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| 81. |  | Title: Public faces, private voices: community and individuality in South India  Author: Mines, Mattison 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | South Asia Publisher's Description: Individuality is often viewed as an exclusively Western value. In non-Western societies, collective identities seem to eclipse those of individuals. These generalities, however, have overlooked the importance of personal uniqueness, volition, and achievement in these cultures. As an anthropologist i . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...nineteenth century and the advent of photography. 1 In fact, with the striking... Similar Items |
| 82. |  | Title: Paris as revolution: writing in the nineteenth-century city Author: Ferguson, Priscilla Parkhurst Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Social Theory | European Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | European History | French Studies Publisher's Description: In nineteenth-century Paris, passionate involvement with revolution turned the city into an engrossing object of cultural speculation. For writers caught between an explosive past and a bewildering future, revolution offered a virtuoso metaphor by which the city could be known and a vital principle . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...philosophasserie ] is over. That of photography has arrived. The city must be... Similar Items...by the bespectacled author. (Photography courtesy of the Houghton Library, ... |
| 83. |  | Title: Big business and industrial conflict in nineteenth-century France: a social history of the Parisian Gas Company Author: Berlanstein, Lenard R Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies | Economics and Business | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: Founded in 1855, the Parisian Gas Company (PGC) quickly developed into one of France's greatest industrial enterprises, an exemplar of the new industrial capitalism that was beginning to transform the French economy. The PGC supplied at least half the coal gas consumed in France through the 1870s an . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...82 -83 Petite République, La , 179 Photography industry, 140 Piault, René, 252... Similar Items...the manufacture of ink. The new photography industry opened an additional market... |
| 84. |  | Title: Sonia's daughters: prostitutes and their regulation in imperial Russia Author: Bernstein, Laurie Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | European History | European Studies | Women's Studies | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: Prostitution in Imperial Russia was so tenacious that it survived not only the tsarist regime's most tumultuous years but the Bolshevik revolution itself. Laurie Bernstein's comprehensive study is the first to look at how the state and society responded to the issue of prostitution - the attitudes o . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...from Tarnovskii who asserted that photography must be eliminated "because it... Similar Items |
| 85. |  | 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 (2): ...pp. 55-57. Sontag, Susan. On Photography. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,... Similar Items...and almost as much Sontag, On Photography , 24. In her opening essay, "In... |
| 86. |  | Title: Nietzsche: naturalism and interpretation Author: Cox, Christoph 1965- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Philosophy Publisher's Description: Nietzsche: Naturalism and Interpretation offers a resolution of one of the most vexing problems in Nietzsche scholarship. As perhaps the most significant predecessor of more recent attempts to formulate a postmetaphysical epistemology and ontology, Nietzsche is considered by many critics to share th . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...it includes. Theorists of film and photography note that the camera image is... Similar Items...physics as a kind of mathematical photography and its laws as formal pictures of... |
| 87. |  | Title: In our own hands: a strategy for conserving California's biological diversity Author: Jensen, Deborah B Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Ecology | Public Policy | California and the West Publisher's Description: "Biodiversity." As argument over environmental and conservation policy grows more heated in California and throughout the nation, the term has become a buzzword. But what does biodiversity really mean? What really threatens it? Why should we care? In Our Own Hands offers a readable, scientifically s . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...make. Land surveys based on aerial photography or other physical surveillance,... Similar Items |
| 88. |  | Title: Scripps Institution of Oceanography: probing the oceans, 1936 to 1976 Author: Shor, Elizabeth Noble Published: Tofua Press, 1978 Subjects: Matches in book (2): ...properties in place, for underwater photography, for recovering equipment at... Similar Items...the techniques of underwater photography. On the kelp study he spent “thousands... |
| 89. |  | Title: Bottled poetry: Napa winemaking from Prohibition to the modern era Author: Lapsley, James T Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | California and the West | United States History | Californian and Western History | Viticulture | Wine Publisher's Description: California's Napa Valley is one of the world's premier wine regions today, but this has not always been true. James Lapsley's entertaining history explains how a collective vision of excellence among winemakers and a keen sense of promotion transformed the region and its wines following the repeal o . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...depicting in full natural color photography, six sharply detailed Beringer... Similar Items...music, travel, outdoor living, photography, art, gourmet foods" and told the... |
| 90. |  | Title: Dearest beloved: the Hawthornes and the making of the middle-class family Author: Herbert, T. Walter (Thomas Walter) 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature | American Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Women's Studies | Men and Masculinity | Autobiographies and Biographies | American Studies | United States History Publisher's Description: The marriage of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne - for their contemporaries a model of true love and married happiness - was also a scene of revulsion and combat. T. Walter Herbert reveals the tragic conflicts beneath the Hawthorne's ideal of domestic fulfillment and shows how their marriage reflected . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...family life, an enterprise for which photography and home videos now provide a... Similar Items |
