Reconsidering the Life of Power

Reconsidering the Life of PowerOffers a compelling intercultural perspective on body, art, self, and society. Reconsidering the Life of Power examines Chinese perspectives on bodily self cultivation and explores how these can be resources for working past the ritual scripts of everyday life. In recent decades, European and American thinkers like Michel Foucault and Judith Butler have called attention to the way that people live out ritual scripts in order to be recognized by other

and their contemporaries

Cultural practices which deform

public high school

each as a concerto movement

was initially written with the intention of illuminating white abolitionists to the appalling treatment of female slaves in the pre-Civil War South of the United States

Now a teenager

and struggle with the social and political landscape of post-revolutionary Egypt

including methods to discover a witch

It offers a new and theoretically innovative account of the dynamics of multi-level governance based on a comparative study of territorial party strategies in the UK

The book introduces four distinct modes of self-transcendent experience—supernatural

using dozens of public opinion surveys collected since 1968

as speakers and members of linguistic communities