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| 121. |  | 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 (13): ...the special women's showing of Indian films that are mainly patronized by women... Similar Items...young Swahili women attending Western films with other women, their brothers,... ...show mainly American and European films (preferred by many community members who... |
| 122. |  | 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 (8): ...of the Sebei of Uganda. Photographs and films are of great value in the study of... Similar Items...1971, 1975 and in 1967 to make a film. During one of her recent field trips in... ...Mead has also written and narrated various films, including the series "Films on... |
| 123. |  | Title: Scripps Institution of Oceanography: probing the oceans, 1936 to 1976 Author: Shor, Elizabeth Noble Published: Tofua Press, 1978 Subjects: Matches in book (9): ...1961. G. C. Ewing, “Slicks, Surface Films and Internal Waves,” Journal of Marine... Similar Items...Lewis Stone, a star in Andy Hardy films, bought the schooner. She went through... ...75 feet. The course lectures and films describe the physiology of diving, the... |
| 124. |  | 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 (11): ...and had a regular sex life. In the film version of One Flew over the Cuckoo's... Similar Items...sex in various species, watched films of various species doing sexual things,... ...enforcers I am analyzing novels and film. In my work on social movements I am... |
| 125. |  | Title: Owen Lattimore and the "loss" of China Author: Newman, Robert P Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | China | United States History | Politics Publisher's Description: In March 1950 Senator Joseph R. McCarthy accused Owen Lattimore, a distinguished China scholar at The Johns Hopkins University, of being "the top Soviet espionage agent in the U.S." The Senate Foreign Relations Committee exonerated Lattimore four months later, but for the next two years Pat McCarran . . . [more] Matches in book (16): ...and unsatisfactory editing of Michael's film, renewed discussions with Fujiko's... Similar Items...That evening the Wallace party saw the film North Star , which was then popular... ...skilled at photography. A shipment of exposed film mailed from Albany to bureau... |
| 126. |  | Title: The humanities in American life: report of the Commission on the Humanities Author: Commission on the Humanities (1978- ) Published: University of California Press, 1980 Subjects: Social Science Matches in book (7): ...in new forms of expression created by film, television, and computers. No matter... Similar Items...new cultural forms such as television and film in which the medium is often not... ...artifacts, costumes, recordings and films of the performing arts, and so forth—... |
| 127. |  | Title: Technopolis: high-technology industry and regional development in southern California Author: Scott, Allen John Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Urban Studies | Geography | Politics Publisher's Description: Technopolis is a timely theoretical and empirical investigation of the world's largest high-technology industrial complex - Southern California. Allen Scott provides a new conceptual framework for understanding urban and regional growth processes based on a combination of inter-industrial, labor mar . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...specialized equipment, such as dry-film solder masking—see below. By contrast,... Similar Items...two different ways, one (a liquid film process) that is general purpose, cheap... ...easy to operate, and another (a dry film process) that is expensive to install... |
| 128. |  | Title: Dignity and vulnerability: strength and quality of character Author: Harris, George W Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Philosophy Publisher's Description: In this significant new addition to moral theory, George Harris challenges a view of the dignity and worth of persons that goes back through Kant and Christianity to the Stoics. He argues that we do not, in fact, believe this view, which traces any breakdowns of character to failures of strength. Wh . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...of Oscar Schindler as represented in the film Schindler's List . By no means was... Similar Items...for saving hundreds of Jewish lives. The film represents his character in a... ...say to you that you should not see the film Batman Forever, I am not giving you... |
| 129. |  | Title: Cultivating music in America: women patrons and activists since 1860 Author: Locke, Ralph P Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Music | Women's Studies | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: This wide-ranging collection brings together leading authorities on the social history of American art music to reveal the indispensable contribution that women have made to American musical life. Some chapters discuss collective endeavors, such as music clubs, Wagnerites, supporters of "modern musi . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...issues Festival of American Music, 300 film, 28 , 45 , 298 , 311 , 323 Finck,... Similar Items...and presenters are not alone: producers of films of a consciously artistic or... ...as a performer, and after 1929 as a film composer. During Dvorak's American... |
| 130. |  | Title: Lewis & Clark: legacies, memories, and new perspectives Author: Fresonke, Kris 1966- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | American Studies | American Literature | Native American Ethnicity Publisher's Description: Two centuries after their expedition awoke the nation both to the promise and to the disquiet of the vast territory out west, Lewis and Clark still stir the imagination, and their adventure remains one of the most celebrated and studied chapters in American history. This volume explores the legacy o . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...increasing flood of books, articles, and films on the expedition suggests there... Similar Items...and numerous requests for permission to film Lewis and Clark materials for... ...a best-seller about them, the film-maker Ken Burns has produced a popular... |
| 131. |  | Title: The life of a text: performing the Rāmcaritmānas of Tulsidas Author: Lutgendorf, Philip Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion | Hinduism | South Asia | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: The Life of a Text offers a vivid portrait of one community's interaction with its favorite text - the epic Ramcaritmanas - and the way in which performances of the epic function as a flexible and evolving medium for cultural expression. Anthropologists, historians of religion, and readers intereste . . . [more] Matches in book (11): ...few Ramayan singers are regular film-goers, and their tastes in entertainment... Similar Items...and the absence of blaring Hindi film music, so common at public events; "You... ...it features a recording of the popular film hymn "Jay jagdis hare." Hundreds of... |
