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Your search for anthropology in text, title, author, description found 1053 book(s). | Modify Search | Displaying 81 - 100 of 1053 book(s) | |
| 81. |  | Title: White saris and sweet mangoes: aging, gender, and body in North India  Author: Lamb, Sarah 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | South Asia | Aging | Cultural Anthropology | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: This rich ethnography explores beliefs and practices surrounding aging in a rural Bengali village. Sarah Lamb focuses on how villagers' visions of aging are tied to the making and unmaking of gendered selves and social relations over a lifetime. Lamb uses a focus on age as a means not only to open u . . . [more] Matches in book (67): ...The Anthropology of Aging... Similar Items...The Body in Postmodern and Feminist Anthropology... ...and guidance in recent shifts in both anthropology and feminist studies toward... |
| 82. |  | Title: Living letters of the law: ideas of the Jew in medieval Christianity Author: Cohen, Jeremy 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Religion | Medieval History Publisher's Description: In Living Letters of the Law , Jeremy Cohen investigates the images of Jews and Judaism in the works of medieval Christian theologians from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas. He reveals how - and why - medieval Christianity fashioned a Jew on the basis of its reading of the Bible, and how this hermeneutic . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...philosophy of history, and anthropology gradually converged, especially during... Similar Items...the philosophy of history, and anthropology in their respective theologies.... ...philosophy of history, and his anthropology in a manner Tilmann Buddensieg, "... |
| 83. |  | Title: A question of balance: Charles Seeger's philosophy of music Author: Greer, Taylor Aitken 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Music | Ethnomusicology | Musicology | Composers Publisher's Description: One of this century's most influential musical intellects takes center stage in Taylor Greer's meticulously wrought study of Charles Seeger (1886-1979). Seeger left an indelible mark in the fields of musicology, music criticism, ethnomusicology, and avant-garde musical composition, but until now the . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...whether in acoustics or musical anthropology, need not be judged by aesthetic... Similar Items...in Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music: Essays on the History of... ...Herzog," Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music: Essays on the History... |
| 84. |  | Title: Coronations: medieval and early modern monarchic ritual Author: Bak, János M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Medieval History Publisher's Description: Fascination with royal pomp and circumstance is as old as kingship itself. The authors of Coronations examine royal ceremonies from the ninth to the sixteenth century, and find the very essence of the monarchical state in its public presentation of itself. This book is an enlightened response to the . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...references to the parallel studies in anthropology. See also L. Bryant, The King... Similar Items...social sciences—such as historical anthropology or comparative ethnographical... ...methods of ethnography and anthropology for the study of medieval monarchical... |
| 85. |  | Title: Jewish passages: cycles of Jewish life Author: Goldberg, Harvey E Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Middle Eastern Studies | Anthropology Publisher's Description: American or Middle Eastern, Ashkenazi or Sephardi, insular or immersed in modern life - however diverse their situations or circumstances, Jews draw on common traditions and texts when they mark life's momentous events and rites of passage. The interplay of past and present, of individual practice a . . . [more] Matches in book (75): ...ANTHROPOLOGY AND JEWISH LIVES... Similar Items...CIRCUMCISION: ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE BIBLICAL TEXT... ...ANTHROPOLOGY AND JEWISH LIFE: A PERSONAL ADVENTURE... |
| 86. |  | Title: The trouble with nature: sex in science and popular culture Author: Lancaster, Roger N Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Gender Studies | Popular Culture | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | Science | Sociology Publisher's Description: Roger N. Lancaster provides the definitive rebuttal of evolutionary just-so stories about men, women, and the nature of desire in this spirited exposé of the heterosexual fables that pervade popular culture, from prime-time sitcoms to scientific theories about the so-called gay gene. Lancaster links . . . [more] Matches in book (101): ...The View from Anthropology and History... Similar Items...Regulation” (a paper presented at “Anthropology United: Challenging Bio-Social... ...OF HUMAN NATURE: THE VIEW FROM ANTHROPOLOGY AND HISTORY 13. Marooned on Survivor... |
| 87. |  | Title: Where are you from?: Middle-class migrants in the modern world Author: Raj, Dhooleka Sarhadi 1969- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Earth Sciences | Postcolonial Studies | Sociology | European Studies | South Asia | Immigration | Sociology | Sociology Publisher's Description: Dhooleka S. Raj explores the complexities of ethnic minority cultural change in this incisive examination of first- and second-generation middle-class South Asian families living in London. Challenging prevalent understandings of ethnicity that equate community, culture, and identity, Raj considers . . . [more] Matches in book (67): ...J. 1994 . Diasporas . Cultural Anthropology 9 : 302–38 . Clifford, J. 1983 . On... Similar Items...place: Explorations in critical anthropology . Durham, N.C. , and London : Duke... ...Macfarlane, A. 1977 . History, anthropology and the study of communities .... |
