'Anything but ordinary, this book rewrites the social sciences from top to bottom through its ble...

In Best Practice Kimberly Chong provides an ethnography of a global management consultancy that h...

We have entered a new era of nature. What remains of the frontiers of modern thought that divided...

After arriving from South Asia approximately a thousand years ago, cannabis quickly spread throug...

'Revising and augmenting scholarship on minstrelsy, literary representations of blackness, and bl...

Since the show's debut in 2007, Mad Men has invited viewers to immerse themselves in the lush per...

Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African women in the sixteenth- and...

Collection of essays on heavy metal music as a global and transnational phenomenon.

David Lapoujade is Professor of Philosophy at Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, and the auth...

In The Argentine Silent Majority, Sebastián Carassai focuses on middle-class culture and politics...

In Undoing Monogamy Angela Willey analyzes the contemporary science of monogamy, demanding a crit...

In Jezebel Unhinged Tamura Lomax traces the use of the jezebel trope in the black church and in b...

In Biocultural Creatures Samantha Frost brings feminist and political theory together with findin...

Winner, 2014 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social SciencesDespite Mumbai's position as Indi...

In her pioneering book Hard Core, Linda Williams put moving-image pornography on the map of conte...

Freedom Time reconsiders decolonization from the perspectives of Aimé Césaire (Martinique) and Lé...

In twenty essays on subjects such as noise, acoustics, music, and silence, Keywords in Sound pres...

Sa’ed Atshan and Katharina Galor draw on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews to explore the asy...

In What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet? Madina Tlostanova traces how contemporary post-Soviet art...

Shana L. Redmond is Professor of Musicology and African American Studies at the University of Cal...

An ethnography of the production of coffee from producer to consumer with emphasis on the effect ...

A consideration of the performance of Blackness and race in general, in relation to sexuality and...

In Hegemonic Mimicry, Kyung Hyun Kim considers the recent global success of Korean popular cultur...

In Intimate Eating Anita Mannur examines how notions of the culinary can create new forms of kins...

In Cistem Failure Marquis Bey meditates on the antagonistic relationship between blackness and ci...

In Cistem Failure Marquis Bey meditates on the antagonistic relationship between blackness and ci...

The contributors to Turning Archival trace the rise of 'the archive' as an object of historical d...

Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad is an expansive two-volume examination of social...

Daniel Ruiz-Serna examines how the devastation caused by war impacts nonhuman inhabitants in the ...

In Circuits of the Sacred Carlos Ulises Decena examines transnational black Latinx Caribbean immi...

One of the foremost intellectuals of his generation, French philosopher of science Michel Serres ...

In An Archive of Possibilities, anthropologist and surgeon Rachel Marie Niehuus explores possibil...

In Tendings, Nathan Snaza brings contemporary feminist and queer popular culture's resurging inte...

Throughout the twentieth century, even the harshest prison systems in the United States were rath...

For twenty years, Terry Bisson published a regular 'This Month in History' column in the science ...

In this collection of essays, lectures, and real-life stories, long-time antiracist facilitator M...

'In Art as Sanctuary, Michael D. Harris considers literal and metaphorical uses of sanctuary in t...

Selected Writings is a landmark two-volume set of writings by the transformational art curator Ok...

Selected Writings is a landmark two-volume set of writings by the transformational art curator Ok...

Selected Writings is a landmark two-volume set of writings by the transformational art curator Ok...

Selected Writings is a landmark two-volume set of writings by the transformational art curator Ok...

Literature: history and criticism

Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante examines the role of sound in Chilean and Mapuche cultural production a...

Modern Peru offers a sweeping account of Peru’s history from the wars of independence to the pres...

Ghassan Hage outlines what he calls Pierre Bourdieu's 'political economy of being'--how society d...

Diana Jean S. Martinez examines the US colonial project in the Philippines through the innovative...

Blending poetry and creative nonfiction, emotion and activist thinking, Eli Clare explores the pu...

Spanning the colonial and postcolonial years between 1937 and 1971, Senghor: Writings on Politics...