In Remote Avant-Garde Jennifer Loureide Biddle interrogates the avant-garde art of Aboriginal communities in the Australian desert, showing how it is an act of survival in the face of state occupation and a means to revive at-risk vernacular languages and cultural heritages.
A radically new interpretation of two medieval Icelandic tales, known as the... Læs mere
Demonstrating the importance of space to understanding culture, this title investigates how media technologies have shaped locality, territory, landscape, boundary, nature, music, and time.
Since the 1980s, tattooing has emerged anew in the United States as a widely appealing cultural, artistic, and social form. This... Læs mere
Looks at the interrelations between models of language in anthropology, philosophy, linguistics, and literary criticism and explores their varied accounts of subjectivity, reference, and narration
It has long been considered a mark of naivete to ask of a work of art: What does it say? By critically examining the exhibition of art in... Læs mere
An insider's account of lucha libre, the popular Mexican version of professional wrestling. It explores lucha libre as a... Læs mere
A passionate call for Native peoples to decolonize their own concepts and self-determination projects
A history of the oil industry s rise in Venezuela focused especially on the experiences and perceptions of industry employees, both American and Venezuelan.
In this ethnography of sexual violence during the 1971 Bangladesh War for Independence, Nayanika Mookherjee shows how... Læs mere
Social history of Iranian cinema that explores cinema's role in creating national identity and contextualizes Iranian cinema within an international arena.