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The University of Chicago Press Welcome to Middle Age And Other Cultural Fictions
Book SynopsisThe construction of "midlife", most often rendered in chronological, biological and medical terms, has become an accepted reality to European Americans. This study explores the significance of this pervasive cultural representation compared to other cultures where "middle age" does not exist.
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The University of Chicago Press Dance of the Dolphin
Book SynopsisIn Amazonian folktales, dolphins take human form, seduce men and women, and carry them away to a city beneath the river. This book examines these stories, both as folk narratives and as representations of culture and conflict in the Amazon.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Invitation to the Dance 1: Time and Place 2: The Storytellers 3: Stories and Beliefs about Dolphins as Special Fish 4: Stories and Beliefs about Dolphins as Supernatural Beings 5: Questions of Performance 6: The Dolphin as Encantado 7: The Dolphin as Lover 8: The Dolphin as White Man 9: Transformation and Disenchantment Appendix 1. Glossary of Selected Terms Appendix 2. Portuguese-Language Originals of Stories in the Text References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Dance of the Dolphin Transformation and
Book SynopsisIn Amazonian folktales, dolphins take human form, seduce men and women, and carry them away to a city beneath the river. This book examines these stories, both as folk narratives and as representations of culture and conflict in the Amazon.
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The University of Chicago Press Nietzsche Heidegger and the Transition to
Book SynopsisAmong the most influential and enigmatic thinkers of the modern age, Nietzsche and Heidegger have become pivotal in the struggle to define postmodernism. This work offers an examination of the writings of these philosophers.
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The University of Chicago Press Hiding Volume 1996 Religion and Postmodernism
Book SynopsisThe age of information, media and virtuality is transforming many aspects of human experience. This is an investigation of the postmodern world which critically examines a wide range of contemporary cultural practices. The author contends that postmodern culture is full of creative possibilities.
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The University of Chicago Press About Religion Economies of Faith in Virtual
Book SynopsisTravelling from high culture to pop culture and back again, this book approaches cyberspace and Las Vegas through Hegel and Kant and reads Melville's The Confidence-Man through the film Wall Street.
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The University of Chicago Press The Mahabharata Volume 3 Book 4 The Book of the
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The University of Chicago Press The Culture of Ancient Egypt Phoenix Books
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University of Chicago Press Navajo Kinship and Marriage
Book SynopsisThe Navajo are one of the most studied people in the world, yet their social organization is one of the least well understood. In this volume Gary Witherspoon offers a theoretical approach to kinship based on its cultural dimensions.Table of ContentsForeword David M. Schneider Preface 1: Kinship as a Cultural System 2: Mother and Child and the Nature of Kinship 3: Marriage and the Nature of Affinity 4: Father and Child 5: The Descent System 6: The Concepts of Sex, Generation, Sibling Order, and Distance 7: Kinship and Affinal Solidarity as Symbolized in the Enemyway 8: Social Organization in the Rough Rock-Black Mountain Area 9: Residence in the Subsistence Residential Unit 10: Subsistence in the Subsistence Residential Unit 11: Unity in the Subsistence Residential Unit 12: The Navajo Outfit as a Set of Related Subsistence Residential Units 13: The Web of Affinity 14: The Social Universe of the Navajo Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Saints and Postmodernism Revisioning Moral
Book Synopsis"In this exciting and important work, Wyschogrod attempts to read contemporary ethical theory against the vast unwieldy tapestry that is postmodernism. . . . [A] provocative and timely study." Michael Gareffa, "Theological Studies" "A 'must' for readers interested in the borderlands between philosophy, hagiography, and ethics." Mark I. Wallace, "Religious Studies Review""
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The University of Chicago Press Recovered Roots Collective Memory and the Making
Book SynopsisBecause new nations need new pasts, they create new ways of commemorating and recasting select historic events. In this volume Yael Zerubavel illuminates this dynamic process by examining the construction of Israeli national tradition.
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Columbia University Press Renaissance Thought and its Sources
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsEditor's Preface Introduction Part One: Renaissance Thought and Classical Antiquity Introduction 1. The Humanist Movement 2. The Aristotelian Tradition 3. Renaissance Platonism 4. Paganism and Christianity Part Two: Renaissance Thought and the Middle Ages 5. Humanism and Scholasticism in the Italian Renaissance 6. Renaissance Philosophy and the Medieval Tradition Part Three: Renaissance Thought and Byzantine Learning 7. Italian Humanism and Byzantium 8. Byzantine and Western Platonism in the Fifteenth Century Part Four: Renaissance Concepts of Man Introduction 9. The Dignity of Man 10. The Immortality of the Soul 11. The Unity of Truth Part Five: Philosophy and Rhetoric From Antiquity to the Renaissance Introduction 12. Classical Antiquity 13. The Middle Ages 14. The Renaissance Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Sources of Indian Tradition Modern India and
Book SynopsisHelps understand the civilization in South Asia and how leading thinkers there have looked at life, the traditions of their ancestors, and the world they live in. This book explains the particular settings in which these thinkers have expressed their ideas about religious, social, political, and economic questions.Table of Contents1. Cosmic and Ritual Order in Vedic Literature 2. The Ultimate Reality in the Upanishad 3. The Basic Doctrines of Jainism 4. Jain Philosophy and Political Thought 5. Theravada Buddhism 6. Mahayana Buddhism: "The Greater Vehicle" 7. The Vehicle of the Thunderbolt and the Decline of Buddhism in India 8. Dharma: The First End of Man (R.N.D.) 9. Artha: The Second End of Man (R.N.D.) 10. Kama: The Third End of Man (V.R., revised) 11. Moksha: The Fourth End of Man 12. The Songs of Medievel Hindu Devotion (V.R., revised) 13. The Foundations of Islam in India 14. The Muslim Ruler in India 15. Islamic Mysticism in India 16. Sikhism: Faith and Practice
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Columbia University Press Up from Invisibility Lesbians Gay Men and the
