Product List
GET /services/catalog/products?format=api&page=78130
{ "links": { "first": "https://redshelf.com/services/catalog/products?format=api&page=1", "last": "https://redshelf.com/services/catalog/products?format=api&page=78369", "next": "https://redshelf.com/services/catalog/products?format=api&page=78131", "prev": "https://redshelf.com/services/catalog/products?format=api&page=78129" }, "data": [ { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000042872", "attributes": { "name": "Best of the West 2011", "subtitle": "New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri", "description": "", "author": null, "slug": "best-of-the-west-2011-42872-9780292742215", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9780292742215.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "42872", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/42872/best-of-the-west-2011-42872-9780292742215", "bisac_codes": [ "FIC003000" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780292728790", "EISBN13": "9780292742215" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010000051982" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000042871", "attributes": { "name": "Muslim Reformers in Iran and Turkey", "subtitle": "The Paradox of Moderation", "description": "Moderation theory describes the process through which radical political actors develop commitments to electoral competition, political pluralism, human rights, and rule of law and come to prefer negotiation, reconciliation, and electoral politics over provocation, confrontation, and contentious action. Revisiting this theory through an examination of two of the most prominent moderate Islamic political forces in recent history, Muslim Reformers in Iran and Turkey analyzes the gains made and methods implemented by the Reform Front in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Justice and Development Party in Turkey. Both of these groups represent Muslim reformers who came into continual conflict with unelected adversaries who attempted to block their reformist agendas. Based on extensive field research in both locales, Muslim Reformers in Iran and Turkey argues that behavioral moderation as practiced by these groups may actually inhibit democratic progress. Political scientist Gunes Murat Tezcur observes that the ability to implement conciliatory tactics, organize electoral parties, and make political compromises impeded democracy when pursued by the Reform Front and the Justice and Development Party. Challenging conventional wisdom, Tezcur's findings have broad implications for the dynamics of democratic progress.", "author": "Günes Murat Tezcür", "slug": "muslim-reformers-in-iran-and-turkey-42871-9780292773639-gunes-murat-tezcur", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9780292773639.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "42871", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/42871/muslim-reformers-in-iran-and-turkey-42871-9780292773639-gunes-murat-tezcur", "bisac_codes": [ "HIS026000", "SOC048000" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780292721975", "EISBN13": "9780292773639" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023725767" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000042870", "attributes": { "name": "Texas Monthly On . . .", "subtitle": "Texas Women", "description": "Since 1973, Texas Monthly has spotlighted hundreds of Texans who, for better or worse, make this state like no place else. TEXAS MONTHLY On . . . Texas Women profiles thirteen women who are not only fascinating in their own right, but also representative of the legions of women who have contributed to the character and uniqueness of Texas. They range from First Ladies Laura Bush and Lady Bird Johnson to pop culture icons such as Candy Barr and Janis Joplinand all of them exemplify the qualities that make Texas women distinctive. The women's profiles originally appeared as articles in the magazine, authored by some of Texas Monthly's notable writersCecilia Balli, Gary Cartwright, Paul Burka, Mimi Swartz, Jan Jarboe Russell, Skip Hollandsworth, Robert Draper, William Broyles Jr., Jan Reid, Joe Nick Patoski, Pamela Colloff, and Helen Thorpe. The writers also introduce their pieces with headnotes that update the stories or, in some cases, tell the story behind the story. TEXAS MONTHLY On . . . Texas Women is the first in a series of books in which the editors of Texas Monthly will offer the magazine's inimitable perspective on various aspects of Texas culture, including food, politics, travel, and music, among other topics.", "author": "editors of Texas Monthly, Evan Smith", "slug": "texas-monthly-on-42870-9780292773608-editors-of-texas-monthly", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9780292773608.