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| 41. |  | Title: The spiritual quest: transcendence in myth, religion, and science  Author: Torrance, Robert M. (Robert Mitchell) 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Religion | Indigenous Religions | Cultural Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Language and Linguistics | Philosophy | History and Philosophy of Science | Literature Publisher's Description: Robert Torrance's wide-ranging, innovative study argues that the spiritual quest is rooted in our biological, psychological, linguistic, and social nature. The quest is not, as most have believed, a rare mystical experience, but a frequent expression of our most basic human impulses. Shaman and scie . . . [more] Matches in book (13): ...1911. ) ———. 1966b. Kwakiutl Ethnography . Ed. Helen Codere. Chicago and London:... Similar Items...186. DuBois, Cora. 1935. "Wintu Ethnography." UCPAAE 36, no. 1: 1–147. Dummett,... ...Ancient Tahitian Society . Vol. 1: Ethnography . Honolulu: University Press of... |
| 42. |  | Title: Urban forms and colonial confrontations: Algiers under French rule Author: Çelik, Zeynep Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Architecture | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | French Studies | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: During its long history as the French colonial city par excellence , Algiers was the site of recurrent conflicts between colonizer and colonized. Through architecture and urban forms confrontations were crystallized, cultural identities were defined, and social engineering programs were shaped and c . . . [more] Matches in book (12): ...cultural contexts. I rely particularly on ethnography, because as a discipline... Similar Items...a memorable article in 1950 18 ) ethnography played a major role in defining the... ...French ethnography's first serious investigation into domestic vernacular... |
| 43. |  | Title: Showing signs of violence: the cultural politics of a twentieth-century headhunting ritual Author: George, Kenneth M 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Southeast Asia Publisher's Description: Showing Signs of Violence deals with the ceremonies of pangngae, a mock headhunt that lingers stubbornly at the center of political life in a marginal upland community in Sulawesi, Indonesia. No killing takes place in this ritual - no actual heads are taken - but its rhetoric of violence is unmistak . . . [more] Matches in book (14): ...from Prehistory, History, and Ethnography, ed. K. Hutterer, pp. 39-54. Michigan... Similar Items...Professional Transformation: Toward an Ethnography of Interpersonal Experience.... ...look at the cultural politics of ethnography in these communities, see George (... |
| 44. |  | Title: Refuge of the honored: social organization in a Japanese retirement community Author: Kinoshita, Yasuhito 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Sociology | Japan Publisher's Description: Faced with the decline of the traditional family and the explosive growth of the over-65 population, the Japanese are looking for new ways to care for their elders. This timely study documents the birth of a major social phenomenon in Japan - the planned retirement community.In the mid-1980s, Yasuhi . . . [more] Matches in book (11): ...Epistemology. See Objectivity Ethnography. See Anthropology: methods Exchange,... Similar Items...judgments about the "truth" of an ethnography. This can be dearly seen in the... ...unique. In contrast to those ethnographies that strive to speak for the "other"—... |
| 45. |  | Title: Muslim rulers and rebels: everyday politics and armed separatism in the southern Philippines Author: McKenna, Thomas M 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Politics | Islam | Southeast Asia | Asian History Publisher's Description: In this first ground-level account of the Muslim separatist rebellion in the Philippines, Thomas McKenna challenges prevailing anthropological analyses of nationalism as well as their underlying assumptions about the interplay of culture and power. He examines Muslim separatism against a background . . . [more] Matches in book (13): ...Totemism and Ethnicity." Chap. 2 in Ethnography and the Historical Imagination .... Similar Items...Roy F. , 1983, "Social Theory, Ethnography, and the Understanding of Practical... ...1993, "Talking about Resistance: Ethnography and Theory in Rural France."... |
| 46. |  | Title: Listen to the heron's words: reimagining gender and kinship in North India Author: Raheja, Gloria Goodwin 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Women's Studies | South Asia Publisher's Description: In many South Asian oral traditions, herons are viewed as duplicitous and conniving. These traditions tend also to view women as fragmented identities, dangerously split between virtue and virtuosity, between loyalties to their own families and those of their husbands. In women's songs, however, sym . . . [more] Matches in book (11): ...of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art . Cambridge,... Similar Items...Batticaloa Tamils and Moors. In Ethnography of Fertility and Birth , edited by... ...69, 71 -72, 142 ; in South Asian ethnography, 30 -38 Stridharmapaddhati , 6 -7... |
