UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS

(P/B) THE MODERNITY OF WITCHCRAFT - POLITICS & THE OCCULT
To many Westerners, the disappearance of African traditions of witchcraft might seem inevitable wuth continued modernization. In The Modernity of Witchcraft, Peter Geschieres uses his own experiences among the Maka and in other parts of eastern and southern Cameroon, as well as other anthropological research, to argue that contemporary ideas and practices of witchcraft are more a response to modern exigencies than a lingering cultural custom. The prevalence of witchcraft, especially in African politics and entrepreneurship, demonstrates th...
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(P/B) IMAGINING MOUNT ATHOS
For more than one thousand years the monastic republic of Mount Athos has been one of the most chronicled and yet least accessible places in the Mediterranean. Difficult to reach until the last century and strictly restricted to male visitors only, the Holy Mountain of Orthodoxy has been known in the Eastern Christian world and in western Europe more through representation than through direct experience. Most writing on Athos has focused on its Byzantine history and sacred heritage. Imagining Mount Athos uncovers a set of alternative and l...
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(H/B) TREASURE IN HEAVEN
The "holy poor" have long maintained an elite status within Christianity. Differing from the "real" poor, these clergymen, teachers, and ascetics have historically been viewed by their fellow Christians as persons who should receive material support in exchange for offering immeasurable immaterial benefits - teaching, preaching, and prayer. Supporting them - quite as much as supporting the real poor - has been a way to accumulate eventual treasure in heaven. Yet from the rise of Christian monasticism in Egypt and Syria to present day, Chri...
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MAD PRINCES OF RENAISSANCE GERMANY (P/B)

(H/B) THE SWIFTS

(P/B) NIETZSCHE ON GENDER

(H/B) HOW SOCIETIES ARE BORN - GOVERNANCE IN WEST

(H/B) STARVING ARMENIANS