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261. | | Title: This land is our land: immigrants and power in MiamiAuthor: Stepick, Alex Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Politics | Sociology | Urban Studies | ImmigrationPublisher'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 | 262. | | Title: To weave and sing: art, symbol, and narrative in the South American rainforestAuthor: Guss, David M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Art | Latin American StudiesPublisher'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 | 263. | | 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 | 264. | | Title: Tracing the veins: of copper, culture, and community from Butte to ChuquicamataAuthor: Finn, Janet L 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | American Studies | California and the West | Economics and Business | Environmental Studies | Latino StudiesPublisher's Description: This tale of two cities - Butte, Montana, and Chuquicamata, Chile - traces the relationship of capitalism and community across cultural, national, and geographic boundaries. Combining social history with ethnography, Janet Finn shows how the development of copper mining set in motion parallel proces . . . [more]Similar Items | 265. | | Title: Transpacific displacement: ethnography, translation, and intertextual travel in twentieth-century American literatureAuthor: Huang, Yunte Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature | Asian Literature | Comparative Literature | Poetry | Anthropology | Asian Studies | ChinaPublisher's Description: Yunte Huang takes a most original "ethnographic" approach to more and less well-known American texts as he traces what he calls the transpacific displacement of cultural meanings through twentieth-century America's imaging of Asia. Informed by the politics of linguistic appropriation and disappropri . . . [more]Similar Items | 266. | | Title: Tribes of India: the struggle for survival Author: Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von 1909- Published: University of California Press, 1982 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian StudiesSimilar Items | 267. | | Title: Tropical forests and the human spirit: journeys to the brink of hopeAuthor: Stone, Roger D Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: EcologyEvolutionEnvironment | Ecology | Conservation | AnthropologyPublisher's Description: Tropical forests are vanishing at an alarming rate. This book, based on extensive international field research, highlights one solution for preserving this precious resource: empowering local people who depend on the forest for survival. Synthesizing a vast amount of information that has never been . . . [more]Similar Items | 268. | | Title: The trouble with nature: sex in science and popular cultureAuthor: Lancaster, Roger N Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Gender Studies | Popular Culture | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | Science | SociologyPublisher's Description: Roger N. Lancaster provides the definitive rebuttal of evolutionary just-so stories about men, women, and the nature of desire in this spirited exposé of the heterosexual fables that pervade popular culture, from prime-time sitcoms to scientific theories about the so-called gay gene. Lancaster links . . . [more]Similar Items | 269. | | Title: Twice dead: organ transplants and the reinvention of deathAuthor: Lock, Margaret M Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Ethics | Sociology | Sociology | Ethics | Sociology | Ethnic Studies | Ethnic StudiesPublisher'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 | 270. | | Title: Under the medical gaze: facts and fictions of chronic painAuthor: Greenhalgh, Susan Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Medical Anthropology | Physical Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Medicine | Gender Studies | Sociology | Social Problems | Social ProblemsPublisher's Description: This compelling account of the author's experience with a chronic pain disorder and subsequent interaction with the American health care system goes to the heart of the workings of power and culture in the biomedical domain. It is a medical whodunit full of mysterious misdiagnosis, subtle power play . . . [more]Similar Items | 271. | | Title: Understanding VietnamAuthor: Jamieson, Neil L Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Anthropology | Politics | Cultural Anthropology | Asian History | Southeast AsiaPublisher'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 | 272. | | Title: Unequal childhoods: class, race, and family lifeAuthor: Lareau, Annette Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Ethnic Studies | Anthropology | EducationPublisher's Description: Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth observations of black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families, Unequal Childhoods explores this fact, offering a picture of childhood today. Here are the frenetic families managing their . . . [more]Similar Items | 273. | | Title: Unpacking culture: art and commodity in colonial and postcolonial worldsAuthor: Phillips, Ruth B. (Ruth Bliss) 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Social Science | Art History | Postcolonial StudiesPublisher's Description: Tourist art production is a global phenomenon and is increasingly recognized as an important and authentic expression of indigenous visual traditions. These thoughtful, engaging essays provide a comparative perspective on the history, character, and impact of tourist art in colonized societies in th . . . [more]Similar Items | 274. | | Title: Venus on wheels: two decades of dialogue on disability, biography, and being female in AmericaAuthor: Frank, Gelya 1948- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | Gender Studies | SociologyPublisher'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 | 275. | | Title: Violence workers: police torturers and murderers reconstruct Brazilian atrocitiesAuthor: Huggins, Martha Knisely 1944- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American Studies | SociologyPublisher'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 | 276. | | Title: Visionaries: the Spanish Republic and the reign of Christ Author: Christian, William A 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion | Christianity | Popular Culture | AnthropologyPublisher's Description: In June 1931, on a hillside in the Spanish Basque country, two children reported seeing the Virgin Mary. Within weeks, hundreds of seers were attracting tens of thousands of onlookers, and the nightly spectacle gave rise to others in dozens of towns across Spain. Visionaries explores the experience . . . [more]Similar Items | 277. | | Title: Visions of charity: volunteer workers and moral communityAuthor: Allahyari, Rebecca Anne 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Religion | Ethics | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: In the United States, public talk about charity for the poor is highly moralistic, even in our era of welfare reform. But how do we understand the actual experience of caring for the poor? This study looks at the front lines of volunteer involvement with the poor and homeless to assess what voluntee . . . [more]Similar Items | 278. | | Title: Voyage of rediscovery: a cultural odyssey through PolynesiaAuthor: Finney, Ben R Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | United States History | East Asia Other | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: In the summer of 1985, a mostly Hawaiian crew set out aboard Hokule'a, a reconstructed ancient double canoe, to demonstrate what skeptics had steadfastly denied: that their ancestors, sailing in such canoes and navigating solely by reading stars, ocean swells, and other natural signs, could intentio . . . [more]Similar Items | 279. | | Title: Wage, trade, and exchange in Melanesia: a Manus society in the modern state Author: Carrier, James G Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: AnthropologyPublisher's Description: Ponam Island, a small community in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea, is the subject of this innovative study. The authors extend the criticism within anthropology of ethnographies that attempt to analyze village communities without reference to the nations of which they are a part, and that equate t . . . [more]Similar Items | 280. | | |
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