Paying close attention to the setting in which photographs are made and used, the contributors consider how meanings in photographs, from historical inquiry to

As a visual medium, the photograph has many culturally resonant properties that it shares with no other medium. These essays develop innovative cultural strateg

This book explores the organic lives of popular Sufi shrines in contemporary Northwest India. It traverses the worldview of shrine spaces, rituals and their com

This volume collects work by several European, North American, and Australian academics who are interested in examining the performance and transmission of post

Islam, Memory, and Morality in Yemen tells a story of a Yemeni hereditary elite which was overthrown in the 1962 revolution in North Yemen. For over a millenniu