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Created2019-09-25
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Dr. Margaret Bruchac, Assistant Professor and Coordinator, Native American & Indigenous Studies at University of Pennsylvania, speaks about her Labriola Center Book Award winning book "Savage Kin: Indigenous Informants and American Anthropologists," published by the University of Arizona Press.

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Created2018-01-23
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Dr. Elizabeth Hoover, Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies at Brown University, speaks with Dr. David Martinez at ASU Library about her award winning book "The River is in Us: Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community," published by the University of Minnesota Press.

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ContributorsToshichika (Artist) / 年親 (Artist) / Toshimine (Artist) / 年峯 (Artist) / Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Collaborator deprecated, use Contributor)) / 月岡 芳年 (Collaborator deprecated, use Contributor))
Created1883 to 1888
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A young girl comes to the assistance of a wounded soldier who is hiding in a barn. The text on the left, 少女 の 仁心 士君子 も 及ば さる 所 あり, roughly translates to "the kindness of a little girl is sometimes better than what even a virtuous man can

A young girl comes to the assistance of a wounded soldier who is hiding in a barn. The text on the left, 少女 の 仁心 士君子 も 及ば さる 所 あり, roughly translates to "the kindness of a little girl is sometimes better than what even a virtuous man can do." Part of a Meiji-period series of didactic prints.

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ContributorsTsukioka Yoshitoshi (Artist) / 月岡 芳年 (Artist) / Watanabe Hori Ei (Contributor) / 渡辺 彫 栄 (Contributor) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1875
DescriptionThis print depicts a woman in a graveyard being rescued by a policeman. The attempted rapist (right) flees from the scene. It is from a series of illustrated sensational news items that Yoshitoshi drew for the newspaper Yūbin hōchi shinbun.
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ContributorsKitagawa Utamaro (Artist) / 喜多川 歌麿 (Artist) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1797 to 1801
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Triptych depicting courtesans, a farmer with with two baskets of eggplant, and a falconer and his falcon being ferried across a river, with Mt. Fuji in the background.
A legend holds that to dream about Mt. Fuji, falcons and eggplant on the first night of the New Year is an omen

Triptych depicting courtesans, a farmer with with two baskets of eggplant, and a falconer and his falcon being ferried across a river, with Mt. Fuji in the background.
A legend holds that to dream about Mt. Fuji, falcons and eggplant on the first night of the New Year is an omen of good fortune.
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ContributorsYanagawa Shigenobu (Contributor) / 柳川 重信 (Contributor)
Created1825 to 1832
DescriptionA late Edo-period surimono print.
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ContributorsTerasaki Kōgyō (Artist) / 寺崎 廣業 (Artist)
Created1888 to 1919
DescriptionKuchi-e illustration with a circular portrait of a young woman washing her face before a mirror, superimposed on a scene of a river and reeds.
ContributorsTakizawa Bakin (Author) / 曲亭 馬琴 (Author) / Utagawa Kuniyasu (Illustrator) / 歌川 国安 (Illustrator) / The Pride Publishing Company (Publisher)
Created1829
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An Edo-period illustrated novel of the gesaku genre.

ContributorsTokoro Nobufumi (Author) / 所 信文 (Author) / Egami Junkichi (Publisher) / 江上 順吉 (Publisher)
Created1897
DescriptionMeiji-period illustrated travel guide to Itsukushima, an island near Hiroshima.
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Created1890 to 1920
DescriptionKuchi-e illustration of a story set in the Heian period.