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LUP - University of Michigan Press Beliefs Behaviors and Alcoholic Beverages A
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The University of Michigan Press Our Sisters Promised Land
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Development of ArabAmerican Identity
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The University of Michigan Press ANTHROPOMETRIC STANDARDS FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF
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University of California Press Homo Necans
Book SynopsisBlood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This study examines this question.Table of ContentsTranslator's Preface Preface to the English Edition List of Illustrations Introduction I. Sacrifice, Hunting, and Funerary Rituals II. Werewolves around the Tripod Kettle III. Dissolution and New Year's Festival IV. Anthesteria V. Eleusis Abbreviations and Bibliography Index
£27.90
University of California Press Culture and Depression
Book SynopsisSome of the most innovative and provocative work on the emotions and illness is occurring in cross-cultural research on depression. This book presents the work of anthropologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists who examine the controversies, agreements, and conceptual and methodological problems that arise in the course of such research.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Culture and Depression Arthur Kleinman and Byron Good Part I. MEANINGS, RELATIONSHIPS, SOCIAL AFFECTS: HISTORICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON DEPRESSION Introduction to Part I 1. Acedia the Sin and Its Relationship to Sorrow and Melancholia Stanley W. Jackson 2. Depression and the Translation of Emotional Worlds Catherine Lutz 3. The Cultural Analysis of Depressive Affect: An Example from New Guinea Edward L. Schieffelin 4. Depression, Buddhism, and the Work of Culture in Sri Lanka Gananath Obeyesekere 5. The Interpretive Basis of Depression Charles F. Keyes Part II DEPRESSIVE COGNITION, COMMUNICATION, AND BEHAVIOR Introduction to Part 6.Menstrual Pollution, Soul Loss, and the Comparative Study of Emotions Richard A. Shweder 7. Dimensions of Dysphoria: The View from Linguistic Anthropology William 0. Beeman 8. The Theoretical Implications of Converging Research on Depression and the Culture-Bound Syndromes John E. Carr and Peter P. Vitaliano Part III EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT OF DEPRESSNE DISORDERS CROSS-CULTURALLY Introduction to Part III 9. A Study of Depression among Traditional Africans, Urban North Americans, and Southeast Asian Refugees Morton Beiser 10. Cross-Cultural Studies of Depressive Disorders: An Overview Anthony J. Marsella, Norman Sartorius, Assen Jablensky, and Fred R. Fenton Part IV INTEGRATIONS: ANTHROPOLOGICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRIC ANTHROPOLOGY OF DEPRESSWE DISORDERS Introduction to Part IV 11. The Depressive Experience in American Indian Communities: A Challenge for Psychiatric Theory and Diagnosis Spero M. Manson, James H. Shore, and Joseph D. Bloom 12. The Interpretation of Iranian Depressive Illness and Dysphoric Affect Byron J. Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, and Robert Moradi 13. Somatization: The Interconnections in Chinese Society among Culture, Depressive Experiences, and the Meanings of Pain Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman Epilogue: Culture and Depression Byron Good and Arthur Kleinman Contributors Indexes Author Index Subject Index
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University of California Press Rethinking Popular Culture Contempory
Book SynopsisSelects some of the important work analyzing popular culture. Drawing upon developments in cultural theory and the techniques of critical analysis, this title includes essays that break down disciplinary boundaries in a fresh fashion. It touches on a variety of features of popular culture, from photography to fashion, romance novels to television.Table of ContentsRethinking Popular Culture, Chandra Mukerji and Michael Schudson Printing and the People, Natalie Zemon Davis Workers Revolt: The Great Cat Massacre of the Rue Saint-Severin, Robert Darnton The Rise of the Saloon, Roy Rosenzweig William Shakespeare and the American People: A Study in Cultural Transformation, Lawrence W. Levine The Dream World of Mass Consumption, Rosalind Williams Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight, Clifford Geertz La Pensee Bourgeoise, Marshall Sahlins Jokes, Mary Douglas Processing Fads and Fashions: An Organization-Set Analysis of Cultural Industry Systems, Paul Hirsch Movies of the Week, Todd Gitlin Sport and Social Class, Pierre Bourdieu Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Boston: The Creation of an Organizational Base for High Culture in America, Paul DiMaggio The Public Sphere, Jurgen Habermas Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory, Raymond Williams The Suit and the Photograph, John Berger Written Clothing, Roland Barthes What Is an Author? Michel Foucault Interpretive Communities and Variable Literacies: The Functions of Romance Reading, Janice Radway
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University of California Press Dream Worlds
