Category: On the Syllabus

The depth and breadth of CSSH essays makes them ideal for use in university classrooms. Whether you are looking for a cornerstone classic or the best new scholarship, we will have it, and it will be written in a smart, accessible style. In this feature, we invite CSSH authors and editors to compile some of their favorite essays on specific research topics.

Matter of Faith: Religion and Materiality 

A worshiper places a lit candle before a statuette of the Virgin of the Valley (Virgen del Valle) on Margarita Island, Venezuela. Wikimedia Commons.

A collection of CSSH essays on sacred images, devotional objects, and holy places.

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Doing Things With Words

The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1563. Kunsthistorisches Museum. Wiki.

A collection of CSSH essays on language, power, identity, and authority.

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Martyrs & Memorials

Saint culture, Martyr of Fascism by Angela Nebot. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. Wikimedia Commons.

A collection of CSSH essays on martyrs and memorialization.

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Marriage

Illustration of a part of a Tibetan wedding ceremony: the bride is picked up at her house, c. the late 1850s. (Wikimedia Commons.)

A collection of CSSH’s scholarship on marriage and conjugality.

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Comestibles, Cuisines, and Convivia

The 'Unswept Floor,' signed by Heraklitos. Mosaic from Rome, probably second century C.E. Museo Gregoriano Profano, Vatican Museum. Wikimedia Commons.

A collection CSSH essays on the anthropology and history of food commodities and culinary cultures.

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Legal Cultures

"An Old Man and His Young Wife Before Religious Arbitrators," Folio from a Gulistan of Sa'di, Painting attributed to Daula,Indian, 1610–15

A syllabus of CSSH scholarship on law and legal institutions.

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Love letters from CSSH

The Love Letter by Eugene von Blaas, 1913

A Valentine’s Day sampler: CSSH scholarship on love, romance, dating, and marriage.

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CSSH’s Collection on Afghanistan

For more nuanced analysis of Afghan society, politics, and culture than you will find in the news, please explore CSSH’s collection of essays exploring Afghanistan in transregional, diversely historical contexts.

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