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "42870", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/42870/texas-monthly-on-42870-9780292773608-editors-of-texas-monthly", "bisac_codes": [ "BIO022000", "HIS036010" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780292713277", "EISBN13": "9780292773608" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023724387" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000042869", "attributes": { "name": "Costume and History in Highland Ecuador", "subtitle": "", "description": "The traditional costumes worn by people in the Andeswomen's woolen skirts, men's ponchos, woven belts, and white felt hatsinstantly identify them as natives of the region and serve as revealing markers of ethnicity, social class, gender, age, and so on. Because costume expresses so much, scholars study it to learn how the indigenous people of the Andes have identified themselves over time, as well as how others have identified and influenced them. Costume and History in Highland Ecuador assembles for the first time for any Andean country the evidence for indigenous costume from the entire chronological range of prehistory and history. The contributors glean a remarkable amount of information from pre-Hispanic ceramics and textile tools, archaeological textiles from the Inca empire in Peru, written accounts from the colonial period, nineteenth-century European-style pictorial representations, and twentieth-century textiles in museum collections. Their findings reveal that several garments introduced by the Incas, including men's tunics and women's wrapped dresses, shawls, and belts, had a remarkable longevity. They also demonstrate that the hybrid poncho from Chile and the rebozo from Mexico diffused in South America during the colonial period, and that the development of the rebozo in particular was more interesting and complex than has previously been suggested. The adoption of Spanish garments such as the pollera (skirt) and man's shirt were also less straightforward and of more recent vintage than might be expected.", "author": "Ann Pollard Rowe, Lynn A. Meisch, Ann Pollard Rowe", "slug": "costume-and-history-in-highland-ecuador-42869-9780292749856-ann-pollard-rowe-lynn-a-meisch", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9780292749856.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "42869", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/42869/costume-and-history-in-highland-ecuador-42869-9780292749856-ann-pollard-rowe-lynn-a-meisch", "bisac_codes": [ "SOC002010", "DES005000" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780292725911", "EISBN13": "9780292749856" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023725077" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000042868", "attributes": { "name": "Desert Passions", "subtitle": "Orientalism and Romance Novels", "description": "The SheikE. M. Hulls best-selling novel that became a wildly popular film starring Rudolph Valentinokindled sheik fever across the Western world in the 1920s. A craze for all things romantically Oriental swept through fashion, film, and literature, spawning imitations and parodies without number. While that fervor has largely subsided, tales of passion between Western women and Arab men continue to enthrall readers of todays mass-market romance novels. In this groundbreaking cultural history, Hsu-Ming Teo traces the literary lineage of these desert romances and historical bodice rippers from the twelfth to the twenty-first century and explores the gendered cultural and political purposes that they have served at various historical moments. Drawing on high literature, erotica, and popular romance fiction and films, Teo examines the changing meanings of Orientalist tropes such as crusades and conversion, abduction by Barbary pirates, sexual slavery, the fear of renegades, the Oriental despot and his harem, the figure of the powerful Western concubine, and fantasies of escape from the harem. She analyzes the impact of imperialism, decolonization, sexual liberation, feminism, and American involvement in the Middle East on womens Orientalist fiction. Teo suggests that the rise of female-authored romance novels dramatically transformed the nature of Orientalism because it feminized the discourse; made white women central as producers, consumers, and imagined actors; and revised, reversed, or collapsed the binaries inherent in traditional analyses of Orientalism.", "author": "Hsu-Ming Teo", "slug": "desert-passions-42868-9780292739406-hsu-ming-teo", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9780292739406.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "42868", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/42868/desert-passions-42868-9780292739406-hsu-ming-teo", "bisac_codes": [ "LIT004180" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780292739383", "EISBN13": "9780292739406" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023724112" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000042867", "attributes": { "name": "Texas Monthly On . . .", "subtitle": "Food", "description": "From reviews of the newest, hippest restaurants in cities across Texas to stories about the comfort foods we all love, Texans have long relied on Texas Monthly to dish up some of the best writing about food in the Lone Star state. This anthology brings together twenty-eight classic articles about food in Texas and the culture that surrounds itmarkets that purvey exotic and traditional foods, well-known chefs, tributes to the cooks and cookbooks of days gone by, and even a feature on how to open a restaurant. Many of the articles are by Patricia Sharpe, Texas Monthly's longtime restaurant critic and winner of the James Beard Journalism Award for Magazine Feature Writing without Recipes. Joining her are Texas Monthly editor Evan Smith and contributors Gary Cartwright, Jordan MacKay, Skip Hollandsworth, Pamela Colloff, Anne Dingus, Suzy Banks, Joe Nick Patoski, and Prudence Mackintosh.", "author": "Evan Smith, editors of Texas Monthly", "slug": "texas-monthly-on-42867-9780292773622", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9780292773622.