Main Stacks

A discussion of how a worldview dominated by a focus on European culture and history impacts attitudes, interpretations, and politics. Includes bibliographical references and an index.

Main Stacks

A substantial suvey of the philosophies of art in various cultures. Includes maps, bibliographical references, and an index.

Architecture & Art

A study and critique of Orientalism. Includes bibliographical references and an index.

Main Stacks

A collection of essays on the relationships between tourism and art, art and global society, and the economic aspects of art. Includes bibliographical references and an index.

Main Stacks

A study of the impact of globalization on ethnic art. Includes bibliographical references and an index.

Main Stacks; Undergraduate Library

A study of conflicts between modern aesthetics and religious fundamentalism. Includes bibliographical references and an index.

Architecture & Art

A survey of views on Orientalism. Includes bibliographical references and an index.

Oak St. [request only]

A study of primitivism in modern art and popular culture. Includes bibliographical references.

Architecture & Art

A study of ethnic art, minority artists, and intercultural communication. Includes bibliographical references and an index.

Architecture & Art; Social Sciences, Health & Education Library; History, Philosophy & Newspaper Library; and Undergraduate Library

A history and philosophical discussion of 20th-century ethnology, art, and literature. Includes a bibliography and an index.

Oak St.

A collection of essays by well-known critics on difference and "otherness" in 19th- and 20th-century history, philosophy, and culture. Contents: 1. Conception: G.W.F. Hegel; 2. Cleaving: Martin Heidegger; 3. Carnality: Maurice Merleau-Ponty; 4. Real: Jacques Lacan; 5. Ecstasy: Georges Bataille; 6. Woman: Julia Kristeva; 7. Infinity: Emmanuel Levinas; 8. Nots: Maurice Blanchot; 9. Rewriting: Jacques Derrida; 10. Transgression: Søren Kierkegaard. Includes bibliographical references and an index.

Vol. 1 & 2 in Main Stacks and Oak St.; Vol. 3 in Classics

A 3-volume study of Egyptian and Phoenician influences on Ancient Greek culture. Vol. 1. The fabrication of ancient Greece, 1785-1985; Vol. 2. The archaeological and documentary evidence; Vol. 3. The linguistic evidence. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Architecture & Art

A study of primitivism in 19th- and 20th-century art. Includes an index.

History, Philosophy & Newspaper Library; Literatures & Languages; Music & Performing Arts

This critique of traditional Western views of Asia and the Middle East is generally considered required by anyone studying literature, history, philosophy, and/or the arts. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Communications; History, Philosophy & Newspaper Library; Literatures & Languages Library; Social Sciences, Health, & Education Library; Also Online at above link

A collection of essays on cultural theory, some of which use Java, Bali, and the "New States" as examples. Includes bibliographical references and an index.

Communications; History, Philosophy & Newspaper; Oak St.; Social Sciences, Health & Education; and Undergraduate Library

An oft-cited ethnopsychological study, part of the critical canon. With a bibliography.