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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

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

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

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

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