Book SynopsisExamines the origins and moral implications of consumer society, providing a cultural history of its emergence in late nineteenth-century France.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. The Implications of the Consumer Revolution Part One: The Development of Consumer Lifestyles 2. The Closed World of Courtly Consumption 3. The Dream World of Mass Consumption 4. The Dandies and Elitist Consumption 5. Decorative Arts Reform and Democratic Consumption Part Two: The Development of Critical Thought about Consumption 6. From Luxury to Solidarity: The Quest for a Morale of the Consumer 7. Charles Gide and the Emergence of Consumer Activism 8. Durkheim, Tarde, and the Emergence of a Sociology of Consumption 9. A Fragment of Future History: Beyond the Consumer Revolution Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Pain as Human Experience
Book SynopsisSufferers, finding that chronic pain alters every aspect of life, often become frustrated and distrust a profession seemingly unable to explain or effectively treat their illness. This volume searches out more effective ways to describe and analyze the human context of pain.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS Chapter One: Pain as Human Experience: An Introduction Arthur Kleinman, Paul E. Brodwin, Byron]. Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good Chapter Two: A Body in Pain-The Making of a World of Chronic Pain Byron]. Good Chapter Three: Work as a Haven from Pain Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good Chapter Four: Symptoms and Social Performances: The Case of Diane Reden Paul E. Brodwin Chapter Five: Chronic Illness and the Construction of Narratives Linda C. Garro Chapter Six: "After a While No One Believes You": Real and Unreal Pain jean E. Jackson Chapter Seven: Pain and Resistance: The Delegitimation and Relegitimation of Local Worlds Arthur Kleinman Epilogue Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Byron]. Good, Arthur Kleinman, Paul E. Brodwin CONTRIBUTORS INDEX
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University of California Press Voyage of Rediscovery
Book SynopsisThis is an account of the voyage of a mostly Hawaiian crew, in a reconstructed ancient double canoe, from Hawaii to New Zealand. They did this without the aid of navigational equipment, and with the aim of proving that their ancestors had done just the same thousands of years earlier.Table of ContentsFigures Preface 1 Without Ships or Compass 2 Experimental Voyaging 3 Cultural Revival 4 More than Halfway Around the World 5 Wait for the West Wind 6 Voyage to Aotearoa 7 Sailing Back and Forth Between Hawai'i and Tahiti 8 Putting Voyaging Back into Polynesian Prehistory 9 The Family of the Canoe Appendixes About the Drawings Notes References Index
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University of California Press The Culture of Pain
Book SynopsisAre you writing about physical pain or mental pain? This is a book about the meanings we make out of pain.Table of ContentsFigures Acknowledgments Introduction I LIVING PAIN: MYSTERY OR PUZZLE? 2 THE MEANINGS OF PAIN 3 AN INVISIBLE EPIDEMIC 4 THE PAIN OF COMEDY 5 HYSTERIA, PAIN, AND GENDER 6 VISIONARY PAIN AND THE POLITICS OF SUFFERING 7 PAIN IS ALWAYS IN YOUR HEAD 8 THE USES OF PAIN 9 PAINFUL PLEASURES: BEAUTY AND AFFLICTION 10 SEX, PAIN, AND THE MARQUIS DE SADE 224 11 TRAGIC PAIN 12 THE FUTURE OF PAIN Notes Index CONTENTS
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University of California Press The New World of the Gothic Fox
Book SynopsisAdopting the metaphor of foxes and hedgehogs that Isaiah Berlin used to describe opposite types of thinkers, this title provides an original approach to understanding the development of English and Spanish America over the past 500 years.
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University of California Press Listen to the Herons Words
Book SynopsisIn many South Asian oral traditions, women are viewed as fragmented identities, dangerously split between virtue and virtuosity. This ethnographical study of women in certain North Indian villages criticizes local ideologies of gender and kinship that place women in subordinate positions.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Note on Transcription and Transliteration Note on Kinship Terms Preface: Listening to Women in Rural North India (AGG and GGR) 1. Introduction: Gender Representation and the Problem of Language and Resistance in India (GGR) 2. Sexuality, Fertility, and Erotic Imagination in Rajasthani Women's Songs (AGG) 3· On the Uses of Irony and Ambiguity: Shifting Perspectives on Patriliny and Women's Ties to Natal Kin (GGR) 4· On the Uses of Subversion: Redefining Conjugality (GGR) 5· Devotional Power or Dangerous Magic? The Jungli Rani's Case (AGG) 6. Purdah Is As Purdah's Kept: A Storyteller's Story (AGG) 7· Conclusion: Some Reflections on Narrative Potency and the Politics of Women's Expressive Traditions (GGR with AGG) Appendix: Rajasthani and Hindi Song Texts Glossary of Hindi and Rajasthani Words Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Struggling with Destiny in Karimpur 19251984
Book SynopsisPresents a portrait of Karimpur, an Indian village, as it has changed over a sixty-year period. Using cultural documents such as songs and stories, as well as data on household budgets and farming practices, this title examines what it means to be poor or rich, female or male.