| 47. |  | Title: The heart of the pearl shell: the mythological dimension of Foi sociality Author: Weiner, James F Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Anthropology Publisher's Description: For the Foi people who live on the edge of the central highlands of Papua New Guinea, the flow of pearl shells is the "heart" of their social life. The pearl shell is the exchange item that mediates the creation of their most important sexual and social roles. The Heart of the Pearl Shell analyzes a . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...The Ethnography of Foi Myth... Similar Items...Mimica, J. 1981. Omalyce: An Ethnography of the Ikwaye View of the Cosmos. Ph.D.... ...See also Metaphor Tuni (Myth), ethnography of, 150 -154 Turner, V. W. , 123 ,... |
| 48. |  | Title: Crimes against nature: squatters, poachers, thieves, and the hidden history of American conservation Author: Jacoby, Karl 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | United States History | Natural History Publisher's Description: Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on the impact that conservation in these areas had on rural people, Karl Jacoby traces the effect of criminalizing such traditional practices as . . . [more] Matches in book (12): ...Havasupai Habitat: A. F. Whiting's Ethnography of a Traditional Indian Culture.... Similar Items...Havasupai Habitat: A. F. Whiting's Ethnography of a Traditional Indian Culture (... ...12–14; and Leslie Spier, “Havasupai Ethnography,” Anthropological Papers of the... |
| 49. |  | Title: No aging in India: Alzheimer's, the bad family, and other modern things Author: Cohen, Lawrence 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Aging | South Asia Publisher's Description: From the opening sequence, in which mid-nineteenth-century Indian fishermen hear the possibility of redemption in an old woman's madness, No Aging in India captures the reader with its interplay of story and analysis. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic work, Lawrence Cohen links a detaile . . . [more] Matches in book (13): ...1980: 181, 230-31. 11. See the ethnographies of Saletore 1981 and Kapur 1983 and... Similar Items...1985. Agar, Michael. Speaking of Ethnography . Beverly Hills: Sage, 1986.... ...in the construction of a Japanese ethnography and history of the present. 3. New... |
| 50. |  | Title: Latin American vanguards: the art of contentious encounters Author: Unruh, Vicky Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Latin American Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: In this first comprehensive study of Latin America's literary vanguards of the 1920s and 1930s, Vicky Unruh explores the movement's provocative and polemic nature. Latin American vanguardism - a precursor to the widely acclaimed work of contemporary Latin American writers - was stimulated by the Eur . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art . Cambridge:... Similar Items...Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography . Berkeley: U of California P,... ...also Culture: autochthonous Ethnography: Asturias's use of, 251 ; Carpcntier's... |
| 51. |  | Title: The magic mountains: hill stations and the British raj Author: Kennedy, Dane Keith Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian History | European History | South Asia Publisher's Description: Perched among peaks that loom over heat-shimmering plains, hill stations remain among the most curious monuments to the British colonial presence in India. In this engaging and meticulously researched study, Dane Kennedy explores the development and history of the hill stations of the raj. He shows . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...Eras." In Blue Mountains: The Ethnography and Biogeography of a South Indian... Similar Items...Eras," in Blue Mountains: The Ethnography and Biogeography of a South Indian... ...The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography . Berkeley and Los Angeles: University... |
| 52. |  | Title: Mexican ballads, Chicano poems: history and influence in Mexican-American social poetry Author: Limón, José Eduardo Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Literature | American Studies | Latin American History | Folklore and Mythology Publisher's Description: Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems combines literary theory with the personal engagement of a prominent Chicano scholar. Recalling his experiences as a student in Texas, José Limón examines the politically motivated Chicano poetry of the 60s and 70s. He bases his analyses on Harold Bloom's theories of l . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...of With His Pistol in His Hand as an experimental ethnography see Limón 1986c.... Similar Items...Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography , ed. James Clifford and George... ...audience of, 65 , 67 -69, 76 -77; as ethnography, 61 , 65 , 73 , 76 ; humor in,... |
| 53. |  | Title: The politics of desire: Propertius IV Author: Janan, Micaela Wakil Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Poetry Publisher's Description: Propertius (ca. 54 b.c.--ca. 2 b.c.) was a Roman poet who composed four compelling books of elegies in the chaotic years surrounding Rome's transition from republic to empire. The first three of these books revolve mostly around a tormented love affair with a woman called Cynthia. The fourth book of . . . [more] Matches in book (11): ...Nicholas . 1970 . Numanus Remulus: Ethnography and Propaganda in Aen. , ix, 598... Similar Items...penetrate” the Indians, 2) and an ethnography based on sexual stereotypes (the... ...and of “Roman versus Roman. ” Ethnography, as a subset of history and often... |
