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In this fascinating and inventive work, A. David Napier argues that the central assumption of immunology-that we survive through the recognition and elimination of non-self-has …
Anton Chekhov is revered as a boldly innovative playwright and short story writer but he wrote more than just plays and stories. In Alive in the Writing an intriguing hybrid of …
"e;Perhaps,"e; wrote Ralph Ellison more than seventy years ago, "e;the zoot suit contains profound political meaning; perhaps the symmetrical frenzy of the Lindy-hop …
American Kinship is the first attempt to deal systematically with kinship as a system of symbols and meanings, and not simply as a network of functionally interrelated familial …
Between 1914 and 1918, German anthropologists conducted their work in the midst of full-scale war. The discipline was relatively new in German academia when World War I broke out, …
In this extended meditation, Jean Lave interweaves analysis of the process of apprenticeship among the Vai and Gola tailors of Liberia with reflections on the evolution of her …
In this jarring look at contemporary warfare and political visuality, renowned anthropologist of violence Allen Feldman provocatively argues that contemporary sovereign power …
Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas (1925-1929) is a prescient work of mixed media assemblage, made up of hundreds of images culled from antiquity to the Renaissance and arranged into …
The election of America's first black president has led many to believe that race is no longer a real obstacle to success and that remaining racial inequality stems largely from …
Through much of its existence, Quebec's neighbors called it the "e;priest-ridden province."e; Today, however, Quebec society is staunchly secular, with a modern welfare …