UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Random violence: how we talk about new crimes and new victims Author: Best, Joel Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Sociology \| Social Problems \| Law \| Criminology Publisher's Description: Random Violence is a deft and thought-provoking exploration of the ways we talk about - and why we worry about - new crimes and new forms of victimization. Focusing on so-called random crimes such as freeway shootings, gang violence, hate crimes, stalking, and wilding, Joel Best shows how new crime . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Showing signs of violence: the cultural politics of a twentieth-century headhunting ritual Author: George, Kenneth M 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Southeast Asia Publisher's Description: Showing Signs of Violence deals with the ceremonies of pangngae, a mock headhunt that lingers stubbornly at the center of political life in a marginal upland community in Sulawesi, Indonesia. No killing takes place in this ritual - no actual heads are taken - but its rhetoric of violence is unmistak . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Leveling crowds: ethnonationalist conflicts and collective violence in South Asia Author: Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology \| South Asia \| Politics \| Asian History \| Religion Publisher's Description: Ethno-nationalist conflicts are rampant today, causing immense human loss. Stanley J. Tambiah is concerned with the nature of the ethno-nationalist explosions that have disfigured so many regions of the world in recent years. He focuses primarily on collective violence in the form of civilian "riots . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Laughter out of place: race, class, violence, and sexuality in a Rio shantytown Author: Goldstein, Donna M Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology \| Ethnic Studies \| Gender Studies \| Latin American Studies \| Sociology \| Urban Studies \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Donna M. Goldstein challenges much of what we think we know about the "culture of poverty." Drawing on more than a decade of experience in Brazil, Goldstein provides an intimate portrait of everyday life among the women of the favelas, or urban shantytowns. These women have created absurdist and bla . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: After the lovedeath: sexual violence and the making of culture Author: Kramer, Lawrence 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Literature \| Music Publisher's Description: This elegantly written book is a bold attempt to reinterpret the nature of sexual violence and to imagine the possibility of overcoming it. Lawrence Kramer traces today's sexual identities to their nineteenth-century sources, drawing on the music, literature, and thought of the period to show how no . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	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
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Violence workers: police torturers and murderers reconstruct Brazilian atrocities Author: Huggins, Martha Knisely 1944- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology \| Latin American Studies \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Of the twenty-three Brazilian policemen interviewed in depth for this landmark study, fourteen were direct perpetrators of torture and murder during the three decades that included the 1964-1985 military regime. These "violence workers" and the other group of "atrocity facilitators" who had not, or . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: The age of wild ghosts: memory, violence, and place in Southwest China Author: Mueggler, Erik 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Asian Studies \| China \| Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: In Erik Mueggler's powerful and imaginative ethnography, a rural minority community in the mountains of Southwest China struggles to find its place at the end of a century of violence and at the margins of a nation-state. Here, people describe the present age, beginning with the Great Leap Famine of . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: The culture of sectarianism: community, history, and violence in nineteenth-century Ottoman Lebanon Author: Makdisi, Ussama Samir 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Postcolonial Studies \| Islam \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Focusing on Ottoman Lebanon, Ussama Makdisi shows how sectarianism was a manifestation of modernity that transcended the physical boundaries of a particular country. His study challenges those who have viewed sectarian violence as an Islamic response to westernization or simply as a product of socia . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Shadows of war: violence, power, and international profiteering in the twenty-first century Author: Nordstrom, Carolyn 1953- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology \| African Studies \| Economics and Business \| Global Studies \| Politics Publisher's Description: In this provocative and compelling examination of the deep politics of war, Carolyn Nordstrom takes us from the immediacy of war-zone survival, through the offices of power brokers, to vast extra-legal networks that fuel war and international profiteering. She captures the human face of the front li . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	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
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: A finger in the wound: body politics in quincentennial Guatemala Author: Nelson, Diane M 1963- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology \| Latin American Studies \| Latin American History Publisher's Description: Many Guatemalans speak of Mayan indigenous organizing as "a finger in the wound." Diane Nelson explores the implications of this painfully graphic metaphor in her far-reaching study of the civil war and its aftermath. Why use a body metaphor? What body is wounded, and how does it react to apparent f . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Paradise in ashes: a Guatemalan journey of courage, terror, and hope Author: Manz, Beatriz 1944- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology \| Latin American Studies \| Politics \| Ethnic Studies \| Sociology \| American Studies \| Latin American History Publisher's Description: Paradise in Ashes is a deeply engaged and moving account of the violence and repression that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s. In this compelling book, Beatriz Manz - an anthropologist who spent over two decades studying the Mayan highlands and remote rain forests of Guatemala . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	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
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Out of our minds: reason and madness in the exploration of Central Africa: the Ad. E. Jensen lectures at the Frobenius Institut, University of Frankfurt Author: Fabian, Johannes Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology \| African History \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Explorers and ethnographers in Africa during the period of colonial expansion are usually assumed to have been guided by rational aims such as the desire for scientific knowledge, fame, or financial gain. This book, the culmination of many years of research on nineteenth-century exploration in Centr . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Steps under water: a novel Author: Kozameh, Alicia Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature \| Latin American Studies \| Gender Studies \| Literature in Translation \| Fiction Publisher's Description: Steps Under Water is a novel drawn from Alicia Kozameh's experiences as a political prisoner in Argentina during the "Dirty War" of the 1970s. Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: National ideology under socialism: identity and cultural politics in Ceauşescu's Romania Author: Verdery, Katherine Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology \| Politics \| Cultural Anthropology \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The current transformation of many Eastern European societies is impossible to understand without comprehending the intellectual struggles surrounding nationalism in the region. Anthropologist Katherine Verdery shows how the example of Romania suggests that current ethnic tensions come not from a re . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Under the medical gaze: facts and fictions of chronic pain Author: Greenhalgh, Susan Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology \| Folklore and Mythology \| Medical Anthropology \| Physical Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Medicine \| Gender Studies \| Sociology \| Social Problems \| Social Problems Publisher's Description: This compelling account of the author's experience with a chronic pain disorder and subsequent interaction with the American health care system goes to the heart of the workings of power and culture in the biomedical domain. It is a medical whodunit full of mysterious misdiagnosis, subtle power play . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Purified by fire: a history of cremation in America Author: Prothero, Stephen R Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion \| American Studies \| United States History \| Environmental Studies Publisher's Description: Just one hundred years ago, Americans almost universally condemned cremation. Today, nearly one-quarter of Americans choose to be cremated. The practice has gained wide acceptance as a funeral rite, in both our private and public lives, as the cremations of icons such as John Lennon and John F. Kenn . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Holland under Habsburg rule, 1506-1566: the formation of a body politic Author: Tracy, James D Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History \| Politics \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Under what conditions were limited forms of self-government possible in medieval and early modern Europe? While many historians have sought an answer by focusing on the development of parliamentary institutions in emerging national monarchies, or investigating the wider autonomy enjoyed by various c . . . [more] Similar Items