| 54. |  | Title: Fifteen jugglers, five believers: literary politics and the poetics of American social movements Author: Reed, T. V. (Thomas Vernon) Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | American Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: T.V. Reed urges an affiliation between literary theory and political action - and between political action and literary theory. What can the "new literary theory" learn from "new social movements"; and what can social activists learn from poststructuralism, new historicism, feminist theory, and neom . . . [more] Matches in book (8): ...of Culture: Twentieth Century Ethnography, Literature and Art . Cambridge:... Similar Items...The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography . Berkeley: University of California... ...literature, experimental writing in ethnography, history, sociology, and the "... |
| 55. |  | Title: Darwin in Russian thought Author: Vucinich, Alexander 1914- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: Darwin in Russian Thought represents the first comprehensive and systematic study of Charles Darwin's influence on Russian thought from the early 1860s to the October Revolution. While concentrating on the role of Darwin's theory in the development of Russian science and philosophy, Vucinich also ex . . . [more] Matches in book (14): ...Natural Science, Anthropology, and Ethnography—dedicated to attracting private... Similar Items...anthropology, human geography, ethnography, and evolutionary sociology. A... ...of modern physical anthropology and ethnography. A contributor to the journal... |
| 56. |  | Title: Grounds for play: the Nauṭaṅkī theatre of North India Author: Hansen, Kathryn Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | Cultural Anthropology | South Asia Publisher's Description: The nautanki performances of northern India entertain their audiences with often ribald and profane stories. Rooted in the peasant society of pre-modern India, this theater vibrates with lively dancing, pulsating drumbeats, and full-throated singing. In Grounds for Play , Kathryn Hansen draws on fie . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...Sang performance is contained in Vatuk and Vatuk, "The Ethnography of Sang ."... Similar Items...Ved Prakash, and Sylvia Vatuk. "The Ethnography of Sang , A North Indian Folk... ...Prakash Vatuk and Sylvia Vatuk, "The Ethnography of Sang , A North Indian Folk... |
| 57. |  | Title: Revenge of the aesthetic: the place of literature in theory today Author: Clark, Michael 1950- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Philosophy Publisher's Description: This cutting-edge collection of essays showcases the work of some of the most influential theorists of the past thirty years as they grapple with the question of how literature should be treated in contemporary theory. The contributors challenge trends that have recently dominated the field--especia . . . [more] Matches in book (8): ...seemed self-contained. We still have ethnography, which is basically what the... Similar Items...their methodological presuppositions. Even ethnography has changed its focus, no... ...concern to understand "what ethnography is, or more exactly what doing... |
| 58. |  | Title: The promise of the city: space, identity, and politics in contemporary social thought Author: Tajbakhsh, Kian 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Urban Studies | Sociology | Popular Culture | Social Theory | Geography | Politics Publisher's Description: The Promise of the City proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, Kian Tajbakhsh offers a threefold, interdisciplinary approach linking agency, space, and structu . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...Peter . “Postmodernism, Urban Ethnography, and the New Social Space of Ethnic... Similar Items...the global economy, postmodern ethnography focuses attention on power relations... ...community. For Smith, postmodern ethnography is the appropriate basis of a new... |
| 59. |  | Title: Displaying the Orient: architecture of Islam at nineteenth-century world's fairs Author: Çelik, Zeynep Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Architecture | European History | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Gathering architectural pieces from all over the world, the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867 introduced to fairgoers the notion of an imaginary journey, a new tourism en place . Through this and similar expositions, the world's cultures were imported to European and American cities as artifacts an . . . [more] Matches in book (6): ...Zeynep Çelik and Leila Kinney, "Ethnography and Exhibitionism at the Expositions... Similar Items...Zeynep, and Leila Kinney. "Ethnography and Exhibitionisni at the Expositions... ...young disciplines of anthropology and ethnography popularized their methods and... |
| 60. |  | Title: A nation of provincials: the German idea of Heimat Author: Applegate, Celia Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | German Studies Publisher's Description: At the center of this pioneering work in modern European history is the German word Heimat - the homeland, the local place. Translations barely penetrate the meaning of the word, which has provided the emotional and ideological common ground for a variety of associations and individuals devoted to t . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...a pet project of the king, an "Ethnography of Bavaria," then languishing under a... Similar Items...emerged from this confluence of ethnography and government. In 1854, shortly... ...organization reflected his belief that ethnography reiterated topography, that... |