The table of contents below contains links to the MUSE edition of each article and shows either an excerpt or a sample image from each of the main entries.
Addition, Erasure, and Adaptation: Interventions in the Rock-Cut Monuments of Māmallapuram
Vidya Dehejia and Richard Davis, 1
Guest edited by Teresia K Teaiwa and Selina Tusitala Marsh
About the Artist: Michel Tuffery, ix
Albert Wendt’s Critical and Creative Legacy in Oceania: An Introduction
Teresia Teaiwa and Selina Tusitala Marsh, 233
Continue reading “The Contemporary Pacific, vol. 22, no. 2: Flying Fox Excursions”
Doing Business in China: Tips for an Outsider (Lǎowài)
(reviewing Xiaowen Tian, Managing International Business in China; Tim Ambler, Morgen Witzel, and Chao Xi, Doing Business in China; Hong Liu, Chinese Business: Landscapes and Strategies)
Reviewed by Anton Kriz and Byron Keating, 1
What Time Is the “Great Divergence”? And Why Economic Historians Think It Matters
(reviewing Walter Scheidel, editor, Rome and China: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires; Tommy Bengstsson, Cameron Campbell, and James Z. Lee, Life Under Pressure: Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700–1900)
Reviewed by Niv Horesh, 18
Continue reading “China Review International, vol. 16, no. 1 (2009)”
EDITORS’ NOTE, iii
ARTICLES
Telling the Life Story, Anxiously: The Memoirs of Teresa and Anna Campbell
Judith Lütge Coullie, 309
Presidential Address: The Edge of the World: Embattled Leagues of Children and Seals Teeter on the Rim
Stuart C. Aitken, 12
Siena on the Silk Roads: Ambrogio Lorenzetti and the Mongol Global Century, 1250–1350
Roxann Prazniak, 177
The Mongol Empire opened intellectual exchange across the Eurasian expanse, generating a century of translocal creativity and cultural innovation. Continue reading “Journal of World History, vol. 21, no. 2 (2010)”
Diṅnāga and Mental Models: A Reconstruction
Amita Chatterjee and Smita Sirker, 315
Continue reading “Philosophy East and West, vol. 60, no. 3 (2010)”
Top-Down Analysis of Forest Structure and Biogeochemistry across Hawaiian Landscapes
Peter M. Vitousek, Michael A. Tweiten, James Kellner, Sara C. Hotchkiss, Oliver A. Chadwick, and Gregory P. Asner, 359-366
Technical and analytical improvements in aircraft-based remote sensing allow synoptic measurements of structural and chemical properties of vegetation across whole landscapes. Continue reading “Pacific Science, vol. 64, no. 3 (2010)”
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EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
Autobiographical Discourse in the Theaters of Politics
Sidonie Smith, v
During the course of the 2008 presidential election in the United States, candidates, voters, journalists, pundits, and campaign operatives engaged directly and indirectly in an extended national debate about auto/biographical storytelling, its generic forms, its grounds of authenticity, its routes of circulation, and its afterlives in various media. In the wake of that election, scholars have been probing the conjunctions of personal discourse and political discourse, autobiographical acts, and the “theater” of politics. This introduction situates contributions to this special issue of Biography in the context of three broad themes: the personalization of politics over the last five decades, with its mobilization of the personal story to suture political persona and national fable; the social action of genre in constituting political publics, in such diverse genres as television reality shows, blogs, and national biography; and the archives of the fragment animating strategic biographism and scholarly methodology.
Continue reading “Biography, vol. 33, no. 1 (2010): Personal Narrative & Political Discourse”
