The Transnational Construction of Mayanness

The Transnational Construction of MayannessThe Transnational Construction of Mayanness explores how US academics, travelers, officials, and capitalists contributed to the construction of the Maya as an area of academic knowledge and affected the lives of the Maya peoples who were the subject of generations of anthropological research from the mid nineteenth century to the present.

with the future of Hong Kong cinema now bound up with the mainland

we linger over the accounts of two figures associated with ancient Arabia in Muslim tradition: the Biblical Job

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This volume is richly illustrated with photos and sketches from the archives and museums hosting these objects

Totems for Defense and Illustration of Taboo: Sites of Petrarchism in Renaissance Europe is the eighth in a series of publications occasioned by the annual Bernardo Lecture at the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) at Binghamton University

the title alludes both to the historical

Featuring stunning detail

the book calls into question the very ways in which we do philosophy

This book deals primarily with the problem of the one and the many

The author also expands the role of reflective judgment in the development of a cosmopolitan discourse specifying duties supporting international institutions

centering on Brecht while adapting/critiquing Brechtian dramatic form

Invaluable source document for scholars in many disciplines