Forthcoming Titles

To pre-order any of these titles or for further information please contact Alessandra Tosi.

Oral Literature in the Digital Age: Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities
Mark Turin, Claire Wheeler and Eleanor Wilkinson (eds.)

Forthcoming in May 2013. "This book addresses a vitally important topic of considerable interest to a broad group of readers." —Dr. Mick Gowar, Anglia Ruskin University Thanks to ever-greater digi

Storytelling in Northern Zambia: Theory, Method, Practice and Other Necessary Fictions
Robert Cancel

Forthcoming in June 2013. Storytelling plays an important part in the vibrant cultural life of Zambia and in many other communities across Africa. This book provides a collection and analysis of oral narrative traditions as practiced by f

Feeding the City: Work and Food Culture of the Mumbai Dabbawalas
Sara Roncaglia

Forthcoming in June 2013. After the success of the campaign to make Ruth Finnegan’s Oral Literature in Africa freely available, we’re working with unglue.it to crowd-fund this book. Read more about the campaign and donate here: htt

How to Read a Folktale: The 'Ibonia' Epic from Madagascar
Lee Haring

Forthcoming in July 2013. How to Read a Folktale offers the first English translation of Ibonia, a spellbinding tale of old Madagascar. Ibonia is a folktale on epic scale. Much of its plot sounds familiar: a powerful royal hero attempts to rescue

On History:
Jules Michelet. Translated by Flora Kimmich and Edward K. Kaplan. Introduction by Lionel Gossman

Forthcoming in 2013. Arguably the greatest of Romantic historians and immensely popular during his lifetime, Jules Michelet (1798-1874) fell into disfavor among the ‘scientific’ historians who came after him and who regarded his work with di

Blood and Canvas: English Court Theatre and the Dawn of the Civil War
Barbara Ravelhofer

Forthcoming in 2013.   What motivated a Member of Parliament to slash a Rubens painting in 1644? The reign of Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria saw a flourishing of great art, but also acts fueled by anti

Measuring the Master Race: Physical Anthropology in Norway 1890-1945
Jon Røyne Kyllingstad

Forthcoming in 2014.    ISBN Paperback: 978-1-909254-54-1 ISBN Hardback: 978-1-909254-55-8 ISBN Digital (PDF): 978-1-909254-56-5 ISBN Digital ebook (epub): 978-1-909254-57-2 ISBN Digital ebook (mobi): 978-1-909254-58-9

George Bryant (linguistic work by Amy Miller)

Forthcoming in Summer 2013. The Quechan people live along the lower part of the Colorado River in the United States.  According to tradition, the Quechan and other Yuman people were created at the beginning of time, and their Creation myt

Zoë Svendsen

Forthcoming in 2013. ISBN Paperback: 978-1-909254-65-7 ISBN Hardback: 978-1-909254-66-4 ISBN Digital (PDF): 978-1-909254-67-1 ISBN Digital ebook (epub): 978-1-909254-68-8 ISBN Digital ebook (mobi): 978-1-909254-69-5

Florence Goyet

Forthcoming in 2013. ISBN Paperback: 978-1-909254-75-6 ISBN Hardback: 978-1-909254-76-3 ISBN Digital (PDF): 978-1-909254-77-0  ISBN Digital ebook (epub): 978-1-909254-78-7 ISBN Digital ebook (mobi): 978-1-909254-7