The papers of this special issue discuss the question of sketch as a subject matter of aesthetics, in theory and in practice, rather than an art history. The issue of sketch does not necessarily concern with artworks. Thus, in “Sketch as Medium in...

The world of insects is at once beneath our feet and unfathomably alien. Small and innumerable, insects surround and disrupt us even as we scarcely pay them any mind. Insects confront us with the limits of what is imaginable, while at the same time...

This book highlights the role of emotions in the contentious politics of modern South Asia. It brings new methodological, theoretical and empirical insights to the mutual constitution of emotions and mobilisations in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh....

The Gothic has always been fascinated with objects carrying with them a sense of horror　– the decomposing body, the rigid corpse, the bleeding statue, the spectral skeleton　– capable of creating a sublime form of beauty. Gothic Remains: Corpses,...

La chimica del Settecento è una scienza soggetta a rapide e profondissime trasformazioni. Per molti versi questi cambiamenti coesistono con la persistenza di concetti attinti dalla tradizione alchemica: mentre personalità autorevoli come Guillaume...

Knowledge and the Early Modern City uses case studies from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries to examine the relationships between knowledge and the city and how these changed in a period when the nature and conception of both was drastically...

Through ethnographic data, the author presents the still little known bimo metaphysics and unravels the complexity of the local text-based ritual system in which the continuity of each bimo lineage relies on the transmission of manuscripts whose...

FFJ is pleased to announce the publication of Innovation Beyond Technology. Science for Society and Interdisciplinary Approaches by Springer. This book is the outcome of the close collaboration between JST, CNRS and EHESS for the organization of two...

“She said: we are conscientious workers … We must make do with what we have … It’s not so bad compared to what it once was … We had a quiet life … We earned our bread honestly …”. As a kind of homecoming, Philippe Gaboriau traces the life of his...

“She said: we are conscientious workers … We must make do with what we have … It’s not so bad compared to what it once was … We had a quiet life … We earned our bread honestly …”. As a kind of homecoming, Philippe Gaboriau traces the life of his...

What can a focus on “food projects” in Europe tell us about contemporary social processes and cultural debates? Valeria Siniscalchi and Krista Harper show how food becomes a marker of identity and resistance to social exclusion, and how food values...

What can a focus on “food projects” in Europe tell us about contemporary social processes and cultural debates? Valeria Siniscalchi and Krista Harper show how food becomes a marker of identity and resistance to social exclusion, and how food values...