| 88. |  | Title: Frontiers of historical imagination: narrating the European conquest of native America, 1890-1990 Author: Klein, Kerwin Lee 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | California and the West | American Studies | Anthropology | United States History | Intellectual History | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: The American frontier, a potent symbol since Europeans first stepped ashore on North America, serves as the touchstone for Kerwin Klein's analysis of the narrating of history. Klein explores the traditions through which historians, philosophers, anthropologists, and literary critics have understood . . . [more] Matches in book (95): ...and settlement. In the renditions of anthropology the "New World" had contained... Similar Items...Claude Lévi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology, trans. Claire Jacobson and Brooke... ...W. Stocking Jr. , Victorian Anthropology (New York: The Free Press, 1987);... |
| 89. |  | Title: The persistence of memory: organism, myth, text Author: Kuberski, Philip Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: While memory is one of the most fascinating faculties of consciousness, it is also one of the most mysterious. Is it memory - our own marvelous personal computer or data base - that brings us the intense feelings prompted by a certain object or situation?Drawing on an expansive array of sources, fro . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...of geometry, of rationalism, of anthropology (if one recognizes that Thales'... Similar Items...structuralist linguistics, anthropology, psychoanalysis, literary criticism, as... |
| 90. |  | Title: Migration, mujercitas, and medicine men: living in urban Mexico Author: Napolitano, Valentina Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Gender Studies | Latin American Studies | Urban Studies | Sociology | Medical Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Medical Anthropology Publisher's Description: Valentina Napolitano explores issues of migration, medicine, religion, and gender in this incisive analysis of everyday practices of urban living in Guadalajara, Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork over a ten-year period, Napolitano paints a rich and vibrant picture of daily life in a low-income neighborho . . . [more] Matches in book (62): ...G. M. 1978 . Introduction . In Medical anthropology , ed. G. M. Foster and B. G.... Similar Items...B. G. Anderson . 1978 . Medical Anthropology . New York : Wiley . Foster, S. W.... ...Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology . Durham, N.C. : Duke University... |
| 91. |  | Title: Expectations of modernity: myths and meanings of urban life on the Zambian Copperbelt Author: Ferguson, James 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Cultural Anthropology | African History | Postcolonial Studies | Social Problems Publisher's Description: Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia's economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s was fueled by the export of copper and other primary materials. Since the mid-1970s, however, the urban economy has rapidly deteriorated, leaving workers scrambling to get by. Expectations of Modernity . . . [more] Matches in book (70): ...Social Change" in Its Place: Anthropology's Copperbelt and the Limits of... Similar Items...white settler society and, 29 -33 anthropology: anticolonialism and, 28 -29;... ...Hierarchy in Its Place. Cultural Anthropology 3, no. 1:36–49. 1991. Global... |
| 92. |  | Title: Houses in the rain forest: ethnicity and inequality among farmers and foragers in Central Africa Author: Grinker, Roy Richard 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This is the first ethnographic study of the farmers and foragers of northeastern Zaire since Colin Turnbull's classic works of the 1960s. Roy Richard Grinker lived for nearly two years among the Lese farmers and their long-term partners, the Efe (Pygmies), learned their languages, and gained unique . . . [more] Matches in book (58): ...a Colleague to Account." Current Anthropology 15 (1): 99–102. Begler, E. B.... Similar Items...Behavior in Bands." In Economic Anthropology , ed. S. Plattner. Stanford,... ...Ethnicity: Problem and Focus in Anthropology." Annual Review of Anthropology 7:... |
| 93. |  | Title: Symptoms of modernity: Jews and queers in late-twentieth-century Vienna Author: Bunzl, Matti 1971- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology | Jewish Studies | European History | Sociology | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: In the 1990s, Vienna's Jews and queers abandoned their clandestine existence and emerged into the city's public sphere in unprecedented numbers. Symptoms of Modernity traces this development in the context of Central European history. Jews and homosexuals are signposts of an exclusionary process of . . . [more] Matches in book (64): ...The Anthropologies of Jews and Queers... Similar Items...Dwyer, Kevin . Moroccan Dialogues: Anthropology in Question . Baltimore, Md. :... ...Press , 1982 . Eggan, Fred . Social Anthropology and the Method of Controlled... |
