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| 1. |  | 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 |
| 2. |  | Title: The political economy of mountain Java: an interpretive history  Author: Hefner, Robert W 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian History | Sociology | Cultural Anthropology | Southeast Asia | Politics Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: African successes: four public managers of Kenyan rural development Author: Leonard, David K Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | African Studies Publisher's Description: For the past twenty-five years Kenya has progressed while much of Africa has stagnated. Instead of the economic disasters, underdevelopment, and serious food shortages that have plagued its neighbors, Kenya has enjoyed an expanding economy and agriculture. And instead of a corrupt and incompetent pu . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Telling lives, telling history: autobiography and historical imagination in modern Indonesia Author: Rodgers, Susan 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Southeast Asia | Asian History Publisher's Description: These two memoirs, superbly rendered into English for the first time, provide unique windows into the Sumatran past, in particular, and the early twentieth-century history of Southeast Asia, in general. Originally published soon after the Indonesian Revolution (1945-1949) liberated the island chain . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | 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 Business Publisher'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 |
| 6. |  | 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 Asia Publisher'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 |
| 7. |  | Title: Working hard and making do: surviving in small town America Author: Nelson, Margaret K 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Politics | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: The economic recovery of the 1990s brought with it a surge of new jobs, but the prospects for most working Americans improved little. Family income rose only slightly and the period witnessed a significant degradation of the quality of work as well as in what people could expect from their waged emp . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: The state and the poor: public policy and political development in India and the United States Author: Echeverri-Gent, John Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Asian Studies | South Asia Publisher's Description: This comparison of rural development in India and the United States develops important departures from economic and historical institutionalism. It elaborates a new conceptual framework for analyzing state-society relations beginning from the premise that policy implementation, as the site of tangib . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | 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 |
| 10. |  | Title: Crime, cultural conflict, and justice in rural Russia, 1856-1914 Author: Frank, Stephen 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Social Problems | European History | Law | Criminology Publisher's Description: This book is the first to explore the largely unknown world of rural crime and justice in post-emancipation Imperial Russia. Drawing upon previously untapped provincial archives and a wealth of other neglected primary material, Stephen P. Frank offers a major reassessment of the interactions between . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: The fractured community: landscapes of power and gender in rural Zambia Author: Crehan, Kate A. F Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This study examines the lives of the women and men living in two small rural communities in Zambia on the eve of the collapse of the one-party state in the 1980s. Moving beyond the limits of traditional ethnography, Kate Crehan traces the often complex ways in which local, day-to-day realities are l . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: The art and politics of Wana shamanship Author: Atkinson, Jane Monnig Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Southeast Asia | Religion | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Rituals are valued by students of culture as lenses for bringing facets of social life and meaning into focus. Jane Monnig Atkinson's carefully crafted study offers unique insight into the rich shamanic ritual tradition of the Wana, an upland population of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Lives together/worlds apart: mothers and daughters in popular culture Author: Walters, Suzanna Danuta Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Gender Studies | Popular Culture | American Studies | Gender Studies | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In the 1940s film Now, Voyager, Bette Davis plays a daughter struggling against her mother's stifling repression. Nearly fifty years later, in the Hollywood saga Postcards from the Edge , Shirley MacLaine, as a neglectful and bossy mother, inflicts untold psychological pain on her daughter, played b . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Re-drawing boundaries: work, households, and gender in China Author: Entwisle, Barbara Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Sociology | China | Gender Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Asian History Publisher's Description: Representing the culmination of more than a decade of empirical research in post-Mao China, this collection of essays explores changes in the nature of work in relation to changes in households, migration patterns, and gender roles during an era of economic reform. The contributors are respected sch . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Bewitching women, pious men: gender and body politics in Southeast Asia Author: Ong, Aihwa Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Southeast Asia | Gender Studies Publisher'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 |
| 16. |  | Title: International development and the social sciences: essays on the history and politics of knowledge Author: Cooper, Frederick 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Social Science | Postcolonial Studies | Anthropology | Economics and Business | Politics Publisher's Description: During the past fifty years, colonial empires around the world have collapsed and vast areas that were once known as "colonies" have become known as "less developed countries" or "the third world." The idea of development - and the relationship it implies between industrialized, affluent nations and . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Liberalization in the process of economic development Author: Krause, Lawrence B Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Economic growth in all developing countries is guided, and often accelerated, by generally intrusive policies implemented by governments intent on playing an active role in furthering development. As economies have grown and become more complex, however, even small market distortions are magnified, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Policies, plans, & people: foreign aid and health development Author: Justice, Judith Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Anthropology | Art and Architecture Publisher's Description: Judith Justice uses an interdisciplinary approach to show how anthropologists and planners can combine their expertise to make health care programs culturally compatible with the populations they serve. Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Respectable lives: social standing in rural New Zealand Author: Hatch, Elvin Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Southeast Asia Publisher's Description: Where do we get our notions of social hierarchy and personal worth? What underlies our beliefs about the goals worth aiming for, the persons we hope to become? Elvin Hatch addresses these questions in his ethnography of a small New Zealand farming community, articulating the cultural system beneath . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Between two islands: Dominican international migration Author: Grasmuck, Sherri Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Sociology | Latino Studies | Latin American Studies | Anthropology Publisher's Description: Popular notions about migration to the United States from Latin America and the Caribbean are too often distorted by memories of earlier European migrations and by a tendency to generalize from the more familiar cases of Mexico and Puerto Rico. Between Two Islands is an interdisciplinary study of Do . . . [more] Similar Items |