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "42867", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/42867/texas-monthly-on-42867-9780292773622", "bisac_codes": [ "CKB030000", "TRV025100" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780292718449", "EISBN13": "9780292773622" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023725756" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000042865", "attributes": { "name": "Automotive Prosthetic", "subtitle": "Technological Mediation and the Car in Conceptual Art", "description": "In the twenty-first century, we are continually confronted with the existential side of technologythe relationships between identity and the mechanizations that have become extensions of the self. Focusing on one of humanitys most ubiquitous machines, Automotive Prosthetic: Technological Mediation and the Car in Conceptual Art combines critical theory and new media theory to form the first philosophical analysis of the car within works of conceptual art. These works are broadly defined to encompass a wide range of creative expressions, particularly in car-based conceptual art by both older, established artists and younger, emerging artists, including Ed Ruscha, Martha Rosler, Richard Prince, Sylvie Fleury, Yael Bartana, Jeremy Deller, and Jonathan Schipper. At its core, the book offers an alternative formation of conceptual art understood according to technology, the body moving through space, and what art historian, curator, and artist Jack Burnham calls relations. This thought-provoking study illuminates the ways in which the automobile becomes a naturalized extension of the human body, incarnating new forms of car art and spurring a technological reframing of conceptual art. Steeped in a sophisticated take on the image and semiotics of the car, the chapters probe the politics of materialism as well as high/low debates about taste, culture, and art. The result is a highly innovative approach to contemporary intersections of art and technology.", "author": "Charissa N. Terranova", "slug": "automotive-prosthetic-42865-9780292754515-charissa-n-terranova", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9780292754515.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "42865", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/42865/automotive-prosthetic-42865-9780292754515-charissa-n-terranova", "bisac_codes": [ "ART015110" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780292754041", "EISBN13": "9780292754515" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023723992" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000042864", "attributes": { "name": "Texas Furniture, Volume Two", "subtitle": "The Cabinetmakers and Their Work, 18401880", "description": "The art of furniture making flourished in Texas during the mid-nineteenth century. To document this rich heritage of locally made furniture, Miss Ima Hogg, the well-known philanthropist and collector of American decorative arts, enlisted Lonn Taylor and David B. Warren to research early Texas furniture and its makers. After more than a decade of investigation, they published Texas Furniture in 1975, and it quickly became the authoritative reference on this subject. An updated edition, Texas Furniture, Volume One, was issued in the spring of 2012. Texas Furniture, Volume Two presents over 150 additional pieces of furniture that were not included in Volume One, each superbly photographed in color and accompanied by detailed descriptions of the pieces maker, date, materials, measurements, history, and owner, as well as an analysis by the authors. Taylor and Warren have also written a new introduction for this volume, in which they amplify the story of early Texas furniture. In particular, they compare and contrast the two important traditions of cabinetmaking in Texas, Anglo-American and German, and identify previously unknown artisans. The authors also discuss nineteenth-century Texans desire for refinement and gentility in furniture, non-commercial furniture making, and marquetry work. And they pay tribute to the twentieth-century collectors who first recognized the value of locally made Texas furniture and worked to preserve it. A checklist of Texas cabinetmakers, which contains biographical information on approximately nine hundred men who made furniture in Texas, completes the volume.", "author": "Lonn Taylor, David B. Warren, Don Carleton", "slug": "texas-furniture-volume-two-42864-9780292745810-lonn-taylor-david-b-warren", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9780292745810.