Cultural studies Books
University of California Press Walter Benjamin
Book SynopsisAn introduction to the life and work of Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and literary and cultural critic. The text offers insight into Benjamin's complex relationships with Adorno, Brecht, Jewish Messianism and Western Marxism.Trade Review"The newcomer to Benjamin's work is here in excellent hands." * Times Literary Supplement *"A highly successful intellectual biography of Walter Benjamin . . . making an original argument concerning the works and addressing directly the issues raised by Benjamin that are still very much alive in our own time." * Theory and Society *Table of ContentsPREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A NOTE ON THE TRANSLATIONS A NOTE ON TERMINOLOGY INTRODUCTION TO THE REVISED EDITION Chapter One ORIGINS Childhood and Autobiography Youth Movement Romantic Anticapitalism Chapter Two THE PATH TO TRAUERSPIEL Experience, Kabbalah, and Language Messianic Time Versus Historical Time Allegory Chapter Three IDEAS AND THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE Anti-Historicism The Essay as Mediation Between Art and Philosophical Truth Constellation, Origin, Monad Chapter Four FROM MESSIANISM TO MATERIALISM Radical Communism One-Way Street and Dialectical Images Surrealism Chapter Five BENJAMIN AND BRECHT "Crude Thinking" Epic Theater The Author as Producer Chapter Six THE ADORNO-BENJAMIN DISPUTE The Philosophical Rapprochement Between Benjamin and Adorno in the Early 1930s The Arcades Expose Art and Mechanical Reproduction Methodological Asceticism, Magic and Positivism Beyond the Dispute Chapter Seven BENJAMIN'S MATERIALIST THEORY OF EXPERIENCE The Disintegration of Community: Novel versus Story Baudelaire, Modernity, and Shock Experience Nonsensuous Correspondences Chapter Eight "A L'ECART DE TOUS LES COURANTS" NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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University of California Press The Arab World
Book SynopsisAn examination of Arab society and culture that offers an opportunity to know the Arab world from an Arab point of view. It emphasizes the changes and diverse patterns that have characterized the Middle East since the mid-nineteenth century.Table of Contents Preface PART ONE: ARAB IDENTITY AND ISSUES OF DIVERSITY AND INTEGRATION: OUT OF MANY, ONE 1. Social and Political Integration: Alternative Visions of the Future Historical Context Conclusion 2. Arab Society: Basic Characteristic Features A Critical Approach: Some Methodological Observations Some Characteristic Features: Arab Society Basics: The Physical Setting, Demography, and Ecology Conclusion 3. Arab Identity: E pluribus unum The Arab Sense: Belonging Shared Culture and Its Variations The Place of Arabs in History and Their Common Experiences Shared Economic Interests External Challenges and Political Unity Conclusion 4. The Continuity of Old Cleavages: Tribe, Village, City The Bedouin Way: Life The Peasantry and the Village The City: Urbanization: Society Nature: The Relationships between Tribe, Village, and City Conclusion PART TWO: SOCIAL STRUCTURES AND INSTITUTIONS: OUT OF ONE, MANY 5. Social Classes: Beyond the Mosaic Model The Emerging Arab Economic Order Bases of Class Distinction and Formation Basic Classes in Contemporary Arab Society Class Relations: Class Consciousness and Class Struggle Conclusion 6. The Arab Family and the Challenge of Change The Basic Characteristics of the Arab Family Marriage and Divorce Patterns The Family and Society Conclusion 7. Religion in Society The Sociology of Islam The Social Origins of Religion Religion and Sect Official versus Folk or Popular Religion Religions as Mechanisms of Control, Instigation, and Reconciliation The Interrelationship between Religion and Other Social Institutions Religion and the State--Secularism versus Theocracy Alienation from and in Religion Religion and Change: Transformation or Conformity? Conclusion 8. Arab Politics: Its Social Context The Starting Point of Analysis The Politics of the Traditional Urban Big Bourgeoisie The Politics of the Intermediate National Bourgeoisie: Western Liberalism, Nationalism, Arab Socialism, and Religious Fundamentalism The Working Classes and the Left The Authoritarian Nature of the Arab Systems Conclusion: The Crisis of Civil Society PART THREE: THE DYNAMICS OF ARAB CULTURE 9. National Character and Value Orientations The Question of National Character Arab Value Orientations Conclusion 10. Creative Expression: Society and Literary Orientations Orientations in Arabic Literature Novels of Reconciliation Novels of Exposure Novels of Revolutionary Change Conclusion 11. Arab Thought: Problems of Renewal, Modernity, and Transformation Arab Thought in the Formative Period (1850-1914) Arab Thought and the Struggle for National Independence (1918-1945) Independence and Postindependence, 1945-1992: Researching the Roots of Disaster Conclusion PART FOUR: THE CRISIS OF CIVIL SOCIETY APPROACHING THE HORIZON OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 12. Conclusion Visions for the Future Notes Glossary Select 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 The Sex of Things Gender and Consumption in
Book SynopsisFeatures the essays that consider how Western societies think about and use goods, how goods shape female, as well as male, identities, how labor in the family came to be divided between a male breadwinner and a female consumer, and how fashion and cosmetics shape women's notions of themselves and the society in which they live.Table of ContentsCONTRIBUTORS: Susan Porter Benson Sue Bowden Rachel Bowlby Erica Carter Belinda Davis Victoria de Grazia Ellen Furlough Anna R. Igra Jennifer Jones David Kuchta Avner Offer Kathy Peiss Erika Rappaport Abigail Solomon-Godeau
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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 Rationalizing Culture Ircam Boulez the
Book SynopsisThis is an ethnography of a powerful western cultural organization, the renowned Institut de Recherche et de Co-ordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) in Paris. The book studies the social and cultural economy of an institution for research and production of avant-garde and computer music.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction I. Themes and Debates 2. Prehistory: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Music 3· Background: IRCAM's Conditions of Existence 4· The Institution of IRCAM: Culture and Status 5. Power, Institutional Conflict, Politics 6. Music: Uncertainty, the Canon, and Dissident Musics 7. Science, Technology, the Music Research Vanguard 8. A Composer's Visit: Mediations and Practices 9· Aporias: Technological and Social Problems around Production IO. Subjectivities: Difference and Fragmentation II. Conclusions: IRCAM, Cultural Power, and the Reproduction of Aesthetic Modernism Appendix: IRCAM Workers and Visitors as Introduced in the Text, by Acronym Glossary of terms and acronyms in the text Notes General Bibliography Bibliography of Music-Related References Index
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University of California Press InDifferent Spaces Place and Memory in Visual
Book SynopsisExplores the construction of identities in the psychical space between perception and consciousness, drawing upon psychoanalytic theories to describe the constitution and maintenance of 'self' and 'us' - in imaginary spatial and temporal relations to 'other' and 'them' - through the all-important relay of images.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 Geometry and Abjection 2 Perverse Space 3 Newton's Gravity 4 Chance Encounters 5 Seiburealism 6 Paranoiac Space 7 The City in Pieces 8 Barthes's Discretion 9 Brecciated Time Notes Illustrations Index
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University of California Press Studies in Greek Culture and Roman Policy
Book SynopsisExamines the impact of Greek learning, literature, and religion on central aspects of Roman life in the middle Republic. This book discusses the introduction of and resistance to new cults, the relationship between Roman political figures and literary artists schooled in Greek, and the reaction to Hellenic philosophy and rhetoric by Roman elite.Table of ContentsIntroduction I. The Advent of the Magna Mater II. The Bacchanalian Affair III. Poetry and Politics: The Beginnings of Latin Literature IV. Plautus and the Public Stage V. Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Roman Anxieties Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Tangled Memories