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University of California Press Red City Blue Period
Book SynopsisCombines the methods of anthropology and cultural history to examine the civic culture of Barcelona between 1888 and 1939 and shows how artists like Picasso, Miro, Casals and anarchists, and other political activists shaped and were influenced by the artistic and political culture of Barcelona.Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction: The Symbolic Landscape 1. Resistance and Ritual, 1888-1896 2. Popular Art and Rituals 3. Community Celebrations and Communal Strikes,1902 4. Women Out of Control 5. Female Consciousness and Community Struggle,1910-1918 6. Democratic Promises in 1917 7. Urban Disorder and Cultural Resistance,1919-1930 8. Cultural Reactions to the Spanish Republic and the Civil War in Barcelona Epilogue: Cultural Resistance in the Aftermath APPENDIX Map 1. Landmarks in Downtown Barcelona, 1808-1937 Map 2. Processions, Parades, and Demonstrations, 1808-1902 Map 3. Demonstrations and Funeral Processions, 1905-1920 NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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University of California Press Peasant and Nation
Book SynopsisThis text offers a new statement on the making of national politics. Comparing the popular political cultures and discourses of post-colonial Mexico and Peru, it provides an analysis of their effect on the evolution of these nation states.Table of ContentsList of Maps Preface Acknowledgments 1 Political History from Below: Hegemony, the State, and Nationalist Discourses PART 1 INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES, NATIONAL GUARDS, AND THE LIBERAL REVOLUTION IN THE SIERRA NORTE DE PUEBLA 2 Contested Citizenship (1 ): Liberals, Conservatives, and Indigenous National Guards, 1850-1867 3 The Conflictual Construction of Community: Gender, Ethnicity, and Hegemony 4 Alternative Nationalisms and Hegemonic Discourses: Peasant Visions of the Nation PART 2 COMMUNAL HEGEMONY AND NATIONALIST DISCOURSES IN MEXICO AND PERU 5 Contested Citizenship (2): Regional Political Cultures, Peasant Visions of the Nation, and the Liberal Revolution in Morelos 6 From Citizen to Other: National Resistance, State Formation, and Peasant Visions of the Nation in Junin 7 Communal Hegemony and Alternative Nationalisms: Historical Contingencies and Limiting Cases PART 3 ALTERNATIVE NATIONAL PROJECTS AND THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE STATE 8 The Intricacies of Coercion: Popular Political Cultures, Repression, and the Failure of Hegemony 9 Whose Bones Are They, Anyway, and Who Gets to Decide? Local Intellectuals, Hegemony, and Counterhegemony in National Politics 10 Popular Nationalism and Statemaking in Mexico and Peru: The Deconstruction of Community and Popular Culture Notes Index
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University of California Press CrossCultural Filmmaking
Book SynopsisThe authors of this text cover the practical, technical and theoretical aspects of documentary filming, from fundraising to exhibition. It discusses filmmaking styles and the assumptions that may hide unacknowledged behind them, as well as the practical and ethical issues involved.Table of ContentsIntroduction PART ONE: GETTING GOING 1. Documentary Styles 2. From Fieldwork to Filming PART TWO: NUTS AND BOLTS 3. Picture 4. Sound 5. Film or Video? Medium, Format, and Equipment PART THREE: STAGES OF FILMMAKING 6. Preproduction 7. Production 8. Postproduction 9. Distribution Appendix One: Release Forms Appendix Two: International Television Standards and Electricity Currents Appendix Three: Names and Addresses Appendix Four: Makes and Models Filmography Notes Acknowledgments Photo Credits Index
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University of California Press Rhetorics of SelfMaking
Book SynopsisDeparting from an essentialist concept of the self, this volume advances the cross-cultural study of selfhood with three contributions to literature.Table of ContentsCONTRIBUTORS: Debbora Battaglia Daniel Boyarin Jonathan Boyarin Faye Ginsburg George E. Marcus Marilyn Strathern Roy Wagner
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University of California Press Heroes of the Age
Book SynopsisSeeking the historical and cultural roots of the conflict between Soviet-aligned Marxists and the religious extremists inspired by Egyptian and Pakistani brands of 'fundamentalist' Islam, this work examines the lives of three significant figures of the late nineteenth century - a tribal khan, a Muslim saint, and a prince.Table of ContentsList of Maps Acknowledgments List of Significant Persons 1. INTRODUCTION Beginnings Recollecting the Past Contested Domains 2. THE MAKING OF SULTAN MUHAMMAD KHAN Myth and History Fathers and Sons Men and Women Friends and Enemies Coda: Jandad's Punishment 3. THE REIGN OF THE IRON AMIR Mapping the State The Once and Future King The Armature of Royal Rule Kingship and Honor Coda: The Death of the King 4. THE LIVES OF AN AFGHAN SAINT Twice-Told Tales Fathers and Sons Identity and Place Discipline and Power Benefit and Gratitude Purity and Politics Pirs and Princes Coda: The Journey to Koh-i Qaf 5. MAD MULLAS AND ENGLISHMEN A Passage to India The Events of :1897 and Their Explanation Waging Jihad The Fault Lines of Authority Tales of Jarobi Glen Conclusion 6. EPILOGUE Re: Posting on the Internet Embedded Codes Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life
Book SynopsisCasting aside the traditional conception of film as an outgrowth of photography, theatre, and the novel, the essays in this volume reasses the relationship between the emergence of film and the broader culture of modernity.Table of ContentsCONTRIBUTORS: Richard Abel, Leo Charney, Margaret Cohen, Jonathan Crary, Tom Gunning, Miriam Bratu Hansen, Alexandra Keller, Jeannene M. Pryzblyski, Erika Rappaport, Mark Sandberg, Vanessa R. Schwartz, Ben Singer, Marcus Verhagen
