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


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Sherpas: reflections on change in Himalayan Nepal Author: Fisher, James F Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| South Asia Publisher's Description: James Fisher combines the strengths of technical anthropology, literary memoir, and striking photography in this telling study of rapid social change in Himalayan Nepal. The author first visited the Sherpas of Nepal when he accompanied Sir Edmund Hilary on the Himalayan Schoolhouse Expedition of 196 . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Classical Telugu poetry: an anthology Author: Nārāyaṇarāvu, Vēlcēru 1932- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature \| Asian Studies \| Hinduism \| Poetry \| Folklore and Mythology \| South Asia \| Social Theory \| Asian Literature Publisher's Description: This groundbreaking anthology opens a window on a thousand years of classical poetry in Telugu, the mellifluous language of Andhra Pradesh in southern India. The classical tradition in Telugu is one of the richest yet least explored of all South Asian literatures. This authoritative volume, the firs . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Sappho's lyre: archaic lyric and women poets of ancient Greece Author: Rayor, Diane J Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Literature in Translation \| Poetry Publisher's Description: Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion, and in the centuries that followed the golden age of archaic lyric, new forms of poetry emerged. In this un . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Of women, outcastes, peasants, and rebels: a selection of Bengali short stories Author: Bardhan, Kalpana Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature \| Literature in Translation \| Fiction \| South Asia Publisher's Description: Until now the large body of socially focused Bengali literature has remained little known to Western readers. This collection includes some of the finest examples of Bengali short stories - stories that reflect the turmoil of a changing society traditionally characterized by rigid hierarchical struc . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Hesiod's Works and days Author: Hesiod Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Economics and Business \| Classics \| Sociology \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: This new, annotated translation of Hesiod's Works and Days is a collaboration between David W. Tandy, a classicist, and Walter Neale, an economist and economic historian. Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet whose Works and Days discusses agricultural practices and society in general. Classicists and an . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	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
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Death before dying: the Sufi poems of Sultan Bahu Author: Sult̤ān Bāhū 1630-1691 Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Literature \| Religion \| Poetry \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Literature in Translation \| Islam \| South Asia Publisher's Description: These 115 poems introduce readers in English to Sultan Bahu (d. 1691), a Sufi mystical poet who continues to be one of the most beloved writers in Punjabi. Bahu, whose name translates as "With God," remains highly popular in Pakistan and India today - even illiterate Punjabis can recite his poetry b . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Lioness in bloom: modern Thai fiction about women Author: Kepner, Susan Fulop 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature \| Asian Literature \| Fiction \| Southeast Asia \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Kepner's selection shows the many ways fiction has mirrored the lives of Thai women over the twentieth century. The spectrum is broad, encompassing the young and the old, the rural and the cosmopolitan, the privileged and the poor. Some writers address previously unacceptable themes: female sexualit . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: A. Sutzkever: selected poetry and prose Author: Sutzkever, Abraham 1913- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Literature in Translation \| Poetry Publisher's Description: The work of A. Sutzkever, one of the major twentieth-century masters of verse and the last of the great Yiddish poets, is presented to the English reader in this banquet of poetry, narrative verse, and poetic fiction. Sutzkever's imposing body of work links images from Israel's present and past with . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Propertius in love: the elegies Author: Propertius, Sextus Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Literature in Translation \| Poetry \| Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: These ardent, even obsessed, poems about erotic passion are among the brightest jewels in the crown of Latin literature. Written by Propertius, Rome's greatest poet of love, who was born around 50 b.c., a contemporary of Ovid, these elegies tell of Propertius' tormented relationship with a woman he . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Facundo: civilization and barbarism: the first complete English translation Author: Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino 1811-1888 Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Literature \| History \| Latin American History \| Politics \| Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: A classic work of Latin American literature, Domingo Sarmiento's Facundo has become an integral part of the history, politics, and culture of Latin America since its first publication in 1845. Partially translated into English when it was first published, this foundational text appears here for the . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: The private orations of Themistius Author: Themistius Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Classical History \| Classical Politics \| Classical Religions \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: Themistius was a philosopher, a prominent Constantinopolitan senator, and an adviser to Roman emperors during the fourth century A.D. In this first translation of Themistius's private orations to be published in English, Robert J. Penella makes accessible texts that shed significant light on the cul . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Renard the Fox Author: Terry, Patricia Ann 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Poetry \| Literature in Translation \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Renard the Fox is the first modern translation into English of one of the most important and influential medieval books. Valued for its comic spirit, its high literary quality, and its clever satire of feudal society, the tale uses animals to represent the members of various classes. This lively and . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: When God is a customer: Telugu courtesan songs Author: Kṣētrayya 17th cent Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature \| Literature in Translation \| Poetry \| Hinduism \| South Asia Publisher's Description: How is it that this woman's breastsglimmer so clearly through her saree?Can't you guess, my friends?What are they but rays from the crescentsleft by the nails of her loverpressing her in his passion,rays now luminous as the moonlightof a summer night?These South Indian devotional poems show the dram . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	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
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus Author: Theocritus Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Poetry Publisher's Description: Under Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who ruled Egypt in the middle of the third century B.C.E., Alexandria became the brilliant multicultural capital of the Greek world. Theocritus's poem in praise of Philadelphus - at once a Greek king and an Egyptian pharaoh - is the only extended poetic tribute to this . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	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
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Songs to make the dust dance: the Ryōjin hishō of twelfth-century Japan Author: Kwon, Yung-Hee K Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature \| Asian Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Japan \| Asian Studies Publisher's Description: Breaking through the long-established image of Heian Japan (794-1185) as a culture dominated by ritualized aristocratic values, Yung-Hee Kim presents the picture of a country in transition, filled with a wide variety of common people responding to very ordinary situations. In popular songs called im . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: The dissonant legacy of modernismo: Lugones, Herrera y Reissig, and the voices of modern Spanish American poetry Author: Kirkpatrick, Gwen Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Latin American Studies \| European Literature \| Poetry Publisher's Description: This is a provocative new reading of a crucial and often misunderstood period of Spanish American literature. Most studies of modernismo have focused on the poetry of Rubén Darío and have noted the movement's aestheticism and its unmistakable French influences. Kirkpatrick concentrates instead on im . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Polyeideia: the Iambi of Callimachus and the archaic Iambic tradition Author: Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Poetry Publisher's Description: This book provides a new literary treatment of an often-overlooked collection of fragmentary poems from the third century B.C.E. Alexandrian poet Callimachus. Callimachus' Iambi form a collection of thirteen poems, which rework archaic Greek iambography and look forward to Roman satire and other gen . . . [more] Similar Items