Baptiste Brossard, “Forgetting Items: The Social Experience of Alzheimer’s Disease” (Indiana UP, 2019)

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Alzheimer’s disease has not only profound medical consequences for the individual experiencing it but a life-changing impact on those around them. From the moment a person is suspected to be …

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Richard Thurnwald’s Position in the Nazi Period: Some Methodological Considerations in the History of Anthropology

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At the much-noticed symposium on the Austro-German anthropologist Richard Thurnwald in Paris in July 2021, Thurnwald’s biographer Marion Melk-Koch (born 1954) presented him as an opponent of Nationa…

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Joseph Cone, “Seeing Opera Anew: A Cultural and Biological Perspective” (Routledge, 2023)

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What people ultimately want from music-drama, audience research suggests, is to be absorbed in a story that engages their feelings, even moves them deeply, and that may lead…

Post date 3rd March 2024
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Michael L. Walker, “Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail” (Oxford UP, 2022)

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Jails are the principal people-processing machines of the criminal justice system. Mostly they hold persons awaiting trial who cannot afford or have been denied bail. Although jail sentences…

Post date 25th April 2022
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