In Choreography Invisible: The Disappearing Work of Dance, Anna Pakes seeks to reconcile the ephemeral nature of dance with its status as a cultural object, through the lenses of cultural theory, philosophy, and contemporary dance theory.
Religion as Resistance examines debates over the best methods for colonial rule in Italian Libya as a a self-reflexive process that tell us more about the contentious connection between religious and political authority in Italy than about Muslim North Africa.
Nostalgic narratives of the 1950s obscure a history of postwar childhood that has more in common with the war years and the sixties, when children... Læs mere
Panda Nation demonstrates how the giant panda's transformation from an obscure animal into a national treasure reflects China's... Læs mere