Neither Donkey nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle Over China's Modernity
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Neither Donkey nor Horse tells the story of how Chinese medicine was transformed from the antithesis...
Nollywood: The Creation of Nigerian Film Genres
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Nigeria's Nollywood has rapidly grown into one of the world's largest film industries, radically...
Provisional Authority: Police, Order, and Security in India
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Policing as a global form is often fraught with excessive violence, corruption, and even...
To Care for Creation: The Emergence of the Religious Environmental Movement
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Controversial megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll proclaimed from a conference stage in 2013, "I know...
The Tango Machine: Musical Culture in the Age of Expediency
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In Argentina, tango isn't just the national music it's a national brand. But ask any contemporary...
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...