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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: White plague, black labor: tuberculosis and the political economy of health and disease in South Africa Author: Packard, Randall M 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Anthropology \| Medicine \| Medical Anthropology \| African Studies \| Politics Publisher's Description: Why does tuberculosis, a disease which is both curable and preventable, continue to produce over 50,000 new cases a year in South Africa, primarily among blacks? In answering this question Randall Packard traces the history of one of the most devastating diseases in twentieth-century Africa, against . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Wordsworth and the cultivation of women Author: Page, Judith W 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| English Literature \| Poetry \| Women's Studies \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Focusing on the poems of Wordsworth's "Great Decade," feminist critics have tended to see Wordsworth as an exploiter of women and "feminine" perspectives. In this original and provocative book, Judith Page examines works from throughout Wordsworth's long career to offer a more nuanced feminist accou . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: A place in the sun: Africa in Italian colonial culture from post-unification to the present Author: Palumbo, Patrizia Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| Postcolonial Studies \| European History \| African History \| Immigration Publisher's Description: Given the centrality of Africa to Italy's national identity, a thorough study of Italian colonial history and culture has been long overdue. Two important developments, the growth of postcolonial studies and the controversy surrounding immigration from Africa to the Italian peninsula, have made it c . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: The biography of ancient Israel: national narratives in the Bible Author: Pardes, Ilana Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Religion Publisher's Description: The nation--particularly in Exodus and Numbers--is not an abstract concept but rather a grand character whose history is fleshed out with remarkable literary power. In her innovative exploration of national imagination in the Bible, Pardes highlights the textual manifestations of the metaphor, the m . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Framing the sexual subject: the politics of gender, sexuality, and power Author: Parker, Richard G. (Richard Guy) 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Gender Studies \| Public Policy \| Sociology Publisher's Description: This collection brings together the work of writers from a range of disciplines and cultural traditions to explore the social and political dimensions of sexuality and sexual experience. The contributors reconfigure existing notions of gender and sexuality, linking them to deeper understandings of p . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Assembled in Japan: electrical goods and the making of the Japanese consumer Author: Partner, Simon Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History \| Japan \| Media Studies \| Technology and Society \| Consumerism Publisher's Description: Assembled in Japan investigates one of the great success stories of the twentieth century: the rise of the Japanese electronics industry. Contrary to mainstream interpretation, Simon Partner discovers that behind the meteoric rise of Sony, Matsushita, Toshiba, and other electrical goods companies wa . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Birds of the Salton Sea: status, biogeography, and ecology Author: Patten, Michael A Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Organismal Biology \| Ecology \| Ornithology \| Animals \| California and the West Publisher's Description: The Salton Sea, California's largest inland lake, supports a spectacular bird population that is among the most concentrated and most diverse in the world. Sadly, this crucial stopover along the Pacific Flyway for migratory and wintering shorebirds, landbirds, and waterfowl is dangerously close to c . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: A magic still dwells: comparative religion in the postmodern age Author: Patton, Kimberley C. (Kimberley Christine) 1958- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion \| Comparative Religions Publisher's Description: The first thorough assessment of the field of comparative religion in forty years, this groundbreaking volume surmounts the seemingly intractable division between postmodern scholars who reject the comparative endeavor and those who affirm it. The contributors demonstrate that a broader vision of re . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Making modern mothers: ethics and family planning in urban Greece Author: Paxson, Heather 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Sociology \| Anthropology \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: In Greece, women speak of mothering as "within the nature" of a woman. But this durable association of motherhood with femininity exists in tension with the highest incidence of abortion and one of the lowest fertility rates in Europe. In this setting, how do women think of themselves as proper indi . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Learning to go to school in Japan: the transition from home to preschool life Author: Peak, Lois Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Japan \| Education Publisher's Description: Japanese two-year-olds are indulged, dependent, and undisciplined toddlers, but by the age of six they have become obedient, self-reliant, and cooperative students. When Lois Peak traveled to Japan in search of the "magical childrearing technique" behind this transformation, she discovered that the . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Savagism and civilization: a study of the Indian and the American mind Author: Pearce, Roy Harvey Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Native American Studies Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: China's new business elite: the political consequences of economic reform Author: Pearson, Margaret M 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics \| Economics and Business \| China Publisher's Description: The transition from a planned to a market economy that began in China in the late 1970s unleashed an extraordinary series of changes, including increases in private enterprise, foreign investment, the standard of living, and corruption. Another result of economic reform has been the creation of a ne . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Eloquent gestures: the transformation of performance style in the Griffith Biograph films Author: Pearson, Roberta E Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film Publisher's Description: Between 1908 and 1913, D. W. Griffith played a key role in the reformulating of film's narrative techniques, thus contributing to the creation of what we now think of as the classical Hollywood cinema. This book is the only extensive treatment of a critical period in the history of film acting: the . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Subtle bodies: representing angels in Byzantium Author: Peers, Glenn Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Art \| Medieval Studies \| Art History \| Christianity \| Art and Architecture Publisher's Description: Throughout the course of Byzantine history, Christian doctrine taught that angels have a powerful place in cosmology. It also taught that angels were immaterial, bodiless, invisible beings. But if that were the case, how could they be visualized and depicted in icons and other works of art? This boo . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Morality tales: law and gender in the Ottoman court of Aintab Author: Peirce, Leslie P Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: In this skillful analysis, Leslie Peirce delves into the life of a sixteenth-century Middle Eastern community, bringing to light the ways that women and men used their local law court to solve personal, family, and community problems. Examining one year's proceedings of the court of Aintab, an Anato . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Reason and passion: representations of gender in a Malay society Author: Peletz, Michael G Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This book provides a historical and ethnographic examination of gender relations in Malay society, in particular in the well-known state of Negeri Sembilan, famous for its unusual mixture of Islam and matrilineal descent. Peletz analyzes the diverse ways in which the evocative, heavily gendered symb . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: A share of the harvest: kinship, property, and social history among the Malays of Rembau Author: Peletz, Michael G Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Anthropology \| Asian Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| Southeast Asia Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Rich forests, poor people: resource control and resistance in Java Author: Peluso, Nancy Lee Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology \| Ecology \| Southeast Asia \| Environmental Studies \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: Peluso untangles the complex of peasant and state politics that has developed in Java over three centuries. Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: As we are now: mixblood essays on race and identity Author: Penn, W. S 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Ethnic Studies \| Native American Studies \| American Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| Social Problems \| United States History Publisher's Description: The thirteen contributors to As We Are Now invite readers to explore with them the untamed territory of race and mixblood identity in North America. A "mixblood," according to editor W.S. Penn, recognizes that his or her identity comes not from distinct and separable strains of ancestry but from the . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: The prince and the law, 1200-1600: sovereignty and rights in the western legal tradition Author: Pennington, Kenneth Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Medieval History \| Law Publisher's Description: The power of the prince versus the rights of his subjects is one of the basic struggles in the history of law and government. In this masterful history of monarchy, conceptions of law, and due process, Kenneth Pennington addresses that struggle and opens an entirely new vista in the study of Western . . . [more] Similar Items

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