Examining the emergence of modernism from the fin-de-siècle primitivist project this volume shows how ethnographic materials shaped a variety of high and low discourses (ethnology, social theory, gend
European and American scholars of the several fields explore the cultural interface between aesthetic and psychological Modernism. Rather than adding to the many psychoanalytic readings of various fig
Merely by choosing the term "Arab Jew" in place of "Mizrahim," Shenhav (sociology and anthropology, Tel Aviv U., Israel) begins challenging what he calls "methodological Zionism"--the epistemological
Since the end of the Cold War, and particularly during the last fifteen years, the human need to amend immoral wrongs has been expressed in political discourse as a propensity to apologize for acts of
This volume reconsiders primitivism and modernism, emphasizing an earlier chronology than has been conventionally accepted and showing how ethnographic materials shaped a variety of high and low disco
Are the conflicts that accompany the growth of postcolonial ethnic, cultural, and religious diasporas undermining the political culture of first-world nations? AlterNatives explains why the hope of a
Group apology is a way "...to remove the past as an obstacle to productive and peaceful intergroup relations," state Barkan (history and cultural studies, Claremont Graduate U.) and Karn (doctoral can