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the pig in Judeo-Christian culture and European anti-semitism, this work chronicles its cultural and religious character. The author details the folkloric beliefs still found among both provincial and urban Europeans.Trade ReviewFabre-Vassas's work in particular illuminates the fear of otherness that, as a dimension of human consciousness, underlies the relationship between those who are persecuted and those who persecute... The extensive and detailed research in The Singular Beast provides ample evidence of how Jewishness became imbued with all manner of hateful traits... Through ethnography and text, Fabre-Vassas offers a rich and nuanced protrait of anti-Semitic beliefs and practices that remained deeply embedded in twentieth-century European society. -- Janet Liebman Jacobs Religious Studies Review [A] masterful demonstration of the role of the pig as that animal which, because of its own natural and cultural anomalousness, came so powerfully to symbolize the dialectic of identity and difference obtaining between Christians and Jews. -- David Gordon White Journal of Religion A stunning compendium of porcine and theological folklore... With remarkable acuity, The Singular Beast shows how the pig, the Jew and the Christian have been locked in a fatal and macabre pas de trois for the past two millenniums. Times Literary Supplement Fabre-Vassas argues that the cultural tension between those who did and those who did not eat pork helps set the stage for a murderous anti-Semitism... Taking her cue from Claude Levi-Strauss, [she] studied the culinary habits of southern France, and the way in which the pig began to be associated with the Jew in the anti-Semitic imaginings of peasant culture, and by implication the rest of Europe. The New York Times Fabre-Vassas... has written an examination of Christian attitudes toward Jews, particularly during the Middle Ages... [I]n the historical anti-Semitic literature, the Jews were associated with the pig's lowly traits... Fabre-Vassas offers a solid, scholarly study. Library JournalTable of ContentsOne. An Anological Being One. The Red Men Two. Children's Stories Three. The Circle of Metamorphoses Two. From One Blood To the Next Four. The Jew's Sow Five. Red Easter Six. Old Jews, Young Christians Seven. The Little Jew Three. Christian Flesh Eight. The Return of the Pig Nine. Blood and Soul Ten. The Bone That Sings. The Time of Sacrifice
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Columbia University Press Realms of Memory
Book SynopsisOffers the best essays from the acclaimed collection originally published in French. This monumental work examines how and why events and figures become a part of a people's collective memory, how rewriting history can forge new paradigms of cultural identity, and how the meaning attached to an event can become as significant as the event itself.Trade ReviewThis is an indispensable guide to understanding France and the French. As usual, Arthur Goldhammer's translation is superb. Foreign Affairs This unusual book deals fascinatingly with everything from the creation of the rousing anthem "La Marseillaise" to the changing role of Joan of Arc in France's collective memory. Even the Eiffel Tower shines forth in surprising new facets. Chicago Tribune Provides arresting genealogies of a number of the major cleavages in French history, with chapters on the embattled relationship of Jews to the French republic, the peculiar affinities of Gaulism and Communism, and... Paris' haughty condescension toward la province... Without resorting to polemics, the volume reminds us that the image of the French past is confected as much out of amnesia as out of memory. Lingua Franca A magisterial attempt to define what it is to be French. Times Literary Supplement A magnificent achievement... [The essays included] are the high-carat jewels of the project. The New RepublicTable of ContentsIntroduction - Pierre Nora Part I: Emblems1. The Three Colors: Neither White nor Red, Raoul Girardet2. La Marseillaise: War or Peace, Michel Vovelle3. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, Mona Ozouf4. Bastille Day: From Dies Irae to Holiday, Christian Almavi Part II: Major Sites1. Lascaux, Jean-Paul Demoule2. Reims, City of Coronation, Jacques Le Goff3. The Louvre, Royal Residence and Temple of the Arts, Jean-Pierre Babelon4. Versailles, the Image of the Sovereign, Edouard Pommier5. The Pantheon, The Ecole Normale of the Dead, Mona Ozouf6. The Eiffel Tower, Henry Loyette7. Verdun, Antoine Prost Part III: Identifications1. The Gallic Cock, Michael Pastoureau2. Joan of Arc, Michael Winock3. Descartes, Francois Azouvi4. Paris, A Traversal from East to West, Maurice Agulhon5. The Genius of the French Language, Marc Fumaroli6. The Era of Commemoration, Pierre Nora Notes Index of NamesIndex of Subjects
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Columbia University Press The Politics of Jerusalem Since 1967
Book SynopsisA political, social, cultural, and economic portrait of a city at the centre of the Middle East peace negotiations. This work discusses Jerusalem's administration and demography, urban planning and housing, its three religious communities, and the role of the international community in Jerusalem.Trade ReviewThe Politics of Jerusalem Since 1967 is, in fact, about much more than politics: it is particularly valuable for its treatment of demography, planning, housing, and services-important but hitherto unstudied subjects. Dumper is cool and fair-minded in his analysis of British, Israeli, Jordanian, Palestinian, and international policies concerning the Holy City. This book should be required reading for anyone concerned with or involved in the Arab-Israeli peace process. I know of no other study that throws more light on the complex and central issue of Jerusalem. -- Michael C. Hudson, Georgetown University
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Columbia University Press In the Name of Humanity
Book SynopsisAn unsettling reflection on the twentieth century in its twilight hours in which we are asked to rethink our assumptions about universalism and humanism. While many people look to humanist ideals as a deterrent to nationalist chauvinism, Finkielkraut challenges the abstract idea of universalism by describing the terrible crimes "civilized" Europe has committed in its name.Trade ReviewTo approach these fundamental questions in Finkielkraut's way, which is argumentative, honest, and yet indirect and evocative, you have to write well...Finkielkraut writes very well, elegantly and yet clearly. -- Adam Morton TLS Finkielkraut musters three millenia of thinkers to grapple with a century of horrors and somehow his account lifts our spirits and helps us find some measure of renewal. -- Richard Weisberg Finkielkraut writes with great skill... often poetic and moving... a significant book. -- Brian C. Anderson First ThingsTable of Contents1. Who Is Like Unto Me? 2. The Glamorous Appeal of the Common Noun 3. The Triumph of the Will 4. The Irony of History 5. Humanitarian Amends 6. Of Angels and Men
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WW Norton & Co The Disuniting of America Reflections on a
Book SynopsisThe New York Times bestseller that reminded us what it means to be an American is more timely than ever in this updated and enlarged edition, including "Schlesinger's Syllabus," an annotated reading list of core books on the American experience.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc buildingcrossculturecompetence
