Anthropology

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Corpse Crusaders

The Zombie in American Comics

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

Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba

An anthology by Cuban and Cuban-American writers, artists, and scholars celebrating a new era of restored relations between Cuba and the U.S.

"A Truthful Impression of the Country"

British and American Travel Writing in China, 1880-1949

An examination of the writings of travelers to China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Pain, Death, and the Law

How the law constructs pain and death as jurisprudential facts

Beyond Translation

Essays toward a Modern Philology

A bold, new approach to language that addresses the subtleties of cultural identity

Sardonic Smile

Nonverbal Behavior in Homeric Epic

Homeric posturing, Homeric expression

Poetry and Prophecy

The Anthropology of Inspiration

Addresses the relationship between the language of ritual and poetic language