This paper is about the persistent absence of critical interpretation in work focused on gender and gameplay. Since its beginnings, research (and resulting practice) in this area has moved little if at all from the early work in the path-breaking Cassells and Jenkins volume dedicated to girls and gaming. In the currently very well-regarded and oft-cited volume on “girl-friendly” game design, Sh...

The classical books on this subject are Hampel et al. (1986); Huber (1981), with somewhat simpler (but partial) introductions by Rousseeuw & Leroy (1987); Staudte & Sheather (1990). The dates reflect the development of the subject: it had tremendous growth for about two decades from 1964, but failed to win over the mainstream. I think it is an important area that is used a lot less than it ough...

This article introduces the concept of monumental preservation, which the author defines as the preservation of all cultural phenomena, because from the smallest item to the greatest monument all things emanate from and reflect culture. The imperative to preserve monuments is the imperative to preserve our cultural heritage. Whether there is a moral responsibility to preserve cultural heritage ...

On March 20, 2003, military forces of the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia invaded Iraq. In the course of this invasion and subsequent occupation, Iraq’s cultural infrastructure suffered a great deal of destruction. While international attention has focused primarily on the immense destruction done to the country’s preIslamic archaeological assets, domestic Iraqi attention has focus...

I am grateful to those interviewed for this article, only some of whom are quoted here; to John Echeverri Gent, Rob Jenkins, Alan Potter, Milan Vaishnav and the editors at EPW for thoughtful written comments; and to colleagues at seminars at Brown University, NYU’s Annual South Asia conference, NYU’s Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, the University of Stockholm, the American Polit...

The following lemma was first considered by Ahlfors [l ] and later by Polya [3], both of whom gave simple proofs and quite different applications. Later Jenkins [2] gave a considerably more involved proof whose merit was its generalizability to other problems. In this note we introduce two methods which yield simple proofs of all of the results in [2] and lead to still further interesting gener...