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University of California Press What Makes Life Worth Living How Japanese and
Book SynopsisThis work takes an anthropological approach to the fundamental question of what makes life worth living. It considers the issue by examining nine pairs of similarly situated individuals in the United States and Japan.Table of ContentsPreface Part One: The Cultural Foundations of Ikigai Introduction: What Makes Life Worth Living? 1. The Varieties of Ikigai in Japan 2. Individualism, Community, and Conformity in the United States 3· The Comparison of Japanese and American Selves Part Two: Ikigai in Japanese and American Lives 4· Ikigai in Work and Family Ikigai and Gender 5· Ikigai in Past and Future Ikigai and Dreatns 6. Ikigai in Creation and Religion Ikigai and Significance Part Three: Ikigai and the Meaning of Life 7· A Phenomenological Analysis of Ikigai 8. Ikigai and the Meaning of Life References Index
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University of California Press Women Writing Culture
Book SynopsisA collection of reflections on the sexual politics, racial history, and moral predicaments of anthropology that explore a range of visions of identity and difference.Table of ContentsCONTRIBUTORS: Lila Abu-Lughod Barbara Babcock Ruth Behar Sally Cole Laurent Dubois Paulla Ebron Janet L. Finn Gelya Frank Deborah A. Gordon Faye V. Harrison Graciela Hernandez Dorinne Kondo Louise Lamphere Smadar Lavie Ellen Lewin Nancy Lutkehaus Catherine Lutz Kirin Narayan Judith Newton Aihwa Ong Judith Stacey Barbara Tedlock Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
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University of California Press Absent Lord Ascetics and Kings in a Jain Ritual
Book SynopsisThe ritual culture of image-worshipping Sventambar Jains of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Rajasthan are explored in this volume, with the author linking Jain tradition to the social identity of existing Jain communities.
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University of California Press Echoes of the Past Epics of Dissent A South
Book SynopsisThis story of a South Korean social movement offers a window to a decade of tumultuous social protest. It describes the period in which farmers, student activists and organizers joined to protest the corporate ownership of tenant plots never distributed in the 1949 Land Reform.
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University of California Press The Suitcase
Book SynopsisA collection of personal narratives - essays, letters, and poems - from refugees fleeing Bosnia and Croatia. Taking us behind the barrage of media coverage, it includes stories that tell of perseverance, brutality, forced departure, exile, and courage.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOREWORD Cornel West INTRODUCTION THE SUITCASE The Journey Out Dreams of Home Everyday Refugee Life Children's Voices Starting Life Anew AFTERWORDS The ABCs of Exile Dubravka Ugresic The Face of Women Refugees from Muslim Communities: Algeria to Ex-Yugoslavia Marieme Helie-Lucas Beyond the Balkans judith Mayotte POSTSCRIPT This Is Not War Talk Julze Mertus NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
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University of California Press Writing at the Margin
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the border between medical and social problems, the boundary between health and social change, and a study of the body as the mediator between individual and collective experience. The author argues for an ethnographic approach to moral practice in medicine.Table of ContentsPREFACE 1 Introduction: Medical Anthropology as Intellectual Career PART ONE: THE CULTURE OF BIOMEDICINE 2 What Is Specific to Biomedicine? 3 Anthropology of Bioethics 4 A Critique of Objectivity in International Health PART TWO: SUFFERING AS SOCIAL EXPERIENCE 5 Suffering and Its Professional Transformation: Toward an Ethnography of Interpersonal Experience (with Joan Kleinman) 6 Pain and Resistance: The Delegitimation and Relegitimation of Local Worlds 7 The Social Course of Epilepsy: Chronic Illness as Social Experience in Interior China (with Wen-zhi Wang, Shi-chuo Li, Xue-ming Cheng, Xiu-ying Dai, ICun-tun Li, and Joan Kleinman) 8 Violence, Culture, and the Politics of Trauma (with Robert Desjarlais) PART THREE: THE STATE OF MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 9 The New Wave of Ethnographies in Medical Anthropology APPENDIX: WORKS BY ARTHUR KLEINMAN NOTES REFERENCES INDEX
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University of California Press Social Suffering
Book Synopsis"Social Suffering" takes in the human consequences of war, famine, depression, disease and torture, problems that result from what political, economic and institutional power does to people. Experts have joined together to investigate the cultural representations of human suffering.Table of ContentsCONTRIBUTORS: Talal Asad J. W. Bowker Stanley Cavell E. Valentine Daniel Veena Das Paul Farmer Anne Harrington Arthur Kleinman Joan Kleinman Lawrence L. Langer Margaret Lock David B. Morris Mamphela Ramphele Vera Schwarcz Tu Wei-ming Allan Young
£28.50
University of California Press Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet
Book SynopsisDemonstrating how the Buddhist revival in Tibet must contend with tensions between the Chinese state and aspirations for greater Tibetan autonomy, the authors discuss ways that Tibetan Buddhists are restructuring their religion through a process of social, political and economic adaptation.
