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CULTURAL STUDIES & ANTHROPOLOGY
Making Meaning with Queen Bey in Troubled Times Edited by Christina Baade and Kristin A. McGee
Essays investigating Beyoncé's global cultural impact. Beyoncé Knowles-Carter has redefined global stardom, feminism, Black representation, and celebrity activism. This book brings together new work from international scholars to explore Beyonce's impact as an artist and public figure from the perspectives of critical race studies, gender and women's studies, queer and cultural studies, music, and fan studies. Combining cutting edge research, vivid examples, and accessible writing, this collection provides multiple lenses onto the significance of Beyoncé around the world.
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MUSIC / CULTURE | WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS Hardback • 9780819579911 • July 2021 • £66.50 392 pages • 31 colour illus. | Paperback • 9780819579928 • £20.50
Impossible Domesticity
Travels in Mexico By Leila Gomez
Examines perceptions of Mexico from around the world during the 19th and 20th century. Travelers often perceive Mexico as a mythical place onto which they project their own cultures’ desires, fears, and anxieties. This project studies the images of Mexico and the ways they were contested by travellers of different national origins and professions from the 19th to the 21st centuries. It starts with Humboldt, the German naturalist whose fame sprang from his trip to Mexico, and ends with Bolaño, the Chilean novelist whose work defines Mexico as an "oasis of horror."
PITT ILLUMINATIONS | UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS Hardback • 9780822946915 • October 2021 • £39.50 264 pages
Romania Revisited
On the Trail of English Travellers, 1602–1941 By Alan Ogden
The definitive story of the journeys made by English travellers to Romania between 1602 and 1941. This volume interweaves the impressions of previous generations into a witty account of the author’s own journeys to Romania, providing readers with a comprehensive and perspicacious review of today's Romania. Although the chapters are arranged to follow his own route, the author successfully integrates earlier writers into his narrative by linking them to towns and places. Starting with the Transylvanian adventures of Captain John Smith in 1602, the bibliography is the most detailed inventory published of English travel writing on Romania.
CENTER FOR ROMANIAN STUDIES Paperback • 9781592111046 • September 2021 • £14.99 242 pages
Context for Understanding Edited by David Montgomery
This textbook offers the most comprehensive introduction to the region available. Central Asia is a diverse and complex region of the world often characterised in the West as being difficult to access. Combining thematic chapters with case studies, readers will learn to appreciate the interconnected aspects of life in Central Asia. These wide-ranging, easy-to-understand contributions from some of the leading scholars in the field provide the context needed to understand Central Asia and presents a launching-off point for further research.
CENTRAL EURASIA IN CONTEXT | UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS Hardback • 9780822946786 • October 2021 • £56.00 900 pages • 10 illus.
Edited by Amir Harrak
A refereed journal published annually by the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies. JCSSS focuses on the vast Syriac literature, which is rooted in the same soil from which the ancient Mesopotamian and biblical literatures sprung; on Syriac art that bears Near Eastern characteristics as well as Byzantine and Islamic influences; and on archaeology, unearthing in the Middle East and the rest of Asia and China the history of the Syriac-speaking people: Assyrians, Chaldeans, Maronites and Catholic and Orthodox Syriacs.
JOURNAL OF THE CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR SYRIAC STUDIES | GORGIAS PRESS Paperback • 9781463242626 • December 2020 • £56.00 119 pages
Arab and Jewish Women in Kentucky
Stories of Accommodation and Audacity By Nora Rose Moosnick
Reveals how Jewish and Arab women have navigated the intersection of tradition, assimilation, and Kentucky's cultural landscape. Outwardly it would appear that Arab and Jewish immigrants comprise two distinct groups with differing cultural backgrounds and an adversarial relationship. Yet, as immigrants who have settled in communities at a distance from metropolitan areas, both must negotiate complex identities. These stories of ten women's experiences as immigrants or the children of immigrants challenge misconceptions and overcome the invisibility of Arabs and Jews in out of the way places in America.
KENTUCKY REMEMBERED: AN ORAL HISTORY SERIES | UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY Paperback • 9780813154602 • November 2021 • £20.00 228 pages • 31 b/w illus.
By Farian Sabahi
Illustrates from a female standpoint the origins and contradictions of the Iranian capital. Originally written for the stage, this book showcases women who have played a leading role in various disciplines and sports but who all too often have simply become an element in the regime's propaganda. The volume presents a lively narrative with verses from the great Persian poets and a hefty dose of irony: as a way to laugh about complex issues and dismantle misleading stereotypes.
