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| 141. |  | 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 (5): ...an Indigenous Civilization. In Village India , ed. Mckim Marriot, pp. 171–222.... Similar Items...commoner lineages and clans; in northern India, clans are important elements in... ...and Social Interaction in Urban India." In Ethnic Identity , ed. George De Vos... |
| 142. |  | Title: The fountain of privilege: political foundations of markets in Old Regime France and England Author: Root, Hilton L Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Politics | Economics and Business | European History | Sociology | French Studies Publisher's Description: Hilton Root's new book applies contemporary economic and political theory to answer long-standing historical questions about modernization. It contrasts political stability in Georgian England with the collapse of the Old Regime in France. Why did a century of economic expansion rupture France's pol . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...a number of nations. Twentieth-century India and Israel and nineteenth-century... Similar Items...appropriated the government of the India Company," to the dismay of the royal... ...and the chartering of the second East India Company and the South Sea Company.... |
| 143. |  | Title: Tokugawa village practice: class, status, power, law Author: Ooms, Herman Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian History | Japan | Law Publisher's Description: In contrast to modern Japanese citizens, during the Tokugawa period (1600-1868) villagers frequently resorted to lawsuits to settle conflicts. Herman Ooms uses colorful, skillfully analyzed case studies to trace the evolution of class and status conflicts through lawsuits and petitions in villages. . . . [more] Matches in book (6): ...Essays on Inequality . Meerut, India: Folklore Institute, 1979. ———. "Social... Similar Items...Inequities: Essays on Inequality (Meerut, India: Folklore Institute, 1979), 190.... ...Imabori, 193 , 235 Imagawa, 107 , 279 India, 284 , 304 , 306 Ine, 19 , 51 , 59... |
| 144. |  | Title: Strong mothers, weak wives: the search for gender equality Author: Johnson, Miriam M Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Sociology | Psychology | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: A leading theorist in the sociology of sex and gender, Miriam Johnson establishes as her starting point the belief that inequality is not inherent or inevitable in heterosexual relations. In Strong Mothers, Weak Wives she develops this notion by examining how gender differences get translated into g . . . [more] Matches in book (6): ...Changing Sex Roles: Women in Modern India and America." In Dana Raphael, ed. ,... Similar Items...egg, dead sperm and inert particles of India ink reach the egg at about the same... ...change throughout the life cycle. In India a woman is not thought of as more or... |
| 145. |  | 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 (9): ...71 Pou i Montfort, Pere (Jesuit in India), 240 , 447 n63 Pou i Prat, Anna (seer,... Similar Items...a Franciscan missionary assigned to India who was cured of gout at the shrine.... ...Terrassa corresponded with a Jesuit in India who was interested in Ezkioga and... |
| 146. |  | Title: Images and ideologies: self-definition in the Hellenistic world Author: Bulloch, A. W Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Classics | Philosophy | Classical Philosophy | Ancient History | Art History Publisher's Description: This volume captures the individuality, the national and personal identity, the cultural exchange, and the self-consciousness that have long been sensed as peculiarly potent in the Hellenistic world. The fields of history, literature, art, philosophy, and religion are each presented using the format . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...34 incest, 5 , 62 , 65 , 97 , 148 India, 45 , 159 individualism, 261 , 301 ,... Similar Items...in Spain, Italy, Mesopotamia, and India, as well as mythical and actual Greece.... ...memories of Alexander's expeditions to India and to Siwa (the motif occurs on... |
| 147. |  | Title: The erotic Whitman Author: Pollak, Vivian R Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Literature | American Studies | Gender Studies | American Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: In this provocative analysis of Whitman's exemplary quest for happiness, Vivian Pollak skillfully explores the intimate relationships that contributed to his portrayal of masculinity in crisis. She maintains that in representing himself as a characteristic nineteenth-century American and in proposin . . . [more] Matches in book (5): ...here and at the conclusion of “Passage to India,” in which Whitman's image of a... Similar Items...to do so directly in “Passage to India” and indirectly in Section 5 of “Song of... ...far away, in China, or in Russia or India—talking other dialects; And it seems... |
