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161. | | Title: A nation of empire: the Ottoman legacy of Turkish modernity Author: Meeker, Michael E Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Middle Eastern Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern HistoryPublisher's Description: This innovative study of modern Turkey is the result of many years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research. Michael Meeker expertly combines anthropological and historical methods to examine the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic in a major region of the country, the . . . [more]Similar Items | 162. | | Title: Lines in the water: nature and culture at Lake TiticacaAuthor: Orlove, Benjamin S Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Environmental Studies | Latin American Studies | ConservationPublisher's Description: This beautifully written book weaves reflections on anthropological fieldwork together with evocative meditations on a spectacular landscape as it takes us to the remote indigenous villages on the shore of Lake Titicaca, high in the Peruvian Andes. Ben Orlove brings alive the fishermen, reed cutters . . . [more]Similar Items | 163. | | Title: Race and the invisible hand: how white networks exclude black men from blue-collar jobsAuthor: Royster, Deirdre A. (Deirdre Alexia) 1966- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Anthropology | Economics and Business | Urban Studies | Public Policy | African American Studies | Urban Studies | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: From the time of Booker T. Washington to today, and William Julius Wilson, the advice dispensed to young black men has invariably been, "Get a trade." Deirdre Royster has put this folk wisdom to an empirical test - and, in Race and the Invisible Hand, exposes the subtleties and discrepancies of a wo . . . [more]Similar Items | 164. | | Title: Echoes of the past, epics of dissent: a South Korean social movementAuthor: Abelmann, Nancy Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | Politics | Sociology | Cultural AnthropologyPublisher's Description: Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent , the story of a South Korean social movement, offers a window to a decade of tumultuous social protest in a postcolonial, divided nation. Abelmann brings a dramatic chapter of modern Korean history to life - a period in which farmers, student activists, and orga . . . [more]Similar Items | 165. | | Title: Fighting women: anger and aggression in Aboriginal Australia Author: Burbank, Victoria Katherine Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Women's Studies | PsychologyPublisher's Description: Fighting is common among contemporary Aboriginal women in Mangrove, Australia - women fight with men and with other women. Victoria Burbank's depiction of these women offers a powerful new perspective that can be applied to domestic violence in Western settings.Noting that Aboriginal women not only . . . [more]Similar Items | 166. | | Title: Familia: migration and adaptation in Baja and Alta California, 1800-1975 Author: Alvarez, Robert R Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Demography | Latin American History | Latin American Studies | Postcolonial StudiesPublisher's Description: Anthropologists, historians, and sociologists will find here a striking challenge to accepted explanations of the northward movement of migrants from Mexico into the United States. Alvarez investigates the life histories of pioneer migrants and their offspring, finding a human dimension to migration . . . [more]Similar Items | 167. | | Title: Essential subtleties on the silver sea: the Yin-hai jing-wei: a Chinese classic on ophthalmologyAuthor: Sun, Simiao 581-682 Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | China | History and Philosophy of SciencePublisher's Description: Here is the first translation into English of the complete Yin-Hai Jing-Wei , a classic fifteenth-century text on Chinese ophthalmology. As one of the few original manuscripts on traditional Chinese medicine translated into a Western language, this work offers an unprecedented view of the practice o . . . [more]Similar Items | 168. | | Title: Huang Di nei jing su wen: nature, knowledge, imagery in an ancient Chinese medical text, with an appendix, The doctrine of the five periods and six qi in the Huang Di nei jing su wenAuthor: Unschuld, Paul U. (Paul Ulrich) 1943- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | Medical Anthropology | China | History of MedicinePublisher's Description: The Huang Di nei jing su wen, known familiarly as the Su wen, is a seminal text of ancient Chinese medicine, yet until now there has been no comprehensive, detailed analysis of its development and contents. At last Paul U. Unschuld offers entry into this still-vital artifact of China's cultural and . . . [more]Similar Items | 169. | | Title: What justice? whose justice?: fighting for fairness in Latin AmericaAuthor: Eckstein, Susan 1942- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | Economics and Business | Conservation | Latin American Studies | Politics | Postcolonial Studies | Anthropology | Social ProblemsPublisher's Description: The new millennium began with the triumph of democracy and markets. But for whom is life just, how so, and why? And what is being done to correct persisting injustices? Blending macro-level global and national analysis with in-depth grassroots detail, the contributors highlight roots of injustices, . . . [more]Similar Items | 170. | | Title: The fractured community: landscapes of power and gender in