For Professor Fiamma Montezemolo, as for Fred Murdock, this rite of passage is a break and a crossing: a break from anthropology’s traditional forms of expression and a crossing into the realm of visual art. Hidden in Plain Sight is an auto-anthology carefully curated to reveal the rich tapestry of Montezemolo’s diverse work.
Pam Houston illuminates the interconnected histories of abortion in the United States and in her own life during the decades when Roe v. Wade was the law of the land. Houston guides us through the shifting landscapes of politics, the law, and self-determination in a country where access to medical care and the power to determine your own destiny are increasingly—and once again—dependent on geography and circumstance.
Grounded in intersectional feminist interpretive frameworks, Women’s Restorative Medievalisms examines how contemporary women writers engage the premodern past to animate intertwined histories of oppression and resistance in service of visionary futures.
Experimenting with Shakespeare contends that play is a method of knowledge-making and that Shakespearean theater can be a generative model for laboratory life. The book reflects on the history of the ModLab at UC Davis, an experimental media space bringing together computer scientists, historians of science, theorists of performance, literary scholars, and media designers.
Adele Zhang, senior continuing lecturer and design collection curator and manager, is the co-author of a new bilingual book, “Encountering the Global Textile Motifs” . Written with Kunyuan Li, a Ph.D in design studies from Jiangnan University, China, the book illustrates a colorful survey of ethno-textile designs from the UC Davis Jo Ann C. Stabb Design Collection and Han Costume Collection by Jiangnan University.
In Möbius Media, editors Jeffrey A. Tolbert and Michael Dylan Foster build on their earlier work looking at how folklore is understood through time and its modern-day commercialization. Exploring the interplay between popular culture and traditional culture, they consider the meaning of the word “folklore” and complicate understandings of cultural expressions and media.
Based on six years of fieldwork in rural northern California, Women and the Sikh Diaspora in California: Singing the Seven Seas reimagines the history of the South Asian diaspora. In the book, Nicole Ranganath examines the role of gender, water and land in the cultural history of Sikhs.
This book is the first extended study to offer new ways of interpreting textual and visual narratives through “kimono language”—what these garments communicate within their literary, historical, and cultural contexts. Reading the Kimono is at once an engaging history of the modern kimono and its representation, and a significant study of twentieth-century Japanese literature and film.
Peopling for Profit in Imperial Brazil by José Juan Pérez Meléndez charts the formation of early migration policy in Brazil in counterpoint to global processes. Professor Meléndez is a historian of Latin America and the Caribbean who specializes on nineteenth-century Brazil in broad Atlantic and world history contexts.
Real Food, Real Facts by Charlotte Biltekoff is about how good food became “real” in the beginning of the 21st century and how the food industry has responded to increasingly negative public views of processed food with science-based education and information campaigns designed to “correct” what they see as public misperceptions.
