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| 121. |  | Title: The possessed and the dispossessed: spirits, identity, and power in a Madagascar migrant town  Author: Sharp, Lesley Alexandra Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Medical Anthropology | Women's Studies | Indigenous Religions Publisher's Description: This finely drawn portrait of a complex, polycultural urban community in Madagascar emphasizes the role of spirit medium healers, a group heretofore seen as having little power. These women, Leslie Sharp argues, are far from powerless among the peasants and migrant laborers who work the land in this . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...1989. Fusion of the Worlds: An Ethnography of Possession among the Songhay of... Similar Items...both,” see Feeley-Harnik’s (1991b) ethnography of the Analalava region. In the... |
| 122. |  | Title: Immigration and the political economy of home: West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992 Author: Buff, Rachel 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | American Studies | Native American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | United States History Publisher's Description: Rachel Buff's innovative study of festivals in two American communities launches a substantive inquiry into the nature of citizenship, race, and social power. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork as well as archival research, Buff compares American Indian powwows in Minneapolis with the West Indian Ame . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...around practices of eating and ethnography: One thing I would like to mention,... Similar Items...or diasporan cultures. Traditional ethnography misses the 184 Notes to Pages 18–... |
| 123. |  | Title: Singular women: writing the artist Author: Frederickson, Kristen 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Criticism | Art Theory | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In this groundbreaking volume, contemporary art historians - all of them women - probe the dilemmas and complexities of writing about the woman artist, past and present. Singular Women proposes a new feminist investigation of the history of art by considering how a historian's theoretical approach a . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...E. Reed-Danahay, ed. , Auto/Ethnography: Rewriting the Self and the Social (New... Similar Items...The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (Berkeley: University of California... |
| 124. |  | Title: Wagering the land: ritual, capital, and environmental degradation in the Cordillera of northern Luzon, 1900-1986 Author: Lewis, Martin W Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Geography | Anthropology | Asian Studies Matches in book (2): ...1982:15) shows, "standard ethnographies" of a given group characteristically... Similar Items...wisdom in much of contemporary ethnography and development studies, the story of... |
| 125. |  | Title: The family silver: essays on relationships among women Author: Krieger, Susan Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies | Women's Studies | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | Sociology | Anthropology Publisher's Description: In an inventive and controversial collection of essays, sociologist Susan Krieger considers the many forms of wealth, both material and emotional, that women pass on to each other. This domestic heritage - the "family silver" - is the keystone for a discussion of mother-daughter relationships, intim . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...Stacey, "Can There Be a Feminist Ethnography?" Women's Studies International... Similar Items...to them. Recently, members of an ethnography seminar wrote to me, each on a... |
| 126. |  | Title: The waning of the communist state: economic origins of political decline in China and Hungary Author: Walder, Andrew George Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Politics | Sociology | European History | Asian History | China | European Studies | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: This collection of essays offers a compelling explanation for the decline of communism in the two countries that went the furthest with economic reforms - China and Hungary. Articulating a vision of change that serves as a counterpoint to the prevailing emphasis on citizen resistance and protest, th . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...Bureaucracy in a Chinese City: The Ethnography of Individual Business Households... Similar Items...Bureaucracy in a Chinese City: An Ethnography of Private Business Households in... |
| 127. |  | Title: Making Muslim space in North America and Europe Author: Metcalf, Barbara Daly 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | History | Islam | Middle Eastern Studies | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Focusing on the private and public use of space, this volume explores the religious life of the new Muslim communities in North America and Europe. Unlike most studies of immigrant groups, these essays concentrate on cultural practices and expressions of everyday life rather than on the political is . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...1938 ; Moravia 1976 ). The new ethnography based on dialogue and process... Similar Items...during field research for the ethnography entitled Black Pilgrimage to Islam.... |
| 128. |  | Title: The revolutions of wisdom: studies in the claims and practice of ancient Greek science Author: Lloyd, G. E. R. (Geoffrey Ernest Richard) 1933- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Classics | Classical History Publisher's Description: G.E.R. Lloyd's wide-ranging and historical study of the development of Greek science is a valuable contribution to current debates in the philosophy of language, on the analysis of scientific revolutions, and the rationality of science. Matches in book (2): ...pp. 100–131. ———. 1982. Bwiti: An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in... Similar Items...registered by an earlier tradition of ethnography when that question, pressed in... |
| 129. |  | Title: Absent lord: ascetics and kings in a Jain ritual culture Author: Babb, Lawrence A Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion | Asian Studies | Anthropology Publisher's Description: What does it mean to worship beings that one believes are completely indifferent to, and entirely beyond the reach of, any form of worship whatsoever? How would such a relationship with sacred beings affect the religious life of a community? Using these questions as his point of departure, Lawrence . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...anything resembling a complete ethnography of either a religious way of life or... Similar Items...more extensive than is common in ethnographies. It needs to be stressed that the... |
| 130. |  | Title: Into one's own: from youth to adulthood in the United States, 1920-1975 Author: Modell, John Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | United States History | Aging Matches in book (1): ...begun dating. Blumenthal's 1932 ethnography of isolated "Mineville" found the... Similar Items |
