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Coordinated by Julia Madajczak, Fragments of the Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Census from the Jagiellonian Library: A Lost Manuscript offers a critical edition of a sixteenth century Mexican census fragment--one of the earliest known Nahuatl texts--recently discovered at the Jagiellonian Library, Poland.

The Life and Work of Ernesto de Martino introduces one of the 20th century's key thinkers in religious studies and demonstrates that the discipline was animated by a tension between the fear of the apocalypse and the desire for civilizational rebirth.

Religious Narratives in Contemporary Culture: Between Cultural Memory and Transmediality analyzes the presence and function of traces of religious narratives in contemporary western culture, from the perspective of cultural memory studies and the transmedial study of narrative and art.

This book addresses the long-term cultural and social environment of sex definition in different continents. The impact on gender of Portuguese expansion is confronted to local agency and indigenous responses. Historical, literary and anthropological approaches highlight colonial and postcolonial gender fluidity.

This book is a collection of studies of various religious groups in the changing religious markets of China. These ethnographic studies demonstrate many shades of gray in the religious market and fluidity across the red, black, and gray markets.

Unlocking the meaning and performative aspects in this first-ever edition in any European language, of these core Zoroastrian rituals in India, Céline Redard and Kerman Dadi Daruwalla open up the Indian tradition for future research and highlight its importance.

This volume is a tribute to Professor Vovin's research and a summary of the latest developments in his fields of expertise.

This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis of wills in late medieval Krakow, arguing that these testamentary acts were an important agent of historical social change - a 'tool of power.'

This book explores literary and non-literary texts, along with their early manuscripts and subsequent printed and digital editions, covering a time span extending over 1000 years.

In An "Ise monogatari" Reader, eleven international scholars present cutting-edge research on this canonical literary work, its history, influence, commentary tradition, and early modern publishing history.

Ce volume présente un récit oral par le griot célébré Djèmory Kouyaté de Nyagassola (actuelle Guinée) (décédé en 2019). Il traite de la façon dont on se souvient de l'époque qui relie la fondation de la société mandingue par Soundiata jusqu'à aujourd'hui. This volume features an oral account by the acclaimed griot Djèmory Kouyaté from Nyagassola (present-day Guinée) (d. 2019). It deals with the way the era that bridges the foundation of their society by Sunjata to their present-day society, called Manding, is remembered.

Martin Hilpert lays out how Construction Grammar is applied to the study of language change. In a series of ten lectures, the book presents the theory and methods that inform the constructional analysis of diachronic linguistic processes.

The book offers a critical account of the practice of state-secularism in Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda in comparison to France, Turkey and the US.

In Bourdieu in Question: New Directions in French Sociology of Art, Jeffrey A. Halley and Daglind E. Sonolet offer an account of the very lively Francophone debates over Pierre Bourdieu's work in the domain of the arts and culture.

An examinination of the role that Catholic missionary orders played in the dissemination of accounts of Christian martyrdom in Japan. The author offers an overarching portrayal of the writing, printing, and circulation of books of "Japano-martyrology."

Imaging and Imagining Palestine is the first comprehensive study of photography during the British Mandate (1918-1948). While Biblical and Orientalist images abound, the chapters in this book go further by questioning the impact of photography on the social histories of British Mandate Palestine.

Aleksander Paroń offers a reflection on the history of the nomadic people the Pechenegs and their relations with the neighboring political and cultural communities of medieval eastern Europe (10th-11th centuries).

Giving her back her voice, the long-lost letters of Sylvia Beach to James Joyce uniquely document her unwavering support even beyond her role as publisher of Ulysses, while also revealing her difficulties with his demanding personality and signs of their eventual breach.

Conceiving of language and cognition as biological phenomena, these lectures provide and illustrate a coherent, integrated theoretical framework for studying essentially any aspect of language systems, language use, language change, and language evolution.

An examination of interactions between sight and hearing in Italian church decoration from 1260-1320. Giotto and other artists used naturalism to activate worshipers' spiritual listening, a source of anxiety for authorities in this "age of vision." This book has received the Weiss-Brown Publication Subvention Award from the Newberry Library, supporting the publication of outstanding works on European civilization before 1700 in the areas of music, theater, French or Italian literature, and cultural studies.

This book is dedicated to Metin Kunt, which primarily examines diverse cases of changes throughout Ottoman history. Both specialist and non-specialist readers will explore and understand the complexities concerning the longevity as well as the tenacity of the Ottoman Empire.

Creativity of an Aha!Moment and Mathematics Education introduces bisociation, the theory of Aha! moment creativity into Mathematics Education. It establishes relationships between bisociation and constructivist theories of learning laying down the basis for the new theory integrating creativity with learning.

An innovative analysis of the representational strategies that constructed Catherine de' Medici and sought to explain her behaviour and motivations.

This collection of essays presents new insights into what shaped and constituted the Renaissance and early modern views of fate and fortune. It argues that these ideas were emblematic of a more fundamental argument about the self, society, and the universe and shows that their influence was more widespread, both geographically and thematically, than hitherto assumed.

In Value without Fetish, Lange presents an analysis of Uno Kōzō's theory of 'Pure Capitalism' in relation to Marx's critique of capital, focusing on Uno's disavowal of the problem of fetishism which becomes problematic for Uno's view of capitalist society.

SENSORIVM publishes the first results of a collective investigation into how Roman rituals smelled, sounded, felt and struck the eye. It brings Roman religious experience into the realm of the senses.