Book SynopsisThe whole is harmony, not discord. Based on fourteen years of research involving nearly 50,000 managerial respondents and on the authors' extensive experience in international business, this book compares the cultural values of more than forty nations.Trade Review"An important book.. illuminates the darkness around the elusive concept of 'culture' with a rich theoretical texture, and with powerful illustrations. On top of that it is written with wit and brio thoroughly engaging." -- WARREN BENNIS "It's a remarkable combination of intellectual theory and practical advice... and it shows a human perspective and insight which must be relevant to any company or chief executive. I've no doubt it will have an important influence on management thinking." - ANTHONY SAMPSON "...You will gain fascinating insights into literature , philosophy, economics, ancient and modern history and obscure Japanese films. It is not like a management book at all. I recommend it." (Daily Telegraph, 7th December 2000) "There are lots of fascinating stories about how we differ, and we are encouraged to respect all forms of diversity. The book will give people working internationally a deeper level of understanding of the issues, pitfalls and potential ways to reconcile cultural differences at work." (People Management, 7th December 2000) "This book really does have some excellent material in it and there is much to be gained from reading it." (European Business Forum, January 2001) "The authors write beautifully and this work is one of the most clearly and elegantly written management books in many years...." (Journal of General Management, Vol. 26/3, Spring 2001) "I have read many books on the topic. Few have been as brilliant, creative or useful. Building Cross-Cultural Competence is in a league of its own." (CISV Interspectives (A journal on Transcultural Education) Vol.18, 2001) "...essential reading for all concerned with the challenges of global intercultural management..." (Long Range Planning, Vol.34 2001) "Beautifully written and well organized- It initiates a new category of cultural studies." - RUSSELL L. ACKOFF "A fascinating work, Highly recommended for those seeking to understand, and to benefit from, a deeper understanding of cultural adversity and change in a complex world." -- MARK HAYNES DANIELLWer in einer multikulturellen Gesellschaft Zufriedenheit schaffen will, muß die Trennung zwischen den Einzelkulturen überwinden und interkulturelle Kompetenz entwickeln. Das moderne Unternehmen befindet sich im Spannungsfeld entgegengesetzter Werte, die es zu vereinen gilt, lautet die Forderung der Autoren. Sie widersprechen protektionistischem Denken in der Überzeugung, dass nur ein Miteinander in Toleranz und Unvoreingenommenheit das Beste aus allen Welten zusammenbringt. Erfolgreiche Manager müssen in beide Richtungen blicken: "Was wir klar sehen, fehlt dem Fremden; was der Fremde klar sieht, fehlt uns." Fazit: Es geht um ganzheitliches, vernetztes Denken. Markt & Mittelstand 2001Table of ContentsIntroduction. Universalism-Particularism: The Dilemma. Reconciling Universalism and Particularism: Stories and Cases. Individualism-Communitarianism: The Dilemma. Reconciling Individualism and Communitarianism: Stories and Cases. Specificity-Diffuseness: The Dilemma. Reconciling Specificity and Diffuseness: Stories and Cases. Achieved-Ascribed Status: The Dilemma. Reconciling Achieved with Ascribed Status: Stories and Cases. Inner Direction versus Outer Direction: The Dilemma. Reconciling Inner and Outer Direction: Stories and Cases. Sequential and Synchronous Time: The Dilemma. Reconciling Sequential and Synchronous Time: Stories and Cases. Appendix 1 - Dilemma Theory and Its Origins. Appendix 2 - Exercises in Reconciliation. Appendix 3 - Measuring Transcultural Competence: Old and New. Questionnaries. Appendix 4 - The Space Between Dimensions. Bibliography. Filmography. Index.
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University of California Press The Austrian Mind
Book SynopsisShows how bureaucracy sustained the Habsburg Empire while inciting economists, legal theorists, and socialists to urge reform. This title examines how Vienna's coffeehouses, theaters, and concert halls stimulated creativity together with complacency. It explores the fin-de-siecle world view known as Viennese Impressionism.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Habsburg Bureacracy: Inertia versus Reform Part II. Aestheticism at Vienna Part III. Positivism and Impressionism: An Unlikely Symbiosis Part IV. Bohemian Reform Catholicism Part V. The Hungarian Cult of Illusion Part VI. Soothsayers of Modernity Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press For Love of the Automobile
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University of California Press The Epic of Latin America Fourth edition
Book SynopsisThis book on Latin American social and cultural developments, as well as politics and economics is revised and brought up to date with chapters on the great upheavals of the 1980s. The book received the Gold Medal of the Commonwealth Club of California for outstanding literary achievement.Table of ContentsPREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION PROLOGUE 1. The Mayas: "Greeks of the New World" 2. The Incas: Children of the Sun 3· The Toltec-Aztec Culture 4· The New World Meets the Old World's Cross and Sword 5· The Halls of Montezuma 6. Pizarro's Exploits in the "Empire of the Sun" 7· The Conquest of Chile 8. Colombia Yields to the "Knight of ElDorado" 9· Conquest of the River Plate 10. Brazil: Land of No Lure 11. Iberians and Indians 12. The Division of Lands and Labor 13. The Empire Consolidated 14. Trade Monopoly and Pirates 15. Flowering of the Missions 16. The Church as Inquisitor and Moral Censor 17. Gold and Silver in Foreign Coffers 18. The Brazilian Colossus Begins to Move Forward 19. Struggle over Possession of the Behemoth 20. After the Banner into the Sertao 21. The Feudal Pattern of Colonial Society 22. Life in the Colonial Towns 23. The Beginnings of Colonial Culture 24. Colonial Belles-Lettres 25. Architecture and the Fine Arts 26. Rebellion of the Beast Below 27. Chile Emerges behind the Araucanian Frontier 28. The Argentine Pampas: Cradle of a Great People 3 29. Brazilian Plantation Life Yields to the Lure of Gold 30. Abortive Rebellions in South America 31. Revolt of the Classes 32. Liberator of the North 33· Revolution in the South 34· Argentina Parts Company with Spain 35· San Martin: Protector of Peru 36. The Two Generals Meet at Guayaquil 37· The Cry from Dolores 38. Men of Destiny 39· Brazil Escapes the Chaos of Revolution 40. The Democratic Emperor of Brazil 41. Paraguay as a Symbol of Perpetual Despotism 42· The Spirit of Argentine Nationality I. THE CITY; RIVADAVIA II. THE PAMPAS; TilE GAUCHO 43· Juan Manuel de Rosas: Tyrant of the Argentine 44· Sarmiento: Civilian President 45· The Paraguayan War 46. Venezuela and Colombia under Caudillo Rule 47· The Andean Republics I. BOLMA: A SICK PEOPLE II. ECUADOR: A THEOCRACY III. PERU: SOCIETY OF SLAVE AND MASTER 48. Chile: Democracy of the Oligarchy 49· Santa Anna Loses Half of Mexico so. Benito Juarez: Indian President 51. Porfirio Diaz: Bread or the Club 52. Ariel and Caliban 53. The Twentieth Century: Deep Womb, Dark Flower 54. The Postwar Years MEXICO GUATEMALA EL SALVADOR COSTA RICA NICARAGUA HONDURAS PANAMA CUBA VENEZUELA COLOMBIA ECUADOR PERU BOLIVIA CHILE ARGENTINA PARAGUAY AND URUGUAY BRAZIL 55. The Contemporary Scene 56. Inter-American Relations Today REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INDEX
