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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Ethnocriticism: ethnography, history, literature Author: Krupat, Arnold Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Anthropology \| American Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Native American Studies Publisher's Description: Ethnocriticism moves cultural critique to the boundaries that exist between cultures. The boundary traversed in Krupat's dexterous new book is the contested line between native and mainstream American literatures and cultures.For over a century the discourses of ethnography, history, and literature . . . [more] Matches in book (61): ...Ethnography History Literature... ...1. Ethnography and Literature: A History of Their Convergence... ...seen as contributing to a redefinition of ethnography, one that places it more... Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: A simple matter of salt: an ethnography of nutritional deficiency in Spain Author: Fernandez, Renate Lellep Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology \| Medical Anthropology Matches in book (16): ...An Ethnography of Nutritional Deficiency in Spain... ...eds. Barcelona: Anagrama. 1986. Ethnography of Nutritional Deficiency in a... ...approach to IDD, 6 as nutritional ethnography, 65 "proper focus" of, 8 -9... Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Japanese workers in protest: an ethnography of consciousness and experience Author: Turner, Christena L 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Japan \| Sociology Publisher's Description: This first ethnographic study of factory workers engaged in radical labor protest gives a voice to a segment of the Japanese population that has been previously marginalized. These blue-collar workers, involved in prolonged labor disputes, tell their own story as they struggle to make sense of their . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...An Ethnography of Consciousness and Experience... ...Ethnography, Argument, and Everyday Life... ...background on, 28 -29. See also Ethnography Part-timers, 15 ; and issue of... Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Discrepant dislocations: feminism, theory, and postcolonial histories Author: John, Mary E 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Anthropology \| Postcolonial Studies \| South Asia \| Politics Publisher's Description: Mary E. John investigates the metaphor of dislocation within and across two specific "locations" - the United States and India - in this epistemological inquiry into the production of theory in general and the grounds of feminist ethnography in particular. She probes a set of distinct but related th . . . [more] Matches in book (65): ...Can There Be a Postcolonial Feminist Ethnography?... ...p. 21. 15. Abu-Lughod, "Can There Be a Feminist Ethnography?" p. 24. 16. Ibid. ,... ...Lughod, "Can There Be a Feminist Ethnography?" p. 24. 16. Ibid. , p. 27. 17. For... Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Hanging out in the virtual pub: masculinities and relationships online Author: Kendall, Lori 1958- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Sociology \| Gender Studies \| American Studies \| Technology and Society \| Anthropology \| Electronic Media \| Media Studies \| Men and Masculinity Publisher's Description: Lori Kendall is one of the first to explore the brave new world of social relations as they have evolved on the Internet. In this highly readable ethnography, she examines how men and women negotiate their gender roles on an online forum she calls BlueSky. The result is a first-rate analysis of the . . . [more] Matches in book (31): ...ETHNOGRAPHY IN A “PARTLY COMPATIBLE” SETTING... ...TEXTUAL CONGRUENCIES: MUDS AND ETHNOGRAPHY... ...Sherri . 1966 . Liquor License: An Ethnography of Bar Behavior . Chicago :... Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Native and newcomer: making and remaking a Japanese city Author: Robertson, Jennifer Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology \| Japan \| Asian History \| Urban Studies \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This expertly crafted ethnography examines the ways in which native and new citizens of Kodaira, a Tokyo suburb, have both remade the past and imagined the future of their city in a quest for an "authentic" Japanese community. Matches in book (11): ...Ethnography and Making History... ...The making of Kodaira; Being an ethnography of a Japanese city's progress. Ph.D.... ...in the citizens' festival, 55 Ethnography: and furusato, 4 ; of Nisbet, 1 ; and... Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: History and tradition in Melanesian anthropology Author: Carrier, James G Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology \| East Asia Other Publisher's Description: Melanesian societies, like village societies in many parts of the world, are frequently portrayed as existing in a timeless, traditional present. These seven original essays offer an alternative view, one showing that historical evidence can and must inform our understanding of contemporary cultures . . . [more] Matches in book (106): ...Ethnographic History and Ethnography... ...Five Christianity in Western Melanesian Ethnography... ...Five Christianity in Western Melanesian Ethnography... Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	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 (156): ...1. The Man, the Ethnographic Genre, and Hecataeus's Egyptian Ethnography... ...1. Hecataeus As a Source of Diodorus's Egyptian Ethnography (p. 15 n. 23)... ...of the First Section in Hecataeus's Egyptian Ethnography (p. 195 n. 51)... Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Surviving through the days: translations of Native California stories and songs: a California Indian reader Author: Luthin, Herbert W 1954- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology \| American Studies \| Native American Studies \| American Literature Publisher's Description: This anthology of treasures from the oral literature of Native California, assembled by an editor admirably sensitive to language, culture, and history, will delight scholars and general readers alike. Herbert Luthin's generous selection of stories, anecdotes, myths, reminiscences, and songs is draw . . . [more] Matches in book (33): ...around. Wikchamni song Anna Gayton, “Yokuts and Western Mono: Ethnography” ... ...a year. See Cora Du Bois, “Wintu Ethnography,” for a fuller description. Most of... ...Cora Du Bois's “Wintu Ethnography” and Du Bois and Demetracopoulou's “Wintu... Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: The voice in the margin: Native American literature and the canon Author: Krupat, Arnold Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Native American Studies \| American Literature Publisher's Description: In its consideration of American Indian literature as a rich and exciting body of work, The Voice in the Margin invites us to broaden our notion of what a truly inclusive American literature might be, and of how it might be placed in relation to an international - a "cosmopolitan" - literary canon. . . . [more] Matches in book (19): ...Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London:... ...Marcus, George, and Dick Cushman. "Ethnographies as Texts." Annual Review of... ...Rhetoric and the Authority of Ethnography: 'Postmodernism' and the Social... Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	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 (16): ...Gerald . 1972. Behind many masks: Ethnography and impression management. In... ...culture: The poetics and politics of ethnography, edited by James Clifford and... ...of culture: Twentieth-century ethnography, literature, and art. Cambridge,... Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: At the heart of the Empire: Indians and the colonial encounter in late-Victorian Britain Author: Burton, Antoinette M 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| Women's Studies \| Autobiographies and Biographies \| South Asia \| Victorian History \| Travel \| European History \| Asian History Publisher's Description: Antoinette Burton focuses on the experiences of three Victorian travelers in Britain to illustrate how "Englishness" was made and remade in relation to imperialism. The accounts left by these three sojourners - all prominent, educated Indians - represent complex, critical ethnographies of "native" m . . . [more] Matches in book (22): ...today. 223 If attention to colonial ethnographies destabilizes notions of the... ...a discussion of the production of ethnographies in travel literature to the New... ...Visweswaran, Fictions of Feminist Ethnography ; and Ortner, “Resistance and the... Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Wage, trade, and exchange in Melanesia: a Manus society in the modern state Author: Carrier, James G Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Anthropology Publisher's Description: Ponam Island, a small community in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea, is the subject of this innovative study. The authors extend the criticism within anthropology of ethnographies that attempt to analyze village communities without reference to the nations of which they are a part, and that equate t . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...233 -235 in Papua New Guinea ethnography, 7 -8, 13 -15, 17 -20 theory, 9 -13,... ...persistence of tradition in Melanesian ethnography. Oceania 57:271–293. Carrier,... ...of Colonization: impact of, in ethnography, 5 n. 1, 5 -7, 237 of Manus and... Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Language, charisma, and creativity: the ritual life of a religious movement Author: Csordas, Thomas J Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology \| Christianity Publisher's Description: Thomas Csordas's eloquent analysis of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, part of the contemporary cultural and media phenomenon known as conservative Christianity, embraces one of the primary tasks of anthropology: to stimulate critical reflection by making the exotic seem familiar and the familiar a . . . [more] Matches in book (8): ...eds. , Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking . Cambridge: Cambridge... ...Sherzer, eds. , Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking . London: Cambridge... ...1988. "Rhetoric and the Authority of Ethnography: 'Postmodernism' and the Social... Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	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] Matches in book (5): ...the Kababish Tribe . In Essays in Sudan Ethnography , edited by Ian Cunnison and... ...of Culture: Twentieth Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art . Cambridge, MA:... ...The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography . Berkeley: University of California... Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: The calligraphic state: textual domination and history in a Muslim society Author: Messick, Brinkley Morris Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology \| Middle Eastern History \| Cultural Anthropology \| Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: In this innovative combination of anthropology, history, and postmodern theory, Brinkley Messick examines the changing relation of writing and authority in a Muslim society from the late nineteenth century to the present. The creation and interpretation of texts, from sacred scriptures to administra . . . [more] Matches in book (5): ...Exploded Worlds--Text as Metaphor for Ethnography (and Vice Versa)." Dialectical... ...the light of Moroccan shari'a court ethnography in Rosen 1980-81; 1989:58-59. 3.... ...See also Schools: endowments for Engels, Friedrich, 160 Ethnography, 3 , 5 , 228... Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	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] Matches in book (6): ...The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography . Berkeley, Los Angeles, London:... ...Tyler, Stephen A 1986 Post-Modern Ethnography: From Document of the Occult to... ...Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography , edited by James Clifford and... Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Remaking the modern: space, relocation, and the politics of identity in a global Cairo Author: Ghannam, Farha 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: In an effort to restyle Cairo into a global capital that would meet the demands of tourists and investors and to achieve President Anwar Sadat's goal to modernize the housing conditions of the urban poor, the Egyptian government relocated residents from what was deemed valuable real estate in downto . . . [more] Matches in book (5): ...Context, and Strategy in Musical Ethnography . Ethnomusicology 34 : 399–412 .... ...Ferguson. 1997b . Culture, Power, Place: Ethnography at the End of an Era . In... ...Ray 1993 ; Massey 1994 ). My ethnography aims to highlight the significance of... Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Between marriage and the market: intimate politics and survival in Cairo Author: Hoodfar, Homa Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Politics \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: Homa Hoodfar's richly detailed ethnography provides a rare glimpse into the daily life of Arab Muslim families. Focusing on the impact of economic liberalization policies from 1983 to 1993, she shows the crucial role of the household in survival strategies among low-income Egyptians. Hoodfar, an Ira . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography , ed. James Clifford and George... Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	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 (47): ...Epilogue: Writing Popular Ethnography... ...Writing Ethnography for the General Public... ...pregnancy, 53 Erikson, Erik, 10 Ethnography experimental, 290 -291 popular,... Similar Items

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