| 148. |  | Title: Reproduction and social organization in Sub-Saharan Africa Author: Lesthaeghe, Ron J 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: African Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Medical Anthropology Publisher's Description: Unlike most Asian and Latin American countries, sub-Saharan Africa has seen both an increase in population growth rates and a weakening of traditional patterns of child-spacing since the 1960s. It is tempting to conclude that sub-Saharan countries have simply not reached adequate levels of income, e . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...Ibadan, 28 , 121 , 498 Ilorin, 265 India, 485 , 487 , 488 Indonesia, 487 , 488... Similar Items...on fertility and agrarian change in India and Bangladesh. Population and... ...of the world (for example, Southern India) where strong male-dominant and... |
| 149. |  | Title: Victorian literature and the Victorian visual imagination Author: Christ, Carol T Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | Art History | English Literature | Victorian History | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: Nineteenth-century British culture frequently represented the eye as the preeminent organ of truth. These essays explore the relationship between the verbal and the visual in the Victorian imagination. They range broadly over topics that include the relationship of optical devices to the visual imag . . . [more] Matches in book (5): ...politics, power, and lust (Fig. 74). India is shown "unveiling herself as... Similar Items...effect, the continent—"unveiling India," as the figure became known—puts herself... ...a less gentle form of power at work. India offering herself—as woman, artifact,... |
| 150. |  | Title: Race hygiene and national efficiency: the eugenics of Wilhelm Schallmayer Author: Weiss, Sheila Faith Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of Science Matches in book (4): ...either originated in or moved into India where they conquered non-Indo-European... Similar Items...either originated in or moved into India where they conquered non-Indo-European... ...Argentina, Mexico, South Africa, India, China, and Japan, as well as others. 3.... |
| 151. |  | Title: A mind always in motion: the autobiography of Emilio Segrè Author: Segrè, Emilio Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of Science | Physics | Autobiography Publisher's Description: The renowned physicist Emilio Segrè (1905-1989) left his memoirs to be published posthumously because, he said, "I tell the truth the way it was and not the way many of my colleagues wish it had been." This compelling autobiography offers a personal account of his fascinating life as well as candid . . . [more] Matches in book (6): ...things quieted down, he went to India to help in the setting up of a technical... Similar Items...a long period as a prisoner of war in India, at Florence; Mariano Santangelo, an... ...now Taiwan), Cambodia, Thailand, India, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Nepal, Pakistan,... |
| 152. |  | Title: Crossing the line: a year in the land of apartheid Author: Finnegan, William Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: African Studies | Politics | Social Problems | Autobiography | Education | African History Publisher's Description: William Finnegan's compelling account of a year spent teaching in a colored high school, "across the line," in Cape Town, South Africa brings the irrationality and injustice of apartheid into focus for the American reader. A new preface, written after the author's observation of the historic 1994 el . . . [more] Matches in book (6): ...catalog made it look like it was in India: young men in Nehru caps, young women... Similar Items...on Table Bay in 1652 by the Dutch East India Company, wanted to build a canal... ...enthusiasm for further travel in India, which was never very great, vanished.... |
| 153. |  | Title: The Renaissance Bible: scholarship, sacrifice, and subjectivity Author: Shuger, Debora K 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Religion | Literary Theory and Criticism | Renaissance History | Christianity | Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: This is the first book on the Renaissance Bible by an Anglo-American scholar in nearly fifty years. Not confined to a history of exegesis, it is instead a study of Renaissance culture - a culture whose central text was the Bible. Shuger explores, among other topics, the links between late medieval C . . . [more] Matches in book (5): ...relacion de la Destruycion de las Indias occidentales (1539), twice translated... Similar Items...relacion de la Destruycion de las Indias occidentales . ] Translated by M. M. S.... ...relacion de la Destruycion de las Indias occidentales . ] Translated by John... |
