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| 921. |  | Title: Classical music and postmodern knowledge Author: Kramer, Lawrence 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Music | Musicology Publisher's Description: A leading cultural theorist and musicologist opens up new possibilities for understanding mainstream Western art music - the "classical" music composed between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries that is, for many, losing both its prestige and its appeal. When this music is regarded esoteri . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...Fabian, Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object (New York, 1983).... Similar Items |
| 922. |  | Title: War and popular culture: resistance in modern China, 1937-1945  Author: Hung, Chang-tai 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Asian History | China Publisher's Description: This is the first comprehensive study of popular culture in twentieth-century China, and of its political impact during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 (known in China as "The War of Resistance against Japan"). Chang-tai Hung shows in compelling detail how Chinese resisters used a variety of popu . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...Political Language," Annual Review of Anthropology 18 (1984): 353. 29. See, for... Similar Items |
| 923. |  | Title: Apocalypse and/or metamorphosis Author: Brown, Norman Oliver 1913- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Philosophy | Psychology | History Publisher's Description: Here is the final volume of Norman O. Brown's trilogy on civilization and its discontents, on humanity's long struggle to master its instincts and the perils that attend that denial of human nature. Following on his famous books Life Against Death and Love's Body , this collection of eleven essays b . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...currency in Anglo-American academic anthropology by Marshall Sahlins in Stone... Similar Items |
| 924. |  | Title: The country of memory: remaking the past in late socialist Vietnam Author: Tai, Hue-Tam Ho 1948- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Southeast Asia | Film | Gender Studies | Postcolonial Studies | Popular Culture | Asian History Publisher's Description: The American experience in the Vietnam War has been the subject of a vast body of scholarly work, yet surprisingly little has been written about how the war is remembered by Vietnamese themselves. The Country of Memory fills this gap in the literature by addressing the subject of history, memory, an . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...SHAUN KINGSLEY MALARNEY teaches anthropology in the Division of International... Similar Items |
| 925. |  | Title: A fable of modern art Author: Ashton, Dore Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Theory | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Dore Ashton's masterly analysis of modern art grows out of a consideration of Balzac's brilliant and little known 'philosophic' story The Unknown Masterpiece in which the concerns of Cézanne, Picasso, and the abstract expressionists are strikingly prefigured. Balzac's fable is discussed not only wit . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...University in ethnography and anthropology. Both men supported the reaction to... Similar Items |
| 926. |  | Title: The Free Speech Movement: reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s Author: Cohen, Robert 1955 May. 21- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies | Politics | Sociology | Gender Studies | United States History | Education Publisher's Description: This is the authoritative and long-awaited volume on Berkeley's celebrated Free Speech Movement (FSM) of 1964. Drawing from the experiences of many movement veterans, this collection of scholarly articles and personal memoirs illuminates in fresh ways one of the most important events in the recent h . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...in a letter adopted by the anthropology meeting. Referring to “the crusade for... Similar Items...left no doubt on which side most anthropology faculty would be in the coming... |
| 927. |  | Title: Neither gods nor emperors: students and the struggle for democracy in China Author: Calhoun, Craig J 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Sociology | Language and Linguistics | African Studies | American Studies Matches in book (1): ...in Beijing," Chinese Sociology and Anthropology 23 (1) (special issue). Tu, Wei-... Similar Items |
| 928. |  | Title: The culture of civil war in Kyoto Author: Berry, Mary Elizabeth 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Japan | Asian History Publisher's Description: How do ordinary people respond to prolonged terror? The convulsion of Japan's "Warring States" period between 1467 and 1568 destroyed the medieval order and exposed the framework of an early modern polity. Mary Elizabeth Berry investigates the experience of upheaval in Kyoto during this time.Using d . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...ed. Society and the Dance: The Social Anthropology of Process and Performance .... Similar Items |
| 929. |  | Title: Technology as freedom: the New Deal and the electrical modernization of the American home Author: Tobey, Ronald C Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | American Studies | Technology and Society | United States History Publisher's Description: Before 1930, the domestic market for electrical appliances was segmented, but New Deal policies and programs created a true mass market, reshaping the electrical and housing markets and guiding them toward mandated social goals. The New Deal identified electrical refrigeration as a key technology to . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...The World of Goods: Toward an Anthropology of Consumption . New York: W. W.... Similar Items |
| 930. |  | Title: Polyeideia: the Iambi of Callimachus and the archaic Iambic tradition Author: Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Poetry Publisher's Description: This book provides a new literary treatment of an often-overlooked collection of fragmentary poems from the third century B.C.E. Alexandrian poet Callimachus. Callimachus' Iambi form a collection of thirteen poems, which rework archaic Greek iambography and look forward to Roman satire and other gen . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...1990 . The Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient... Similar Items |