| 132. |  | 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 (7): ...Agee: His Life Remembered . From the film script with additional narrative by... Similar Items...Green. Burlington, VT: Green Valley Film and Art, 1985. Scott, Joan. "Gender: A... ...or another medium, most frequently to film, or to music, but also sometimes to... |
| 133. |  | Title: Second sight Author: Hine, Robert V 1921- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Autobiographies and Biographies | Medicine Publisher's Description: He knew he was going blind. Yet he finished graduate school, became a history professor, and wrote books about the American West. Then, nearly fifty, Robert Hine lost his vision completely. Fifteen years later, a risky eye operation restored partial vision, returning Hine to the world of the sighted . . . [more] Matches in book (6): ...Fittingly, Z was the last foreign film we tried. After that we gave up on movies... Similar Items...Tuesday. They were very quiet. During the lecture we saw the short film Ishi. [... ...For years I had used that film in California history courses to suggest the... |
| 134. |  | Title: The strands of a life Author: Sinsheimer, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science | Biology | History and Philosophy of Science | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: From heading a campus of the largest public university in the nation to participating in the birth of molecular biology, Robert L. Sinsheimer's experiences have given him a unique vantage point from which to view the paths that science and education have taken in the twentieth century. This book tel . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...107 (1948): 302. "Use of thin films of sublimate for absorption spectroscopy,"... Similar Items...and Polymerized Langmuir-Bladgett Films with an Atomic Force Microscope," A. L.... ...but dry pages in history texts or grainy films and strangely cadenced tapes. For... |
| 135. |  | Title: Rugged justice: the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the American West, 1891-1941 Author: Frederick, David C Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | History | United States History | Californian and Western History | California and the West | Law Publisher's Description: Few chapters in American judicial history have enjoyed as colorful a past as has the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Created in 1891, its jurisdiction now encompasses California, Oregon, Nevada, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, Hawaii, and Alaska. David Frederick has mined archival . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...Rex Beach's best-selling novel and for films starring Gary Cooper, John Wayne,... Similar Items...one celebrated case illustrated. The film The Spirit of '76 depicted a British... ...girls." At a private screening of the film before the censor, the director... |
| 136. |  | Title: October cities: the redevelopment of urban literature Author: Rotella, Carlo 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Literature | American Studies | Urban Studies | United States History | American Literature | Sociology Publisher's Description: Returning to his native Chicago after World War II, Nelson Algren found a city transformed. The flourishing industry, culture, and literature that had placed prewar Chicago at center stage in American life were entering a time of crisis. The middle class and economic opportunity were leaving the inn . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...Rebel without a Cause (film), 243 . See also Lindner, Robert redevelopment:... Similar Items...223 , 231 , 243 West Side Story (film), 243 white ethnics, 15 , 343 n15 Whitman,... ...theme with the genre of delinquent films that enjoyed a golden age in the 1950s,... |
| 137. |  | Title: Essays in population history: Mexico and the Caribbean Author: Cook, Sherburne Friend 1896-1974 Published: University of California Press, 1979 Subjects: Latin American Studies Matches in book (7): ...City Card catalogue. Consulted on film at the branch of the Genealogical Society... Similar Items...kindness, which we should want remembered. Film and permission freely to use the... ...a generous offer to try to secure a film copy for our use. Jowdy brought the... |
| 138. |  | Title: Making Muslim space in North America and Europe Author: Metcalf, Barbara Daly 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | History | Islam | Middle Eastern Studies | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Focusing on the private and public use of space, this volume explores the religious life of the new Muslim communities in North America and Europe. Unlike most studies of immigrant groups, these essays concentrate on cultural practices and expressions of everyday life rather than on the political is . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...significant variation on this variety of films on rituals for the BBC with its “... Similar Items...of God,” first shown June 1991. This film on hajj does indeed focus on Europe,... ...Prepared by Dr. Khalid Duran, the films emphasize the behavior of privileged... |
| 139. |  | Title: Pollution in a promised land: an environmental history of Israel Author: Tal, Alon 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: EcologyEvolutionEnvironment | Jewish Studies | Ecology | Geography | Conservation Publisher's Description: Virtually undeveloped one hundred years ago, Israel, the promised "land of milk and honey," is in ecological disarray. In this gripping book, Alon Tal provides--for the first time ever--a history of environmentalism in Israel, interviewing hundreds of experts and activists who have made it their mis . . . [more] Matches in book (8): ...http://www.netafim.co.il . Netafim , promotional film ( undated). Ori Nir, “In... Similar Items...dark of a desert night after watching a film at the Kibbutz Ein Gedi auditorium,... ...prurient sections of the 1970s' raciest films. They were surprised to find the... |
| 140. |  | Title: Transforming free speech: the ambiguous legacy of civil libertarianism Author: Graber, Mark A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Law | Social and Political Thought | Politics Publisher's Description: Contemporary civil libertarians claim that their works preserve a worthy American tradition of defending free-speech rights dating back to the framing of the First Amendment. Transforming Free Speech challenges the worthiness, and indeed the very existence of one uninterrupted libertarian tradition. . . . [more] Matches in book (6): ...and Argument of Appellees." Mutual Film Corp. v. Industrial Commission of Ohio ,... Similar Items...of constitutional protection. Mutual Film Corp. , at 230, 244-45. 236 U.S. 1 (... ...43; Patterson v. Colorado, at 454; Mutual Film Corp. v. Industrial Commission of... |