Dance, Spirituality and Black Artists: Books by Duke Authors Warm This Winter

From China to contemporary Palestine, from Renaissance Europe to Reagan’s America of the 1980s, new books by Duke school will just take you on a intriguing journey by means of time and place. We present a selection of publications released in late 2021.

A lot of of the textbooks, together with new editions of previous titles, can be identified on the “Duke Authors” screen shelves around the circulation desk in Perkins Library. Some are offered as e-books for rapid obtain. Most can also be procured through the Gothic Bookshop.

[Duke Today will provide January and February books next month. If you are a member of the Duke faculty or staff who will be publishing a book of interest to a general audience, send us a message about it along with your publisher’s brief description.]

Rey Chow: A Face Drawn in Sand: Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Current (Columbia College Push)

The Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Rey Chow uses the operate of Michel Foucault to unravel the useless ends and potentialities of humanistic inquiry in the modern day Western college. Chow stresses anew the intellectual and pedagogical objectives basic to the humanities: how to analyze texts across languages and disciplines, how to form and sustain feasible arguments, and how to rethink acquainted problems.

Susan J. Dunlap: Shelter Theology: The Spiritual Lives of Folks devoid of Households (Fortress Push)

Susan Dunlap teaches the art of pastoral treatment at Duke Divinity University and serves as the chaplain at City Ministries of Durham. Dunlap observed the “practical theology” expressed by shelter people in severe poverty and preferred to give it entire because of in a book. As she instructed the Washington Post: “I wished to acquire a respect for theological worlds that have emerged out of struggling and persist due to the fact they carry on to mediate the like and mercy and electric power of God.”

Owen Flanagan: How to Do Items with Feelings: The Morality of Anger and Disgrace Throughout Cultures (Princeton University Push)

By means of comparative insights from anthropology, psychology, and cross-cultural philosophy, Owen Flanagan offers us an expansive look at how tradition shapes our thoughts – and how we can benefit, as persons and a society, from much less anger and additional shame. Flanagan is the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and also retains an appointment in Psychology and Neuroscience. 

Alex Harris: Our Weird New Land (Yoffy Press)

Alex Harris, professor emeritus and a founder of the Center for Documentary Studies, selected to analyze the speedily evolving environment of unbiased fiction filmmaking in this ebook of pictures, commissioned by the Large Museum in Atlanta as component of its Picturing the South sequence. Designed on in excess of 40 film sets all through the area, Harris’s images give a glimpse of lifetime in the American South with all its complexities and reveal a new technology of filmmakers coming to conditions with matters of race, course, and sexuality.

Frances Hasso: Buried in the Purple Filth: Race, Copy, and Death in Present day Palestine (Cambridge University Press)

Bringing alongside one another a vivid array of sources, which includes colonial archives, newspaper studies, literature, oral histories and interviews, Frances Hasso tells a tale of everyday living, death, and reproduction, and missing bodies and experiences, throughout and due to the fact the British colonial interval in Palestine. Hasso is a professor in the System in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Scientific tests with secondary appointments in the Departments of Historical past and Sociology.

Simon Miles, co-editor: “The Reagan Second: The united states and the World in the 1980s” (Cornell University Press)

Simon Miles and his co-editor Jonathan R. Hunt carry collectively a cohort of students with fresh new insights from untapped and declassified world-wide resources to recast Reagan’s pivotal decades in electric power and area U.S. foreign relations into a world-wide context. Miles is an assistant professor in the Sanford School of General public Plan and the author of Participating the Evil Empire.

Richard J. Powell: Black Artwork: A Cultural Background. Third Version (Thames & Hudson)

The new version of this groundbreaking analyze explores the visual representations of Black society throughout the world all through the 20th century and into the 21st. The guide offers Black artwork drawn from across the African diaspora and attributes artworks in a wide assortment of media, like movie, photography, general performance artwork, and sculpture. Richard J. Powell is the John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art & Artwork History.

Dale Purves: Why Brains You should not Compute (Springer)

In his new ebook, Dale Purves examines what looks to be the simple obstacle in neuroscience today: knowledge how working experience generated by the human mind is relevant to the bodily environment we are living in. He offers the argument and proof that brains address this trouble on a wholly trial and error foundation. Purves is the George B. Geller Professor of Neurobiology Emeritus.

Maureen Quilligan: When Females Ruled the Earth: Making the Renaissance in Europe (‎Liveright)

In this revisionist heritage, a scholar of the Renaissance demonstrates how four effective gals — Mary Tudor Elizabeth I Mary, Queen of Scots and Catherine de’ Medici — redefined the culture of European monarchy in the 16th century. Maureen Quilligan is the R. Florence Brinkley Distinguished Professor Emerita of English.

Alex Roland: Delta of Power: The Army-Industrial Advanced (Johns Hopkins College Press)

Roland, who has taught armed service historical past and the historical past of engineering, now tells the extensive history of the armed forces-industrial advanced (MIC), from 1961, the Chilly War, and the War on Terror, to the current day. Roland, a professor emeritus of heritage, argues that the MIC is now significantly distinct than it was when Eisenhower warned of its potential risks, even now exerting a major but diminished influence in American daily life. 

Lester Ruth, co-creator: A Historical past of Modern day Praise & Worship: Understanding the Concepts That Reshaped the Protestant Church (Baker Tutorial)

New sorts of worship have transformed the facial area of the American church more than the past 50 yrs. This volume by two worship professionals attracts on primary sources and interviews to present the first detailed heritage of modern praise and worship and its affect. Lester Ruth is a historian of Christian worship at Duke Divinity University.

Anna Sunlight, co-editor: Situating Spirituality: Contemporary Non secular Practice in World-wide Context (Oxford College Push)

Even though amounts of religious perception and observance are declining in a great deal of the Western entire world, the amount of people who discover as “religious but not spiritual” is on the increase, and methods this kind of as yoga, meditation, and pilgrimage are surging in attractiveness. Anna Sun, affiliate professor of spiritual scientific tests, and co-editors have collected essays that clearly show how seemingly private aspects of spirituality are shaped by spiritual, cultural and political contexts.

Paul P. Wang, co-author: The Scientification of China (Cambridge University Push)

This e book investigates scientific Chinese phrases, language and tradition and how they have contributed toward the evolution of Chinese civilization and the improvement of the electronic financial state. The late Paul P. Wang was professor emeritus of the Pratt University of Engineering and a pioneer in artificial intelligence. He died in 2021 after serving on the Duke college for virtually 4 many years.

Sarah Wilbur: Funding Bodies: 5 Many years of Dance Making at the National Endowment for the Arts (Wesleyan University Push)

Wilbur, an assistant professor of the exercise of dance at Duke, examines how NEA funding procedures have shaped the area of dance. Drawing on archival documents as effectively as testimony from earlier and current insiders, this institutional history provides clarity to the complicated procedures that underlie the continuing wrestle to realize equitable useful resource distribution and parity of option in American dance. A no cost e-duplicate is out there via Duke University Libraries.