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Take Back What the Devil Stole
An African American Prophet’s Encounters in the Spirit World Onaje X. O. Woodbine
Ms. Donna Haskins is an African American woman who wrestles with structural inequity in the streets of Boston by inhabiting an alternate dimension she refers to as the “spirit realm.” Both ethnographic and personal, Onaje X. O. Woodbine’s portrait of her spiritual life sheds new light on the lived religion of the dispossessed.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19716-8 2022 272 pages 10 illus. Becoming Guanyin
Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China Yuhang Li
Yuhang Li examines how lay Buddhist women in late imperial China forged a connection with the subject of their devotion, arguing that women used their own bodies to echo that of Guanyin. She combines empirical research with theoretical insights from both art history and Buddhist studies.
30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19013-8 2022 312 pages
PREMODERN EAST ASIA: NEW HORIZONS
Shari’a Scripts
A Historical Anthropology Brinkley Messick
Sharī‘a Scripts is a work of historical anthropology focused on Yemen in the early twentieth century. Brinkley Messick uses the writings of the Yemeni past to offer a comprehensive view of the sharī‘a as a localized and lived phenomenon in a groundbreaking examination of the interpretative range and insights offered by the anthropologist as reader.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-17875-4 2022 536 pages 27 illus. Naming the Witch
Magic, Ideology, and Stereotype in the Ancient World Kimberly B. Stratton
Kimberly B. Stratton presents an innovative approach to understanding ancient depictions and accusations of magic as forms of discourse, examining their role in struggles to define legitimate power and authority. She traces “magic discourse” from Classical Greece to the Babylonian Talmud, illuminating powerful stereotypes of sorcery and witches.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-13837-6 2022 312 pages
