Category: anthropology

• Cambria Press Publication Review: The Borderlands of Asia

  Congratulations to Professor Mark Bender (The Ohio State University) on the outstanding review of his book, The Borderlands of Asia: Culture, Place, Poetry, in the journal Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC). The review states: In translating these poems into English, the global ‘language of interaction’ (p. xxi), the voices of poets from the borderlands…

  Cambria Press

  August 23, 2018

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, anthropology, Asian Studies, Cambria Press, China, Chinese, Literary Criticism, Literary History, Literary Studies

  Asian poetry, Borderlands of Asia, Cambria Press SInophone World Series, Chinese poetry, comparative literature, literary anthropology, Mark Bender, MCLC, modern chinese literature and culture, Sinophone, Victor Mair, Zomia

• New Cambria Press Publication: Ritual and Representation in Chinese Buddhism

  Cambria Press is pleased to announce a new publication Ritual and Representation in Chinese Buddhism: Visualizing Enlightenment at Baodingshan from the 12th to 21st Centuries by Karil J. Kucera. This book will be launched at the upcoming 2016 Association of Asian Studies (AAS) conference in Seattle. The following are excepts from the book, which includes…

  Cambria Press

  March 8, 2016

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, anthropology, Asian Studies, Cambria Press, China, Chinese, History, New Scholarly Books, Religion, university books

  AAS 2016, academic publisher, ambriammbria, Association of Asian Studies, Baodingshan, Buddha, Buddhist, Cambria Press, Esoteric doctine, Great Buddha Bend, immortality, jātaka, Karil Kucera, Kindness of Parents text, Revolving Wheel of the Six Paths, Wheel of Rebirth, World Heritage Site

• International Day of Rural Women – Villages, Women, and the Success of Dairy Cooperatives in India

  October 15 is the International Day of Rural Women, and so Cambria Press is highlighting Villages, Women, and the Success of Dairy Cooperatives in India: Making Place for Rural Development by Dr. Pratyusha Basu. Cambria Press Publication Excerpt Villages, Women, and the Success of Dairy Cooperatives in India “The constant appearance of India’s cooperative dairying…

  Cambria Press

  October 15, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, anthropology, Book Review, Cambria Press

  anthropology, Asian Studies, Bill Clinton, Cambria author, Cambria Press, Cambria publication, Cambria review, cooperatives, dairying, development studies, gender studies, geography, India, Nayala, policy studies, Pratyusha Basu, sociology, South Asia, The Professional Geographer, Women’s Studies

• Cambria Press New Publication: #Slavery, Migrations, and Transformations

  Cambria Press announces a new publication in the Cambria Studies in Slavery: Past and Present Series by Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard University). “One cannot extricate the diasporic experiences of Haitians in Miami or Nigerians in Houston from the larger political and social climate of today’s world, which transcends national, regional, and international borders and connects…

  Cambria Press

  August 5, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, American Politics, anthropology, ASA: African Studies Association, Black Studies, Cambria Press

  African diaspora, African migration, Africana, Africans, Africans in Europe, An Elegy for Easterly, Ana Lucia Araujo, Angers, Black Studies, Cambria Press, Cambria publication, Cambria Studies in Slavery, Cameroon, Charles V, Christiane Taubira, Conseil des Communautés Africaines en Belgique et en Europe, Danielle Porter Sanchez, former slave, globalization, Harare North, Juan Latino, Latin professor, memory of slavery, Paul Biya, people of color, racism, slavery, social justice, Steve McQueen, Toyin Falola, Twelve Years a Slave, Zimbabwe

• #BreakTheInternet Meets Scholarly Research! Female Figures from Ancient Times were Already Engaging in #BreakTheInternet Displays

  #BreakTheInternet Meets Scholarly Research! Female figures were already engaging in #BreakTheInternet displays in ancient times. Here is just one example from chapter 4 (“The Power of the Vulva”) in Sacred Display: Divine and Magical Female Figures of Eurasia by Miriam Robbins Dexter (UCLA) and Victor H. Mair (University of Pennsylvania):  “Anasyrma is literally “the exposing of…

  Cambria Press

  November 14, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, anthropology, Women’s Studies

