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| 81. |  | Title: Reason and passion: representations of gender in a Malay society  Author: Peletz, Michael G Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This book provides a historical and ethnographic examination of gender relations in Malay society, in particular in the well-known state of Negeri Sembilan, famous for its unusual mixture of Islam and matrilineal descent. Peletz analyzes the diverse ways in which the evocative, heavily gendered symb . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...Roy F. 1983. "Social Theory, Ethnography, and the Understanding of Practical... Similar Items...1988. "Rhetoric and the Authority of Ethnography: 'Postmodernism' and the Social... ...The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography . Berkeley: University of California... |
| 82. |  | Title: On human nature: a gathering while everything flows, 1967-1984 Author: Burke, Kenneth 1897- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Intellectual History | Rhetoric | Comparative Literature Publisher's Description: On Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows brings together the late essays, autobiographical reflections, an interview, and a poem by the eminent literary theorist and cultural critic Kenneth Burke (1897-1993). Burke, author of Language as Symbolic Action, A Grammar of Motives, and Rhetoric . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...James J. Fox, Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking, eds. Richard Bauman... Similar Items...first applied to poetry, is now a subset of "the ethnography of speaking."... ...The revival of interest in the ethnography of symbolic forms (myth, ritual,... |
| 83. |  | Title: The play of time: Kodi perspectives on calendars, history, and exchange Author: Hoskins, Janet Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Southeast Asia Publisher's Description: Janet Hoskins provides both an ethnographic study of the organization of time in an Eastern Indonesian society and a theoretical argument about alternate temporalities in the modern world. Based on more than three years of field work with the Kodi people of the island of Sumba, her book focuses on K . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...at the Workshop on East Indonesian Ethnography, Australian National University,... Similar Items...of our own mortality. This book is an ethnography of the cultural perception and... ...has not been used in Indonesian ethnography, though the magical importance of... |
| 84. |  | Title: Whose keeper?: social science and moral obligation Author: Wolfe, Alan 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Sociology | Ethics | Politics | American Studies Matches in book (3): ...The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of... Similar Items...The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of... ...The situations of everyday life, the ethnographies of concrete communities and... |
| 85. |  | Title: On the margins of modernism: decentering literary dynamics Author: Kronfeld, Chana Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature | Comparative Literature | Language and Linguistics | Literary Theory and Criticism | Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: Modernism valorizes the marginal, the exile, the "other" - yet we tend to use writing from the most commonly read European languages (English, French, German) as examples of this marginality. Chana Kronfeld counters these dominant models of marginality by looking instead at modernist poetry written . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...Folklor un Etnograyfe [Folklore and ethnography], Vol. 15 of Gezamelte Shriftn [... Similar Items...etnografye un folklor [Jewish ethnography and folklore]. Buenos Aires: YIVO.... ...Gezamelte Shriftn (Folklore and Ethnography: Collected Works) (1925:257-67ff).... |
| 86. |  | Title: Putting Islam to work: education, politics, and religious transformation in Egypt Author: Starrett, Gregory 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Education | Religion | Islam | Politics Publisher's Description: The development of mass education and the mass media have transformed the Islamic tradition in contemporary Egypt and the wider Muslim world. In Putting Islam to Work , Gregory Starrett focuses on the historical interplay of power and public culture, showing how these new forms of communication and . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...Press, 1990), which are fine school ethnographies prompted by the political rise... Similar Items...is not, strictly speaking, a school ethnography, and those who read it with the... ...the form of a traditional school ethnography, but will instead focus on the way... |
| 87. |  | Title: Over the edge: remapping the American West Author: Matsumoto, Valerie J Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: American Studies | California and the West | Popular Culture | History | United States History | Californian and Western History | German Studies Publisher's Description: From the Gold Rush to rush hour, the history of the American West is fraught with diverse, subversive, and at times downright eccentric elements. This provocative volume challenges traditional readings of western history and literature, and redraws the boundaries of the American West with absorbing . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, James Clifford and George E.... Similar Items...of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art (Cambridge:... ...The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (Berkeley: University of California... |
