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| 121. |  | Title: Old, alone, and neglected: care of the aged in the United States and Scotland  Author: Kayser-Jones, Jeanie Schmit Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Aging | Medical Anthropology | Medicine Publisher's Description: As the median age of the population increases, the care and housing of the elderly in the U.S. are of increasing concern. Jeanie Kayser-Jones compares a typical private institution in the U.S. with a government-owned home in Scotland.Her analysis compels attention to the systematic abuse of the inst . . . [more] Matches in book (16): ...Jewelry.... Similar Items...See Grooming; Theft Jewish Homes for the Aged, 11 n. 3, 58... ...old shoe horn, and cast-off costume jewelry. "The prizes aren't worth anything,"... |
| 122. |  | Title: An American engineer in Stalin's Russia: the memoirs of Zara Witkin, 1932-1934 Author: Witkin, Zara 1900-1940 Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Autobiography | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: In 1932 Zara Witkin, a prominent American engineer, set off for the Soviet Union with two goals: to help build a society more just and rational than the bankrupt capitalist system at home, and to seek out the beautiful film star Emma Tsesarskaia.His memoirs offer a detailed view of Stalin's bureaucr . . . [more] Matches in book (30): ...Jassenlawsky, Kora Zeretelli, and Jewgeny Wolkowisky. Munich, 1990. (Catalog of... Similar Items...of features, though she is not a Jewess. Chamberlin talked in his quiet manner... ...in Chile. These he had made into jewelry. Concealing them about his person, he... |
| 123. |  | Title: Made in God's image?: Eve and Adam in the Genesis mosaics at San Marco, Venice Author: Jolly, Penny Howell Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art | Art History | Medieval Studies | Women's Studies | Religion Publisher's Description: The stunning mosaics that illustrate the story of Creation in the church of San Marco in Venice are the focus of Penny Howell Jolly's compelling and provocative book. Scholars of medieval art have long been interested in the Genesis mosaics because they copy a nearly destroyed fifth-century illumina . . . [more] Matches in book (18): ...the Creator is seated on a golden, jeweled throne: the action of forming Adam... Similar Items...The wife insists on having precious jewels and a huge wardrobe, so that her... ...at women's hair ornaments, dress, and jewelry. The codes were enforced by the... |
| 124. |  | Title: A carnival of parting: the tales of King Bharthari and King Gopi Chand as sung and told by Madhu Natisar Nath of Ghatiyali, Rajasthan Author: Nath, Madhu Natisar Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Hinduism | South Asia Publisher's Description: Madhu Natisar Nath is a Rajasthani farmer with no formal schooling. He is also a singer, a musician, and a storyteller. At the center of A Carnival of Parting are Madhu Nath's oral performances of two linked tales about the legendary Indian kings, Bharthari of Ujjain and Gopi Chand of Bengal. Both c . . . [more] Matches in book (22): ...poured from his eyes. He went into the Jewel Square, and after passing through... Similar Items...Thinking in this way, he went into the Jewel Square. 30 He passed through one... ...a lotus sparkled, on his left arm a jewel gleamed, it gleamed on Gopi Chand,... |
| 125. |  | 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 (25): ...bumper stickers, key chains, jewelry, and so forth—a modest “commoditization” of... Similar Items...in Asian-made watches, “fantasy” jewelry, and novelty items such as fluorescent... ...to sell, and also bought some Italian jewelry from a Mouride wholesaler. On to... |
| 126. |  | 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 (32): ...Little Tokyo as a feminine gypsy, jeweled with light, serenaded, "the happiness... Similar Items...dandy with an elegant cravat and jeweled stickpin" that he has seen in a family... ...would be as proudly displayed as crown jewels; the featured attractions included... |
