New Books Network

Kristin D. Phillips, “An Ethnography of Hunger: Politics, Subsistence, and the Unpredictable Grace of the Sun” (Indiana UP, 2018)

Kristin D. Phillips
An Ethnography of Hunger
Politics, Subsistence, and the Unpredictable Grace of the Sun
Indiana University Press, 2018

New Books in African Studies New Books in Anthropology New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Environmental Studies New Books in Food New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Sociology New Books Network May 9, 2019 Paul Bjerk

Families in parts of rural Tanzania regularly face periods when they cut back on their meals because their own food stocks are running short and they cannot afford to buy food. Kristin D. Phillips‘ new book An Ethnography of Hunger: Politics, Subsistence, and the Unpredictable Grace of the Sun (Indiana... Read More

Jane Caple, “Morality and Monastic Revival in Post-Mao Tibet” (U Hawaii Press, 2019)

Jane Caple
Morality and Monastic Revival in Post-Mao Tibet

University of Hawaii Press, 2019

New Books in Buddhist Studies New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network May 9, 2019 Alex Carroll

In this podcast, I speak with Prof. Jane Caple about her recently published book, Morality and Monastic Revival in Post-Mao Tibet (University of Hawaii Press, 2019). The revival of mass monasticism in Tibet in the early 1980s is one of the most extraordinary examples of religious resurgence in post-Mao China.... Read More

Nicholas Baer et al. “Unwatchable” (Rutgers UP, 2019)

Nicholas Baer, Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, and Gunnar Iversen, eds.
Unwatchable

Rutgers University Press, 2019

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Communications New Books in Film New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Popular Culture New Books Network May 9, 2019 Joel Tscherne

We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. Yet what does it mean to proclaim something “unwatchable”: disturbing, revolting, poor, tedious, or literally inaccessible? With over 50 original essays by leading scholars, artists, critics, and curators, this is the first book to... Read More

Dirk Jongkind
The Greek New Testament
Produced at Tyndale House
Crossway, 2017

New Books in Biblical Studies New Books in Christian Studies New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network May 9, 2019 Crawford Gribben

Dirk Jongkind is Senior Research Fellow in New Testament Text and Language, Tyndale House, University of Cambridge, and the editor of one of the most exciting projects in modern New Testament criticism. The Greek New Testament (Crossway, 2017), which he edited, and which has been co-published by Cambridge University Press... Read More

Karin Rosemblatt, “The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950” (UNC Press, 2018)

Karin Rosemblatt
The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950

University of North Carolina Press, 2018

New Books in American Studies New Books in History New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Science, Technology, and Society New Books Network May 9, 2019 Jesse Zarley

Karin Rosemblatt’s new book, The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910–1950 (University of North Carolina Press, 2018), traces how U.S.- and Mexican-trained intellectuals, social and human scientists, and anthropologists applied their ethnographic field work on indigenous and Native American peoples on both sides of... Read More

John Givens, “The Image of Christ in Russian Literature: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pasternak” (Northern Illinois UP, 2018)

John Givens
The Image of Christ in Russian Literature
Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pasternak
Northern Illinois University Press, 2018

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Christian Studies New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies New Books Network May 8, 2019 Aaron Weinacht

In The Image of Christ in Russian Literature: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pasternak (Northern Illinois University Press, 2018), Dr. John Givens of the University of Rochester discusses classics of Russian literature such as The Brothers Karamazov and Dr. Zhivago, as well as texts of less renown to English-speaking audiences, such as... Read More