University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
The Way of Kinship
An Anthology of Native Siberian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2010
That these treasures are available to us as writing is a miracle. . . . The writings here, while altogether modern in one sense, are based upon a literature, albeit oral, that has existed for thousands of years. They are the reflections of people who have lived long on the earth, on their own terms,...
The Social Project
Housing Postwar France
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Winner of the 2015 Abbott Lowell Cummings prize from the Vernacular Architecture Forum Winner of the 2016 Sprio Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians In the three decades following World War II, the French government engaged in one of the twentieth century’s greatest social...
Utopian Television
Rossellini, Watkins, and Godard beyond Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Television has long been a symbol of social and cultural decay, yet many in postwar Europe saw it as the medium with the greatest potential to help build a new society and create a new form of audiovisual art. Utopian Television examines works of the great filmmakers Roberto Rossellini, Peter Watkins,...
by Douglas Wood
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2001
Fawn Island is a place where crows serve as alarm clocks, white-throated sparrows leave the tracks of their songs upon the evening hush, and chickadees help a woodsman learn to whistle. The island is also a jumping-off place for journeys large and small, earthly and spiritual-to nearby Mallard Island,...
Seizing Jerusalem
The Architectures of Unilateral Unification
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
After seizing Jerusalem’s eastern precincts from Jordan at the conclusion of the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel unilaterally unified the city and plunged into an ambitious building program, eager to transform the very meaning of one of the world’s most emotionally charged urban spaces. The goal was...
Historic Capital
Preservation, Race, and Real Estate in Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Washington, D.C. has long been known as a frustrating and sometimes confusing city for its residents to call home. The monumental core of federal office buildings, museums, and the National Mall dominates the city’s surrounding neighborhoods and urban fabric. For much of the postwar era, Washingtonians...
Modernism as Memory
Building Identity in the Federal Republic of Germany
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
After World War II, West Germans and West Berliners found ways of communicating both their recent sufferings and aspirations for stable communities through buildings that fused the ruins of historicist structures with new constructions rooted in the modernism of the 1910s and ‘20s. As Modernism...
A House of Prayer for All People
Contesting Citizenship in a Queer Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Perhaps an unlikely subject for an ethnographic case study, the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto in Canada is a large predominantly LGBT church with a robust, and at times fraught, history of advocacy. While the church is often riddled with fault lines and contradictions, its queer and faith-based...
The Interface
IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945–1976
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
In February 1956 the president of IBM, Thomas Watson Jr., hired the industrial designer and architect Eliot F. Noyes, charging him with reinventing IBM’s corporate image, from stationery and curtains to products such as typewriters and computers and to laboratory and administration buildings. What...
The Cinema and Its Shadow
Race and Technology in Early Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
The Cinema and Its Shadow argues that race has defined the cinematic apparatus since the earliest motion pictures, especially at times of technological transition. In particular, this work explores how racial difference became central to the resolving of cinematic problems: the stationary camera, narrative...
The Quay Brothers
Into a Metaphysical Playroom
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
This work is the first thorough analysis of the creative oeuvre of the Quay Brothers. Known for their animation shorts that rely on puppetry, miniatures, and stop-motion techniques, their fiercely idiosyncratic films are fertile fields for Suzanne Buchan's engaging descriptions and provocative insights...
Days on the Family Farm
From the Golden Age through the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
From the beginning of the twentieth century to World War II, farm wife May Lyford Davis kept a daily chronicle that today offers a window into a way of life that has all but disappeared. May and her husband Elmo lived through two decades of prosperity, the Great Depression, and two World Wars in their...
Freud in Oz
At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Children’s literature has spent decades on the psychiatrist’s couch, submitting to psychoanalysis by scores of scholars and popular writers alike. Freud in Oz turns the tables, suggesting that psychoanalysts owe a significant and largely unacknowledged debt to books ostensibly written for children....
Turn Here Sweet Corn
Organic Farming Works
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
When the hail starts to fall, Atina Diffley doesn’t compare it to golf balls. She’s a farmer. It’s “as big as a B-size potato.” As her bombarded land turns white, she and her husband Martin huddle under a blanket and reminisce: the one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds; the eleven-inch rainfall (“that...