Cultural Studies

Jazz History, Culture, and Criticism Series

The series is currently inactive. Titles are listed for reference.

Remapping the Humanities: Identity, Community, Memory, (Post)Modernity

Edited by Mary Garrett, Heidi Gottfried, and Sandra F. VanBurkleo, with the assistance of Walter Edwards

An innovative collection demonstrating the rich potential for interdisciplinary learning found within the network of university-based humanities centers.

Manipulating the Sacred: Yorùbá Art, Ritual, and Resistance in Brazilian Candomblé

Mikelle S. Omari-Tunkara

The first art historical study of Yorùbá-descended African Brazilian religious art based on an author’s long-term participation in and observation of private and public rituals.

The Pretended Asian: George Psalmanazar’s Eighteenth-Century Formosan Hoax

Michael Keevak

A new look at the amazing career of Frenchman George Psalmanazar, who came to England at the start of the eighteenth century and successfully posed as a native of the island of Formosa.