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101. | | 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 | 102. | | 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 | 103. | | 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 | 104. | | Title: As we are now: mixblood essays on race and identityAuthor: Penn, W. S 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | Native American Studies | American Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Social Problems | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: The thirteen contributors to As We Are Now invite readers to explore with them the untamed territory of race and mixblood identity in North America. A "mixblood," according to editor W.S. Penn, recognizes that his or her identity comes not from distinct and separable strains of ancestry but from the . . . [more]Similar Items | 105. | | Title: Rule of experts: Egypt, techno-politics, modernityAuthor: Mitchell, Timothy 1955- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics | Middle Eastern Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Postcolonial Studies | Economics and Business | Middle Eastern History | SociologyPublisher's Description: Can one explain the power of global capitalism without attributing to capital a logic and coherence it does not have? Can one account for the powers of techno-science in terms that do not merely reproduce its own understanding of the world? Rule of Experts examines these questions through a series o . . . [more]Similar Items | 106. | | Title: Infertility around the globe: new thinking on childlessness, gender, and reproductive technologiesAuthor: Inhorn, Marcia Claire 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Asian Studies | Medical Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | Politics | Medicine | Sociology | SociologyPublisher's Description: This exceptional collection of essays breaks new ground by examining the global impact of infertility as a major reproductive health issue, one that has profoundly affected the lives of countless women and men. Based on original research by seventeen internationally acclaimed social scientists, it i . . . [more]Similar Items | 107. | | | 108. | | Title: Many Rāmāyaṇas: the diversity of a narrative tradition in South Asia Author: Richman, Paula Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion | Hinduism | Cultural Anthropology | South AsiaPublisher's Description: Throughout Indian history, many authors and performers have produced, and many patrons have supported, diverse tellings of the story of the exiled prince Rama, who rescues his abducted wife by battling the demon king who has imprisoned her. The contributors to this volume focus on these "many" Ramay . . . [more]Similar Items | 109. | | Title: National ideology under socialism: identity and cultural politics in Ceauşescu's RomaniaAuthor: Verdery, Katherine Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Politics | Cultural Anthropology | European History | Russian and Eastern European StudiesPublisher's Description: The current transformation of many Eastern European societies is impossible to understand without comprehending the intellectual struggles surrounding nationalism in the region. Anthropologist Katherine Verdery shows how the example of Romania suggests that current ethnic tensions come not from a re . . . [more]Similar Items | 110. | | Title: The elusive embryo: how women and men approach new reproductive technologiesAuthor: Becker, Gaylene Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Sociology | Gender Studies | Medical Anthropology | Medicine | Women's Studies | SciencePublisher's Description: In the first book to examine the industry of reproductive technology from the perspective of the consumer, Gay Becker scrutinizes the staggering array of medical options available to women and men with fertility problems and assesses the toll - both financial and emotional - that the quest for a bio . . . [more]Similar Items | 111. | | Title: Framing the sexual subject: the politics of gender, sexuality, and powerAuthor: Parker, Richard G. (Richard Guy) 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Gender Studies | Public Policy | SociologyPublisher's Description: This collection brings together the work of writers from a range of disciplines and cultural traditions to explore the social and political dimensions of sexuality and sexual experience. The contributors reconfigure existing notions of gender and sexuality, linking them to deeper understandings of p . . . [more]Similar Items | 112. | | Title: Birth on the threshold: childbirth and modernity in South IndiaAuthor: Van Hollen, Cecilia Coale Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Sociology | Gender Studies | Hinduism | South Asia | Asian Studies | South Asia | South AsiaPublisher's Description: Even childbirth is affected by globalization - and in India, as elsewhere, the trend is away from home births, assisted by midwives, toward hospital births with increasing reliance on new technologies. And yet, as this work of critical feminist ethnography clearly demonstrates, the global spread of . . . [more]Similar Items | 113. | | Title: Dr. Strangelove's America: society and culture in the atomic ageAuthor: Henriksen, Margot A Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | United States History | Cultural Anthropology | SociologyPublisher's Description: Did America really learn to "stop worrying and love the bomb," as the title of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove , would have us believe? Does that darkly satirical comedy have anything in common with Martin Luther King Jr.'s impassioned "I Have a Dream" speech or with Elvis Presley's thr . . . [more]Similar Items | 114. | | Title: The culture of sectarianism: community, history, and violence in nineteenth-century Ottoman Lebanon Author: Makdisi, Ussama Samir 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Postcolonial Studies | Islam | Cultural AnthropologyPublisher's Description: Focusing on Ottoman Lebanon, Ussama Makdisi shows how sectarianism was a manifestation of modernity that transcended the physical boundaries of a particular country. His study challenges those who have viewed sectarian violence as an Islamic response to westernization or simply as a product of socia . . . [more]Similar Items | 115. | | Title: The myth of the noble savageAuthor: Ellingson, Terry Jay Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Intellectual History | European History | American Studies | European Studies | Postcolonial StudiesPublisher's Description: In this important and original study, the myth of the Noble Savage is an altogether different myth from the one defended or debunked by others over the years. That the concept of the Noble Savage was first invented by Rousseau in the mid-eighteenth century in order to glorify the "natural" life is e . . . [more]Similar Items | 116. | | Title: Reason and passion: representations of gender in a Malay society Author: Peletz, Michael G Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: This book provides a historical and ethnographic examination of gender relations in Malay society, in particular in the well-known state of Negeri Sembilan, famous for its unusual mixture of Islam and matrilineal descent. Peletz analyzes the diverse ways in which the evocative, heavily gendered symb . . . [more]Similar Items | 117. | | Title: Religion and Rajput women: the ethic of protection in contemporary narratives Author: Harlan, Lindsey Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion | Hinduism | Cultural AnthropologyPublisher's Description: What is the relationship between caste and gender in the narratives of Rajput woman? During a year and a half of fieldwork in Rajasthan, a parched land dominated by the great Indian Desert, Lindsey Harlan interviewed more than a hundred women from all levels of Rajput society. She wanted to understa . . . [more]Similar Items | 118. | | Title: Images and empires: visuality in colonial and postcolonial AfricaAuthor: Landau, Paul Stuart 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Art History | Cultural Anthropology | HistoryPublisher's Description: Figurative images have long played a critical, if largely unexamined, role in Africa - mediating relationships between the colonizer and the colonized, the state and the individual, and the global and the local. This pivotal volume considers the meaning and power of images in African history and cul . . . [more]Similar Items | 119. | | Title: "Peaks of Yemen I summon": poetry as cultural practice in a North Yemeni tribeAuthor: Caton, Steven Charles 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | Medieval Studies | Folklore and Mythology | Language and LinguisticsPublisher's Description: In this first full-scale ethnographic study of Yemeni tribal poetry, Steven Caton reveals an astonishingly rich folkloric system where poetry is both a creation of art and a political and social act. Almost always spoken or chanted, Yemeni tribal poetry is cast in an idiom considered colloquial and . . . [more]Similar Items | 120. | | Title: Birth as an American rite of passageAuthor: Davis-Floyd, Robbie Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Women's Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Medicine | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: Why do so many American women allow themselves to become enmeshed in the standardized routines of technocratic childbirth - routines that can be insensitive, unnecessary, and even unhealthy? And why, in spite of the natural childbirth movement, has hospital birth become even more intensely technolog . . . [more]Similar Items |
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