| 127. |  | Title: Abuses Author: Lingis, Alphonso 1933- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | Literature | Cultural Anthropology | Social and Political Thought | Psychology | Travel Publisher's Description: Part travelogue, part meditation, Abuses is a bold exploration of central themes in Continental philosophy by one of the most passionate and original thinkers in that tradition writing today.A gripping record of desires, obsessions, bodies, and spaces experienced in distant lands, Alphonso Lingis's . . . [more] Matches in book (14): ...the restaurant of the Oriental Hotel, jeweled and masked courtesans pursue their... Similar Items...the patience and deliberation of a jeweler working with precious stones. Finally... ...mask of the wind god, on his throat a jewel in the shape of a butterfly, wearing... |
| 128. |  | Title: Speaking with vampires: rumor and history in colonial Africa Author: White, Luise Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: African Studies | African History | African Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: During the colonial period, Africans told each other terrifying rumors that Africans who worked for white colonists captured unwary residents and took their blood. In colonial Tanganyika, for example, Africans were said to be captured by these agents of colonialism and hung upside down, their throat . . . [more] Matches in book (27): ...1991. I am grateful to Bogumil Jewsiewicki for this interview. Bibiana Nalwanga,... Similar Items...1991. I am grateful to Bogumil Jewsiewicki for the use of these interviews. Mrs.... ...1991. I am grateful to Bogumil Jewsiewicki for letting me see this interview.... |
| 129. |  | 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 (27): ...146 -47, 185 -86 Jefferson, Thomas, 11 Jews, 188 , 268 , 269 , 291 -93, 299 -302... Similar Items...over with wool, so enriched with jewels artificially placed that one would have... ...the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry At Herod's bloody hunting slaughtermen. (... |
| 130. |  | Title: Saving the earth: the history of a middle-class millenarian movement Author: Gelber, Steven M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Christianity Matches in book (34): ...Sequoia Seminar Jesus in the Records, 15 Jews, 61 , 98 , 103 , 115 , 116 , 133 ,... Similar Items...or the Star of David for the Jews. Designated the "cross of fulfillment," it was... ...107 Special prayers were included for the Jews indicating their willingness to... |
| 131. |  | 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 Studies Publisher'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, . . . [more] Matches in book (27): ...Barbara Straus Reed, “The American Jewess,” in Women's Periodicals in the United... Similar Items...Reed, Barbara Straus . The American Jewess. In Women's Periodicals in the United... ...and prescribing. The American Jewess (1895–99) utilized biography as a role-... |
| 132. |  | 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 (25): ...dem literarhistorischen Problem des jeweils größeren oder geringeren Gewichts... Similar Items...not only threw weapons, clothes, and jewelry into the pyre but also set fire to... ...with Corinthian vases and beautiful jewels. But I am not competent to expound on... |
| 133. |  | Title: The philosopher's gaze: modernity in the shadows of enlightenment Author: Levin, David Michael 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Philosophy | Gender Studies | Art History | Art Theory Publisher's Description: David Michael Levin's ongoing exploration of the moral character and enlightenment-potential of vision takes a new direction in The Philosopher's Gaze . Levin examines texts by Descartes, Husserl, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Benjamin, Merleau-Ponty, and Lévinas, using our culturally dominant . . . [more] Matches in book (24): ...der Verborgenheit entrissen. Die jeweilige faktische Entdecktheit ist gleichsam... Similar Items...des Anaximander," op. cit. , p. 323: "Das jeweilige Anwesende, das Gegenwärtige,... ...sein Anwesen, aus dem es eigens als das jeweilige Anwesende durch das sterbliche... |
| 134. |  | Title: Imaging Aristotle: verbal and visual representation in fourteenth-century France Author: Sherman, Claire Richter Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art | Art History | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Nicole Oresme's translation of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, and Economics into French from Latin in the 1370s is the subject of Claire Sherman's stunningly illustrated book. Though both the text translations and their images have been studied separately, this is the first time they are . . . [more] Matches in book (24): ...decorations of the bride's dress and the jeweled circlets in the couples' hair.... Similar Items...of the inscriptions. In contrast, the jewellike background of the upper register... ...of bridal dress with the three jewels, see Melnikas, Corpus of the Miniatures in... |
