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| 61. |  | Title: Hidden heritage: the legacy of the Crypto-Jews Author: Jacobs, Janet Liebman Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Religion | Latin American Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Jewish Studies | Sociology | Judaism Publisher's Description: This study of contemporary crypto-Jews - descendants of European Jews forced to convert to Christianity during the Spanish Inquisition - traces the group's history of clandestinely conducting their faith and their present-day efforts to reclaim their past. Janet Liebman Jacobs masterfully combines h . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 62. |  | Title: Home bound: Filipino lives across cultures, communities, and countries Author: Espiritu, Yen Le 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | American Studies | Sociology | Cultural Anthropology | Asian American Studies | Gender Studies | United States History | Postcolonial Studies | Immigration Publisher's Description: Filipino Americans, who experience life in the United States as immigrants, colonized nationals, and racial minorities, have been little studied, though they are one of our largest immigrant groups. Based on her in-depth interviews with more than one hundred Filipinos in San Diego, California, Yen L . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 63. |  | Title: Horace and the gift economy of patronage  Author: Bowditch, Phebe Lowell 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Poetry | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This innovative study explores selected odes and epistles by the late-first-century poet Horace in light of modern anthropological and literary theory. Phebe Lowell Bowditch looks in particular at how the relationship between Horace and his patron Maecenas is reflected in these poems' themes and rhe . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 64. |  | Title: Houses in the rain forest: ethnicity and inequality among farmers and foragers in Central Africa Author: Grinker, Roy Richard 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This is the first ethnographic study of the farmers and foragers of northeastern Zaire since Colin Turnbull's classic works of the 1960s. Roy Richard Grinker lived for nearly two years among the Lese farmers and their long-term partners, the Efe (Pygmies), learned their languages, and gained unique . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 65. |  | Title: Images and empires: visuality in colonial and postcolonial Africa Author: Landau, Paul Stuart 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Art History | Cultural Anthropology | History Publisher'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 |
| 66. |  | Title: In the midst of life: affect and ideation in the world of the Tolai Author: Epstein, A. L. (Arnold Leonard) Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher'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 |
| 67. |  | Title: Infertility around the globe: new thinking on childlessness, gender, and reproductive technologies Author: 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 | Sociology Publisher'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 |
| 68. |  | Title: Islands in the city: West Indian migration to New York Author: Foner, Nancy 1945- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Social Problems Publisher's Description: This collection of original essays draws on a variety of theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and empirical data to explore the effects of West Indian migration and to develop analytic frameworks to examine it. Similar Items |
| 69. |  | Title: Japanese workers in protest: an ethnography of consciousness and experience Author: Turner, Christena L 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Japan | Sociology Publisher's Description: This first ethnographic study of factory workers engaged in radical labor protest gives a voice to a segment of the Japanese population that has been previously marginalized. These blue-collar workers, involved in prolonged labor disputes, tell their own story as they struggle to make sense of their . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 70. |  | Title: Jazz, rock, and rebels: cold war politics and American culture in a divided Germany Author: Poiger, Uta G 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: German Studies | Cultural Anthropology | European History | United States History | American Music | Jazz | Gender Studies | American Studies Publisher's Description: In the two decades after World War II, Germans on both sides of the iron curtain fought vehemently over American cultural imports. Uta G. Poiger traces how westerns, jeans, jazz, rock 'n' roll, and stars like Marlon Brando or Elvis Presley reached adolescents in both Germanies, who eagerly adopted t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 71. |  | 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 |
| 72. |  | 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 |
| 73. |  | Title: Language and colonial power: the appropriation of Swahili in the former Belgian Congo, 1880-1938 Author: Fabian, Johannes Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Postcolonial Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Language and Linguistics | African History | African Studies Similar Items |
| 74. |  | Title: Language contact, creolization, and genetic linguistics Author: Thomason, Sarah Grey Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Language and Linguistics | Linguistic Theory | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Ten years of research back up the bold new theory advanced by authors Thomason and Kaufman, who rescue the study of contact-induced language change from the neglect it has suffered in recent decades. The authors establish an important new framework for the historical analysis of all degrees of conta . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 75. |  | Title: Learning to go to school in Japan: the transition from home to preschool life Author: Peak, Lois Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Japan | Education Publisher's Description: Japanese two-year-olds are indulged, dependent, and undisciplined toddlers, but by the age of six they have become obedient, self-reliant, and cooperative students. When Lois Peak traveled to Japan in search of the "magical childrearing technique" behind this transformation, she discovered that the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 76. |  | Title: The life of a text: performing the Rāmcaritmānas of Tulsidas Author: Lutgendorf, Philip Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion | Hinduism | South Asia | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: The Life of a Text offers a vivid portrait of one community's interaction with its favorite text - the epic Ramcaritmanas - and the way in which performances of the epic function as a flexible and evolving medium for cultural expression. Anthropologists, historians of religion, and readers intereste . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 77. |  | Title: Listen to the heron's words: reimagining gender and kinship in North India Author: Raheja, Gloria Goodwin 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Women's Studies | South Asia Publisher's Description: In many South Asian oral traditions, herons are viewed as duplicitous and conniving. These traditions tend also to view women as fragmented identities, dangerously split between virtue and virtuosity, between loyalties to their own families and those of their husbands. In women's songs, however, sym . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 78. |  | 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 |
| 79. |  | Title: Loss: the politics of mourning Author: Eng, David L 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature | American Studies | History | Philosophy | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Immigration Publisher's Description: Taking stock of a century of pervasive loss - of warfare, disease, and political strife - this eloquent book opens a new view on both the past and the future by considering "what is lost" in terms of "what remains." Such a perspective, these essays suggest, engages and reanimates history. Plumbing t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 80. |  | Title: Luminous debris: reflecting on vestige in Provence and Languedoc Author: Sobin, Gustaf Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Literature | Cultural Anthropology | European Studies | Ancient History | Philosophy | French Studies Publisher's Description: Interpreting vestige with the eloquence of a poet and the knowledge of a field archaeologist, Gustaf Sobin explores his elected terrain: the landscapes of Provence and Languedoc. Drawing on prehistory, protohistory, and Gallo-Roman antiquity, the twenty-six essays in this book focus on a particular . . . [more] Similar Items |