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This paper explores how criticism surrounding the ethics and safety of biomedical technologies circulates and 'converts' through global-local religious encounters, producing new claims of moral opposition and rights to religious freedom. The paper is concerned with the question of what rhetorical devices make vaccine safety doubt relevant to religiously Orthodox settings and what implications arise? Based on an ethnographic study of vaccine decision-making and non-vaccination advocacy in Jerusalem, the paper examines how opposition is forged amidst evolving global-local encounters and relations. The data reveal how Christian activists attempt to engender ethical and moral opposition to vaccination among American Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem by 'converting' public criticism around safety into a religious discourse of bodily governance. Pinpointing how critiques of biomedical technologies discursively 'convert' offers a conceptual template in anthropology to chart how counter-positions are formed and transformed amidst evolving tensions between biomedical and religious cosmologies.

An insightful look through the history of punishment and prisons offers a new perspective on the changes that have been undergone or would occur in the Romanian penitentiary system. In the last instance the Romanian punishment and prisons have not displayed the same functions from their origin till now. The study of documents, old chronics and writings of various historians unveil huge differences in thinking the punishment and the role of prison in different historic ages. There were times when the prisons were situated either in the center of society (in country's Principe or boyars' courts) or times when they were placed at society's periphery. The execution was public or hidden. A trip in the history of the Romanian detention system opens a wide window toward the future of this social system.

Shoes, gloves, umbrellas, cigars that are not just objects—the topic of fetishism seems both bizarre and inevitable. In this venturesome and provocative book, Emily Apter offers a fresh account of the complex relationship between representation and sexual obsession in turn-of-the-century French culture. Analyzing works by authors in the naturalist and realist traditions as well as making use of documents from a contemporary medical archive, she considers fetishism as a cultural artifact and as a subgenre of realist fiction. Apter traces the web of connections among fin-de-siècle representations of perversion, the fiction of pathology, and the literary case history. She explores in particular the theme of "female fetishism" in the context of the feminine culture of mourning, collecting, and dressing.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Palestine as Metaphor -- Part I. Decolonizing the Maghreb -- 1. Souffles-Anfas: Palestine and the Decolonization of Culture -- 2. Transcolonial Hospitality: Kateb Yacine's Experiments in Popular Theater -- 3. The Transcolonial Exotic: Allegories of Palestine in Ahlam Mosteghanemi's Algerian Trilogy -- Part II. Jews, Arabs, and the Principle of Separation -- 4. Portrait of an Arab Jew: Albert Memmi and the Politics of Indigeneity -- 5. Abrahamic Tongues: Abdelkebir Khatibi, Jacques Hassoun, Jacques Derrida -- 6. Edmond Amran El Maleh and the Cause of the Other -- Epilogue: Palestine and the Syrian Intifada -- Notes -- Index -- Cultural Memory in the Present

The Practice of Citizenship traces the parallel development of early black print culture and legal and cultural understandings of U.S. citizenship. Considering a variety of texts by both canonical and lesser-known authors, Derrick R. Spires demonstrates how black writers articulated an expansive, practice-based theory of citizenship

A curious figure stalks the pages of a distinct subset of mass-market romance novels, aptly called "desert romances." Animalistic yet sensitive, dark and attractive, the desert prince or sheikh emanates manliness and raw, sexual power. In the years since September 11, 2001, the sheikh character has steadily risen in popularity in romance novels, even while depictions of Arab masculinity as backward and violent in nature have dominated the cultural landscape. An Imperialist Love Story contributes to the broader conversation about the legacy of orientalist representations of Arabs in Western

Evolutionary theory sparked numerous speculations about human development, and one of the most ardently embraced was the idea that children are animals recapitulating the ascent of the species. After Darwin's Origin of Species, scientific, pedagogical, and literary works featuring beastly babes and wild children interrogated how our ancestors evolved and what children must do in order to repeat this course to humanity. Exploring fictions by Rudyard Kipling, Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Charles Kingsley, and Margaret Gatty, Jessica Straley argues that Victorian children's literature not only adopted this new taxonomy of the animal child, but also suggested ways to complete the child's evolution. In the midst of debates about elementary education and the rising dominance of the sciences, children's authors plotted miniaturized evolutions for their protagonists and readers and, more pointedly, proposed that the decisive evolutionary leap for both our ancestors and ourselves is the advent of the literary imagination.

