Torah today

a renewed encounter with scripture

The great sirian Revolt

and the rise of arab nationalism

The Great Syrian Revolt of 1925 was the largest and longest-lasting anti-colonial insurgency in the inter-war Arab East. Mobilizing peasants, workers, and army veterans, rather than urban elites and nationalist intellectuals, it was the first mass movement against colonial rule in the Middle East. The ...

Fatal future?

transnational terrorism and the new global disorder

Examines the evolution of terrorism in the context of the new global disorder Categorizes three generations of terrorist organizations and shows how each arose in response to the global conditions of its time Discusses the terrorist race for weapons of mass destruction and the types ...

The mexican aristocracy

an expressive ethnography 1910-2000

Ancient Cuzco

heartland of the Inca

Death and the emperor

roman imperial funerary monuments from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius

Moche portraits from Ancient Peru

Anthropologists in the public sphere

speaking out on war, peace, and american power

Collects over fifty commentaries by noted anthropologists who seek to understand and explain the profound repercussions of U.S. involvement in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America Anthropologists go beyond the headlines to draw connections between indigenous cultures, corporate globalisation, and contemporary political ...

The Maya and Teotihuacan

reinterpreting early classic interaction

Mary, mother and warrior

the virgin in Spain and the Americas

Understanding the Chiapas rebellion

modernist visions and the invisible Indian

The Jewish life cycle

rites of passage from biblical to Modern times

Women's history in global perspective I

We came naked and barefoot

the journey of Cabeza de Vaca across North America

Perhaps no one has ever been such a survivor as Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Member of a 600-man expedition sent out from Spain to colonize "La Florida" in 1527, he survived a failed exploration of the west coast of Florida, an open-boat crossing of ...

Imagining identity in New Spain

race, lineage, and the colonial body in portraiture and casta painting

Defiance and deference in Mexico's colonial north

indians under spanish rule in Nueva Vizcaya

Signs of the Inka Khipu

binary coding in the andean knotted-string records

Carnival and other christian festivals

folk theology and folk performance

Butterflies will burn

prosecuting sodomites in Early Modern Spain and Mexico

The Twentieth-Century spanish american novel

Latin America in the 21st Century

challenges and solutions

Antiphon the Athenian

oratory, law, and justice in the age of the Sophists