Heidegger’s relationship with Nazism has been debated since the 1930s. In the late 1930s, Georges Bataille wrote an incomplete text that would have added to these debates, “Critique of Heidegger: Critique of a philosophy of fascism.” I draw on this fragment and Bataille’s writin…
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In the early 1990s, authenticity become a buzzword in the heritage tourism industry as the characteristic that sets historic sites apart from other tourist attractions such as amusement parks. Scholars have examined–with much skepticism–sites such as Colonial Williamsburg and ot…
This dissertation represents an attempt to understand the self, what it is, what it means, and how it provides subjective identity. These concerns are situated within a personal narrative that describes the loss of self and its rediscovery subsequent to that loss. In critically …
"Caribbean Food Cultures" approaches the matter of food from the perspectives of anthropology, sociology, cultural and literary studies. Its strong interdisciplinary focus provides new insights into symbolic and material food practices beyond eating, drinking, cooking, or etique…
Murder is an act that challenges the social order and places in conflict the individual versus society. Traditional murder narratives consist of murders based on crimes of passion, acts of revenge, or calculated challenges to social moral codes. I examine the act of murder in th…
'Food Authenticity and Traceability' reviews the extent of new and established methods of food authentication, explores how such methods are applied in particular sectors of the food industry, and reviews the latest developments in traceability systems for differing food product…
"In eleven original chapters, the contributors to Lived Experience of Public Consumption take the experiences, practices and embodiments of everyday actors in public marketplaces as their points of departure. Drawing upon their work in commercial marketplaces - on the streets an…
This work explores musical aesthetics as a domain of contestation related to broader debates within Syria over cultural modernity. Drawing on extensive field research in Aleppo and Damascus between 1996 and 1998, I argue that the performance and reception of the "classical" urba…
This study examines sainthood in early modern Islamic societies as a site of contested authority. It focuses on a reform movement that operated within Sufi communities, with the figure of the Muslim saint as the prime agent of reform. This study offers a comparative analysis of …
This dissertation examines the politics of labor, gender, and heritage in Turkey's carpet industry, drawing on thirteen months of comparative, multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork among carpet weavers, manufacturers, designers, exporters, and tourists. The project contributes to t…
The authors list the five factors that most directly influence customer perceptions: the operational essence of the enterprise, the nature of its offerings, the effects of the organization's heritage, its sense of purpose and its demonstrable body of values.