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101. | | Title: Losing face: status politics in Japan Author: Pharr, Susan J Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Asian Studies | Asian History | Japan | PoliticsPublisher's Description: How does a "homogeneous" society like Japan treat the problem of social inequality? Losing Face looks beyond conventional structural categories (race, class, ethnicity) to focus on conflicts based on differences in social status. Three rich and revealing case studies explore crucial asymmetries of a . . . [more]Matches in book (11):...Protest and the Political Process in India." In Protest, Reform, and Revolt,......23 , 35 , 77 Buddhism and, 13 in India, 13 , 76 warrior, 24 ( see also Samurai).......76 n.3, 77 n.7. See also Burakumin India, 146 Industrialization, British, 212... Similar Items | 102. | | Title: The colonial elite of early Caracas: formation & crisis, 1567- 1767 Author: Ferry, Robert J Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Latin American StudiesMatches in book (12):...Abreu y su extraordinaria misión en Indias. Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Goya Artes......experience in the Archivo General de Indias. At the University of Colorado, Phil......Principal, and in the Archivo General de Indias in Seville. Much of the analysis... Similar Items | 103. | | Title: Plant migration: the dynamics of geographic patterning in seed plant species Author: Sauer, Jonathan D Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Geography | Ecology | BotanyPublisher's Description: Using cases of plant migration documented by both historical and fossil evidence, Jonathan D. Sauer provides a landmark assessment of what is presently known, and not merely assumed, about the process. Matches in book (9):...appeared in 1949 as a maize weed in Kenya. It invaded southern India after 1960.......period to West and East Africa, India, and the East Indies; other people soon......Rajendra N. 1970. Tertiary floras of India and their bearing on the historical... Similar Items | 104. | | Title: Mirages of transition: the Peruvian altiplano, 1780-1930 Author: Jacobsen, Nils 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Anthropology | Latin American History | Latin American StudiesPublisher's Description: This case study of the Peruvian altiplano, the vast high-altitude plains surrounding Lake Titicaca, combines economic and social analysis with cultural and institutional history. Nils Jacobsen challenges the prevailing view that the rural Andes underwent a successful transition to capitalism between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He argues that although the political, economic, and administrative structures of colonialism were gradually dismantled by the region's advancing market economy, colonial modes of constructing power and social identity have lingered on even to this day.The result of painstaking research in remote rural archives, some of them now made inaccessible by the Shining Path, Mirages of Transition will become the definitive work on the Peruvian highlands. [brief]Matches in book (11):...Diccionario geográfico-histórico de las Indias occidentales ó América. 5 vols.......de las cofradías y el rol de la nobleza india: El valle del Mantaro en el siglo......Maguiña, and Antonio Rengifo. Rebelión India. Lima: Editorial "Rikchay Perú,"... Similar Items | 105. | | Title: Family and frontier in colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaíba, 1580-1822 Author: Metcalf, Alida C 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Latin American History | Latin American StudiesPublisher's Description: Colonial families in the Brazilian town of Santana de Parnaíba lived on the fringe of settlement in a vast and perilous continent. In her revealing community history, Metcalf tells how these settlers pursued family strategies that adapted European custom to the American environment. Turning to recorded events such as marriages, baptisms, and especially inheritances, she discovers that as the newcomers transformed the wilderness into a settled agricultural community, they laid the foundation for a class society of planters, peasants, and slaves. With an engaging description of family life at all three levels of society, the author shows how the families most successful in exploiting and controlling the resources of the wilderness gained wealth, power, and social dominance.Metcalf challenges accepted views by contending that not only external economic forces but also colonial family strategies paved the way for an inegalitarian society in Brazil. Her portrayal of frontier survival and coping, together with the heedless exploitation of wilderness resources, brings a historical perspective to the consideration of Brazil's last frontier, the Amazon. [brief]Matches in book (13):...term "caste" derives from studies of India wherein individuals were born into a......of achieving a long-sought sea route to India. In anticipation of this, in the......years after Columbus's attempt to reach India by sailing west, the Portuguese... Similar Items | 106. | | Title: May her likes be multiplied: biography and gender politics in Egypt Author: Booth, Marilyn Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Women's Studies | Literature | Middle Eastern StudiesPublisher's Description: Marilyn Booth's elegantly conceived study reveals the Arabic tradition of life-writing in an entirely new light. Though biography had long been male-authored, in the late nineteenth century short sketches by and about women began to appear in biographical dictionaries and women's journals. By 1940, hundreds of such biographies had been published, featuring Arabs, Turks, Indians, Europeans, North Americans, and ancient Greeks and Persians. Booth uses over five hundred "famous women" biographies - which include subjects as diverse as Joan of Arc, Jane Austen, Aisha bt. Abi Bakr, Sarojini Naidu, and Lucy Stone - to demonstrate how these narratives prescribed