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| 1. |  | Title: An empire on display: English, Indian, and Australian exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War Author: Hoffenberg, Peter H 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | European History | Victorian History | Asian History | South Asia | Pacific Rim Studies | European Studies Publisher's Description: The grand exhibitions of the Victorian and Edwardian eras are the lens through which Peter Hoffenberg examines the economic, cultural, and social forces that helped define Britain and the British Empire. He focuses on major exhibitions in England, Australia, and India between the Great Exhibition of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Frontiers of historical imagination: narrating the European conquest of native America, 1890-1990 Author: Klein, Kerwin Lee 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | California and the West | American Studies | Anthropology | United States History | Intellectual History | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: The American frontier, a potent symbol since Europeans first stepped ashore on North America, serves as the touchstone for Kerwin Klein's analysis of the narrating of history. Klein explores the traditions through which historians, philosophers, anthropologists, and literary critics have understood . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Disciplined hearts: history, identity, and depression in an American Indian community Author: O'Nell, Theresa DeLeane 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Native American Ethnicity | Native American Studies Publisher'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 |
| 4. |  | Title: The ones that are wanted: communication and the politics of representation in a photographic exhibition Author: Kratz, Corinne Ann 1953- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | African Studies | Photography | Art Theory Publisher's Description: The Okiek people of Kenya's forested highlands have a long history of hunting, honey gathering, and trading with their Maasai and Kipsigis neighbors; several decades ago, they also began farming and herding. This book follows a traveling exhibition of anthropologist Corinne Kratz's photographs of th . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Indians in the making: ethnic relations and Indian identities around Puget Sound Author: Harmon, Alexandra 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Native American Studies | United States History | Ethnic Studies | California and the West Publisher'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 |
| 6. |  | Title: Family and frontier in colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaíba, 1580-1822  Author: Metcalf, Alida C 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Latin American History | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Colonial families in the Brazilian town of Santana de Parnaíba lived on the fringe of settlement in a vast and perilous continent. In her revealing community history, Metcalf tells how these settlers pursued family strategies that adapted European custom to the American environment. Turning to recor . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | 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 History Publisher'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 |
| 8. |  | Title: Standing ground: Yurok Indian spirituality, 1850-1990 Author: Buckley, Thomas C. T Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Native American Ethnicity Publisher'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 |
| 9. |  | 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 |
| 10. |  | Title: Frontiers of supercomputing II: a national reassessment Author: Ames, Karyn R Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science | Computer Science | Physics Publisher's Description: This uniquely comprehensive book brings together the vast amount of technical, economic, and political information and the analyses of supercomputing that have hitherto been buried in the frequently inaccessible "gray literature." Seventy-nine distinguished participants in the second Frontiers of Su . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: American Indian treaties: the history of a political anomaly Author: Prucha, Francis Paul Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Native American Studies | Law Publisher'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 |
| 12. |  | Title: Real Indians: identity and the survival of Native America Author: Garroutte, Eva Marie 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | Native American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | History | American Studies Publisher'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 |
| 13. |  | Title: The unending frontier: an environmental history of the early modern world Author: Richards, J. F Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Asian History | European History | United States History | Environmental Studies | Asian Studies | African Studies Publisher's Description: It was the age of exploration, the age of empire and conquest, and human beings were extending their reach - and their numbers - as never before. In the process, they were intervening in the world's natural environment in equally unprecedented and dramatic ways. A sweeping work of environmental hist . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Ceremonial costumes of the Pueblo Indians: their evolution, fabrication, and significance in the prayer drama Author: Roediger, Virginia More Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Dance | Art Publisher's Description: When the University of California Press first published Roediger's Ceremonial Costumes of the Pueblo Indians in 1941, it was immediately hailed as both a beautiful book and the most comprehensive description ever of the making and meaning of the Pueblo costumes of New Mexico and Arizona. It has been . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | 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 Studies Publisher'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 |
| 16. |  | 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 |
| 17. |  | Title: Colored White: transcending the racial past Author: Roediger, David R Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | African American Studies | United States History | Immigration Publisher's Description: David R. Roediger's powerful book argues that in its political workings, its distribution of advantages, and its unspoken assumptions, the United States is a "still white" nation. Race is decidedly not over. The critical portraits of contemporary icons that lead off the book--Rush Limbaugh, Bill Cli . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | 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 | Ethnomusicology Publisher'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 |
| 19. |  | 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 History Publisher'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 |
| 20. |  | Title: The white scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and poor whites in Texas cotton culture Author: Foley, Neil Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Ethnic Studies | American Studies Publisher's Description: In a book that fundamentally challenges our understanding of race in the United States, Neil Foley unravels the complex history of ethnicity in the cotton culture of central Texas. This engrossing narrative, spanning the period from the Civil War through the collapse of tenant farming in the early 1 . . . [more] Similar Items |