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| 61. |  | Title: Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China  Author: Harrell, Stevan Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | China | Ethnic Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: Nearly seven million Yi people live in Southwest China, but most educated people outside China have never heard of them. This book, the first scholarly study in a Western language on the Yi in four decades, brings this little-known part of the world to life. Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China . . . [more] Matches in book (6): ...eds. 1985 Yiyu jianzhi (A brief ethnography of Yi language). Beijing : Minzu... Similar Items...John, and Jean Comaroff 1992 Ethnography and the Historical Imagination.... ...Durrenberger, Edward Paul 1971 The Ethnography of Lisu Curing. Ph.D. diss. ,... |
| 62. |  | Title: Ritual ground: Bent's Old Fort, world formation, and the annexation of the Southwest Author: Comer, Douglas C Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | Cultural Anthropology | California and the West | United States History Publisher's Description: From about 1830 to 1849, Bent's Old Fort, located in present-day Colorado on the Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe Trail, was the largest trading post in the Southwest and the mountain-plains region. Although the raw enterprise and improvisation that characterized the American westward movement seem t . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...in Directions In Sociolinguistics: The Ethnography of Communication, ed. Dell... Similar Items...of Culture: Twentieth Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art (Cambridge,... ...societies. It is standard fare in ethnographies to document that subsistence... |
| 63. |  | Title: Authors of their own lives: intellectual autobiographies Author: Berger, Bennett M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Sociology | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: All students and scholars are curious about the human faces behind the impersonal rhetoric of academic disciplines. Here twenty of America's most prominent sociologists recount the intellectual and biographical events that shaped their careers. Family history, ethnicity, fear, private animosities, e . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...Policy (Glazer and Young), 204 Ethnography, 63 , 179 , 185 Ethnomethodology,... Similar Items...dedication to a kind of academic ethnography pursued in brief bouts of fieldwork... ...Rist once characterized as blitzkrieg ethnography. 46 In 1954 Everett Hughes, as... |
| 64. |  | Title: Oil age Eskimos Author: Jorgensen, Joseph G 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Ecology | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In a book made especially timely by the disastrous Exxon Valdez oil spill in March 1989, Joseph Jorgensen analyzes the impact of Alaskan oil extraction on Eskimo society. The author investigated three communities representing three environments: Gambell (St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea), Wainwright . . . [more] Matches in book (8): ...Unalakleet for three years. Thus, the ethnography that underpins this study is... Similar Items...behind the inquiry, and the basic ethnography cannot be understood without an... ...comparative ethnology yields to ethnography, and I analyze a single village, or... |
| 65. |  | Title: Three mothers, three daughters: Palestinian women's stories Author: Gorkin, Michael Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Women's Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: This remarkable collection of oral histories from six Palestinian women, three mothers and three of their daughters, affords an unparalleled view into the daily lives of women who have lived, and continue to live, through a turbulent and rapidly changing era. In recording these stories, Michael Gork . . . [more] Matches in book (6): ...by a new school of postmodern ethnography. Axiomatic to the thinking of those... Similar Items...Tyler puts it, “A post-modern ethnography is fragmentary because it cannot be... ...the recommendations of the postmodern ethnography school. We find postmodern... |
| 66. |  | Title: Evolution of sickness and healing Author: Fabrega, Horacio Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Medicine | Medical Anthropology Publisher's Description: Evolution of Sickness and Healing is a theoretical work on the grand scale, an original synthesis of many disciplines in social studies of medicine. Looking at human sickness and healing through the lens of evolutionary theory, Horacio Fàbrega, Jr. presents not only the vulnerability to disease and . . . [more] Matches in book (6): ...of Southern Africa: A Comparative Ethnography of the Khoisan Peoples. Cambridge:... Similar Items...Curing on Ponape: A medical ethnography. Ph.D. dissertation, Tulane University.... ...Good ethnographies of sickness and healing are basic requirements for... |