| 131. |  | Title: Ceremonial costumes of the Pueblo Indians: their evolution, fabrication, and significance in the prayer drama Author: Roediger, Virginia More Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Dance | Art Publisher's Description: When the University of California Press first published Roediger's Ceremonial Costumes of the Pueblo Indians in 1941, it was immediately hailed as both a beautiful book and the most comprehensive description ever of the making and meaning of the Pueblo costumes of New Mexico and Arizona. It has been . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...L. 1935. Preliminary Report of the Ethnography of the Southwest. U.S. Department... Similar Items |
| 132. |  | Title: The Languages of psyche: mind and body in Enlightenment thought: Clark Library lectures, 1985-1986 Author: Rousseau, G. S. (George Sebastian) Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Medicine | History and Philosophy of Science | European History | European Literature Publisher's Description: The Languages of Psyche traces the dualism of mind and body during the "long eighteenth century," from the Restoration in England to the aftermath of the French Revolution. Ten outstanding scholars investigate the complex mind-body relationship in a variety of Enlightenment contexts - science, medic . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...or, Observations on Egyptian Ethnography, Derived from Anatomy, History and... Similar Items |
| 133. |  | Title: War, institutions, and social change in the Middle East Author: Heydemann, Steven Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Politics | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | Postcolonial Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Few areas of the world have been as profoundly shaped by war as the Middle East in the twentieth century. Despite the prominence of war-making in this region, there has been surprisingly little research investigating the effects of war as a social and political process in the Middle East. To fill th . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...performance in war. Reem Saad’s ethnography of an Egyptian peasant’s memories of... Similar Items...in 1600 and to methods such as ethnography and participant observation can point... |
| 134. |  | Title: Sanctuaries of Spanish New Mexico/ Author: Treib, Marc Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Architecture | Architectural History Publisher's Description: Among the oldest buildings in the United States, the churches of Spanish New Mexico - made of earth, of stone, of wood - are the surprisingly fragile reminders of a unique amalgam of Spanish architectural ideas and native American Pueblo culture. This book surveys the land and rivers, the people and . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...mission architecture and native ethnography; his inventory of even the smallest... Similar Items...Fort Wingate with an interest in ethnography, reported in 1879 that the nave was... |
| 135. |  | Title: The fabrication of labor: Germany and Britain, 1640-1914 Author: Biernacki, Richard 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Sociology | Labor Studies | European History Publisher's Description: This monumental study demonstrates the power of culture to define the meaning of labor. Drawing on massive archival evidence from Britain and Germany, as well as historical evidence from France and Italy, The Fabrication of Labor shows how the very nature of labor as a commodity differed fundamental . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...From Craft to Industry: The Ethnography of Proto-Industrial Cloth Production (... Similar Items...From Craft to Industry: The Ethnography of Proto-Industrial Cloth Production.... |
| 136. |  | Title: Bureaucracy and race: native administration in South Africa Author: Evans, Ivan Thomas 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: African Studies | African History | Sociology | Postcolonial Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Bureaucracy and Race overturns the common assumption that apartheid in South Africa was enforced only through terror and coercion. Without understating the role of violent intervention, Ivan Evans shows that apartheid was sustained by a great and ever-swelling bureaucracy. The Department of Native A . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...and the numerous tribal ethnographies he subsequently either authored or... Similar Items |
| 137. |  | Title: AIDS: the making of a chronic disease Author: Fee, Elizabeth Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Medicine | United States History | Sociology Publisher's Description: When AIDS was first recognized in 1981, most experts believed that it was a plague, a virulent unexpected disease. They thought AIDS, as a plague, would resemble the great epidemics of the past: it would be devastating but would soon subside, perhaps never to return. By the middle 1980s, however, it . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...on relationships between anthropology, ethnography, and travel writing. Thus,... Similar Items...As the foregoing examples suggest, ethnography and other forms of interpretive... |
| 138. |  | Title: Information and organizations Author: Stinchcombe, Arthur L Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Sociology | Economics and Business | Labor Studies | Political Theory Publisher's Description: An ambitious new work by a well-respected sociologist, Information and Organizations provides a bold perspective of the dynamics of organizations. Stinchcombe contends that the "information problem" and the concept of "uncertainty" provide the key to understanding how organizations function. In a de . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...rationality to decisions (a mass of ethnography of decisions shows that they are... Similar Items |
| 139. |  | Title: The life of a text: performing the Rāmcaritmānas of Tulsidas Author: Lutgendorf, Philip Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion | Hinduism | South Asia | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: The Life of a Text offers a vivid portrait of one community's interaction with its favorite text - the epic Ramcaritmanas - and the way in which performances of the epic function as a flexible and evolving medium for cultural expression. Anthropologists, historians of religion, and readers intereste . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...of the possibility of creating an "ethnography of verbal art" for such cultures... Similar Items |
| 140. |  | Title: Culture and power in Banaras: community, performance, and environment, 1800-1980 Author: Freitag, Sandria B Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Asian Studies | South Asia | Asian History | Cultural Anthropology | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: This collection of ten essays on Banaras, one of the largest urban centers in India's eastern Gangetic plain, is united by a common interest in examining everyday activities in order to learn about shared values and motivations, processes of identity formation, and self-conscious constructions of co . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...and Sylvia Vatuk. 1967. "The Ethnography of Sang, A North Indian Folk Opera."... Similar Items |