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The Word in the World
The last century devoted considerable critical attention to questions of how language relates to the world and reached pessimistic views in both direc
Roundtable | Jun 21, 2018 | 16:30 to 18:00
Conservation in the Anthropocene: A Plenary Roundtable
MoreTeaching and Learning the Sciences in Islamicate Societies (800-1700)
This invited book written for undergraduate students brings together my studies of various sources such as scientific texts, biographical dictionaries
Bourgeois Psychology and the Limits of Nature
Theories of consumer decision-making explicitly geared towards advertising executives and branding gurus have been so assiduously popularized that the
The Demarcation of Science in Historical Perspective
The image of science as a mirror of nature has been key not only to defining science but also to its treatment as a historical phenomenon. This image
Gardens of Steam: Projecting Industrial Culture into the Berlin Landscape
A remarkable feature of “English” landscape gardens built in the Berlin area in the nineteenth century is that they were virtually all powered by stea
Islam through American Eyes: The Life and Culture of Clifford Geertz
In the twentieth century, Western anthropologists studied the social practices of Arab and Muslim communities to an unprecedented extent. In the proce
The Changing Cosmology and Knowledge of the Tiger Lands in Buddhist Asia
In contrast to the lion, the tiger retains a relatively marginal position in the current academic landscape. Given the prominent position of the
Huaiyu Chen Tiger Buddhism