New Book Tuesday! Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men; Just Like Us and more!
Our weekly list of new books is now available!
Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men
An Annotated Critical Selection from The Untouchables
B. R. Ambedkar. Edited and annotated by Alex George and S. Anand. With an introduction by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd.
B. R. Ambedkar spent his life battling Untouchability and instigating the end of the caste system. In his 1948 book The Untouchables, he sought to trace the origin of Untouchability. Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men is an annotated selection from this work, produced in a time when the oppression of and discrimination against Dalits remains pervasive.
From the Film and Culture Series series
Spaces Mapped and Monstrous
Digital 3D Cinema and Visual Culture
Nick Jones
Spaces Mapped and Monstrous explores the paradoxical nature of 3D cinema and its place in today’s visual landscape. Considering 3D’s distinctive visual qualities and its connections to wider digital culture, Nick Jones situates the production and exhibition of 3D cinema within a web of aesthetic, technological, and historical contexts.
Just Like Us
The American Struggle to Understand Foreigners
Thomas Borstelmann
Just Like Us is a pathbreaking exploration of what foreignness has meant across American history. Thomas Borstelmann traces American ambivalence about non-Americans, identifying a paradoxical perception of foreigners as suspiciously different yet fundamentally sharing American values at heart beneath the layers of culture.
Meals Matter
A Radical Economics Through Gastronomy
Michael Symons
In Meals Matter, Michael Symons returns economics to its roots in the distribution of food and the labor required. Setting the table with vivid descriptions of conviviality, he offers a gastronomic rebuttal to the narrow worldview of mainstream economics.
The Death of Idealism
Development and Anti-Politics in the Peace Corps
Meghan Elizabeth Kallman
Why do Peace Corps volunteers often return having lost their idealism? In The Death of Idealism, Meghan Elizabeth Kallman details the combination of social forces and organizational pressures that depoliticizes Peace Corps volunteers, channels their idealism toward professionalization, and leads to cynicism or disengagement.
From the Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism series
Brain Magnet
Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy
Alex Sayf Cummings
Alex Sayf Cummings reveals the significance of North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park to the emergence of the high-tech economy in a postindustrial United States. Brain Magnet pinpoints how it sheds new light on the origins of today’s urban landscape, in which innovation is lauded as the engine of economic growth against a backdrop of inequality.
From the Religion, Culture, and Public Life series
German, Jew, Muslim, Gay
The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus
Marc David Baer
Hugo Marcus (1880–1966) was a man of many names and many identities. In German, Jew, Muslim, Gay, Marc David Baer uses Marcus’s life and work to shed new light on a striking range of subjects, including German Jewish history and anti-Semitism, Islam in Europe, Muslim-Jewish relations, and the history of the gay rights struggle.
New In Paper!
The Buddha’s Wizards
Magic, Protection, and Healing in Burmese Buddhism
Thomas Nathan Patton
Belief in wizard-saints who protect their devotees and intervene in the world is widespread among Burmese Buddhists. The Buddha’s Wizards is a historically informed, ethnographic study that explores the supernatural landscape of Buddhism in Myanmar to explain the persistence of wizardry as a form of lived religion in the modern era.
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