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Humphries has rendered (Ovid's) love poetry with conspicuous success into English which is neither obtrusively colloquial nor awkwardly antique." -Virginia Quarterly Review

A follow-up to "Culture and Consumption", this book trades the platitudes about the consumer society for an anthropological treatment. It includes essays on homes, cars, people, and social mobility, celebrities, consumerism, self-invention, museums and the power of objects, the anthropology of advertising, and more.

Presents 29 texts, beginning with "Immortality in the Light of Synechism", in which the author proposes synechism, tendency to regard everything as continuous, as a key advance over the 3 'isms' materialism, idealism, and dualism, and ending with the author's unfinished investigations of the relative merits of different kinds of reasoning.

Broken in spirit and body, James Lewis MacFarland, a wounded veteran of World War I, decides to escape from the military hospital before he is sent to a hospital for tubercular patients. He sets out on a great adventure which takes him to the healing sun and ocean of California.

A provocative and innovative study of Adorno's writings on Beethoven

Expelled from the Communist Party in 1957, later re-admitted and expelled again, the author has lived in exile since 1988. He has continued indefatigably to read, think, and write about his beloved China: the saga of its modern history, the moral wasteland of its present condition, and its place in the global order.

Maltese settlers in colonial Algeria had never lived in France, but as French citizens were abruptly "repatriated" there after Algerian independence in 1962. This study provides insight into race, ethnicity, and nationalism in Europe as well as cultural context for understanding political trends in contemporary France.

Provides social, cultural, and historical context for understanding one of Europe's longest-running conflicts

Explores the role of gender on both the home and fighting fronts in Eastern Europe during the First and Second World Wars. This book includes themes such as: the ways in which wartime experiences challenge traditional gender roles; post-war restoration of gender order; collaboration and resistance; the body; and memory and commemoration.

Since her death in 1986 and the publication of her letters and diaries in 1990, interest in the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir has never been greater. This volume presents 16 essays that reveal Beauvoir as one of the century's most important and influential thinkers, discussing a range of Beauvoir's work.

One of the most important documents in 20th-century musical thought finally available in an affordable paperback edition

Applying an ever more radical hermeneutics (including Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology, Derridian deconstruction, and feminism), John D. Caputo breaks down the name of God in this irrepressible book. Instead of looking at God as merely a name, Caputo views it as an event, or what the name conjures or promises in the future. For Caputo, the event exposes God as weak, unstable, and barely functional. While this view of God flies in the face of most religions and philosophies, it also puts up a serious challenge to fundamental tenets of theology and ontology. Along the way, Caputo's readings of the New Testament, especially of Paul's view of the Kingdom of God, help to support the "e;weak force"e; theory. This penetrating work cuts to the core of issues and questions-What is the nature of God? What is the nature of being? What is the relationship between God and being? What is the meaning of forgiveness, faith, piety, or transcendence?-that define the terrain of contemporary philosophy of religion.

Called by some a 'Mediterranean Jutland,' the Battle of the Otranto Straits involved warships from Austria, Germany, Italy, Britain, and France. This is the story of the largest naval engagement in the Mediterranean during the First World War.

Examines the principles of performing the music of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and their contemporaries as revealed in a variety of historical sources

Presses contemporary philosophy of religion toward a new modes of thinking about God

Rewrites the history of the civil rights movement, recognizing the contributions of Black women.

An invaluable resource on the pronunciation of historic European languages for singers, scholars, actors, and readers of early music and literature With CD

Hildesheim is a mid-sized provincial town in northwest Germany. This title presents an account of how townspeople went about their lives and reacted to events during the Nazi era. It considers the actual customs and experiences of friendship and neighbourliness in a German town before, during, and after the Third Reich.

Presents four travel diaries of pioneering African Americans who were the first to explore and document the West African interior. This work reveals the wealth and beauty of Africa in descriptions of its geography, people, flora, and fauna. It challenges the notion that there were no black explorers in Africa.

An ethnography of the Algerian presence in France and the transnational Berber movement.

A groundbreaking look into the connections between music, dance, emotion, and trance

Features several women composers, performers, and patrons, musical contexts, and an expanded view of women in music outside Europe and North America. A popular university textbook, this book is useful for scholars, a source of programming ideas for performers, and of service to music lovers.

Situating the Maasai in the larger political, economic, and social context of Kenya and world events, this book shows how broader forces have had an impact on the construction of Maasai lifeways, especially gender relations. It focuses on how development has affected Maasai lives.

Suitable for enlightening on differences between French and German practice, this book treats pitch, ornamentation, bowing, and more.

First interdisciplinary study of the Kalevala to appear in English.

Republication of the pioneering classic study of modern Chinese fiction.

Features important philosophical papers of the brilliant American thinker Charles Sanders Peirce. This volume presents twenty-five key texts, chronologically arranged, beginning with Peirce's "On a New List of Categories" of 1867, and ending with the systematic presentation of his evolutionary metaphysics in the "Monist Metaphysical Series".

this collection can be read with pleasure by those unversed in semiotic theory." -Times Literary Supplement

An account of the history and survival of non-scientific explanations of the world

The first critical study of Disney films.