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| 61. |  | Title: Fieldwork under fire: contemporary studies of violence and survival Author: Nordstrom, Carolyn 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Social Problems Publisher's Description: Fieldwork Under Fire is a path-breaking collection of essays written by anthropologists who have experienced the unpredictability and trauma of political violence firsthand. These essays combine theoretical, ethnographic, and methodological points of view to illuminate the processes and solutions th . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 62. |  | Title: Abuses  Author: Lingis, Alphonso 1933- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | Literature | Cultural Anthropology | Social and Political Thought | Psychology | Travel Publisher's Description: Part travelogue, part meditation, Abuses is a bold exploration of central themes in Continental philosophy by one of the most passionate and original thinkers in that tradition writing today.A gripping record of desires, obsessions, bodies, and spaces experienced in distant lands, Alphonso Lingis's . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 63. |  | Title: Culture and power in Banaras: community, performance, and environment, 1800-1980 Author: Freitag, Sandria B Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Asian Studies | South Asia | Asian History | Cultural Anthropology | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: This collection of ten essays on Banaras, one of the largest urban centers in India's eastern Gangetic plain, is united by a common interest in examining everyday activities in order to learn about shared values and motivations, processes of identity formation, and self-conscious constructions of co . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 64. |  | Title: Mass mediations: new approaches to popular culture in the Middle East and beyond Author: Armbrust, Walter Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Media Studies | Music | Cinema and Performance Arts Publisher's Description: Offering a stimulating diversity of perspectives, this collection examines how popular culture through mass media defines the scale and character of social interaction in the Middle East. The contributors approach popular culture broadly, with an interest in how it creates new scales of communicatio . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 65. |  | Title: Khmer American: identity and moral education in a diasporic community Author: Smith-Hefner, Nancy Joan Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | Southeast Asia | American Studies | Education | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: In the early 1980s, tens of thousands of Cambodian refugees fled their war-torn country to take up residence in the United States, where they quickly became one of the most troubled and least studied immigrant groups. This book is the story of that passage, and of the efforts of Khmer Americans to r . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 66. |  | Title: The way the world is: cultural processes and social relations among the Mombasa Swahili Author: Swartz, Marc J Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | African Studies Publisher's Description: Marc Swartz takes us for the first time into the homes and neighborhoods of the Swahili in the East African port of Mombasa. At the same time he develops a new model for the operation and transmission of culture.In asking how cultural elements influence the social behavior of those who do not share . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 67. |  | Title: Claiming the high ground: Sherpas, subsistence, and environmental change in the highest Himalaya Author: Stevens, Stanley F Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Geography | Cultural Anthropology | Tibet Publisher's Description: Stanley Stevens brings a new historical perspective to his remarkably well-researched study of a subsistence society in ever-increasing contact with the outside world. The Khumbu Sherpas, famous for their mountaineering exploits, have frequently been depicted as victims of the world's highest-altitu . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 68. |  | Title: Culture and the senses: bodily ways of knowing in an African community Author: Geurts, Kathryn Linn 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Cultural Anthropology | African Studies | Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: Adding her stimulating and finely framed ethnography to recent work in the anthropology of the senses, Kathryn Geurts investigates the cultural meaning system and resulting sensorium of Anlo-Ewe-speaking people in southeastern Ghana. Geurts discovered that the five-senses model has little relevance . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 69. |  | Title: Understanding Vietnam Author: Jamieson, Neil L Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Anthropology | Politics | Cultural Anthropology | Asian History | Southeast Asia Publisher's Description: The American experience in Vietnam divided us as a nation and eroded our confidence in both the morality and the effectiveness of our foreign policy. Yet our understanding of this tragic episode remains superficial because, then and now, we have never grasped the passionate commitment with which the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 70. |  | Title: Beyond the stream: Islam and society in a West African town Author: Launay, Robert 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | African Studies | Islam Publisher's Description: Robert Launay has been observing the changing religious practices of the Dyula, a Muslim community in West Africa, for more than a decade. In Beyond the Stream , he examines the ways in which this religious and ethnic minority group living on the fringes of the Muslim world maintains its ties to the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 71. |  | Title: Christian souls and Chinese spirits: a Hakka community in Hong Kong Author: Constable, Nicole Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Christianity | China Publisher's Description: How do the people of a village that is both Chinese and Christian reconcile the contradictions between their religious and ethnic identities? This ethnographic study explores the construction and changing meanings of ethnic identity in Hong Kong. Established at the turn of the century by Hakka Chris . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 72. |  | Title: Splendid monarchy: power and pageantry in modern Japan Author: Fujitani, Takashi Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Cultural Anthropology | Asian Studies | Japan Publisher's Description: Using ceremonials such as imperial weddings and funerals as models, T. Fujitani illustrates what visual symbols and rituals reveal about monarchy, nationalism, city planning, discipline, gender, memory, and modernity. Focusing on the Meiji Period (1868-1912), Fujitani brings recent methods of cultur . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 73. |  | Title: Re-imaging Japanese women Author: Imamura, Anne E 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian History | Cultural Anthropology | Women's Studies | Politics | Japan Publisher's Description: Re-Imaging Japanese Women takes a revealing look at women whose voices have only recently begun to be heard in Japanese society: politicians, practitioners of traditional arts, writers, radicals, wives, mothers, bar hostesses, department store and blue-collar workers. This unique collection of essay . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 74. |  | Title: Livelihood and resistance: peasants and the politics of land in Peru Author: Smith, Gavin Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Latin American Studies Similar Items |
| 75. |  | Title: The poetics of military occupation: Mzeina allegories of Bedouin identity under Israeli and Egyptian rule Author: Lavie, Smadar Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Military History | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: The romantic, nineteenth-century image of the Bedouin as fierce, independent nomads on camelback racing across an endless desert persists in the West. Yet since the era of Ottoman rule, the Mzeina Bedouin of the South Sinai desert have lived under foreign occupation. For the last forty years Bedouin . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 76. |  | Title: What makes life worth living?: how Japanese and Americans make sense of their worlds Author: Mathews, Gordon Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | American Studies | Japan Publisher's Description: Here is an original and provocative anthropological approach to the fundamental philosophical question of what makes life worth living. Gordon Mathews considers this perennial issue by examining nine pairs of similarly situated individuals in the United States and Japan. In the course of exploring h . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 77. |  | Title: Silicon second nature: culturing artificial life in a digital world Author: Helmreich, Stefan 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Science | Computer Science | Biology | Technology and Society | Social Theory | Cultural Anthropology | California and the West Publisher's Description: Silicon Second Nature takes us on an expedition into an extraordinary world where nature is made of bits and bytes and life is born from sequences of zeroes and ones. Artificial Life is the brainchild of scientists who view self-replicating computer programs - such as computer viruses - as new forms . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 78. |  | Title: Keeping slug woman alive: a holistic approach to American Indian texts Author: Sarris, Greg Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Native American Studies | Anthropology | Native American Ethnicity | Cultural Anthropology | Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Literature | American Studies Publisher's Description: This remarkable collection of eight essays offers a rare perspective on the issue of cross-cultural communication. Greg Sarris is concerned with American Indian texts, both oral and written, as well as with other American Indian cultural phenomena such as basketry and religion. His essays cover a ra . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 79. |  | Title: Beyond the neon lights: everyday Shanghai in the early twentieth century Author: Lu, Hanchao Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Sociology | China | Asian History | Urban Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals - revolution, war, and again revolution - that shook their lives? Even after decades . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 80. |  | Title: To weave and sing: art, symbol, and narrative in the South American rainforest Author: Guss, David M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Art | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: To Weave and Sing is the first in-depth analysis of the rich spiritual and artistic traditions of the Carib-speaking Yekuana Indians of Venezuela, who live in the dense rain forest of the upper Orinoco. Within their homeland of Ihuruna, the Yekuana have succeeded in maintaining the integrity and uni . . . [more] Similar Items |