It is difficult to imagine two fields of scholarly inquiry with so much in common and yet so little interaction as diplomatic and policy history. Policy, policy process, policymakers, policy origins, policy intentions, policy consequences -- those terms and ones of a similar stripe roll just as easily off the tongues and word processors of diplomatic historians as of self-described policy historians. Moreover, the questions asked and the methods employed by the two groups of scholars bear a striking resemblance. Both fields focus perforce on the state and state-centered actors, concern themselves with elite-level decision making, interrogate fundamental issues of power within societies, and concentrate overwhelmingly on the twentieth century to the relative neglect of earlier periods. Each field occupies as well an embattled position within the larger historical profession, where social and cultural history have predominated since the 1960s. Adapted from the source document.

Volume 3: Literature and Philosophy in the ⁰́₈Long-Late-Victorian⁰́₉ PeriodEdited by Andrea SelleriGeneral introductionVolume 3 introductionPart 1. Knowledge and BeliefArthur Conan Doyle, ⁰́₈The Science of Deduction⁰́₉, of The Sign of Four (London and Philadelphia, 1890), pp. 13-17Edwin Abbott Abbott, Preface to the 2nd edition of Flatland (London, 1884), pp. 17-22George Eliot, ⁰́₈How We Come to Give Ourselves False Testimonials, and Believe in Them⁰́₉, of Impressions of Theophrastus Such (London, 1879), pp. 228-33, 236Henry Jones, excerpt from ⁰́₈A Criticism of Browning⁰́₉s View of the Failure of Knowledge⁰́₉, of Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher (London & New York, 1896), pp. 220-22, 224, 226-28William James, excerpt from ⁰́₈The Psychology of Belief⁰́₉, Mind 19.55 (Jul. 1889), pp. 325-31. Gerard Manley Hopkins, ⁰́₈That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection⁰́₉, The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, ed. Robert Bridges (London: Humphrey Milford, 1918 [written 1889]), pp. 68.Mary Augusta Ward, excerpt from Robert Elsmere (London, 1888), pp. 338-43.Constance Naden, ⁰́₈The Roman Philosopher to Christian Priests⁰́₉ in Songs and Sonnets of Springtime (London, 1881), pp. 16-18James Thomson, ⁰́₈Philosophy⁰́₉ in The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems (London, 1880), pp. 134-37Anon., excerpt from ⁰́₈Modern Pessimism⁰́₉, Quarterly Review 196.392 (1902), pp. 625-29, 636-40, 644-45 Part 2. SelfRobert Louis Stevenson, excerpt from ⁰́₈Markheim⁰́₉ in Henry Norman (ed.), The Broken Shaft: Tales of Mid-Ocean (New York, 1886), 52-7, 60-1, 65-6, 68-78George Henry Lewes, ⁰́₈Consciousness and Unconsciousness⁰́₉, Mind 2.6 (Apr. 1877), pp. 156-61, 163-66May Sinclair, excerpt from ⁰́₈Guyon: A Philosophical Dialogue⁰́₉, in Essays in Verse (London, 1891), pp. 16-23Francis Herbert Bradley, excerpt from ⁰́₈The Meanings of Self⁰́₉, of Appearance and Reality: A Metaphysical Essay (London, 1893), pp. 75-86Mathilde Blind, section III and VI, ⁰́₈Chaunts of Life⁰́₉ in The Ascent of Man (London, 1889), pp. 164-69, 182-87Samuel Butler, ⁰́₈Thought and Language⁰́₉, 1890 lecture, collected in R.A. Streatfeild (ed.) Essays on Life, Art and Science (London, 1908), pp. 176-78, 184-85, 187-92, 206-08, 225-28Edwin Arnold, ⁰́₈Buddha Under the Bodhi Tree⁰́₉, from book 6 of The Light of Asia (Chicago, 1879), pp. 155-73Oscar Wilde (attr.), ⁰́₈The Magnet⁰́₉s Story⁰́₉, reported in Richard Le Gallienne⁰́₉s The Romantic Nineties (Garden City, N.Y., 1925), pp. 254-56Thomas Hardy, ⁰́₈Fore scene: The Overworld⁰́₉, in The Dynasts (London, 1903).Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany, ⁰́₈The Dreams of the Prophet⁰́₉, in Time and the Gods (London, 1906), pp. 118-22Part 3. Art and CriticismWilliam Morris, excerpt from ⁰́₈The Prospects of Architecture in Civilisation⁰́₉, 1881 lecture collected in Hopes and Fears for Art (London, 1882), pp. 190-92, 205-11George Meredith, excerpt from ⁰́₈On the Idea of Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit⁰́₉, The New Quarterly Magazine 8 (Jan. 1877), pp. 1-2, 8-9, 30, 32-33Vernon Lee, excerpt from ⁰́₈On Literary Construction⁰́₉, in The Handling of Words; And Other Studies in Literary Psychology (London: John Lane, 1922 [1886]), pp. 1, 22-29Algernon Charles Swinburne, excerpt from ⁰́₈Victor Hugo: L⁰́₉Annee Terrible⁰́₉, in Essays and Studies (London: Chatto and Windus, 1875 [1872]), pp. 41-45Edward Dowden, excerpt from ⁰́₈The Interpretation of Literature⁰́₉, Transcripts and Studies (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Tr©ơbner & Co., 1896 [1886]), pp. 238-39, 251-52, 254, 265-68.Ella D⁰́₉Arcy (as ⁰́₈G.H. Page⁰́₉), ⁰́₈Personality in Art⁰́₉, Westminster Review 139.1 (Jan. 1893): 646-53.Andrew Cecil Bradley, excerpt from ⁰́₈Poetry for Poetry⁰́₉s Sake⁰́₉, 1901 lecture collected in Oxford Lectures on Poetry (London, 1909), pp. 7-17 James Sully, excerpt from ⁰́₈George Eliot⁰́₉s Art⁰́₉, Mind 6.23 (Jul. 1881), 380-85, 390-91Edward Caird, extract from ⁰́₈Goethe and Philosophy⁰́₉, Essays on Literature and Philosophy (Glasgow: J. Maclehose & sons, 1892 [1886]), pp. 54-55, 58-60, 62-63Havelock Ellis, extract from ⁰́₈Casanova⁰́₉, in Affirmations (London, 1898), pp. 112-18Part 4. SocietyLeslie Stephen, excerpt from ⁰́₈The Moral Element in Literature⁰́₉, Cornhill Magazine 43 (Jan. 1881): 34-9, 49-50Frederick Denison Maurice, excerpt from ⁰́₈Social Morality⁰́₉, in Social Morality: Twenty-One Lectures (London, 1872), pp. 7-11Julia Wedgwood, excerpt from ⁰́₈Ethics and Literature⁰́₉, Contemporary Review 71 (Jan. 1897), pp. 77-80William Hurrell Mallock, excerpt from The New Republic (London, 1877), pp. 213-22Walter Pater, excerpt from ⁰́₈New Cirenaicism⁰́₉, of Marius the Epicurean: His Sensations and Ideas (London, 1885), pp. 143-48, 150-53Grant Allen, excerpt from ⁰́₈The New Hedonism⁰́₉, Fortnightly Review 55.327 (Mar. 1894), 379-83, 389-92Amy Levy, ⁰́₈Xantippe⁰́₉ in Xantippe, and Other Verse (London, 1881), pp. 1-13Lewis Carroll, excerpt from Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (London, 1893), pp. 181-87John Addington Symonds, ⁰́₈Literature ⁰́₃ Idealistic⁰́₉, of A Problem in Modern Ethics: Being an Inquiry into the Phenomenon of Sexual Inversion (London, 1896), pp. 115-20, 122-25Herbert George Wells, excerpt from ⁰́₈Concerning Freedoms⁰́₉, of A Modern Utopia (London, 1905), pp. 31-4, 37-42Index