...Four Epilogues<subtitle>Anything Else Would Have Tasted Like Ashes / Cuatro Epílogos: Para Que La Vida No Tuviese Sabor a Cenizas</subtitle> ...

... sexuality and disability. The first is “Don’t wake the sleeping bear”; i.e. don’t do anything (such as provide information or help) that might arouse a sexuality that seems dormant or absent. The second is “If I haven’t done anything, at least I haven’t done anything wrong.” These two expressions summarize...

... This is a collaboratively written chapter in which contributors to the volume explore their own relationship to the practice of writing and the long-standing disinclination of anthropologists and other academics to engage with language as anything more than a means of conveying information...

... The conclusion presents the book’s overall argument that Gramsci’s nuanced and anything but economistic understanding of class provides a useful starting-point, although never a simple template, for those trying to imagine how radical change might come about in our grossly unequal, twenty-first...

... Classic Pintupi Water Dreaming was painted in 1972 by Shorty Lungkarta Tjungurrayi on a discarded piece of composition board, a distorted rectangle in shape. At that time, the painters would use anything they could lay their hands on as a support. The painting’s structure inventively...

... swung. This was one of many ways in which Horace followed the example of Duke Ellington. In a harmonic sense, except for the free/avant-garde playing/arranging, I don't believe you will find anything in Horace's music that you would not find in the music of Duke Ellington. The Sound...

.... Taking the Irish traditional music session as a case study, it argues that, while some Irish traditional music today can be understood as a commodity, most of the music exists in another regime of value, in which it is sociality that matters to participants more than anything else. This conception...

... and consumerism, his work refuses such easy pigeonholing. It is not “proto” anything. To grasp what is distinctive about Katz’s work, it is necessary to recognize that his use of photography and cinema paradoxically freed his paintings from considerations of reproduction. Rather than tying the image...

... This chapter gives a bottom-up cosmology, identifying the component parts of the cosmos: after Leibniz, monads, or embodied souls. Marks defines soul nontranscendentally, as anything that is bounded and therefore alive, and suggests that the cosmos, and all entities, consists of ensouled matter...

... This chapter examines how traditional musical notation privileges certain aspects of sounds and sonic experience, placing greatest emphasis on pitch, followed by duration and intensity, and lastly timbre, a catchall category for anything not covered in the other categories and what are generally...

... and intercultural frisson. At this generational and cultural crossroads, the Afro-Atlantic priests are anything but the exemplars of unawareness, projection, and befuddlement that the theorists of the fetish have made them into. To Marx, fetishism was the false transfer of agency from people to commodities...

... changing China, in which the promises of China’s education system, and its labor regimes, are anything but certain. migrant education documentary film ethics representation futurity ...