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| 181. |  | 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): ...Buddhist Scriptures to China from India. Thus he combines temerity with grace... Similar Items...on trees, decorates his room from India Imports garbage dumpsters, and eats the... |
| 182. |  | Title: Disciplining reproduction: modernity, American life sciences, and "the problems of sex" Author: Clarke, Adele Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology | Medical Anthropology | Medicine | American Studies | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Reproductive issues from sex and contraception to abortion and cloning have been controversial for centuries, and scientists who attempted to turn the study of reproduction into a discipline faced an uphill struggle. Adele Clarke's engrossing story of the search for reproductive knowledge across the . . . [more] Matches in book (5): ...Use of Sex Determination Techniques in India. Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion,... Similar Items...on colonial populations. British-ruled India had the first government-sponsored... ...nationwide programs, such as one in India that focused on primate research and... |
| 183. |  | Title: Rebel and saint: Muslim notables, populist protest, colonial encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800-1904) Author: Clancy-Smith, Julia A Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Postcolonial Studies | French Studies | African Studies Publisher's Description: Julia Clancy-Smith's unprecedented study brings us a remarkable view of North African history from the perspective of the North Africans themselves. Focusing on the religious beliefs and political actions of Muslim elites and their followers in Algeria and Tunisia, she provides a richly detailed ana . . . [more] Matches in book (5): ...The loss of first Canada and then India during the Seven Years' War of 1756–1763... Similar Items...far greater than Britain's conquest of India. Prior to the expedition, it was... ...As Anand A. Yang demonstrated for India under the Raj, they "emerge purposively... |
| 184. |  | Title: Faultlines: cultural materialism and the politics of dissident reading Author: Sinfield, Alan Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | Renaissance Literature | English Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: If we come to consciousness within a language that is complicit with the social order, how can we conceive, let alone organize, resistance to that social order? This key question in the politics of reading and subcultural practice informs Alan Sinfield's book on writing in early-modern England.New h . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...of America Inchbald, Mrs. Elizabeth, 12 India, 257 , 260 -61 Indians (Native... Similar Items...English Literary Study in British India," Social Text 7, nos. 1-2 (Fall 1988):... ...Literature was particularly useful in India, because meddling with religion was... |
| 185. |  | Title: Medieval Chinese society and the local "community" Author: Tanigawa, Michio 1925- Published: University of California Press, 1985 Subjects: Asian Studies | China Matches in book (3): ...Mesopotamia and Iran, ancient Egypt, India, Byzantium, and Russia—and Reischauer... Similar Items...bears the same traits as China and India. Furthermore, the Japanese had... ...58 Chesneaux raised the cases of Africa, India, Vietnam, and ancient Egypt as... |
| 186. |  | Title: When capitalists collide: business conflict and the end of empire in Egypt Author: Vitalis, Robert 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Politics | Ancient History | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Robert Vitalis's empirically rich study challenges the left-nationalist paradigm through which twentieth-century Egyptian history and politics has generally been interpreted. He argues with those who explain Egyptian economic development primarily in terms of class and of power struggles between Bri . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...about the business community in India, circa 1930, it was impossible to... Similar Items...of Brazil, Chile, South Korea and India. From the point of view of Egyptian... ...to studies of groups in Pakistan, India, Nigeria, El Salvador, Mexico, Brazil,... |
| 187. |  | 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): ...stopping place of traders from Arabia, India, Persia, and Somalia. The single... Similar Items...and with ports on the west coast of India (Berg and Walter 1968:51–52). In this... ...some Shia (all or almost all from India), a small number of unassimilated Omanis... |
| 188. |  | Title: The private worlds of Marcel Duchamp: desire, liberation, and the self in modern culture Author: Seigel, Jerrold Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art | History | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: Marcel Duchamp is a founding figure of twentieth-century art and culture, the common source to which many contemporary movements trace their roots. His career has often been celebrated for its contradictions and discontinuities, its disparate parts unified only by their assault on the traditions of . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...Have the Apprentice in the Sun (1914). India ink and pencil on music paper, 10... Similar Items...144 49. Marcel Duchamp, The (1915). India ink and pencil manuscript, 8 3/4×5... ...purchases and for her voyage to India, where she declared herself satisfied as... |
| 189. |  | Title: Transforming settler states: communal conflict and internal security in Northern Ireland and Zimbabwe Author: Weitzer, Ronald John Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: European Studies | Politics | Sociology | African Studies | European History Publisher's Description: In the past two decades, several settler regimes have collapsed and others seem increasingly vulnerable. This study examines the rise and demise of two settler states with particular emphasis on the role of repressive institutions of law and order. Drawing on field research in Northern Ireland and Z . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...The Police and Political Development in India (Princeton: Princeton University... Similar Items...1941]; Gerald Berreman, "Caste in India and the United States" American Journal... ...guerrillas (see William McGowan, "India's Quagmire in Sri Lanka," The Nation, 25... |
| 190. |  | 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 (2): ...made of village silk and silk from India. Do you think they wear things like... Similar Items...or foreign films, like from Europe or India. Sometimes there were scenes in the... |
