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| 21. |  | Title: Healing the infertile family: strengthening your relationship in the search for parenthood  Author: Becker, Gaylene Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Psychology Publisher's Description: Unlike most infertility books that focus on medical treatment, Healing the Infertile Family examines the social and emotional problems experienced by couples confronting infertility and suggests how they can be alleviated. In this updated edition, Gay Becker discusses her most recent study of couple . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 22. |  | Title: The wrestler's body: identity and ideology in north India Author: Alter, Joseph S Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | South Asia Publisher's Description: The Wrestler's Body tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. While Indian wrestlers are competitive athletes, they are also moral reformers whose conception of self and society is fundamentally somatic. Using the insights of anthropology, Joseph Alter writes . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 23. |  | Title: The Prophet's pulpit: Islamic preaching in contemporary Egypt Author: Gaffney, Patrick D 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern Studies | Islam Publisher's Description: Muslim preaching has been central in forming public opinion, building grassroots organizations, and developing leadership cadres for the wider Islamist agenda. Based on in-depth field research in Egypt, Patrick Gaffney focuses on the preacher and the sermon as the single most important medium for pr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 24. |  | Title: The sacrificed generation: youth, history, and the colonized mind in Madagascar Author: Sharp, Lesley Alexandra Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | African History | Postcolonial Studies | Geography Publisher's Description: Youth and identity politics figure prominently in this provocative study of personal and collective memory in Madagascar. A deeply nuanced ethnography of historical consciousness, it challenges many cross-cultural investigations of youth, for its key actors are not adults but schoolchildren. Lesley . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 25. |  | Title: Even in Sweden: racisms, racialized spaces, and the popular geographical imagination Author: Pred, Allan Richard 1936- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Geography | Ecology | Consumerism | Urban Studies | Anthropology Publisher's Description: Allan Pred writes compellingly about the reawakening of racism throughout Europe at the end of the twentieth century - even in Sweden, a country widely regarded as the very model of social justice and equality. Many thousands of non-European and Muslim immigrants and refugees who took advantage of S . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 26. |  | Title: History and tradition in Melanesian anthropology Author: Carrier, James G Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | East Asia Other Publisher's Description: Melanesian societies, like village societies in many parts of the world, are frequently portrayed as existing in a timeless, traditional present. These seven original essays offer an alternative view, one showing that historical evidence can and must inform our understanding of contemporary cultures . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 27. |  | Title: Native and newcomer: making and remaking a Japanese city Author: Robertson, Jennifer Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Japan | Asian History | Urban Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This expertly crafted ethnography examines the ways in which native and new citizens of Kodaira, a Tokyo suburb, have both remade the past and imagined the future of their city in a quest for an "authentic" Japanese community. Similar Items |
| 28. |  | Title: When we began there were witchmen: an oral history from Mount Kenya Author: Fadiman, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Anthropology | African Studies | African History Publisher's Description: This is the history of the Meru people of Mount Kenya, based on their own traditions, from the earliest times through the colonial period. Many of these tales have been ritually passed down through no fewer than nineteen generations; others were remembered by those personally involved. Jeffrey Fadim . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 29. |  | Title: Earthly bodies, magical selves: contemporary pagans and the search for community Author: Pike, Sarah M 1959- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | Anthropology Publisher's Description: Recent decades have seen a revival of paganism, and every summer people gather across the United States to celebrate this increasingly popular religion. Sarah Pike's engrossing ethnography is the outcome of five years attending neo-pagan festivals, interviewing participants, and sometimes taking par . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 30. |  | Title: Language, charisma, and creativity: the ritual life of a religious movement Author: Csordas, Thomas J Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Christianity Publisher's Description: Thomas Csordas's eloquent analysis of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, part of the contemporary cultural and media phenomenon known as conservative Christianity, embraces one of the primary tasks of anthropology: to stimulate critical reflection by making the exotic seem familiar and the familiar a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 31. |  | Title: Mirages of transition: the Peruvian altiplano, 1780-1930 Author: Jacobsen, Nils 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Anthropology | Latin American History | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: This case study of the Peruvian altiplano, the vast high-altitude plains surrounding Lake Titicaca, combines economic and social analysis with cultural and institutional history. Nils Jacobsen challenges the prevailing view that the rural Andes underwent a successful transition to capitalism between . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 32. |  | Title: Between Sundays: Black women and everyday struggles of faith Author: Frederick, Marla Faye 1972- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion | African American Studies | Women's Studies | Politics | Anthropology | Christianity Publisher's Description: To be a black woman of faith in the American South is to understand and experience spirituality in a particular way. How this understanding expresses itself in everyday practices of faith is the subject of Between Sundays, an innovative work that takes readers beyond common misconceptions and narrow . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 33. |  | Title: Childbirth and authoritative knowledge: cross-cultural perspectives Author: Davis-Floyd, Robbie Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Women's Studies | Medicine Publisher's Description: This benchmark collection of cross-cultural essays on reproduction and childbirth extends and enriches the work of Brigitte Jordan, who helped generate and define the field of the anthropology of birth. The authors' focus on authoritative knowledge - the knowledge that counts, on the basis of which . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 34. |  | 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 Similar Items |
| 35. |  | Title: Ceremonial costumes of the Pueblo Indians: their evolution, fabrication, and significance in the prayer drama Author: Roediger, Virginia More Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Dance | Art Publisher's Description: When the University of California Press first published Roediger's Ceremonial Costumes of the Pueblo Indians in 1941, it was immediately hailed as both a beautiful book and the most comprehensive description ever of the making and meaning of the Pueblo costumes of New Mexico and Arizona. It has been . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 36. |  | Title: The Ethnography of reading Author: Boyarin, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology | Literature Publisher's Description: Writing, the subject of much innovative scholarship in recent years, is only half of what we call literacy. The other half, reading, now finally receives its due in these groundbreaking essays by a distinguished group of anthropologists and literary scholars.The essays move well beyond the simple ru . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 37. |  | Title: Violence workers: police torturers and murderers reconstruct Brazilian atrocities Author: Huggins, Martha Knisely 1944- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: Of the twenty-three Brazilian policemen interviewed in depth for this landmark study, fourteen were direct perpetrators of torture and murder during the three decades that included the 1964-1985 military regime. These "violence workers" and the other group of "atrocity facilitators" who had not, or . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 38. |  | Title: On holiday: a history of vacationing Author: Löfgren, Orvar Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Anthropology | Travel | American Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Popular Culture | Criminology Publisher's Description: Löfgren takes us on a tour of the Western holiday world and shows how two centuries of "learning to be a tourist" have shaped our own ways of vacationing. We see how fashions in destinations have changed through the years, with popular images (written, drawn, painted, and later photographed) teachin . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 39. |  | Title: A simple matter of salt: an ethnography of nutritional deficiency in Spain Author: Fernandez, Renate Lellep Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology Similar Items |
| 40. |  | Title: Down on their luck: a study of homeless street people Author: Snow, David A Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Sociology | Urban Studies | Politics | Ethnic Studies | Anthropology Similar Items |