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Notes from the South Hebron Hills
Lately, it seems as if we wake up to a new atrocity each day. Every morning is now a ritual of scrolling through our Twitter feeds or scanning our new...
A Biography
Spoken by eighty million people, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue. Dav...
A History of the Imagination in South India
From the late fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the imagination came to be recognized in South Indian culture as the defining feature of human be...
Hindu Tales of Filicide and Devotion
India's folklore and classical literature abound with stories of parents who sacrifice their children. In The Hungry God, David Shulman examines one s...
Sacrifice and Divine Marriage in the South Indian Saiva Tradition
South India is a land of many temples and shrines, each of which has preserved a local tradition of myth, folklore, and ritual. As one of the first We...
A South Indian Diary
“Rocks. Goats. Dry shrubs. Buffaloes. Thorns. A fallen tamarind tree.” Such were the sights that greeted David Shulman on his arrival in the South...
'Siva's Game of Dice
This book offers a new exploration of the mythology of the Hindu god Siva, who spends his time playing dice with his wife, to whom he habitually loses...
Court and State in Nāyaka Period Tamilnadu
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Working for Peace in Israel and Palestine
For decades, we've been shocked by images of violent clashes between Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. But for all their power, tho...
The Presentation of Self in Contemporary Social Life covers the popular theories of Erving Goffman, and shows modern applications of dramaturgical ana...
A photographic and verbal account of the landscapes of Palestine. This book offers a portrait of the lives and struggles of Palestinians living in the...
Studies in Tamil, Telugu, and Sanskrit
The classical literatures of Sanskrit, Tamil, and Telugu are among the richest in the world. These essays explore major issues and themes in the poetr...
The book looks at the three major Nayaka states--ruled from Senji, Tanjavur and Madurai, Tiruccirappalli--as well as at minor states located at their ...
Fusions of Feeling and Theory in Administration
This is a classic study of how managers interpret and engage problems as they are experienced and felt at various points and levels in factories and b...
The Poet who Made Gods and Kings
This book offers a groundbreaking cultural biography of Srinatha, arguably the most creative figure in the thousand-year history of Telugu literature....
Writing History in South India 1600-1800
Nearly a thousand years ago, the great scholar Al-Biruni complained that, "unfortunately, the Hindus do not pay much attention to the historical order...
Explorations in the Comparative History of Dreaming
This volume offers a comparative, cross-cultural history of dreams. The essays examine a wide range of texts concerning dreams, as culled from a rich ...
Śiva's Game of Dice
This book brings together scholars of a variety of the world's major civilizations to focus on the universal theme of inner transformation. The idea o...
This volume deals with the political culture of the NAyaka period in medieval South India, an era which extends from the early sixteenth century to th...
The Role of Deception in the Workplace
"There are always clients to please, rules to subvert, difficult tasks to perform, work to shirk, and upward mobility to seek.... Most people with wor...
One of the three surviving plays by Kali dasa (fifth century), universally acknowledged as the supreme poet in classical Sanskrit, How Urvashi Was Won...
Words of Yearning, Praise, Petition, Gratitude and Wonder from Traditional and Contemporary Sources
A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day. "An extraord...
An Extension of the Marr Paradigm
Since The Rediscovery Of The`Kridabhiramamu` At The Beginning Of The Twentieth Century, The Book Has Been The Subject Of Intense Controversy Among Tel...
A Symbolic Interactionist Social Psychology
A clearly written introduction to the symbolic interactionist perspective in social psychology and in sociology as a whole. The text provides several ...
Dance, Healing, and Possession
"Throughout South India, masks are related to the presence of divine beings and, as such, induce transformation in the awareness of both performers an...
The Story of Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki
South Indian Minds in the Early Modern Era
This is the first book of the New Ecology of Expressive Modes in Early-Modern South India (NEEM Series), edited by David Shulman. Introspection and In...
AXION: The Memory Rights Uprising is a provocative cautionary tale set in the very near future when dramatic breakthroughs in neuroscience and the fir...
The Tyagarajasvami Temple in Tiruvarur, a major historic site in the heart of the Tamil country, has preserved among its many treasures a set of ceili...