Melodramatic Imperial Writing
From the Sepoy Rebellion to Cecil Rhodes
By Neil Hultgren
Melodrama is often seen as a blunt aesthetic tool tainted by its reliance on improbable situations, moral binaries, and overwhelming emotion, features that made it a likely ingredient of British imperial propaganda during the late nineteenth century. Yet, through its impact on many late-Victorian genres outside of the theater, melodrama developed a complicated relationship with British imperial discourse.Melodramatic
Literary Criticism | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh · Victorian Studies
Research as More Than Extraction
Knowledge Production and Gender-Based Violence in African Societies
Edited by Annie Bunting, Allen Kiconco, and Joel Quirk
This book contributes to an increasingly significant interdisciplinary field that focuses on ethics, methods, and the politics of gender-based violence. Its contributors, the majority of whom are based in Africa, offer concrete examples of how to undertake responsible research in African contexts. Their close and careful analyses of gender, violence, and patriarchy provide an important corrective to simplistic and reductionist gender-based studies.
Violence in Society · Social Science, Methodology · Gender Studies · Africa · African Studies
Mexico Mystique
The Coming Sixth World of Consciousness
By Frank Waters
In Mexico Mystique Frank Waters draws us deeply into the ancient but still-living myths of Mexico. To reveal their hidden meanings and their powerful symbolism, he brings to bear his gift for intuitive imagination as well as a broad knowledge of anthropology, Jungian psychology, astrology, and Eastern and esoteric religions. He offers a startling interpretation of the Mayan Great Cycle — our present Fifth World — whose beginning has been projected to 3113 B.C.,
History | Latin America | Pre-Columbian · Philosophy | Eastern · Spirituality · Mexico · Latin American Studies
A Country of Defiance
Mapping the Casamance in Senegal
By Mark W. Deets
This analysis of culture and nationalism in the Casamance—home of the longest-running conflict on the African continent—considers colonialism, cartography, agriculture, religion, forests, education, and sports history to explain and analyze the complex identities that have driven the separatist movement as well as the Senegalese nation.
Social History · Human Geography · Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social · Senegal · African Studies
Unruly Ideas
A History of Kitawala in Congo
By Nicole Eggers
In this conceptual history, Nicole Eggers argues that practitioners of the Congolese religious movement Kitawala can be understood as intellectuals, innovators, and vital participants in the construction and use of power. Eggers also explores the relationship between healing and violence in their frequently gendered central African manifestations.
History | Africa | Central · Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social · Religion | Religion, Politics & State · Democratic Republic of the Congo · African Studies
People of the Valley
A Novel
By Frank Waters
One of Frank Waters’s most popular novels, People of the Valley takes place high in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains where an isolated Spanish-speaking people confront a threatening world of change.
Fiction | Indigenous · Fiction · Literature · Western Americana · Western and Pacific States
Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century
Abstracting Economics
Edited by Daniel Bivona and Marlene Tromp
Grounded in literary studies and spanning the Americas, India, England, and Scotland, this book explores the relationship between economic concepts and culture in the period, focusing on how economic tropes were abstracted into other discourses in fields as diverse as evolutionary science, business, and literary narrative.
Literary Criticism | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh · Economic History · Literature · Victorian Studies
Pumpkin Seed Point
Being Within the Hopi
By Frank Waters
Frank Waters lived for three years among the Hopi people of Arizona and was quickly drawn into their culture. Pumpkin Seed Point is a beautifully written personal account of Waters’s inner and outer experiences among the Hopi.
Native American Studies · Memoir · Arizona · Western Americana · Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
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Power, Patronage, and the Local State in Ghana
By Barry Driscoll
This quantitative and qualitative account of Ghanaian development shows how closely fought elections drive subnational local state institutions to patronize party volunteers. Extrapolating from Ghana’s example, the author shows how locally salient varieties of patronage shape political competition in a variety of contexts.
Political Science | Political Process · Business & Economics | Development Studies · Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social · History | Africa | West · Ghana · African Studies
A Country of Defiance
Mapping the Casamance in Senegal
By Mark W. Deets
This analysis of culture and nationalism in the Casamance—home of the longest-running conflict on the African continent—considers colonialism, cartography, agriculture, religion, forests, education, and sports history to explain and analyze the complex identities that have driven the separatist movement as well as the Senegalese nation.
Social History · Human Geography · Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social · Senegal · African Studies
Research as More Than Extraction
Knowledge Production and Gender-Based Violence in African Societies
Edited by Annie Bunting, Allen Kiconco, and Joel Quirk
This book contributes to an increasingly significant interdisciplinary field that focuses on ethics, methods, and the politics of gender-based violence. Its contributors, the majority of whom are based in Africa, offer concrete examples of how to undertake responsible research in African contexts. Their close and careful analyses of gender, violence, and patriarchy provide an important corrective to simplistic and reductionist gender-based studies.
Violence in Society · Social Science, Methodology · Gender Studies · Africa · African Studies
Unruly Ideas
A History of Kitawala in Congo
By Nicole Eggers
In this conceptual history, Nicole Eggers argues that practitioners of the Congolese religious movement Kitawala can be understood as intellectuals, innovators, and vital participants in the construction and use of power. Eggers also explores the relationship between healing and violence in their frequently gendered central African manifestations.
History | Africa | Central · Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social · Religion | Religion, Politics & State · Democratic Republic of the Congo · African Studies
Mexico Mystique
The Coming Sixth World of Consciousness
By Frank Waters
In Mexico Mystique Frank Waters draws us deeply into the ancient but still-living myths of Mexico. To reveal their hidden meanings and their powerful symbolism, he brings to bear his gift for intuitive imagination as well as a broad knowledge of anthropology, Jungian psychology, astrology, and Eastern and esoteric religions. He offers a startling interpretation of the Mayan Great Cycle — our present Fifth World — whose beginning has been projected to 3113 B.C.,
History | Latin America | Pre-Columbian · Philosophy | Eastern · Spirituality · Mexico · Latin American Studies
The Man Who Killed the Deer
A Novel of Pueblo Indian Life
By Frank Waters
The story of Martiniano, the man who killed the deer, is a timeless story of Pueblo Indian sin and redemption, and of the conflict between Indian and white laws; written with a poetically charged beauty of style, a purity of conception, and a thorough understanding of Native American values.
Fiction | Indigenous · Fiction · Literature · Western Americana · Western and Pacific States
People of the Valley
A Novel
By Frank Waters
One of Frank Waters’s most popular novels, People of the Valley takes place high in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains where an isolated Spanish-speaking people confront a threatening world of change.
Fiction | Indigenous · Fiction · Literature · Western Americana · Western and Pacific States
Pumpkin Seed Point
Being Within the Hopi
By Frank Waters
Frank Waters lived for three years among the Hopi people of Arizona and was quickly drawn into their culture. Pumpkin Seed Point is a beautifully written personal account of Waters’s inner and outer experiences among the Hopi.
Native American Studies · Memoir · Arizona · Western Americana · Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