| 191. |  | Title: A critical study of Philip Guston Author: Ashton, Dore Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Criticism | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Dore Ashton has updated the bibliography and added a new concluding chapter to her classic study of the paintings and drawings of Philip Guston, the only study of his work completely authorized by the artist.Philip Guston (1913-1980) was one of the most independent of the painters whose work was loo . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...quill pen points, the Higgins black India ink, and the several ply Strathmore... Similar Items...reflecting his many exercises drawn in India ink during the mid-1960s. These... ...sometimes merely a line or two of India ink on a pristine white or cream paper.... |
| 192. |  | 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 (3): ...Women, Ecology and Survival in India . London: Zed Books, 1988. Showalter,... Similar Items...the enfabled front of a goddess of east india. (128–29) This last excerpt in its... ...Women, Ecology, and Survival in India; Wilmette Brown, Roots: Ghetto Ecology;... |
| 193. |  | Title: The ultimate art: essays around and about opera Author: Littlejohn, David 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Music | Opera Publisher's Description: Anyone who cares about opera will find The Ultimate Art a thoroughly engaging book. David Littlejohn's essays are exciting, provocative, sometimes even outrageous. They reflect his deep love of opera - that exotic, extravagant, and perpetually popular hybrid performing art form - and his fascination . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...text; perhaps 80 more of Alessandro in India; at least 60 of his first original... Similar Items...or Alexander's army encampment in India, "with elephants, towers, covered... ...Alden, David, 53 Alessandro in India (text by Metastasio), 95 , 97 Alexandria (... |
| 194. |  | Title: Latin America in the 1940's: war and postwar transitions Author: Rock, David 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Politics | Latin American History | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Latin America in the 1940s addresses the significant impact that World War II and the onset of the Cold War had on the political development of Latin America. During the middle of this crucial decade many Latin American countries turned from authoritarian regimes toward democracy and the rapid growt . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...linseed producer after Argentina and India and had established strong markets... Similar Items...Chronicle , as far away as British India, for example, to remark: "the world is... |
| 195. |  | Title: Scripps Institution of Oceanography: probing the oceans, 1936 to 1976 Author: Shor, Elizabeth Noble Published: Tofua Press, 1978 Subjects: Matches in book (4): ...of Fundamental Research in Bombay, India, from 1952 to 1972, and, besides his... Similar Items...Research Laboratory at Ahmedabad, India, since 1972. A specialist in cosmic-ray-... ...a biological collection center in Cochin, India, to serve as a repository for... |
| 196. |  | Title: Chuck Jones: a flurry of drawings Author: Kenner, Hugh Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: American Studies | Film | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Creator of the mono-maniacal Wile E. Coyote and his elusive prey, the Road Runner, Chuck Jones has won three Academy Awards and been responsible for many classics of animation featuring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and Elmer Fudd. Who better to do Chuck Jones than Hugh Kenner, master wordsmith . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...kept by a human family in British India the way another family might keep a cat.... Similar Items |
| 197. |  | Title: Resistance and revolution in China: the Communists and the second united front Author: Kataoka, Tetsuya Published: University of California Press, 1974 Subjects: Asian Studies | China Matches in book (3): ...colonial" to distinguish China from India, which he felt was entirely "colonial"... Similar Items...under his command in the China–Burma–India Theater. They were peasants press-... ...and training the Kuomintang forces in India and Yünan. * In 1943, the debate in... |
| 198. |  | Title: Lawyers in society [computer file]: an overview Author: Abel, Richard L Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Law | Sociology | Politics Publisher's Description: Among all those who encounter the law in the conduct of their lives or who consider it as a career, few have a solid understanding of the legal profession in America, and fewer still know anything about systems in other parts of the world. Lawyers in Society offers a concise comparative introduction . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...77 Working Party on Women's Careers, 240 India, women in legal education, 232... Similar Items...years of experience by 1990 (Murray, 1988). In India and Japan women continue to... ...profession is smallest in Japan and India. In 1981 women represented 2.7 percent... |
| 199. |  | Title: The dissonant legacy of modernismo: Lugones, Herrera y Reissig, and the voices of modern Spanish American poetry Author: Kirkpatrick, Gwen Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Latin American Studies | European Literature | Poetry Publisher's Description: This is a provocative new reading of a crucial and often misunderstood period of Spanish American literature. Most studies of modernismo have focused on the poetry of Rubén Darío and have noted the movement's aestheticism and its unmistakable French influences. Kirkpatrick concentrates instead on im . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...panoramic perspectives to brief lists—"India: elefantes, leopardos . . . /... Similar Items...y cirios . . . " ( PC, 465) ("India: elephants, leopards . . . / Judah:... ...closer together. Amid the shawls from India, the chinoiserie, the porcelain from... |
| 200. |  | Title: The Jewish state: a century later Author: Dowty, Alan 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Middle Eastern Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: As the fiftieth anniversary of Israeli statehood approaches, along with the commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the World Zionist Organization, the question of what is meant by a "Jewish" state is particularly timely. Alan Dowty takes on that question in a book that is admirable for its cl . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...prosperous nations; all but Israel, India, Costa Rica, and Japan are in Western... Similar Items...Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, arguably India—and Israel. Thus it is not too... ...to Palestine just as the English had to India. Chaim Weizmann later explained to... |