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University of California Press Takarazuka
Book SynopsisThe all-female Takarazuka Revue was founded in 1913 as a novel counterpart to the all-male Kabuki theater. This book traces the contradictory meanings of Takarazuka productions over time, with special attention to the World War II period.
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University of California Press The Spiritual Quest Transcendence in Myth
Book SynopsisA study which argues that the spiritual quest is rooted in our biological, psychological, linguistic and social nature. Drawing on tribal religions and practices and from theorists and thinkers, the author seeks to expand our awareness of this complex human activity.Table of ContentsPREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PART ONE· ANIMAL QUAERENS: THE QUEST AS A DIMENSION OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE 1. Religion and the Spiritual Quest: From Closure to Openness 2. Biological and Psychological Foundations of the Quest 3. Linguistic Foundations of the Quest 4. The Questing Animal PART TWO · THE SPIRITUAL QUEST IN RITUAL AND MYTH 5. Ritual as Affirmation and Transformation 6. Myth and the Journey beyond the Self 7. Mobility and Its Limits in Communal Ritual and Myth PART THREE· SPIRIT POSSESSION AS A FORM OF THE SPIRITUAL QUEST 8. The Varieties of Spirit Possession 9. Possession and Transformation PART FOUR· FORMS OF THE SHAMANIC QUEST 10. Shamanism, Possession, and Ecstasy: Australia and the Tropics 11. Shamanic Heartland: Central and Northern Eurasia PART FIVE · FORMS OF THE QUEST IN NATIVE AMERICA 12. The Arctic and Western North America 13. Mesoamerica and South America 14. Eastern North America and the Great Plains PART SIX · THE THEORY OF THE QUEST:SOME CLOSING CONSIDERATIONS 15. A Ternary Process 16. The Reality of Transcendence BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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University of California Press Bicycle Citizens The Political World of the
Book SynopsisWhile the typical Japanese male politician glides through his district in air-conditioned taxis, the typical female voter trundles along the side streets on a simple bicycle. Studying the politics of the average female citizen in Japan, this title argues that this taxi-bicycle contrast reaches deeply into Japanese society.Table of ContentsFOREWORD by Saskia Sassen ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTE ON NAMES 1. "Supposing Truth Is a Woman-What Then?" 2. The Identity of the "Regular Housewife" 3· Housewives and Citizenship 4. Volunteering against Politics: Housewives, Citizenship, and Community Service 5. Toward a "Housewifely'' Movement: The Seikatsu Club Co-op's Daily Life Politics 6. The Ono Campaign: A "Regular'' Housewife in Elite Politics CONCLUSION NOTES REFERENCES INDEX
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University of California Press Haiti History and the Gods
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University of California Press Beyond the Cultural Turn
Book SynopsisNothing has generated more controversy in the social sciences than the turn toward culture, variously known as the linguistic turn, culturalism, or postmodernism. This book examines the impact of the cultural turn on two prominent social science disciplines, history and sociology.Table of ContentsCONTRIBUTORS: Richard Biernacki Caroline Bynum Steven Feierman Karen Halttunen Margaret C. Jacob Sonya O. Rose Jerrold Seigel William H. Sewell Jr. Margaret R. Somers Hayden White
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University of California Press Global Ethnography
Book SynopsisExplores the mutual shaping of local struggles and global forces. This book shows how groups negotiate, circumvent, challenge, and even re-create the complex global web that entangles them.Table of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction: Reaching for the Global Michael Burawoy PART ONE • GLOBAL FORCES Introduction to Part One 2. Global Discourses of Need: Mythologizing and Pathologizing Welfare in Hungary LynneHaney 3· Excavating "Globalization" from Street Level: Homeless Men Recycle Their Pasts Teresa Gowan 4· Degradation without Deskilling: Twenty-Five Years in the San Francisco Shipyards Joseph A. Blum PART TWO· GLOBAL CONNECTIONS Introduction to Part Two 5· "Dirty Nurses" and "Men Who Play": Gender and Class in Transnational Migration Sheba George 6. Net-Working for a Living: Irish Software Developers in the Global Workplace Sean 6 Riain 7. Traveling Feminisms: From Embodied Women to Gendered Citizenship Millie Thayer PART THREE· GLOBAL IMAGINATIONS Introduction to Part Three 8. Cognitive Cartography in a European Wasteland: Multinational Capital and Greens Vie for Village Allegiance Zsuz.sa Gille g. Contesting the Global City: Pittsburgh's Public Service Unions Confront a Neoliberal Agenda Steven H. Lopez 10. From Private Stigma to Global Assembly: Transforming the Terrain of Breast Cancer Maren Klawiter CONCLUSION 11. Grounding Globalization Michael Burawoy Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Constructing Frames of Reference
Book SynopsisPresents a description of the author's methodology and its significance for understanding hunter-gatherer cultures on a global basis. This book provides a major synthesis of an enormous body of cultural and environmental information.Trade Review"This is a landmark work. It provides a major synthesis of a huge body of cultural and environmental information and offers a number of original, provocative insights into hunter-gatherer lifeways. It also provides a methodological framework that should be highly influential for years to come." - Jeremy A. Sabloff, Williams Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum "This is a very significant contribution to the field.... Many of the ideas presented in this book were foreshadowed in [Binford's] earlier work, but nowhere have they been developed as fully as they are here." - James F. O'Connell, author of A Prehistory of Australia, New Guinea, and Sahul"
