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| 21. |  | Title: Coronations: medieval and early modern monarchic ritual  Author: Bak, János M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Medieval History Publisher's Description: Fascination with royal pomp and circumstance is as old as kingship itself. The authors of Coronations examine royal ceremonies from the ninth to the sixteenth century, and find the very essence of the monarchical state in its public presentation of itself. This book is an enlightened response to the . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...utilize the insights and methods of ethnography and anthropology for the study... Similar Items...of sister-disciplines, such as ethnography and anthropology, can be properly... |
| 22. |  | Title: Take my word: autobiographical innovations of ethnic American working women Author: Goldman, Anne E 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Ethnic Studies | Women's Studies | United States History | American Studies Publisher's Description: In an innovative critique of traditional approaches to autobiography, Anne E. Goldman convincingly demonstrates that ethnic women can and do speak for themselves, even in the most unlikely contexts. Citing a wide variety of nontraditional texts - including the cookbooks of Nuevo Mexicanas, African A . . . [more] Matches in book (38): ...INTRODUCTION— AUTOBIOGRAPHY, ETHNOGRAPHY, AND HISTORY: A MODEL FOR READING... Similar Items...INTRODUCTION— AUTOBIOGRAPHY, ETHNOGRAPHY, AND HISTORY: A MODEL FOR READING... ...The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography . Berkeley: University of California... |
| 23. |  | Title: Respectable lives: social standing in rural New Zealand Author: Hatch, Elvin Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Southeast Asia Publisher's Description: Where do we get our notions of social hierarchy and personal worth? What underlies our beliefs about the goals worth aiming for, the persons we hope to become? Elvin Hatch addresses these questions in his ethnography of a small New Zealand farming community, articulating the cultural system beneath . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 24. |  | Title: One of the children: gay black men in Harlem Author: Hawkeswood, William G d. 1992 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | African American Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Gay black men, a thriving subculture of the black and gay communities, are doubly marginalized. Along with other black men, they are typically portrayed in the media and literature as "street corner men" - unemployed drifters, absentee fathers, substance abusers. In the larger gay community, they ar . . . [more] Matches in book (24): ...The Ethnography... Similar Items...This ethnography is about gay black identity: its expression in the lifestyle,... ...Sheri. 1966. Liquor License: Ethnography of Bar Behavior . Chicago: Aldine.... |
| 25. |  | Title: A buccaneer's atlas: Basil Ringrose's South Sea waggoner: a sea atlas and sailing directions of the Pacific coast of the Americas, 1682 Author: Ringrose, Basil d. 1686 Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Renaissance History | European History | Geography Publisher's Description: On July 29, 1681, a band of English buccaneers that had been terrorizing Spanish possessions on the west coast of the Americas captured a Spanish ship, from which they obtained a derrotero , or book of charts and sailing directions. When they arrived back in England, the Spanish ambassador demanded . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 26. |  | Title: Fighting women: anger and aggression in Aboriginal Australia Author: Burbank, Victoria Katherine Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Women's Studies | Psychology Publisher's Description: Fighting is common among contemporary Aboriginal women in Mangrove, Australia - women fight with men and with other women. Victoria Burbank's depiction of these women offers a powerful new perspective that can be applied to domestic violence in Western settings.Noting that Aboriginal women not only . . . [more] Matches in book (22): ...Ethnography and Ethics... Similar Items...M. 1973 Ripping and Running: A Formal Ethnography of Urban Heroin Addicts . New... ...J. 1988 Can There Be a Feminist Ethnography? Women's Studies International Forum... |
| 27. |  | Title: Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: an exploration of the comparative method Author: Gregor, Thomas Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Gender Studies | Geography Publisher's Description: One of the great riddles of cultural history is the remarkable parallel that exists between the peoples of Amazonia and those of Melanesia. Although the two regions are separated by half a world in distance and at least 40,000 years of history, their cultures nonetheless reveal striking similarities . . . [more] Matches in book (45): ...presumptions of Melanesian ethnography of sexuality and reproduction.... Similar Items...The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography . Berkeley : University of California... ...River Societies: A Historical Ethnography of the Chambri and Their Neighbors .... |