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University of California Press Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia 2 Studies
Book SynopsisA collection of essays by anthropologists on the subject of ritualized homosexuality. Their studies in cross-cultural variations in homosexual behaviour in a non-Western culture area indicate that contemporary theories of sex and gender development need revision.Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Paperback Edition Editor's Preface 1 Gilbert H. Herdt Ritualized Homosexual Behavior in the Male Cults of Melanesia, 1862-1983: An Introduction 2 Michael R. Allen Homosexuality, Male Power, and Political Organization in North Vanuatu: A Comparative Analysis 3 J. Van Baal The Dialectics of Sex in Marind-anim Culture 4 Gilbert H. Herdt Semen Transactions in Sambia Culture 5 Kenneth E. Read The Nama Cult Recalled 6 Eric Schwimmer Male Couples in New Guinea 7 Laurent Serpenti The Ritual Meaning of Homosexuality and Pedophilia among the Kimam-Papuans of South Irian Jaya 8 Arve S0rum Growth and Decay: Bedamini Notions of Sexuality 9 Shirley Lindenbaum Variations on a Sociosexual Theme in Melanesia Bibliography Contributors Index Maps 1 New Guinea and adjacent islands 2 Vanuatu (New Hebrides) 3 Southwest New Guinea (lrian Jaya) Map of Melanesia frontispiece
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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 Invention of Argentina Paper
Book SynopsisThe nations of Latin America came into being without a strong sense of national purpose and identity. This book offers a cultural history of one nation's efforts to determine its nature, its destiny, and its place among the nations of the world.Table of ContentsPreface 1. Prelude to Nationhood 2. Mariano Moreno 3· Populism, Federalism, and the Gauchesque 4· The Rivadavians 5· The Generation of 1837, Part One 6. The Generation of 1837, Part Two 7· Alberdi and Sarmiento: The Widening Breach 8. Bartolome Mitre and the Gallery of Argentine Celebrities 9. Roots of Argentine Nationalism, Part One 10. Roots of Argentine Nationalism, Part Two Epilogue Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The Sacred Self
Book SynopsisThis study of the contemporary American faith healing movement, the Catholic Charismatic Revival, blends ethnographic details with case histories to provide a cultural analysis of the healing experience.Table of ContentsPREFACE Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Ritual Healing: Affliction and Transformation Chapter 3 Therapeutic Process and Experience Chapter 4 Embodied Imagery and Divine Revelation Chapter 5 Imaginal Performance and Healing of Memories Chapter 6 Image, Memory, and Efficacy Chapter 7 Demons and Deliverance Chapter 8 Encounters with Evil and the Healing Chapter 10 Envoi: The Sacred Self NOTES REFERENCES INDEX
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University of California Press Days of Gold
Book SynopsisOn the morning of January 24, 1848, James W Marshall discovered gold in California. The news spread across the continent, launching hundreds of ships and hitching a thousand prairie schooners. This title demonstrates that in its far-reaching repercussions, it was the most significant event in the first half of the nineteenth century.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION ONE CALIFORNIA'S GOLDEN REVOLUTION: Enormous Wealth and Great Confusion TWO GOLD FEVER: The Beginning THREE "THIS IS A HARD THING, THIS BREAKING UP OF FAMILIES" Gold and Its Personal Costs FOUR JOURNEY AND ARRIVAL: Coming to California, Coming to Terms FIVE OLD BONDS AND NEW ALLEGIANCES: "Me and john Stick Together Like Wood Ticks" SIX THE SCARCITY OF WOMEN: '1 Have Not Spoken to a Lady for Five Months" SEVEN "I COULD SELL SOME OF THE FURNITURE" Adjustments in the East EIGHT OCCUPATIONS: The 49ers Begin Work NINE ''THE REAL ARGONAUTS OF 49" Life and Leisure in the Gold Fields TEN THE URBAN 49ERS: '.It Very Good Chance to Make Money in This City" ELEVEN WOMEN IN THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH: Duty, Adventure, and Opportunity TWELVE HARSH REALITIES: Hard Luck and Hard Labor in the Gold Fields THIRTEEN '' CAPITALISTS WILL TAKE HOLD '' : High-Stakes Investments and Deferred Returns FOURTEEN THREATS FROM WITHIN, THREATS FROM WITHOUT: Fear, Hostility, and Violence in the Gold Rush FIFTEEN WAITING: A Permanent Condition SIXTEEN LOST LOVE, LOST FAMILIES SEVENTEEN THE PERMANENT LURE OF SUCCESS, THE ENDURING SHAME OF FAILURE: "When a Person Gits to California It Is Hard to Say or Tell When He Gets Away" EIGHTEEN THE RIPPLES SUBSIDE: The End of the Gold Rush NINETEEN "THE DAYS OF OLD, THE DAYS OF GOLD, THE DAYS OF FORTY-NINE" The Gold Rush and Memory HISTORIANS AND SOURCES NOTES
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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 Right Here on Our Stage Tonight
Book SynopsisBefore the advent of cable and its hundreds of channels, before iPods and the Internet, three television networks ruled America's evenings. And for twenty-three years, Ed Sullivan, the Broadway gossip columnist turned awkward emcee, ruled Sunday nights. This title tells the saga of "The Ed Sullivan Show".Trade Review"A memory-lane extravaganza, smart, witty and finely researched." -- Howard Rosenberg San Francisco Chronicle "A fun, affectionate portrayal of the showman. A long time in coming, it's the tome that Sullivan always deserved." -- Harry Haun Playbill "A vivid, discerning portrayal of American history through the lens of popular culture." Publishers Weekly "This work is a 'don't miss' of nostalgia." -- Liz Smith Wowowow.com "Detailed portrait of Sullivan ... that ought to interest scholars of American popular culture and media history." Journal Of American History "An amusing, anecdote-rich book... It's full of 'remember when' moments ranging from the bizarre to the insulting." -- Nicholas Read The Calgary Herald "Nachman does full justice to the pathos of his subject." -- Philip Marchand National PostTable of ContentsIntroduction: Theme Music Part One. No-Talent Host Tames the One-Eyed Beast 1. Out of the Paley-ozoic Ooze 2. Battle of the Videoville Titans-Berle, Godfrey, and Sullivan 3. A Live Broadway Column Every Sunday Night 4. The $375 Extravaganza 5. Very Critical Condition 6. The Magic of Sullivision Part Two. How to Succeed in Show Business without Really Talking 7. From Small-Town Sportswriter to Manhattan Sport 8. He's Just an Ink-Stained Broadway Baby 9. Toast of the Nation 10. It's the World, on Line One 11. Sacred Sunday Rite 12. Not Quite All in the Family 13. Extended Family Part Three. Inside the Star-Making Machine 14. Herding Comedians 15. Backstage Life (and Death) 16. Give My Regards to La Scala 17. Elvis Has Entered the Building 18. Newspaper Wads at Fifty Paces-a Few Off-Camera Feuds 19. Embracing Blacks, Caving In to McCarthyism Part Four. Rescued by Rock 'n' Roll 20. The Son-in-Law Also Rises 21. "And Now-the Beatles!" 22. The Showman without a Country 23. Echoes and Afterimages Bibliography Interviews Acknowledgments Index Photographs follow page
