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1. | | | 2. | | Title: Disciplined hearts: history, identity, and depression in an American Indian communityAuthor: O'Nell, Theresa DeLeane 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Native American Ethnicity | Native American StudiesPublisher's Description: "This is a good place for your work. Depression is a big problem here. About 70-80% of our people are depressed." When she arrived at the Flathead Reservation in Montana to start an ethnographic study of depression, medical anthropologist Theresa DeLeane O'Nell repeatedly encountered such statements . . . [more]Similar Items | 3. | | Title: Imagining karma: ethical transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek rebirthAuthor: Obeyesekere, Gananath Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Religion | Anthropology | Buddhism | Classics | Indigenous Religions | Asian StudiesPublisher's Description: With Imagining Karma, Gananath Obeyesekere embarks on the very first comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. Exploring in rich detail the beliefs of small-scale societies of West Africa, Melanesia, traditional Siberia, Canada, and the northwest coast of North America, Obeyese . . . [more]Similar Items | 4. | | Title: Rural China takes off: institutional foundations of economic reform Author: Oi, Jean Chun Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics | China | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: In this incisive analysis of one of the most spectacular economic breakthroughs in the Deng era, Jean C. Oi shows how and why Chinese rural-based industry has become the fastest growing economic sector not just in China but in the world. Oi argues that decollectivization and fiscal decentralization . . . [more]Similar Items | 5. | | | 6. | | Title: First cut: conversations with film editorsAuthor: Oldham, Gabriella Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | Media StudiesPublisher's Description: First Cut offers an opportunity to learn what film editing really is, and to learn from the source. Gabriella Oldham's interviews with twenty-three award-winning film editors give a full picture of the complex art and craft of editing a film. Filled with animated anecdotes and detailed examples, thi . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. | | Title: Best friends and marriage: exchange among women Author: Oliker, Stacey J Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Gender Studies | Popular Culture | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: In this fascinating book, Stacey Oliker delves into the intimate realm of women's friendships and explores the complex relation between friendship and family life. Based on a series of interviews with women from the middle and working classes, this work reveals the distinctive values of best friends . . . [more]Similar Items | 8. | | Title: Gilles Deleuze and the ruin of representationAuthor: Olkowski, Dorothea Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Philosophy | Art TheoryPublisher's Description: Dorothea Olkowski's exploration of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze clarifies the gifted French thinker's writings for specialists and nonspecialists alike. Deleuze, she says, accomplished the "ruin of representation," the complete overthrow of hierarchic, organic thought in philosophy, politics, ae . . . [more]Similar Items | 9. | | Title: Selected lettersAuthor: Olson, Charles 1910-1970 Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Literature | Poetry | Autobiographies and Biographies | American Literature | American Studies | LettersPublisher's Description: For Charles Olson, letters were not only a daily means of communication with friends but were at the same time a vehicle for exploratory thought. In fact, many of Olson's finest works, including Projective Verse and the Maximus Poems, were formulated as letters. Olson's letters are important to an u . . . [more]Similar Items | 10. | | Title: Collected proseAuthor: Olson, Charles 1910-1970 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Literature | Poetry | Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Literature | PoetryPublisher's Description: The prose writings of Charles Olson (1910-1970) have had a far-reaching and continuing impact on post-World War II American poetics. Olson's theories, which made explicit the principles of his own poetics and those of the Black Mountain poets, were instrumental in defining the sense of the postmoder . . . [more]Similar Items | 11. | | Title: Buddha is hiding: refugees, citizenship, the new AmericaAuthor: Ong, Aihwa Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | American Studies | Asian American Studies | Gender Studies | Urban Studies | Sociology | ImmigrationPublisher's Description: Fleeing the murderous Pol Pot regime, Cambodian refugees arrive in America as at once the victims and the heroes of America's misadventures in Southeast Asia; and their encounters with American citizenship are contradictory as well. Service providers, bureaucrats, and employers exhort them