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| 1. |  | 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 |
| 2. |  | 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 |
| 3. |  | Title: Destination culture: tourism, museums, and heritage Author: Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art | Art Theory | Popular Culture | Cultural Anthropology | Travel Publisher's Description: Destination Culture takes the reader on an eye-opening journey from ethnological artifacts to kitsch. Posing the question, "What does it mean to show?" Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett explores the agency of display in a variety of settings: museums, festivals, world's fairs, historical re-creations, m . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | 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 |
| 5. |  | Title: Himalayan voices: an introduction to modern Nepali literature Author: Hutt, Michael Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | Literature in Translation | South Asia Publisher's Description: While the natural splendor of Nepal has been celebrated in many books, very little of the substantial body of Nepali literature has appeared in English translation. Himalayan Voices provides admirers of Nepal and lovers of literature with their first glimpse of the vibrant literary scene in Nepal to . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Social paralysis and social change: British working-class education in the nineteenth century Author: Smelser, Neil J Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | History | European History | Education Publisher's Description: Neil Smelser's Social Paralysis and Social Change is one of the most comprehensive histories of mass education ever written. It tells the story of how working-class education in nineteenth-century Britain - often paralyzed by class, religious, and economic conflict - struggled forward toward change. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Inscribed landscapes: travel writing from imperial China Author: Strassberg, Richard E Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Literature in Translation | Asian History | China Publisher's Description: Alongside the scores of travel books about China written by foreign visitors, Chinese travelers' impressions of their own country rarely appear in translation. This anthology is the only comprehensive collection in English of Chinese travel writing from the first century A.D. through the nineteenth. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Policies, plans, & people: foreign aid and health development Author: Justice, Judith Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Anthropology | Art and Architecture Publisher's Description: Judith Justice uses an interdisciplinary approach to show how anthropologists and planners can combine their expertise to make health care programs culturally compatible with the populations they serve. Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: The Research foundations of graduate education: Germany, Britain, France, United States, Japan Author: Clark, Burton R Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Sociology | Education Publisher's Description: A powerful international roster of scholars presents the first comprehensive discussion of advanced education in Germany, Britain, France, Japan, and the United States. For each nation, a detailed overview of the historical development and current conditions of graduate education is followed by an a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Education and society in late imperial China, 1600-1900 Author: Elman, Benjamin A 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Asian History | China Publisher's Description: This comprehensive volume integrates the history of late imperial China with the history of education over three centuries, revealing the significance of education in Chinese social, political, and intellectual life. A collaboration between social and intellectual historians, these fifteen essays pr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: The sound of two hands clapping: the education of a Tibetan Buddhist monk Author: Dreyfus, Georges B. J Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion | Buddhism | Tibet | Autobiographies and Biographies | Buddhism Publisher's Description: A unique insider's account of day-to-day life inside a Tibetan monastery, The Sound of Two Hands Clapping reveals to Western audiences the fascinating details of monastic education. Georges B. J. Dreyfus, the first Westerner to complete the famous Ge-luk curriculum and achieve the distinguished titl . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Places of inquiry: research and advanced education in modern universities Author: Clark, Burton R Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Social Science | Sociology | Education Publisher's Description: A distinguished work by one of America's leading scholars of higher education, Places of Inquiry explores one of the major issues in university education today: the relationship among research, teaching, and study. Based on cross-national research on the university systems of Germany, Britain, Franc . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Globalization: culture and education in the new millennium Author: Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Global Studies | Politics | Media Studies | Postcolonial Studies | Sociology | Environmental Studies | Education | Global Studies Publisher's Description: Globalization defines our era. While it has created a great deal of debate in economic, policy, and grassroots circles, many aspects of the phenomenon remain virtual terra incognita. Education is at the heart of this continent of the unknown. This pathbreaking book examines how globalization and lar . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: The travels of Dean Mahomet: an eighteenth-Century journey through India Author: Mahomet, Sake Deen 1759-1851 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Asian History | South Asia | Travel | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: This unusual study combines two books in one: the 1794 autobiographical travel narrative of an Indian, Dean Mahomet, recalling his years as camp-follower, servant, and subaltern officer in the East India Company's army (1769 to 1784); and Michael H. Fisher's portrayal of Mahomet's sojourn as an insi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Putting Islam to work: education, politics, and religious transformation in Egypt Author: Starrett, Gregory 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Education | Religion | Islam | Politics Publisher's Description: The development of mass education and the mass media have transformed the Islamic tradition in contemporary Egypt and the wider Muslim world. In Putting Islam to Work , Gregory Starrett focuses on the historical interplay of power and public culture, showing how these new forms of communication and . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: A silent minority: deaf education in Spain, 1550-1835 Author: Plann, Susan Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Language and Linguistics | Medieval History | European History | Education | European Studies | Medieval Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This timely, important, and frequently dramatic story takes place in Spain, for the simple reason that Spain is where language was first systematically taught to the deaf. Instruction is thought to have begun in the mid-sixteenth century in Spanish monastic communities, where the monks under vows of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Dateline Soweto: travels with black South African reporters Author: Finnegan, William Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Media Studies | African Studies | Social Problems | Politics | African History Publisher's Description: Dateline Soweto documents the working lives of black South African reporters caught between the mistrust of militant blacks, police harrassment, and white editors who - fearing government disapproval - may not print the stories these reporters risk their lives to get. William Finnegan revisited seve . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Khmer American: identity and moral education in a diasporic community Author: Smith-Hefner, Nancy Joan Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | Southeast Asia | American Studies | Education | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: In the early 1980s, tens of thousands of Cambodian refugees fled their war-torn country to take up residence in the United States, where they quickly became one of the most troubled and least studied immigrant groups. This book is the story of that passage, and of the efforts of Khmer Americans to r . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Practicing virtues: moral traditions at Quaker and military boarding schools Author: Hays, Kim Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Sociology | Philosophy | Education Publisher's Description: Practicing Virtues is about learning to be good in the distinct moral worlds of Quaker and military boarding schools. Both types of schools bind their communities with shared codes of conduct, the military schools' conservative tradition emphasizing discipline and hard work, the Quaker schools' libe . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Orientalist aesthetics: art, colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930 Author: Benjamin, Roger 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Art | Art History | French Studies Publisher's Description: Lavishly illustrated with exotic images ranging from Renoir's forgotten Algerian oeuvre to the abstract vision of Matisse's Morocco and beyond, this book is the first history of Orientalist art during the period of high modernism. Roger Benjamin, drawing on a decade of research in untapped archives, . . . [more] Similar Items |