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| 141. |  | Title: Kinship with strangers: adoption and interpretations of kinship in American culture  Author: Modell, Judith Schachter 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Sociology Publisher's Description: Adoption challenges our understanding of the core symbols of kinship in American culture - birth, biology, and blood. Through the lens of anthropological theory, Judith Modell examines these symbols and the way they affect people who experience the "fictive" kinship of adoption. Her findings are tim . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...Parenthood." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 17 (1988): 40–66. de Hartog,... Similar Items |
| 142. |  | Title: Reading Sappho: contemporary approaches Author: Greene, Ellen 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Literary Theory and Criticism | Poetry Publisher's Description: Reading Sappho considers Sappho's poetry as a powerful, influential voice in the Western cultural tradition. Essays are divided into four sections: "Language and Literary Context," "Homer and Oral Tradition", "Ritual and Social Context", and "Women's Erotics". Contributors focus on literary history, . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...Community." In Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking , edited by Richard... Similar Items |
| 143. |  | Title: Learning from experience: minority identities, multicultural struggles Author: Moya, Paula M. L Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature | American Studies | Ethnic Studies | Chicano Studies | Gender Studies | Social and Political Thought | Politics | Social Theory | Immigration Publisher's Description: In Learning from Experience, Paula Moya offers an alternative to some influential philosophical assumptions about identity and experience in contemporary literary theory. Arguing that the texts and lived experiences of subordinated people are rich sources of insight about our society, Moya presents . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...a Multicultural Environment: An Ethnography of Heritage High School . American... Similar Items |
| 144. |  | Title: Religion and Rajput women: the ethic of protection in contemporary narratives Author: Harlan, Lindsey Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion | Hinduism | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: What is the relationship between caste and gender in the narratives of Rajput woman? During a year and a half of fieldwork in Rajasthan, a parched land dominated by the great Indian Desert, Lindsey Harlan interviewed more than a hundred women from all levels of Rajput society. She wanted to understa . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...Gerald. Hindus of the Himalayas: Ethnography and Change. Berkeley: University of... Similar Items |
| 145. |  | Title: Dialogue and history: constructing South India, 1795-1895 Author: Irschick, Eugene F Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Asian History | South Asia | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Eugene Irschick deftly questions the conventional wisdom that knowledge about a colonial culture is unilaterally defined by its rulers. Focusing on nineteenth-century South India, he demonstrates that a society's view of its history results from a "dialogic process" involving all its constituencies. . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...both cosmology and the presumed ethnography of the local territory. Like the... Similar Items |
| 146. |  | Title: Red city, blue period: social movements in Picasso's Barcelona Author: Kaplan, Temma 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Art | European History | Cultural Anthropology | Gender Studies | Art History Publisher's Description: In Red City, Blue Period , Kaplan combines the methods of anthropology and the new cultural history to examine the civic culture of Barcelona between 1888 and 1939. She analyzes the peculiar sense of solidarity the citizens forged and explains why shared experiences of civic culture and pageantry so . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...61. Salut, whose book combines an ethnography of the Parallel at the turn of the... Similar Items |
| 147. |  | Title: Storm over Mono: the Mono Lake battle and the California water future Author: Hart, John 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Environmental Studies | Natural History | California and the West Publisher's Description: A dramatic environmental saga unfolds in John Hart's compelling story of the fight to save Mono Lake. This ancient inland sea, in the eastern Sierra near Yosemite National Park, is among the oldest in North America. But over the past fifty years, as its feeder streams were steadily drained to supply . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...6,357 feet. Davis, Emma Lou. An Ethnography of the Kuzedika Paiute of Mono Lake,... Similar Items |
| 148. |  | Title: From my grandmother's bedside: sketches of postwar Tokyo Author: Field, Norma 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Autobiography | Asian History | Japan | Politics Publisher's Description: From My Grandmother's Bedside is an experiment in genre, a moving and evocative reflection on contemporary Japan, human desire, family relations, life, and death. Norma Field, the daughter of a Japanese woman and an American G.I., and author of the acclaimed In the Realm of a Dying Emperor , returne . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...vision or by a celebratory ethnography. There's an economy of the national and... Similar Items |
| 149. |  | Title: The custom of the castle: from Malory to Macbeth Author: Ross, Charles Stanley Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | European History | English Literature | Medieval Studies | Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: The "custom of the castle" imposes strange ordeals on knights and ladies seeking hospitality - daunting, mostly evil challenges that travelers must obey or even defend. This seemingly fantastic motif, first conceived by Chrètien de Troyes in the twelfth century and widely imitated in medieval French . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...may express itself in fiction or ethnography. Both forms may be regarded, in... Similar Items |
| 150. |  | Title: Environment and experience: settlement culture in nineteenth-century Oregon Author: Boag, Peter G Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | United States History | Californian and Western History | Environmental Studies Publisher's Description: The pioneer battling with a hostile environment - whether it be arid land, drought, dust storms, dense forests, or harsh winters - is a staple of western American history. In this innovative, multi-disciplinary work, Peter Boag takes issue with the image of the settler against the frontier, arguing . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...of European economy on, 19 , 21 -22; ethnography of, 10 , 14 ; and European/... Similar Items |