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "42864", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/42864/texas-furniture-volume-two-42864-9780292745810-lonn-taylor-david-b-warren", "bisac_codes": [ "ANT017000" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780292739420", "EISBN13": "9780292745810" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023724817" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000042863", "attributes": { "name": "Texas Furniture, Volume One", "subtitle": "The Cabinetmakers and Their Work, 1840-1880, Revised edition", "description": "The art of furniture making flourished in Texas during the mid-nineteenth century. To document this rich heritage of locally made furniture, Miss Ima Hogg, the well-known philanthropist and collector of American decorative arts, enlisted Lonn Taylor and David B. Warren to research early Texas Furniture and its makers. They spent more than a decade working with museums and private collectors throughout the state to examine and photograph representative examples. They also combed census records, newspapers, and archives for information about cabinetmakers. These efforts resulted in the 1975 publication of Texas Furniture, which quickly became the authoritative reference on this subject. Now updated with an expanded Index of Texas Cabinetmakers that includes information that has come to light since the original publication and corrects errors, Texas Furniture presents a catalog of more than two hundred pieces of furniture, each superbly photographed and accompanied by detailed descriptions of the pieces maker, date, materials, measurements, history, and owner, as well as an analysis by the authors. The book also includes chapters on the material culture of nineteenth-century Texas and on the tools and techniques of nineteenth-century Texas cabinetmakers, with a special emphasis on the German immigrant cabinetmakers of the Hill Country and Central Texas. The index of Texas cabinetmakers contains biographical information on approximately nine hundred men who made furniture in Texas, and appendices list information on the states largest cabinet shops taken from the United States census records.", "author": "Lonn Taylor, David B. Warren, Ima Hogg", "slug": "texas-furniture-volume-one-42863-9780292742123-lonn-taylor-david-b-warren", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9780292742123.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "42863", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/42863/texas-furniture-volume-one-42863-9780292742123-lonn-taylor-david-b-warren", "bisac_codes": [ "ANT017000", "HIS036130" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780292728691", "EISBN13": "9780292742123" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023724938" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000042862", "attributes": { "name": "Alex and the Hobo", "subtitle": "A Chicano Life and Story", "description": "When a ten-year-old boy befriends a mysterious hobo in his southern Colorado hometown in the early 1940s, he learns about evil in his community and takes his first steps toward manhood by attempting to protect his new friend from corrupt officials. Though a fictional story, Alex and the Hobo is written out of the life experiences of its author, Jose Inez (Joe) Taylor, and it realistically portrays a boy's coming-of-age as a Spanish-speaking man who must carve out an honorable place for himself in a class-stratified and Anglo-dominated society. In this innovative ethnography, anthropologist James Taggart collaborates with Joe Taylor to explore how Alex and the Hobo sprang from Taylor's life experiences and how it presents an insider's view of Mexicano culture and its constructions of manhood. They frame the story (included in its entirety) with chapters that discuss how it encapsulates notions that Taylor learned from the Chicano movement, the farmworkers' union, his community, his father, his mother, and his religion. Taggart gives the ethnography a solid theoretical underpinning by discussing how the story and Taylor's account of how he created it represent an act of resistance to the class system that Taylor perceives as destroying his native culture.", "author": "José Inez Taylor, James M. Taggart", "slug": "alex-and-the-hobo-42862-9780292773592-jose-inez-taylor-james-m-taggart", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9780292773592.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "42862", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/42862/alex-and-the-hobo-42862-9780292773592-jose-inez-taylor-james-m-taggart", "bisac_codes": [ "SOC002000" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780292781795", "EISBN13": "9780292773592" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023725636" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000042861", "attributes": { "name": "Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture", "subtitle": "The Unborn, Women, and Creation", "description": "Recently, scholars of Olmec visual culture have identified symbols for umbilical cords, bundles, and cave-wombs, as well as a significant number of women portrayed on monuments and as figurines. In this groundbreaking study, Carolyn Tate demonstrates that these subjects were part of a major emphasis on gestational imagery in Formative Period Mesoamerica. In Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture, she identifies the presence of women, human embryos, and fetuses in monuments and portable objects dating from 1400 to 400 BC and originating throughout much of Mesoamerica. This highly original study sheds new light on the prominent roles that women and gestational beings played in Early Formative societies, revealing female shamanic practices, the generative concepts that motivated caching and bundling, and the expression of feminine knowledge in the 260-day cycle and related divinatory and ritual activities. Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture is the first study that situates the unique hollow babies of Formative Mesoamerica within the context of prominent females and the prevalent imagery of gestation and birth. It is also the first major art historical study of La Venta and the first to identify Mesoamerica's earliest creation narrative. It provides a more nuanced understanding of how later societies, including Teotihuacan and West Mexico, as well as the Maya, either rejected certain Formative Period visual forms, rituals, social roles, and concepts or adopted and transformed them into the enduring themes of Mesoamerican symbol systems.", "author": "Carolyn E. Tate", "slug": "reconsidering-olmec-visual-culture-42861-9780292742567-carolyn-e-tate", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9780292742567.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "42861", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/42861/reconsidering-olmec-visual-culture-42861-9780292742567-carolyn-e-tate", "bisac_codes": [ "SOC003000", "ART044000" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780292728523", "EISBN13": "9780292742567" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023724345" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000042860", "attributes": { "name": "Israeli Cinema", "subtitle": "Identities in Motion", "description": "With top billing at many film forums around the world, as well as a string of prestigious prizes, including consecutive nominations for the Best Foreign Film Oscar, Israeli films have become one of the most visible and promising cinemas in the first decade of the twenty-first century, an intriguing and vibrant site for the representation of Israeli realities. Yet two decades have passed since the last wide-ranging scholarly overview of Israeli cinema, creating a need for a new, state-of-the-art analysis of this exciting cinematic oeuvre. The first anthology of its kind in English, Israeli Cinema: Identities in Motion presents a collection of specially commissioned articles in which leading Israeli film scholars examine Israeli cinema as a prism that refracts collective Israeli identities through the medium and art of motion pictures. The contributors address several broad themes: the nation imagined on film; war, conflict, and trauma; gender, sexuality, and ethnicity; religion and Judaism; discourses of place in the age of globalism; filming the Palestinian Other; and new cinematic discourses. The authors' illuminating readings of Israeli films reveal that Israeli cinema offers rare visual and narrative insights into the complex national, social, and multicultural Israeli universe, transcending the partial and superficial images of this culture in world media.", "author": "Miri Talmon, Yaron Peleg", "slug": "israeli-cinema-42860-9780292744783", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9780292744783.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "42860", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/42860/israeli-cinema-42860-9780292744783", "bisac_codes": [ "PER004030" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780292725607", "EISBN13": "9780292744783" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023724224" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000042859", "attributes": { "name": "The Hidden History of Capoeira", "subtitle": "A Collision of Cultures in the Brazilian Battle Dance", "description": "Capoeira, a Brazilian battle dance and national sport, has become popular all over the world. First brought to Brazil by African slaves and first documented in the late eighteenth century, capoeira has undergone many transformations as it has diffused throughout Brazilian society and beyond, taking on a multiplicity of meanings for those who participate in it and for the societies in which it is practiced. In this book, Maya Talmon-Chvaicer combines cultural history with anthropological research to offer an in-depth study of the development and meaning of capoeira, starting with the African cultures in which it originated and continuing up to the present day. Using a wealth of primary sources, Talmon-Chvaicer analyzes the outlooks on life, symbols, and rituals of the three major cultures that inspired capoeirathe Congolese (the historic area known today as Congo-Angola), the Yoruban, and the Catholic Portuguese cultures. As she traces the evolution of capoeira through successive historical eras, Talmon-Chvaicer maintains a dual perspective, depicting capoeira as it was experienced, observed, and understood by both Europeans and Africans, as well as by their descendants. This dual perspective uncovers many covert aspects of capoeira that have been repressed by the dominant Brazilian culture. This rich study reclaims the African origins and meanings of capoeira, while also acknowledging the many ways in which Catholic-Christian culture has contributed to it. The book will be fascinating reading not only for scholars but also for capoeira participants who may not know the deeper spiritual meanings of the customs, amulets, and rituals of this jogo da vida, \"game of life.