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21. | | Title: Discrepant dislocations: feminism, theory, and postcolonial histories Author: John, Mary E 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies | Anthropology | Postcolonial Studies | South Asia | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Mary E. John investigates the metaphor of dislocation within and across two specific "locations" - the United States and India - in this epistemological inquiry into the production of theory in general and the grounds of feminist ethnography in particular. She probes a set of distinct but related th . . . [more]Similar Items | 22. | | Title: Antonia Canova and the politics of patronage in revolutionary and Napoleonic EuropeAuthor: Johns, Christopher M. S Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art | Art History | European Studies | European HistoryPublisher's Description: The Venetian sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822) was Europe's most celebrated artist from the end of the ancien régime to the early years of the Restoration, an era when the traditional relationship between patrons and artists changed drastically. Christopher M. S. Johns's refreshingly original stud . . . [more]Similar Items | 23. | | Title: Families of the forest: the Matsigenka Indians of the Peruvian AmazonAuthor: Johnson, Allen W Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Ecology | Latin American StudiesPublisher's Description: The idea of a family level society, discussed and disputed by anthropologists for nearly half a century, assumes moving, breathing form in Families of the Forest. According to Allen Johnson's deft ethnography, the Matsigenka people of southeastern Peru cannot be understood or appreciated except as a . . . [more]Similar Items | 24. | | Title: Listening in Paris: a cultural historyAuthor: Johnson, James H 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Music | European History | French StudiesPublisher's Description: Beginning with the simple question, "Why did audiences grow silent?" Listening in Paris gives a spectator's-eye view of opera and concert life from the Old Regime to the Romantic era, describing the transformation in musical experience from social event to profound aesthetic encounter. James H. John . . . [more]Similar Items | 25. | | Title: African-American Christianity: essays in historyAuthor: Johnson, Paul E 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | United States History | African American Studies | ChristianityPublisher's Description: Eight leading scholars have joined forces to give us the most comprehensive book to date on the history of African-American religion from the slavery period to the present.Beginning with Albert Raboteau's essay on the importance of the story of Exodus among African-American Christians and concluding . . . [more]Similar Items | 26. | | Title: The second gold rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War IIAuthor: Johnson, Marilynn S Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Urban Studies | Californian and Western History | American Studies | California and the West | Ethnic StudiesPublisher's Description: More than any event in the twentieth century, World War II marked the coming of age of America's West Coast cities. Almost overnight, new war industries prompted the mass urban migration and development that would trigger lasting social, cultural, and political changes. For the San Francisco Bay Are . . . [more]Similar Items | 27. | | Title: Founding the Far West: California, Oregon, and Nevada, 1840-1890Author: Johnson, David Alan 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | United States History | Californian and Western History | California and the WestPublisher's Description: Founding the Far West is an ambitious and vividly written narrative of the early years of statehood and statesmanship in three pivotal western territories. Johnson offers a model example of a new approach to history that is transforming our ideas of how America moved west, one that breaks the mold o . . . [more]Similar Items | 28. | | Title: Strong mothers, weak wives: the search for gender equality Author: Johnson, Miriam M Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Sociology | Psychology | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: A leading theorist in the sociology of sex and gender, Miriam Johnson establishes as her starting point the belief that inequality is not inherent or inevitable in heterosexual relations. In Strong Mothers, Weak Wives she develops this notion by examining how gender differences get translated into g . . . [more]Similar Items | 29. | | Title: Restless dead: encounters between the living and the dead in ancient GreeceAuthor: Johnston, Sarah Iles 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | Classical Religions | Classical Literature and Language | Intellectual History | Folklore and Mythology | Cultural AnthropologyPublisher's Description: During the archaic and classical periods, Greek ideas about the dead evolved in response to changing social and cultural conditions - most notably changes associated with the development of the polis, such as funerary legislation, and changes due to increased contacts with cultures of the ancient Ne . . . [more]Similar Items | 30. | | Title: Sierra Nevada: the naturalist's companionAuthor: Johnston, Verna R Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Environmental Studies | California and the WestPublisher's Description: All lovers of the mountains will welcome Verna Johnston's new and completely updated