Digital projects from Stanford University Press

Feral Atlas

The More-Than-Human Anthropocene

Edited by Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei Zhou

As the planet erupts with human and nonhuman distress, Feral Atlas delves into the details, exposing world-ripping entanglements between human infrastructure and nonhumans. More than one hundred scientists, humanists, and artists contribute to an original and playful approach to studying our relationship with the world.

Black Quotidian

Everyday History in African-American Newspapers

Matthew F. Delmont

Black Quotidian explores everyday lives of African Americans in the twentieth century. Drawing on an archive of digitized African-American newspapers, Matthew F. Delmont guides readers through a wealth of primary resources that reveal how the Black press popularized African-American history and valued the lives of both famous and ordinary Black people.

Constructing the Sacred

Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian Necropolis of Saqqara

Elaine A. Sullivan

The long-lived burial site of Saqqara, Egypt, has been studied for more than a century. But the site we visit today is a palimpsest, the result of thousands of years of change, both architectural and environmental. In Constructing the Sacred, Elaine A. Sullivan uses 3D technologies to reveal how changes of Saqqara’s millennia-long use influenced sacred ceremonies and ritual meaning at the necropolis.

The Chinese Deathscape

Grave Reform in Modern China

Edited by Thomas S. Mullaney

In the past decade alone, more than ten million corpses have been exhumed and reburied across the Chinese landscape. The campaign has transformed China’s graveyards into sites of acute personal, social, political, and economic contestation. In this digital volume, three historians of China, Jeffrey Snyder-Reinke, Christian Henriot, and Thomas S. Mullaney, chart out the history of China’s rapidly shifting deathscape.

Filming Revolution

Alisa Lebow

Filming Revolution investigates documentary and independent filmmaking in Egypt since the Egyptian Revolution began in 2011. It brings together the collective wisdom and creative strategies of thirty filmmakers, artists, activists, and archivists who share their thoughts and experiences of filmmaking in those heady times.

When Melodies Gather

Oral Art of the Mahra

Samuel Liebhaber

The Mahra people of the southern Arabian Peninsula have no written language but instead possess a rich oral tradition. In When Melodies Gather, Samuel Liebhaber takes readers on a tour through their poetry, collected by the author in audio and video recordings over the course of several years.

Enchanting the Desert

Nicholas Bauch

Enchanting the Desert is a careful examination of Henry Peabody's early-twentieth-century slideshow of the Grand Canyon. By placing this study within the spatial framework of the Canyon itself, and embellishing Peabody's slideshow with rich overlays, Bauch has created a digital prototype for studying historical and cultural geography.