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| 41. |  | Title: Listen to the heron's words: reimagining gender and kinship in North India  Author: Raheja, Gloria Goodwin 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Women's Studies | South Asia Publisher's Description: In many South Asian oral traditions, herons are viewed as duplicitous and conniving. These traditions tend also to view women as fragmented identities, dangerously split between virtue and virtuosity, between loyalties to their own families and those of their husbands. In women's songs, however, sym . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 42. |  | Title: Livelihood and resistance: peasants and the politics of land in Peru Author: Smith, Gavin Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Latin American Studies Similar Items |
| 43. |  | Title: Lives at risk: public health in nineteenth-century Egypt Author: Kuhnke, LaVerne Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology Publisher's Description: Lives at Risk describes the introduction of Western medicine into Egypt. The two major innovations undertaken by Muhammad Ali in the mid-nineteenth century were a Western-style school of medicine and an international Quarantine Board. The ways in which these institutions succeeded and failed will gr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 44. |  | Title: Making Muslim space in North America and Europe Author: Metcalf, Barbara Daly 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | History | Islam | Middle Eastern Studies | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Focusing on the private and public use of space, this volume explores the religious life of the new Muslim communities in North America and Europe. Unlike most studies of immigrant groups, these essays concentrate on cultural practices and expressions of everyday life rather than on the political is . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 45. |  | Title: Maring hunters and traders: production and exchange in the Papua New Guinea highlands Author: Healey, Christopher J Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Pacific Rim Studies | Asian Studies Similar Items |
| 46. |  | Title: Masks of the spirit: image and metaphor in Mesoamerica Author: Markman, Peter T Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Art | Folklore and Mythology Similar Items |
| 47. |  | Title: Mass mediations: new approaches to popular culture in the Middle East and beyond Author: Armbrust, Walter Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Media Studies | Music | Cinema and Performance Arts Publisher's Description: Offering a stimulating diversity of perspectives, this collection examines how popular culture through mass media defines the scale and character of social interaction in the Middle East. The contributors approach popular culture broadly, with an interest in how it creates new scales of communicatio . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 48. |  | Title: Mesocosm: Hinduism and the organization of a traditional Newar city in Nepal Author: Levy, Robert I. (Robert Isaac) 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Tibet | Hinduism | Asian History Publisher's Description: Mesocosm is a study of Hinduism in its most fully realized form as a symbolic system for organizing the life of a particular kind of city - what the author terms an "archaic" city. The work is a detailed description and analysis of the symbolic world of Bhaktapur, a unicultural city in the Kathmandu . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 49. |  | Title: Mirages of transition: the Peruvian altiplano, 1780-1930 Author: Jacobsen, Nils 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Anthropology | Latin American History | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: This case study of the Peruvian altiplano, the vast high-altitude plains surrounding Lake Titicaca, combines economic and social analysis with cultural and institutional history. Nils Jacobsen challenges the prevailing view that the rural Andes underwent a successful transition to capitalism between . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 50. |  | Title: Muslim rulers and rebels: everyday politics and armed separatism in the southern Philippines Author: McKenna, Thomas M 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Politics | Islam | Southeast Asia | Asian History Publisher's Description: In this first ground-level account of the Muslim separatist rebellion in the Philippines, Thomas McKenna challenges prevailing anthropological analyses of nationalism as well as their underlying assumptions about the interplay of culture and power. He examines Muslim separatism against a background . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 51. |  | Title: The mystique of dreams: a search for utopia through Senoi dream theory Author: Domhoff, G. William Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Sociology | Psychology | Anthropology Publisher's Description: A fascinating strand of the human potential movement of the 1960s involved the dream mystique of a previously unknown Malaysian tribe, the Senoi, first brought to the attention of the Western world by adventurer-anthropologist-psychologist Kilton Stewart. Exploring the origin, attraction, and effica . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 52. |  | Title: A nation of empire: the Ottoman legacy of Turkish modernity Author: Meeker, Michael E Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Middle Eastern Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: This innovative study of modern Turkey is the result of many years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research. Michael Meeker expertly combines anthropological and historical methods to examine the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic in a major region of the country, the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 53. |  | Title: Native and newcomer: making and remaking a Japanese city Author: Robertson, Jennifer Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Japan | Asian History | Urban Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This expertly crafted ethnography examines the ways in which native and new citizens of Kodaira, a Tokyo suburb, have both remade the past and imagined the future of their city in a quest for an "authentic" Japanese community. Similar Items |
| 54. |  | Title: Ngoma: discourses of healing in central and southern Africa Author: Janzen, John M Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Medical Anthropology Publisher's Description: Ngoma , in Bantu, means drum, song, performance, and healing cult or association. A widespread form of ritual healing in Central and Southern Africa, ngoma is fully investigated here for the first time and interpreted in a contemporary context. John Janzen's daring study incorporates drumming and sp . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 55. |  | Title: No aging in India: Alzheimer's, the bad family, and other modern things Author: Cohen, Lawrence 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Aging | South Asia Publisher's Description: From the opening sequence, in which mid-nineteenth-century Indian fishermen hear the possibility of redemption in an old woman's madness, No Aging in India captures the reader with its interplay of story and analysis. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic work, Lawrence Cohen links a detaile . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 56. |  | Title: Oil age Eskimos Author: Jorgensen, Joseph G 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Ecology | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In a book made especially timely by the disastrous Exxon Valdez oil spill in March 1989, Joseph Jorgensen analyzes the impact of Alaskan oil extraction on Eskimo society. The author investigated three communities representing three environments: Gambell (St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea), Wainwright . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 57. |  | Title: Old, alone, and neglected: care of the aged in the United States and Scotland Author: Kayser-Jones, Jeanie Schmit Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Aging | Medical Anthropology | Medicine Publisher's Description: As the median age of the population increases, the care and housing of the elderly in the U.S. are of increasing concern. Jeanie Kayser-Jones compares a typical private institution in the U.S. with a government-owned home in Scotland.Her analysis compels attention to the systematic abuse of the inst . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 58. |  | Title: On the road to tribal extinction: depopulation, deculuration, and adaptive well-being among the Batak of the Philippines Author: Eder, James F Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Southeast Asia Publisher's Description: The cultural and even physical extinction of the world's remaining tribal people is a disturbing phenomenon of our time. In his study of the Batak of the Philippines, James Eder explores the adaptive limits of small human populations facing the ecological changes, social stresses, and cultural disru . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 59. |  | Title: Paying the price of freedom: family and labor among Lima's slaves, 1800-1854 Author: Hünefeldt, Christine Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Anthropology | Latin American History | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Christine Hünefeldt documents in impressive, moving detail the striving and ingenuity, the hard-won triumphs and bitter defeats of slaves who sought liberation in nineteenth-century urban Peru. Drawing on judicial, ecclesiastical, and notarial records - including the testimony of the slaves themselv . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 60. |  | Title: Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China Author: Harrell, Stevan Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | China | Ethnic Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: Nearly seven million Yi people live in Southwest China, but most educated people outside China have never heard of them. This book, the first scholarly study in a Western language on the Yi in four decades, brings this little-known part of the world to life. Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China . . . [more] Similar Items |