complex role models for middle-class girls, in a context where nationalist programs and emerging feminisms made defining the ideal female citizen an urgent matter.Booth begins by asking how cultural traditions shaped women's biography, and to whom the Egyptian biographies were directed. The biographies were published at a time of great cultural awakening in Egypt, when social and political institutions were in upheaval. The stories suggested that Islam could be flexible on social practice and gender, holding out the possibility for women to make their own lives. Yet ultimately they indicate that women would find it extremely difficult to escape the nationalist ideal: the nuclear family with "woman" at its center. This conflict remains central to Egyptian politics today, and in her final chapter Booth examines Islamic biographies of women's lives that have been published in more recent years. [brief]Matches in book (15):...her ideals. ” Jahangir, Mughal ruler of India, was “captivated” by Nūr Jahān's (......in Colonial and Postcolonial India. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of......spouse of the British governor in India), Baroness Bertha von Satz, and Lady... Similar Items | 107. | | Title: Circumstantial deliveries Author: Needham, Rodney Published: University of California Press, 1982 Subjects: AnthropologyMatches in book (5):...99, 108 Imprinting, 48 Incest, 13 , 63 , 107 India, 16 , 76 Individualism, 99......be a sinologist; if he works on India he must learn the classical traditions of......Oceania, Indonesia, China, outer Asia, India, Ceylon; the Middle East and all of... Similar Items | 108. | | Title: Fiction as history: Nero to Julian Author: Bowersock, G. W. (Glen Warren) 1936- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics | Literature | European History | Classical Religions | Christianity | Ancient HistoryPublisher's Description: Using pagan fiction produced in Greek and Latin during the early Christian era, G. W. Bowersock investigates the complex relationship between "historical" and "fictional" truths. This relationship preoccupied writers of the second century, a time when apparent fictions about both past and present were proliferating at an astonishing rate and history was being invented all over again. With force and eloquence, Bowersock illuminates social attitudes of this period and persuasively argues that its fiction was influenced by the emerging Christian Gospel narratives.Enthralling in its breadth and enhanced by two erudite appendices, this is a book that will be warmly welcomed by historians and interpreters of literature. [brief]Matches in book (4):...Ikarios, 125 , 128 India, 47 , 156 Isis, 91 , 108 , 131 Islam, 121 Isocrates, 30......subjects. He moves on to the Brahmans in India, among whom killing, fornication,......display, and some kind of fakir from India burned himself up in Athens, to the... Similar Items | 109. | | 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 AsiaPublisher'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 (8):...Haimendorf, Christoph 1982 Tribes of India: The Struggle for Survival. Berkeley,......Gatherers of Nuclear South Asia,” Man in India 49:139–160. Fox, Robert B. 1952 “......von Fürer-Haimendorf's Tribes of India: The Struggle to Survive. And beyond... Similar Items | 110. | | Title: History and tradition in Melanesian anthropology Author: Carrier, James G Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | East Asia OtherPublisher's Description: Melanesian societies, like village societies in many parts of the world, are frequently portrayed as existing in a timeless, traditional present. These seven original essays offer an alternative view, one showing that historical evidence can and must inform our understanding of contemporary cultures.This collection brings together anthropologists and historians who maintain that the "timeless-traditionalism" approach of anthropology is inadequate. Life in the existing societies of Melanesia cannot be understood, they say, without examining how these societies are shaped by Western influences. The historical perspective that acknowledges ongoing political, economic, and social change results in less stereotypical descriptions of these traditional cultures. Historians and anthropologists of Melanesia and the Pacific will find here original and enlightening work that is sure to influence the theoretical orientation of Melanesian anthropology. [brief]Matches in book (11):...Geraldine. 1979. “Women's Movements in India: Traditional Symbols and New......M. S. A. Rao (ed. ), Social Movements in India (vol. 2). Delhi: Manohar. Gailey,......to say that an Englishman in India or Egypt in the later nineteenth century took... Similar Items | 111. | | Title: The calligraphic state: textual domination and history in a Muslim society Author: Messick, Brinkley Morris Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Middle Eastern History | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern StudiesPublisher's Description: In this innovative combination of anthropology, history, and postmodern theory, Brinkley Messick examines the changing relation of writing and authority in a Muslim society from the late nineteenth century to the present. The creation and interpretation of texts, from sacred scriptures to administrative and legal contracts, are among the fundamental ways that authority is established and maintained in a complex state. Yet few scholars have explored this process and the ways in which it changes, especially outside the Western world.Messick brings together intensive ethnography and textual analysis from a wealth of material: Islamic jurisprudence, Yemeni histories, local documents. In exploring the structure and transformation of literacy, law, and statecraft in Yemen, he raises important issues that are of comparative significance for understanding political life in other Muslim and nonwestern states as well. [brief]Matches in book (12):...duty to confer