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Youssef Belal
The Life of Shari'a

"Our lives are ruled by law. But what if law were life? What if it were the knowledge, the ordering of knowledges, necessary to live? Every law? Shari'a, Youssef Belal demonstrates, is in fragments, but t…

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Youssef Belal
The Life of Shari'a

"Our lives are ruled by law. But what if law were life? What if it were the knowledge, the ordering of knowledges, necessary to live? Every law? Shari'a, Youssef Belal demonstrates, is in fragments, but t…

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A Cultural History of Disability in Antiquity

Though there was not even a word for, or a concept of, disability in Antiquity, a considerable part of the population experienced physical or mental conditions that put them at a disadvantage. Drawing on …

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Angela Ju
Identities Matter

Higher-status immigrant communities in the Global South with ties to more developed countries might form identities and political strategies that reinforce an association with their heritage country rathe…

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El-Sayed El-Aswad
Religion and the Invisible World

A broad critical history of the transformation of religious thought in Egypt from ancient to modern periods When a civilization disappears, its heritage does not vanish. It survives in different potentia…

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Bodies, Spaces, Claims

This book asserts that there is no political representation without performance. When politicians, protesters, or politically engaged entertainers appear in public, they make or constitute political repre…

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Giorgio Scalici
Pain, Play and Music

"This book explores how the Wana people use music and religion to control their emotions in situations of emotional crisis, such as funerals and shamanic rituals"--

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The Oxford Handbook of Illiberalism

From the rise of populist leaders and the threat of democratic backsliding to polarizing culture wars and the return of great power competition, the backlash against the political, economic, and social li…

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Giovanna Parmigiani
The Spider Dance

Based on ethnographic research among contemporary Pagan communities in Southern Italy (Salento, Apulia), The Spider Dance challenges (uni)linear ideas and experiences of time and temporality by showing th…

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A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century

The long 19th century-stretching from the start of the American Revolution in 1776 to the end of World War I in 1918-was a pivotal period in the history of disability for the Western world and the culture…

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A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age

If eugenics -- the science of eliminating kinds of undesirable human beings from the species record -- came to overdetermine the late 19th century in relation to disability, the 20th century may be best c…

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A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Eighteenth Century

18th century philosopher Edmund Burke wrote, 'deformity is opposed, not to beauty, but to the complete, common form. If one of the legs of a man be found shorter than the other, the man is deformed; becau…

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A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance

In Renaissance humanism, difference was understood through a variety of paradigms that rendered particular kinds of bodies and minds disabled. A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance, covering…

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A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages

The Middle Ages was an era of dynamic social transformation, and notions of disability in medieval culture reflected how norms and forms of embodiment interacted with gender, class, and race, among other …

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Language, History, Ideology

This volume explores the ways in which historical linguistics and language change interact with ideology. The chapters present twelve in-depth case studies that cover topics ranging from the location of t…

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Thomas J Barfield
Shadow Empires

An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times The world’s first great empires established by the ancient Persians, Chinese, and Romans are well known,…

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The Medieval Mediterranean Between Islam and Christianity

"This volume offers an exploration of the Christian-Islamic encounter in a pan-Mediterranean context, through an array of new research papers based on micro-historical case studies of the religious arts, …

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More Than Blue, More Than Yankee

"New England politics can, at first blush, appear monochromatic. After all, only one member of the entire region's current delegation to the US Congress is a Republican; in contrast, only two states in th…

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More Than Blue, More Than Yankee

"New England politics can, at first blush, appear monochromatic. After all, only one member of the entire region's current delegation to the US Congress is a Republican; in contrast, only two states in th…

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Literature as Sound Studies

Identifies literature as a site of sonic invention and reconfiguration, contributing a range of terms, models, and methods for attending to sound.

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