| 28. |  | Title: Rhetorics of self-making Author: Battaglia, Debbora Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Psychology Publisher's Description: Departing from an essentialist concept of the self, this highly original volume advances the cross-cultural study of selfhood with three contributions to the literature: First, it approaches the self as an ideological process, arguing that selfhood is culturally situated and emergent in social pract . . . [more] Matches in book (24): ...The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography . Berkeley, Los Angeles, London:... Similar Items...Rhetoric and the Authority of Ethnography: 'Post Modernism' and the Social... ...Difficult Description." In Implicit Ethnographies , edited by Stuart Schwartz.... |
| 29. |  | Title: Friends, brothers, and informants: fieldwork memoirs of Banaras Author: Kumar, Nita 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | South Asia Publisher's Description: "Why was Banaras such a mystery to me when I arrived in 1981? Was it ironically because I was an Indian and expected to have a privileged insight into it?"In this unusually personal, evocative account of her fieldwork experiences, Kumar tackles the dilemma of how a Western-trained Indian intellectua . . . [more] Matches in book (14): ...Ethnography in the Archives... Similar Items...The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of... ...Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography (Chicago: University of Chicago... |
| 30. |  | Title: Space in the tropics: from convicts to rockets in French Guiana Author: Redfield, Peter 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Geography | French Studies | European Studies | Technology Publisher's Description: Rockets roar into space - bearing roughly half the world's commercial satellites - from the same South American coastal rainforest where convicts once did time on infamous Devil's Island. What makes Space in the Tropics enthralling is anthropologist Peter Redfield's ability to draw from these two di . . . [more] Matches in book (28): ...Kamala . 1994 . Fictions of Feminist Ethnography. Minneapolis : University of... Similar Items...Jean, and John Comaroff . 1992 . Ethnography and the Historical Imagination.... ...the Looking Glass: Critical Ethnography at the Margins of Europe. Cambridge :... |
| 31. |  | Title: Circumstantial deliveries Author: Needham, Rodney Published: University of California Press, 1982 Subjects: Anthropology Matches in book (17): ...a universal distribution in world ethnography. These factors of experience are... Similar Items...of knowledge conjoined with the ethnography of global exploration to provide the... ...to another. The more one reads ethnography the more one is struck by the... |
| 32. |  | Title: The dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: culture, politics, and the formation of a modern diaspora Author: Beinin, Joel 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Religion | Judaism | Middle Eastern Studies | Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: In this provocative and wide-ranging history, Joel Beinin examines fundamental questions of ethnic identity by focusing on the Egyptian Jewish community since 1948. A complex and heterogeneous people, Egyptian Jews have become even more diverse as their diaspora continues to the present day. Central . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...Autobiography and Ethnography... Similar Items...On the Perils of Ethnography... ...Boyarin, Polish Jews in Paris: The Ethnography of Memory (Bloomington: Indiana... |
| 33. |  | Title: Mexico at the world's fairs: crafting a modern nation Author: Tenorio-Trillo, Mauricio 1962- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Latin American History | Latin American Studies | Literature Publisher's Description: This intriguing study of Mexico's participation in world's fairs from 1889 to 1929 explores Mexico's self-presentation at these fairs as a reflection of the country's drive toward nationalization and a modernized image. Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo contrasts Mexico's presence at the 1889 Paris fair - whe . . . [more] Matches in book (15): ...Six Mexican Anthropology and Ethnography at the Paris Exposition... Similar Items...Six Mexican Anthropology and Ethnography at the Paris Exposition... ...the Looking-Glass: Critical Ethnography in the Margins of Europe (Cambridge,... |
