Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World and creating rituals for holidays

and creating rituals for holidays like Lent and Juneteenth

that showcase the breathtaking multiplicity of ways humanity has responded to the divine across place and time

"dazzling" (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective

Barbarian Days takes us deep into unfamiliar worlds

Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World and creating rituals for holidaysPart philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, The Body in Pain is a profoundly original study that has already stirred excitement in a wide range of intellectual circles. The book is an analysis of physical suffering and its relation to the numerous vocabularies and cultural forces literary, political, philosophical, medical, religious that confront it. Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, medical case