This timely contribution explores the theme of evidence in anthropology. Using diverse case studies, these ethnographically-grounded essays ask: What constitutes viable evidence? Together, they challenge the boundaries of what anthropologists recognise and construct as evidence.
Right / Left / Right Revolving Commitments
This collection of essays examines the complex responses of British and French intellectuals to the political crises from the 1920s to WWII. It explores the radical shifts in allegiance as writers confronted the rise of fascism and communism.
Language, Literature and Education in Multicultural Societies
This book presents a vivid overview of linguistic, literary and educational issues in a multicultural context. Bringing together views from specialists from several parts of the world, it handles complex themes in an accessible manner for all readers.
Text, Body and Indeterminacy
This book forges a link between the philosophical self and the literary character. Using neo-pragmatist thought, it assesses Pater and Wilde’s characters, contrasting the textual self with the somatic to reveal the ethical gains of a self rooted in the body.
As societies face complex challenges like climate change, the role of academics as public intellectuals is vital. This book explores how they make specialized knowledge relevant, discussing historical and contemporary cases from Europe, the US, and beyond.
Christ Among Them
This essay newly interprets the rise of the individual in Italy, 1180-1300. As the idea of a tangible Christ as neighbor became consistent, worship became a form of individualism, a Christian praxis that shaped the later Renaissance and Reformation.
Place
This book explores tensions between global new media and local practices, focusing on artists in indigenous cultural settings. Through analysis of art and film, it asks how long-held attachments to place are transforming in the new media context.
Reconstructing Pain and Joy
How are pain and joy constructed, represented, and socially determined? This is the first interdisciplinary collection of essays to investigate how these multi-faceted experiences are reconstructed in language, literature, art, and culture.
Word and Image in the Long Eighteenth Century
This collection of essays explores the rich verbal-visual interaction in eighteenth-century Europe. Peaceful coexistence, mutual collaboration or striking collision—how do words and images interact? How do they reflect and communicate values, stereotypes and ideologies?
Victorian Traffic
This collection explores “traffic”—a key concept for the Victorian era’s imperial expansion. With a global range, these essays address the two-way, cross-cultural exchange of ideas, images, and identity, revealing it as relational and always in motion.
The boundaries between bodies and technologies are changing how we experience the world. How close are we to a world where machines are indistinguishable from their creators? This book explores the relationship between technology and embodiment.
Orthodoxy, Modernity, and Authenticity
This book explores the Russian reception of Ernest Renan’s *Life of Jesus*. Renan’s work had lasting appeal because it presented an alternative to both a strictly materialist worldview and an Orthodox one, allowing readers to accept modernity while retaining religious feeling.
Re-Embroidering the Robe
Since the mid-nineteenth century, writers have retold old myths with fresh messages or created new ones for traditional truths. The eighteen essays in this book examine this transforming artistry in literature from 1850 to the present day.
This pioneering book introduces the “feminine,” a dimension of film not reducible to women’s experience. Exploring this Jungian concept through movies spanning seven decades, it enhances the appreciation of film as a depth psychological medium.
Transformative Power in Motherwork
This book explores Australian mothers (1950-1965) as agents who resisted patriarchal constraints. It argues that the mother-child relationship is a transformative power that empowers both, turning the child into an adult and the mother into a skilled agent.
This volume presents critical interdisciplinary analyses of the many ways science intersects with its publics. From children’s books to news media and science fiction, it follows science through popular culture, taking science studies out of the lab and into society.
This essay collection analyzes recurring images of dismemberment on the western stage, from Classical Tragedy to contemporary drama. Contributors ask what a dismembered body means, revealing how drama’s dismemberment as a form challenges representation itself.
American “Outsider”
This book jettisons preconceptions of America, throwing back the curtains on the hidden lives of Irish-American Pavees. Journey with these “people of the road”—shy migrants who live in the shadows of rumour, hearsay, and a hot summer sun.
Ties to the Homeland
Ties to the Homeland examines the connections maintained across national borders by the children of migrants. Case studies explore their transnational practices, their impact on cultural identity and belonging, and challenge key assumptions about transnationalism.
Sino-Japanese Relations
Sino-Japanese relations are crucial for East Asia and beyond. However, the relationship has been increasingly marked by political strife, historical grievances, and a lack of trust. Any deterioration has the potential to generate conflicts with far-reaching consequences.
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