| 931. |  | Title: Play it again, Sam: retakes on remakes Author: Horton, Andrew Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film Publisher's Description: Play It Again, Sam is a timely investigation of a topic that until now has received almost no critical attention in film and cultural studies: the cinematic remake. As cinema enters its second century, more remakes are appearing than ever before, and these writers consider the full range: Hollywood . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...Structural Study of Myth." Structural Anthropology. New York: Basic Books, 1963.... Similar Items |
| 932. |  | Title: Lawyers in society [computer file]: an overview Author: Abel, Richard L Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Law | Sociology | Politics Publisher's Description: Among all those who encounter the law in the conduct of their lives or who consider it as a career, few have a solid understanding of the legal profession in America, and fewer still know anything about systems in other parts of the world. Lawyers in Society offers a concise comparative introduction . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 17 . ____. 1973. Lawyers and Their... Similar Items |
| 933. |  | Title: Pseudo-Hecataeus, On the Jews: legitimizing the Jewish diaspora Author: Bar-Kochva, Bezalel Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Jewish Studies | History | Ancient History | Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: Debate over the authenticity of "On the Jews" has persisted for nearly 1,900 years. Bezalel Bar-Kochva attempts to overcome this stalemate in his finely detailed and convincingly argued study that proves the forgery of the book and suggests not only a source for the text, but also a social, politica . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...Democritus and the Sources of Greek Anthropology . Hartford. Collins, J. J. 1974... Similar Items |
| 934. |  | Title: Misogyny, misandry, and misanthropy Author: Bloch, R. Howard Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Literature | English Literature Publisher's Description: These essays, originally comprising an issue of Representations , explore the relation between gender, eroticism, and violence through close analysis of a range of both high and popular cultural forms, from R. Howard Bloch on medieval theology to Carol Clover on contemporary slasher films. Does miso . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...and Genealogies: A Literary Anthropology of the French Middle Ages (Chicago,... Similar Items |
| 935. |  | Title: Whitman and the romance of medicine Author: Davis, Robert Leigh 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: American Studies | American Literature | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: In this compelling, accessible examination of one of America's greatest cultural and literary figures, Robert Leigh Davis details the literary and social significance of Walt Whitman's career as a nurse during the American Civil War. Davis shows how the concept of "convalescence" in nineteenth-centu . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...linguistics, and symbolic anthropology. Marking a reversal or abrogation of... Similar Items |
| 936. |  | Title: Selected letters of Alessandra Strozzi Author: Macinghi Strozzi, Alessandra 1407-1471 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Renaissance History | Women's Studies | European Studies | Literature in Translation | Autobiography | European History | Letters Publisher's Description: The letters of Alessandra Strozzi provide a vivid and spirited portrayal of life in fifteenth-century Florence. Among the richest autobiographical materials to survive from the Italian Renaissance, the letters reveal a woman who fought stubbornly to preserve her family's property and position in adv . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...to cognate disciplines (such as anthropology, ethnography, and sociology) for... Similar Items |
| 937. |  | Title: Sierra Nevada: the naturalist's companion Author: Johnston, Verna R Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Environmental Studies | California and the West Publisher'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] Matches in book (1): ...University of California Museum of Anthropology in San Francisco, where he lived... Similar Items |
| 938. |  | Title: Inscribing the time: Shakespeare and the end of Elizabethan England Author: Mallin, Eric Scott Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: Combining the resources of new historicism, feminism, and postmodern textual analysis, Eric Mallin reveals how contemporary pressures left their marks on three Shakespeare plays written at the end of Elizabeth's reign. Close attention to the language of Troilus and Cressida , Hamlet , and Twelfth Ni . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...in Rayna Reiter, ed. , Toward an Anthropology of Women (New York: Monthly Review... Similar Items |
| 939. |  | Title: The frail social body: pornography, homosexuality, and other fantasies in interwar France Author: Dean, Carolyn J. (Carolyn Janice) 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Gender Studies | European History | Literary Theory and Criticism | French Studies Publisher's Description: Amid the national shame and subjugation following World War I in France, cultural critics there - journalists, novelists, doctors, and legislators, among others - worked to rehabilitate what was perceived as an unhealthy social body. Carolyn J. Dean shows how these critics attempted to reconstruct t . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...of Minnesota Press, 1987). The classic anthropology text is Mary Douglas, Purity... Similar Items |
| 940. |  | Title: The disenchanted self: representing the subject in the Canterbury tales Author: Leicester, H. Marshall (Henry Marshall) 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: The question of the "dramatic principle" in the Canterbury Tales , of whether and how the individual tales relate to the pilgrims who are supposed to tell them, has long been a central issue in the interpretation of Chaucer's work. Drawing on ideas from deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and social the . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...Nice. Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology, edited by Jack Goody, no. 16.... Similar Items |