Tabla de Contenidos: “…Imprisonment in U.S. history and the cultural imagination -- Literary execution: race, crime, and punishment in three Faulkner novels -- Soul on ice, schizoanalysis, and the subject of imprisonment -- The executioner's song and the narration of history -- The contradictions of documentary realism in American history X -- "Based upon a true story": the hurricane and the problem of prison redemption -- The farm: "This is no dream or nothing made up, this is for real" -- Staging prisons and the performance of history…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preliminary Material -- Sacrifice in Modernity: Community, Ritual, Identity / The Kapsiki Home Sacrifice / Pro Patria Mori: Sacrificing Life in Service of the Political Community / Self-Sacrifice and the Other(s): Reflections on Andrei Tarkovksy’s The Sacrifice / “Das Opferthier, das nicht vergebens fällt”: The Meaning of Sacrifice in Friedrich Hölderlin’s Der Tod des Empedokles / The Nonviolent Sacrifice: The Role of Tapasya in Nonviolence / Through Fire: Creative Aspects of Sacrificial Rituals in the Vedic-Hindu Continuum / Sacrifice in Early Christianity: The Social Dimensions of a Metaphor / Ritual Slaughter, Religious Plurality and the Secularization of Dutch Society (1919–2011) / Towards a Grown-Up Faith: Love as the Basis for Harry Potter’s Self-Sacrifice / Sacrificial Scripts, Blood Values and Gender in the Twilight Vampire Narrative / Sacrificing Judith / Sacrifice and Islamic Identity / Sacrifice – Action within a Relationship: A Phenomenology of Sacrifice / Self-Sacrifice between Constraint and Redemption: Gertrud von Le Fort’s The Song at the Scaffold / Religion, Suffering and Female Heroism: Transformations in the Meaning of Sacrifice in a Catholic Conversion Movement / Self-Sacrifice and Care Ethics / Animal Substitution as a Reversed Sacrifice: An Intertextual Reading of Genesis 22 and the Animal Stories of Shūsaku Endō / The Fruits of Dissent and the Operationalization of Faith: A Midrashic Reading of the Akedah / Fascination of Sacrifice / Bibliography -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Past was Black: Modesto Brocos, The Redemption of Ham, and Brazilian Slavery Daryle Williams; 14. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…"The Altar of the Dead""The Blue Hotel"; "Rear Window"; The Wild One; Adapting from the Novel; Adapting from the Short Story; Holiday Song; 2001; "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption"; Summary; Exercises; 9. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…LESLIE MARMON SILKO; 4.9. CATHY SONG…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…1 The Integration of Eliade and Lévi-Strauss: Sacred Poles and Songs of Labor as Forms of De-historification -- 2 Historicizing the De-historifying Tendencies of the Modern Magicians in the Study of Religion -- 3 The Magic Christ of Science: Heroic Historicism and the Active Provocation of Crisis in Pursuit of Critical Thinking -- Chapter 5 Critical Ethnocentrism (1949-1959): The Southern Period and the Articulation of a Post-colonial Anthropology alongside Claude Lévi-Strauss -- 1 Notoriety without Success: Controversies with Croce and Intellectual Isolation within the Roman School of History of Religions -- 2 Shaking Earth and Intellectual Transitions: Political Militancy and Ethnographic Journeys in the Italian South -- 3 The Rise of the Cultural-Discursive Paradigm and Self-Reflexive Anthropology -- 4 Tristes Tropiques, Critical Ethnocentrism, and the Anticipation of the Cultural-Discursive Paradigm -- 4.1 Anticipating Said's Orientalism: Anthropology of Guilt and the Ethnographic Encounter -- 4.2 Anticipating Fabian's Time and Other: Anthropology as Self-Reflexivity and Introspection -- 4.3 Anticipating Smith's Imagining Religion: Anthropology as the Study of Culture and the Critical Questioning of Our Categories -- 4.4 Anticipating the Writing Culture Movement: Anthropology and the Language of the People -- Chapter 6 Loyalty to the Cultural Homeland (1960-1965): Critical Ethnocentrism as an Anticipatory Defense against Relativism and Interpretative Anthropology -- 1 A Critic of Interpretative Anthropology Ante Litteram: The Anthropologist of Guilt Becomes a Philosopher of the Apocalypse of Relativism -- 2 Moving with and beyond Antonio Gramsci: From Progressive Folklore to a More Successful Colonialization…”