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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 Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio
Book SynopsisThe king of radio comedy from the Great Depression through the early 1950s, Jack Benny was one of the most influential entertainers in twentieth-century America. A master of comic timing and an innovative producer, Benny, with his radio writers, developed a weekly situation comedy to meet radio's endless need for new material, at the same time integrating advertising into the show's humor. Through the character of the vain, cheap everyman, Benny created a fall guy, whose frustrated struggles with his employees addressed mid-century America's concerns with race, gender, commercialism, and sexual identity. Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley contextualizes her analysis of Jack Benny and his entourage with thoughtful insights into the intersections of competing entertainment media and argues that transmedia stardom, branded entertainment, and virality are, in fact, the newest versions of key elements in the history of American popular culture.Trade Review"By discussing in depth the ways the show was and wasn’t distributed during and after its initial run (including the balance of radio stations carrying the show vs. TV stations carrying the show throughout the ‘50s), Fuller-Seeley makes the book itself an intermedia experience, encouraging readers to contribute to the vital work of media archiving." * Splitsider *“…a deeply researched and powerfully argued analysis of Benny’s persona, productions, distribution, advertising, and sponsorship from the early 1930s through the late 1950s. …It is a must-read for scholars seeking to understand the inner workings, products, and impact of mass media and intermedia development, consumer culture, and celebrity culture during the heyday of mid-twentieth-century American commercial radio broadcasting and how to write about such issues incisively and inclusively.” * The Journal of American History *"Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley’s monograph on Jack Benny provides the first full-length scholarly account of the comedian’s influential broadcasting career, which began in 1932 and ended with his death in 1974. As well as discussing his film and television work, she presents an extremely detailed analysis of Benny’s long-running, but largely overlooked, multifaceted radio program (1932–1955) which she calls his ‘greatest achievement’." * Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • Becoming Benny: Th e Development of Jack Benny’s Character-Focused Comedy for Radio 2 • “What Are You Laughing at, Mary?” Mary Livingstone’s Comic Voice 3 • Masculine Gender Identity in Jack Benny’s Humor 4 • Eddie Anderson, Rochester, and Race in 1930s Radio and Film 5 • Rochester and the Revenge of Uncle Tom in the 1940s and 1950s 6 • Th e Commercial Imperative: Jack Benny, Advertising, and Radio Sponsors 7 • Jack Benny’s Intermedia Juggling of Radio and Film 8 • Benny at War with the Radio Critics 9 • Jack Benny’s Turn Towards Television Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Traumatic Imprints
Book SynopsisForced to contend with unprecedented levels of psychological trauma during World War II, the United States military began sponsoring a series of nontheatrical films designed to educate and even rehabilitate soldiers and civilians alike.Traumatic Imprintstraces the development of psychiatric and psychotherapeutic approaches to wartime trauma by the United States military, along with links to formal and narrative developments in military and civilian filmmaking. Offering close readings of a series of films alongside analysis of period scholarship in psychiatry and bolstered by research in trauma theory and documentary studies, Noah Tsika argues that trauma was foundational in postwar American culture. Examining wartime and postwar debates about the use of cinema as a vehicle for studying, publicizing, and even what has been termed working through war trauma, this book is an original contribution to scholarship on the military-industrial complex.Trade Review"This book creates a space in which trauma of all kinds can be explored and confronted." * Film Matters *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Documenting the “Residue of Battle” 1. “Imaging the Mind”: Military Psychiatry Meets Documentary Film 2. Solemn Venues: War Trauma and the Expanding Nontheatrical Realm 3. Selling “Psycho Films”: Trauma Cinema and the Military-Industrial Complex 4. Psychodocudramatics: Role-Playing War Trauma from the Hospital to Hollywood 5. “Casualties of the Spirit”: Let There Be Light and Its Contexts Conclusion: Traumatic Returns Notes Select Bibliography Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Nasca
Book SynopsisThis accessible work provides a penetrating examination of one of ancient Peru's most well-known and important civilizations, examining Nasca society, politics, religion and art. It also details misconceptions regarding the Nasca that became canonized in the scholarly literature.Trade Review"An outstanding contribution to the field of Andean archaeology. This book is the most comprehensive treatment of the Nasca available and is a must read for any person interested in the origins of complex societies in South America and beyond." Charles Stanish, University of California, Los Angeles "Preposterous but popular arguments that the enigmatic Nazca Lines were created by extraterrestrials detract from appreciation of Native American culture, making an entertaining and scholarly archaeology of ancient Nasca civilization especially pertinent. Silverman and Proulx have written exactly the right book. A formidable pair of scholars, erudite while engaging, they present an almost encyclopaedic account of what is known about Nasca without ever failing to fascinate. This is an excellent book for scholars, students, and for educated general readers. It represents a real contribution to knowledge about Native American civilization." William H. Isbell, State University of New York at Binghamton "This is the first book to discuss, in depth, the culture of the Nasca, which not only produced monumental works, but whose society flourished in seven river valleysfrom Chincha to Chala. The 11 chapters, written by the two foremost scholars of Nasca archaeology, present an up-to-date synthesis of what is known of Nasca society between 150BCE and 800CE." Choice, Nov. 2002 "The Nasca can be recommended as the only comprehensive overview of its subject, and it is hoped that it will stimulate the programme of research badly needed to put to the test the plethora of ideas advanced in it." Journal of Latin American Studies "Andeanists should welcome this addition to the series devoted to single prehistoric societies ... much will be of considerable interest to both specialists and students, as well as the general public ... the book is a feast for all." Dwight T. Wallace, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute "This book consolidates some hundred years of scholarship, since Max Uhle first sought out these pre-Inca people in 1901." British Bulletin of Publications, October 2003Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. 1. From Pots to People. 2. Emergence and Evolution of the Nasca Ceramic Tradition. 3. Life in the Desert. 4. We, the Nasca. 5. The Inhibited Landscape. 6. Symbolic Expressions of the Natural and Supernatural World. 7. The Geoglyphs of the Rio Grande de Nazca Drainage. 8. Religion and Ritual. 9. Headhunting and Warfare. 10. Nasca Sociopolitical Organization. 11. After Nasca. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Postmodern Ethics
