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| 121. |  | Title: Importing diversity: inside Japan's JET Program Author: McConnell, David L 1959- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | Japan | Politics | Education Publisher's Description: In 1987, the Japanese government inaugurated the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) program in response to global pressure to "internationalize" its society. This ambitious program has grown to be a major government operation, with an annual budget of $400 million (greater than the United States NEA . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 122. |  | Title: In one's own shadow: an ethnographic account of the condition of post-reform rural China Author: Liu, Xin 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | China Publisher's Description: China underwent a dramatic social transformation in the last decade of the twentieth century. This powerful ethnographic study of one community focuses on the logic of everyday practice in post-reform rural China. Enriched with many vivid anecdotes describing life in the village of Zhaojiahe in nort . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 123. |  | Title: In the beginning: the Navajo genesis Author: Levy, Jerrold E 1930- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Native American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | California and the West | Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Religion | American Literature Publisher's Description: Jerrold E. Levy's masterly analysis of Navajo creation and origin myths shows what other interpretations often overlook: that the Navajo religion is as complete and nuanced an attempt to answer humanity's big questions as the religions brought to North America by Europeans. Looking first at the hist . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 124. |  | Title: In the midst of life: affect and ideation in the world of the Tolai Author: Epstein, A. L. (Arnold Leonard) Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: The Tolai are among the most distinctive of Papua New Guinea's indigenous peoples. For all their success in the pursuit of modernity, the Tolai remain traditional in their attitudes toward death, the cultural elaboration of which colors almost every aspect of their existence.In his new book, A. L. E . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 125. |  | Title: Inalienable possessions: the paradox of keeping-while-giving Author: Weiner, Annette B 1933- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | East Asia Other Publisher's Description: Inalienable Possessions tests anthropology's traditional assumptions about kinship, economics, power, and gender in an exciting challenge to accepted theories of reciprocity and marriage exchange. Focusing on Oceania societies from Polynesia to Papua New Guinea and including Australian Aborigine gro . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 126. |  | Title: Infertility around the globe: new thinking on childlessness, gender, and reproductive technologies Author: Inhorn, Marcia Claire 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Asian Studies | Medical Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | Politics | Medicine | Sociology | Sociology Publisher's Description: This exceptional collection of essays breaks new ground by examining the global impact of infertility as a major reproductive health issue, one that has profoundly affected the lives of countless women and men. Based on original research by seventeen internationally acclaimed social scientists, it i . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 127. |  | Title: Inside the American couple: new thinking/new challenges  Author: Yalom, Marilyn Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Sociology | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | Women's Studies | Women's Studies | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: One of the most fundamental human urges is to form a pair. Despite many tendencies that threaten traditional marriage and even make committed cohabitation problematic, very few people live through adulthood without at least one lengthy relationship, and up to ninety percent of Americans marry at lea . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 128. |  | Title: Inside the drama-house: Rama stories and shadow puppets in South India Author: Blackburn, Stuart H Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | South Asia | Cinema and Performance Arts | Hinduism Publisher's Description: Stuart Blackburn takes the reader inside a little-known form of shadow puppetry in this captivating work about performing the Tamil version of the Ramayana epic. Blackburn describes the skill and physical stamina of the puppeteers in Kerala state in South India as they perform all night for as many . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 129. |  | Title: International development and the social sciences: essays on the history and politics of knowledge Author: Cooper, Frederick 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Social Science | Postcolonial Studies | Anthropology | Economics and Business | Politics Publisher's Description: During the past fifty years, colonial empires around the world have collapsed and vast areas that were once known as "colonies" have become known as "less developed countries" or "the third world." The idea of development - and the relationship it implies between industrialized, affluent nations and . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 130. |  | Title: Is Taiwan Chinese?: the impact of culture, power, and migration on changing identities Author: Brown, Melissa J Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | China | Sociology Publisher's Description: The "one China" policy officially supported by the People's Republic of China, the United States, and other countries asserts that there is only one China and Taiwan is a part of it. The debate over whether the people of Taiwan are Chinese or independently Taiwanese is, Melissa J. Brown argues, a ma . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 131. |  | Title: Islands in the city: West Indian migration to New York Author: Foner, Nancy 1945- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Social Problems Publisher's Description: This collection of original essays draws on a variety of theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and empirical data to explore the effects of West Indian migration and to develop analytic frameworks to examine it. Similar Items |
