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A collection of essays on Akkadian linguistics honoring the career of scholar John Huehnergard and covering topics including lexicon, morphology, word order, syntax, verbal semantics, and subgrouping.
Acoustic Creatures explores the phenomenon of human and animal acoustic entanglements in art and performance practices. Focusing on the work of artists that get into the spaces between species, Austin McQuinn discovers that sounding animality secures a vital connection to the creatural.
Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship
In this study of the relationship between men and their horses in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, Monica Mattfeld explores the experience of horsemanship and how it defined one's gendered and political positions within society.
Men of the period used horses to transform themselves, via the image of the centaur, into ......
Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship
Explores the history of horse-human relationships over the long eighteenth century, and how these relationships in turn influenced performances of gender. Examines the agential influence of horses in their riders’ lives, horses on stage and the early circus, and the politicization of human-animal being.
Romantic Anthropology and the Embodiment of Freedom
Examines the crisis of a late eighteenth-century anthropology as it relates to the emergence of a modern consciousness that sees itself as condemned to draw its norms and very self-understanding from itself.
Romantic Anthropology and the Embodiment of Freedom
Examines the crisis of a late eighteenth-century anthropology as it relates to the emergence of a modern consciousness that sees itself as condemned to draw its norms and very self-understanding from itself.
In 1965, striking farm workers in the San Joaquin Valley sparked the beginning of the Chican@ movement. As the movement quickly gained traction across the southwestern United States, public frictions emerged and splits among activists over strategic political decisions. Jose G. Izaguirre III explores how these disagreements often hinged on the ......