to be sel . . . [more]Similar Items | 12. | | Title: Bewitching women, pious men: gender and body politics in Southeast AsiaAuthor: Ong, Aihwa Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Southeast Asia | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: This impressive array of essays considers the contingent and shifting meanings of gender and the body in contemporary Southeast Asia. By analyzing femininity and masculinity as fluid processes rather than social or biological givens, the authors provide new ways of understanding how gender intersect . . . [more]Similar Items | 13. | | Title: Tokugawa village practice: class, status, power, law Author: Ooms, Herman Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian History | Japan | LawPublisher's Description: In contrast to modern Japanese citizens, during the Tokugawa period (1600-1868) villagers frequently resorted to lawsuits to settle conflicts. Herman Ooms uses colorful, skillfully analyzed case studies to trace the evolution of class and status conflicts through lawsuits and petitions in villages. . . . [more]Similar Items | 14. | | Title: Lines in the water: nature and culture at Lake TiticacaAuthor: Orlove, Benjamin S Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Environmental Studies | Latin American Studies | ConservationPublisher's Description: This beautifully written book weaves reflections on anthropological fieldwork together with evocative meditations on a spectacular landscape as it takes us to the remote indigenous villages on the shore of Lake Titicaca, high in the Peruvian Andes. Ben Orlove brings alive the fishermen, reed cutters . . . [more]Similar Items | 15. | | Title: Hazardous metropolis: flooding and urban ecology in Los AngelesAuthor: Orsi, Jared 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | California and the West | Urban Studies | Water | Urban StudiesPublisher's Description: Although better known for its sunny skies, Los Angeles suffers devastating flooding. This book explores a fascinating and little-known chapter in the city's history - the spectacular failures to control floods that occurred throughout the twentieth century. Despite the city's 114 debris dams, 5 floo . . . [more]Similar Items | 16. | | Title: Picturing Casablanca: portraits of power in a modern cityAuthor: Ossman, Susan Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Postcolonial Studies | Middle Eastern Studies | Electronic Media | Media StudiesPublisher's Description: In Picturing Casablanca , Susan Ossman probes the shape and texture of mass images in Casablanca, from posters, films, and videotapes to elections, staged political spectacles, and changing rituals. In a fluid style that blends ethnographic narrative, cultural reportage, and the author's firsthand e . . . [more]Similar Items | 17. | | Title: From popular sovereignty to the sovereignty of law: law, society, and politics in fifth-century AthensAuthor: Ostwald, Martin 1922- Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Classics | Classics | Classical History | Classical PoliticsPublisher's Description: Analyzing the "democratic" features and institutions of the Athenian democracy in the fifth century B.C., Martin Ostwald traces their development from Solon's judicial reforms to the flowering of popular sovereignty, when the people assumed the right both to enact all legislation and to hold magistr . . . [more]Similar Items | 18. | | Title: The autobiography of Ōsugi Sakae Author: Ōsugi, Sakae 1885-1923 Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Asian Studies | Japan | Autobiography | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: In the Japanese labor movement of the early twentieth century, no one captured the public imagination as vividly as Osugi Sakae (1885-1923): rebel, anarchist, and martyr. Flamboyant in life, dramatic in death, Osugi came to be seen as a romantic hero fighting the oppressiveness of family and society . . . [more]Similar Items | 19. | | Title: Cinderella dreams: the allure of the lavish weddingAuthor: Otnes, Cele Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | Anthropology | Women's Studies | Consumerism | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: The fabulous gown, the multitiered cake, abundant flowers, attendants and guests in their finery. The white wedding does more than mark a life passage. It marries two of the most sacred tenets of American culture - romantic love and excessive consumption. For anyone who has ever wondered about the m . . . [more]Similar Items | 20. | | Title: Melville's anatomiesAuthor: Otter, Samuel 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: American Studies | American Literature | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: In fascinating new contextual readings of four of Herman Melville's novels - Typee , White-Jacket, Moby-Dick , and Pierre - Samuel Otter delves into Melville's exorbitant prose to show how he anatomizes ideology, making it palpable and strange. Otter portrays Melville as deeply concerned with issues . . . [more]Similar Items |
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