LITERATURE | MIMESIS INTERNATIONAL Paperback • 9788869773266 • September 2021 • £9.99 70 pages
The Middle East and India Edited by Dietmar Winkler
Focuses on a culture of co-existence in pluralistic societies in the Middle East and in India. Pro Oriente might not be able to contribute to immediate peace-making, which has to be a political task, but may contribute substantially to peacekeeping, to support a peaceful co-existence by developing ideas, prospects, and chances for peace. This volume reflects on achievements and developing perspectives and visions for the future in both theory and practice.
PRO ORIENTE STUDIES IN THE SYRIAC TRADITION | GORGIAS PRESS Hardback • 9781463242534 • January 2021 • £86.00 266 pages
Drowned Town
By Jayne Moore Waldrop
Explores the multigenerational impact caused by the loss of home. These linked stories are rooted in the impoundment of the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers and the taking of property under the power of eminent domain to create a national recreation area. The subsequent federal land and water projects were designed to serve the public interest by providing hydroelectric power, flood control, and economic progress, but at great sacrifice for those who gave up their homes, livelihoods, and history in the process.
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY Hardback • 9781950564156 • October 2021 • £19.00 218 pages
Edited by Sonali Gupta
A collection of articles from different perspectives on the Himalayas. The Journal of the Himalayan Institute of Cultural and Heritage Studies is an endeavour to include research-oriented articles on the Himalayas from different sections of academia which includes and is not limited to archaeology, anthropology, history, art history, geology, sociology, art, music, theatre, and law.
JOURNAL OF THE HIMALAYAN INSTITUTE OF CULTURAL AND HERITAGE STUDIES BLIKVELDUITGEVERS PUBLISHERS Paperback • 9789492940186 • November 2021 • £22.00 112 pages • colour illus.
African Dolls
A Private Collection By Jan Wychers and Jolanda Bos
An overview of a collection of African (fertility) dolls. This private collection of African dolls, sometimes spontaneously decorated with beadwork, are witnesses of people's hopes and beliefs. The book is richly illustrated with overviews and detailed photographs of the objects and, apart from a description of their history, also gives the reader a personal account of collecting these dolls single-handedly over a period of 45 years.
THE PRIVATE COLLECTION SERIES | BLIKVELDUITGEVERS PUBLISHERS Hardback • 9789492940162 • November 2021 • £27.00 144 pages • colour illus.
Wearables 01
Magazine on Wearable Heritage Edited by Jolanda Bos
Full colour magazine on traditional dress and jewellery. Wearables is an annual magazine edition, attractively illustrated, bringing together a variety of ethnographic topics on costume and jewellery traditions, placed in their cultural setting.
WEARABLES | BLIKVELDUITGEVERS PUBLISHERS Paperback • 9789492940179 • November 2021 • £20.00 64 pages • colour illus.
People and Landscape of County Clare
Edited by Peadar King and Anne Jones, Photographs by John Kelly
Beautifully designed testament to the artistic spirit of Ireland, including specially commissioned photographic interpretations by an award-winning photographer. With a particular emphasis on the role of landscape and environs, The Art of Place brings together 30 captivating personal stories by some of the most creative people in Ireland, who all live in or come from County Clare. Featured contributors include writers and visual artists, musicians and composers, sculptors and crafts people, photographers and filmmakers. Their compelling and deeply personal stories will resonate not only with people from the West of Ireland, but with people worldwide who are enthralled by the creative process.
THE LIFFEY PRESS Paperback • 9781838359393 • November 2021 • £30.00 Colour photos throughout
Mythical Ireland
New Light on the Ancient Past By Anthony Murphy
This book explores Irish mythology through archaeology, interpretive mythography, cosmology and cosmogony. In this revised and expanded edition, we follow a fascinating and engaging journey through time, landscape and the human spirit. Lavishly illustrated with exquisite photographs of the Irish landscape and ancient monuments, Mythical Ireland represents a personal and yet universal journey, a quest to reimagine the shrines as empowering and transformative sacred places.
LIFFEY PRESS Paperback • 9781838359331 • September 2021 • £27.95 350 pages • 160 colour illus.
Chasing Eden
A Book of Seekers By Howard Mansfield
A book on the multiplicity and universality of longing, and how this manifests in America. With his usual deep perception and humour, Howard Mansfield writes about "a small gathering of Americans" united by longing and devotion in their search for something perfect here on earth, a goal that is ever receding. Mansfield illuminates how this longing can be found in every era, and gives form and force to our lives in our pursuit of happiness – “the primary occupation of every American."
