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Gazing at the Puerto Rican Anthropological Landscape: The “Natives” Look Far and Wide
Before World War II, most anthropological research in Puerto Rico was led by US anthropologists. The most famous project, The People of Puerto Rico, was directed by American anthropologist Julian Steward and launched the career ...
Sonic Detection: Necessary Notes for Arts and Performance
Sonic Detection is part sonic noir, part performance document, and part critical investigation of listening at the margins for readers interested in prospecting the boundaries of performance studies, sound studies, and interdisciplinary writing. The book opens ...
Kayfabe Nation: Professional Wrestling, Donald Trump, and the New Cynicism
What do a pudgy, orange autocrat, and pumped-up men in tights have in common? The connections, while profound, all rest on specific strategies employed by World Wrestling Entertainment during the early 2000s (known as WWE’s ...
Aesthetic Anthropology: Theory and Analysis of Pop and Conceptual Art in America
Forthcoming
In Aesthetic Anthropology, Marilyn Ekdahl Ravicz makes the case that anthropology — long focused on “primitive” art and non-Western ritual — possesses untapped theoretical resources for analyzing the art of contemporary Western societies. Drawing on ...