| 88. |  | Title: Indian traffic: identities in question in colonial and postcolonial India Author: Roy, Parama Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Postcolonial Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | South Asia | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: The continual, unpredictable, and often violent "traffic" between identities in colonial and postcolonial India is the focus of Parama Roy's stimulating and original book. Mimicry has been commonly recognized as an important colonial model of bourgeois/elite subject formation, and Roy examines its p . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art . Cambridge,... Similar Items...of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art [Cambridge,... ...by repeated invocations of his ethnography of Sind, undertaken at Napier’s... |
| 89. |  | Title: Peasants and monks in British India Author: Pinch, William R 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian History | South Asia | Postcolonial Studies | Hinduism Publisher's Description: In this compelling social history, William R. Pinch tackles one of the most important but most neglected fields of the colonial history of India: the relation between monasticism and caste. The highly original inquiry yields rich insights into the central structure and dynamics of Hindu society - in . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...by E. A. Gait’s highly skeptical ethnography staff, GOI, Census of India, 1901 ,... Similar Items...received by E. A. Gait’s “ethnography” staff, see Census of India, 1901 , vol.... ...statistical surveys, textual study, ethnography, anthropometry, and observation;... |
| 90. |  | Title: Christian souls and Chinese spirits: a Hakka community in Hong Kong Author: Constable, Nicole Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Christianity | China Publisher's Description: How do the people of a village that is both Chinese and Christian reconcile the contradictions between their religious and ethnic identities? This ethnographic study explores the construction and changing meanings of ethnic identity in Hong Kong. Established at the turn of the century by Hakka Chris . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...Press. Bruner, Edward M. 1986 "Ethnography as Narrative." In The Anthropology of... Similar Items...The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Berkeley: University of California... ...1986; Rabinow 1977; Rosaldo 1986), ethnography is not an objective collection... |
| 91. |  | Title: Writing tricksters: mythic gambols in American ethnic literature Author: Smith, Jeanne Rosier 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Ethnic Studies | African American Studies | Asian Literature | Native American Studies Publisher's Description: Writing Tricksters examines the remarkable resurgence of tricksters - ubiquitous shape-shifters who dwell on borders, at crossroads, and between worlds - on the contemporary cultural and literary scene. Depicting a chaotic, multilingual world of colliding and overlapping cultures, many of America's . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Ed. James Clifford and George... Similar Items...Monkey: His Fake Book as Indigenous Ethnography." Lim and Ling 333–346. Lincoln,... |
| 92. |  | Title: Public disputation, power, and social order in late antiquity Author: Lim, Richard 1963- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Classics | Classical Religions | Religion | Christianity Publisher's Description: Richard Lim explores the importance of verbal disputation in Late Antiquity, offering a rich socio-historical and cultural examination of the philosophical and theological controversies. He shows how public disputation changed with the advent of Christianity from a means of discovering truth and sel . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...Scherzer, eds. , Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking . Cambridge, 1974.... Similar Items...eds. , ,Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking (Cambridge, 1974), 110-24,... |
| 93. |  | Title: La lucha for Cuba: religion and politics on the streets of Miami Author: De La Torre, Miguel A Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion | Latino Studies | Politics | Christianity Publisher's Description: For many in Miami's Cuban exile community, hating Fidel Castro is as natural as loving one's children. This hatred, Miguel De La Torre suggests, has in fact taken on religious significance. In La Lucha for Cuba, De La Torre shows how Exilic Cubans, a once marginalized group, have risen to power and . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature and Art . Cambridge,... Similar Items...Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography , edited by James Clifford and... |
