Browsing ScholarWorks@Towson by Type "book reviews"
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"The Anthropology of Media" and "Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain"
(American Ethnological Society, 2004-02)Book reviews of "Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain". Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu‐Lughod, and Brian Larkin, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press and "The Anthropology of Media: A Reader". Kelly Askew and ... -
Approaches to teaching the works of Naguib Mahfouz
(Indiana University Press, 2015)In this case, the editors of the volume on Mahfouz offer a collection of outlooks that may assist the addition of a Mahfouz work to a survey course, or even the development of an entire seminar on the author, a decidedly ... -
Gated communities: perspectives on privatized spaces: review essay
(Wiley, 2011-01)Private Cities: Global and Local Perspectives (2006) and Gated Communities (2006) continue a trend in urban studies that focus on recent manifestations of these developments in a variety of global locales. As the editors ... -
Picturing addiction: book review of Righteous dopefiend
(Wiley Blackwell, 2012-10)Book review for Righteous Dopefiend by Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg, published by University of California Press in 2009. -
Principles of visual anthropology, review
(Wiley Blackwell, 1997-03)The importance of the original publication in 1975 of Paul Hockings' Principles of Visual Anthropology cannot be underestimated. Along with Karl Heider's Ethnographic Film (1976), Hockings' collection is regarded by people ... -
Review Minorities and the Modern Arab World: New Perspectives by Laura Robson
(Canadian Comparative Literature Association, 2017)The Arab World continues to be too often gazed upon as though it were a monolith, despite decades of knowledge production aiming for the subversion of such reductive yet tenacious views. The very phrase “The Arab World,” ... -
Review of George Whitefield Chadwick: the life and music of the pride of New England
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-01-13)Book review of George Whitefield Chadwick: The Life and Music of the Pride of New England by Bill F. Faucett. Publication information: Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2012. -
Review of Loose parts 3: Inspiring culturally sustainable environments
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Troubling violence: a performance project (Book review)
(Taylor & Francis, 2010-10-09)The article reviews the book "Troubling Violence: A Performance Project," by M. Heather Carver and Elaine J. Lawless.