...Caroline Walker Bynum Aviad Kleinberg, Flesh Made Word: Saints' Stories and the Western Imagination , trans. Jane Marie Todd (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008), 352 pp. Duke University Press 2009 Little Reviews Aviad Kleinberg, Flesh Made Word: Saints...

...Douglas Mao Angela Leighton, On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 288 pp. Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Thomas Laird, The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama (New York...

...George Bornstein Foster R. F. , Words Alone: Yeats and His Inheritances ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2011 ), 236 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Robin Fox, The Tribal Imagination...

... UNFINISHED BUSINESS WHEN METAPHYSICAL WORDS BLOSSOM Pierre and Hélène Clastres on Guarani Thought Renato Sztutman Translated by Julia Frajtag Sauma This essay is about neither the Guarani people nor the work of Pierre and Hélène Clastres. Rather, it concerns the nature...

...Miguel Tamen Morson Gary Saul , The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture . ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2011 ), 352 pp. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

... students requested the use of “trigger warnings” before the utterance of words like rape . The instructor and her teaching assistant Katharine Wallerstein individually give their views of this disconcerting experience and comment on the difficulties of teaching critical thinking in the current political...

...Miguel Tamen Bromwich David , How Words Make Things Happen ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2019 ), 113 pp. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 Li tt le R ev ie w s 4 3 7nity, gentleness, and beauty of animals that have been deemed irrelevant and dis- posable...

...David Bellos [email protected] Richard Scholar , Émigrés: French Words That Turned English ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2020 ), 253 pp. Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Etymologies are often entertaining, but it is not always obvious...

...Marina Vanzolini Kopenawa Davi and Albert Bruce , The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman , trans. Elliot Nicholas and Dundy Alison . ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2013 ), 648 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...

...Anthony Pagden Subrahmanyam Sanjay , Europe’s India: Words, People, Empires, 1500 – 1800 ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2017 ), 416 pp. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 ...

...Anna Wierzbicka This essay argues that, since Kant wrote in German and since German has no word for “right” corresponding in meaning to the English word, it is a case of conceptual anglocentrism to say, as many anglophone philosophers do, that Kant reformulated the foundations of ethics...

...Paul Cartledge Abstract As part of the Common Knowledge symposium “Antipolitics” — which concerns the present confrontation and confusion of democracy and populism — this essay begins from the observation that populism is a word of Latin, not Greek, derivation. The Roman populus did not have...

...Christopher S. Wood “ Dromenon ” was and is the rubric governing the fourth and final floor of Aby Warburg's Library. The word means “the thing done,” “the action,” and in the context of the Greek Mysteries referred to rites, as opposed to words and images. In the Warburg Library in London...

... deadlocks that Smith so elegantly helps put to rest (relativists vs. positivists, etc.); namely, a manner of debate in which a generalized relativity of thinking, including the relativity of that thought itself, would make a merit of academic opposition at all levels. This piece suggests, in other words...

...,” self-evident information that is a statement rather than a stage direction. On other occasions, songs are missing from the text altogether, leaving a stranded heading, “Song,” though no words are supplied at all. This article asks why it is that songs have a different story from their surrounding...

... position and an older relativism, a difference that shields the former from the classic “self-refutation charge.” But this controlled asymmetry in turn raises the question of how we are to identify which visions we as anthropologists ought to take seriously and which we ought not to: where, in other words...

..., wool , and fudge ), he reserves the word blur for the kind that results from de-differentiating objects or qualities or states of affairs whose differences have been overstated. To refine what blur is and is not, he compares kinds of unclarity found in images by Giotto, Rubens, Hokusai, Kunitora, Manet...

... when Christianity was the default position of religious discourse, and now largely obsolete. It is best to retain the word pagan but to concede that it is merely a pis aller . © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Symposium: Fuzzy Studies, Part 2...

... speaker sympathizes perhaps unconsciously). Enlightenment, in other words, is not as it appears to be, for rationalists too insist on their caprice. Hyperrationality, it is argued, can be a form of madness, a mania over clarity, distinctions, rules, principles, and unquestionable truths. Examples from...

... through serious crises and even where preservation entails substantial loss. By taking the word culture to refer to any group of individuals who closely cooperate over an extended period, this article evaluates mathematicians and mathematics as its main example. The assessment of the enterprise...