\"", "author": "Maya Talmon-Chvaicer", "slug": "the-hidden-history-of-capoeira-42859-9780292773585-maya-talmon-chvaicer", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9780292773585.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "42859", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/42859/the-hidden-history-of-capoeira-42859-9780292773585-maya-talmon-chvaicer", "bisac_codes": [ "SPO019000", "SPO027000" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780292717237", "EISBN13": "9780292773585" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023725637" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000042857", "attributes": { "name": "Literature, Analytically Speaking", "subtitle": "Explorations in the Theory of Interpretation, Analytic Aesthetics, and Evolution", "description": "In a new approach to interdisciplinary literary theory, Literature, Analytically Speaking integrates literary studies with analytic aesthetics, girded by neo-Darwinian evolution. Scrutinizing narrative fiction through a lens provided by analytic philosophy, revered literary theorist Peter Swirski puts new life into literary theory while fashioning a set of practical guidelines for critics in the interpretive trenches. Dismissing critical inquirers who deny intention its key role in the study of literary reception, Swirski extends the defense of intentionality to art and to human behavior in general. In the process, Swirski takes stock of the recent work in evolutionary theory, arguing that the analysis of narrative truth may be grounded in the neo-Darwinian paradigm which forms the empirical backbone behind his analytic approach. Literature, Analytically Speaking provides a series of precepts designed to capture the ways in which we do interpret (and ought to interpret) works of literature. Reflecting a resounding shift from the poststructuralist paradigm, Swirski's lively and colorful presentation, backed up by a dazzling variety of examples and case studies, reconceptualizes the aesthetics of literature and literary studies.", "author": "Peter Swirski", "slug": "literature-analytically-speaking-42857-9780292773547-peter-swirski", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9780292773547.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "42857", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/42857/literature-analytically-speaking-42857-9780292773547-peter-swirski", "bisac_codes": [ "LIT006000" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780292721784", "EISBN13": "9780292773547" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023723954" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000042856", "attributes": { "name": "Remembering Victoria", "subtitle": "A Tragic Nahuat Love Story", "description": "On October 15, 1983, a young mother of six was murdered while walking across her village of Huitzilan de Serdan, Mexico, with her infant son and one of her daughters. This woman, Victoria Bonilla, was among more than one hundred villagers who perished in violence that broke out soon after the Mexican army chopped down a cornfield that had been planted on an unused cattle pasture by forty Nahuat villagers. In this anthropological account, based on years of fieldwork in Huitzilan, James M. Taggart turns to Victoria's husband, Nacho Angel Hernandez, to try to understand how a community based on respect and cooperation descended into horrific violence and fratricide. When the army chopped down the cornfield at Talcuaco, the war that broke out resulted in the complete breakdown of the social and moral order of the community. At its heart, this is a tragic love story, chronicling Nacho's feelings for Victoria spanning their courtship, marriage, family life, and her death. Nacho delivered his testimonio to the author in Nahuat, making it one of the few autobiographical love stories told in an Amerindian language, and a very rare account of love among the indigenous people of Mesoamerica. There is almost nothing in the literature on how a man develops and changes his feelings for his wife over his lifetime. This study contributes to the anthropology of emotion by focusing on how the Nahuat attempt to express love through language and ritual.", "author": "James M. Taggart", "slug": "remembering-victoria-42856-9780292773561-james-m-taggart", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9780292773561.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "42856", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/42856/remembering-victoria-42856-9780292773561-james-m-taggart", "bisac_codes": [ "SOC002010" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780292716865", "EISBN13": "9780292773561" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023724578" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000042855", "attributes": { "name": "Art, Nature, and Religion in the Central Andes", "subtitle": "Themes and Variations from Prehistory to the Present", "description": "From prehistory to the present, the Indigenous peoples of the Andes have used a visual symbol systemthat is, artto express their sense of the sacred and its immanence in the natural world. Many visual motifs that originated prior to the Incas still appear in Andean art today, despite the onslaught of cultural disruption that native Andeans have endured over several centuries. Indeed, art has always been a unifying power through