280-9)
Softcover, Atheneum
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In Quest of the Heroby Alan Dundes, Otto Rank, RaglanISBN 0691020620 (0-691-02062-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-Of-The-Way Placeby Anna Lowenhaupt TsingISBN 0691000514 (0-691-00051-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-Of-The-Way Place'Book summary:In this highly original and much-anticipated ethnography, Anna Tsing challenges not only anthropologists and feminists but all those who study culture to reconsider some of their dearest assumptions. By choosing to locate her study among Meratus Dayaks, a marginal and marginalized group in the deep rainforest of South Kalimantan, Indonesia, Tsing deliberately sets into motion the familiar and stubborn urban fantasies of self and other. Unusual encounters with her remarkably creative and unconventional Meratus friends and teachers, however, provide the opportunity to rethink notions of tradition, community, culture, power, and gender--and the doing of anthropology. Tsing's masterful weaving of ethnography and theory, as well as her humor and lucidity, allow for an extraordinary reading experience for students, scholars, and anyone interested in the complexities of culture.
Engaging Meratus in wider conversations involving Indonesian bureaucrats, family planners, experts in international development, Javanese soldiers, American and French feminists, Asian-Americans, right-to-life advocates, and Western intellectuals, Tsing looks not for consensus and coherence in Meratus culture but rather allows individual Meratus men and women to return our gaze. Bearing the fruit from the lively contemporary conversations between anthropology and cultural studies, In the Realm of the Diamond Queen will prove to be a model for thinking and writing about gender, power, and the politics of identity.
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Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People Andits Historyby Joseph TelushkinISBN 0688085067 (0-688-08506-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People Andits History'Book summary:In 1988, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin undertook a mission to heal "Jewish ignorance," an affliction whose symptoms include the ability to name the three components of the Trinity, coupled with an inability to explain mitzvah. Telushkin's contribution to the cure is his wide-ranging, entertaining Jewish Literacy. First published in 1991, Jewish Literacy contains almost 350 entries on subjects ranging from the Ten Commandments to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Entries are numbered (for easy, encyclopedia-style reference) and organized topically (to smooth the experience of reading each page straight through). And the revised edition contains several new entries (including articles about the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the vice-presidential nomination of Joseph Lieberman) as well as numerous corrections, enlargements, and updates. One might expect Rabbi Telushkin's project of inspiring Jewish literacy to be overly earnest, but the author's understated wit adds considerable levity to most entries. The entry on "Sodom and Gomorrah," for instance, ends this way: "A number of years ago, some Israeli promoters of tourism suggested transforming the modern city of Sodom into a tourist haven with casinos, nightclubs, and even strip shows. The Chief Rabbinate in Israel sharply demurred, warning that there was nothing to prevent God from destroying the city a second time. The plan was dropped." --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Languageby Steven PinkerISBN 0688121411 (0-688-12141-1)
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The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964by Jon MargolisISBN 068817907X (0-688-17907-X)
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Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germanyby Maria TatarISBN 0691015902 (0-691-01590-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany'Book summary:In a book that confronts our society's obsession with sexual violence, Maria Tatar seeks the meaning behind one of the most disturbing images of twentieth-century Western culture: the violated female corpse. This image is so prevalent in painting, literature, film, and, most recently, in mass media, that we rarely question what is at stake in its representation. Tatar, however, challenges us to consider what is taking place, both artistically and socially, in the construction and circulation of scenes depicting sexual murder. In examining images of sexual murder ("lustmord"), she produces a riveting study of how art and murder have intersected in the sexual politics of culture from Weimar Germany to the present. Tatar focuses attention on the politically turbulent Weimar Republic, often viewed as the birthplace of a transgressive avant-garde modernism, where representations of female sexual mutilation abound. Here a revealing episode in the gender politics of cultural production unfolds as male artists and writers, working in a society consumed by fear of outside threats, envision women as enemies that can be contained and mastered through transcendent artistic expression. Not only does Tatar show that male artists openly identified with real-life sexual murderers - George Grosz posed as Jack the Ripper in a photograph where his model and future wife was the target of his knife - but she also reveals the ways in which victims were disavowed and erased. Tatar first analyzes actual cases of sexual murder that aroused wide public interest in Weimar Germany. She then considers how the representation of murdered women in visual and literary works functions as a strategy for managing social and sexual anxieties, and shows how violence against women can be linked to the war trauma, to urban pathologies, and to the politics of cultural production and biological reproduction. [via]
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The Making of the Cold War Enemy: Culture and Politics in the Military-Industrial Complexby Ron RobinISBN 0691114552 (0-691-11455-2)
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Marxism and Form: Twentieth Century Dialectical Theories of Literatureby Fredric JamesonISBN 069101311X (0-691-01311-X)
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The Miracle Years: A Cultural History of West Germany, 1949-1968by Hanna SchisslerISBN 0691058202 (0-691-05820-2)
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Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Womenby Michael GrossISBN 0688126596 (0-688-12659-6)
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Murasaki Shikibu, Her Diary and Poetic Memoirs: A Translation and Studyby Murasaki Shikibu, Richard BowringISBN 0691014167 (0-691-01416-7)
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Myths and Realities Societies of the Colonial Southby C BridenbaughISBN 0689700237 (0-689-70023-7)
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Naked Pictures of Famous Peopleby Jon StewartISBN 0688171621 (0-688-17162-1)
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HITLER: ...Larry, look, I was a bad guy. No question. I hate that Hitler. The yelling, the finger pointing, I don't know ... I was a very angry guy.
