"A Reference Guide to Medicinal Plants: Herbal Medicine Past and Present" von Jane Philpott bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über die Verwendung von Heilpflanzen in der Geschichte und der modernen Medizin. Das Buch untersucht...

"Rereading Cultural Anthropology," herausgegeben von George E. Marcus, ist eine Sammlung von Essays, die sich mit der kritischen Neubetrachtung und Analyse zentraler Themen und Methoden in der Kulturanthropologie befasst. Das Buch zielt...

Bordering all but two of South America's other nations and by far Latin America's largest country, Brazil differs linguistically, historically, and culturally from Spanish America. Its indigenous peoples share the country with...

Memories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and bodily presence can be vital links to home for people living in diaspora from their culture of origin. How can filmmakers working between cultures use cinema, a visual...

"Widows: The Middle East, Asia and the Pacific" von Helena Znaniecka Lopata ist eine umfassende Untersuchung der sozialen, kulturellen und wirtschaftlichen Herausforderungen, denen Witwen in verschiedenen Regionen der Welt...

A bestseller in France following its publication in 1999, Insult and the Making of the Gay Self is an extraordinary set of reflections on "the gay question" by Didier Eribon, one of France's foremost public intellectuals. Known...

"If colonial America was the melting pot of modernity, it was because it was also a fabulous laboratory of images. . . . Just as much as speech and writing, the image can be a vehicle for all sorts of power and resistance." So writes...

Arkady Plotnitsky holds degrees in Mathematics from the University of St. Petersburg and Comparative Literature from the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches in the English Department. von Plotnitsky, Arkady

Environments associated with migration are often seen as provisional, lacking both history and architecture. As Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi demonstrates in Architecture of Migration, a refugee camp's aesthetic and material landscapes--even if...

"National Past-Times: Narrative, Representation, and Power in Modern China" von Ann Anagnost untersucht die Art und Weise, wie narrative Strukturen und Darstellungen in der modernen chinesischen Gesellschaft Machtverhältnisse...

In an era of irregular labor, nagging recession, nuclear contamination, and a shrinking population, Japan is facing precarious times. How the Japanese experience insecurity in their daily and social lives is the subject of Precarious...

"Crisis and Capitalism in Contemporary Argentine Cinema" von Joanna Page untersucht, wie argentinische Filme die wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Krisen des Landes reflektieren und kommentieren. Page analysiert eine Vielzahl von Filmen aus...