| 94. |  | Title: Mexico at the world's fairs: crafting a modern nation Author: Tenorio-Trillo, Mauricio 1962- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Latin American History | Latin American Studies | Literature Publisher's Description: This intriguing study of Mexico's participation in world's fairs from 1889 to 1929 explores Mexico's self-presentation at these fairs as a reflection of the country's drive toward nationalization and a modernized image. Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo contrasts Mexico's presence at the 1889 Paris fair - whe . . . [more] Matches in book (73): ...Six Mexican Anthropology and Ethnography at the Paris Exposition... Similar Items...Six Mexican Anthropology and Ethnography at the Paris Exposition... ...And late-nineteenth-century anthropology (that is, anthropometrics) furnished... |
| 95. |  | Title: The University of California Press: the early years, 1893-1953. [ON ORDER FOR CAL & CAL*] Author: Muto, Albert Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | Reference | Publishing Publisher's Description: In 1893, when the University of California was just twenty-five years old, its governing board took a bold step in voting the money to set up a publishing program for the works of its faculty. Like many of the American universities established in the late nineteenth century, California followed the . . . [more] Matches in book (27): ...Anthropology... Similar Items...the series in national history and anthropology, there were active series, both... ...Joseph, 75 , 78 Lowie Museum of Anthropology. See Anthropology, Museum of... |
| 96. |  | Title: Where the world ended: re-unification and identity in the German borderland Author: Berdahl, Daphne 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | German Studies | Geography | European Studies | Social Problems Publisher's Description: When the Berlin Wall fell, people who lived along the dismantled border found their lives drastically and rapidly transformed. Daphne Berdahl, through ongoing ethnographic research in a former East German border village, explores the issues of borders and borderland identities that have accompanied . . . [more] Matches in book (53): ...States of Transition: An Anthropology Of Postsocialism... Similar Items...M. 1993. Introduction: Social Anthropology and Socialism. In Socialism: Ideals,... ...Complex Societies. In The Social Anthropology of Complex Societies , ed. Michael... |
| 97. |  | Title: Rhetorics of self-making Author: Battaglia, Debbora Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Psychology Publisher's Description: Departing from an essentialist concept of the self, this highly original volume advances the cross-cultural study of selfhood with three contributions to the literature: First, it approaches the self as an ideological process, arguing that selfhood is culturally situated and emergent in social pract . . . [more] Matches in book (55): ...His Magic." In his Structural Anthropology , translated by C. Jacobson and B. G.... Similar Items...1983. Time and the Other : How Anthropology Makes Its Object . New York:... ...Implicit Meanings : Essays in Anthropology . London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.... |
| 98. |  | Title: Healing the infertile family: strengthening your relationship in the search for parenthood Author: Becker, Gaylene Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Psychology Publisher's Description: Unlike most infertility books that focus on medical treatment, Healing the Infertile Family examines the social and emotional problems experienced by couples confronting infertility and suggests how they can be alleviated. In this updated edition, Gay Becker discusses her most recent study of couple . . . [more] Matches in book (71): ...Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology . Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1971.... Similar Items...Women Readers," in Popularizing Anthropology . 16. Carolyn Wiener, The Politics... ...Constructions of Continuity," Medical Anthropology Quarterly 8 (1994): 383-410.... |
| 99. |  | Title: Historical economics: art or science? Author: Kindleberger, Charles Poor 1910- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Economics and Business | European History | United States History Publisher's Description: Charles P. Kindleberger's writing has ranged widely in the past, from international economics to such specialized topics as the Marshall Plan. In recent years, however, his perspective has shifted to one that tempers the rigidity of technical economics with the flexibility of the liberal arts. Histo . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...Growth Begins . The Dorsey Series in Anthropology and Sociology, Homewood, Ill.... Similar Items...history, politics, cultural anthropology, sociology, perhaps even a little... |
| 100. |  | Title: Disrupted lives: how people create meaning in a chaotic world Author: Becker, Gaylene Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Medicine | Sociology Publisher's Description: Our lives are full of disruptions, from the minor - a flat tire, an unexpected phone call - to the fateful - a diagnosis of infertility, an illness, the death of a loved one. In the first book to examine disruption in American life from a cultural rather than a psychological perspective, Gay Becker . . . [more] Matches in book (56): ...against Culture." In Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present , ed.... Similar Items...Analogic Modes of Thought." Current Anthropology 19:83-97. Becker, Ann. 1995.... ...Constructions of Continuity." Medical Anthropology Quarterly 8:383-410. ———.... |