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| 261. |  | Title: Working-class heroes: protecting home, community, and nation in a Chicago neighborhood Author: Kefalas, Maria Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Anthropology | Urban Studies | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | Politics | Social Problems | Urban Studies | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Chicago's Southwest Side is one of the last remaining footholds for the city's white working class, a little-studied and little-understood segment of the American population. This book paints a nuanced and complex portrait of the firefighters, police officers, stay-at-home mothers, and office worker . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 262. |  | Title: From savage to Negro: anthropology and the construction of race, 1896-1954 Author: Baker, Lee D 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | African American Studies | United States History | Sociology Publisher's Description: Lee D. Baker explores what racial categories mean to the American public and how these meanings are reinforced by anthropology, popular culture, and the law. Focusing on the period between two landmark Supreme Court decisions - Plessy v. Ferguson (the so-called "separate but equal" doctrine establis . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 263. |  | Title: No aging in India: Alzheimer's, the bad family, and other modern things  Author: Cohen, Lawrence 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Aging | South Asia Publisher's Description: From the opening sequence, in which mid-nineteenth-century Indian fishermen hear the possibility of redemption in an old woman's madness, No Aging in India captures the reader with its interplay of story and analysis. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic work, Lawrence Cohen links a detaile . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 264. |  | Title: Aboriginal slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America Author: Donald, Leland 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Pacific Rim Studies Publisher's Description: With his investigation of slavery on the Northwest Coast of North America, Leland Donald makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the aboriginal cultures of this area. He shows that Northwest Coast servitude, relatively neglected by researchers in the past, fits an appropriate cross- . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 265. |  | Title: Strangers at the gates: new immigrants in urban America Author: Waldinger, Roger David Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Anthropology | Urban Studies | African American Studies | Asian American Studies | Latino Studies | Labor Studies | Social Problems | Immigration Publisher's Description: Immigration is remaking the United States. In New York, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, and Chicago, the multiethnic society of tomorrow is already in place. Yet today's urban centers appear unlikely to provide newcomers with the same opportunities their predecessors found at the turn of the last . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 266. |  | Title: Laughter out of place: race, class, violence, and sexuality in a Rio shantytown Author: Goldstein, Donna M Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | Latin American Studies | Sociology | Urban Studies | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Donna M. Goldstein challenges much of what we think we know about the "culture of poverty." Drawing on more than a decade of experience in Brazil, Goldstein provides an intimate portrait of everyday life among the women of the favelas, or urban shantytowns. These women have created absurdist and bla . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 267. |  | Title: Twice dead: organ transplants and the reinvention of death Author: Lock, Margaret M Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Ethics | Sociology | Sociology | Ethics | Sociology | Ethnic Studies | Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: Tales about organ transplants appear in mythology and folk stories, and surface in documents from medieval times, but only during the past twenty years has medical knowledge and technology been sufficiently advanced for surgeons to perform thousands of transplants each year. In the majority of cases . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 268. |  | Title: Zapata lives!: histories and cultural politics in southern Mexico Author: Stephen, Lynn Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Anthropology | Sociology | American Studies | Ethnic Studies | Latin American History | Politics | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: This richly detailed study chronicles recent political events in southern Mexico, up to and including the July 2000 election of Vicente Fox. Lynn Stephen focuses on the meaning that Emiliano Zapata, the great symbol of land reform and human rights, has had and now has for rural Mexicans. Stephen doc . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 269. |  | Title: Cry for luck: sacred song and speech among the Yurok, Hupa, and Karok Indians of northwestern California Author: Keeling, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology | Ethnomusicology Publisher's Description: The "sobbing" vocal quality in many traditional songs of northwestern California Indian tribes inspired the title of Richard Keeling's comprehensive study. Little has been known about the music of aboriginal Californians, and Cry for Luck will be welcomed by those who see the interpretation of music . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 270. |  | Title: Peasant and nation: the making of postcolonial Mexico and Peru Author: Mallon, Florencia E 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Latin American History | Anthropology | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Peasant and Nation offers a major new statement on the making of national politics. Comparing the popular political cultures and discourses of postcolonial Mexico and Peru, Florencia Mallon provides a groundbreaking analysis of their effect on the evolution of these nation states. As political histo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 271. |  | Title: Setting the Virgin on fire: Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán peasants, and the redemption of the Mexican Revolution Author: Becker, Marjorie 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Latin American Studies | Latin American History | Anthropology | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: In this beautifully written work, Marjorie Becker reconstructs the cultural encounters which led to Mexico's post-revolutionary government. She sets aside the mythology surrounding president Lázaro Cárdenas to reveal his dilemma: until he and his followers understood peasant culture, they could not . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 272. |  | Title: Expectations of modernity: myths and meanings of urban life on the Zambian Copperbelt Author: Ferguson, James 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Cultural Anthropology | African History | Postcolonial Studies | Social Problems Publisher's Description: Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia's economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s was fueled by the export of copper and other primary materials. Since the mid-1970s, however, the urban economy has rapidly deteriorated, leaving workers scrambling to get by. Expectations of Modernity . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 273. |  | Title: Latinos: remaking America Author: Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Latino Studies | Gender Studies | Latin American Studies | Sociology | Urban Studies | Immigration Publisher's Description: Latinos are the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States and will comprise a quarter of the country's population by mid-century. The process of Latinization, the result of globalization and the biggest migration flow in the history of the Americas, is indeed reshaping the character of the U . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 274. |  | Title: What I learned in medical school: personal stories of young doctors Author: Takakuwa, Kevin M Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Medicine | Sociology | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | Anthropology | Health Care Publisher's Description: Like many an exclusive club, the medical profession subjects its prospective members to rigorous indoctrination: medical students are overloaded with work, deprived of sleep and normal human contact, drilled and tested and scheduled down to the last minute. Difficult as the regimen may be, for those . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 275. |  | Title: Venus on wheels: two decades of dialogue on disability, biography, and being female in America Author: Frank, Gelya 1948- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | Gender Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: In 1976 Gelya Frank began writing about the life of Diane DeVries, a woman born with all the physical and mental equipment she would need to live in our society--except arms and legs. Frank was 28 years old, DeVries 26. This remarkable book--by turns moving, funny, and revelatory--records the relati . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 276. |  | Title: Taking back the streets: women, youth, and direct democracy Author: Kaplan, Temma 1942- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | Politics | Anthropology | Latin American Studies | European Studies | Women's Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: Toward the end of the twentieth century in places ranging from Latin America and the Caribbean to Europe, the United States, South Africa, Nigeria, Iran, Japan, China, and South Asia, women and young people took to the streets to fight injustices they believed they could not confront in any other wa . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 277. |  | Title: This land is our land: immigrants and power in Miami Author: Stepick, Alex Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Politics | Sociology | Urban Studies | Immigration Publisher's Description: For those opposed to immigration, Miami is a nightmare. Miami is the de facto capital of Latin America; it is a city where immigrants dominate, Spanish is ubiquitous, and Denny's is an ethnic restaurant. Are Miami's immigrants representative of a trend that is undermining American culture and identi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 278. |  | Title: Listen to the heron's words: reimagining gender and kinship in North India Author: Raheja, Gloria Goodwin 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Women's Studies | South Asia Publisher's Description: In many South Asian oral traditions, herons are viewed as duplicitous and conniving. These traditions tend also to view women as fragmented identities, dangerously split between virtue and virtuosity, between loyalties to their own families and those of their husbands. In women's songs, however, sym . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 279. |  | Title: Signs of recognition: powers and hazards of representation in an Indonesian society Author: Keane, Webb 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Webb Keane argues that by looking at representations as concrete practices we may find them to be thoroughly entangled in the tensions and hazards of social existence. This book explores the performances and transactions that lie at the heart of public events in contemporary Anakalang, on the Indone . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 280. |  | Title: Forget colonialism?: sacrifice and the art of memory in Madagascar Author: Cole, Jennifer 1966- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Geography | African History | Cultural Anthropology | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: While doing fieldwork in a village in east Madagascar that had suffered both heavy settler colonialism and a bloody anticolonial rebellion, Jennifer Cole found herself confronted by a puzzle. People in the area had lived through almost a century of intrusive French colonial rule, but they appeared t . . . [more] Similar Items |