which Andeans maintain their spirituality, pride, and culture while resisting the oppression of the dominant society. In this book, Mary Strong takes a significantly new approach to Andean art that links prehistoric to contemporary forms through an ethnographic understanding of Indigenous Andean culture. In the first part of the book, she provides a broad historical survey of Andean art that explores how Andean religious concepts have been expressed in art and how artists have responded to cultural encounters and impositions, ranging from invasion and conquest to international labor migration and the internet. In the second part, Strong looks at eight contemporary art typesthe scissors dance (danza de tijeras), home altars (retablos), carved gourds (mates), ceramics (ceramica), painted boards (tablas), weavings (textiles), tinware (hojalateria), and Huamanga stone carvings (piedra de Huamanga). She includes prehistoric and historic information about each art form, its religious meaning, the natural environment and sociopolitical processes that help to shape its expression, and how it is constructed or performed by todays artists, many of whom are quoted in the book.", "author": "Mary Strong", "slug": "art-nature-and-religion-in-the-central-andes-42855-9780292742901-mary-strong", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9780292742901.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "42855", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/42855/art-nature-and-religion-in-the-central-andes-42855-9780292742901-mary-strong", "bisac_codes": [ "ART044000", "ART015050" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780292735712", "EISBN13": "9780292742901" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023725104" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000042854", "attributes": { "name": "Places in the World a Person Could Walk", "subtitle": "Family, Stories, Home, and Place in the Texas Hill Country", "description": "Spring-fed creeks. Old stone houses. Cedar brakes and bleached limestone. The Hill Country holds powerful sway over the imagination of Texans. So many of us dream of having our own little place in the limestone hills. The Hill Country feels just like home, even if you've never lived there. This beautifully written book explores what the Hill Country has meant as a homeplace to the author, his family, and longtime residents of the area, as well as to newcomers. David Syring listens to the stories that his aunts, uncles, and cousins tell about life in the Hill Country and grapples with their meaning for his own search for a place to belong. He also collects short stories focused around Honey Creek Church to consider how places become containers for memory. And he draws upon several years of living in Fredericksburg to talk about the problems and opportunities created by heritage tourism and the development of the town as a \"home\" for German Americans. These interconnected stories illuminate what it means to belong to a place and why the Texas Hill Country has become the spiritual, if not actual, home of many people.", "author": "David Syring", "slug": "places-in-the-world-a-person-could-walk-42854-9780292773554-david-syring", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9780292773554.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "42854", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/42854/places-in-the-world-a-person-could-walk-42854-9780292773554-david-syring", "bisac_codes": [ "SOC002000" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780292777460", "EISBN13": "9780292773554" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023724649" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000042852", "attributes": { "name": "Environmental City", "subtitle": "People, Place, Politics, and the Meaning of Modern Austin", "description": "As Austin grew from a college and government town of the 1950s into the sprawling city of 2010, two ideas of Austin as a place came into conflict. Many who promoted the ideology of growth believed Austin would be defined by economic output, money, and wealth. But many others thought Austin was instead defined by its quality of life. Because the natural environment contributed so much to Austin's quality of life, a social movement that wanted to preserve the city's environment became the leading edge of a larger movement that wanted to retain a unique sense of place. The \"environmental movement\" in Austin became the political and symbolic arm of the more general movement for place. This is a history of the environmental movement in Austinhow it began; what it did; and how it promoted ideas about the relationships between people, cities, and the environment. It is also about a deeper movement to retain a sense of place that is Austin, and how that deeper movement continues to shape the way Austin is built today. The city it helped to create is now on the forefront of national efforts to rethink how we build our cities, reduce global warming, and find ways that humans and the environment can coexist in a big city.", "author": "William Scott Jr. Swearingen, Jr.", "slug": "environmental-city-42852-9780292773530-william-scott-jr-swearingen-jr", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9780292773530.