Palgrave USA Forlag
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From Impressionism to Anime: Japan as Fantasy and Fan Cult in the Mind of the West (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
What is it about anime that is so appealing to a transnational fan base? This book takes a look at anime fans and the place they occupy, both in terms of subculture in Japan and America, and in relation to Western perceptions of Japan since the late 1800s.
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Sicques, Tigers or Thieves: Eyewitness Accounts of the Sikhs (1606-1810) (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In 1812, Sir John Malcolm, a Lieutenant General in the British Army wrote A Sketch of the Sikhs , commonly believed to be the first account of the Sikhs written by a non-Sikh.
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Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and Other Cultural Imaginings (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The varied cultural functions of dress, textiles, and clothwork are used in this collection of essays to examine long-standing assumptions about the Middle Ages.
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Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and Other Cultural Imaginings (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The varied cultural functions of dress, textiles, and clothwork are used in this collection of essays to examine long-standing assumptions about the Middle Ages.
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Poetic Animals and Animal Souls (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This book offers a new paradigm for reading and appreciating animals in literature and addresses how human culture views animals in poetry.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Vatican, and the Roman Catholic Church in America, 1933-1945 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
From the multiplicity of Catholic responses to the New Deal, through Roosevelt's diplomatic relationship with the... Læs mere
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Erich Fromm and the Quest for Solidarity (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Erich Fromm and the Quest for Solidarity argues that Fromm's humanistic ethics provides a framework for the analysis of alienation in affluent societies and his exploration of the social forces capable of challenging that alienation.
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Manhood and the Duel: Masculinity in Early Modern Drama and Culture (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
As cultural practice, the early modern duel both indicated and shaped the gender assumptions of wealthy young men; As Jennifer Low... Læs mere
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Becoming Cleopatra: The Shifting Image of an Icon (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Royster begins with Shakespeare's original appropriation of Plutarch, and then moves on to analyze performances of the Cleopatra icon by Josephine Baker, Elizabeth Taylor, Pam Grier (Cleopatra Jones) and Queen Latifah (in Set It Off ).
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Around the Sacred Fire: Native Religious Activism in the Red Power Era (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Around the Sacred Fire is a compelling cultural history of intertribal activism centered on the Indian Ecumenical Conference, an influential movement among native people in Canada and the U.S. during the Red Power era.
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Buying Whiteness: Race, Culture, and Identity from Columbus to Hip-hop (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
From accounts of Columbus and other early European voyagers to popular English plays two centuries later, Taylor traces a paradigm... Læs mere
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The Weight of the Past: Living with History in Mahajanga, Madagascar (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In The Weight of the Past , Michael Lambek explores the complex ways that history shapes, constrains, and enables daily life.
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