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Achilles--warrior and hero--by the protocols of Western culture, should never cry. And yet Homeric epic is full of his tears and those of his companions at Troy. This path-blazing study by Helene Monsacre shows how later ideals of stoically inexpressive manhood run contrary to the poetic vision presented in the Iliad and Odyssey. The epic protagonists, as larger-than-life figures who transcend gender categories, are precisely the men most likely to weep.

Monsacre pursues the paradox of the tearful fighter through a series of lucid and detailed close readings, and...

An invaluable resource, this book covers the full range of respiratory infections and explores the techniques used to detect the pathogens involved in asthma. Fifteen international experts representing the range of specialties involved in treating asthma examine the relationship between asthma and infection. They provide authoritative, time-tested guidance clinicians and researchers can utilize and trust. They cover bacterial and viral respiratory infections and pathogen detection, examining how microbes, infections, and antibiotic and anti-inflammatory agents affect asthma. The book helps...

Anthropological writing tends to focus on the influence of status markers such as position, gender, ethnicity, and age on fieldwork. By contrast, far less attention has been paid to how sex, sexuality, eroticism, desire, attraction, and rejection affect ethnographic research.

Focusing on this unacknowledged, personal and often unconscious dimension, Sex: Ethnographic Encounters explores the intersection between sex and ethnography. In thirteen chapters, anthropologists reflect on their own encounters with sex during fieldwork, revealing how attraction and desire influence the...

Anthropological writing tends to focus on the influence of status markers such as position, gender, ethnicity, and age on fieldwork. By contrast, far less attention has been paid to how sex, sexuality, eroticism, desire, attraction, and rejection affect ethnographic research.

Focusing on this unacknowledged, personal and often unconscious dimension, Sex: Ethnographic Encounters explores the intersection between sex and ethnography. In thirteen chapters, anthropologists reflect on their own encounters with sex during fieldwork, revealing how attraction and desire influence the...