| 154. |  | 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] Matches in book (5): ...de. Historia del commercio con las Indias . . . . Barcelona, 1917. Aschmann,... Similar Items...choice, for although the Danish West India Company had taken possession of the... ...being but two Boys (born in West India) & two negroes (whose testimony were not... |
| 155. |  | Title: Hollywood quarterly: film culture in postwar America, 1945-1957 Author: Smoodin, Eric Loren Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts Publisher's Description: The first issue of Hollywood Quarterly, in October 1945, marked the appearance of the most significant, successful, and regularly published journal of its kind in the United States. For its entire life, the Quarterly held to the leftist utopianism of its founders, several of whom would later be blac . . . [more] Matches in book (5): ...Jordan Norman McLaren is currently in India on a film assignment for UNESCO, but... Similar Items...of romantic youth, taming elephants in India. Flaherty would be shocked all over... ...former United States Ambassador to India, has called U.S. Information Agency... |
| 156. |  | Title: The green fuse: an ecological odyssey Author: Harte, John 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Natural History | Ecology Publisher's Description: A widely respected ecological scientist and activist draws on the poet's image and his own environmental research to demonstrate the many interconnections among the world's ecosystems. John Harte takes us from Alaskan salmon runs and the Florida everglades to South Pacific coral reefs and the bleak . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...much of central Asia, including India, originate, in part, from transpiration in... Similar Items...potatoes from the Andes, sugar from India, rice from Asian forests, and even the... ...inundation of the northern plains of India by the floodwaters of the Ganges and... |
| 157. |  | Title: Writing signs: the Fatimid public text Author: Bierman, Irene A Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | Literature Publisher's Description: Irene Bierman explores the complex relationship between alphabet and language as well as the ways the two elements are socially defined by time and place. She focuses her exploration on the Eastern Mediterranean in the sixth through twelfth centuries, notably Cairo's Fatimid dynasty of 969-1171. Exa . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...Representing Authority in Victorian India. In The Invention of Tradition ,... Similar Items...edges of the empire, even into northern India, to properly initiate Believers. 4... ...about official ceremony in Victorian India, “Representing Authority in Victorian... |
| 158. |  | Title: "Mademoiselle Irnois" and other stories Author: Gobineau, Arthur, comte de 1816-1882 Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Literature Matches in book (5): ...by the yellow populations) and India (in the south of which they were penetrated... Similar Items...the ways of their subjects in India, nor the Dutch transformed the Javanese... ...from Turkestan, from the depths of India, the faraway lands of the Roum, 32... |
| 159. |  | Title: Men, women, and God(s): Nawal El Saadawi and Arab feminist poetics Author: Malti-Douglas, Fedwa Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | Middle Eastern Studies | Gender Studies | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Men, Women, and God(s) is a pioneering study of the Arab world's leading feminist and most controversial woman writer, Nawal El Saadawi. Author of plays, memoirs, and such novels as Woman at Point Zero and The Innocence of the Devil , El Saadawi has become well known in the West as well as in the Ar . . . [more] Matches in book (5): ...individual or the author. Regarding India, Hetata has himself authored a... Similar Items...conferences. And her husband’s work in India permits her to sojourn in, and... ...next, and then Iran. A long visit to India and a shorter one to Africa seal the... |
| 160. |  | Title: When knowledge is power: three models of change in international organizations Author: Haas, Ernst B Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | Political Theory | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Do governments seeking to collaborate in such international organizations as the United Nations and the World Bank ever learn to improve the performance of those organizations? Can international organizations be improved by a deliberate institutional design that reflects lessons learned in peacekeep . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...for other activities. Alternatively, India may become cognitively confused as a... Similar Items...Britain, France, West Germany, India, and, increasingly, Brazil in organizations... ...developing countries (notably Brazil and India), which objected on the grounds... |