A close examination of the complexity inherent in Michael Jackson's ambiguous racial identity.

An in-depth, ethnographic study of the transnational expansion of Santo Daime, a mystical religious tradition organized around sacramental ingestion of the mind-altering ayahuasca beverage.

Reconsiders the legacy of an important Hasidic mystic, leader, and educator who confronted the dilemmas of modernity after World War I and whose writing constitutes a unique testimony to religious experience and its rupture in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Provides a new way of thinking about film's relation to theatre.

Examines the culture and chronology of increasingly complex urban societies in western Anatolia during the Early Bronze Age.

Argues that out of the confrontation between Rorty and Habermas, we might be able to find a new way to think about the kind of politics we need today.

A major contribution to the study of South Asian literature, offering a landmark view of Mahābhārata studies.

Examines how race-neutral programs and policies harm, rather than improve, the lives of blacks in the United States.

Argues for a decolonial reinterpretation of Sophocles’ classical tragedy, Antigone, that can help us to rethink the anti-colonial politics of militant mourning in the Americas.

Examines the significant impact of Dutch traders and settlers on the early history of Northeastern North America, and their relationships with its Indigenous peoples.

Original and comprehensive examination of Chilean political and economic development since the end of the Pinochet military regime in 1990.

Discusses world literature and cinema from the perspective of literary languages and film traditions that do not hold a hegemonic position.

Examines English-language Indian newspapers from the mid-nineteenth century and their role in simultaneously sustaining and probing British colonial governance.

Sheds light on emergent Latin America cinema that addresses the politics of environmental destruction, the unevenness of climate change consequences, and new ways of visualizing the world beyond the human.

Explores how nostalgia operates in contemporary US film and television.

The first academic explanation for how spectators use their imaginations as part of the experience and appreciation of popular fantasy filmmaking.

Traces the inner connections between the second slavery in the Americas, slavery in Africa, the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, and the "Great Transformation" of the nineteenth century world economy.

Examines women’s food cooperatives and local dining venues on the Greek island of Lesvos and how tourism, gender, and sexualities inform the creation of these alternative economies.

A cross-case analysis of fifteen faith communities striving to care for the earth and live more sustainably.

Examines how Indigenous figures used British Romantic poetry in their interactions with settler governments and publics.

Pioneering essays that demonstrate the significance of the seasons for philosophy, environmental thought, anthropology, cultural studies, aesthetics, poetics, and literary criticism.

Broadens the horizons of Strauss’s thought by initiating dialogues between him and figures with whom little or no dialogue has yet occurred.

Uses an innovative theoretical framework to comparatively explore the dynamics of state expansion and contraction in Syria (1976-2005), Morocco (since 1975), and Israel (since 1967).

Building on Jean-Luc Marion’s phenomenology of love this book takes up the “question of the Other” and argues that through the interpretive activities of the amorous imagination lovers come to experience one another as the Beloved.

Tells the exciting tale of a highly ambitious Frenchman who commanded a New York Regiment during the American Civil War.