King Solomon, ignorant of the history of the two rival claimants to a baby, was confident of
the principle that mothers are naturally loving. Bertolt Brecht, revising the story, argued that …

Is the restaurant an ideal total social phenomenon for the contemporary world? Restaurants
are framed by the logic of the market, but promise experiences not of the market …

The topics that might be addressed in a survey of law and social science literature pertaining
to cultural property have multiplied exponentially in the past decade. In international law, it …

Recent anthropological and other literature tends to assume that the uses of heritage in
modern societies lead to the falsification, petrification, desubstantiation, and enclosure of the …

In this essay, we develop a typology of spaces. We highlight the broader dynamics at play in
the structuring of space and its role in marketing and propose that spaces can be …

Festivals have always been part of city life, but their relationship with their host cities has
continually changed. With the rise of industrialization, they were largely considered …

A provocative theoretical synthesis by renowned folklorist and anthropologist Charles L.
Briggs, Unlearning questions intellectual foundations and charts new paths forward. Briggs …

As neoliberalism has taken root in the Caribbean, heritage tourism has grown enormously.
Using examples drawn from the Trinidad Carnival, this article shows how culture becomes a …

How do we talk about racism, which we must, given its pervasiveness, without erasing
significant changes that distinguish the present from the past and, even more important …

Upward, Not Sunwise explores an influential and growing neo-Pentecostal movement
among Native Americans characterized by evangelical Christian theology, charismatic “spirit …