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The Cultural Power of Personal Objects
(December 2021)
Traditional Accounts and New Perspectives
Jared Kemling - Editor
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Historical and theoretical discussions that describe and reflect on personal objects from a variety of perspectives.
The Cultural Power of Personal Objects seeks to understand the value and efficacy of objects, places, and times that take on cultural power and reverence to such a degree that they are treated (whether metaphorically or actually) as “persons,” or as objects wi...(Read More) |
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Thinking Ecologically, Thinking Responsibly
(December 2021)
The Legacies of Lorraine Code
Nancy Arden McHugh - Editor
Andrea Doucet - Editor
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Engages and extends the feminist philosopher Lorraine Code’s groundbreaking work on epistemology and ethics.
Thinking Ecologically, Thinking Responsibly brings together a transdisciplinary cohort of feminist, critical race, Indigenous, and decolonial scholars who build upon and seek to widen and deepen the legacy and potential of feminist philosopher Lorraine Code’s work. Si...(Read More) |
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Christianity and Politics in Tribal India
(November 2021)
Baptist Missionaries and Naga Nationalism
G. Kanato Chophy - Author
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Chronicles the astonishing and counterintuitive spread of Christianity among a group of previously isolated tribes in a remote and hilly part of Northeastern India.
Through an ethnohistorical study of the Nagas—a congeries of tribes inhabiting the Indo-Myanmar frontier—this book explores an unusually interesting region of India that is all too often seen as peripheral. G. Kanato Ch...(Read More) |
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Mayalogue
(October 2021)
An Interactionist Theory of Indigenous Cultures
Victor Montejo - Author
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Offers a strong critique of traditional anthropological studies from an Indigenous and postcolonial perspective.
In Mayalogue, Native Mayan scholar Victor Montejo provides an alternative reading and interpretation of cultures, challenging Western ethnocentric approaches that have marginalized Native knowledge and worldviews in the past. He proposes instead a methodology for ...(Read More) |
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Meander
(August 2021)
Making Room for Rivers
Margaret Wooster - Author
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Draws on the author’s own experiences as a watershed planner, teacher, and activist to tell the story of the Great Lakes region’s experiment in restoring a complicated natural system of flowing water.
Meander tells the story of the Great Lakes region’s experiment in restoring a complicated natural system of flowing water. Drawing on her own experience as a watershed planner,...(Read More) |
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Nos/Otras
(August 2021)
Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance
Andrea J. Pitts - Author
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Offers a timely reconsideration of the writings of Gloria Anzaldúa, treating issues of multiplicitous agency, identarian politics, and the stakes of coalition building as core themes in the author’s work.
In a refreshingly novel approach to the writings of Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1942–2004), Andrea J. Pitts addresses issues relevant to contemporary debates within feminist theory and cr...(Read More) |
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Sensitive Negotiations
(August 2021)
Indigenous Diplomacy and British Romantic Poetry
Nikki Hessell - Author
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Examines how Indigenous figures used British Romantic poetry in their interactions with settler governments and publics.
Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Indigenous peoples in North America and the Pacific engaged with the latest and most fashionable British Romantic poetry as part of transcontinental and transoceanic cross-cultural negotiations about sovere...(Read More) |
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Antigone in the Americas
(July 2021)
Democracy, Sexuality, and Death in the Settler Colonial Present
Andrés Fabián Henao Castro - Author
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Argues for a decolonial reinterpretation of Sophocles’ classical tragedy, Antigone, that can help us to rethink the anti-colonial politics of militant mourning in the Americas.
Sophocles’s classical tragedy, Antigone, is continually reinvented, particularly in the Americas. Theater practitioners and political theorists alike revisit the story to hold states accountable for t...(Read More) |
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Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema
(June 2021)
Carolyn Fornoff - Editor
Gisela Heffes - Editor
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Sheds light on emergent Latin America cinema that addresses the politics of environmental destruction, the uneveness of climate change consequences, and new ways of visualizing the world beyond the human.
Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema brings together fourteen scholars to analyze Latin American cinema in dialogue with recent theories of posthumanism and eco...(Read More) |
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Dutch and Indigenous Communities in Seventeenth-Century Northeastern North America
(May 2021)
What Archaeology, History, and Indigenous Oral Traditions Teach Us about Their Intercultural Relationships
Lucianne Lavin - Editor
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Examines the significant impact of Dutch traders and settlers on the early history of Northeastern North America, and their relationships with its Indigenous peoples.
This volume of essays by historians and archaeologists offers an introduction to the significant impact of Dutch traders and settlers on the early history of Northeastern North America, as well as their extensive and ...(Read More) |
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