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University of California Press In Pursuit of the Past Decoding the
Book SynopsisThis text questions established ideas and proposes theories based on the author's comparative archaeological and ethnographic research. It seeks to provide students and general readers with an introduction to his ideas about understanding the human past.Trade Review"Lewis Binford shows, by example, the strategies that are needed to turn the subject from a backward-looking curiosity into a scientific attack on our understanding of past human behavior." - Clive Gamble, NatureTable of ContentsForeword Editorial Note Author's Acknowledgments Preface 1. Translating the Archaeological Record PART I: WHAT WAS IT LIKE? 2. Man the Mighty Hunter? 3. Life and Death at the Waterhole PART II: WHAT DOES IT MEAN? 4. The Challenge of the Mousterian 5. An Archaeological Odyssey 6. Hunters in a Landscape 7. People in their Lifespace PART III. WHY DID IT HAPPEN? 8. On the Origins of Agriculture 9. Paths to Complexity Afterword to the 2002 Edition Notes on the Text Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Genetic NatureCulture
Book SynopsisThe so-called science wars pit science against culture, and nowhere is the struggle more contentious than in the realm of genetics. A constructive response, this volume brings together biological and cultural anthropologists to conduct a dialogue that bridges the science/culture divide.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword Sydel Silverman Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction. Anthropology in an Age of Genetics: Practice, Discourse, and Critique M. Susan Lindee, Alan Goodman, and Deborah Heath NATURE/CULTURE Human Populations/Genetic Resources 1. Indigenous Peoples, Changing Social and Political Landscapes, and Human Genetics in Amazonia Ricardo Ventura Santos 2. Provenance and the Pedigree: Victor McKusick's Fieldwork with the Old Order Amish M. Susan Lindee 3. Flexible Eugenics: Technologies of the Self in the Age of Genetics Karen-Sue Taussig, Rayna Rapp, and Deborah Heath 4. The Commodification of Virtual Reality: The Icelandic Health Sector Database Hilary Rose Animal Species/Genetic Resources 5. Kinship, Genes, and Cloning: Life after Dolly Sarah Franklin 6. For the Love of a Good Dog: Webs of Action in the World of Dog Genetics Donna Haraway 7. 98% Chimpanzee and 35% Daffodil: The Human Genome in Evolutionary and Cultural Context Jonathan Marks CULTURE/NATURE Political and Cultural Identity 8. From Pure Genes to GMOs: Transnationalized Gene Landscapes in the Biodiversity and Transgenic Food Networks Chaia Heller and Arturo Escobar 9. Future Imaginaries: Genome Scientists as Sociocultural Entrepreneurs Joan H. Fujimura 10. Reflections and Prospects for Anthropological Genetics in South Africa Himla Soodyall Race and Human Variation 11. The Genetics of African Americans: Implications for Disease Gene Mapping and Identity Rick Kittles and Charmaine Royal 12. Human Races in the Context of Recent Human Evolution: A Molecular Genetic Perspective Alan R. Templeton 13. Buried Alive: The Concept of Race in Science Troy Duster 14. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Promise and Problems of Ancient DNA for Anthropology Frederika A. Kaestle List of Contributors Index
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University of California Press Why Did They Kill
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents List of Figures Acknowledgments Timeline List of Personages Foreword by Robert Jay Lifton Introduction: In the Shadow of Genocide Part One • The Prison without Walls Preamble 1. A Head for an Eye: Disproportionate Revenge 2. Power, Patronage, and Suspicion 3. In the Shade of Pol Pot’s Umbrella Part Two • The Fire without Smoke Preamble 4. The DK Social Order 5. Manufacturing Difference 6. The Dark Side of Face and Honor Conclusion: Why People Kill Note on Transliteration Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Millennial Monsters
Book SynopsisExamining the crossover traffic between Japan and the United States, this book explores the global popularity of Japanese youth goods while it questions the make-up of the fantasies and the capitalistic conditions of the play involved.Trade Review"Allison manages to present these play commodities in a way that says something fresh about Japan, about the hoary notion of globalization, and about contemporary intersections of capitalism, culture, and pleasure. Millennial Monsters is clearly an important book - important because the subject is of such broad interest, and because Allison's analytic interpretation is clear, powerful, and provocative." - William Kelley, Professor of Anthropology and Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies, Yale University"Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword 1. Enchanted Commodities 2. From Ashes to Cyborgs: The Era of Reconstruction (1945--1960) 3. Millennial Japan: Intimate Alienation and New Age Intimacies 4. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The First Crossover Superheroes 5. Fierce Flesh: Sexy Schoolgirls in the Action Fantasy of Sailor Moon 6. Tamagotchi: The Prosthetics of Presence 7. Pokemon: Getting Monsters and Communicating Capitalism 8. "Gotta Catch 'Em All": The Pokemonization of America (and the World) Epilogue Notes References Index
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University of California Press Disability in Local and Global Worlds
Book SynopsisExplores the global changes in disability awareness, technology, and policy from the viewpoint of disabled people and their families in a range of local contexts. This book reports on ethnographic research in Brazil, Uganda, Botswana, Somalia, Britain, Israel, China, India, and Japan. It addresses the definition of human rights in local contexts.