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "42852", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/42852/environmental-city-42852-9780292773530-william-scott-jr-swearingen-jr", "bisac_codes": [ "NAT011000", "HIS036130" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780292721814", "EISBN13": "9780292773530" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023724795" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000042851", "attributes": { "name": "Friedrichsburg", "subtitle": "A Novel", "description": "Summerfield G. Roberts Award for a Work of Creative Writing, Sons of the Texas Republic, 2013 First published in Germany in 1867, this fascinating autobiographical novel of German immigrants on the antebellum Texas frontier provides a trove of revelations about the myriad communities that once called the Hill Country home. Founded in 1846, Fredericksburg, Texas, was established by German noblemen who enticed thousands of their compatriots to flee their overcrowded homeland with the prospect of free land in a place that was portrayed as a new Garden of Eden. Few of the settlers, however, were prepared for the harsh realities of the Texas frontier or for confrontation with the Comanche. In his 1867 novel Friedrichsburg, Friedrich Armand Strubberg, a.k.a. Dr. Schubbert, interwove his personal story with a fictional romance to capture the flavor of Fredericksburg, Texas, during its founding years when he served as the first colonial director. Now available in a contemporary translation, Friedrichsburg brings to life the little-known aspects of life among these determined but often ill-equipped settlers who sought to make the transition to a new home and community on the Texas frontier. Opening just as a peace treaty is being negotiated between the German newcomers and the Comanches, the novel describes the unlikely survival of these fledgling homesteads and provides evidence that support from the Delaware Indians, as well as the nearby Mormon community of Zodiac, was key to the Germans success. Along the way, Strubberg also depicts the laying of the cornerstone to the Vereinskirche, the blazing of an important new road to Austin, exciting hunting scenes, and an admirable spirit of cultural cohesion and determined resilience. In so doing, he resurrects a fascinating lost world.", "author": "Friedrich Armand Strubberg, James C. Kearney", "slug": "friedrichsburg-42851-9780292742918-friedrich-armand-strubberg", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9780292742918.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "42851", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/42851/friedrichsburg-42851-9780292742918-friedrich-armand-strubberg", "bisac_codes": [ "FIC051000", "FIC014000" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780292737693", "EISBN13": "9780292742918" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023724326" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000042848", "attributes": { "name": "Viewpoints", "subtitle": "Visual Anthropologists at Work", "description": "Early in its history, anthropology was a visual as well as verbal discipline. But as time passed, visually oriented professionals became a minority among their colleagues, and most anthropologists used written words rather than audiovisual modes as their professional means of communication. Today, however, contemporary electronic and interactive media once more place visual anthropologists and anthropologically oriented artists within the mainstream. Digital media, small-sized and easy-to-use equipment, and the Internet, with its interactive and public forum websites, democratize roles once relegated to highly trained professionals alone. However, having access to a good set of tools does not guarantee accurate and reliable work. Visual anthropology involves much more than media alone. This book presents visual anthropology as a work-in-progress, open to the myriad innovations that the new audiovisual communications technologies bring to the field. It is intended to aid in contextualizing, explaining, and humanizing the storehouse of visual knowledge that university students and general readers now encounter, and to help inform them about how these new media tools can be used for intellectually and socially beneficial purposes. Concentrating on documentary photography and ethnographic film, as well as lesser-known areas of study and presentation including dance, painting, architecture, archaeology, and primate research, the book's fifteen contributors feature populations living on all of the world's continents as well as within the United States. The final chapter gives readers practical advice about how to use the most current digital and interactive technologies to present research findings.", "author": "Mary Strong, Laena Wilder", "slug": "viewpoints-42848-9780292756137", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9780292756137.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "42848", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/42848/viewpoints-42848-9780292756137", "bisac_codes": [ "SOC002000" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9780292706712", "EISBN13": "9780292756137" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010023724495" } } } } ], "meta": { "pagination": { "page": 78130, "pages": 78369, "count": 1567361 } } }
Response Info
Default: None