| 135. |  | 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 (8): ...74 n.1, 86 -87 Jenike, M. , 143 Jewsiewicki, B. , 31 , 36 , 37 Johnson, M. , 106... Similar Items...of California, Los Angeles. Jewsiewicki, B. 1983. "Rural Society and the Belgian... ...them because they had not been told explicitly to do so (Jewsiewicki 1983).... |
| 136. |  | Title: The travels of Dean Mahomet: an eighteenth-Century journey through India Author: Mahomet, Sake Deen 1759-1851 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Asian History | South Asia | Travel | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: This unusual study combines two books in one: the 1794 autobiographical travel narrative of an Indian, Dean Mahomet, recalling his years as camp-follower, servant, and subaltern officer in the East India Company's army (1769 to 1784); and Michael H. Fisher's portrayal of Mahomet's sojourn as an insi . . . [more] Matches in book (11): ...Empire, with India as its crown jewel (see figures 7 and 8). The Pavilion's... Similar Items...approached the child who was decked with jewels and arrayed in scarlet muslin,... ...of all the ornaments of dress and jewels, wears only plain white muslin. In the... |
| 137. |  | Title: Empire of ecstasy: nudity and movement in German body culture, 1910-1935 Author: Toepfer, Karl Eric 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | German Studies | Gender Studies | Dance Publisher's Description: Empire of Ecstasy offers a novel interpretation of the explosion of German body culture between the two wars - nudism and nude dancing, gymnastics and dance training, dance photography and criticism, and diverse genres of performance from solo dancing to mass movement choirs. Karl Toepfer presents t . . . [more] Matches in book (28): ...aprons, double sashes, layers of jeweled necklaces, and arm, wrist, and ankle... Similar Items...body's being reined in by applying a jeweled neckband, a tightly bound kerchief,... ...up, and Droste fled (with Berber's jewels) to New York to start a new career as... |
| 138. |  | Title: Justice and the human genome project Author: Murphy, Timothy F 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics | Biology | Medicine Publisher's Description: The Human Genome Project is an expensive, ambitious, and controversial attempt to locate and map every one of the approximately 100,000 genes in the human body. If it works, and we are able, for instance, to identify markers for genetic diseases long before they develop, who will have the right to o . . . [more] Matches in book (13): ...Case 1. Who Is a Jew?... Similar Items...and the skeletons of two murdered Jews—came from Josef Mengele, who had been a... ...I and VI, 1 James, S. A. , 45 n.14 Jewish identity, 34 Johnson, Earvin "Magic,"... |
| 139. |  | Title: Interpreting the self: autobiography in the Arabic literary tradition Author: Reynolds, Dwight Fletcher 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Literature in Translation | Comparative Literature | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Autobiography is a literary genre which Western scholarship has ascribed mostly to Europe and the West. Countering this assessment and presenting many little-known texts, this comprehensive work demonstrates the existence of a flourishing tradition in Arabic autobiography. Interpreting the Self disc . . . [more] Matches in book (25): ...did in his work al-Jawāhir wa-l-durar [Jewels and Pearls], a tarjama about his... Similar Items...In Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Crusader Kingdom of Valencia, 285–88.... ...al-Maghribī . Ifḥām al-yahūd, Silencing the Jews. Ed. and trans. Moshe Perlmann.... |
| 140. |  | Title: Romain Rolland and the politics of intellectual engagement Author: Fisher, David James Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | European History Matches in book (30): ...was extremely important to have non-Jewish writers protest Nazi injustices. This... Similar Items...O. Paxton, Vichy France and the Jews (New York, 1982). 2. Letter from Rolland to... ...Politics of Assimilation: The French Jewish Community at the Time of the Dreyfus... |