| 34. |  | Title: Colonising Egypt Author: Mitchell, Timothy 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | Middle Eastern Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern History | Intellectual History | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt. Matches in book (8): ...Ethnography and Indolence... Similar Items...Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography , ed. James Clifford and George... ...as Said points out, in a preface to his ethnography Lane carefully explains the... |
| 35. |  | Title: Representations: images of the world in Ciceronian oratory Author: Vasaly, Ann Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Classics | Literature | Politics | History | Literary Theory and Criticism | Classical Literature and Language Publisher's Description: Ann Vasaly introduces representation theory into the study of Ciceronian persuasion and contends that an understanding of milieu - social, political, topographical - is crucial to understanding Ciceronian oratory. As a genre uniquely dependent on an immediate interaction between author and audience, . . . [more] Matches in book (13): ...Ethnography, Politics, and Philosophy... Similar Items...Sallust (C. Sallustius Crispus), ethnography of, 138 , 147 , 147 n32 Samnites,... ...valuable overview of geography and ethnography in the late Republic, see Rawson,... |
| 36. |  | Title: Maring hunters and traders: production and exchange in the Papua New Guinea highlands Author: Healey, Christopher J Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Pacific Rim Studies | Asian Studies Matches in book (22): ...noted that some finer details of the ethnography of the Kundagai differ somewhat... Similar Items...Variations in some details of Maring ethnography might be explained by reference... ...River societies: A historical ethnography of the Chambri and their neighbors .... |
| 37. |  | Title: The political economy of mountain Java: an interpretive history Author: Hefner, Robert W 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian History | Sociology | Cultural Anthropology | Southeast Asia | Politics Matches in book (21): ...The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography , 1-26. Berkeley and Los Angeles:... Similar Items...230 ; standardization of, 38 -39 Ethnography: xiii ; generalization in, xiii -xv... ...This emphasis reinvigorated ethnography and social history, both of which place... |
| 38. |  | Title: Mass mediations: new approaches to popular culture in the Middle East and beyond Author: Armbrust, Walter Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Media Studies | Music | Cinema and Performance Arts Publisher's Description: Offering a stimulating diversity of perspectives, this collection examines how popular culture through mass media defines the scale and character of social interaction in the Middle East. The contributors approach popular culture broadly, with an interest in how it creates new scales of communicatio . . . [more] Matches in book (21): ...of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature and Art. Cambridge,... Similar Items...The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Berkeley: University of California... ...Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography , ed. James Clifford and George... |
| 39. |  | Title: Houses in the rain forest: ethnicity and inequality among farmers and foragers in Central Africa Author: Grinker, Roy Richard 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This is the first ethnographic study of the farmers and foragers of northeastern Zaire since Colin Turnbull's classic works of the 1960s. Roy Richard Grinker lived for nearly two years among the Lese farmers and their long-term partners, the Efe (Pygmies), learned their languages, and gained unique . . . [more] Matches in book (12): ...J. , 36 , 37 ; on central African ethnography, x , xiv ; on the House, 15 , 29 ,... Similar Items...Versor. Aunger, R. V. 1992. "An Ethnography of Variation: Food Avoidances among... ...Historical Transformations in African Ethnography." American Ethnologist 11(3):... |
| 40. |  | Title: For those who come after: a study of Native American autobiography Author: Krupat, Arnold Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Native American Studies | Autobiography Publisher's Description: Drawing on the life stories of Native Americans solicited by historians during the 19th century and, later, by anthropologists concerned with amplifying the cultural record, Arnold Krupat examines the Indian autobiography as a specific genre of American writing. Matches in book (11): ...George E. Marcus and Dick Cushman, "Ethnographies as Texts," Annual Review of... Similar Items...Press, 1978. White, Leslie. The Ethnography and Ethnology of Franz Boas. Austin... ...George E. , and Cushman, Dick. "Ethnographies as Texts," Annual Review of... |