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141. | | Title: Covering immigration: popular images and the politics of the nationAuthor: Chavez, Leo R. (Leo Ralph) Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | American StudiesPublisher's Description: On October 17, 1994, The Nation ran the headline "The Immigration Wars" on its cover over an illustration showing the western border of the United States with a multitude of people marching toward it. In the foreground, the Statue of Liberty topped by an upside-down American flag is joined by a grow . . . [more]Similar Items | 142. | | Title: Pilgrim stories: on and off the road to SantiagoAuthor: Frey, Nancy Louise 1968- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion | Anthropology | Christianity | European HistoryPublisher's Description: Each year thousands of men and women from more than sixty countries journey by foot and bicycle across northern Spain, following the medieval pilgrimage road known as the Camino de Santiago. Their destination is Santiago de Compostela, where the remains of the apostle James are said to be buried. Th . . . [more]Similar Items | 143. | | Title: Blood politics: race, culture, and identity in the Cherokee Nation of OklahomaAuthor: Sturm, Circe 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Native American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | African American StudiesPublisher's Description: Circe Sturm takes a bold and original approach to one of the most highly charged and important issues in the United States today: race and national identity. Focusing on the Oklahoma Cherokee, she examines how Cherokee identity is socially and politically constructed, and how that process is embedde . . . [more]Similar Items | 144. | | Title: The ones that are wanted: communication and the politics of representation in a photographic exhibitionAuthor: Kratz, Corinne Ann 1953- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | African Studies | Photography | Art TheoryPublisher's Description: The Okiek people of Kenya's forested highlands have a long history of hunting, honey gathering, and trading with their Maasai and Kipsigis neighbors; several decades ago, they also began farming and herding. This book follows a traveling exhibition of anthropologist Corinne Kratz's photographs of th . . . [more]Similar Items | 145. | | Title: Religious nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in IndiaAuthor: Veer, Peter van der Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Hinduism | South AsiaPublisher's Description: Religious nationalism is a subject of critical importance in much of the world today. Peter van der Veer's timely study on the relationship between religion and politics in India goes well beyond other books on this subject. He brings together several disciplines - anthropology, history, social theo . . . [more]Similar Items | 146. | | Title: The calligraphic state: textual domination and history in a Muslim society Author: Messick, Brinkley Morris Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Middle Eastern History | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern StudiesPublisher's Description: In this innovative combination of anthropology, history, and postmodern theory, Brinkley Messick examines the changing relation of writing and authority in a Muslim society from the late nineteenth century to the present. The creation and interpretation of texts, from sacred scriptures to administra . . . [more]Similar Items | 147. | | Title: A radical Jew: Paul and the politics of identity Author: Boyarin, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Religion | Judaism | Christianity | Gender Studies | Literature | AnthropologyPublisher's Description: Daniel Boyarin turns to the Epistles of Paul as the spiritual autobiography of a first-century Jewish cultural critic. What led Paul - in his dramatic conversion to Christianity - to such a radical critique of Jewish culture?Paul's famous formulation, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, no male and fem . . . [more]Similar Items | 148. | | 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 AsiaPublisher'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]Similar Items | 149. | | Title: The origins of indigenism: human rights and the politics of identityAuthor: Niezen, Ronald Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | International Relations | Social ProblemsPublisher's Description: "International indigenism" may sound like a contradiction in terms, but it is indeed a global phenomenon and a growing form of activism. In his fluent and accessible narrative, Ronald Niezen examines the ways the relatively recent emergence of an internationally recognized identity - "indigenous peo . . . [more]Similar Items | 150. | | Title: War of shadows: the struggle for utopia in the Peruvian AmazonAuthor: Brown, Michael F. (Michael Fobes) 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American History | Politics | Latin American StudiesPublisher's Description: War of Shadows is the haunting story of a failed uprising in the Peruvian Amazon - told largely by people who were there. Late in 1965, Asháninka Indians, members of one of the Amazon's largest native tribes, joined forces with Marxist revolutionaries who had opened a guerrilla front in Asháninka te . . . [more]Similar Items | 151. | | | 152. | | Title: Flesh wounds: the culture of cosmetic surgeryAuthor: Blum, Virginia L 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies | Gender Studies | Film | Psychology | Literary Theory and Criticism | Sociology | Anthropology | Television and Radio | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: When did cosmetic surgery become a common practice, the stuff of everyday conversation? In a work that combines a provocative ethnography of plastic surgery and a penetrating analysis of beauty and feminism, Virginia L. Blum searches out the social conditions and imperatives that have made ours a cu . . . [more]Similar Items | 153. | | Title: Engaged surrender: African American women and IslamAuthor: Rouse, Carolyn Moxley 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology | American Studies | Religion | African American Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: Commonly portrayed in the media as holding women in strict subordination and deference to men, Islam is nonetheless attracting numerous converts among African American women. Are these women "reproducing their oppression," as it might seem? Or does their adherence to the religion suggest unsuspected . . . [more]Similar Items | 154. | | Title: The state must be our master of fire: how peasants craft culturally sustainable development in SenegalAuthor: Galvan, Dennis Charles Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Politics | Anthropology | African Studies | Postcolonial StudiesPublisher's Description: Over several centuries, the Serer of the Siin region of Senegal developed a complex system of land tenure that resulted in a stable rural society, productive agriculture, and a well-managed ecosystem. Dennis Galvan tells the story of what happened when French colonial rulers, and later the governmen . . . [more]Similar Items | 155. | | Title: The early Upper Paleolithic beyond Western EuropeAuthor: Brantingham, P. Jeffrey 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology | Archaeology | European History | European History | Middle Eastern HistoryPublisher's Description: This volume brings together prominent archaeologists working in areas outside Western Europe to discuss the most recent evidence for the origins of the early Upper Paleolithic and its relationship to the origin of modern humans. With a wealth of primary data from archaeological sites and regions tha . . . [more]Similar Items | 156. | | Title: The festive state: race, ethnicity, and nationalism as cultural performanceAuthor: Guss, David M Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American Studies | Ethnic Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Sociology | Popular CulturePublisher's Description: If, as David Guss argues, culture is a contested terrain with constantly changing contours, then festivals are its battlegrounds, where people come to fight and dispute in large acts of public display. Festive behavior, long seen by anthropologists and folklorists as the "uniform expression of a col . . . [more]Similar Items | 157. | | Title: Wide-open town: a history of queer San Francisco to 1965Author: Boyd, Nan Alamilla 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | Ethnic Studies | United States History | Sociology | California and the WestPublisher's Description: Wide-Open Town traces the history of gay men and lesbians in San Francisco from the turn of the century, when queer bars emerged in San Francisco's tourist districts, to 1965, when a raid on a drag ball changed the course of queer history. Bringing to life the striking personalities and vibrant mili . . . [more]Similar Items | 158. | | Title: History, power, ideology: central issues in Marxism and anthropologyAuthor: Donham, Donald L. (Donald Lewis) Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Social Theory | African StudiesPublisher's Description: Is Marxism a reflection of the conceptual system it fights against, rather than a truly comprehensive approach to human history? Drawing on recent work in anthropology, history, and philosophy, Donald Donham confronts this problem in analyzing a radically different social order: the former Maale kin . . . [more]Similar Items | 159. | | Title: Cultures in conflict: social movements and the state in PeruAuthor: Stokes, Susan Carol Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Politics | Sociology | Anthropology | Urban StudiesPublisher's Description: In this vivid ethnography set in contemporary Peru, Susan Stokes provides a compelling analysis of the making and unmaking of class consciousness among the urban poor. Her research strategy is multifaceted; through interviews, participant observation, and survey research she digs deeply into the pop . . . [more]Similar Items | 160. | | Title: Evolution of sickness and healing Author: Fabrega, Horacio Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Medicine | Medical AnthropologyPublisher's Description: Evolution of Sickness and Healing is a theoretical work on the grand scale, an original synthesis of many disciplines in social studies of medicine. Looking at human sickness and healing through the lens of evolutionary theory, Horacio Fàbrega, Jr. presents not only the vulnerability to disease and . . . [more]Similar Items |
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