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  • Framing Sukkot: Tradition and Transformation in Jewish Vernacular Architecture 
    Gabrielle Anna Berlinger (Indiana University Press, 2017)
  • What Is Philanthropy? 
    Alaimo, Salvatore (Indiana University Press, 2016)
    What is Philanthropy? is a feature length documentary that portrays and discusses the concept of giving within the American context through a critical lens and a variety of perspectives. Contributors to the documentary ...
  • Material Vernaculars: Objects, Images, and Their Social Worlds 
    Jackson, Jason Baird (Indiana University Press, 2016)
    The role of objects and images in everyday life are illuminated incisively in Material Vernaculars, which combines historical, ethnographic, and object-based methods across a diverse range of material and visual cultural ...
  • Folk Art and Aging: Life-Story Objects and Their Makers 
    Kay, Jon (Indiana University Press, 2016)
    Growing old doesn’t have to be seen as an eventual failure but rather as an important developmental stage of creativity. Offering an absorbing and fresh perspective on aging and crafts, Jon Kay explores how elders choose ...
  • Who Let the Dogs Out? 
    Long, Christopher P.
    In this chapter from Plato's Animals, Christopher P. Long tracks the philosophical life among the wolves and dogs of Plato’s Republic. Long argues that the scent-markings of the canines in the Republic leave a trail that ...