Book SynopsisAnalyzing the ways US culture has been formed and transformed in the 80s and 90s by its response to the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic, this book argues that each has disrupted our conventional notions of community, nation, consensus, and 'American culture.'Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Camera Images and National Meanings 2 The Wall and the Screen Memory: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial 3 Reenactment and the Making of History: The Vietnam War as Docudrama 4 Spectacles of Memory and Amnesia: Remembering the Persian Gulf War 5 AIDS and the Politics of Representation 6 Conversations with the Dead: Bearing Witness in the AIDS Memorial Quilt 7 Bodies of Commemoration: The Immune System and HIV Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Border Matters Remapping American Cultural
Book SynopsisLocates the study of Chicano culture in a social context. This title examines issues of representation and expression in a diverse, exciting assortment of texts - corridos, novels, poems, short stories, punk and hip-hop music, ethnography, paintings, performance, art, and essays. It provides a model for a kind of US cultural studies.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Tracking Borders PART ONE COMPARATIVE INTERCULTURAL STUDIES 1. Cultural Theory in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands 2. Americo Paredes and Decolonization 3· Changing Borderland Subjectivities 4· The Production of Space by Arturo Islas and Carmen Lomas Garza PART TWO EL OTRO LADO I THE OTHER SIDE 5. On the Bad Edge of La Frontera 6. Tijuana Calling: Travel Writing, Autoethnography, and Video Art 7· Remapping American Cultural Studies Afterword: Frontejas to El Vez Notes References Index
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University of California Press The Wages of Sin Censorship and the Fallen Woman
Book SynopsisIn this text, Lea Jacobs uses the fallen woman film, which served as a focal point for public criticism of the film industry, to explore Hollywood's system of self-censorship and the evolution of the rules governing representations of sexuality.Table of ContentsPreface 1. The Fallen Woman Film and the Impetus for Censorship 2. The Studio Relations Committee's Policies and Procedures 3. Glamour and Gold Diggers 4. Something Other than a Sob Story 5. The Production Code Administration's Policies and Procedures 6. Class and Glamour in the Films of the Late Thirties 7. Afterword Appendix: Censorship Cases Reviewed Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The Building Program of Herod the Great
Book SynopsisHerod the Great, King of Judaea from 444 BC, is known as one of the world's great villains. This notoriety has overshadowed his actual achievements, particularly his role as a client king of Rome during Augustus's reign as emperor. This title presents and discusses the building projects known to have been initiated by Herod.
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University of California Press Pop Art
Book SynopsisA chronical of one of the most controversial art movements of the 20th century. A broad range of articles trace the emergence of the movement in England and America and then focus on the major pop artists Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist and Andy Warhol.Trade Review"To understand where we are in American art, we need Pop Art: A Critical History to remind us of where we were. Thorough and as lively as the era it documents, Steven Henry Madoff's indispensable compendium neatly recaptures a moment that irrevocably altered American culture." * New York Times *"This not-to-be-missed anthology collects stimulating articles, interviews, and other texts defining 'the phenomenon of Pop.' Art critic Madoff contributes a fine introductory overview and then presents 94 critical articles, negative and positive, on this brash, vulgar, successful style." * Library Journal *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION Steven Henry Madoff, Wham! Blam! How Pop Art Stormed the High-Art Citadel and What the Critics Said 1 PRE-POP: AMERICAN PRECURSORS, ENGLISH CURRENTS Frank O’Hara, from “Larry Rivers: ‘Why I Paint as I Do’” Alison and Peter Smithson, “But Today We Collect Ads” Richard Hamilton, “Letter to Peter and Alison Smithson” Lawrence Alloway, “The Arts and the Mass Media” Thomas B. Hess, “Mixed Mediums for a Soft Revolution” Robert Rosenblum, “Jasper Johns” Clement Greenberg, from “After Abstract Expressionism” Jasia Reichardt, “Pop Art and After” Alan R. Solomon, from “Robert Rauschenberg” 2 THE PHENOMENON OF POP: GENERAL ESSAYS AND LOCAL REVIEWS, 1962–1970 Sidney Tillim, from “Month in Review: New York Exhibitions” Max Kozloff, “‘Pop’ Culture, Metaphysical Disgust, and the New Vulgarians” Jules Langsner, from “Los Angeles Letter” G. R. Swenson, “The New American ‘Sign Painters’” Sidney Janis, “On the Theme of the Exhibition” Brian O’Doherty, “Art: Avant-Garde Revolt” John Coplans, “The New Painting of Common Objects” Gilbert Sorrentino, “Kitch into ‘Art’: The New Realism” Barbara Rose, “Dada, Then and Now” Peter Selz et al, “A Symposium on Pop Art” Barbara Rose, “Pop Art at the Guggenheim” Peter Selz, “The Flaccid Art” Ivan C. Karp, “Anti-Sensibility Painting” Alan R. Solomon, “The New Art” John Coplans, “Pop Art, USA” Thomas B. Hess, from “Pop and Public” G.R. Swenson, “What Is Pop Art? Part I” G.R. Swenson, from “What Is Pop Art? Part II” John Canaday, “Pop Art Sells On and On — Why?” Tullia Zevi, “The Biennale: How Evil is Pop Art?” Max Kozloff, “Dissimulated Pop” Unsigned, “Pop Art Exhibited, and It’s Crazy, Dad” Robert Rosenblum, “Pop Art and Non-Pop Art” Sidney Tillim, “Further Observations on the Pop Phenomenon” Bruce Glaser, “Oldenburg, Lichtenstein, Warhol: A Discussion” Peter Benchley, “Special Report: The Story of Pop,” John Adkins Richardson, “Dada, Camp, and the Mode Called Pop” Dana Adams Schmidt, “London Court Fines a Gallery for ‘Indecent’ Pop-Art Display” Peter Plagens, “Present-Day Styles and Ready-Made Criticism” Lawrence Alloway, “Popular Culture and Pop Art” John Russell, “Pop Reappraised” Harold Rosenberg, “The Art World: Marilyn Mondrian” 3 FOCUS: THE MAJOR ARTISTS Roy Lichtenstein Unsigned, “Everything Clear Now?” Donald Judd, “In the Galleries: Roy Lichtenstein” Robert Rosenblum, “Roy Lichtenstein and the Realist Revolt” Douglas McClellan, “Roy Lichtenstein, Ferus Gallery” Dorothy Seiberling, “Is He the Worst Artist in the U.S.?” John Ashbery, “Pop Artist Switches to Aggressive Neutral Banality” John Coplans, “Talking with Roy Lichtenstein” Albert Boime, “Roy Lichtenstein and the Comic Strip” Diane Waldman, “Roy Lichtenstein” Claes Oldenburg Claes Oldenburg, “Statement” Michael Fried, “New York Letter” Jill Johnston, “Off Off-Broadway; ‘Happenings’ at Ray Gun Mfg. Co.” Ellen H. Johnson, “The Living Object” Gerald Nordland, from “Marcel Duchamp and Common Object Art” Donald Judd, “In the Galleries: Claes Oldenburg” Öyvind Fahlström, “Object-Making” Barbara Rose, “Claes Oldenburg’s Soft Machines” Richard Kostelanetz, from “Claes Oldenburg” James Rosenquist Gene R. Swenson, “Reviews and Previews: New Names This Month: James Rosenquist” Edward F. Fry, essay from exhibition catalogue, James Rosenquist William Wilson, “Los Angeles: James Rosenquist” Lucy R. Lippard, “James Rosenquist: Aspects of a Multiple Art” Doon Arbus, “The Man in the Paper Suit” Hilton Kramer, “A New Hangar for Rosenquist’s Jet-Pop ‘F-111’” Robert C. Scull, “Re the F-111: A Collector’s Notes” Sidney Tillim, “Rosenquist at the Met: Avant-Garde or Red Guard?” Lawrence Alloway, “Art” Andy Warhol Henry T. Hopkins, “Andy Warhol, Ferus Gallery” Michael Fried, from “New York Letter” Donald Judd, “In the Galleries: Andy Warhol” Arthur Danto, “The Artworld” Unsigned, “Saint Andrew” Thomas B. Hess, “Reviews and Previews: New Names this Month: Andy Warhol” Roger Vaughan, “Superpop or a Night at the Factory” David Antin, “Warhol: The Silver Tenement” William Wilson, “Prince of Boredom: The Repetitions and Passivities of Andy Warhol” John Coplans, “Early Warhol: The Systematic Evolution of the Impersonal Style” 4 FROM CENTER TO