Search results for “[Subject: magic]”

• Author(s): Margaret J. Wiener • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & Social"Do you believe in magic?" This familiar question suggests magic is easily recognized but u...

• Author(s): Xueping Zhong • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Men's Studies - GeneralIn Masculinity Besieged? Xueping Zhong looks at Chinese literature and films produced during the 1980s to exa...

• Author(s): Jonathan Sterne • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: DisabilityIn Diminished Faculties Jonathan Sterne offers a sweeping cultural study and theorization of impairment. Drawing on his ...

• Author(s): Srila Roy • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesIn Changing the Subject Srila Roy maps the rapidly transforming terrain of gender and sexual politics in India under the ...

• Author(s): Sara Ahmed • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Free Will & DeterminismIn Willful Subjects Sara Ahmed explores willfulness as a charge often made by some against others. One histo...

• Author(s): Sanjay Seth • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: World - GeneralSubject Lessons offers a fascinating account of how western knowledge "traveled" to India, changed that which it encoun...

• Author(s): Stefan Jonsson • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: European - GeneralThis innovative study of the works of Robert Musil opens a new window on the history of modern identity in wester...

• Author(s): Aren Z. Aizura • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Gender StudiesThe first famous transgender person in the United States, Christine Jorgensen, traveled to Denmark for gender reassig...

• Author(s): Matthew D. O'Hara • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Latin America - South AmericaIn colonial Latin America, social identity did not correlate neatly with fixed categories of race a...

• Author(s): Abdul R. Janmohamed • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: American - African AmericanDuring the 1940s, in response to the charge that his writing was filled with violence, Richard Wrig...

• Author(s): Gaurav Desai • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialSubject to Colonialism provides a much needed revisionist perspective on the way twentieth-centur...

• Author(s): Slavoj Zizek • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Mind & BodyThe Cartesian cogito-the principle articulated by Descartes that "I think, therefore I am"-is often hailed as the prec...

• Author(s): Julietta Singh • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Comparative LiteratureJulietta Singh challenges the drive toward the mastery over self and others by showing how the forms of self-...