edition of her classic, Sierra Nevada , originally published in 1970. A professional biologist, veteran ornithologist, and well-known wildlife photographer, Johnston is the perfect guide for a natural-history trip i . . . [more]Similar Items | 31. | | Title: Real fantasies: Edward Steichen's advertising photographyAuthor: Johnston, Patricia A 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art | Art History | History | Cultural AnthropologyPublisher's Description: During the 1920s and 1930s, Edward Steichen was the most successful photographer in the advertising industry. Although much has been said about Steichen's fine-art photography, his commercial work - which appeared regularly in Vanity Fair, Vogue, Ladies Home Journal , and almost every other popular . . . [more]Similar Items | 32. | | Title: California forests and woodlands: a natural historyAuthor: Johnston, Verna R Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Science | Ecology | Biology | California and the WestPublisher's Description: From majestic Redwoods to ancient Western Bristlecone Pines, California's trees have long inspired artists, poets, naturalists - and real estate developers. Verna Johnston's splendid book, illustrated with her superb color photographs and Carla Simmons's detailed black-and-white drawings, now offers . . . [more]Similar Items | 33. | | Title: Made in God's image?: Eve and Adam in the Genesis mosaics at San Marco, Venice Author: Jolly, Penny Howell Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art | Art History | Medieval Studies | Women's Studies | ReligionPublisher's Description: The stunning mosaics that illustrate the story of Creation in the church of San Marco in Venice are the focus of Penny Howell Jolly's compelling and provocative book. Scholars of medieval art have long been interested in the Genesis mosaics because they copy a nearly destroyed fifth-century illumina . . . [more]Similar Items | 34. | | Title: France and the cult of the Sacred Heart: an epic tale for modern timesAuthor: Jonas, Raymond Anthony Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Religion | French StudiesPublisher's Description: In a richly layered and beautifully illustrated narrative, Raymond Jonas tells the fascinating and surprisingly little-known story of the Sacré-Coeur, or Sacred Heart. The highest point in Paris and a celebrated tourist destination, the white-domed basilica of Sacré-Coeur on Montmartre is a key monu . . . [more]Similar Items | 35. | | Title: Speaking the unspeakable: religion, misogyny, and the uncanny mother in Freud's cultural texts Author: Jonte-Pace, Diane E. (Diane Elizabeth) 1951- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | Literature | Gender Studies | Jewish Studies | PsychologyPublisher's Description: In this bold rereading of Freud's cultural texts, Diane Jonte-Pace uncovers an undeveloped "counterthesis," one that repeatedly interrupts or subverts his well-known Oedipal masterplot. The counterthesis is evident in three clusters of themes within Freud's work: maternity, mortality, and immortalit . . . [more]Similar Items | 36. | | Title: Mobilizing against nuclear energy: a comparison of Germany and the United StatesAuthor: Joppke, Christian Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | Environmental Studies | German Studies | American Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: In the past two decades young people, environmentalists, church activists, leftists, and others have mobilized against nuclear energy. Anti-nuclear protest has been especially widespread and vocal in Western Europe and the United States. In this lucid, richly documented book, Christian Joppke compar . . . [more]Similar Items | 37. | | Title: Oil age Eskimos Author: Jorgensen, Joseph G 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Ecology | Economics and BusinessPublisher'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 | 38. | | Title: Physics and politics in revolutionary RussiaAuthor: Josephson, Paul R Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | History and Philosophy of Science | Russian and Eastern European Studies | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Aided by personal documents and institutional archives that were closed for decades, this book recounts the development of physics - or, more aptly, science under stress - in Soviet Russia up to World War II. Focusing on Leningrad, center of Soviet physics until the late 1930s, Josephson discusses t . . . [more]Similar Items | 39. | | Title: New world disorder: the Leninist extinctionAuthor: Jowitt, Kenneth Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Russian and Eastern European Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: Communism, or as Ken Jowitt prefers, Leninism, has attracted, repelled, mystified, and terrified millions for nearly a century. In his brilliant, timely, and controversial study, New World Disorder , Jowitt identifies and interprets the extraordinary character of Leninist regimes, their political co . . . [more]Similar Items | 40. | | Title: Unpacking Duchamp: art in transit Author: Judovitz, Dalia Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art | LiteraturePublisher's Description: Perhaps no twentieth-century artist utilized puns and linguistic ambiguity with greater effect - and greater controversy - than Marcel Duchamp. Through a careful "unpacking" of his major works, Dalia Judovitz finds that Duchamp may well have the last laugh. She examines how he interpreted notions of . . . [more]Similar Items |
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