Contemporary historians and other scholars of the body frequently use “writing” and “inscription as metaphors. Katherine Dauge-Roth’s Signing the Body: Marks on Skin in Early Modern France (R…
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A few weeks ago we published our first installment of our new Reader Letters series. We want to hear more. Send us your letters! Please keep the following…
Mr. Romney’s America, which is not very different from the idea of Tea Party America, the United States would become a maze of mean streets in which more…
In Subversive Archaism: Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage (Duke UP, 2022), Michael Herzfeld explores how individuals and communities living at the margins of the modern nation-state use nationalist…
The story of Snowats, Iswukaw and Quartux, written down and published by Jesse Applegate in 1907, appears to be a version of one of the four myth ages…