Shots in the Dark: Japan, Zen, and the West
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In the years after Wrold War II, Westerners and Japanese alike elevated Zen to the quintessence of...
The Crafting of the 10, 000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-century China
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The last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and destruction, saw major advances in...
Charles Ellis Johnson and the Erotic Mormon Image
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On September 25, 1890, the fourth Mormon prophet, Wilford Woodruff, publicly instructed his...
Cultures of International Exhibitions 1840-1940: Great Exhibitions in the Margins
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Beyond the great exhibitions, expositions universelles and world fairs in London, Paris or Chicago,...
In Search of a Lost Avant-Garde: An Anthropologist Investigates the Contemporary Art Museum
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In 2008, anthropologist Matti Bunzl was given rare access to observe the curatorial department of...
The Value of Labor: The Science of Commodification in Hungary, 1920-1956
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At the heart of today's fierce political anger over income inequality is a feature of capitalism...
Windows into the Soul: Surveillance and Society in an Age of High Technology
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We live in an age saturated with surveillance. Our personal and public lives are increasingly on...
Aristophanes and the Cloak of Comedy: Affect, Aesthetics, and the Canon
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The Greek playwright Aristophanes (active 427-386 BCE) is often portrayed as the poet who brought...
Dante and the Limits of the Law
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In Dante and the Limits of the Law, Justin Steinberg offers the first comprehensive study of the...
Sticky: 10th Anniversary Edition
Dale Lazarov and Steve MacIsaac
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"TimeOut Chicago" says "carnality and sweetness is exactly the right combination that makes Sticky a...