Details the textual and performative history of the South Asian festival of Indra and its role in the development of classical Hinduism.

Explores mountain regions as cultural landscapes that have been shaped by long-term human-environment interactions.

Claims unconscious desire plays a constitutive role in global political economy.

This critical reader brings together both essential as well as under-recognized writings from the work of Don Ihde, one of the most important contemporary thinkers on technology and human experience.

Reveals how the persona of India's most famous emperor was constantly reinvented in ancient times to suit a variety of social visions, political agendas, and moral purposes.