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


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1.	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
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Myth, meaning, and memory on Roman sarcophagi Author: Koortbojian, Michael Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Classics \| Art \| Art History \| Art and Architecture Publisher's Description: Michael Koortbojian brings a novel approach to his study of the role of Greek mythology in Roman funerary art. He looks at two myths - Aphrodite and Adonis and Selene and Endymion - not only with respect to their appearance on Roman sarcophagi, but also with regard to the myths' significance in the . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Tangled memories: the Vietnam War, the AIDS epidemic, and the politics of remembering Author: Sturken, Marita 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: American Studies \| Sociology \| Art \| Media Studies \| Popular Culture Publisher's Description: Analyzing the ways U.S. culture has been formed and transformed in the 80s and 90s by its response to the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic, Marita Sturken argues that each has disrupted our conventional notions of community, nation, consensus, and "American culture." She examines the relationship o . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: In/different spaces: place and memory in visual culture Author: Burgin, Victor Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art \| Art Criticism \| Social Science Publisher's Description: Recent discussions about the culture of images have focused on issues of identity - sexual, racial, national - and the boundaries that define subjectivity. In this context Victor Burgin adopts an original critical strategy. He understands images less in traditional terms of the specific institutions . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Jewish memories Author: Valensi, Lucette Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Collective memory: a living, breathing gift from the past, less fragmentary than the recollections of any one individual, more personal by far than "history." The authors of Jewish Memories saw in the large numbers of Jews who migrated to France during the twentieth century the chance to retrieve a . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: From monuments to traces: artifacts of German memory, 1870-1990 Author: Koshar, Rudy Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: German Studies \| History \| Architectural History \| European History Publisher's Description: Rudy Koshar constructs a powerful framework in which to examine the subject of German collective memory, which for more than a half century has been shaped by the experience of Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust. Finding the assumptions of many writers and scholars shortsighted, Koshar surveys . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: The mind's past Author: Gazzaniga, Michael S Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Science \| Psychology \| Cognitive Science \| Neuroscience Publisher's Description: Why does the human brain insist on interpreting the world and constructing a narrative? In this ground-breaking work, Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the world's foremost cognitive neuroscientists, shows how our mind and brain accomplish the amazing feat of constructing our past - a process clearly fra . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: The country of memory: remaking the past in late socialist Vietnam Author: Tai, Hue-Tam Ho 1948- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History \| Southeast Asia \| Film \| Gender Studies \| Postcolonial Studies \| Popular Culture \| Asian History Publisher's Description: The American experience in the Vietnam War has been the subject of a vast body of scholarly work, yet surprisingly little has been written about how the war is remembered by Vietnamese themselves. The Country of Memory fills this gap in the literature by addressing the subject of history, memory, an . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Memory for forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 Author: Darwīsh, Maḥmūd Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature \| Literature in Translation \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Rhetoric Publisher's Description: One of the Arab world's greatest living poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As fighter jets scream overhead, he explores the . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Between memory and desire: the Middle East in a troubled age Author: Humphreys, R. Stephen Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies \| Politics \| Islam \| Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Middle Easterners today are caught between memories of the past and frustrated hopes for the future. They struggle to find solutions to crises of economic stagnation, political gridlock, and cultural identity. In recent decades Islam has become central to this struggle, and almost every issue involv . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Carried to the wall: American memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Author: Hass, Kristin Ann 1965- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: American Studies \| United States History \| Sociology Publisher's Description: On May 9, 1990, a bottle of Jack Daniels, a ring with letter, a Purple Heart and Bronze Star, a baseball, a photo album, an ace of spades, and a pie were some of the objects left at the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial. For Kristin Hass, this eclectic sampling represents an attempt by ordinary American . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: War, memory, and the politics of humor: the Canard enchaîné and World War I Author: Douglas, Allen 1949- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| French Studies \| European History \| European Literature \| Print Media Publisher's Description: War, Memory, and the Politics of Humor features carnage and cannibalism, gender and cross-dressing, drunks and heroes, militarism and memory, all set against the background of World War I France. Allen Douglas shows how a new satiric weekly, the Canard Enchaîné, exploited these topics and others to . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	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
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Beyond the conceivable: studies on Germany, Nazism, and the Holocaust Author: Diner, Dan 1946- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: German Studies \| Jewish Studies \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: The major essays of Dan Diner, who is widely read and quoted in Germany and Israel, are finally collected in an English edition. They reflect the author's belief that the Holocaust transcends traditional patterns of historical understanding and requires an epistemologically distinct approach. One ca . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: The myth of the noble savage Author: Ellingson, Terry Jay Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Intellectual History \| European History \| American Studies \| European Studies \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: In this important and original study, the myth of the Noble Savage is an altogether different myth from the one defended or debunked by others over the years. That the concept of the Noble Savage was first invented by Rousseau in the mid-eighteenth century in order to glorify the "natural" life is e . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Memories of Chicano history: the life and narrative of Bert Corona Author: García, Mario T Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Latino Studies \| Chicano Studies \| Autobiography \| Californian and Western History \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Who is Bert Corona? Though not readily identified by most Americans, nor indeed by many Mexican Americans, Corona is a man of enormous political commitment whose activism has spanned much of this century. Now his voice can be heard by the wide audience it deserves. In this landmark publication - the . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: The memory of Tiresias: intertextuality and film Author: I︠A︡mpolʹskiĭ, M. B Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Literature \| Popular Culture Publisher's Description: The concept of intertextuality has proven of inestimable value in recent attempts to understand the nature of literature and its relation to other systems of cultural meaning. In The Memory of Tiresias , Mikhail Iamposlki presents the first sustained attempt to develop a theory of cinematic intertex . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Fathering the nation: American genealogies of slavery and freedom Author: Castronovo, Russ 1965- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature \| American Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| American Studies \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Russ Castronovo underscores the inherent contradictions between America's founding principles of freedom and the reality of slavery in a book that probes mid-nineteenth-century representations of the founding fathers. He finds that rather than being coherent and consensual, narratives of nationhood . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Myth of the Independent voter Author: Keith, Bruce E Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics \| American Studies Publisher's Description: Few events in American politics over the past two decades have generated more attention than the increasing number of voters calling themselves Independent. By the early 1970s Independents outnumbered Republicans, according to many eminent experts on voting behavior. Yet the authors of this incisive . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: A surplus of memory: chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising Author: Zuckerman, Yitzhak 1915-1981 Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| European History Publisher's Description: In 1943, against utterly hopeless odds, the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto rose up to defy the Nazi horror machine that had set out to exterminate them. One of the leaders of the Jewish Fighting Organization, which led the uprisings, was Yitzhak Zuckerman, known by his underground pseudonym, Antek. Decad . . . [more] Similar Items