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| 101. |  | Title: Passions of the tongue: language devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970  Author: Ramaswamy, Sumathi Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Asian Studies | History | South Asia | Language and Linguistics | Asian History | Asian Literature Publisher's Description: Why would love for their language lead several men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? Passions of the Tongue analyzes the discourses of love, labor, and life that transformed Tamil into an object of such passionate attachment, producing in the process one of modern India's most . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...Kamala . 1990. Family Subjects: An Ethnography of the ‘Women’s Question’ in... Similar Items...dominant ideology. In her marvellous ethnography on the ideology of poetry in... ...Shulman 1980: 93-104) . In her ethnography of contemporary Tamil family life,... |
| 102. |  | Title: Beyond the stream: Islam and society in a West African town Author: Launay, Robert 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | African Studies | Islam Publisher's Description: Robert Launay has been observing the changing religious practices of the Dyula, a Muslim community in West Africa, for more than a decade. In Beyond the Stream , he examines the ways in which this religious and ethnic minority group living on the fringes of the Muslim world maintains its ties to the . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...tend to undertake. Admittedly, the ethnography of small communities—communities... Similar Items...their discipline is rooted in the ethnography of small-scale local communities,... |
| 103. |  | Title: The human difference: animals, computers, and the necessity of social science Author: Wolfe, Alan 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Sociology | Social Theory | Political Theory | Postcolonial Studies | Religion | Christianity Matches in book (2): ...suspicion of authorial omnipotence. Ethnography prides itself on understanding... Similar Items...practices to the world of discourse. Ethnography can never stop with the real... |
| 104. |  | Title: The Creation of tribalism in Southern Africa Author: Vail, Leroy Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | African History | African Studies | Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: Despite a quarter century of "nation building," most African states are still driven by ethnic particularism - commonly known as "tribalism." The stubborn persistence of tribal ideologies despite the profound changes associated with modernization has puzzled scholars and African leaders alike. The b . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...of 'a manual of South African ethnography', the introduction frankly stated... Similar Items...many of which are masterpieces of ethnography for one never trained in the... ...write them as general history and ethnography. In an important sense, he created... |
| 105. |  | Title: American homo: community and perversity Author: Escoffier, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Gender Studies | Sociology | American Studies | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: Jeffrey Escoffier traces the emergence of a gay and lesbian political identity over the last four decades in this wide-ranging collection of his most influential essays. Situating the development of gay and lesbian communities in a broad sweep of recent American history, Escoffier examines how an ur . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...was a contribution to the urban ethnography of contemporary America. Her book... Similar Items...Sherri Cavan, Liquor License: An Ethnography of Bar Behavior (Chicago: Aldine,... ...The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (Berkeley: University of California... |
| 106. |  | Title: The mystique of dreams: a search for utopia through Senoi dream theory Author: Domhoff, G. William Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Sociology | Psychology | Anthropology Publisher's Description: A fascinating strand of the human potential movement of the 1960s involved the dream mystique of a previously unknown Malaysian tribe, the Senoi, first brought to the attention of the Western world by adventurer-anthropologist-psychologist Kilton Stewart. Exploring the origin, attraction, and effica . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...of his 1951 article. But the ethnographies that appeal to us the most usually... Similar Items...society." 20 More generally, any ethnography runs the risk of being caught up in... |
| 107. |  | Title: Bazaar India: markets, society, and the colonial state in Gangetic Bihar Author: Yang, Anand A Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Asian Studies | South Asia | Asian History | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: The role of markets in linking local communities to larger networks of commerce, culture, and political power is the central element in Anand A. Yang's provocative and original study. Yang uses bazaars in the northeast Indian state of Bihar during the colonial period as the site of his investigation . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography . Berkeley and Los Angeles: University... Similar Items...The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of... ...America), 34 are predominantly ethnographies of individual marketplaces and... |
| 108. |  | Title: The Renaissance Bible: scholarship, sacrifice, and subjectivity Author: Shuger, Debora K 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Religion | Literary Theory and Criticism | Renaissance History | Christianity | Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: This is the first book on the Renaissance Bible by an Anglo-American scholar in nearly fifty years. Not confined to a history of exegesis, it is instead a study of Renaissance culture - a culture whose central text was the Bible. Shuger explores, among other topics, the links between late medieval C . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...Spanish scholasticism, and New World ethnography—a case study of the synthetic... Similar Items...produced an early form of comparative ethnography, which does remark and analyze... ...of natural law theories and the new ethnography. 98 It is the ritual itself that... |
| 109. |  | Title: A carnival of parting: the tales of King Bharthari and King Gopi Chand as sung and told by Madhu Natisar Nath of Ghatiyali, Rajasthan Author: Nath, Madhu Natisar Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Hinduism | South Asia Publisher's Description: Madhu Natisar Nath is a Rajasthani farmer with no formal schooling. He is also a singer, a musician, and a storyteller. At the center of A Carnival of Parting are Madhu Nath's oral performances of two linked tales about the legendary Indian kings, Bharthari of Ujjain and Gopi Chand of Bengal. Both c . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...of Wisconsin lecture series on ethnography and narrative. I thank all who... Similar Items...cultural, and political boundaries. Ethnography generally involves more sluggish... |
