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1.	Add to Bookbag	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
2.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Writing the character-centered screenplay Author: Horton, Andrew Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| Writing Publisher's Description: "We need good screenwriters who understand character." Everywhere Andrew Horton traveled in researching this book - from Hollywood to Hungary - he heard the same refrain. Yet most of the standard how-to books on screenwriting follow the film industry's earlier lead in focusing almost exclusively on . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Add to Bookbag	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
4.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Wising up the marks: the modern William Burroughs Author: Murphy, Timothy S 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Literature \| American Studies \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Philosophy Publisher's Description: William S. Burroughs is one of the twentieth century's most visible, controversial, and baffling literary figures. In the first comprehensive study of the writer, Timothy S. Murphy places Burroughs in the company of the most significant intellectual minds of our time. In doing so, he gives us an imm . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Writing about music: a style sheet from the editors of 19th-century music Author: Holoman, D. Kern 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Music \| Music Publisher's Description: How do you spell Rachmaninov?Where do you place the hyphen in Hofmannsthal if it breaks across two lines? Is it premiere or première? The answers and much more can be found in a new, essential resource for authors, students, editors, concert producers - anyone who deals with music in print. An expan . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Women writing culture Author: Behar, Ruth 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Gender Studies \| Women's Studies \| Sociology Publisher's Description: In this collection of new reflections on the sexual politics, racial history, and moral predicaments of anthropology, feminist scholars explore a wide range of visions of identity and difference. How are feminists redefining the poetics and politics of ethnography? What are the contradictions of wom . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Add to Bookbag	Title: What makes life worth living?: how Japanese and Americans make sense of their worlds Author: Mathews, Gordon Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| American Studies \| Japan Publisher's Description: Here is an original and provocative anthropological approach to the fundamental philosophical question of what makes life worth living. Gordon Mathews considers this perennial issue by examining nine pairs of similarly situated individuals in the United States and Japan. In the course of exploring h . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The waning of the communist state: economic origins of political decline in China and Hungary Author: Walder, Andrew George Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Politics \| Sociology \| European History \| Asian History \| China \| European Studies \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: This collection of essays offers a compelling explanation for the decline of communism in the two countries that went the furthest with economic reforms - China and Hungary. Articulating a vision of change that serves as a counterpoint to the prevailing emphasis on citizen resistance and protest, th . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Warriors into traders: the power of the market in early Greece Author: Tandy, David W Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics \| Ancient History \| Classical History \| Economics and Business \| Anthropology \| Politics Publisher's Description: The eighth century dawned on a Greek world that had remained substantially unchanged during the centuries of stagnation known as the Dark Age. This book is a study of the economic and cultural upheaval that shook mainland Greece and the Aegean area in the eighth century, and the role that poetry pla . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Add to Bookbag	Title: War and secession: Pakistan, India, and the creation of Bangladesh Author: Sisson, Richard 1936- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics \| South Asia \| Asian History Similar Items
11.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Water scarcity: impacts on western agriculture Author: Engelbert, Ernest A Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Water \| Agriculture Similar Items
12.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Women preachers and prophets through two millennia of Christianity Author: Kienzle, Beverly Mayne Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion \| Women's Studies \| Christianity \| Classical Religions \| History \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: For nearly two millennia, despite repeated prohibitions, Christian women have preached. Some have preached in official settings; others have found alternative routes for expression. Prophecy, teaching, writing, and song have all filled a broad definition of preaching. This anthology, with essays by . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Women, culture, and politics in Latin America Author: Bergmann, Emilie L 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Latin American Studies \| Women's Studies \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: The result of a collaboration among eight women scholars, this collection examines the history of women's participation in literary, journalistic, educational, and political activity in Latin American history, with special attention to the first half of this century. Similar Items
14.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Women in the metropolis: gender and modernity in Weimar culture Author: Ankum, Katharina von Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: German Studies \| Women's Studies \| European Literature \| Film \| European History Publisher's Description: Bringing together the work of scholars in many disciplines, Women in the Metropolis provides a comprehensive introduction to women's experience of modernism and urbanization in Weimar Germany. It shows women as active participants in artistic, social, and political movements and documents the wide r . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Add to Bookbag	Title: When government fails: the Orange County bankruptcy Author: Baldassare, Mark Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Economics and Business \| Politics \| American Studies \| Sociology \| Law \| California and the West Publisher's Description: When Orange County, California, filed for Chapter 9 protection on December 6, 1994, it became the largest municipality in United States history to declare bankruptcy. In the first comprehensive analysis of this momentous fiscal crisis, Mark Baldassare uncovers the many twists and turns from the dark . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Add to Bookbag	Title: What's the matter with liberalism? Author: Beiner, Ronald 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics \| Sociology \| Political Theory \| Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: In the wake of the revolutions of 1989, the ongoing political turmoil in the Soviet Union, and the democratization of most of Latin America, what is the task of political theorists?Ronald Beiner's invigorating critique of liberal theory and liberal practices takes on the shibboleths of modern Wester . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Whitewashed adobe: the rise of Los Angeles and the remaking of its Mexican past Author: Deverell, William Francis Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History \| Californian and Western History \| Chicano Studies \| American Studies \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Chronicling the rise of Los Angeles through shifting ideas of race and ethnicity, William Deverell offers a unique perspective on how the city grew and changed. Whitewashed Adobe considers six different developments in the history of the city - including the cementing of the Los Angeles River, the o . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Writing and rebellion: England in 1381 Author: Justice, Steven 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Medieval Studies \| Medieval History \| European History Publisher's Description: In this compelling account of the "peasants' revolt" of 1381, in which rebels burned hundreds of official archives and attacked other symbols of authority, Steven Justice demonstrates that the rebellion was not an uncontrolled, inarticulate explosion of peasant resentment but an informed and tactica . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Add to Bookbag	Title: When we began there were witchmen: an oral history from Mount Kenya Author: Fadiman, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Anthropology \| African Studies \| African History Publisher's Description: This is the history of the Meru people of Mount Kenya, based on their own traditions, from the earliest times through the colonial period. Many of these tales have been ritually passed down through no fewer than nineteen generations; others were remembered by those personally involved. Jeffrey Fadim . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Walter Benjamin's other history: of stones, animals, human beings, and angels Author: Hanssen, Beatrice Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Philosophy \| Rhetoric \| German Studies \| Literature Publisher's Description: Long considered to be an impenetrable, hermetic treatise, Walter Benjamin's The Origin of German Tragic Drama has rarely received the attention it deserves as a key text, central to a full understanding of his work. In this critically acclaimed study, distinguished Benjamin scholar Beatrice Hanssen . . . [more] Similar Items

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