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| 1. |  | 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 |
| 2. |  | Title: Ritual ground: Bent's Old Fort, world formation, and the annexation of the Southwest  Author: Comer, Douglas C Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | Cultural Anthropology | California and the West | United States History Publisher's Description: From about 1830 to 1849, Bent's Old Fort, located in present-day Colorado on the Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe Trail, was the largest trading post in the Southwest and the mountain-plains region. Although the raw enterprise and improvisation that characterized the American westward movement seem t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Nietzsche, genealogy, morality: essays on Nietzsche's Genealogy of morals Author: Schacht, Richard 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | German Studies | European History | European Literature Publisher's Description: Written at the height of the philosopher's intellectual powers, Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals has become one of the key texts of recent Western philosophy. Its essayistic style affords a unique opportunity to observe many of Nietzsche's persisting concerns coming together in an il . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: An archaeology of Greece: the present state and future scope of a discipline Author: Snodgrass, Anthony M Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Classics | Archaeology | European History Publisher's Description: Classical archaeology probably enjoys a wider appeal than any other branch of classical or archaeological studies. As an intellectual and academic discipline, however, its esteem has not matched its popularity. Here, Anthony Snodgrass argues that classical archaeology has a rare potential in the who . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Imperial bedlam: institutions of madness in colonial southwest Nigeria Author: Sadowsky, Jonathan Hal Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: African Studies | Psychology | African History | Medicine | Social Problems Publisher's Description: The colonial government of southern Nigeria began to use asylums to confine the allegedly insane in 1906. These asylums were administered by the British but confined Africans. Yet, as even many in the government recognized, insanity is a condition that shows cultural variation. Who decided the inmat . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: From chemical philosophy to theoretical chemistry: dynamics of matter and dynamics of disciplines, 1800-1950 Author: Nye, Mary Jo Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of Science | Physical Sciences | Physics Publisher's Description: How did chemistry and physics acquire their separate identities, and are they on their way to losing them again? Mary Jo Nye has written a graceful account of the historical demarcation of chemistry from physics and subsequent reconvergences of the two, from Lavoisier and Dalton in the late eighteen . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | 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 |
| 8. |  | Title: Border correspondent: selected writings, 1955-1970 Author: Salazar, Ruben 1928- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | Latino Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | United States History | Media Studies | American Studies Publisher's Description: This first major collection of former Los Angeles Times reporter and columnist Ruben Salazar's writings, is a testament to his pioneering role in the Mexican American community, in journalism, and in the evolution of race relations in the U.S. Taken together, the articles serve as a documentary hist . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Before Taliban: genealogies of the Afghan jihad Author: Edwards, David B Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | South Asia Publisher's Description: In this powerful book, David B. Edwards traces the lives of three recent Afghan leaders in Afghanistan's history--Nur Muhammad Taraki, Samiullah Safi, and Qazi Amin Waqad--to explain how the promise of progress and prosperity that animated Afghanistan in the 1960s crumbled and became the present tra . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: History and tradition in Melanesian anthropology Author: Carrier, James G Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | East Asia Other Publisher's Description: Melanesian societies, like village societies in many parts of the world, are frequently portrayed as existing in a timeless, traditional present. These seven original essays offer an alternative view, one showing that historical evidence can and must inform our understanding of contemporary cultures . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Blood politics: race, culture, and identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma Author: Sturm, Circe 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Native American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | African American Studies Publisher's Description: Circe Sturm takes a bold and original approach to one of the most highly charged and important issues in the United States today: race and national identity. Focusing on the Oklahoma Cherokee, she examines how Cherokee identity is socially and politically constructed, and how that process is embedde . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Seeing through Zen: encounter, transformation, and genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism Author: McRae, John R 1947- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Religion | China | Buddhism Publisher's Description: The tradition of Chan Buddhism - more popularly known as Zen - has been romanticized throughout its history. In this book, John R. McRae shows how modern critical techniques, supported by recent manuscript discoveries, make possible a more skeptical, accurate, and - ultimately - productive assessmen . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Pathways of power: building an anthropology of the modern world Author: Wolf, Eric R 1923- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Sociology Publisher's Description: This collection of twenty-eight essays by renowned anthropologist Eric R. Wolf is a legacy of some of his most original work, with an insightful foreword by Aram Yengoyan. Of the essays, six have never been published and two have not appeared in English until now. Shortly before his death, Wolf prep . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the eighteenth century: a genealogy of modernity Author: Hundert, Gershon David 1946- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | European History | Jewish Studies | Religion Publisher's Description: Missing from most accounts of the modern history of Jews in Europe is the experience of what was once the largest Jewish community in the world - an oversight that Gershon David Hundert corrects in this history of Eastern European Jews in the eighteenth century. The experience of eighteenth-century . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Struggling with destiny in Karimpur, 1925-1984 Author: Wadley, Susan Snow 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | South Asia | Asian History Publisher's Description: Susan Wadley first visited Karimpur - the village "behind mud walls" made famous by William and Charlotte Wiser - as a graduate student in 1967. She returned often, adding her observations and experiences to the Wisers' field notes from the 1920s and 1930s. In this long-awaited book, Wadley gives us . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Women writing culture Author: Behar, Ruth 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: In this collection of new reflections on the sexual politics, racial history, and moral predicaments of anthropology, feminist scholars explore a wide range of visions of identity and difference. How are feminists redefining the poetics and politics of ethnography? What are the contradictions of wom . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Ethnocriticism: ethnography, history, literature Author: Krupat, Arnold Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | Anthropology | American Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Native American Studies Publisher's Description: Ethnocriticism moves cultural critique to the boundaries that exist between cultures. The boundary traversed in Krupat's dexterous new book is the contested line between native and mainstream American literatures and cultures.For over a century the discourses of ethnography, history, and literature . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Circumstantial deliveries Author: Needham, Rodney Published: University of California Press, 1982 Subjects: Anthropology Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Ethnographic presents pioneering anthropologists in the Papua New Guinea Highlands Author: Hays, Terence E Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | East Asia Other Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Tribes of India: the struggle for survival Author: Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von 1909- Published: University of California Press, 1982 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies Similar Items |