Book SynopsisZygmunt Baumana s powerful and persuasive study of the postmodern perspective on ethics is particularly welcome. For Bauman the great issues of ethics have lost none of their topicality: they simply need to be seen, and dealt with, in a wholly new way. Our era, he suggests, may actually represent a dawning, rather than a twilight, for ethics.Trade Review"Bauman must be given credit for placing what Kant called the mysteries of 'moral law inside me' as the ultimate riddle of morality. His criticism of all moral theories that reduce morality to the utilitarian rational choice of social actors is convincing." Jose Casanova, New School for Social ResearchTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Moral Responsibilities, Ethical Rules. 2. The Elusive Universality. 3. The Elusive Foundations. 4. The Moral Party of Two. 5. Beyond the Moral Party. 6. Social Spaces: Cognitive, Aesthetic, Moral. 7. Private Morals, Pubic Risks. 8. An Overview: In the End is the Beginning. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Racial State
Book SynopsisArgues that race is integral to the conceptual, philosophical and material emergence of the modern nation state, and to its ongoing management. This book shows that debates and struggles about race in a wide variety of societies are really about the nature of political constitution and community.Trade Review"Goldberg offers a compelling, historically grounded and powerful set of analytic tools to understand the pernicious synergy on which racisms and modern states have thrived. The Racial State offers that rare form of engaged scholarship speaks to the theoretical and the everyday, that joins analytic innovation and nuance, political commitment, and historical breadth." (Ann Laura Stoler, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor) "The Racial State is a worthy contribution, following Omi and Winant's theory, to our understanding of modern racial formation. Commanding the canon of political philosophy and legal theory, Goldberg provides us with a thorough account of how racial distinction, exclusion, management and terror have been historically the reason and practice of the modern state." (Lisa Lowe, University of California, San Diego)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction: The State of Race Theory. 1. States of Racial Distinction. 2. The Time of Racial States. 3. The State of Liberalism’s Limits. 4. Racial Rule. 5. Racial States. 6. Legislating Race. 7. States of Whiteness. 8. Raceless States. 9. Conclusion: Stating the Difference. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Media Studies
Book SynopsisThis textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of media studies. It sets out the range of approaches to decoding media texts, and engages with a number of approaches to media institutions, detailing the key debates that have taken place around them.Trade Review"Written in a clear and concise manner this introductory textbook offers a comprehensive overview of the central theoretical, empirical and analytical debates and issues in contemporary media studies. This is a valuable resource for undergraduate students on media studies or media-related courses who are new to the field; and those more familiar with its debates and issues." Sharon Lockyer, BookendsTable of ContentsIntroduction IX Part I Texts 1 How the Media Communicate 3 Media forms and conventions 4 Different mediums, different conventions: The X-Files 5 Suggestions for further work 11 2 Reading Media Images 13 Mise-en-scène analysis13 Semiotic analysis 19 The problems with textual analysis 27 Suggestions for further work 28 3 Ideology 29 What is ideology? 29 Althusser 31 Hegemony 33 Suggestions for further work 38 4 Representation 39 Representation: a definition 39 Stereotypes 40 Content analysis 44 A hegemonic approach 47 Images of youth 49 Suggestions for further work 56 5 Genre 57 Genre: a definition 57 Genre and production 58 Genre and film 60 Genre study and film criticism 61 Genre and television 62 The television western 62 Genre and ideology 63 Suggestions for further work 65 6 Narrative 66 Narrative models: some definitions 67 Conventions of narrative across media forms 68 Why is narrative important to the media industry? 69 Structuralism and narrative theory 71 The impact of structuralism on film studies 77 The problems with structuralist narrative models 78 Suggestions for further work 79 7 Intertextuality 80 Definitions 80 Postmodernism and intertextuality 81 Intertextuality and advertising 83 Intertextuality, politics and popular music 84 Intertextuality and film genre 85 Suggestions for further work 87 Part II Institutions 8 Approaches to Media Institutions 91 What is a media institution? 91 Critical approaches to media institutions 94 Media institutions in the context of globalization 103 Suggestions for further work 106 9 Public Service Broadcasting and the Market 107 The development of broadcasting in Britain 107 Information as a commodity not a service 119 Deregulation and consumer choice 120 The future: responses to change 121 Suggestions for further work 122 10 Media Professionalism and Codes of Practice 123 The professional: definitions 123 Occupational ideologies 125 Professional practice and newsroom studies 126 Professionalism and political conflict 129 Suggestions for further work 131 11 Independent Media 132 What is an independent? 132 Media structures 133 British television 135 Community radio 136 Independent cinema exhibition 138 Independent film distribution in the UK 140 Undercurrents 141 Suggestions for further work 143 Part III Audiences 12 Conceptualizing and Measuring Media Audiences 147 Conceiving the audience: television schedules 147 Measuring media audiences 151 Suggestions for further work 155 13 The Effects of the Media on Audience Groups 156 What are the aims of effects research? 156 The historical development of the effects tradition 157 The limitations of effects research 160 An early challenge to the effects tradition: uses and gratifications 161 The dominance of effects research in the 1990s 163 Suggestions for further work 167 14 Contexts of Media Consumption 168 The developmental context of the cultural studies approach 169 The cultural studies challenge to the power of the text 171 The cultural studies turn to ‘lived’ contexts of consumption 174 The power relations of media reception and technology 178 Cultural studies and consumption 181 Suggestions for further work 183 15 Minority Audiences and the Media 184 What do we mean by minority? 