Author: Ida Pruitt
Publisher: Stanford University Pre
Keywords: working, woman, chinese, autobiography, han, daughter
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1945-06-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0804706069
ISBN-13: 9780804706063

Author: Arthur Gree
Publisher: Stanford University Pre
Keywords: zohar, guide
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2003-12-11
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0804749086
ISBN-13: 9780804749084

The Zohar is the great medieval compendium of Jewish esoteric and mystical teaching, and the basis of the kabbalistic faith. It is, however, a notoriously difficult text, full of hidden codes, concealed meanings, obscure symbols, and ecstatic expression. This illuminating study, based upon the last several decades of modern Zohar scholarship, unravels the historical and intellectual origins of this rich text and provides an excellent introduction to its themes, complex symbolism, narrative structure, and language. A Guide to the Zohar is thus an invaluable companion to the Zohar itself, as wel

Author: Paul Fleming
Publisher: Stanford University Pre
Keywords: tragedy, realism, bourgeois, average, mediocrity, art, exemplarity
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-12-11
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0804758905
ISBN-13: 9780804758901

Following Hegel’s analysis of art’s increasing difficulty to both engage and extricate itself from prosaic reality, Paul Fleming investigates the strategies employed by German literature from 1750 to 1850 for increasingly attuning itself to quotidian life—common heroes, everyday life, non-extraordinary events—while also avoiding all notions of mediocrity. He focuses on three sites of this tension: the average audience (Lessing), the average artist (Goethe and Schiller), and the everyday, or average life (Grillparzer and Stifter). The book’s title, Exemplarity and Mediocri

Author: Pierre Bourdieu et al.
Publisher: Stanford University Pre
Keywords: art, brow, middle, photography
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1996-03-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0804726892
ISBN-13: 9780804726894

The everyday practice of photography by millions of amateur photographers may seem to be a spontaneous and highly personal activity. But France’s leading sociologist and cultural theorist shows that few cultural activities are more structured and systematic than photography.

Authors:Jean-Loup Amselle,  Claudia Royal,
Publisher: Stanford University Pre
Keywords: mestizo, spaces, espaces, metisses, elsewhere, africa, logics, anthropology, identity
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1998-02-01
List price: $57.95
ISBN-10: 0804724296
ISBN-13: 9780804724296

This innovative work seeks to reverse the perspective and reasoning of anthropology and to develop an alternative mode of conceiving culture that would not automatically privilege the colonizing West. That necessarily involves a critique of the “ethnological reason” that extracts elements from their context, aestheticizes them, and then uses their supposed differences to classify types of political, economic, or religious ensembles. Such “reason” yields classical oppositions like the State versus segmentary societies, market versus subsistence economies, and Islam or Christianity versu

Authors:Pierre Bourdieu et al.,  Richard Nice,
Publisher: Stanford University Pre
Keywords: practice, logic
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 1992-08-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0804720118
ISBN-13: 9780804720113

Our usual representations of the opposition between the “civilized” and the “primitive” derive from willfully ignoring the relationship of distance our social science sets up between the observer and the observed. In fact, the author argues, the relationship between the anthropologist and his object of study is a particular instance of the relationship between knowing and doing, interpreting and using, symbolic mastery and practical mastery—or between logical logic, armed with all the accumulated instruments of objectification, and the universally pre-logical logic of

Author: Ranjana Khanna
Publisher: Stanford University Pre
Keywords: present, cultural, memory, representation, cuts, women, algeria
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2007-11-01
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0804752613
ISBN-13: 9780804752619

Algeria Cuts discusses the figure of woman, both under colonial rule in Algeria and within the postcolonial independent nation-state. It is an interdisciplinary project that spans fine art, film, colonial and legal policy, manifestos, prose fiction, and theoretical and philosophical texts concerning the relationship between France and Algeria. Khanna investigates gendered representation, identification, and justice, and in the process, calls into question the ways in which conventional disciplinary frameworks foreclose certain avenues of reflection while foregrounding others. Algeria Cuts seek