PERIPHERY: OTHER FIGURES Allan D’Arcangelo Vivien Raynor, “In the Galleries: Allan D’Arcangelo” Nicolas Calas, “Highways & By-ways” Jim Dine Alan R. Solomon, “Jim Dine and the Psychology of the New Art” Robert Pincus-Witten, “New York: Jim Dine” öyvind Fahlström Torsten Ekbom, “Öyvind Fahlström: Models of Shattered Reality” Robert Indiana G. R. Swenson, “The Horizons of Robert Indiana” Jan van der Marck, foreword from exhibition catalogue, Robert Indiana Mel Ramos Jay Jacobs, “In the Galleries: Mel Ramos” Robin Skelton, “The Art of Mel Ramos” Edward Ruscha Nancy Marmer, “Edward Ruscha, Ferus Gallery” John Coplans, “Concerning ‘Various Small Fires’: Edward Ruscha Discusses His Perplexing Publications” George Segal Allan Kaprow, “Segal’s Vital Mummies” John Perreault, “Plaster Caste” Peter Saul Jack Kroll, “Reviews and Previews: New Names this Month: Peter Saul” Ellen H. Johnson, essay from exhibition catalogue, Peter Saul Wayne Thiebaud Thomas B. Hess, “Reviews and Previews: New Names this Month: Wayne Thiebaud” Diane Waldman, “Thiebaud: Eros in Cafeteria” John Wesley Donald Judd, “In the Galleries: John Wesley” Tom Wesselmann Brian O’Doherty, “‘Pop’ Show by Tom Wesselmann Is Revisited” J. A. Abramson, “Tom Wesselmann and the Gates of Horn” 5 REVISING POP: LATER CRITICAL REFLECTIONS Max Kozloff, “American Painting during the Cold War” Roland Barthes, “That Old Thing, Art . . .” Robert Hughes, “The Rise of Andy Warhol” Lynne Cooke, from “The Independent Group: British and American Pop Art, a ‘Palimpcestuous’ Legacy” Bruce Altshuler, from “Pop Triumphant: A New Realism” CHRONOLOGY An Exhibitions Chronicle: 1958–1970, Steven Henry Madoff and Alexandra Muse INDEX
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University of California Press Licensing Entertainment
Book SynopsisNovels have been a respectable component of culture for so long that it is difficult for twentieth-century observers to grasp the unease produced by novel reading in the eighteenth century. This title shows how the earliest novels in Britain, published in small-format print media, provoked early instances of the modern anxiety.
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University of California Press Virtually Jewish
Book SynopsisMore than half a century after the Holocaust, in countries where Jews make up just a tiny fraction of the population, products of Jewish culture have become very viable components of the popular public domain. But how can there be a growing Jewish presence in Europe, without the significant presence of Jews? The author explores this phenomenon.Trade Review"A richly documented and insightful deliberation on the dilemma of what to do in places where Jewish culture once flourished, but Jews are no longer to be found or are very few in number....Even where there seems to be a resurgence of Jewish life, it is fragile and fraught. At the same time, Jews from the United States and Israel have their own problematic relationship to the killing fields of Europe and to efforts to 'preserve' the last traces of a Jewish past. This is an altogether fascinating subject and no one is better prepared to write about it than Gruber." -Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, author of Destination CultureTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Preface Part One: Afterlife 1. Cities without Jews 2. A Virtual Jewish World Part Two: Jewish Archaeology 3. "There Is No Future without Memory" 4. Touching the Past 5. What to Do? Part Three: Museum Judaism? Representing Jewish Culture 6. Seeing Is Believing 7. The Tourist Track 8. Structuring Memory Part Four: Klezmer in the Wilderness 9. Making (and Remaking) Jewish Music 10. Klezmer in Germany 11. Whose Music? Afterword Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Where the World Ended
Book SynopsisExplores the issues of borders and borderland identities that have accompanied the many transitions since 1990. This book combines an ethnographic account of everyday life under socialist rule and after German reunification with an investigation of the paradoxical human condition of a borderland.Table of ContentsList of Maps and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1 1. The Village on the Border 2. Publicity, Secrecy, and the Politics of Everyday Life 3· The Seventh Station 4· Consuming Differences 5· Borderlands 6. Designing Women 7· The Dis-membered Border Epilogue: The Tree of Unity Glossary Notes Works Cited Index
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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 The Snow Lion and the Dragon
Book SynopsisTensions over the 'Tibet Question' - the political status of Tibet - are escalating everyday. The Dalai Lama has gained broad international sympathy in his appeals for autonomy from China, yet the Chinese government maintains a hard-line position against it. This title presents a view of the conflict and a proposal for the future.Trade Review"Remains the best introduction to Tibet." -- Nicholas Kristof New York TimesTable of ContentsPreface The Imperial Era Interlude: De Facto Independence Chinese Communist Rule: The Mao Era The Post-Mao Era The Future Notes Bibliography Index Illustrations follow page
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University of California Press A Mediterranean Society Volume II
Book SynopsisExplores the nature of medieval religious democracy, including discussion of the community, social services, local government, worship, education, interfaith relations, relations between religion and the state, and the relations between the communities and the state.
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University of California Press A Mediterranean Society Volume IV
Book SynopsisTells how it was in the Mediterranean world of the tenth through the thirteenth century. This book details city life, domestic architecture, furnishings and housewares, clothing and jewelry, food and drink, and other material culture.
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University of California Press A Mediterranean Society Volume V
Book SynopsisTells how it was in the Mediterranean world of the tenth through the thirteenth century. This book draws a portrait of the individual - a social person who mingled within the community; addressed the challenges of poverty, illness, aging, and death; possessed friends, enemies, and lovers; and prayed and responded within a religious community.
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University of California Press Intermediate College Korean
Book SynopsisThis companion text to College Korean intends to enable students to continue their development of Korean language skills and enrich their understanding of Korea. Because language is a fundamental component of culture, the book covers themes relating to Korea's cultural customs and social issues.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Using the Text Abbreviations and Symbols Lesson 1 On the Airplane Lesson 2 Seoul Lesson 3 The First Day of Class Lesson 4 Part-Time Job Lesson 5 Conversation with Friends Lesson 6 Ch’usök Lesson 7 Kangwön-do and Lady Shin Lesson 8 Taejön, the City of Science Lesson 9 What Shall I Be? Lesson 10 Kyöngju and the Foundation Myth of Silla Lesson 11 Calling on the Port City Lesson 12 Kwangju, the City of Arts Lesson 13 Cheju Island Lesson 14 New Year’s Day Lesson 15 Song Contest Lesson 16 Saint Valentine’s Day Lesson 17 Presidential Election Lesson 18 Hong Kil-dong Lesson 19 Music Concert Reservation Lesson 20 Meeting a Korean-Chinese Student Lesson 21 Electrical Gadget Goes Wrong Lesson 22 Interpreting for a Trading Company Lesson 23 Computer Information Center Lesson 24 News from the United States Lesson 25 Idiot Ondal and Princess Phyönggang Lesson 26 About North Korea Lesson 27 Reading Poems Appendix 1: Case Markers and Postpositions Appendix 2: Easily Misspelled Words Appendix 3: Spacing between Words Appendix 4: Verb Charts Appendix 5: Connectives Patterns and Grammar Notes Index Glossary
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University of California Press To See and See Again A Life in Iran and America
Book SynopsisAn intimate exploration of the complexity of a bicultural immigrant experience, this text traces three generations of an Iranian (and Iranian-American) family undergoing a century of change - from the author's grandfather to her father, to Bahrampour herself.