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University of California Press Darkening Peaks
Book SynopsisDiscusses the ways that scientists have observed and modeled glaciers, tells how climate change is altering their size and distribution, and looks at their effect on human life.Trade Review" A fascinating and stimulating volume ... a wonderful reference ... and a thumping good read." Journal Of Quaternary Science
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University of California Press The Fossil Chronicles
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£42.50
University of California Press First Peoples in a New World
Book SynopsisOver 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America. This title tells the scientific story of the first Americans: where they came from, when they arrived, and how they met the challenges of moving across the vast, unknown landscapes of Ice Age North America.Trade Review"A must read for anyone interested in what is undeniable the greatest debate in American archaeology... Essential." Choice "The book is ... sharply written and narratively compelling." -- Mark Dailey Journal Of World History "A masterful exploration and encapsulation of the last two centuries of American archaeology and the first five millennia of the earliest Americans." American Scientist "Informative and entertaining." -- E. James Dixon Antiquity "A good review of topics and controversies surrounding the peopling of North America." -- Susan C. Vehik Great Plains Research "[Meltzer] has written the most in-depth synthesis of the history of the debate about the early peopling of North America yet published." -- Juliet E. Morrow Journal Of Iowa Archeological Society "Often lively and occasionally bemused, Meltzer's study-part detective story and part archeological research-is stimulating and sometimes tantalizingly controversial." Publishers Weekly: Nonfiction (2)Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Overture On Dates and Dating 2. The Landscape of Colonization: Glaciers, Climates, and Environments of Ice Age North America The Younger Dryas: It Came from Outer Space? 3. From Paleoliths to Paleoindians A Mammoth Fraud in Science 4. The Pre-Clovis Controversy and Its Resolution A Visit to Monte Verde 5. Non-archaeological Answers to Archaeological Questions And Then There Was Kennewick 6. American Origins: The Search for Consensus Looking for Clovis in All the Wrong Places 7. What Do You Do When No One’s Been There Before? 8. Clovis Adaptations and Pleistocene Extinctions Is Overkill Dead? 9. Settling In: Late Paleoindians and the Waning Ice Age Back to Folsom 10. When Past and Present Collide Further Reading Notes References Index Plates
£20.70
University of California Press Deep China
Book SynopsisInvestigates the emotional and moral lives of the Chinese people as they adjust to the challenges of modernity. Sharing a medical anthropology and cultural psychiatry perspective, this title delves into intimate and sometimes hidden areas of personal life and social practice to observe and narrate the drama of Chinese individualization.Trade Review"Essential... This is one of the most important books on China to be published in recent years." -- Susan D. Blum, The University of Notre Dame The China Journal "This book should be highly praised... Good reading for anyone interested in Sinology, politics, economics, anthropology, sociology and mental health." -- Diana Soeiro Metapsychology Online Review "Fascinating... Deep China seeks to explore through the lenses of psychiatry and sociology the effects on the individual." -- Rui Zheng British Journal Of PsychiatryTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Remaking the Moral Person in a New China 1. The Changing Moral Landscape Yunxiang Yan 2. From Commodity of Death to Gift of Life Jing Jun 3. China's Sexual Revolution Everett Yuehong Zhang 4. Place Attachment, Communal Memory, and the Moral Underpinnings of Gentrification in Postreform Shanghai Pan Tianshu 5. Depression: Coming of Age in China Sing Lee 6. Suicide, a Modern Problem in China Wu Fei 7. Stigma: HIV/AIDS, Mental Illness, and China's Nonpersons Guo Jinhua and Arthur Kleinman 8. Quests for Meaning Arthur Kleinman Glossary of Chinese Terms and Names Notes on Contributors Index
£55.10
University of California Press The Chumash World at European Contact
Book SynopsisWhen Spanish explorers and missionaries came onto Southern California's shores in 1769, they encountered the large towns and villages of the Chumash, a people who at that time were among the most advanced hunter-gatherer societies in the world. This title weaves together multiple sources of evidence to re-create the tapestry of Chumash society.Trade Review"In this masterful combination of empirical research, controlled comparison, and attention to contemporary theories regarding the social formations of hunger-gatherers, Gamble has contributed an authoritative, richly documented and illustrated synthesis of this fascinating time and place in protohistoric California." -- W. S. Simmons Choice "An important book... One of the most vivid and sophisticated studies of any Indian group in North America at the point of their first sustained contact with Europeans." -- Steven W. Hackel Journal Of American History "Gamble's careful scholarship makes this text a fine template to be