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The Seasons
(July 2021)
Philosophical, Literary, and Environmental Perspectives
Luke Fischer - Editor
David Macauley - Editor
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Pioneering essays that demonstrate the significance of the seasons for philosophy, environmental thought, anthropology, cultural studies, aesthetics, poetics, and literary criticism.
Although the seasons have been a perennial theme in literature and art, their significance for philosophy and environmental theory has remained largely unexplored. This pioneering book demonstrates the...(Read More) |
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"Our Relations…the Mixed Bloods"
(April 2021)
Indigenous Transformation and Dispossession in the Western Great Lakes
Larry Nesper - Author
Michael S. Wiggins Jr. - With a Foreword by
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Articulates the relationships between kinship, racial ideology, mixed blood treaty provisions, and landscape transformation in the Great Lakes region.
In the Great Lakes region of the nineteenth century, “mixed bloods” were a class of people living within changing indigenous communities. As such, they were considered in treaties signed between the tribal nations and the federal gov...(Read More) |
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Boy-Wives and Female Husbands
(April 2021)
Studies in African Homosexualities
Stephen O. Murray - Editor
Will Roscoe - Editor
Marc Epprecht - Preface
Marc Epprecht - Foreword
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A significant contribution to anthropology, history, and gender studies that reveals the denials of homosexuality in traditional and contemporary African societies to be rooted in colonialist ideologies.
Among the many myths created about Africa, the claim that homosexuality and gender diversity are absent or incidental is one of the oldest and most enduring. Historians, anthropolo...(Read More) |
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Édouard Glissant, Philosopher
(April 2021)
Heraclitus and Hegel in the Whole-World
Alexandre Leupin - Author
Andrew Brown - Translator
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Translation of Alexandre Leupin’s award-winning study of Édouard Glissant’s entire work in relation to philosophy.
One of the greatest writers of the late twentieth century, Édouard Glissant’s body of work covers multiple genres and addresses many cogent contemporary problems, such as borders, multiculturalism, postcolonial and decolonial studies, and global humanities. Édouard ...(Read More) |
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The Early Bronze Age in Western Anatolia
(April 2021)
Laura K. Harrison - Editor
A. Nejat Bilgen - Editor
Asuman Kapuci - Editor
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Examines the culture and chronology of increasingly complex urban societies in western Anatolia during the Early Bronze Age.
Bringing together expert voices and key case studies from well-known and newly excavated sites, this book calls attention to the importance of western Anatolia as a legitimate, local context in its own right. The study of Early Bronze Age cultures in ...(Read More) |
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Native Foodways
(March 2021)
Indigenous North American Religious Traditions and Foods
Michelene E. Pesantubbee - Editor
Michael J. Zogry - Editor
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Explores the interplay of religion and food in Native American cultures.
Native Foodways is the first scholarly collection of essays devoted exclusively to the interplay of Indigenous religious traditions and foodways in North America. Drawing on diverse methodologies, the essays discuss significant confluences in selected examples of these religious traditions and f...(Read More) |
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Till Kingdom Come
(January 2021)
Medieval Hinduism in the Modern Himalaya
Lokesh Ohri - Author
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The first book to offer a detailed framework, a fine-grained history, and an analytically nuanced understanding of one of the rarest branches of Hindu worship.
Hinduism, as is well known, has taken a multitude of shapes and forms. Some Hindu “little traditions” have remained obscure or understudied to this day due to their regional remoteness. One such offshoot is the influential ...(Read More) |
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South of the Future
(December 2020)
Marketing Care and Speculating Life in South Asia and the Americas
Anindita Banerjee - Editor
Debra A. Castillo - Editor
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Unique interdisciplinary analysis of gendered and racialized economies of care in South Asia and the Americas.
South Asia and Latin America represent two epicenters of migrant care work and the globalized reproductive market. Yet scholars and the media continue to examine them in geographical and conceptual isolation. South of the Future closes both these gaps. It investigates nannying, elder care, domestic work, and othe...(Read More) |
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