KING: And this ... new Hitler?
HITLER: I get up at seven, have half a melon, do the jumble in the morning paper and then let the day take me where it will.... Me!! The inventor of the Blitzkrieg... When you stop having to control everything it's very freeing.
Stewart is not afraid to flirt with bad taste, in fact, some of the pieces in this collection do for "flirting with bad taste" what Bill Clinton did for "not having sexual relations." But it's wonderful to see an edgy comedian taking on the traditionally cozy genre of the humorous essay, creating work that combines the wit of Robert Benchley with the energy and attitude of the best modern standup. Naked Pictures of Famous People proves that Jon Stewart is as comfortable, and accomplished, in front of a word processor as he is in front of an audience. --Simon Leake [via]
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The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Historiesby Partha ChatterjeeISBN 0691019436 (0-691-01943-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories'Book summary:In this book, the prominent theorist Partha Chatterjee looks at the creative and powerful results of the nationalist imagination in Asia and Africa that are posited not on identity but on difference with the nationalism propagated by the West. Arguing that scholars have been mistaken in equating political nationalism with nationalism as such, he shows how anticolonialist nationalists produced their own domain of sovereignty within colonial society well before beginning their political battle with the imperial power. These nationalists divided their culture into material and spiritual domains, and staked an early claim to the spiritual sphere, represented by religion, caste, women and the family, and peasants. Chatterjee shows how middle-class elites first imagined the nation into being in this spiritual dimension and then readied it for political contest, all the while "normalizing" the aspirations of the various marginal groups that typify the spiritual sphere.
While Chatterjee's specific examples are drawn from Indian sources, with a copious use of Bengali language materials, the book is a contribution to the general theoretical discussion on nationalism and the modern state. Examining the paradoxes involved with creating first a uniquely non-Western nation in the spiritual sphere and then a universalist nation-state in the material sphere, the author finds that the search for a postcolonial modernity is necessarily linked with past struggles against modernity.
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Nights in Arubaby Andrew HolleranISBN 0688016731 (0-688-01673-1)
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Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracyby Nancy MitfordISBN 0689707045 (0-689-70704-5)
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The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-cold War New Mexicoby Joseph MascoISBN 0691120773 (0-691-12077-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-cold War New Mexico'Book summary:The Nuclear Borderlands explores the sociocultural fallout of twentieth-century America's premier technoscientific project--the atomic bomb. Joseph Masco offers the first anthropological study of the long-term consequences of the Manhattan Project for the people that live in and around Los Alamos, New Mexico, where the first atomic bomb, and the majority of weapons in the current U.S. nuclear arsenal, were designed. Masco examines how diverse groups--weapons scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, neighboring Pueblo Indian Nations and Nuevomexicano communities, and antinuclear activists--have engaged the U.S. nuclear weapons project in the post-Cold War period, mobilizing to debate and redefine what constitutes "national security."
In a pathbreaking ethnographic analysis, Masco argues that the U.S. focus on potential nuclear apocalypse during the Cold War obscured the broader effects of the nuclear complex on American society. The atomic bomb, he demonstrates, is not just the engine of American technoscientific modernity; it has produced a new cognitive orientation toward everyday life, provoking cross-cultural experiences of what Masco calls a "nuclear uncanny." Revealing how the bomb has reconfigured concepts of time, nature, race, and citizenship, the book provides new theoretical perspectives on the origin and logic of U.S. national security culture. The Nuclear Borderlands ultimately assesses the efforts of the nuclear security state to reinvent itself in a post-Cold War world, and in so doing exposes the nuclear logic supporting the twenty-first-century U.S. war on terrorism.