| 67. |  | Title: Speaking with vampires: rumor and history in colonial Africa Author: White, Luise Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: African Studies | African History | African Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: During the colonial period, Africans told each other terrifying rumors that Africans who worked for white colonists captured unwary residents and took their blood. In colonial Tanganyika, for example, Africans were said to be captured by these agents of colonialism and hung upside down, their throat . . . [more] Matches in book (6): ...The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of... Similar Items...Jean, and John L. Comaroff ———. Ethnography and the Historical Imagination.... ...Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff, Ethnography and the Historical Imagination (... |
| 68. |  | Title: Cultural encounters: the impact of the Inquisition in Spain and the New World Author: Perry, Mary Elizabeth 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Anthropology | European History | Religion | Renaissance History Publisher's Description: More than just an expression of religious authority or an instrument of social control, the Inquisition was an arena where cultures met and clashed on both shores of the Atlantic. This pioneering volume examines how cultural identities were maintained despite oppression.Persecuted groups were able t . . . [more] Matches in book (6): ...de, 148 Espinosa, Pedro de, 211 Esther, 202 n. 28, 204 n. 45 Ethnography, 11... Similar Items...Sahagún and the Birth of Modern Ethnography: Representing, Confessing, and... ...Sahagún and the Birth of Modern Ethnography: Representing, Confessing, and... |
| 69. |  | Title: Divine passions: the social construction of emotion in India Author: Lynch, Owen M 1931- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | South Asia | History Publisher's Description: Naked holy men denying sexuality and feeling; elderly people basking in the warmth and security provided by devoted and attentive family members; fastidious priests concerned solely with rules of purity and minutiae of ritual practice; puritanical moralists concealing women and sexuality behind purd . . . [more] Matches in book (6): ...James 1983 Power and Dialogue in Ethnography: Marcel Griaule's Initiation. In... Similar Items...The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. James Clifford and George Marcus, eds.... ...application of this insight to an ethnography of south India, see Daniel (1984).... |
| 70. |  | Title: Socialization as cultural communication: development of a theme in the work of Margaret Mead Author: Schwartz, Theodore Published: University of California Press, 1980 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology Matches in book (6): ...they are embedded—as Goldschmidt's are—in thorough ethnography. We know how to... Similar Items...in many more tangible areas of ethnography. But when it comes to the quality,... ...documentation is essential to ethnography. Goldschmidt turns to his photographic... |
| 71. |  | Title: Shady practices: agroforestry and gender politics in the Gambia Author: Schroeder, Richard A Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Geography | Anthropology | Ecology | African Studies | Social Problems Publisher's Description: Shady Practices is a revealing analysis of the gendered political ecology brought about by conflicting local interests and changing developmental initiatives in a West African village. Between 1975 and 1985, while much of Africa suffered devastating drought conditions, Gambian women farmers succeede . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...Annaler 77B (2):109–124. ———. 1995b. Ethnography and agroforestry research: A... Similar Items...13 , 14 , 20 , 77 , 134 Mandinka ethnography: agricultural systems, xxvi , 3 ;... ...devoted to the history and ethnography of Mandinka agricultural practices on the... |
| 72. |  | Title: Epic traditions in the contemporary world: the poetics of community Author: Beissinger, Margaret H Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Literature | Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Comparative Literature Publisher's Description: The epic tradition has been part of many different cultures throughout human history. This noteworthy collection of essays provides a comparative reassessment of epic and its role in the ancient, medieval, and modern worlds, as it explores the variety of contemporary approaches to the epic genre. Em . . . [more] Matches in book (5): ...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... ...Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral... |
| 73. |  | Title: Representation and its discontents: the critical legacy of German romanticism Author: Seyhan, Azade Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Philosophy | Literary Theory and Criticism | German Studies Publisher's Description: Azade Seyhan provides a concise, elegantly argued introduction to the critical theory of German Romanticism and demonstrates how its approach to the metaphorical and linguistic nature of knowledge is very much alive in contemporary philosophy and literary theory. Her analysis of key thinkers such as . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...as archaeology, psychoanalysis, ethnography, and Orientalism. Its raw material... Similar Items...as philology, literature, and ethnography, whereas the first Renaissance had a... ...showed us the way, does not seek in ethnography, as Lévi-Strauss wished, the "... |
