formerly eScholarship Editions
|
|
|
|
Your request for similar items found 20 book(s). | Modify Search | Displaying 1 - 20 of 20 book(s) | |
| 1. |  | Title: Gypsy law: Romani legal traditions and culture Author: Weyrauch, Walter O. (Walter Otto) 1919- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Law | Cultural Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Sociology | European Studies | Political Theory Publisher's Description: Approximately one thousand years ago Gypsies, or Roma, left their native India. Today Gypsies can be found in countries throughout the world, their distinct culture still intact in spite of the intense persecution they have endured. This authoritative collection brings together leading Gypsy and non . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Rethinking the borderlands: between Chicano culture and legal discourse  Author: Gutiérrez-Jones, Carl Scott Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: American Studies | Chicano Studies | Literature | Language and Linguistics | Law | Social and Political Thought | Rhetoric | Postcolonial Studies | United States History | United States History Publisher's Description: Challenging the long-cherished notion of legal objectivity in the United States, Carl Gutiérrez-Jones argues that Chicano history has been consistently shaped by racially biased, combative legal interactions. Rethinking the Borderlands is an insightful and provocative exploration of the ways Chicano . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Japan under construction: corruption, politics, and public works Author: Woodall, Brian Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Politics | Japan Publisher's Description: In 1987, Japan excluded American firms from bidding on the multibillion-dollar New Kansai International Airport, sparking yet another trade dispute between the United States and Japan. The State Department, Congress, and the President himself were caught up in the dispute, which still smolders even . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Law and the order of culture Author: Post, Robert 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Law | United States History | Literary Theory and Criticism | Postcolonial Studies | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Law and the Order of Culture is an outstanding collection of essays that explores the cultural creation of legal meaning, addressing interpretive processes within the law as well as the social constitution of legal doctrine. Originally published in Representations , these essays are at the center of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: In the house of the law: gender and Islamic law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine Author: Tucker, Judith E Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Law | Islam | Women's Studies | Middle Eastern Studies | Islam Publisher's Description: In an rewarding new study, Tucker explores the way in which Islamic legal thinkers understood Islam as it related to women and gender roles. In seventeenth and eighteenth century Syria and Palestine, Muslim legal thinkers gave considerable attention to women's roles in society, and Tucker shows how . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Morality tales: law and gender in the Ottoman court of Aintab Author: Peirce, Leslie P Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: In this skillful analysis, Leslie Peirce delves into the life of a sixteenth-century Middle Eastern community, bringing to light the ways that women and men used their local law court to solve personal, family, and community problems. Examining one year's proceedings of the court of Aintab, an Anato . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Language contact, creolization, and genetic linguistics Author: Thomason, Sarah Grey Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Language and Linguistics | Linguistic Theory | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Ten years of research back up the bold new theory advanced by authors Thomason and Kaufman, who rescue the study of contact-induced language change from the neglect it has suffered in recent decades. The authors establish an important new framework for the historical analysis of all degrees of conta . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: From craft to profession: the practice of architecture in nineteenth-century America Author: Woods, Mary N 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Architecture | Architectural History | United States History Publisher's Description: This is the first in-depth study of how the architectural profession emerged in early American history. Mary Woods dispels the prevailing notion that the profession developed under the leadership of men formally schooled in architecture as an art during the late nineteenth century. Instead, she cite . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: The prince and the law, 1200-1600: sovereignty and rights in the western legal tradition Author: Pennington, Kenneth Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Medieval History | Law Publisher's Description: The power of the prince versus the rights of his subjects is one of the basic struggles in the history of law and government. In this masterful history of monarchy, conceptions of law, and due process, Kenneth Pennington addresses that struggle and opens an entirely new vista in the study of Western . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: "Peaks of Yemen I summon": poetry as cultural practice in a North Yemeni tribe Author: Caton, Steven Charles 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | Medieval Studies | Folklore and Mythology | Language and Linguistics Publisher's Description: In this first full-scale ethnographic study of Yemeni tribal poetry, Steven Caton reveals an astonishingly rich folkloric system where poetry is both a creation of art and a political and social act. Almost always spoken or chanted, Yemeni tribal poetry is cast in an idiom considered colloquial and . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Gadamer's repercussions: reconsidering philosophical hermeneutics Author: Krajewski, Bruce 1959- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | European Studies Publisher's Description: Certainly one of the key German philosophers of the twentieth century, Hans-Georg Gadamer also influenced the study of literature, art, music, sacred and legal texts, and medicine. Indeed, while much attention has been focused on Gadamer's writings about ancient Greek and modern German philosophy, t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Lawyers, lawsuits, and legal rights: the battle over litigation in American society Author: Burke, Thomas Frederick Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics | Law Publisher's Description: Lawsuits over coffee burns, playground injuries, even bad teaching: litigation "horror stories" create the impression that Americans are greedy, quarrelsome, and sue-happy. The truth, as this book makes clear, is quite different. What Thomas Burke describes in Lawyers, Lawsuits, and Legal Rights is . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: In Search of equality: the Chinese struggle against discrimination in nineteenth-century America Author: McClain, Charles J Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Law | California and the West | History | United States History | Californian and Western History | American Studies | Asian American Studies Publisher's Description: Charles McClain's illuminating new study probes Chinese efforts to battle manifold discrimination - in housing, employment, and education - in nineteenth-century America. Challenging the stereotypical image of a passive, insular group, McClain reveals a politically savvy population capable of mobili . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: The vestal and the fasces: Hegel, Lacan, property, and the feminine Author: Schroeder, Jeanne Lorraine Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Law | Philosophy | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: In this feminist exploration of the erotics of the marketplace, Hegel's notion of property and Lacan's idea of the phallus serve parallel functions in creating the subjectivity necessary for self-actualization. Subjectivity requires intersubjective relationships mediated through a regime of possessi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Punishment: theory and practice Author: Tunick, Mark Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Political Theory | Social and Political Thought | Law Publisher's Description: What actions should be punished? Should plea-bargaining be allowed? How should sentencing be determined? In this original, penetrating study, Mark Tunick explores not only why society punishes wrongdoing, but also how it implements punishment.Contending that the theory and practice of punishment are . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Music as cultural practice, 1800-1900 Author: Kramer, Lawrence 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Music | Musicology | European History | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: In Music as Cultural Practice , Lawrence Kramer adapts the resources of contemporary literary theory to forge a genuinely new discourse about music. Rethinking fundamental questions of meaning and expression, he demonstrates how European music of the nineteenth century collaborates on equal terms wi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Just interpretations: law between ethics and politics Author: Rosenfeld, Michel 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: American Studies | Social and Political Thought | Political Theory Publisher's Description: In pluralistic societies that lack common ethical, social, and political values, legal interpretation is constantly under siege. Just interpretations - that is, interpretations that reflect a shared vision of justice - may become just interpretations in the sense of mere interpretations, rooted in t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Toward a definition of antisemitism Author: Langmuir, Gavin I Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Medieval History | Judaism Publisher's Description: Toward a Definition of Antisemitism offers new contributions by Gavin I. Langmuir to the history of antisemitism, together with some that have been published separately. The collection makes Langmuir's innovative work on the subject available to scholars in medieval and Jewish history and religious . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: The collective and the individual in Russia: a study of practices Author: Kharkhordin, Oleg 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Social Theory | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Oleg Kharkhordin has constructed a compelling, subtle, and complex genealogy of the Soviet individual that is as much about Michel Foucault as it is about Russia. Examining the period from the Russian Revolution to the fall of Gorbachev, Kharkhordin demonstrates that Party rituals - which forced eac . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | 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 |