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| 41. |  | Title: Echoes from Dharamsala: music in the life of a Tibetan refugee community Author: Diehl, Keila Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music | Ethnomusicology | Tibet | Southeast Asia | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: In Echoes from Dharamsala, Keila Diehl uses music to understand the experiences of Tibetans living in Dharamsala, a town in the Indian Himalayas that for more than forty years has been home to Tibet's government-in-exile. The Dalai Lama's presence lends Dharamsala's Tibetans a feeling of being "in p . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 42. |  | Title: Echoes of the past, epics of dissent: a South Korean social movement Author: Abelmann, Nancy Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | Politics | Sociology | Cultural Anthropology Publisher'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 |
| 43. |  | Title: The elusive embryo: how women and men approach new reproductive technologies Author: Becker, Gaylene Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Sociology | Gender Studies | Medical Anthropology | Medicine | Women's Studies | Science Publisher'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 |
| 44. |  | 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 |
| 45. |  | Title: Familia: migration and adaptation in Baja and Alta California, 1800-1975  Author: Alvarez, Robert R Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Demography | Latin American History | Latin American Studies | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Anthropologists, historians, and sociologists will find here a striking challenge to accepted explanations of the northward movement of migrants from Mexico into the United States. Alvarez investigates the life histories of pioneer migrants and their offspring, finding a human dimension to migration . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 46. |  | Title: The festive state: race, ethnicity, and nationalism as cultural performance Author: Guss, David M Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American Studies | Ethnic Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Sociology | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: If, as David Guss argues, culture is a contested terrain with constantly changing contours, then festivals are its battlegrounds, where people come to fight and dispute in large acts of public display. Festive behavior, long seen by anthropologists and folklorists as the "uniform expression of a col . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 47. |  | 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 |
| 48. |  | 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 |
| 49. |  | Title: Framing the bride: globalizing beauty and romance in Taiwan's bridal industry Author: Adrian, Bonnie 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Asian Studies | Cultural Anthropology | East Asia Other | Gender Studies | Anthropology Publisher's Description: With a wedding impending, the Taiwanese bride-to-be turns to bridal photographers, makeup artists, and hair stylists to transform her image beyond recognition. They give her fairer skin, eyes like a Western baby doll, and gowns inspired by sources from Victorian England to MTV. An absorbing consider . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 50. |  | Title: Framing the sexual subject: the politics of gender, sexuality, and power Author: Parker, Richard G. (Richard Guy) 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Gender Studies | Public Policy | Sociology Publisher'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 |
| 51. |  | Title: Friends, brothers, and informants: fieldwork memoirs of Banaras Author: Kumar, Nita 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | South Asia Publisher's Description: "Why was Banaras such a mystery to me when I arrived in 1981? Was it ironically because I was an Indian and expected to have a privileged insight into it?"In this unusually personal, evocative account of her fieldwork experiences, Kumar tackles the dilemma of how a Western-trained Indian intellectua . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 52. |  | 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 |
| 53. |  | Title: Frontiers and ghettos: state violence in Serbia and Israel Author: Ron, James Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | European Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Christianity | Judaism | Islam | Christianity Publisher's Description: James Ron uses controversial comparisons between Serbia and Israel to present a novel theory of state violence. Formerly a research consultant to Human Rights Watch and the International Red Cross, Ron witnessed remarkably different patterns of state coercion. Frontiers and Ghettos presents an insti . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 54. |  | Title: Getting married in Korea: of gender, morality, and modernity Author: Kendall, Laurel Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | East Asia Other | Women's Studies | Men and Masculinity Similar Items |
| 55. |  | Title: Gimme some truth: the John Lennon FBI files Author: Wiener, Jon Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: American Studies | Politics | Sociology | Social Problems | Music | Social Theory | Cultural Anthropology | Law Publisher's Description: When FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover reported to the Nixon White House in 1972 about the Bureau's surveillance of John Lennon, he began by explaining that Lennon was a "former member of the Beatles singing group." When a copy of this letter arrived in response to Jon Wiener's 1981 Freedom of Informatio . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 56. |  | Title: Greek athletics and the genesis of sport Author: Sansone, David Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Classics | Sports | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: How is sport in contemporary society related to sport in earlier civilizations? Why is the expenditure of energy involved in sport considered exhilarating, while the equivalent expenditure of energy in other contexts can be dispiriting? David Sansone offers answers to these questions and advances a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 57. |  | Title: Grounds for play: the Nauṭaṅkī theatre of North India Author: Hansen, Kathryn Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | Cultural Anthropology | South Asia Publisher's Description: The nautanki performances of northern India entertain their audiences with often ribald and profane stories. Rooted in the peasant society of pre-modern India, this theater vibrates with lively dancing, pulsating drumbeats, and full-throated singing. In Grounds for Play , Kathryn Hansen draws on fie . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 58. |  | Title: Gypsy law: Romani legal traditions and culture Author: Weyrauch, Walter O. (Walter Otto) 1919- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Law | Cultural Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Sociology | European Studies | Political Theory Publisher's Description: Approximately one thousand years ago Gypsies, or Roma, left their native India. Today Gypsies can be found in countries throughout the world, their distinct culture still intact in spite of the intense persecution they have endured. This authoritative collection brings together leading Gypsy and non . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 59. |  | Title: Haiti, history, and the gods Author: Dayan, Joan 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature | History | Folklore and Mythology | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: In Haiti, History, and the Gods Joan Dayan charts the cultural imagination of Haiti not only by reconstructing the island's history but by highlighting ambiguities and complexities that have been ignored. She investigates the confrontational space in which Haiti is created and recreated in fiction a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 60. |  | Title: Healing sounds from the Malaysian rainforest: Temiar music and medicine Author: Roseman, Marina 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | East Asia Other | Ethnomusicology | Asian Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Medicine | Musicology Publisher'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 |