followed." Journal Of World History "Gamble presents a significant contribution, both descriptively and methodologically, that will be of interest to a wide variety of anthropologists, sociologists, historians, and other researchers in California and around the world." -- Todd J. Braje American AnthropologistTable of ContentsPreface 1. The Chumash at Historic Contact 1 Significance of Research 3 Overview of the Chumash 6 Development of Chumash Sociopolitical Complexity 9 Theoretical Considerations 11 2. The Environment and Its Management 17 Resources in the Santa Barbara Channel Region 19 The Chumash as Environmental Managers 32 Environmental Changes During the Historic Period 33 3. Cultural Setting 37 Early Documents 38 Archaeological Research on the Mainland 42 Social Sphere of the Chumash 54 Economic Networks 60 Chiefs and Power 62 4. Historic Chumash Settlements on the Mainland Coast 65 Population Figures for the Chumash 65 Noqto 70 Shilimaqshtush 74 Shisholop Town 75 Texax 76 Kashtayit 76 'Onomyo 77 Tajiguas 78 Qasil 78 Dos Pueblos: Mikiw and Kuya'mu 80 Goleta Slough Settlements 84 Syuxtun 93 Shalawa 96 Q'oloq' 97 Mishopshno 97 Shuku 100 Shisholop Settlement 102 Muwu 104 Lisiqishi 107 Sumo 107 Lojostogni 108 Humaliwo 108 Summary 109 5. Village and Household Organization 113 Ethnohistoric and Ethnographic Descriptions of Village Organization and Structures 114 Archaeological Evidence for Village Organization and Structures 126 Evidence for Production and Consumption at the Household and Village Level 149 6. Subsistence and Feasting 151 Dietary Overview 152 Gender Roles 178 Feasting 179 Colonial Influence and the Persistence of Native Traditions 187 Summary 189 7. Rank, Ritual, and Power 191 Ethnohistoric and Ethnographic Perspectives on Chiefs, Elites, and Commoners 192 Mortuary Symbolism, Rank and Religious Power 201 Religious Power 213 Gender 216 Manifestations of Power 219 8. Economics and Exchange: Manifestations of Wealth Finance 223 Contexts of Exchange 224 Shell Beads as Indicators of Wealth and Rank 229 Theoretical Considerations Concerning Chumash Exchange 234 Significance of Canoes 235 Centers of Exchange 239 Prestige Goods and Wealth Finance 243 Network Power and Social Storage 247 9. Conflict and Social Integration 249 Evidence for Warfare in Ethnohistoric and Ethnographic Accounts 250 Bioarchaeological Evidence of Violence at Historic Contact 261 Mechanisms of Social Integration 264 Methods of Social Control 266 Theoretical Perspectives on Chumash Warfare at Historic Contact 269 10. The Chumash, Pomo, and Patwin: Comparative Analysis and Final Thoughts 275 Complex Hunter-Gatherers: The Chumash Example 276 Resource Abundance and Sociopolitical Complexity 277 Power Strategies of the Chumash 279 Network Power 280 Emergent Complexity and the Relationship of the Island and Mainland Chumash 283 Sociopolitical Complexity among Hunter-Gatherers in California 287 Future Studies of Complex Hunter-Gatherers 301 Notes 303 References 309 Index 351
£28.50
University of California Press Life in Debt
Book SynopsisIntroduces lives and world of a poor urban neighborhood in Santiago in Chile. Tracing relations and lives between 1999 and 2010, this book explores how the moral and political subjects imagined and asserted by poverty and mental health policies and reparations for human rights violations are refracted through relational modes and their boundaries.Trade Review"Thought-provoking, engaging, insightful, thoroughly researched and theoretically nuanced." -- Deborah R. Altamirano Times Higher Education "Brimming with insights and textures... Han brilliantly, often quite beautifully, fleshes out the intersections between the existential and the economic." -- Larisa Jasarevic SomatosphereTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Symptoms of Another Life 2. Social Debt, Silent Gift 3. Torture, Love, and the Everyday 4. Neoliberal Depression 5. Community Experiments 6. Life and Death, Care and Neglect Conclusion: Relations and Time Notes References Index
£27.00
University of California Press Between One and One Another
Book SynopsisFocuses on the interplay between two modes of human existence: that of participating in other peoples' lives and that of turning inward to one's self. This title shows how the historical complexities and particularities found in human interactions reveal the dilemmas, conflicts, cares, and concerns that shape all of our lives.
£27.00
University of California Press Rough and Tumble
Book SynopsisBased on studies of humans and of other primates, as well as on fossil and archaeological evidence, this title offers a perspective on human evolution by decoupling ideas of aggression and predation to build a more realistic understanding of what it is to be human.Trade Review"An abbreviated but compelling history of the field, discussing dominant players as well as offering insights into how to interpret complex and fragmentary data." Publishers Weekly "[Pickering effectively challenges aspects of the 'killer ape' hypothesis]... He also raises interesting questions about the data compiled by other scientists regarding hominin remains." -- Jeff Fleischer ForeWord ReviewsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. A Man among Apes 2. Prehistoric Bloodsport 3. Tamping the Simian Urge 4. Conceiving Our Past 5. Death from Above Coda Notes References Index
£999.99
