The First Cataract of the Nile

The First Cataract of the NileCross disciplinary studies in cultural history require regions with unusually favorable conditions of preservation as well as relevance to the disciplines and cultures involved. The first cataract of the Nile offers precisely such a combination, and this work employs a diverse set of academic perspectives to present a diachronic picture of its cultural and geographic history over a period of more than 5,000 years.

Through firsthand descriptions

At once a comparative study and a political intervention

European states have worked together to create a territory free of internal borders and with heavily policed external boundaries

forged independent political alliances

is pervasive precisely because political life finds its expression in a surprising variety of legal forms

intensive dialogues between Foucault and his disciples at a Taoist utopia in the Angeles Forest (whose denizens call Foucault “Country Joe”)

and music theory

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she brings readers along with her through a sequence of heart-wrenching events and revelations that span three decades

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this study also reveals how the discourses and practices of taiko drummers dramatize tensions inherent in Japanese conceptions of race

to the fact that analyses of class too often remain insufficiently transformed by feminist