Cultural Anthropology

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Teaching Difficult Topics

Reflections from the Undergraduate Music Classroom

Edited by Olivia R. Lucas & Laura Moore Pruett
Subjects: Music, Musicology, Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Reflections from college music instructors offering various approaches to inclusive, supportive pedagogy in the classroom

Bateson's Alphabet

The ABC's of Gregory Bateson’s Ecology of Mind

By Jacob Smith
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Social Anthropology, American Studies

Connecting Bateson’s ecology of mind with the environmental humanities

Pleasure Grounds of Death

The Rural Cemetery in Nineteenth-Century America

By Joy M. Giguere
Subjects: American Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, History, American History, Cultural Studies, Class Studies

Revealing how landscapes dedicated to the perpetual care of the dead mirrored the transformations and conflicts of the nineteenth century in American society

Corpse Crusaders

The Zombie in American Comics

By Chera Kee
Subjects: American Studies, Media Studies, New Media, Literary Studies, American Literature, History, American History, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Writing, Race and Ethnicity

Unearthing the undead stalking the panels of action/adventure and superhero comics

Singing the Land

Hebrew Music and Early Zionism in America

By Eli Sperling
Subjects: Foreign Language, Modern Hebrew, Jewish Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Music, Ethnomusicology, Diaspora Studies

How song shaped American Zionism

The Currency of Truth

Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era

By Emily H. C. Chua
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, Media Studies, Journalism, Political Science, Political Communication
Series: China Understandings Today

Explores the complex interpersonal networks and differing ethical standpoints that shape the news in China

In Search of Tunga

Prosperity, Almighty God, and Lives in Motion in a Malian Provincial Town

By André Chappatte
Subjects: African Studies, Religion, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
Series: African Perspectives

The lives of young male Muslim “adventurers” in a Malian town

Sounding Dissent

Rebel Songs, Resistance, and Irish Republicanism

By Stephen Millar
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Irish Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

In Belfast’s rebel music scene, Irish republican musicians and audiences engage in ritualized resistance against the British state

The Resonance of Unseen Things

Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny

By Susan Lepselter
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies, American Studies

An interdisciplinary study of how conspiracy theories and stories persist and resonate among different Americans

The Politics of the Trail

Reflexive Mountain Biking along the Frontier of Jerusalem

By Oded Löwenheim
Subjects: Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Memoir

A history of conflict on display through a morning commute through Jerusalem

Simming

Participatory Performance and the Making of Meaning

By Scott Magelssen
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Travel, American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

How simulated experiences—from living history to emergency preparedness drills—create meaning in performance

Cultural Struggles

Performance, Ethnography, Praxis

By Dwight Conquergood
Edited by E. Patrick Johnson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, American Studies

Gathers the essential essays of Dwight Conquergood, performance studies scholar, ethnographer, and activist

Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance

Timba Music and Black Identity in Cuba

By Umi Vaughan
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Music, Dance, Latin American Studies, Caribbean Studies

An ethnography of music and dance exploring the economic, social, and ideological constraints under which social classes and racial groups interact

Visualizing Secularism and Religion

Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, India

Edited by Alev Cinar & Srirupa Roy
By Maha Yahya
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies

An investigation of the role of religion in the formation of secular-national public spheres in the Middle East and South Asia

Anthrohistory

Unsettling Knowledge, Questioning Discipline

Edited by David Cohen, Fernando Coronil, Julie Skurski, Chandra Bhimull, Edward L. Murphy, and Monica Patterson
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, History, Intellectual History

A volume at the crossroads of History and Anthropology

My Life as a Night Elf Priest

An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft

By Bonnie Nardi
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Media Studies, New Media, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology
Series: Technologies of the Imagination: New Media in Everyday Life

An anthropologist's analysis of one of the world's most popular online world games

Olof the Eskimo Lady

A Biography of an Icelandic Dwarf in America

By Inga Dora Bjornsdottir
Translated by Maria Helga Gudmundsdottir
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Biography, American Studies

The story of an Icelandic dwarf who made a living in 19th-century America posing as an Eskimo

Democratic Designs

International Intervention and Electoral Practices in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina

By Kimberley Coles
Subjects: Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Political Science, International Relations

Examines the world of humanitarian aid workers and the processes of democratization that they put into effect in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Modern Loves

The Anthropology of Romantic Courtship and Companionate Marriage

By Jennifer Sue Hirsch & Holly Wardlow
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, African American Studies, Gender Studies, Latin American Studies, Asian Studies, African Studies

Grounded in recent, cutting edge feminist anthropological theory, these essays discuss how women and men do courtship, intimacy, and marriage around the world

Documents

Artifacts of Modern Knowledge

Edited by Annelise Riles
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology

Reflects on the new challenges to humanistic social science in a world in which the subjects of research increasingly share the professional passions and problems of the researcher

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