Illuminates Israeli history through a unique state-in-society approach, using the Israeli experience to ask how social scientists can better investigate and understand other societies. Three central themes are at the core of this analysis: state formation, society formation, and…
Illuminates Israeli history through a unique state-in-society approach, using the Israeli experience to ask how social scientists can better investigate and understand other societies. Three central themes are at the core of this analysis: state formation, society formation, and…
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by Carnes, Tony, Karpathakis, Anna
fromReligion, race, and ethnicity
Writer and artist Margie Crisp has traveled the length of Texas' Colorado River, which rises in Dawson County, south of Lubbock, and flows 860 miles southeast across the state to its mouth on the Gulf of Mexico at Matagorda Bay. Echoing the truth of Heraclitus's ancient dictum, …
In ICON, Moshe Barasch concentrates on historical arguments attacking and defending iconic representation in the early Christian world, from the period of Late Antiquity up to the great and classic defenses of images by St. John of Damascus and Theodore of Studion.
A vibrant portrait of a celebrated urban enclave at the turn of the twentieth century In the popular imagination, New York City's Greenwich Village has long been known as a center of bohemianism, home to avant-garde artists, political radicals, and other nonconformists who chall…
How two generations of preachers and parishioners created and sustained a religious tradition.
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"In recent years, the integrity of food production and distribution has become an issue of wide social concern. The media report frequently on cases of food contamination as well as on the risks of hormones and cloning. Journalists, documentary filmmakers, and activists have had…
"This brilliant and infuriating book is the latest intriguing offering from one of the most original anthropologists working ... It offers us unpredictable and illuminating interpretations of classical material."--Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
Provides a fully realized portrait of Mormon leader Brigham Young, a colossal figure in American religion, politics, and westward expansion.
"Do juries decide cases based on impermissible, or "lower hierarchy," emotions? Can judges be educated to recognize and train their compassion, hostility, revulsion, or fear toward various litigants or causes of action? Can emotion be barred from the legal arena?" "The Passions …
