Courses: history of Western culture and analysis of contemporary conflicts (internal and external), politics of American fantasy films, politics in video games and theme parks Every book after spot 8 is used only in short excerpts
Spring '23 Class Readings Unlisted
Created by FossilPoet
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Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
4 stars
The Communist Manifesto was first published on February 21, and it is one of the world's most influential political tracts. …
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Signifying Serpents and Mardi Gras Runners by R. Celeste Ray, Luke E. Lassiter (Southern Anthropological Society proceedings ;)
These case studies explore how competing interests among the keepers of a community's heritage shape how that community both regards …
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Europe and the People Without History by Eric R. Wolf
4 stars
Offering insight and equal consideration into the societies of the "civilized" and "uncivilized" world, Europe and the People Without History …
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Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
4 stars
A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre.
In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such …
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The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, Constance Borde, Sheila Malovany-Chevallier
4 stars
The Second Sex (French: Le Deuxième Sexe) is a 1949 book by the French existentialist Simone de Beauvoir, in which …
