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61. | | | 62. | | Title: Draw the lightning down: Benjamin Franklin and electrical technology in the Age of EnlightenmentAuthor: Schiffer, Michael B Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Urban Studies | History of Science | Anthropology | American Studies | European HistoryPublisher's Description: Most of us know - at least we've heard - that Benjamin Franklin conducted some kind of electrical experiment with a kite. What few of us realize - and what this book makes powerfully clear - is that Franklin played a major role in laying the foundations of modern electrical science and technology. T . . . [more]Similar Items | 63. | | Title: The early Upper Paleolithic beyond Western EuropeAuthor: Brantingham, P. Jeffrey 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology | Archaeology | European History | European History | Middle Eastern HistoryPublisher's Description: This volume brings together prominent archaeologists working in areas outside Western Europe to discuss the most recent evidence for the origins of the early Upper Paleolithic and its relationship to the origin of modern humans. With a wealth of primary data from archaeological sites and regions tha . . . [more]Similar Items | 64. | | Title: Earthly bodies, magical selves: contemporary pagans and the search for communityAuthor: Pike, Sarah M 1959- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | AnthropologyPublisher'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 | 65. | | Title: Earth's insights: a survey of ecological ethics from the Mediterranean basin to the Australian outbackAuthor: Callicott, J. Baird Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Philosophy | Anthropology | Ethics | EcologyPublisher's Description: The environmental crisis is global in scope, yet contemporary environmental ethics is centered predominantly in Western philosophy and religion. Earth's Insights widens the scope of environmental ethics to include the ecological teachings embedded in non-Western worldviews. J. Baird Callicott ranges . . . [more]Similar Items | 66. | | Title: Echoes of the past, epics of dissent: a South Korean social movementAuthor: Abelmann, Nancy Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | Politics | Sociology | Cultural AnthropologyPublisher's Description: Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent , the story of a South Korean social movement, offers a window to a decade of tumultuous social protest in a postcolonial, divided nation. Abelmann brings a dramatic chapter of modern Korean history to life - a period in which farmers, student activists, and orga . . . [more]Similar Items | 67. | | 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 | 68. | | Title: The emancipation of writing: German civil society in the making, 1790s-1820sAuthor: McNeely, Ian F 1971- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | European Studies | German Studies | European History | Sociology | Political Theory | AnthropologyPublisher's Description: The Emancipation of Writing is the first study of writing in its connection to bureaucracy, citizenship, and the state in Germany. Stitching together micro- and macro-level analysis, it reconstructs the vibrant, textually saturated civic culture of the German southwest in the aftermath of the French . . . [more]Similar Items | 69. | | Title: Emptying beds: the work of an emergency psychiatric unitAuthor: Rhodes, Lorna A. (Lorna Amarasingham) Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Psychiatry | Social Problems | MedicinePublisher's Description: The work of inner-city emergency psychiatric units might best be described as "medicine under siege." Emptying Beds is the result of the author's two-year immersion in one such unit and its work. It is an account of the strategies developed by a staff of psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, and ot . . . [more]Similar Items | 70. | | Title: Encounters with aging: mythologies of menopause in Japan and North AmericaAuthor: Lock, Margaret M Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Women's Studies | JapanPublisher's Description: Margaret Lock explicitly compares Japanese and North American medical and political accounts of female middle age to challenge Western assumptions about menopause. She uses ethnography, interviews, statistics, historical and popular culture materials, and medical publications to produce a richly det . . . [more]Similar Items | 71. | | Title: Engaged surrender: African American women and IslamAuthor: Rouse, Carolyn Moxley 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology | American Studies | Religion | African American Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: Commonly portrayed in the media as holding women in strict subordination and deference to men, Islam is nonetheless attracting numerous converts among African American women. Are these women "reproducing their oppression," as it might seem? Or does their adherence to the religion suggest unsuspected . . . [more]Similar Items | 72. | | Title: Envisioning power: ideologies of dominance and crisisAuthor: Wolf, Eric R 1923- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Social Theory | Social and Political Thought | Political Theory | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: With the originality and energy that have marked his earlier works, Eric Wolf now explores the historical relationship of ideas, power, and culture. Responding to anthropology's long reliance on a concept of culture that takes little account of power, Wolf argues that power is crucial in shaping the . . . [more]Similar Items | 73. | | Title: Essential subtleties on the silver sea: the Yin-hai jing-wei: a Chinese classic on ophthalmologyAuthor: Sun, Simiao 581-682 Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | China | History and Philosophy of SciencePublisher's Description: Here is the first translation into English of the complete Yin-Hai Jing-Wei , a classic fifteenth-century text on Chinese ophthalmology. As one of the few original manuscripts on traditional Chinese medicine translated into a Western language, this work offers an unprecedented view of the practice o . . . [more]Similar Items | 74. | | Title: Ethnocriticism: ethnography, history, literature Author: Krupat, Arnold Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | Anthropology | American Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Native American StudiesPublisher's Description: Ethnocriticism moves cultural critique to the boundaries that exist between cultures. The boundary traversed in Krupat's dexterous new book is the contested line between native and mainstream American literatures and cultures.For over a century the discourses of ethnography, history, and literature . . . [more]Similar Items | 75. | | | 76. | | Title: The Ethnography of readingAuthor: Boyarin, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology | LiteraturePublisher'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 | 77. | | Title: Even in Sweden: racisms, racialized spaces, and the popular geographical imaginationAuthor: Pred, Allan Richard 1936- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Geography | Ecology | Consumerism | Urban Studies | AnthropologyPublisher'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 | 78. | | Title: Evolution's rainbow: diversity, gender, and sexuality in nature and peopleAuthor: Roughgarden, Joan Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Gender Studies | EcologyEvolutionEnvironment | Anthropology | Evolution | Health Care | Social Problems | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | Social ProblemsPublisher's Description: In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, Joan Roughgarden challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. A distinguished evolutionary biologist, Roughgarden takes on the medical establishment, the Bible, social scie . . . [more]Similar Items | 79. | | Title: Exits from the labyrinth: culture and ideology in the Mexican national spaceAuthor: Lomnitz Adler, Claudio Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American HistoryPublisher's Description: Can we address the issue of nationalism without polemics and restore it to the domain of social science? Claudio Lomnitz-Adler takes a major step in that direction by applying anthropological tools to the study of national culture. His sweeping and innovative interpretation of Mexican national ideol . . . [more]Similar Items | 80. | | Title: Expectations of modernity: myths and meanings of urban life on the Zambian CopperbeltAuthor: Ferguson, James 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Cultural Anthropology | African History | Postcolonial Studies | Social ProblemsPublisher'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 |
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