| 74. |  | Title: Regarding politics: essays on political theory, stability, and change Author: Eckstein, Harry Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | Political Theory Publisher's Description: After World War II political science, especially comparative politics, was transformed by a "scientific revolution." Harry Eckstein, an influential spokesman in the revolution's forefront, went on to make a great variety of contributions in subsequent decades. These eleven essays, written over thirt . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...history, a sort of political ethnography, on the other. They did not, however,... Similar Items...Political ethnography, purely abstract speculations, formal-legal studies, and... ...and purely concrete political ethnography. When Woolsey talks about the state "... |
| 75. |  | Title: Ngoma: discourses of healing in central and southern Africa Author: Janzen, John M Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Medical Anthropology Publisher's Description: Ngoma , in Bantu, means drum, song, performance, and healing cult or association. A widespread form of ritual healing in Central and Southern Africa, ngoma is fully investigated here for the first time and interpreted in a contemporary context. John Janzen's daring study incorporates drumming and sp . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...c—h courtesy Section of Ethnography, Royal Museum of Central Africa, 3080 ... Similar Items...University of Chicago Press. 1986 b Ethnography and the closing of the frontier... ...Body and mind in Zulu medicine: An ethnography of health . New York: Academic... |
| 76. |  | Title: Practicing virtues: moral traditions at Quaker and military boarding schools Author: Hays, Kim Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Sociology | Philosophy | Education Publisher's Description: Practicing Virtues is about learning to be good in the distinct moral worlds of Quaker and military boarding schools. Both types of schools bind their communities with shared codes of conduct, the military schools' conservative tradition emphasizing discipline and hard work, the Quaker schools' libe . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...Ideology and Symbolic Community: An Ethnography of Schools of Choice. New York:... Similar Items...Senior High School Students." In Doing the Ethnography of Schooling: Educational... ...Ideology and Symbolic Community: An Ethnography of Schools of Choice (New York:... |
| 77. |  | Title: America at century's end Author: Wolfe, Alan 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: American Studies | Ethnic Studies | Sociology | Urban Studies | Politics | Postcolonial Studies Matches in book (7): ...209 . See also Minorities, racial Ethnography, 11 , 462 Euthanasia, 313 , 316 -... Similar Items...small preindustrial cultures, ethnography is now becoming an umbrella term to... ...to be sure, predominate, because ethnography—with its emphasis on understanding... |
| 78. |  | Title: Horace and the gift economy of patronage Author: Bowditch, Phebe Lowell 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Poetry | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This innovative study explores selected odes and epistles by the late-first-century poet Horace in light of modern anthropological and literary theory. Phebe Lowell Bowditch looks in particular at how the relationship between Horace and his patron Maecenas is reflected in these poems' themes and rhe . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...in a tradition of Utopian ethnography, Discussing the phrase si credis ,... Similar Items...straightforward and verifiable ethnography. ” and the oak's produce of acorns is... ...as a convention of Utopian ethnography ( Thomas 1982 , 17). The effect of these... |
| 79. |  | Title: The way the world is: cultural processes and social relations among the Mombasa Swahili Author: Swartz, Marc J Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | African Studies Publisher's Description: Marc Swartz takes us for the first time into the homes and neighborhoods of the Swahili in the East African port of Mombasa. At the same time he develops a new model for the operation and transmission of culture.In asking how cultural elements influence the social behavior of those who do not share . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...453. 1972 a Paradigms lost: The new ethnography and the new linguistics. SJA 28(... Similar Items...CA 15:2, 119-145. 1982 Bwiti: An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in... ...Charles 1962 Cultural ecology and ethnography. AA 64:53-59. Freeman-Grenville,... |
| 80. |  | Title: J.M. Coetzee: South Africa and the politics of writing Author: Attwell, David Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature | African Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: David Attwell defends the literary and political integrity of South African novelist J.M. Coetzee by arguing that Coetzee has absorbed the textual turn of postmodern culture while still addressing the ethical tensions of the South African crisis. As a form of "situational metafiction," Coetzee's wri . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...decision simply to ignore what ethnography might tell him is surely deliberate,... Similar Items...discourse, from chronicle and ethnography (such as the references to the death... |