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Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Beliefby Gauri ViswanathanISBN 0691058997 (0-691-05899-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief'Book summary:Outside the Fold is a radical reexamination of religious conversion. Gauri Viswanathan skillfully argues that conversion is an interpretive act that belongs in the realm of cultural criticism. To that end, this work examines key moments in colonial and postcolonial history to show how conversion questions the limitations of secular ideologies, particularly the discourse of rights central to both the British empire and the British nation-state. Implicit in such questioning is an attempt to construct an alternative epistemological and ethical foundation of national community. Viswanathan grounds her study in an examination of two simultaneous and, she asserts, linked events: the legal emancipation of religious minorities in England and the acculturation of colonial subjects to British rule. The author views these two apparently disparate events as part of a common pattern of national consolidation that produced the English state. She seeks to explain why resistance, in both cases, frequently took the form of religious conversion, especially to "minority" or alternative religions. Confronting the general characterization of conversion as assimilative and annihilating of identity, Viswanathan demonstrates that a willful change of religion can be seen instead as an act of opposition. Outside the Fold concludes that, as a form of cultural crossing, conversion comes to represent a vital release into difference.
Through the figure of the convert, Viswanathan addresses the vexing question of the role of belief and minority discourse in modern society. She establishes new points of contact between the convert as religious dissenter and as colonial subject. This convergence provides a transcultural perspective not otherwise visible in literary and historical texts. It allows for radically new readings of significant figures as diverse as John Henry Newman, Pandita Ramabai, Annie Besant, and B. R. Ambedkar, as well as close studies of court cases, census reports, and popular English fiction. These varying texts illuminate the means by which discourses of religious identity are produced, contained, or opposed by the languages of law, reason, and classificatory knowledge. Outside the Fold is a challenging, provocative contribution to the multidisciplinary field of cultural studies.
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Paths of Faith: Conversations About Religion and Spiritualityby Michael Thomas FordISBN 0689822634 (0-689-82263-4)
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A Place of Greater Safetyby Hilary MantelISBN 0689121687 (0-689-12168-7)
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Platonic Noiseby Peter EubenISBN 0691113998 (0-691-11399-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Platonic Noise'Book summary:Platonic Noise brings classical and contemporary writings into conversation to enrich our experience of modern life and politics. Drawing on writers as diverse as Plato, Homer, Nietzsche, Borges, Don DeLillo, and Philip Roth, Peter Euben shows us the relevance of both popular literature and ancient Greek thought to current questions of loss, mourning, and democracy--all while arguing for the redeeming qualities of political and intellectual work and making an original case against presentism.
Juxtaposing ancient and contemporary texts, politics, and culture, Euben reflects on a remarkable range of recent issues and controversies. He discusses Stoic cosmopolitanism and globalization, takes a critical look at Nietzsche's own efforts to make the Greeks speak to the issues of his day, examines a Greek tragedy through Hannah Arendt's eyes, compares the role of comedy in ancient Athens and contemporary America, analyzes political theory as a reaction to an acute sense of loss, and considers questions of agency and morality.
Platonic Noise makes a case for reading political theory and politics through literature. Working as much through example as through explicit argument, Euben casts the literary memory of Athenian democracy as a crucial cultural resource and a presence in contemporary political and theoretical debates. In so doing, he reasserts the moral value of what we used to call participatory democracy and the practical value of seeing ourselves with the help of insights from long-gone Greeks.
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Plural but Equalby Harold CruseISBN 0688083315 (0-688-08331-5)
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Politics Of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subjectby Saba MahmoodISBN 0691086958 (0-691-08695-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Politics Of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject'Book summary:Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or transform the state, this is a moral reform movement whose orthodox practices are commonly viewed as inconsequential to Egypt's political landscape. Saba Mahmood's compelling exposition of these practices challenges this assumption by showing how the ethical and the political are indelibly linked within the context of such movements. Not only is this book a sensitive ethnography of a critical but largely ignored dimension of the Islamic revival, it is also an unflinching critique of the secular-liberal principles by which some people hold such movements to account. The book addresses three central questions: How do movements of moral reform help us rethink the normative liberal account of politics? How does the adherence of women to the patriarchal norms at the core of such movements parochialize key assumptions within feminist theory about freedom, agency, authority, and the human subject? How does a consideration of debates about embodied religious rituals among Islamists and their secular critics help us understand the conceptual relationship between bodily form and political imaginaries? Politics of Piety is essential reading for anyone interested in issues at the nexus of ethics and politics, embodiment and gender, and liberalism and postcolonialism. [via]
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Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabiaby Jean P. SassonISBN 0688116752 (0-688-11675-2)
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Religion and Cultural Studiesby Susan L. MizruchiISBN 0691005036 (0-691-00503-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Religion and Cultural Studies'Book summary:Americans have never been more religious than they are now, at the dawn of the twenty-first century. By all reports, attendance rates at traditional places of worship are high and rising; the influx of new immigrant religions has revitalized standard faiths and drawn in those who had strayed from them. Popular television shows like "The Simpsons" feature characters who go to church every Sunday and speak to God; special events, like the 1998 outdoor mass in Worcester, Massachusetts, for a comatose girl believed to have miraculous powers, attract thousands of people.