184 Black women as cultural readers 185 Sexual minorities and the media 187 Star images and gay men 189 Fans and fan culture 191 Suggestions for further work 193 16 New Technologies and Media Audiences 194 Technology and society 194 The development of colour cinema 196 Media technology and the individual 199 Suggestions for further work 202 17 Media Consumption and Social Status 203 Theories of consumption and social distinction 204 Television: a case study of a ‘vulgar’ medium 207 Media technologies, taste and social status 209 Suggestions for further work 214 18 Public Participation in the 1990s 215 The increase in audience participation in the 1990s 215 The ideological implications of ‘talk’ for audiences 219 Suggestions for further work 225 Epilogue: Research Methods in Media Studies 227 What do we mean by research? 227 Researching for assignments 228 Establishing objectives 228 Selecting relevant material 231 Using libraries 233 Writing up 235 Conclusion 239 Bibliography 242 Index 251
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Wiley-Blackwell A Companion to Colonial America
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Genocide
Book Synopsis* Gathers key anthropological and interdisciplinary writings on genocide together for the first time and explores attempts to define genocide. * Traces the history of genocide in the 20th century with discussion of the Holocaust, and examples from Bosnia, Cambodia, Africa, and Latin America.Trade Review"An excellent contribution to the field of genocide studies: lucid, wide-ranging, and accessible; should be a core text in any course on genocide." Roger W. Smith, The College of William and Mary "This volume, edited and ably introduced by an important scholar of genocide, is an especially timely and important contribution to a growing field. Essential international documents coupled with an excellent collection of previously published articles attempt to explain genocide and related state violence as the first step towards prevention. This fine book is especially suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses." Carole Nagengast, University of New Mexico "This Reader will be useful for college teachers and novice administrators. Each contribution examines dramatic and controversial issues of immediate concern. While the collection addresses genocidal disasters, its emphasis is on the differences among them, and the varied interpretations that have been made of their causes and their consequences." Journal of the Royal Anthropological InstituteTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Introduction: Genocide and Anthropology 1Alexander Laban Hinton Part I: Conceptual Foundations 25 1. Genocide 27Raphaël Lemkin 2. Text of the UN Genocide Convention 43 3. Genocide: Its Political Use in the Twentieth Century 48Leo Kuper 4. Genocide: A Sociological Perspective 74Helen Fein 5. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil 91Hannah Arendt 6. Modernity and the Holocaust 110Zygmunt Bauman Part II: Genocide, History, and Modernity 135 7. Victims of Progress 137John H. Bodley 8. Culture of Terror – Space of Death: Roger Casement's Putumayo Report and the Explanation of Torture 164Michael Taussig 9. National Socialist Germany 19Eric R. Wolf Part III: Manufacturing Difference and "Purification" 209 10. "Ethnic Cleansing": A Metaphor for Our Time? 211Akbhar S. Ahmed 11. Imagined Communities and Real Victims: Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in Yugoslavia 231 Robert M. Hayden 12. A Head for an Eye: Revenge in the Cambodian Genocide 254Alexander Laban Hinton 13. Dead Certainty: Ethnic Violence in the Era of Globalization 286Arjun Appadurai Part IV: Coping and Understanding 305 14. Fear as a Way of Life 307Linda Green 15. The Myth of Global Ethnic Conflict 334John R. Bowen 16. Speechless Emissaries: Refugees, Humanitarianism, and Dehistoricization 344Liisa H. Malkki Appendix: Websites on Genocide 368 Index 370
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Judith Butler Reader
Book Synopsis* Judith Butler, author of influential books such as Gender Trouble, has built her international reputation as a theorist of power, gender, sexuality and identity. * Organized in active collaboration between Judith Butler and Sara Salih.Trade Review"Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing, challenging, and influential thinkers of our time. The Judith Butler Reader provides an exemplary selection from across the whole range of Butler's writings: gender identity, performativity, subjectivity, discursive power, kinship, and critique. In making available in one place the full breadth of Butler's thought, Salih's reader will prove an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike." J. M. Bernstein, New School for Social Research "These important essays represent the aspirational and analytic agendas of Judith Butler's remarkable work. Hers is a unique voice of courage and conceptual ambition that addresses public life from the perspective of psychic reality, encouraging us to acknowledge the solidarity and the suffering through which we emerge as subjects of freedom." Homi K. Bhabha, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction. Section 1: Sex, Gender Performativity, and the Matter of Bodies. 1. Variations on Sex and Gender: Beauvoir, Wittig, Foucault (1987). 2. Excerpts from Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France (1987). 3. Excerpts from Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990). 4. Imitation and Gender Insubordination (1990). 5. Excerpt from Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of ‘Sex’ (1993). Section 2: Fantasy, Censorship, and Discursive Power. 6. The Force of Fantasy: Mapplethorpe, Feminism, and Discursive (1990). 7. Endangered/Endangering: Schematic Racism and White Paranoia (1993). 8. Excerpt from Excitable Speech: A Poltics of the Performative (1997). Section 3: Subjection, Kinship, and Critique. 9. Excerpt from The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection (1997). 10. Excerpt from Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left (2000). 11. Excerpt from Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death (2000). 12. What Is Critique? An Essay on Foucault’s Virtue (2001). Section 4: Making Difficulty Clear. 13. Changing the Subject: Judith Butler's Politics of Radical Resignification: Gary A. Olsen and Lynn Worsham. Index
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Princeton University Press Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge
Book SynopsisDiscusses areas in which the colonial impact has generally been overlooked. This book contains essays, which form an exploration of the ways in which the British discovery, collection, and codification of information about Indian society contributed to colonial cultural hegemony and political control.Table of ContentsForewordAcknowledgments1Introduction32The Command of Language and the Language of Command163Law and the Colonial State in India574The Transformation of Objects into Artifacts, Antiquities, and Art in Nineteenth-Century India765Cloth, Clothes, and Colonialism: India in the Nineteenth Century106Notes163Index181
