Forthcoming Titles
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 ...
Works for Works, Book 2: “No Rights”
Works for Works, Book 2: “No Rights,” privileges works-based agency (praxis) in literary-artistic scholarship. The principal focus of the Franciscan-inspired embrace of a “no rights” status for works of literary-artistic scholarship is toward freeing both ...
Red Lives: Our Years in the US Communist Party (1950–2000), Vol. 1: Coming of Age in the Communist and Labor Movements
Red Lives: Our Years in the US Communist Party (1950–2000) is the first collection of historical analyses and reminiscences by members of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and the Communist youth movement in the US ...