Here architecture embodies modern ideas and social identities engendered by the encounter of Africans with others in the Indian Ocean world.
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This latest philosophical text by John Sallis is inspired by the work of contemporary Chinese painter Cao Jun. It carries out a series of philosophical reflections on nature, art, and music by taking up Cao Jun's art and thought, with a focus on questions of the elemental.
A sensitive and original reading of Plato's Republic that foregrounds the power of myth in the shaping of history.
A major stepping stone toward a synthesis of the ecology and evolution of the Late Cretaceous ecosystems of western North America
a pleasure to read." -Slavic Review
Provocative contributions of feminism and queer theory to religion
Philosophers and theologians debate whether evidence of evil undermines belief in God.
Examining the artistic, technological, social, and spiritual dimensions of Mande blacksmiths, who are the sculptors of their society, this book defines these artists' conceptual place as extraordinary members of a complex culture.
This re-examination of French colonial culture, provides the basis for a revised understanding of its cultural, political, and social legacy
A wide-ranging volume of analytic and methodological essays on microvertebrate fossils
Tunstall argues that the besieged garrison kept the Russian army from advancing farther and obliterating the already weakening Austro-Hungarian forces at the outset of the War to End All Wars.