| 91. |  | Title: The beast in the boudoir: petkeeping in nineteenth-century Paris Author: Kete, Kathleen Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies | European Studies Publisher's Description: Kathleen Kete's wise and witty examination of petkeeping in nineteenth-century Paris provides a unique window through which to view the lives of ordinary French people. She demonstrates how that cliché of modern life, the family dog, reveals the tensions that modernity created for the Parisian bourg . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...1857-1927: Intérieurs parisiens, photographies . Exhibition catalog, Musée... Similar Items |
| 92. |  | Title: Play it again, Sam: retakes on remakes Author: Horton, Andrew Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film Publisher's Description: Play It Again, Sam is a timely investigation of a topic that until now has received almost no critical attention in film and cultural studies: the cinematic remake. As cinema enters its second century, more remakes are appearing than ever before, and these writers consider the full range: Hollywood . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...criticism of Baudelaire, who condemns photography to serve as the mere "handmaid... Similar Items...literally, mediated. Newspapers, photography, video, film, tape recorders, and... |
| 93. |  | 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 (2): ...PV, 20 October 1931; Rigné photography of crowd, plates 33, 261, 262, collection... Similar Items...summer 1931, 111 -113 vision photography, 111 -112 Ramona and wounds, 113... |
| 94. |  | Title: On human nature: a gathering while everything flows, 1967-1984 Author: Burke, Kenneth 1897- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Intellectual History | Rhetoric | Comparative Literature Publisher's Description: On Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows brings together the late essays, autobiographical reflections, an interview, and a poem by the eminent literary theorist and cultural critic Kenneth Burke (1897-1993). Burke, author of Language as Symbolic Action, A Grammar of Motives, and Rhetoric . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...I become that the developments of photography since Coleridge's time introduce... Similar Items...thought from the ground up. From the photography collection of the Museum of the... |
| 95. |  | Title: The "new woman" revised: painting and gender politics on fourteenth street Author: Todd, Ellen Wiley Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Art | Art History | United States History | Women's Studies | American Studies Publisher's Description: In the years between the world wars, Manhattan's Fourteenth Street-Union Square district became a center for commercial, cultural, and political activities, and hence a sensitive barometer of the dramatic social changes of the period. It was here that four urban realist painters - Kenneth Hayes Mill . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...of pictures and her excellent photography to all stages of the project. I thank... Similar Items...contemporary studio painting or photography to achieve his casual effect. Apart... |
| 96. |  | Title: The Japanese conspiracy: the Oahu sugar strike of 1920 Author: Duus, Masayo 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Asian American Studies | American Studies | United States History | Labor Studies Publisher's Description: In early 1920 in Hawaii, Japanese sugar cane workers, faced with spiraling living expenses, defiantly struck for a wage increase to $1.25 per day. The event shook the traditional power structure in Hawaii and, as Masayo Duus demonstrates in this book, had consequences reaching all the way up to the . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...of Ehime prefecture, operated a photography studio at Waipahu Plantation and was... Similar Items...parade participants from, 109 ; photography studio at, 113 ; pickets at, 169 ,... |
| 97. |  | Title: Mass mediations: new approaches to popular culture in the Middle East and beyond Author: Armbrust, Walter Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Media Studies | Music | Cinema and Performance Arts Publisher's Description: Offering a stimulating diversity of perspectives, this collection examines how popular culture through mass media defines the scale and character of social interaction in the Middle East. The contributors approach popular culture broadly, with an interest in how it creates new scales of communicatio . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...advertisements, social events, art and photography exhibits, and boutiques.... Similar Items...features in state-sponsored art and photography exhibits, lectures, and folklore... |
| 98. |  | Title: The rest is silence: death as annihilation in the English Renaissance Author: Watson, Robert N Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: How did the fear of death coexist with the promise of Christian afterlife in the culture and literature of the English Renaissance? Robert Watson exposes a sharp edge of blasphemous protest against mortality that runs through revenge plays such as The Spanish Tragedy and Hamlet , and through plays o . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...smile. (4.3.166–69) The time-lapse photography that promises renewal in the form... Similar Items |
| 99. |  | Title: Chinese families in the post-Mao era Author: Davis, Deborah 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Sociology | Anthropology | China Publisher's Description: How have the momentous policy shifts that followed the death of Mao Zedong changed families in China? What are the effects of the decollectivization of agriculture, the encouragement of limited private enterprise, and the world's strictest birth-control policy? Eleven sociologists and anthropologist . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...improvement. Encouraging restaurants, photography shops, and other service... Similar Items |
| 100. |  | Title: Shanghai on the Metro: spies, intrigue, and the French between the wars Author: Miller, Michael Barry 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies Publisher's Description: Secret agents, gun runners, White Russians, adventurers, and con men - they all play a part in Michael Miller's strikingly original study of interwar France. Based on extensive research in security files and a mass of printed sources, this book shows how a distinctive milieu of spies and spy literat . . . [more] Matches in book (2): ...late thirties, including instruction in photography, chemistry, and the use of... Similar Items...a more expansive use of photography in daily printings. 91 Photographs, splashed... |