  #BreaktTheInternet, anasyrma, erotic magic, erotic women, exhibitionism, exposing, genitals, Kim Kardashian, Miriam Robbins Dexter, nude display, nudity, Sacred Display, Victor Mair, vulva

• Latin American Studies catalog now up for LASA 2014

  The Latin American studies catalog is now up for LASA 2014! Download it now &/or pick one up at the Cambria Press booth (#209) in the LASA book exhibit hall next week in Chicago! Be sure to check out the new books in the series headed by: Román de la Campa (University of Pennsylvania): Cambria…

  Cambria Press

  May 13, 2014

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Africana Studies, anthropology, Culture, Current Events, Film Studies, History, International Studies, Latin American Studies, Literature, New Scholarly Books, Performing Arts, Political Science, Sociology, Theatre

  Afro-Cuban, Ana Lucia Araujo, Argentina, Argentine film, Eva Peron, John Clum, Juan Peron, LASA, LASA 2014, Latin America, Latin American history, Latin American literature, Latin American Performing Arts, Latin American theatre, Nicaragua, Román de la Campa, slavery, theatre and society

• Cambria Press Book Review: Literary Review of Canada recommends Human Evolution and Male Aggression for university curricula

  Cambria Press congratulates Anne Innis Dagg and Lee E. Harding on the glowing review of their book in Literary Review of Canada by Dr. Walter S. DeKeseredy, the Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences at West Virginia University. The book review commends Human Evolution and Male Aggression: Debunking the Myth of Man and…

  Cambria Press

  October 22, 2013

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, anthropology, Sociology

  academic publisher, Anne Innis Dagg, ape and man, Cambria Press, evolution, gender studies, Lee E. Harding, Literary Review of Canada, male aggression, male violence, men’s studies, social myth, Walter S. DeKeseredy

• The Economist highlights emptying of Japan’s rural areas – An issue that has been comprehensively covered in Japan’s Shrinking Regions in the 21st Century!

  The Economist has reported that “public awareness of voting disparities in Japan is rising as rural areas empty, putting pressure on the judiciary to act. Politicians are strongly attached to the system that elects them. The LDP in particular has flourished in the countryside. For most in the party, deliberately weakening its rural base and…

  Cambria Press

  July 11, 2013

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, anthropology, Asian Studies, Book Review, Political Science, Sociology

  Anthony Rausch, depopulation, DIET, Economist, Japan, Japanese, Peter Matanle, rural exodus, socioeconomic, urban migration

• Cambria Press Book Review: The Latin American Identity and the African Diaspora is “a necessary text for all institutional libraries” and “”a valuable addition to the personal library of any scholar”

  Cambria Press congratulates Antonio Olliz Boyd on another great review of his book The Latin American Identity and the African Diaspora: Ethnogenesis in Context by the journal New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, which praises the book because the author “offers a new way to approach critical race theory.And he takes a great leap forward…

  Cambria Press

  June 12, 2013

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, African Studies, Africana Studies, anthropology, Book Review, History, International Studies, Literature

  academic publisher, aesthetic, African diaspora, Afro Brazilian, Afro Hispanic, Antonio Olliz Boyd, Cambria Press, colonial, colonialism, critical race theory, cultural studies, ethnic studies, ethnogenesis, Gã, History, LASA, latin american identity, Latin American or African Diaspora, or New World, Racial Studies, scholar, slavery, Tabom, university libraries, university library

• Excellent Cambria Press Book Review! Archives of Women’s Mental Health lauds Childbirth in a Technocratic Age!

  Cambria Press congratulates Elizabeth Soliday on the excellent review by Archives of Women’s Mental Health on her book Childbirth in a Technocratic Age: The Documentation of Women’s Expectations and Experiences! It is a fitting coincidence that this review came in the day after Mother’s Day! The journal commends the book because it is “a very organized…

  Cambria Press

  May 13, 2013

  anthropology, Book Review, Communication, Culture, Public Health, Sociology, Uncategorized, Women’s Studies

  academic publisher, baby, Cambria Press, childbirth, Elizabeth Soliday, labor and delivery, maternity, monograph, mother, OBGYN, pregnancy, scholarly, woman, women, women’s mental health