upon the natives of India those vast moral and material blessings......with imperial interests focused on India, and the Ottoman, with its center of......committees, British officials in India discovered in Hanafi manuals "a system... Similar Items | 112. | | Title: War, institutions, and social change in the Middle East Author: Heydemann, Steven Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Politics | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | Postcolonial Studies | Cultural AnthropologyPublisher's Description: Few areas of the world have been as profoundly shaped by war as the Middle East in the twentieth century. Despite the prominence of war-making in this region, there has been surprisingly little research investigating the effects of war as a social and political process in the Middle East. To fill this gap, War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars who explore the role of war preparation and war-making on the formation and transformation of states and societies in the contemporary Middle East. Their findings pose significant challenges to widely accepted assumptions and present new theoretical starting points for the study of war and the state in the contemporary developing world. Heydemann's collaborators include political scientists, historians, anthropologists, and sociologists from the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. Their essays are both theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, covering topics such as the effects of World War II on state-market relations in Syria and Egypt, the role of war in the rise of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the political economy of Lebanese militias, and the effects of the 1967 war on state and social institutions in Israel. The volume originated as a research planning project of the Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East of the Social Science Research Council. [brief]Matches in book (9):...of Tradition: Political Development in India . Chicago: University of Chicago......of Tradition: Political Development in India; Ake, “Modernization and Political......and France. The government of India, which occupied Aden and had responsibility... Similar Items | 113. | | Title: Sugar and the origins of modern Philippine society Author: Larkin, John A Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Economics and Business | Asian History | Southeast AsiaPublisher's Description: The sugar industry has been a vital part of the economic and social life of modern Philippine society. John A. Larkin examines how both the Filipino people and colonizing forces participated in this industry and how two types of society emerged: one based on plantation agriculture, the other on tenant farming.Negros Occidental and Pampanga, the most important sugar-producing regions, are the focus of Larkin's study. Examining the rise of the elite plantation-owning class, the subsequent gap between the extraordinarily wealthy and the impoverished, and the nation's dependence on the international market, Larkin concludes that the sugar industry resulted in stunted economic development, wide cleavages among the Filipino people, and an imbalance of political power - all effects that are still felt today. [brief]Matches in book (10):...Brender, Lucio, 189 British East India Company (BEIC), 23 Brussels Convention (......Nationalism; Quezon, Manuel Luis India, 2 , 4 , 23 , 207 Industrial Revolution,......sacras, y reales del imperio de las Indias Occidentales, al mvy catolico . . .... Similar Items | 114. | | Title: Songs to make the dust dance: the Ryōjin hishō of twelfth-century Japan Author: Kwon, Yung-Hee K Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Asian Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Japan | Asian StudiesPublisher's Description: Breaking through the long-established image of Heian Japan (794-1185) as a culture dominated by ritualized aristocratic values, Yung-Hee Kim presents the picture of a country in transition, filled with a wide variety of common people responding to very ordinary situations. In popular songs called imayo , they expressed their concerns about religion, love, aging, and even current affairs.In 1179 Emperor Go-Shirakawa compiled Ryojin hisho , a twenty-volume collection of this song genre that juxtaposes the sacred with the profane, the high with the low, the male with the female, the old with the new. Kim makes these songs the core of her book, in translations that faithfully reflect the sounds and images of the originals and bring them to life within their own literary and cultural context. [brief]Matches in book (9):...court morticians), 7 -8 Asoka, King of India, 95 Ato (trace), 64 Atsuta Shrine,......Magadha, the most powerful kingdom in India during Sakyamuni's time, was ruled......Magadha, the most powerful kingdom in India during Sakyamuni's time, was ruled... Similar Items | 115. | | Title: Nerves and narratives: a cultural history of hysteria in nineteenth-century British prose Author: Logan, Peter Melville 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | History | History and Philosophy of Science | Literary Theory and Criticism | Victorian History | English Literature | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: The British middle class of the early nineteenth century was defined by its nervous complaints - hysteria, hypochondria, vapours, melancholia, and other maladies. Peter Melville Logan explores the link between medical theories of nervous physiology and narrative issues central to the literary writing of the period. He examines the assumption, implicit in medical thinking at the time, that the nervous body - unlike its non-nervous counterpart - has a narrative inscribed on its nerve fibers. It becomes "the body with a story to tell."Logan takes up several literary works whose nervous narrators connect their present disorder with an unnatural, unhealthy social order. Concentrating on novels by Godwin, Hays, and Edgeworth, and