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| 1. |  | Title: A history of modern Tibet, 1913-1951: the demise of the Lamaist state Author: Goldstein, Melvyn C Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Asian History | Tibet Publisher's Description: The "Tibetan Question," the nature of Tibet's political status vis-à-vis China, has been the subject of often bitterly competing views while the facts of the issue have not been fully accessible to interested observers. While one faction has argued that Tibet was, in the main, historically independe . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Buddhism in contemporary Tibet: religious revival and cultural identity Author: Goldstein, Melvyn C Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion | Cultural Anthropology | Tibet | Buddhism Publisher's Description: Following the upheavals of the Cultural Revolution, the People's Republic of China gradually permitted the renewal of religious activity. Tibetans, whose traditional religious and cultural institutions had been decimated during the preceding two decades, took advantage of the decisions of 1978 to be . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | 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 |
| 4. |  | Title: The sound of two hands clapping: the education of a Tibetan Buddhist monk Author: Dreyfus, Georges B. J Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion | Buddhism | Tibet | Autobiographies and Biographies | Buddhism Publisher's Description: A unique insider's account of day-to-day life inside a Tibetan monastery, The Sound of Two Hands Clapping reveals to Western audiences the fascinating details of monastic education. Georges B. J. Dreyfus, the first Westerner to complete the famous Ge-luk curriculum and achieve the distinguished titl . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Sensory biographies: lives and deaths among Nepal's Yolmo Buddhists Author: Desjarlais, Robert R Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Buddhism | Aging Publisher's Description: Robert Desjarlais's graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modalities have contributed to the making and the telling of their lives. These two are a woman in her late eighties known as Kisang Omu and a Buddhist priest . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Death is that man taking names: intersections of American medicine, law, and culture Author: Burt, Robert 1939- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Law | Health Care | History of Medicine | Ethics | Religion Publisher's Description: The American culture of death changed radically in the 1970s. For terminal illnesses, hidden decisions by physicians were rejected in favor of rational self-control by patients asserting their "right to die" - initially by refusing medical treatment and more recently by physician-assisted suicide. T . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Twice dead: organ transplants and the reinvention of death Author: Lock, Margaret M Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Ethics | Sociology | Sociology | Ethics | Sociology | Ethnic Studies | Ethnic Studies Publisher'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 |
| 8. |  | Title: What difference does a husband make?: women and marital status in Nazi and postwar Germany Author: Heineman, Elizabeth D 1962- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | German Studies | Women's Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: In October 1946, seven million more women than men lived in occupied Germany. In this study of unwed, divorced, widowed, and married women at work and at home across three political regimes, Elizabeth Heineman traces the transitions from early National Socialism through the war and on to the consoli . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Claiming the high ground: Sherpas, subsistence, and environmental change in the highest Himalaya  Author: Stevens, Stanley F Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Geography | Cultural Anthropology | Tibet Publisher's Description: Stanley Stevens brings a new historical perspective to his remarkably well-researched study of a subsistence society in ever-increasing contact with the outside world. The Khumbu Sherpas, famous for their mountaineering exploits, have frequently been depicted as victims of the world's highest-altitu . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Mesocosm: Hinduism and the organization of a traditional Newar city in Nepal Author: Levy, Robert I. (Robert Isaac) 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Tibet | Hinduism | Asian History Publisher's Description: Mesocosm is a study of Hinduism in its most fully realized form as a symbolic system for organizing the life of a particular kind of city - what the author terms an "archaic" city. The work is a detailed description and analysis of the symbolic world of Bhaktapur, a unicultural city in the Kathmandu . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Death Valley & the Amargosa: a land of illusion Author: Lingenfelter, Richard E Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | California and the West | United States History Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: The rest is silence: death as annihilation in the English Renaissance Author: Watson, Robert N Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: How did the fear of death coexist with the promise of Christian afterlife in the culture and literature of the English Renaissance? Robert Watson exposes a sharp edge of blasphemous protest against mortality that runs through revenge plays such as The Spanish Tragedy and Hamlet , and through plays o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Aging, death, and human longevity: a philosophical inquiry Author: Overall, Christine 1949- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics | Public Policy Publisher's Description: With the help of medicine and technology we are living longer than ever before. As human life spans have increased, the moral and political issues surrounding longevity have become more complex. Should we desire to live as long as possible? What are the social ramifications of longer lives? How does . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: The life of Buddhism Author: Reynolds, Frank 1930- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion | Asian Studies | Buddhism Publisher's Description: Bringing together fifteen essays by outstanding Buddhist scholars from Asia, Europe, and North America, this book offers a distinctive portrayal of the "life of Buddhism." The contributors focus on a number of religious practices across the Buddhist world, from Sri Lanka to New York, Japan to Tibet. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Losing face: status politics in Japan Author: Pharr, Susan J Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Asian Studies | Asian History | Japan | Politics Publisher's Description: How does a "homogeneous" society like Japan treat the problem of social inequality? Losing Face looks beyond conventional structural categories (race, class, ethnicity) to focus on conflicts based on differences in social status. Three rich and revealing case studies explore crucial asymmetries of a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Deep politics and the death of JFK Author: Scott, Peter Dale Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Politics | Popular Culture | United States History | American Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: Peter Dale Scott's meticulously documented investigation uncovers the secrets surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination. Offering a wholly new perspective - that JFK's death was not just an isolated case, but rather a symptom of hidden processes - Scott examines the deep politics of early 1960s Am . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Tokugawa village practice: class, status, power, law Author: Ooms, Herman Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian History | Japan | Law Publisher's Description: In contrast to modern Japanese citizens, during the Tokugawa period (1600-1868) villagers frequently resorted to lawsuits to settle conflicts. Herman Ooms uses colorful, skillfully analyzed case studies to trace the evolution of class and status conflicts through lawsuits and petitions in villages. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Death ritual in late imperial and modern China Author: Watson, James L Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | China | Anthropology | Asian History Publisher's Description: During the late imperial era (1500-1911), China, though divided by ethnic, linguistic, and regional differences at least as great as those prevailing in Europe, enjoyed a remarkable solidarity. What held Chinese society together for so many centuries? Some scholars have pointed to the institutional . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Birds of the Salton Sea: status, biogeography, and ecology Author: Patten, Michael A Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Organismal Biology | Ecology | Ornithology | Animals | California and the West Publisher's Description: The Salton Sea, California's largest inland lake, supports a spectacular bird population that is among the most concentrated and most diverse in the world. Sadly, this crucial stopover along the Pacific Flyway for migratory and wintering shorebirds, landbirds, and waterfowl is dangerously close to c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: The death of authentic primitive art and other tales of progress Author: Errington, Shelly 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Art History | Architectural History | Art Theory Publisher's Description: In this lucid, witty, and forceful book, Shelly Errington argues that Primitive Art was invented as a new type of art object at the beginning of the twentieth century but that now, at the century's end, it has died a double but contradictory death. Authenticity and primitivism, both attacked by cult . . . [more] Similar Items |