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| 1. |  | Title: The heart of the pearl shell: the mythological dimension of Foi sociality  Author: Weiner, James F Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Anthropology Publisher's Description: For the Foi people who live on the edge of the central highlands of Papua New Guinea, the flow of pearl shells is the "heart" of their social life. The pearl shell is the exchange item that mediates the creation of their most important sexual and social roles. The Heart of the Pearl Shell analyzes a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | 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 |
| 3. |  | Title: Wage, trade, and exchange in Melanesia: a Manus society in the modern state Author: Carrier, James G Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Anthropology Publisher's Description: Ponam Island, a small community in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea, is the subject of this innovative study. The authors extend the criticism within anthropology of ethnographies that attempt to analyze village communities without reference to the nations of which they are a part, and that equate t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Circumstantial deliveries Author: Needham, Rodney Published: University of California Press, 1982 Subjects: Anthropology Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Earthly bodies, magical selves: contemporary pagans and the search for community Author: Pike, Sarah M 1959- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | Anthropology Publisher's Description: Recent decades have seen a revival of paganism, and every summer people gather across the United States to celebrate this increasingly popular religion. Sarah Pike's engrossing ethnography is the outcome of five years attending neo-pagan festivals, interviewing participants, and sometimes taking par . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | 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 |
| 7. |  | Title: The Ethnography of reading Author: Boyarin, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology | Literature Publisher's Description: Writing, the subject of much innovative scholarship in recent years, is only half of what we call literacy. The other half, reading, now finally receives its due in these groundbreaking essays by a distinguished group of anthropologists and literary scholars.The essays move well beyond the simple ru . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | 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 |
| 9. |  | 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 |
| 10. |  | 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 Mythology Publisher'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 |
| 11. |  | 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 |
| 12. |  | Title: Cry for luck: sacred song and speech among the Yurok, Hupa, and Karok Indians of northwestern California Author: Keeling, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology | Ethnomusicology Publisher's Description: The "sobbing" vocal quality in many traditional songs of northwestern California Indian tribes inspired the title of Richard Keeling's comprehensive study. Little has been known about the music of aboriginal Californians, and Cry for Luck will be welcomed by those who see the interpretation of music . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Masquerade politics: explorations in the structure of urban cultural movements Author: Cohen, Abner Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology | Politics Publisher's Description: Carnival, that image of sensuous frivolity, is shown by Abner Cohen to be a masquerade for the dynamic relations between culture and politics. His masterful study details the transformation of a local, polyethnic London fair to a massive, exclusively West Indian carnival, known as "Europe's biggest . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: The life of the law: anthropological projects Author: Nader, Laura Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Law Publisher's Description: Laura Nader, an instrumental figure in the development of the field of legal anthropology, investigates an issue of vital importance for our time: the role of the law in the struggle for social and economic justice. In this book she gives an overview of the history of legal anthropology and at the s . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Grateful prey: Rock Cree human-animal relationships Author: Brightman, Robert Alain 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology | Anthropology | United States History | Religion Publisher's Description: The interaction between religious beliefs and hunting practices among the Asiniskawidiniwak or Rock Crees of northern Manitoba is the focus of Robert Brightman's detailed study. This foraging society, he says, bases aspects of its hunting and trapping largely on what we call "religious" conceptions. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Crossing the border: encounters between homeless people and outreach workers Author: Rowe, Michael 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Sociology | Anthropology | Psychology | American Studies | Urban Studies | Social Problems | Anthropology Publisher's Description: The relationship between the homeless and the social service community marks a border where the disenfranchised meet the mainstream of society. Crossing the Border , the first book-length study of outreach work to the mentally ill homeless, uses ethnographic tools to examine encounters at this borde . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: The wrestler's body: identity and ideology in north India Author: Alter, Joseph S Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | South Asia Publisher's Description: The Wrestler's Body tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. While Indian wrestlers are competitive athletes, they are also moral reformers whose conception of self and society is fundamentally somatic. Using the insights of anthropology, Joseph Alter writes . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: War and society in ancient MesoAmerica Author: Hassig, Ross 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American History Publisher's Description: In this study of warfare in ancient Mesoamerica, Ross Hassig offers new insight into three thousand years of Mesoamerican history, from roughly 1500 B.C. to the Spanish conquest. He examines the methods, purposes, and values of warfare as practiced by the major pre-Columbian societies and shows how . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: The sacred self: a cultural phenomenology of charismatic healing Author: Csordas, Thomas J Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Religion | Philosophy Publisher'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 |
| 20. |  | Title: History and tradition in Melanesian anthropology Author: Carrier, James G Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | East Asia Other Publisher's Description: Melanesian societies, like village societies in many parts of the world, are frequently portrayed as existing in a timeless, traditional present. These seven original essays offer an alternative view, one showing that historical evidence can and must inform our understanding of contemporary cultures . . . [more] Similar Items |