Two spirits soar

Compares monumental designs and performance spaces of Christian, Buddhist, and related sanctuaries, exploring how brain networks, animal-human emotions, and cultural ideals are ref...

This chapter looks at the Mormons' earliest choirs, first by considering passages in the Book of Mormon that mentioned heavenly “choirs”—all of which would have made sense to a you...

Multispecies Households in the Saian Mountains brings together new ethnographic insights from the mountains of Southern Siberia and Mongolia. Contributors to this edited collection...

This chapter explores an aspect of the artistic tradition of the darék—the mystical tiger-capturing songs sung by a shaman and accompanied by his partner shaman on an oblique bambo...

Ancestral Voices, Healing Narratives: Female Ghosts in Contemporary US and Caribbean Fictionexamines four novels by Erna Brodber, Zoé Valdés, Sandra Cisneros, and Maryse Condé. In ...

Battlefields have traditionally been considered places where the spirits of the dead linger, and popular culture brings those thoughts to life. Supernatural tales of war told in pr...

This is the definitive tribute to the glamor and character of a beloved icon, including rarely published details, photographs and stories about the lasting impact of Audrey Hepburn...

The popularity of high-intensity interval training (HIIT), which consists primarily of repeated bursts of high-intensity exercise, continues to soar because its effectiveness and e...