| 94. |  | Title: On the road to tribal extinction: depopulation, deculuration, and adaptive well-being among the Batak of the Philippines Author: Eder, James F Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Southeast Asia Publisher's Description: The cultural and even physical extinction of the world's remaining tribal people is a disturbing phenomenon of our time. In his study of the Batak of the Philippines, James Eder explores the adaptive limits of small human populations facing the ecological changes, social stresses, and cultural disru . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...from Prehistory, History, and Ethnography, pp. 177–196. Michigan Papers on South... Similar Items...I also make use of Warren's (1964) ethnography, which was based in part on these... |
| 95. |  | Title: Grateful prey: Rock Cree human-animal relationships Author: Brightman, Robert Alain 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology | Anthropology | United States History | Religion Publisher's Description: The interaction between religious beliefs and hunting practices among the Asiniskawidiniwak or Rock Crees of northern Manitoba is the focus of Robert Brightman's detailed study. This foraging society, he says, bases aspects of its hunting and trapping largely on what we call "religious" conceptions. . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...913. Murphy, Robert. 1970. Basin ethnography and ethnological theory. In E. H.... Similar Items...Melanesian and Southeast Asian ethnography. My impression is that Cree magical... ...not specified in Eastern Cree ethnography, but Landes's (1968:34) southwestern... |
| 96. |  | Title: Oedipus lex: psychoanalysis, history, law Author: Goodrich, Peter 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | Law | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Oedipus Lex offers an original and evocative reading of legal history and institutional practice in the light of psychoanalysis and aesthetics. It explores the unconscious of law through a wealth of historical and contemporary examples. Peter Goodrich provides an anatomy of law's melancholy and bore . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography . Berkeley and Los Angeles: University... Similar Items...The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of... |
| 97. |  | Title: Tokyo life, New York dreams: urban Japanese visions of America, 1890-1924 Author: Sawada, Mitziko 1928- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian Studies | Japan | Asian American Studies Publisher's Description: Tokyo Life, New York Dreams is a bicultural study focusing on Japanese immigrants in New York and the ideas they had about what they would find there. It is one of the first works to consider Japanese immigration to the East Coast, where immigrants were of a different class and social background fro . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...also her "Constructing the Japanese Ethnography of Modernity," Journal of Asian... Similar Items...89. ———. "Constructing the Japanese Ethnography of Modernity." Journal of Asian... ...cultural identity in 1920s Japan ("Ethnography of Modernity," 30-54). 45. Quoted... |
| 98. |  | Title: Heroes of the age: moral fault lines on the Afghan frontier Author: Edwards, David B Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Much of the political turmoil that has occurred in Afghanistan since the Marxist revolution of 1978 has been attributed to the dispute between Soviet-aligned Marxists and the religious extremists inspired by Egyptian and Pakistani brands of "fundamentalist" Islam. In a significant departure from thi . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...H. 1977 [1891] An Inquiry into the Ethnography of Afghanistan. Karachi: Indus... Similar Items...Texts: A View from the Colonial Ethnography of Afghanistan . In Writing the... ...not usually figure in the final ethnography (at least not these days), but they... |
| 99. |  | Title: Living downtown: the history of residential hotels in the United States Author: Groth, Paul Erling Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Architecture | Urban Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: From the palace hotels of the elite to cheap lodging houses, residential hotels have been an element of American urban life for nearly two hundred years. Since 1870, however, they have been the target of an official war led by people whose concept of home does not include the hotel. Do these residen . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...P. You Owe Yourself a Drunk: An Ethnography of Urban Nomads . Boston: Little,... Similar Items...SRO) Tenants." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 19, 2 (1990): 188–206. Rose,... |
| 100. |  | Title: Visionaries: the Spanish Republic and the reign of Christ Author: Christian, William A 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion | Christianity | Popular Culture | Anthropology Publisher's Description: In June 1931, on a hillside in the Spanish Basque country, two children reported seeing the Virgin Mary. Within weeks, hundreds of seers were attracting tens of thousands of onlookers, and the nightly spectacle gave rise to others in dozens of towns across Spain. Visionaries explores the experience . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...1991. Fernandez, James W. Bwiti: An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in... Similar Items...N), 23 , 172 , 246 ETA, 172 ethnography, Basque, 34 , 339 -342 Etichove (... |