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Anthropology and Tax. Ethnographies of Fiscal Relations

Anthropology and tax might not appear to fit together at first sight. Taxation is often considered a highly technical and numerical subject, more suitable for lawyers, accountants and economists than...

Johanna Mugler, Miranda Sheild Johansson, Robin Smith | 30 Jan 2025

THE TEMPLE OF ARTEMIS AT SARDIS.  Hellenistic Temple Traditions in Asia Minor

Nestled beneath the “pointed peaks” of the legendary Tmolos Mountains in Turkey, the Temple and Sanctuary of Artemis at Sardis is one of the most impressive monuments of classical antiquity. Dating...

Fikret Yegül, Diane Favro | 30 Jan 2025

“You Can Tell It’s a Translation”

Feminist philosopher and activist María Lugones described dancing the tango as an act of mutual intention – “I ask, intimate, propose; you respond.”  I find that her co-constructed tango practice...

Jean Graham-Jones | 30 Jan 2025

The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies

We are pleased and excited about our just-published coedited book, The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies. In our introduction (available in full on the Cambridge University Press book page),...

Robert S. Levine, Russ Castronovo | 29 Jan 2025

Vanishing Legal Justice: The Changing Role of Judges in an Era of Settlements and Plea Bargains

London: Judge: I offer congratulations. No one can be more pleased than me. It’s always better that the parties settle themselves. Do you want a Tomlin order [a form for a confidential written...

Michal Alberstein, Dr. Nofit Amir | 27 Jan 2025

Creating Better Universities for Everyone

“Improving”, “getting better”,” making a difference”, all are common refrains when university leaders talk about the goals of their institution. We hear versions of these phrases in conversation...

Matthew Hartley, Alan Ruby | 24 Jan 2025

The Science behind Writing with Clarity

To become a better writer, stop imitating published writing—and follow the science If only writers knew the unnecessary effort their texts inflict on hapless readers, they would change the way they...

Yellowlees Douglas | 23 Jan 2025

Unwritten Chapters in Queer American Literature

The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature brings together more than 50 scholars to provide a literary history of the queerness of American literature from its earliest beginnings to 2023. It...

Benjamin Kahan | 23 Jan 2025

The N-body problem is alive and well!

Despite having been alive for more than three centuries the classical N-body problem remainsalive and well! In this book I demonstrate its vibrancy by exploring four open questions within the problem. The...

Richard Montgomery | 22 Jan 2025

The Invention of Ethnicity

Ethnicity is everywhere. From the delights of ‘ethnic cuisine’ to the grim realities of ‘ethnic cleansing’, this concept helps us make sense of the world around us. In many countries, including...

Jaakko Heiskanen | 22 Jan 2025

Can Democracy Recover? The Roots of A Crisis

Imagine a deluge of scholarly works, all describing the symptoms of a disease—but offering no discussion of the deep-rooted factors that caused the outbreak. In recent years, as democracies have faced...

Yaron Ezrahi, Dana Blander | 22 Jan 2025

Britain’s cities are multilingual, but utopian visions of equality are being cancelled

It’s a cliché that Britain’s power as a nation is linked to the English language, so much so that prime minister Theresa May assured the public that Brexit would be a success because “our language...

Yaron Matras | 22 Jan 2025