This collection is both part of this ferment and an intellectual reflection upon it. Religion and Cultural Studies features essays by major scholars from the fields of anthropology, history, literary criticism, and religion in order to enrich critical discourse about religion and culture. Despite the variety of disciplines represented by this group of scholars and the variety of cultures explored in their essays--from fifteenth-century Flemish asceticism and nineteenth-century African-American spiritualism to Russian blood-libel trials and Alien Abduction Reports in the twentieth century--their common ground is the question of religion's place in current American academic analysis, and more broadly in American life today. The volume's range of vocabulary and subject matter is aimed at vitalizing scholarly interest in the field of religion and cultural studies and deepening intellectual inquiry in the contemporary academy.
The contributors are Eytan Bercovitch, Karen McCarthy Brown, Gillian Feeley-Harnik, Richard Wightman Fox, Jenny Franchot, Giles Gunn, Geoffrey Galt Harpham, Bruce B. Lawrence, Jack Miles, Susan L. Mizruchi, and Jonathan Z. Smith.
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The Roots of Romanticismby Isaiah Berlin, Henry HardyISBN 0691007136 (0-691-00713-6)
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The Roots of Romanticism: The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.by Isaiah Berlin, Henry HardyISBN 0691086621 (0-691-08662-1)
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Salvaging the Land of Plenty: Garbage and the American Dreamby Jennifer Seymour WhitakerISBN 0688101305 (0-688-10130-5)
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Science As Social Knowledge: Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiryby Helen E. LonginoISBN 0691020515 (0-691-02051-5)
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A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an "Other" Americaby Kathleen StewartISBN 0691011036 (0-691-01103-6)
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Streetwalking on a Ruined Map: Cultural Theory and the City Films of Elvira Notariby Giuliana BrunoISBN 0691025339 (0-691-02533-9)
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Taking It Like a Man: White Masculinity, Masochism, and Contemporary American Cultureby David SavranISBN 0691058768 (0-691-05876-8)
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Trading With the Enemy: A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cubaby Tom MillerISBN 068912094X (0-689-12094-X)
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True Believerby Russell Gordon, Virginia Euwer WolffISBN 0689852886 (0-689-85288-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'True Believer'Book summary:At 15, LaVaughn already knows that life is hard and that getting ahead takes a strong mind and an even stronger will. Surrounded by poverty and violence, she strives every day not to be just another inner-city statistic: "My hope is strong like an athlete. Every morning when we walk through the metal detectors to get into school ... it is an important day of dues-paying so I can go to college and be out of here." Last year when she babysat for Jolly, a young unwed mother, she saw firsthand how an unplanned pregnancy can diminish options. So she ignores the boys, studies hard, and hopes it will all be enough to get her into college. Then Jody moves back into the neighborhood. Once LaVaughn's childhood friend, Jody is now "suddenly beautiful... He could be in movies the way the parts of his face go together." If LaVaughn's choices were difficult before Jody, now they're almost impossible. What LaVaughn doesn't know is that Jody has difficult decisions of his own to make--decisions that could turn her carefully ordered world upside down.
The second novel in a proposed trilogy, True Believer picks up where the acclaimed Make Lemonade left off. Virginia Euwer Wolff's verse-prose is as sumptuous as ever, and her descriptions of LaVaughn's day-to-day life and feelings are sympathetic and achingly real. Readers will be eager to see where LaVaughn's choices take her in Wolff's next installment. (Ages 13 and older) --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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The Way Things Never Were: The Truth About the "Good Old Days"by Norman H. FinkelsteinISBN 0689814127 (0-689-81412-7)
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The Ways of My Grandmothersby Beverly Hungry WolfISBN 0688004717 (0-688-00471-7)
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When Russia Learned to Read: Literacy and Popular Literature, 1861-1917by Jeffrey BrooksISBN 0691054509 (0-691-05450-9)
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Zen and Japanese Cultureby Daisetz T. SuzukiISBN 0691017700 (0-691-01770-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zen and Japanese Culture'Book summary:Zen and Japanese Culture is one of the twentieth century's leading works on Zen, and a valuable source for those wishing to understand its concepts in the context of Japanese life and art. In simple, often poetic, language, Daisetz Suzuki describes his conception of Zen and its historical evolution. He connects Zen to the philosophy of the samurai, and subtly portrays the relationship between Zen and swordsmanship, haiku, tea ceremonies, and the Japanese love of nature. Suzuki's contemplative work is enhanced by anecdotes, poetry, and illustrations showing silk screens, calligraphy, and examples of architecture.
Since its original publication in 1938, this important work has played a major role in shaping conceptions of Zen's influence on Japanese traditional arts. Richard Jaffe's introduction acquaints a new generation of readers with Suzuki's life and career in both Japan and America. Jaffe discusses how Zen and Japanese Culture was received upon its first publication and analyzes the book in light of contemporary criticism, especially by scholars of Japanese Buddhism.
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