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221. | | Title: Rhetorics of self-making Author: Battaglia, Debbora Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | PsychologyPublisher's Description: Departing from an essentialist concept of the self, this highly original volume advances the cross-cultural study of selfhood with three contributions to the literature: First, it approaches the self as an ideological process, arguing that selfhood is culturally situated and emergent in social pract . . . [more]Similar Items | 222. | | Title: Rich forests, poor people: resource control and resistance in JavaAuthor: Peluso, Nancy Lee Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Ecology | Southeast Asia | Environmental Studies | AnthropologyPublisher's Description: Peluso untangles the complex of peasant and state politics that has developed in Java over three centuries. Similar Items | 223. | | Title: The romance of democracy: compliant defiance in contemporary MexicoAuthor: Gutmann, Matthew C 1953- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Latino Studies | Latin American Studies | Sociology | Urban StudiesPublisher's Description: The Romance of Democracy gives a unique insider perspective on contemporary Mexico by examining the meaning of democracy in the lives of working-class residents in Mexico City today. A highly absorbing and vividly detailed ethnographic study of popular politics and official subjugation, the book pro . . . [more]Similar Items | 224. | | Title: Romance on a global stage: pen pals, virtual ethnography, and "mail-order" marriagesAuthor: Constable, Nicole Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | American Studies | Asian American Studies | Postcolonial Studies | Sociology | Gender Studies | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the email-order marriage trade, and the business of matching up mostly Western men with women from Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America had become an example of globalization writ large. This provocative work opens a window onto the com . . . [more]Similar Items | 225. | | Title: The sacred self: a cultural phenomenology of charismatic healingAuthor: Csordas, Thomas J Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Religion | PhilosophyPublisher's Description: How does religious healing work, if indeed it does? In this study of the contemporary North American movement known as the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, Thomas Csordas investigates the healing practices of a modern religious movement to provide a rich cultural analysis of the healing experience. Thi . . . [more]Similar Items | 226. | | Title: The sacrificed generation: youth, history, and the colonized mind in MadagascarAuthor: Sharp, Lesley Alexandra Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | African History | Postcolonial Studies | GeographyPublisher's Description: Youth and identity politics figure prominently in this provocative study of personal and collective memory in Madagascar. A deeply nuanced ethnography of historical consciousness, it challenges many cross-cultural investigations of youth, for its key actors are not adults but schoolchildren. Lesley . . . [more]Similar Items | 227. | | Title: Sensory biographies: lives and deaths among Nepal's Yolmo BuddhistsAuthor: Desjarlais, Robert R Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Buddhism | AgingPublisher's Description: Robert Desjarlais's graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modalities have contributed to the making and the telling of their lives. These two are a woman in her late eighties known as Kisang Omu and a Buddhist priest . . . [more]Similar Items | 228. | | Title: Setting the Virgin on fire: Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán peasants, and the redemption of the Mexican RevolutionAuthor: Becker, Marjorie 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Latin American Studies | Latin American History | Anthropology | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: In this beautifully written work, Marjorie Becker reconstructs the cultural encounters which led to Mexico's post-revolutionary government. She sets aside the mythology surrounding president Lázaro Cárdenas to reveal his dilemma: until he and his followers understood peasant culture, they could not . . . [more]Similar Items | 229. | | Title: Sex and sensibility: stories of a lesbian generationAuthor: Stein, Arlene Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies | Sociology | AnthropologyPublisher's Description: In the first book to analyze shifts in lesbian identity, consciousness, and culture from the 1970s to the 1990s, Arlene Stein contributes an important chapter to the study of the women's movement and offers a revealing portrait of the exchange between a radical generation of feminists and its succes . . . [more]Similar Items | 230. | | Title: Shadows of war: violence, power, and international profiteering in the twenty-first centuryAuthor: Nordstrom, Carolyn 1953- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Economics and Business | Global Studies | PoliticsPublisher's Description: In this provocative and compelling examination of the deep politics of war, Carolyn Nordstrom takes us from the immediacy of war-zone survival, through the offices of power brokers, to vast extra-legal networks that fuel war and international profiteering. She captures the human face of the front li . . . [more]Similar Items | 231. | | Title: Shady practices: agroforestry and gender politics in the Gambia Author: Schroeder, Richard A Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Geography | Anthropology | Ecology | African Studies | Social ProblemsPublisher's Description: Shady Practices is a revealing analysis of the gendered political ecology brought about by conflicting local interests and changing developmental initiatives in a West African village. Between 1975 and 1985, while much of Africa suffered devastating drought conditions, Gambian women farmers succeede . . . [more]Similar Items | 232. | | | 233. | | Title: Sherpas: reflections on change in Himalayan NepalAuthor: Fisher, James F Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | South AsiaPublisher's Description: James Fisher combines the strengths of technical anthropology, literary memoir, and striking photography in this telling study of rapid social change in Himalayan Nepal. The author first visited the Sherpas of Nepal when he accompanied Sir Edmund Hilary on the Himalayan Schoolhouse Expedition of 196 . . . [more]Similar Items | 234. | | Title: The short, swift time of gods on earth: the Hohokam chronicles Author: Bahr, Donald M Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Anthropology | Folklore and MythologyPublisher's Description: In the spring of 1935, at Snaketown, Arizona, two Pima Indians recounted and translated their entire traditional creation narrative. Juan Smith, reputedly the last tribesman with extensive knowledge of the Pima version of this story, spoke and sang while William Smith Allison translated into English . . . [more]Similar Items | 235. | | Title: Showing signs of violence: the cultural politics of a twentieth-century headhunting ritual Author: George, Kenneth M 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Southeast AsiaPublisher's Description: Showing Signs of Violence deals with the ceremonies of pangngae, a mock headhunt that lingers stubbornly at the center of political life in a marginal upland community in Sulawesi, Indonesia. No killing takes place in this ritual - no actual heads are taken - but its rhetoric of violence is unmistak . . . [more]Similar Items | 236. | | Title: Signs of recognition: powers and hazards of representation in an Indonesian societyAuthor: Keane, Webb 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | Cultural AnthropologyPublisher's Description: Webb Keane argues that by looking at representations as concrete practices we may find them to be thoroughly entangled in the tensions and hazards of social existence. This book explores the performances and transactions that lie at the heart of public events in contemporary Anakalang, on the Indone . . . [more]Similar Items | 237. | | Title: Silence at Boalt Hall: the dismantling of affirmative action Author: Guerrero, Andrea 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Sociology | African American Studies | Asian American Studies | Politics | Gender Studies | Law | Politics | PoliticsPublisher's Description: In 1995, in a marked reversal of progress in the march toward racial equity, the Board of Regents voted to end affirmative action at the University of California. One year later the electorate voted to do the same across the state of California. Silence at Boalt Hall is the thirty-year story of stud . . . [more]Similar Items | 238. | | Title: The silk weavers of Kyoto: family and work in a changing traditional industryAuthor: Hareven, Tamara K Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | Anthropology | Asian Studies | Asian History | Labor StudiesPublisher's Description: The makers of obi, the elegant and costly sash worn over kimono in Japan, belong to an endangered species. These families of manufacturers, weavers, and other craftspeople centered in the Nishijin weaving district of Kyoto have practiced their demanding craft for generations. In recent decades, howe . . . [more]Similar Items | 239. | | Title: A simple matter of salt: an ethnography of nutritional deficiency in Spain Author: Fernandez, Renate Lellep Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical AnthropologySimilar Items | 240. | | Title: The sinister way: the divine and the demonic in Chinese religious cultureAuthor: Von Glahn, Richard Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | Religion | Asian History | China | AnthropologyPublisher's Description: The most striking feature of Wutong, the preeminent God of Wealth in late imperial China, was the deity's diabolical character. Wutong was perceived not as a heroic figure or paragon of noble qualities but rather as an embodiment of humanity's basest vices, greed and lust, a maleficent demon who pre . . . [more]Similar Items |
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