| 132. |  | Title: Japanese workers in protest: an ethnography of consciousness and experience Author: Turner, Christena L 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Japan | Sociology Publisher's Description: This first ethnographic study of factory workers engaged in radical labor protest gives a voice to a segment of the Japanese population that has been previously marginalized. These blue-collar workers, involved in prolonged labor disputes, tell their own story as they struggle to make sense of their . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 133. |  | Title: Jewish passages: cycles of Jewish life Author: Goldberg, Harvey E Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Middle Eastern Studies | Anthropology Publisher's Description: American or Middle Eastern, Ashkenazi or Sephardi, insular or immersed in modern life - however diverse their situations or circumstances, Jews draw on common traditions and texts when they mark life's momentous events and rites of passage. The interplay of past and present, of individual practice a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 134. |  | Title: Judeo-Spanish ballads from New York Author: Benardete, M. J. (Maír José) 1895- Published: University of California Press, 1982 Subjects: Anthropology | American Literature | Jewish Studies Similar Items |
| 135. |  | Title: Keeping slug woman alive: a holistic approach to American Indian texts Author: Sarris, Greg Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Native American Studies | Anthropology | Native American Ethnicity | Cultural Anthropology | Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Literature | American Studies Publisher's Description: This remarkable collection of eight essays offers a rare perspective on the issue of cross-cultural communication. Greg Sarris is concerned with American Indian texts, both oral and written, as well as with other American Indian cultural phenomena such as basketry and religion. His essays cover a ra . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 136. |  | Title: Kinship with strangers: adoption and interpretations of kinship in American culture Author: Modell, Judith Schachter 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Sociology Publisher's Description: Adoption challenges our understanding of the core symbols of kinship in American culture - birth, biology, and blood. Through the lens of anthropological theory, Judith Modell examines these symbols and the way they affect people who experience the "fictive" kinship of adoption. Her findings are tim . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 137. |  | Title: Language, charisma, and creativity: the ritual life of a religious movement Author: Csordas, Thomas J Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Christianity Publisher's Description: Thomas Csordas's eloquent analysis of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, part of the contemporary cultural and media phenomenon known as conservative Christianity, embraces one of the primary tasks of anthropology: to stimulate critical reflection by making the exotic seem familiar and the familiar a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 138. |  | Title: The last emperors: a social history of Qing imperial institutions Author: Rawski, Evelyn Sakakida Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Anthropology | China | Asian History Publisher's Description: The Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) was the last and arguably the greatest of the conquest dynasties to rule China. Its rulers, Manchus from the north, held power for three centuries despite major cultural and ideological differences with the Han majority. In this book, Evelyn Rawski offers a bold new inte . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 139. |  | Title: Latinos: remaking America Author: Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Latino Studies | Gender Studies | Latin American Studies | Sociology | Urban Studies | Immigration Publisher's Description: Latinos are the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States and will comprise a quarter of the country's population by mid-century. The process of Latinization, the result of globalization and the biggest migration flow in the history of the Americas, is indeed reshaping the character of the U . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 140. |  | Title: Laughter out of place: race, class, violence, and sexuality in a Rio shantytown Author: Goldstein, Donna M Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | Latin American Studies | Sociology | Urban Studies | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Donna M. Goldstein challenges much of what we think we know about the "culture of poverty." Drawing on more than a decade of experience in Brazil, Goldstein provides an intimate portrait of everyday life among the women of the favelas, or urban shantytowns. These women have created absurdist and bla . . . [more] Similar Items |