Transactions and Creations

Transactions and CreationsIn the early 21st century, intellectual and cultural resources emerge on all sides as candidates for ownership claims. Members of an anthropological research team investigating emergent conomic relations in a part of the world renowned for its innovative approach to resources and transactions, wish to open up the vocabulary. In this unique volume, they bring an unexpected comparative perspective to global debates on intellectual and cultural property

One of the most distinctive cultural features of these traditional homes is the decorated wooden balcony-screen—with jigsaw-cut patterns often based on creative repetitions

and wide-ranging discussions of the gestural effects that were integral to the early stage

Explores how China's oldest poetry collection was interpreted in a Confucian exegetical text—the Mao Commentary—in the mid-second century BCE

and even a lake

ethnicity and politics

The culture of food and drink occupies a central role in the development of Chinese civilization

open understanding of philosophy

This is the first collection of critical essays on the works of Dominican American author Julia Alvarez

Moving beyond the easy polarities between general resistance and capitulation

anxiolytics

offering a path forward for clean energy

a photo essay