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University of California Press The Culture Broker
Book SynopsisA biography of Franklin D Murphy (1916-994). It delivers the story of how Murphy, as chancellor of UCLA and later as chief executive of the Times Mirror media empire, was able to influence academia, the media, and cultural foundations to reshape a fundamentally provincial city. It also brings to light the influence of LA's powerful families.Table of Contentspreface: the art of the trustee / xi prologue: something to prove / 1 The Kansas Mission . The Mad Governor versus the Boy Wonder . Imprinted by the Heartland part i: chancellor one: into the pastel empire / 21 A City Rethinking Itself . The Three Powerful Southern Regents . Lure of an Adolescent City . The Investiture of Otis Chandler two: ucla in worldwide terms / 42 Taking Command: Hail to the Hills of Westwood . Funding Culture in the Cold War . The Titan Chancellor . Symbols of Authority . The Scions Paul Mellon and Henry Ford II three: turmoil and golden moments / 75 Opening Night, Los Angeles Music Center . Opening Night, Los Angeles County Museum of Art . The Shadow behind the Golden Glow: The Watts Rebellion of August 1965 . University in Turmoil . Colossal Construction . A Threat to Clark Kerr . The Rise of Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Clark Kerr four: 1968--year of crisis / 102 The Embattled Chancellor . Resignation . The Death of Howard Ahmanson part ii: chairman five: the chancellor becomes ceo / 119 "A Beauty to Behold" . The Interlocking Directorate . Politics and the Mighty Chandlers . Jubilant Republicans and the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board six: the chandler empire in the watergate years / 138 A Time of Scandal . The Picasso Room . A Family Crisis . The Passing of Norman Chandler . "A Cancer on the Presidency" . Pressures and Prestige . The Forced Retirement of Dorothy Chandler seven: power and philanthropy / 172 Pushing the New York Times off Its Perch . Henry Ford II versus Lee Iacocca .The Legacy of Howard F. Ahmanson . The Impact of the Ahmanson Foundation on Los Angeles . The Confirmation of Nelson Rockefeller . The Chairman of Times Mirror Retires . Golden Donors part iii: trustee eight: the los angeles county museum of art / 209 The Pursuit of Norton Simon and Armand Hammer . The Challenge for a New Director . The County Museum in Peril . Los Angeles in "Art Heaven" nine: the national gallery of art / 239 Joining Forces with J. Carter Brown . The Visit of Princess Diana . Courting Collectors Armand Hammer and Walter Annenberg . Trusteeship and Successorship ten: the samuel h. kress foundation / 261 The Kress Brothers . Giveaways and Preservation eleven: the j. paul getty trust / 273 Family Dynamics . An Afternoon with J. Paul Getty . The Getty Curse . The Richest Museum in the World . A Golden Moment for Harold Williams . An Acropolis for Los Angeles twelve: three that got away / 319 The Deceptions of Armand Hammer . The Lost Treasures of Norton Simon . The Fateful Wounding of Walter Annenberg part iv: steward thirteen: changing of the guard / 347 A Time of Loss . New Era, New Leaders, New Priorities . Building a Multicultural City . Linking Los Angeles's Libraries . Civic Pride and Civil Unrest . Rescue for the Huntington Library fourteen: the doge of los angeles / 373 Chaos at the County Museum . Shifting Leverage . Final Bows afterword: the mosaic city / 389 acknowledgments / 393 notes / 395 selected bibliography / 451 index / 463
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University of California Press High Anxieties
Book SynopsisA collection of essays that explore the history and ideological ramifications of the modern concept of addiction.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Marc Redfield and Janet Farrell Brodie Part 1. Constructions of Addiction 1. Addiction and the Ends of Desire Stacey Margolis 2. A Terminal Case: William Burroughs and the Logic of Addiction Timothy Melley Part 2. Figures of the Orient 3. Narrating National Addictions: De Quincey, Opium, and Tea Cannon Schmitt 4. Victorian Highs: Detection, Drugs, and Empire Marty Roth Part 3. Demon Drink 5. The Rhetoric of Addiction: From Victorian Novels to AA Robyn R. Warhol 6. Firewater Legacy: Alcohol and Native American Identity in the Fiction of James Fenimore Cooper Nicholas O. Warner Part 4. Pleasures, Repressions, Resistances 7. Smoking, Addiction, and the Making of Time Helen Keane 8. An Intoxicated Screen: Reflections on Film and Drugs Maurizio Viano Part 5. Trauma, Media, Cyberspace 9. Welcome to the Pharmacy: Addiction, Transcendence, and Virtual Reality Ann Weinstone 10. If "Reality Is the Best Metaphor," It Must Be Virtual Marguerite Waller Notes About the Contributors
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University of California Press Legacies
Book SynopsisOne out of five Americans, more than 55 million people, are first-or second-generation immigrants. This study provides a close look at this rising second generation, including their patterns of acculturation, family and school life, language, identity, experiences of discrimination, self-esteem, ambition, and achievement.Trade Review"If Marx, Weber, and Durkheim were alive at the dawn of the 21st century, Legacies is the first book they would have to read to understand just what is at stake in the new immigration. This elegant book - theoretically precise, empirically robust, and analytically savvy - will become the standard by which all subsequent scholarship on the sociology of immigration will be measured. I am buying an extra copy today to send to the new president of the United States." -Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco, Professor and Codirector, The Harvard Immigration Projects, Harvard University"Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Preface Acknowledgments 1. Twelve Stories Miami Stories MarIa de los Angeles and Yvette Santana: August 1993 Melanie Fernandez-Rey: September 1993 Aristide Maillol: August 1993 Armando and Luis Hern*ndez: July 1995 Mary Patterson: February 1995 EfrEn Montejo: May 1994 San Diego Stories Jorge, Olga, Miguel Angel, and Estela Cardozo: January 1994 Quy Nguyen: December 1987 Bennie and Jennifer Montoya: October 1995 Sophy Keng: November 1987 - June 1988 Yolanda and Carlos Munoz: March 1994 Boua Cha: 1988 - 1990 2. The New Americans: An Overview Immigration Yesterday and Today The Size and Concentration of the Second Generation Studying the New Second Generation: The Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study The New Second Generation at a Glance Census Results CILS Results 3. Not Everyone Is Chosen: Segmented Assimilation and Its Determinants How Immigrants Are Received: Modes of Incorporation and Their Consequences Acculturation and Role Reversal Where They Grow Up: Challenges to Second-Generation Adaptation Race Labor Markets Countercultures Confronting the Challenge: Immigrant Social Capital Parental Status, Family Structure, and Gender The Immigrant Community Conclusion 4. Making It in America Early Adaptation and Achievement General Trends Nationality and Achievement Determinants of Parental Economic Achievement Interaction Effects Nationality and Family Composition Conclusion 5. In Their Own Eyes: Immigrant Outlooks on America Aura Lila MarIn, Cuban, 53, Single Mother (1994) Pao Yang, Laotian Hmong, 57, Father (1995) Optimism Permissiveness Ambition Community and Pride Conclusion 6. Lost in Translation: Language and the New Second Generation Bilingualism: Yesterday and Today Shadow Boxing: Myth and Reality of Language Acculturation General Trends National Differences Forced-March Acculturation What Makes a Bilingual? A Game of Mirrors: Language Instruction and Types of Acculturation 7. Defining the Situation: The Ethnic Identities of Children of Immigrants Sites of Belonging: The Complex Allegiances of Children of Immigrants Developing a Self Past Research Who Am I? Patterns of Ethnic Self-Identification Ethnic Identity Shifts Stability and Salience Ethnic Self-Identities by National Origin Where Do I Come From? Nation, Family, and Identity Correlates of Self-Identities Family Status, Composition, and Language The Influence of Parental Self-Identities Region, Schools, and Discrimination The Race Question Determinants of Ethnic and Racial Identities Conclusion: From Translation Artists to Living Paradoxes 8. The Crucible Within: Family, Schools, and the Psychology of the Second Generation San Diego Families Family Cohesion, Conflict, and Change School Environments and Peer Groups Psychological Well-Being: Self-Esteem and Depressive Affect School Engagement and Effort Educational Expectations Determinants of Psychosocial Outcomes Self-Esteem and Depression Ambition Conclusion 9. School Achievement and Failure Early Educational Achievement Preliminary Results Determinants of Early Achievement Educational Achievement in Late Adolescence Grades in Senior High School Change over Time Dropping Out of School Two Achievement Paradoxes Southeast Asians Cuban Americans Conclusion 10. Conclusion: Mainstream Ideologies and the Long-Term Prospects of Immigrant Communities Two Mainstream Ideologies A Third Way: Selective Acculturation and Bilingualism The Mexican Case Theoretical Reprise Time and Acculturation Reactive Ethnicity and Its Aftermath Appendix A. Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study: Follow-up Questionnaire Appendix B. Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study: Parental Questionnaire Appendix C. Variables Used in Multivariate Analyses: Chapters 6 to 9 Notes References Index
