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1. | | Title: Disciplined hearts: history, identity, and depression in an American Indian communityAuthor: O'Nell, Theresa DeLeane 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Native American Ethnicity | Native American StudiesPublisher's Description: "This is a good place for your work. Depression is a big problem here. About 70-80% of our people are depressed." When she arrived at the Flathead Reservation in Montana to start an ethnographic study of depression, medical anthropologist Theresa DeLeane O'Nell repeatedly encountered such statements . . . [more]Similar Items | 2. | | Title: Indians in the making: ethnic relations and Indian identities around Puget SoundAuthor: Harmon, Alexandra 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Native American Studies | United States History | Ethnic Studies | California and the WestPublisher's Description: In the Puget Sound region of Washington state, indigenous peoples and their descendants have a long history of interaction with settlers and their descendants. Indians in the Making offers the first comprehensive account of these interactions, from contact with traders of the 1820s to the Indian fis . . . [more]Similar Items | 3. | | Title: Modern drama and the rhetoric of theater Author: Worthen, William B 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Theatre | RhetoricPublisher's Description: The history of drama is typically viewed as a series of inert "styles." Tracing British and American stage drama from the 1880s onward, W. B. Worthen instead sees drama as the interplay of text, stage production, and audience.How are audiences manipulated? What makes drama meaningful? Worthen identi . . . [more]Similar Items | 4. | | Title: Immigration and the political economy of home: West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992 Author: Buff, Rachel 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | American Studies | Native American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: Rachel Buff's innovative study of festivals in two American communities launches a substantive inquiry into the nature of citizenship, race, and social power. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork as well as archival research, Buff compares American Indian powwows in Minneapolis with the West Indian Ame . . . [more]Similar Items | 5. | | Title: Keeping slug woman alive: a holistic approach to American Indian textsAuthor: 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 StudiesPublisher'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 | 6. | | Title: Standing ground: Yurok Indian spirituality, 1850-1990Author: Buckley, Thomas C. T Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Native American EthnicityPublisher's Description: This colorful, richly textured account of spiritual training and practice within an American Indian social network emphasizes narrative over analysis. Thomas Buckley's foregrounding of Yurok narratives creates one major level of dialogue in an innovative ethnography that features dialogue as its cen . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. | | Title: Empire of ecstasy: nudity and movement in German body culture, 1910-1935 Author: Toepfer, Karl Eric 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | German Studies | Gender Studies | DancePublisher's Description: Empire of Ecstasy offers a novel interpretation of the explosion of German body culture between the two wars - nudism and nude dancing, gymnastics and dance training, dance photography and criticism, and diverse genres of performance from solo dancing to mass movement choirs. Karl Toepfer presents t . . . [more]Similar Items | 8. | | Title: American Indian treaties: the history of a political anomalyAuthor: Prucha, Francis Paul Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Native American Studies | LawPublisher's Description: American Indian affairs are much in the public mind today - hotly contested debates over such issues as Indian fishing rights, land claims, and reservation gambling hold our attention. While the unique legal status of American Indians rests on the historical treaty relationship between Indian tribes . . . [more]Similar Items | 9. | | Title: Real Indians: identity and the survival of Native AmericaAuthor: Garroutte, Eva Marie 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | Native American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | History | American StudiesPublisher's Description: At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness. The old, unquestioned confidence with which individuals can be classified (as embodied, for instance, in previous U.S. census categories) has been eroded. In its place are shifting paradigms and . . . [more]Similar Items | 10. | | Title: Cry for luck: sacred song and speech among the Yurok, Hupa, and Karok Indians of northwestern California Author: Keeling, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology | EthnomusicologyPublisher's Description: The "sobbing" vocal quality in many traditional songs of northwestern California Indian tribes inspired the title of Richard Keeling's comprehensive study. Little has been known about the music of aboriginal Californians, and Cry for Luck will be welcomed by those who see the interpretation of music . . . [more]Similar Items | 11. | | Title: Biblical prose prayer: as a window to the popular religion of ancient Israel Author: Greenberg, Moshe Published: University of California Press, 1983 Subjects: ReligionPublisher's Description: The Psalms are the best known and most widely used prayer texts of the Bible. But the prayers of the Israelite took another form: the prose prayers that we find embedded in biblical narrative. Prose prayer was spoken by persons of all ranks. Male and female, Israelite and foreigner, all enjoyed equa . . . [more]Similar Items | 12. | | Title: Senecan drama and stoic cosmology Author: Rosenmeyer, Thomas G Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Classical Philosophy | TheatrePublisher's Description: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Nero's tutor and advisor, wrote philosophical essays, some of them in the form of letters, and dramas on Greek mythological topics, which since the early Renaissance have exercised a powerful influence on the European theater. Because in his essays Seneca, in his own eclectic . . . [more]Similar Items | 13. | | Title: Indian traffic: identities in question in colonial and postcolonial India Author: Roy, Parama Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Postcolonial Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | South Asia | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: The continual, unpredictable, and often violent "traffic" between identities in colonial and postcolonial India is the focus of Parama Roy's stimulating and original book. Mimicry has been commonly recognized as an important colonial model of bourgeois/elite subject formation, and Roy examines its p . . . [more]Similar Items | 14. | | Title: Islands in the city: West Indian migration to New YorkAuthor: Foner, Nancy 1945- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Social ProblemsPublisher'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 | 15. | | Title: Families of the forest: the Matsigenka Indians of the Peruvian AmazonAuthor: Johnson, Allen W Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Ecology | Latin American StudiesPublisher's Description: The idea of a family level society, discussed and disputed by anthropologists for nearly half a century, assumes moving, breathing form in Families of the Forest. According to Allen Johnson's deft ethnography, the Matsigenka people of southeastern Peru cannot be understood or appreciated except as a . . . [more]Similar Items | 16. | | Title: Surviving through the days: translations of Native California stories and songs: a California Indian reader Author: Luthin, Herbert W 1954- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | American Studies | Native American Studies | American LiteraturePublisher's Description: This anthology of treasures from the oral literature of Native California, assembled by an editor admirably sensitive to language, culture, and history, will delight scholars and general readers alike. Herbert Luthin's generous selection of stories, anecdotes, myths, reminiscences, and songs is draw . . . [more]Similar Items | 17. | | Title: At the heart of the Empire: Indians and the colonial encounter in late-Victorian Britain Author: Burton, Antoinette M 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Women's Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | South Asia | Victorian History | Travel | European History | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: Antoinette Burton focuses on the experiences of three Victorian travelers in Britain to illustrate how "Englishness" was made and remade in relation to imperialism. The accounts left by these three sojourners - all prominent, educated Indians - represent complex, critical ethnographies of "native" m . . . [more]Similar Items | 18. | | | 19. | | Title: War of shadows: the struggle for utopia in the Peruvian AmazonAuthor: Brown, Michael F. (Michael Fobes) 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American History | Politics | Latin American StudiesPublisher's Description: War of Shadows is the haunting story of a failed uprising in the Peruvian Amazon - told largely by people who were there. Late in 1965, Asháninka Indians, members of one of the Amazon's largest native tribes, joined forces with Marxist revolutionaries who had opened a guerrilla front in Asháninka te . . . [more]Similar Items | 20. | | Title: Grounds for play: the Nauṭaṅkī theatre of North India Author: Hansen, Kathryn Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | Cultural Anthropology | South AsiaPublisher'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 |
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