...This chapter considers the transformation from a culture of speaking about death to one which included writing and reading about death. It spotlights the final quarter of the nineteenth century, from the creation of the British Crown Colony of the Gold Coast in 1874 to its expansion with the formal...

...This chapter turns to the most emblematic aspect of the African encounter with death: the funeral. It argues that, as historians of death in many cultures have observed, the weight of tradition borne by funeral rites means that they are often stubbornly resistant to innovation. Contemporary sub...

...This chapter assesses how cultural primatologists fought for the conservation and documentation of quickly dwindling chimpanzee communities. As Homo sapiens outcompeted Pan troglodytes in sub-Saharan Africa, Christophe Boesch, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, and the first...

... Minhāj al-sunna, recording that al-ʿAṭṭār read and annotated the book in 1244/1828 or 1829. Courtesy of General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. This chapter concerns the postclassical book culture. At the beginning of the nineteenth century...

...This chapter argues that Eva Palmer Sikelianos's encounter with Greece offers a sense of just how complex the cultural terrain can be. Hellenism operates on an assimilative model. It is constantly absorbing new snippets of memory from many different cultures as if they were original to its...

...This chapter introduces the connection between Catholic politics and gender in Mexico from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It tackles the engagement of Catholic women in the culture wars of Mexico. Catholic women helped the church survive the lay association or confraternity after...

... influenced the Mexican political culture, which unified in its embrace of republicanism and exclusion of women from politics. The chapter explains how priests began to shed their old ideas about women's roles in cofradías when the future of priests did not look hopeful for personal reasons, their churches...

...This chapter provides an overview of the militant and highly visible Catholic activism in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s. It highlights the importance of religion in the development of cultural and political divides. Meanwhile, Catholic women had been politically aware and active since the late 1840s...

...This chapter assesses the cultural perspective on organizations. Although interactions and demographic attributes shape behavior, they miss one critical factor: how we understand and evaluate interactions and attributes, and how these understandings and evaluations affect behavior. Cultural...

... view of the political culture of Dunhuang and, to some extent, the region around it. Dunhuang Eastern Eurasia politics of the road prayer diplomatic marriages Five Liang dynasties Golden Mountain Kingdom of Western Han Zhang Chengfeng house Southern Mountains Uyghur kingdom in Ganzhou...

...This chapter explores prominent explanations of modern economic development concerned with technology, religion, ideas, and culture. It elaborates on technological innovation as the driver of institutional change which involves systems of rules. Max Weber proposed a causal link between the spread...

..., slave narratives and moving panoramas — the book illuminates intersections of popular culture, the physical spaces of an expanding and urbanizing nation, and the spiritual narratives that ordinary Americans used to orient their lives. Placing works of literature and visual art — from Thomas Cole's...

... form it takes. This book presents a provocative new theory about why fairy tales were created and retold—and why they became such an indelible and infinitely adaptable part of cultures around the world. Drawing on cognitive science, evolutionary theory, anthropology, psychology, literary theory...

...During its short lifespan, the Weimar Republic (1918–33) witnessed an unprecedented flowering of achievements in many areas, including psychology, political theory, physics, philosophy, literary and cultural criticism, and the arts. Leading intellectuals, scholars, and critics—such as Hannah Arendt...

... long held significance for and captivated the imaginations of African Americans. The book delves into nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American artistic and journalistic depictions of Ethiopia, illuminating the increasing tensions and ironies behind cultural celebrations of an African country...

...Islamic book culture dates back to late antiquity, when Muslim scholars began to write down their doctrines on parchment, papyrus, and paper and then to compose increasingly elaborate analyses of, and commentaries on, these ideas. Movable type was adopted in the Middle East only in the early...

...The mountainous character of the Mediterranean was a crucial factor in the history of the ancient Greek and Roman world. This book is a cultural and literary history that explores the important role mountains played in Greek and Roman religious, military, and economic life, as well...

... explanation of the internal stability of the empire. The longevity of Rome's imperium resulted instead from a slowly realized consensus regarding Rome's right to maintain social order and to establish a normative political culture. The chapter focuses on the challenge posed to Jews...

... be recognized as part of the canon of early Greek philosophical writing. By attending to the thinking of drama, one can thus recover important dimensions of fifth-century intellectual culture, and bring into view a wider, more dynamic, and more vibrant philosophical field. Athens Euripides oracles philosophy...

... that many intellectuals of the Caribbean and African diaspora pressed for cooperative, nonaligned forms of national culture in the spirit of Bandung. James, Jones, and other Caribbean intellectuals of the midcentury learned to appreciate the value of national culture through the painful but productive...