£26.10
University of California Press Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia
Book SynopsisIlluminates the various ways in which sex and gender are elaborated, obsessed over, and internalized, shaping subjective experiences common to entire cultural regions, and beyond. Through comparison of the life ways of Melanesia and Amazonia, this work expands the study of gender and the comparative method in anthropology.Trade Review"A fascinating and probably unique excursion into the thought worlds, cultural and linguistic structures, cosmological and symbolic systems, and gendered relationships of these peoples. The breadth and scope are huge, although the focus on the comparative method purposely anchors the scholarship, and grounds the studies, in a pleasing way." - Gilbert Herdt, author of Sambia Sexual Culture
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University of California Press Printing Book Culture in Late Imperial China
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Abbreviations PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. On the History of the Book in China--Cynthia J. Brokaw 2. The Ascendance of the Imprint in China--Joseph McDermott PART II: COMMERCIAL PUBLISHING AND THE EXPANDING MARKET FOR BOOKS 3. Of Three Mountains Street: The Commercial Publishers of Ming Nanjing--Lucille Chia 4. Constructing New Reading Publics in Late Ming China--Anne E. McLaren 5. Reading the Best-Sellers of the Nineteenth Century: Commercial Publications from Sibao--Cynthia J. Brokaw PART III: PUBLISHING FOR SPECIALIZED AUDIENCES 6. Niche Marketing for Late Imperial Chinese Fiction--Robert E. Hegel 7. Printing as Performance: Literati Playwright-Publishers of the Late Ming--Katherine Carlitz 8. Qing Publishing in Non-Han Languages--Evelyn S. Rawski 9. "Preserving the Bonds of Kin": Genealogy Masters and Genealogy Production in the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Area in the Qing and Republican Periods--Xu Xiaoman PART IV: THE BOOK AS A VISUAL MEDIUM 10. Visual Hermeneutics and the Act of Turning the Leaf: A Genealogy of Liu Yuan's Lingyan ge--Anne Burkus-Chasson 11. Didactic Illustrations in Printed Books: Choice and Consequence--Julia K. Murray Glossary Works Cited Contributors
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University of California Press The Catholic Imagination
Book SynopsisExploring what is unique about the Catholic worldview and culture and what distinguishes it from Protestantism, this text examines the religious imagination that shapes Catholic life. In doing so, it challenges assumptions and makes a case for the vitality of contemporary Catholic culture.Trade Review"The Catholic Imagination is vintage Greeley, at his most thought-provoking, insightful, charming, and readable. As a skilled novelist, he leads his reader through personal anecdotes and lively descriptions of the works of art to a series of interpretations that point to an identifiably Catholic way of looking at the world. As a trained sociologist, he turns these observations into hypotheses and tests them against the statistical data that he and others have gathered from examining the attitudes of ordinary, everyday Catholics. Greeley finds a remarkable consistency between sensibilities revealed in works of high art, popular art, and the lived experience of Catholics that he calls appropriately the Catholic imagination." - Richard A. Blake, S.J., Theological Studies "Greeley has written a lively, controversial, and stimulating book in which he describes a Catholic imagination which is different from (not better or worse than) a Protestant imagination. Going beyond his own position, I believe Protestants have much to learn not just about the Catholic imagination but from it as he describes it." - Robert Bellah, coauthor of Habits of the Heart "A perceptive examination of the prominent role played by ritual, imagination, and spirituality in the everyday lives of both practicing and nonpracticing Catholics." - Margaret Flanagan, Booklist "Greeley draws on art, literature, music and films produced by Catholics, ranging from the Baroque sculptures of Bernini to the contemporary fiction of James T. Farrell." - Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION The Sacraments of Sensibility CHAPTER ONE Sacred Place, Sacred Time CHAPTER TWO Sacred Desire CHAPTER THREE The Mother Love of God CHAPTER FOUR Community CHAPTER FIVE Hierarchy CHAPTER SIX Salvation CHAPTER SEVEN Sensibility and Socialization CONCLUSION The Enchanted Imagination A Note on Sources Notes Index
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University of California Press A Place in the Sun
Book SynopsisA study of Italian colonial history and culture, this text gathers articles which highlight the ways in which colonial discourse has pervaded Italian culture from the post-unification period to the present. It delves into the controversy surrounding immigration from Africa to the Italian peninsula.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Italian Colonial Cultures Patrizia Palumbo PART I. THE SHAPING OF ITALIAN COLONIAL HISTORY: POLITICAL PRACTICES AND THEORETICAL LEGITIMIZATION The Myths, Suppressions, Denials and Defaults of Italian Colonialism Angelo Del Boca Studies and Research on Fascist Colonialism, 1922--1935: Reflections on the State of the Art Nicola Labanca Italian Anthropology and the Africans: The Early Colonial Period Barbara Sorgoni The Construction of Racial Hierarchies in Colonial Eritrea: The Liberal and Early Fascist Period (1897--1934) Giulia Barrera PART II. COLONIAL LITERATURE: FROM EXPLORATION TO A DOMESTIC EMPIRE Gifts, Sex, and Guns: Nineteenth-Century Italian Explorers in Africa Cristina Lombardi-Diop Incorporating the Exotic: From Futurist Excess to Postmodern Impasse Cinzia Sartini-Blum Alexandria Revisited: Colonialism and the Egyptian Works of Enrico Pea and Giuseppe Ungaretti Lucia Re Mass-Mediated Fantasies of Feminine Conquest, 1930--1940 Robin Pickering-Iazzi Orphans for the Empire: Colonial Propaganda and Children's Literature during the Imperial Era Patrizia Palumbo PART III. THE COLONIAL PRODUCTION OF AFRICA AND THE SILENT SCENE OF DECOLONIZATION Colonial Autism: Whitened Heroes, Auditory Rhetoric, and National Identity in Interwar Italian Cinema Giorgio Bertellini Black Shirts/Black Skins: Fascist Italy's Colonial Anxieties and Lo Squadrone Bianco Cecilia Boggio Empty Spaces: Decolonization in Italy Karen Pinkus Notes on Contributors
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University of California Press A Very Dangerous Citizen
Book SynopsisLawyer, educator, novelist, radio and television scriptwriter, film director and screenwriter, wartime intelligence operative, and full-time radical romantic, Abraham Lincoln Polonsky was blacklisted in Hollywood for refusing to be an informer. This biography helps us understand the relationship between art and politics in American culture.Trade Review"Covers enormous ground and effectively reflects the vastness of Polonsky's career and personal life."-Variety "Abe Polonsky was fascinating, brilliant, mercurial, a giant of our time. He held the line against McCarthyism in all its forms and phases all his life. He did it with vigor and the joy of fighting for right. His history is the best of the left. As a man he was charming, amusing, concerned-a great listener and a greater raconteur, and an even better friend. This much needed book is a tribute to him."-Lee Grant, Oscar-winning director/actressTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Adventures of the Artist as Intellectual 2. The Good War and After 3. The Politics and Mythology of Film Art: Polonsky's Noir Era 4. Polonsky's Fifties 5. Triumph and Retrospect Appendix Notes Bibliographical Note 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 The Meanings of Macho