| 151. |  | Title: State and intellectual in imperial Japan: the public man in crisis Author: Barshay, Andrew E Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Asian History | Japan | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: In this superbly written and eminently readable narrative, Andrew E. Barshay presents the contrasting lives of Nanbara Shigeru (1889-1974) and Hasegawa Nyoze-kan (1875-1969), illuminating the complex predicament of modern Japanese intellectuals and their relation to state and society.Following the M . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...Modern National Ceremonies: A Historical Ethnography, 1868-1912," Ph.D. diss. ,... Similar Items |
| 152. |  | Title: Film quarterly: forty years--a selection Author: Henderson, Brian Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film Publisher's Description: During its forty years as a forum for scholars, filmmakers, critics, and film lovers, Film Quarterly has looked in depth at the most critical elements in the political, social, theoretical, and aesthetic history of the cinema. Once closely tied to Hollywood, the journal was investigated by the Tenne . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...and David Turton (eds. ), Film as Ethnography (Manchester, England: Manchester... Similar Items |
| 153. |  | Title: Strong mothers, weak wives: the search for gender equality Author: Johnson, Miriam M Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Sociology | Psychology | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: A leading theorist in the sociology of sex and gender, Miriam Johnson establishes as her starting point the belief that inequality is not inherent or inevitable in heterosexual relations. In Strong Mothers, Weak Wives she develops this notion by examining how gender differences get translated into g . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...Special Publication on the Ethnography of Law) 67, no. 6, part 2 (1965): 123–40.... Similar Items |
| 154. |  | Title: Best friends and marriage: exchange among women Author: Oliker, Stacey J Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Gender Studies | Popular Culture | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In this fascinating book, Stacey Oliker delves into the intimate realm of women's friendships and explores the complex relation between friendship and family life. Based on a series of interviews with women from the middle and working classes, this work reveals the distinctive values of best friends . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...doesn't ask often." Carol Stacks ethnography of poor urban blacks documents the... Similar Items |
| 155. |  | Title: Reproduction and social organization in Sub-Saharan Africa Author: Lesthaeghe, Ron J 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: African Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Medical Anthropology Publisher's Description: Unlike most Asian and Latin American countries, sub-Saharan Africa has seen both an increase in population growth rates and a weakening of traditional patterns of child-spacing since the 1960s. It is tempting to conclude that sub-Saharan countries have simply not reached adequate levels of income, e . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...in a Ghanaian marketing system. American Ethnography 6(4): 682. Tabutin, D. , M.... Similar Items |
| 156. |  | Title: October cities: the redevelopment of urban literature Author: Rotella, Carlo 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Literature | American Studies | Urban Studies | United States History | American Literature | Sociology Publisher's Description: Returning to his native Chicago after World War II, Nelson Algren found a city transformed. The flourishing industry, culture, and literature that had placed prewar Chicago at center stage in American life were entering a time of crisis. The middle class and economic opportunity were leaving the inn . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...Writing Chicago: Modernism, Ethnography, and the Novel (New York: Columbia... Similar Items |
| 157. |  | Title: A radical Jew: Paul and the politics of identity Author: Boyarin, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Religion | Judaism | Christianity | Gender Studies | Literature | Anthropology Publisher's Description: Daniel Boyarin turns to the Epistles of Paul as the spiritual autobiography of a first-century Jewish cultural critic. What led Paul - in his dramatic conversion to Christianity - to such a radical critique of Jewish culture?Paul's famous formulation, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, no male and fem . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...Boyarin, Jonathan . 1992a. Jewish Ethnography and the Question of the Book. In... Similar Items |
| 158. |  | Title: Paris as revolution: writing in the nineteenth-century city Author: Ferguson, Priscilla Parkhurst Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Social Theory | European Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | European History | French Studies Publisher's Description: In nineteenth-century Paris, passionate involvement with revolution turned the city into an engrossing object of cultural speculation. For writers caught between an explosive past and a bewildering future, revolution offered a virtuoso metaphor by which the city could be known and a vital principle . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...resembles what we might now call an ethnography of the city. It fell to Louis-... Similar Items |
| 159. |  | Title: Natural history of the White-Inyo Range, eastern California Author: Hall, Clarence A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Ecology | Earth Sciences | California and the West | Natural History Publisher's Description: The White-Inyo Range - rising sharply from the eastern edge of Owens Valley - is one of the most extraordinary landscapes in the world. High, dry, and amazingly diverse, it boasts an expansive alpine tundra and features the oldest living species on earth - the 4,000-year-old Bristlecone Pines. This . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...28. Steward, Julian H. 1933. Ethnography of the Owens Valley Paiute. University... Similar Items |
| 160. |  | Title: The culture of sectarianism: community, history, and violence in nineteenth-century Ottoman Lebanon Author: Makdisi, Ussama Samir 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Postcolonial Studies | Islam | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Focusing on Ottoman Lebanon, Ussama Makdisi shows how sectarianism was a manifestation of modernity that transcended the physical boundaries of a particular country. His study challenges those who have viewed sectarian violence as an Islamic response to westernization or simply as a product of socia . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...no comprehensive knowledge, no ethnography of any kind, no travelers’ reports... Similar Items |