rural Zambia Author: Crehan, Kate A. F Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: This study examines the lives of the women and men living in two small rural communities in Zambia on the eve of the collapse of the one-party state in the 1980s. Moving beyond the limits of traditional ethnography, Kate Crehan traces the often complex ways in which local, day-to-day realities are l . . . [more]Similar Items | 171. | | Title: Fanshen: a documentary of revolution in a Chinese villageAuthor: Hinton, William Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | China | Anthropology | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: More than thirty years after its initial publication, William Hinton's Fanshen continues to be the essential source for those fascinated with China's continual process of rural reform and social change. This edition will appeal to anyone interested in understanding China's complex social processes, . . . [more]Similar Items | 172. | | Title: Japanese workers in protest: an ethnography of consciousness and experience Author: Turner, Christena L 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Japan | SociologyPublisher's Description: This first ethnographic study of factory workers engaged in radical labor protest gives a voice to a segment of the Japanese population that has been previously marginalized. These blue-collar workers, involved in prolonged labor disputes, tell their own story as they struggle to make sense of their . . . [more]Similar Items | 173. | | Title: The mystique of dreams: a search for utopia through Senoi dream theory Author: Domhoff, G. William Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Sociology | Psychology | AnthropologyPublisher's Description: A fascinating strand of the human potential movement of the 1960s involved the dream mystique of a previously unknown Malaysian tribe, the Senoi, first brought to the attention of the Western world by adventurer-anthropologist-psychologist Kilton Stewart. Exploring the origin, attraction, and effica . . . [more]Similar Items | 174. | | Title: In the midst of life: affect and ideation in the world of the TolaiAuthor: Epstein, A. L. (Arnold Leonard) Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | Cultural AnthropologyPublisher's Description: The Tolai are among the most distinctive of Papua New Guinea's indigenous peoples. For all their success in the pursuit of modernity, the Tolai remain traditional in their attitudes toward death, the cultural elaboration of which colors almost every aspect of their existence.In his new book, A. L. E . . . [more]Similar Items | 175. | | Title: Ethnocriticism: ethnography, history, literature Author: Krupat, Arnold Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | Anthropology | American Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Native American StudiesPublisher's Description: Ethnocriticism moves cultural critique to the boundaries that exist between cultures. The boundary traversed in Krupat's dexterous new book is the contested line between native and mainstream American literatures and cultures.For over a century the discourses of ethnography, history, and literature . . . [more]Similar Items | 176. | | Title: Exits from the labyrinth: culture and ideology in the Mexican national spaceAuthor: Lomnitz Adler, Claudio Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American HistoryPublisher's Description: Can we address the issue of nationalism without polemics and restore it to the domain of social science? Claudio Lomnitz-Adler takes a major step in that direction by applying anthropological tools to the study of national culture. His sweeping and innovative interpretation of Mexican national ideol . . . [more]Similar Items | 177. | | Title: Total confinement: madness and reason in the maximum security prisonAuthor: Rhodes, Lorna A. (Lorna Amarasingham) Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | Medicine | Politics | SociologyPublisher's Description: In this rare firsthand account, Lorna Rhodes takes us into a hidden world that lies at the heart of the maximum security prison. Focusing on the "supermaximums" - and the mental health units that complement them - Rhodes conveys the internal contradictions of a system mandated to both punish and tre . . . [more]Similar Items | 178. | | Title: Healing sounds from the Malaysian rainforest: Temiar music and medicineAuthor: Roseman, Marina 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | East Asia Other | Ethnomusicology | Asian Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Medicine | MusicologyPublisher's Description: Music and dance play a central role in the "healing arts" of the Senoi Temiar, a group of hunters and horticulturalists dwelling in the rainforest of peninsular Malaysia. As musicologist and anthropologist, Marina Roseman recorded and transcribed Temiar rituals, while as a member of the community sh . . . [more]Similar Items | 179. | | Title: Still a man's world: men who do "women's" workAuthor: Williams, Christine L 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Sociology | Anthropology | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Economics and Business | Men and MasculinityPublisher's Description: Men who do "women's work" have consistently been the butt of jokes, derided for their lack of drive and masculinity. In this eye-opening study, Christine Williams provides a wholly new look at men who work in predominantly female jobs. Having conducted extensive interviews in four cities, Williams u . . . [more]Similar Items | 180. | | |
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