Book SynopsisA study of machismo in Mexico City, this work overturns many stereotypes of male culture in Mexico and looks at how Mexican men see themselves, parent their children, relate to women, and talk about sex.Trade Review"Gutmann has done the hithertofore seemingly unthinkable. [A] wholly other vision of Mexican gender relations emerges." - Jose Limon, American Anthropologist "This book does for the study of men what two generations of feminist anthropologists have done for the study of women." - Lynn Stephen, author of Zapotec Women"Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition Maps Introduction: Gender Conventions I. Real Mexican Machos Are Born to Die 2. The Invasion of Santo Domingo 3. Imaginary Fathers, Genuine Fathers 4. Motherly Presumptions and Presumptuous Mothers 5. Men's Sex 6. Diapers and Dishes, Words and Deeds 7. Degendering Alcohol 8. Fear and Loathing in Male Violence 9. Machismo IO. Creative Contradictions Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
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University of California Press An Intimate Affair
Book SynopsisPresents the history of twentieth-century lingerie. This book examines the ways cultural meanings are orchestrated by the 'fashion-industrial complex,' and the ways in which individuals and groups embrace, reject, or derive meaning from these everyday, yet significant, intimate articles of clothing.Trade Review"[A] fascinating account."--T: the New York Times Style Magazine "A seminal American feminist history text... The breadth of research and level of theoretical sophistication make it a key reference for any student of women's fashion."--H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Sexual Foundations 1. Drawers 2. Corsets and Girdles 3. Brassieres 4. The Meaning of Black Lingerie 5. The Invisible Woman: Intimate Apparel Advertising 6. The Production of Glamour: Intimate Apparel Workers and Union Culture 7. Return of the Repressed (Waist), 1947--1952 Epilogue: Bra vs. Bra: Feminist Intimate Apparel Art Notes Index
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University of California Press Pandemonium and Parade Japanese Monsters and the
Book SynopsisWater sprites, mountain goblins, shape-shifting animals, and the monsters known as yokai have long haunted the Japanese cultural landscape. This book offers a history of the strange and mysterious in Japan and seeks out these creatures in folklore, encyclopedias, literature, art, science, games, manga, magazines, and movies.Trade Review“A provocative addition to the small body of scholarship in English on monsters, the mysterious, and the supernatural in Japan from the early modern period to the present. This timely book . . . offers English readers their first sustained consideration of yõkai . . . from the perspectives of folklore studies and anthropology. Engagingly written from its touching preface to its last sentence, Pandemonium and Parade draws on and converses with an extensive body of Japanese scholarship on yõkai." * Monumenta Nipponica *"This study of the 'weird' in Japan . . . will be the standard work in English on this subject for many years. Rather than being a simple catalogue and commentary of strange beasts and beings, this work provides an analytical chronology of the changing use made of the 'weird' in Japan over a period of three hundred years from the seventeenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century." * Folklore *“Rich and refreshing . . . engaging and spiritedly written . . . Foster’s writing and attitude toward his topic gracefully embrace the two poles of the scholarly and the ludic that he attributes to yōkai discourse through the ages.” * Journal of Japanese Studies *"Foster has presented us with an excellent introduction to this corner of Japanese culture, and we are all the richer for it. Most impressively, Foster has managed to write in a way that engages the general reader (or at least the reader with little background knowledge), yet he maintains the academic robustness, scholarly tone, and level of erudition that the subject matter deserves." * Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies *"This outstanding volume is a welcome addition to English-language resources on Japan's folk culture. Showing familiarity with Japanese scholarship and vernacular culture, Pandemonium and Parade finds the rationale for continuing interest in the yōkai world in everyday needs and concerns." * Western Folklore *"Whoever thinks that a scholarly book cannot be "fun" has not yet read Michael Foster's Pandemonium and Parade. His work constitutes a rollicking exploration of the seventeenth- through twentieth-century worlds of yōkai, a broadly inclusive term for the phantasmagoria of monsters, ghosts, mysterious apparitions, and inexplicable phenomena that have animated the Japanese cultural landscape for much of the past thousand years. Foster's book is thoughtfully conceived and carefully researched, and it is written in a graceful, occasionally journalistic style that is both suitable to its subject and a pleasure to read." * Asian Ethnology *"This is a rare academic tome which can be read with delight and a sense of recognition. . . . As such, Pandemonium and Parade deserves to be read by anyone interested in the strange and mysterious." * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *“One of the most theoretically nuanced and interesting interpretations of Japan’s experience of modernity and post-modernity . . . extremely readable.” * Journal of Folklore Research *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Japanese Names and Terms 1. Introduction to theWeird 2. Natural History of theWeird: Encyclopedias, Spooky Stories, and the Bestiaries of Toriyama Sekien 3. Science of theWeird: Inoue EnryO, Kokkuri, and Human Electricity 4. Museum of theWeird: Modernity, Minzokugaku, and the Discovery of YOkai 5. Media of theWeird: Mizuki Shigeru and Kuchi-sake-onna 6. YOkai Culture: Past, Present, Future Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Where Memory Dwells
Book SynopsisThe 1973 military coup in Chile deposed the democratically elected Salvador Allende and installed a dictatorship that terrorized the country for almost twenty years. This title examines cultural sites and representations in postdictatorship Chile - what the author calls "memory symbolics" - to uncover the impact of state-sponsored violence.Trade Review"This book is a solid and original contribution to the expanding work on the construction of memory in Chile." The AmericasTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Ice and Political Heat: Cultural Memory Mediates the Past 2. Searching for Villa Grimaldi: Memory's Democratic Promise 3. Making Torture Visible: The Art of Guillermo Nunez in Chile's Transition 4. Documenting Absence: Ghostly Screens Unsettle the Past 5. Doubling 9/11: Exile Culture and Activism Conclusion: Rivers of Memory Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The San Francisco Tape Music Center
Book SynopsisTells the story of the influential group of creative artists - Pauline Oliveros, Morton Subotnick, Ramon Sender, William Maginnis, and Tony Martin - who connected music to technology during a legendary era in California's cultural history. This title presents a comprehensive history of the San Francisco Tape Music Center.Trade Review"An outlandish episode on nearly every page of this book... A probing account." Los Angeles Times "The excitement of exploration and the delight in fortuitous accident come through in the many firstperson accounts and interviews which make up the bulk of David W. Bernstein's marvellous account of the Center." Times Literary Supplement (TLS) "[An] extremely accessible and often inspiring book ... Comprehensive [and] fascinating." -- Stephen Vitiello Modern Painters "Provides the first comprehensive history of the Tape Music Center ... The collision of historically incompatible characters is hard to believe: It is a Kevin Bacon game ... of avant-garde and pop culture in the '60s." -- Cory Arcangel Artforum "A rich and multilayered history... [Sheds] light on a little-discussed corner of 1960s counterculture in the United States." Journal Of The Society For American Music (Jsam) "From its handsome design to its wealth of vibrant photos, [this book] stands apart from the usual academic press fare, which is fitting considering its subject... A document of ballsy innovation and gutsy invention." Skyscraper "Lively ... [It} not only deflates the notion of New York as the center of experimental music innovation in the second half of the 20th century, but testifies to the ingenuity and invention of a ragtag band of composers, musicians, dancers, visual artists, and explorers." The ScoreTable of ContentsForeword, by John Rockwell Then, Now, and Then Again (A Preface), by Johannes Goebel Introduction, by David W. Bernstein The SFTMC: Emerging Art Forms and the American Counterculture, by David W. Bernstein The SFTMC: A Report, by Ramon Sender Overview of the Tape Music Center's Goals, by Ramon Sender Ramon Sender and William Maginnis, interviewed by David W. Bernstein and Maggi Payne Memoir of a Community Enterprise, by Pauline Oliveros Pauline Oliveros, interviewed by David W. Bernstein and Maggi Payne Music as Studio Art, by Morton Subotnick Morton Subotnick, interviewed by David W. Bernstein and Maggi Payne Composing with Light, by Tony Martin Tony Martin, interviewed by David W. Bernstein and Maggi Payne Don Buchla, interviewed by David W.Bernstein and Maggi Payne Michael Callahan, interviewed by Thomas M. Welsh The Great Grand Kludge! by William Maginnis Terry Riley, interviewed by David W. Bernstein and Maggi Payne Anna Halprin, interviewed by David W. Bernstein Stewart Brand, interviewed by David W. Bernstein Stuart Dempster, interviewed by Thomas M. Welsh Chronology, by Thomas M. Welsh Archival Recordings DVD Program Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
