Indiana University Press

You know the names and the stories, but you've never seen them like this before! My Name Was Never Frankenstein: And Other Classic Adventure Tales Reanimated brings your favorite characters back to...

"These essays, most of them in the tradition of anthropological study of folklore, expand the current boundaries of the discipline and provide additional case studies to a growing literature in...

What can the life writing of post-famine Irish immigrants tell us about Irish diasporic memory? Of Memory and the Misplaced draws from the writing of previously unknown immigrants to contest...

How were whites implicated in and shaped by apartheid culture and society, and how did they contribute to it? In Ordinary Whites in Apartheid Society, historian Neil Roos traces the lives of ordinary...

The 2004 Hungarian paprika ban -- The 2008 foie gras boycott -- The 2010 red mud spill -- Neoliberalism, molecularization, and the shift to governanceAuthor: Zsuzsa GillePublisher: Indiana University...

What can women's scholastic pursuits tell us about what building an Islamic state looks like for women who are loyal to its project? And what can an ethnographic study of women who are using Islamic...

In the West, Islam and Muslim life have been imagined as existing in an opposing state to popular culture?a frozen faith unable to engage with the dynamic way popular culture shifts over time, its...

In Queens of Afrobeat, the women of Afrobeat music? unique blend of jazz, soul, highlife, and West African rhythms?re finally given the recognition they deserve. This extensive study takes a...

In 1894, 18-year-old Rachel Kahn traveled from Russia to the U.S. for an arranged marriage to Abraham Calof. As North Dakota homesteaders, Rachel and Abraham carved out a life, enduring many...

This first ethnographic study of a folklife festival focuses on festival participants--the dancers, musicians, storytellers, and artisans at a public display of folk culture. These essays investigate...

Stories of cutting-edge production facilities, generous tax incentives, and lavish film festivals often dominate perceptions of film and digital media on the Arabian Peninsula, but there is a much...

Amid the bloody Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2021 and the escalating tensions across the Taiwan Strait, the geopolitical balance of power has changed significantly in a very short period. If...

Seeking shelter from the storm -- Refugeedom -- What happens when your country drowns? -- The crisis hits home : climate refugees in the United States -- Latin America : land of rain, land of thirst...

Since slavery, African and African American humor has baffled, intrigued, angered, and entertained the masses. Rolling is a collection centering Blackness in comedy, especially on television, and...

Saul Bellow: "I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer" offers a fresh and original perspective on the life and works of Saul Bellow, the Nobel Prize winner in Literature in 1976. Author Gerald Sorin...

Tracing multiple mobilities, entangled borders, microhistory and space, human and nonhuman actors, and the Royal Prussian Eastern Railroad, Jan Musekamp demonstrates how the Ostbahn transformed an...

In Limestone, Indiana, an obscure midwestern town that rarely appears on maps (cartographers tend to disagree on its location), peculiar things happen, often in the vicinity of a jack-of-all-trades...

Though the Omani sultanate's power ended in Tanzania more than 50 years ago, its imperial legacy persists today?as do its unique religious communities. Neither Sunni nor Shi'a, the Ibadhi Muslims of...

" . . . an impressive collection . . . this book marks a milestone in the study of labor an occupational songs." --Journal of American Folklore"This is an important contribution to Ameican history,...

Staging Tianxia explores the ancient Chinese vision of world order tianxia (all under heaven) by focusing on the historical, performative, and rhetorical processes of expressive arts and cultural...

Take funny music seriously! Though often dismissed as silly or derivative, funny music, Lily E. Hirsch argues, is incredibly creative and dynamic, serving multiple aims from the celebratory to the...

Wide-ranging and astutely argued, Talmud and Philosophy examines the intersections, partitions, and mutual illuminations and problematizations of Western philosophy and the Talmud. Among many...

We live in an age that demonstrates the powerful need for ethics in government. Democracy is a privilege that carries with it important responsibilities for the people and their representatives. As...

Enticing, heart wrenching, and darkly funny, the interconnected stories in The Artstars bring together an eclectic mix of artists as they grapple with economic realities and evolving expectations and...

Searching for gold in the American West was not for the faint of heart. To reach the fabled gold fields of California, prospectors penetrated the boundless high Sierras and the Rockies and crossed...

1. Back in print. (original copyright in 1972) 2. Tells how the US west was built by famous cattlemen, facing the challenges of early life in the west. 3. Reveals how this new industry transformed...

What happens when the stories we've been told fail us? In ten provocative and unsettling tales, Pedro Ponce grapples with the human instinct to create a narrative out of disparate experiences. The...

As the founder of the Occupational Safety and Health Act and the first woman faculty member of Harvard University, Alice Hamilton will be remembered for her contributions to public health and her...

After decades of abuse transforms the world into a toxic wasteland, people flee into the safety of a global network of domed cities. Within these safe, orderly spaces, the only animals allowed are...

The life of a scholar is stressful. The best way to muddle through is with a stiff drink. Balancing teaching, research, and service more than merits a cocktail at the end of a long day. So, sit back,...