on De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater , Logan weaves cultural phenomena such as crowd psychology and attitudes toward opium addiction into the basic paradigm of the nervous narrative. He explains why these social critiques always tended to promote the same distempered civilization that brought them into being. He then looks at the emergence of the working-class body in the 1840s, changing medical theories, and George Eliot's treatment of medicine in Middlemarch .Logan's book is especially valuable for its rethinking of disciplinary categories that separate medicine from literature and for bringing to light lesser-known literary texts. With a foreword by Roy Porter, it will be a welcome addition to literary, gender, and cultural studies. [brief]Matches in book (8):...light of the immense volume of the India-China trade, its crucial importance to......eighteenth century, the British East India Company had a monopoly on the sale......and production of all opium grown in India. Cultivation was centered in Bengal,... Similar Items | 116. | | 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 StudiesMatches in book (12):...while far more diverse groups—from India and Laos, China and the Philippines—are......Vietnam, South Korea, China, India, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic. Of these,......63,792 77,786 98,121 127,631 451,395 India 3,164 18,327 67,283 96,982 116,282... Similar Items | 117. | | 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 StudiesPublisher'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):...process of penetration in colonial India, and relates it in a similar way to the......Representing authority in Victorian India' in Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger,......of Europe, in places like Russia, India, North and South America, and Egypt.... Similar Items | 118. | | Title: The comparative imagination: on the history of racism, nationalism, and social movements Author: Fredrickson, George M 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: In this collection of essays, an eminent American historian of race relations discusses issues central to our understanding of the history of racism, the role of racism, and the possibilites for justice in contemporary society. George M. Fredrickson provides an eloquent and vigorous examination of race relations in the United States and South Africa and at the same time illuminates the emerging field of comparative history - history that is explicitly cross-cultural in its comparisons of nations, eras, or social structures. Taken together, these thought-provoking, accessible essays - several never before published - bring new precision and depth to our understanding of racism and justice, both historically and for society today.The first group of essays in The Comparative Imagination summarizes and evaluates the cross-national comparative history written in the past fifty years. These essays pay particular attention to comparative work on slavery and race relations, frontiers, nation-building and the growth of modern welfare states, and class and gender relations. The second group of essays represents some of Fredrickson's own explorations into the cross-cultural study of race and racism. Included are new essays covering such topics as the theoretical and cross-cultural meaning of racism, the problem of race in liberal thought, and the complex relationship between racism and state-based nationalism. The third group contains Fredrickson's recent work on anti-racist and black liberation movements in the United States and South Africa, especially in the period since World War II.In addition, Fredrickson's provocative introduction breaks significant new intellectual ground, outlining a justification for the methods of comparative history in light of such contemporary intellectual trends as the revival of narrative history and the predominance of postmodern thought. [brief]Matches in book (8):...of the nonviolent methods that Gandhi had employed in the liberation of India.......the United States, China, Japan, and India, Moore distinguished three different......dies hard, as the example of India's tortuous efforts to elevate the status of... Similar Items | 119. | | Title: Justice in South Africa, Author: Sachs, Albie 1935- Published: University of California Press, 1973 Subjects: African Studies | Politics | LawMatches in book (9):...4 Dugard, J. , 26o, 277 Dutch East India Company, 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 23 , 26 ,......station established by the Dutch East India Company at the Cape in 1652. The......the many regions where the Dutch East India Company traded, while their number... Similar Items | 120. | | Title: Frontiers and ghettos: state violence in Serbia and Israel Author: Ron, James Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | European Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Christianity | Judaism | Islam | ChristianityPublisher's Description: James Ron uses controversial comparisons between Serbia and Israel to present a novel theory of state violence. Formerly a research consultant to Human Rights Watch and the International Red Cross, Ron witnessed remarkably different patterns of state coercion. Frontiers and Ghettos presents an institutional approach to state violence, drawing on Ron's field research in the Middle East, Balkans, Chechnya, Turkey, and Africa, as well as dozens of rare interviews with military veterans, officials, and political activists on all sides. Studying violence from the ground up, the book develops an exciting new framework for analyzing today's nationalist wars. [brief]Matches in book (5):...democratic states such as Turkey, apartheid-era South Africa, and India. 9......The world's largest democracy is India, but its war with Kashmiri separatists is......in Turkey, Kashmiri separatists in India, Chechen insurgents in Russia, and... Similar Items |
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