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University of California Press Classic Chic
Book SynopsisExplores the relationship between music and fashion, and discusses the importance of these arts to the rise of transatlantic modernism. This book demonstrates that aesthetic approaches were related to fashion in a manner that was perfectly attuned to the tastes of jazz-age sophisticates. It also considers the role played by the Ballets Russes.Trade Review"Engaging ... A good book, one certainly worth reading for the wealth of information it contains." Modernism/Modernity "A fascinating study of what turns out to be a most intriguing subject." Musical Times "An important and ambitious in-depth study and no one will come away from reading it without a greater understanding of a fascinating period in the history of modernism and fashion." Costume "A refreshing look at Parisian culture at the turn of the century... A fine addition to the interdisciplinary realm." -- Carissa M. Pitkin Music Research ForumTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Magazines, Music, and Modernism 2. Paul Poiret 3. La Gazette du Bon Ton 4. Germaine Bongard 5. Vanity Fair 6. Coco Chanel 7. Vogue Notes Works Cited Illustration Credits Index
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University of California Press Manners and Mischief
Book SynopsisOffering a snapshot of Japanese society, this title examines etiquette guides, advice literature, and other such instruction for behavior from the early modern period to the present day and discovers how manners do in fact make the nation.Trade Review"With Manners and Mischief, as with their previous work, Bardsley and Miller demonstrate what commitment to serious fun can look like." -- Christine R. Yano Monumenta Nipponica "Manners and Mischief disdains frivolity and stands firm as an academic text for students serious about extending their anthropological knowledge of Japan." -- Kris Kosaka Japan Times
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University of California Press Blue Jeans
Book SynopsisFocuses on an everyday item - blue jeans - to learn what one simple article of clothing can tell us about our individual and social lives and challenging, by extension, the foundational anthropological presumption of the normative.Trade Review"Blue Jeans provides a useful introduction to sociological theories and methodologies; it would be an ideal text for students." -- Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell OrnamentTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Life 2. Relationships 3. Fashion 4. Comfortable 5. Ordinary 6. The Struggle for Ordinary 7. Anthropology: From Normative to Ordinary 8. Sociology: The Ordinary and the Routine Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Dangerous Digestion The Politics of American
Book SynopsisDrawing on social and political history as well as the history of science and popular culture, this book examines how American ideas about dietary reform mirror broader thinking about social reform.Trade Review"Dangerous Digestion is provocative and frequently fascinating, and its expansive consideration of dietary reform contributes in important ways to recent scholarship on food advice." The Chronicle of Higher Education
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University of California Press A Culture of Conspiracy
Book SynopsisDelves deeper into America's conspiracy sub-culture, exploring the rise of 9/11 conspiracy theories, the "birther" controversy surrounding Barack Obama's American citizenship, and how the conspiracy landscape has changed with the rise of the Internet and other new media.Trade Review"Scholarly but fluently written and free of excessive jargon, Barkun’s exploration of the conspiratorial worldview combines sociological depth with a deadpan appreciation of pop culture and raises serious questions about the replacement of democracy by conspiracy as the dominant paradigm of political action in the public mind." * Publishers Weekly *"If Michael Barkun had endeavored only to document and catalogue wild and untamed strands of American conspiracy beliefs, this book would have still been a massive and worthy undertaking. Yet Barkun structures the book not with his impressive and highly readable intellectual histories of various conspiracy beliefs and their relationships with one another, but with a basic epistemological challenge: How do we really know what is true? . . . Culture of Conspiracy is both a vivid history and wary explanation of why the strategy of obfuscating the facts of the world with unfalsifiable rhetoric and fearsome paranoia has always existed to some degree at both the fringes and the center of our nation's popular thought." * Terrorism & Political Violence *“Like all good works of scholarship, A Culture of Conspiracy raises questions and invites further research. . . . Ideas, even bizarre and marginalized ideas, do have consequences, and we ignore them at our peril. Barkun’s explorations, like the canary in the coal mine, warn us of what may lie ahead.” * Christian Century *"Barkun [is] astonishingly well-grounded in literary, oral, and media sources, offering many insights into contemporary social experience. . . . That the beliefs described . . . are bizarre ought not to imply that they are innocuous or unworthy of careful observation." * Western Folklore *Table of ContentsPreface Preface to the First Edition 1. The Nature of Conspiracy Belief 2. Millennialism, Conspiracy, and Stigmatized Knowledge 3. New World Order Conspiracies I: The New World Order and the Illuminati 4. New World Order Conspiracies II: A World of Black Helicopters 5. UFO Conspiracy Theories, 1975--1990 6. UFOs Meet the New World Order: Jim Keith and David Icke 7. Armageddon Below 8. UFOs and the Search for Scapegoats I: Anti-Catholicism and Anti-Masonry 9. UFOs and the Search for Scapegoats II: Anti-Semitism among the Aliens 10. September 11 Conspiracies: The First Phase 11. September 11 Conspiracies: The Second Phase 12. Conspiracy Theories about Barack Obama 13. Conspiracists and Violence 14. Apocalyptic Expectations about the Year 2012 15. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Sounds
Book SynopsisOffers a study of sounds that aims to write the resonance and response they call for. This book critiques on the existing models field of sound studies and draw attention to sound as an object of study that solicits a humanistic approach encompassing many types of sounds.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments INTRODUCTION: SQUAWKING 1. ECHO 2. WHISTLE 3. WHISPER 4. GASP 5. SILENCE 6. TERCER SONIDO Notes Works Cited Index
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University of California Press Dangerous Digestion
Book SynopsisDrawing on social and political history as well as the history of science and popular culture, this book examines how American ideas about dietary reform mirror broader thinking about social reform.Trade Review"Dangerous Digestion is provocative and frequently fascinating, and its expansive consideration of dietary reform contributes in important ways to recent scholarship on food advice." The Chronicle of Higher Education
£27.00
University of California Press That Religion in Which All Men Agree
