Based on field research conducted across more than twenty-five years around abandoned mines in South Africa, Unstable Ground reveals the worlds that gold made possible-and gold's profound costs for those…

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s 1988 essay Can the Subaltern Speak? introduced questions of gender and sexual difference into analyses of representation and offering a profound critique of both subaltern history and…

Scholars of Asia, most of whom are anthropologists, examine the transformations precipitated or accelerated by the spread of photography across East and Southeast Asia.

Jessie MacKinnon Hartzell arrived in Northern Thailand in 1912. She was awed by its beauty and became devoted to its people. This work casts light on colonialism, the Asia missions…

French-American sculptor Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911, settling in New York in 1938. She has played a vital role in contemporary art. This book provides an overview…