Building on the growing general interest in and the excellent recent scholarship on Japanese cinema’s fraught transition to sound, this book paradoxically offers a narrow thematic and chronological focus yet also a broad and diverse range of topics and approaches.
Situating itself against the transitional moment of first direct contact of English merchants with the Indian subcontinent, this book examines what it might have meant to perform as Indian in distinct economic and political spaces in early modern England.
This book examines a small group of sixteenth-century Antwerp artworks depicting the butchering of beached whales, revealing how these images represent a pivotal moment in European attitudes toward nature.
Identity and Discourse in Contemporary Rwandan Media: Rethinking Reconciliation examines how post-genocide Rwandan media... Læs mere
Human rights, viewed as universal moral rights since the 1948 Universal Declaration, are increasingly examined in relation to... Læs mere
Anthropological work on care has sought to diversify conceptualizations of the concept, challenging how we recognize and... Læs mere
Sociology of Pentecostalism provides the first systematic sociological synthesis of Pentecostal-charismatic movements, offering theoretical keys to understand this global religious phenomenon through twenty years of research.
This book reveals how policies, public sentiments, and international negotiations converged to reshape migration governance in the 1970s, a pivotal decade which serves as a crucial starting point for grappling with one of the twenty-first century’s defining issues.
This book examines the emergence of private Dutch slave trading in the 18th century. Focusing on the... Læs mere
Examining the influential print series Balli di Sfessania di Jacomo Callot, a suite of 24 prints designed and etched by Jacques Callot in... Læs mere
This book examines the foundations of Morocco’s approach to green energy and environmental sustainability politics and, through an approach of autocracy research, offers a new perspective on the country’s environmental turn during the reign of King Mohammed VI.
This book seeks to understand the evolution of Jingdezhen handicraft culture from the micro to the macro perspective by comparing the recently arising ceramic workshops with the traditional approach to the craft.