Book SynopsisFreighted with the mythical legacies of stonemasons' guilds and the Newtonian revolution, English Freemasonry arrived in colonial America with a vast array of cultural baggage. This book shows how Freemasonry has contributed to a broader understanding of the multiple influences that have shaped religion in American culture.Trade Review"A scholarly work, it is easily read but fully documented with an exhaustive index, huge bibliography, and complete footnotes. Don't miss this one for sure!" -- Ed King, Grand Librarian Grand Lodge of Maine "A vital contribution to understanding the development of religious liberty in the foundation of the US." CHOICE "This study of "Freemasonry in American Culture" offers a new perspective on the evolution of American society over more than two centuries. With its impeccable historical scholarship, the volume provides an important insight into the public sphere and an alternative to Habermas's assumptions about the inherent secularity of public culture with the rise of bourgeois society." -- Bryan S. Turner Critical Research on Religion "The book is particularly strong in its careful attention to historical self-understanding, myth and narrative, historical symbolism, and temporality. Future research on Freemasonry will benefit greatly from it." -- Matthew Crow Journal of Interdisciplinary History "Not only engaging, but also adds significantly to our understanding of Prince Hall Masonry and the African American Church, Freemasonry and Native Americans, and Jews and Catholics." -- Clyde R. Forsberg, Jr. American Historical Review "This is a fine study. Extensive in scope and lucidly written ... Breaks new ground." -- R. William Weisberger The Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction PART ONE. EUROPEAN AMERICAN FREEMASONRY 1. Colonial Freemasonry and Polite Society, 1733--1776 2. Revolutionary Masonry: Republican and Christian, 1757--1825 3. A Private World of Ritual, 1797--1825 00 4. Anti-Masonry and the Public Sphere, 1826--1850 5. Gender, Protestants, and Freemasonry, 1850--1920 PART TWO. BEYOND THE WHITE PROTESTANT MIDDLE CLASS 6. The Prince Hall Masons and the African American Church: The Labors of Grand Master and Bishop James Walker Hood, 1864--1918 7. Freemasonry and Native Americans, 1776--1920 8. Jews and Catholics, 1723--1920 Epilogue Notes Index
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University of California Press Cinema and the Wealth of Nations Media Capital
Book SynopsisCinema and the Wealth of Nations explores how media principally in the form of cinema was used during the interwar years by elite institutions to establish and sustain forms of liberal political economy beneficial to their interests. It examines the media produced and circulated by institutions such as states, corporations, and investment banks, as well as the emergence of a corporate media industry and system supported by state policy and integral to the establishment of a new consumer system. Lee Grieveson sketches a genealogy of the use of media to encode liberal political and economic power across the period that saw the United States eclipse Britain as the globally hegemonic power and the related inauguration of new forms of liberal economic globalization. But this is not a distant history. Cinema and the Wealth of Nations examines a foundational conjuncture in the establishment of media forms and a media system instrumental in, and structural to, the emergence and expansion of a world system that has been-and continues to be-brutally violent, unequal, and destructive.Trade Review"Lee Grieveson’s bold historical analysis of the relationship between media and capital is nothing if not timely. . . . [He] deepens the scholarship on cinema’s social role beyond the dominant art and entertainment paradigms." * Reviews in History *"A monumental achievement, a book that invites scholars to rethink what it means to research and write film history." * JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *"Few recent books in film and media studies can match the ambition Lee Grieveson set himself with Cinema and the Wealth of Nations: Media, Capital, and the Liberal World System, and even fewer have delivered in the way Grieveson does. Nothing less than a comprehensive reconceptualisation of the discipline is on the agenda . . . in which political economy replaces aesthetics at the centre of our concerns, and in which questions of corporate ownership, state policy and class hegemony form the core of research in the field. . . . [It's a] rare breed of academic text: one that leaves the reader vivified at the end, as Grieveson’s final chapter whizzes from the techno-futurism of the 1939 World Fair, through the cinema’s insertion into the military-industrial complex in the Cold War and onto the fully automated drone-logic of contemporary capitalist media." * Senses of Cinema *"A beacon for future research, Grieveson’s Cinema and the Wealth of Nations will undoubtedly become one of the most significant monographs in the field of media history and political economy, and provide an indispensable resource, not only in terms of its valuable content, but also its grand scope, ambitious synthesis, and urgent message." * Film-Philosophy *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. The Silver Screen and the Gold Standard 2. The Panama Caper 3. Empire of Liberty 4. Liberty Bonds 5. The State of Extension 6. The Work of Film in the Age of Fordist Mechanization 7. The Pan-American Road to Happiness and Friendship 8. Highways of Empire 9. League of Corporations 10. The Silver Chains of Mimesis 11. The Golden Harvest of the Silver Screen 12. Welfare Media 13. The World of Tomorrow—Today! Notes Sources and Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Cinema and the Wealth of Nations
Book SynopsisCinema and the Wealth of Nations explores how media principally in the form of cinema was used during the interwar years by elite institutions to establish and sustain forms of liberal political economy beneficial to their interests. It examines the media produced and circulated by institutions such as states, corporations, and investment banks, as well as the emergence of a corporate media industry and system supported by state policy and integral to the establishment of a new consumer system. Lee Grieveson sketches a genealogy of the use of media to encode liberal political and economic power across the period that saw the United States eclipse Britain as the globally hegemonic power and the related inauguration of new forms of liberal economic globalization. But this is not a distant history. Cinema and the Wealth of Nations examines a foundational conjuncture in the establishment of media forms and a media system instrumental in, and structural to, the emergence and expansion of a world system that has been-and continues to be-brutally violent, unequal, and destructive.Trade Review"Lee Grieveson’s bold historical analysis of the relationship between media and capital is nothing if not timely. . . . [He] deepens the scholarship on cinema’s social role beyond the dominant art and entertainment paradigms." * Reviews in History *"A monumental achievement, a book that invites scholars to rethink what it means to research and write film history." * JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *"Few recent books in film and media studies can match the ambition Lee Grieveson set himself with Cinema and the Wealth of Nations: Media, Capital, and the Liberal World System, and even fewer have delivered in the way Grieveson does. Nothing less than a comprehensive reconceptualisation of the discipline is on the agenda . . . in which political economy replaces aesthetics at the centre of our concerns, and in which questions of corporate ownership, state policy and class hegemony form the core of research in the field. . . . [It's a] rare breed of academic text: one that leaves the reader vivified at the end, as Grieveson’s final chapter whizzes from the techno-futurism of the 1939 World Fair, through the cinema’s insertion into the military-industrial complex in the Cold War and onto the fully automated drone-logic of contemporary capitalist media." * Senses of Cinema *"A beacon for future research, Grieveson’s Cinema and the Wealth of Nations will undoubtedly become one of the most significant monographs in the field of media history and political economy, and provide an indispensable resource, not only in terms of its valuable content, but also its grand scope, ambitious synthesis, and urgent message." * Film-Philosophy *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. The Silver Screen and the Gold Standard 2. The Panama Caper 3. Empire of Liberty 4. Liberty Bonds 5. The State of Extension 6. The Work of Film in the Age of Fordist Mechanization 7. The Pan-American Road to Happiness and Friendship 8. Highways of Empire 9. League of Corporations 10. The Silver Chains of Mimesis 11. The Golden Harvest of the Silver Screen 12. Welfare Media 13. The World of Tomorrow—Today! Notes Sources and Bibliography Index
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