| 110. |  | Title: Reconcilable differences: confronting beauty, pornography, and the future of feminism Author: Chancer, Lynn S 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Gender Studies | Sociology | Women's Studies | Social Problems Publisher's Description: This volume examines controversial faultlines in contemporary feminism - pornography, the beauty myth, sadomasochism, prostitution, and the issue of rape - from an original and provocative perspective. Lynn Chancer focuses on how, among many feminists, the concepts of sex and sexism became fragmente . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...an insightful and well-documented ethnography of prostitution. The work is based... Similar Items...of Chicago's stress on urban ethnography. Miller was especially interested in... |
| 111. |  | Title: Countering colonization: Native American women and Great Lakes missions, 1630-1900 Author: Devens, Carol Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Native American Studies | American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | Women's Studies | Religion Publisher's Description: With Countering Colonization , Carol Devens offers a well-documented, revisionary history of Native American women. From the time of early Jesuit missionaries to the late nineteenth century, Devens brings Ojibwa, Cree, and Montagnais-Naskapi women of the Upper Great Lakes region to the fore. Far fro . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...Indeed, early-twentieth-century ethnographies suggest that as male and female... Similar Items...valued by women, if not by men. Ethnographies by Diamond Jenness, Frank Speck,... |
| 112. |  | 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): ...student at Moscow University in ethnography and anthropology. Both men supported... Similar Items |
| 113. |  | Title: Social order/mental disorder: Anglo-American psychiatry in historical perspective Author: Scull, Andrew T Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Sociology | Psychiatry | United States History | European History | Psychology Matches in book (2): ...and Shepherd, 2: 197–241. For an ethnography of contemporary court proceedings... Similar Items...would have produced still another ethnography of a particular institution. In... |
| 114. |  | Title: City steeple, city streets: saints' tales from Granada and a changing Spain Author: Slater, Candace Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Literary Theory and Criticism | European Literature Publisher's Description: Candace Slater's new book focuses on narratives concerning Fray Leopoldo de Alpandeire (1864-1956), a Capuchin friar from Granada and probably the most popular nonconsecrated saint today in all of Spain. In tracing the emergence of a group of contemporary legends about Fray Leopoldo, Slater discusse . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...Steady-state Values: Essays in the Ethnography of Spain , edited by Joseph B.... Similar Items...not initially conceived as an ethnography, the study offers one of very few... |
| 115. |  | Title: Constructive dissonance: Arnold Schoenberg and the transformations of twentieth-century culture Author: Brand, Juliane Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Composers | Intellectual History | Art History Publisher's Description: Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) is a pivotal figure of musical modernism. The "father of serialism" has influenced nearly every major composer of this century, and the idea of Schoenberg, now wild-eyed radical, now embattled moralist, now lonely prophet, is woven into the mythos of modern art. What is . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...Kandinsky's Iconography: Sources in Ethnography and Shamanism," in Papers in Art... Similar Items...Paris. search as a student of ethnography in the summer of 1889. Here Pam, in... |
| 116. |  | Title: Theory of culture Author: Münch, Richard 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Sociology | Social Theory | Political Theory | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: With the increasing focus on the concept of culture by sociologists and other social scientists, there is now a need for clarifying and developing theoretical perspectives on this issue. The contributors to this volume have answered this call, each adding new insight to the debate over culture, its . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...of Victor Turner. His masterful ethnography reveals the fundamental reality of... Similar Items...of high gods through my reading of the ethnography on a small sample of simple... |
| 117. |  | Title: A nation of empire: the Ottoman legacy of Turkish modernity Author: Meeker, Michael E Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Middle Eastern Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: This innovative study of modern Turkey is the result of many years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research. Michael Meeker expertly combines anthropological and historical methods to examine the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic in a major region of the country, the . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...account would necessarily combine ethnography with history, but I initially had... Similar Items...on the basis of the comparative ethnography of rural Anatolia. There was a... |
| 118. |  | 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 (2): ...Tanabe ( Osaka : National Museum of Ethnography , 1984 ). Silber, Nina . The... Similar Items...Tanabe (Osaka: National Museum of Ethnography, 1984), 345–400. Neil Jamieson, “... |
| 119. |  | Title: Roots of North Indian Shīʿism in Iran and Iraq: religion and state in Awadh, 1722-1859 Author: Cole, Juan Ricardo Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Asian Studies Publisher's Description: In this pioneering study of the Twelver Shi'i branch of Islam prevalent in Iraq and Iran, J. R. I. Cole traces the influence of Shi'i rule on the development of religious communalism and conflict in the North Indian State of Awadh (Oudh). He also examines the relationship of the Shi'i clergy to the . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...Warnock. Guests of the Sheikh: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village . Garden City.... Similar Items...Fernea, Guests of the Sheikh An Ethnography, of an Iraqi Village (Garden City, N... |
| 120. |  | Title: Interpreting the self: autobiography in the Arabic literary tradition Author: Reynolds, Dwight Fletcher 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Literature in Translation | Comparative Literature | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Autobiography is a literary genre which Western scholarship has ascribed mostly to Europe and the West. Countering this assessment and presenting many little-known texts, this comprehensive work demonstrates the existence of a flourishing tradition in Arabic autobiography. Interpreting the Self disc . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral... Similar Items...Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral... |