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Critically Capitalist

The Spirit of Asset Capitalism in South Korea

By Bohyeong Kim
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, Asian Studies, Korea, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Cultural Studies
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

An ethnography of South Korea’s lay investors and aspiring millionaires that demonstrates how South Korea’s capitalism thrives on its critiques

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

Learning to Love

Intimacy and the Discourse of Development in China

By Sonya E Pritzker
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Anthropology, Social Anthropology

Understanding generational trauma through a method of self-care

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

Architectures of Hope

Infrastructural Citizenship and Class Mobility in Brazil's Public Housing

By Moisés Kopper
Subjects: Political Science, Urban Politics, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Class Studies

On the eve of the 2008 financial crisis, Brazil implemented its largest-ever public housing program, the Minha Casa Minha Vida

Architectures of Hope

Infrastructural Citizenship and Class Mobility in Brazil’s Public Housing

By Moisés Kopper
Subjects: Political Science, Urban Politics, Latin American Studies, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Class Studies

On the eve of the 2008 financial crisis, Brazil implemented its largest-ever public housing program, the Minha Casa Minha Vida

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

Sojiji

Discipline, Compassion, and Enlightenment at a Japanese Zen Temple

By Joshua A. Irizarry
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Religion, Anthropology
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

An intimate and insightful look into the life of a head Sōtō Zen temple in 21st century Japan

Being Human during COVID

By Kristin Ann Hass
Subjects: American Studies, African American Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Women's Studies

What the humanities can teach us about COVID-19

Sonorous Worlds

Musical Enchantment in Venezuela

By Yana Stainova
Subjects: Music, Anthropology
Series: Music and Social Justice

In Venezuela’s El Sistema, music is both a means of government control and a form of emancipation for youth musicians

Bad Boys

Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity

with a foreword by Pedro A. Noguera

By Ann Arnett Ferguson
Subjects: African American Studies, American Studies, Law, Anthropology
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

The classic ethnography on how implicit bias impacts black male students’ identities

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

Blindness Through the Looking Glass

The Performance of Blindness, Gender, and the Sensory Body

By Gili Hammer
Subjects: Disability Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Anthropology
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Challenges visuality as the dominant mode through which we understand gender, social performance, and visual culture

Formulas for Motherhood in a Chinese Hospital

By Suzanne Gottschang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Anthropology, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Health & Medicine

The first long- term anthropological study of China’s Baby- Friendly Hospital Initiative, closely examining our assumptions about motherhood and childbirth

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

Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba

By Ruth Behar
Subjects: Caribbean Studies, Latin American Studies, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Literary Studies

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

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

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