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Take Back What the Devil Stole
Becoming Guanyin
Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China
An African American Prophet’s Encounters in the Spirit World
Yuhang Li
Onaje X. O. Woodbine
Ms. Donna Haskins is an African American woman who wrestles with structural inequity in the streets of Boston by inhabiting an alternate dimension she refers to as the “spirit realm.” Both ethnographic and personal, Onaje X. O. Woodbine’s portrait of her spiritual life sheds new light on the lived religion of the dispossessed.
Yuhang Li examines how lay Buddhist women in late imperial China forged a connection with the subject of their devotion, arguing that women used their own bodies to echo that of Guanyin. She combines empirical research with theoretical insights from both art history and Buddhist studies.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19716-8
30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19013-8
2022 272 pages 10 illus.
2022 312 pages
PREMODERN EAST ASIA: NEW HORIZONS
Naming the Witch
Shari’a Scripts
Magic, Ideology, and Stereotype in the Ancient World
A Historical Anthropology Brinkley Messick
Kimberly B. Stratton
Sharī‘a Scripts is a work of historical anthropology focused on Yemen in the early twentieth century. Brinkley Messick uses the writings of the Yemeni past to offer a comprehensive view of the sharī‘a as a localized and lived phenomenon in a groundbreaking examination of the interpretative range and insights offered by the anthropologist as reader.
Kimberly B. Stratton presents an innovative approach to understanding ancient depictions and accusations of magic as forms of discourse, examining their role in struggles to define legitimate power and authority. She traces “magic discourse” from Classical Greece to the Babylonian Talmud, illuminating powerful stereotypes of sorcery and witches.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-17875-4
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-13837-6
2022 536 pages 27 illus.
2022 312 pages
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