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Princeton University Press Modern Greek Lessons A Primer in Historical
Book SynopsisIntroduces the cosmopolitan intellectual life of Athens, a centerless city of multiplicities and fragmentations, a city on the 'margins of Europe' recovering from the repressive rule of a military junta.Trade Review"Modern Greek Lessons seeks to invent a new form for expressing the complexity and ambivalence toward the past, toward Europe, toward the United States, and toward themselves that members of the educated Greek elite struggle with individually and jointly. This is an important contribution from a young scholar who will unquestionably be one of the leading voices of his generation."—Paul Rabinow"A skilled and compelling writer in the mode of the civilized sojourner. . . . Faubion deals brilliantly with a wide range of topics from contemporary Greek literature to sexuality."—George Marcus, Rice UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface: Terms And DefinitionsIntroduction For the Time Being: Some Notes on the Manners of Modern Lives3Pt. IReviewing Athens211Model Improbabilities: Athens at First Sight232Remembering and Remodeling: The Metaleptic Metropolis64Pt. IIAnother Modernity993Crossing the Threshold: Notes on Conflict at a Certain Greek Airport1014Sovereignty and Its Discontents1225"Everything Is Possible": Notes on the Greek Modern139Pt. IIIAfter the Colonels: Projects of Self-Definition and Self-Formation Since 19741576The Self Made: Developing a Postnational Character1597The Works of Margharita Karapanou: Literature as a Technology of Self-Formation1848Men Are Not Always What They Seem: From Sexual Modernization toward Sexual Modernity213Epilogue: After the Present242Notes249Bibliography271Index289
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Princeton University Press Fashioning the Bourgeoisie A History of Clothing
Book SynopsisExplains a culture's sociology through the simple issue of the choice of clothing. This book shows, through a tour of the rise of the ready-made fashion industry in France, how clothing can not only reflect but also beliefs, values, and aspirations.Trade Review"A fascinating and amusing examination of social attitudes."--The Times Literary Supplement "The overall thesis that emerges is both limpid and profound; as far as clothing is concerned, we still belong to the nineteenth century."--Liberation "[Perrot] glides through the dressing rooms and bedrooms of the Second Empire, inspects armoires, haunts the department stores and the fitting rooms of couturiers and tailors, lives with fashionable women and tarts, bankers, and 10-franc-a-month shop assistants."--Le Nouvel observateur "Perrot puts a serious and persuasive case for the importance of clothing to understanding the aesthetic and moral values of the nineteenth-century middle-class... Immensely learned, yet written with great delicacy and lightness of touch, it remains the best account available of the meaning, and eventual triumph, of the bourgeois trouser--that most resilient and universal survival of nineteenth-century Europe's dominance of the globe."--John Adamson, Sunday Telegraph "A fascinating book: not so much a history of clothing, as a history of French society seen through its fashions and its clothes."--Sharif Gemie, Modern & Contemporary France "Fashion history is not about hemlines, it is about the nuts and bolts of living. It is because he accepts this fact that Perrot's examination of a period so germane to our own is valuable."--Colin McDowell, Sunday Times (London)Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction3IToward a History of Appearances6IIClothing's Old and New Regimes15IIIThe Vestimentary Landscape of the Nineteenth Century26IVTraditional Trades and the Rise of Ready-Made Clothing36VThe Department Store and the Spread of Bourgeois Clothing58VINew Pretensions, New Distinctions80VIIThe Imperatives of Propriety87VIIIDeviations from the Norm124IXInvisible Clothing143XThe Circulation of Fashions167Conclusion189Notes193Bibliography253Index267
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Princeton University Press Molding Japanese Minds
Book SynopsisHow has the Japanese government persuaded its citizens to save substantial portions of their incomes? How did the public come to support legalized prostitution as in the national interest? The author helps us to understand this mobilizing spirit as he taps into the intimate relationships everyday Japanese have with their government.Trade Review"Molding Japanese Minds is history at its best; with a thorough command of original sources and scholarship, both in Japanese and other languages, Garon demonstrates that social policy was not solely government-or bureaucracy-driven."--Times Literary Supplement "An excellent book... Garon has chosen his subject well and... he handles it with balance and authority."--Patrick Smith, The NationTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsPrefaceSocial Management: An Introduction3Pt. 1State and Society Before 194523Ch. 1The Evolution of "Japanese-Style" Welfare25Ch. 2Defining Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy60Ch. 3The World's Oldest Debate? Regulating Prostitution and Illicit Sexuality88Ch. 4Integrating Women into Public Life: Women's Groups and the State115Pt. 2Social Management in Postwar Japan147Ch. 5Re-creating the Channels of Moral Suasion149Ch. 6Sexual Politics and the Feminization of Social Management178Ch. 7Managing Spiritual Life and Material Well-being206Epilogue231Notes239Bibliography273Interviews298Index299
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Princeton University Press In Search of the True West
Book SynopsisDocuments Russian efforts to appropriate Western solutions to the problem of economic backwardness since the time of Catherine the Great. This book describes Russian Westernization - which emphasized German as well as Anglo-US economics. It raises questions about core values of Western culture and how cultural values and priorities are determined.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction3Ch. 1The True West: England, France, and Germany9Ch. 2In the Light and Shadow of the West: Progress in the Age of Enlightenment34Ch. 3The Lessons of Western Economics: Support or Challenge to the Status Quo?61Ch. 4Universalism and Its Discontents: The Laws of History, Economics, and Human Progress93Ch. 5Intersections of Western and Russian Culture: Russian Historical Economics112Ch. 6Capturing the "Essence" of Marx: The Emergence of Orthodox Marxism132Ch. 7In Search of the True West: England, Denmark, and Germany147Ch. 8The Demise of Economic Pluralism: Constructing a Twentieth-Century Model for Progress and Development166Ch. 9Cultures of Modernization on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century: Notes toward a Conclusion181Notes199Selected Bibliography257Index289
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Princeton University Press colonizinghawaii
Book SynopsisHow does law transform family, sexuality, and community in the fractured social world characteristic of the colonizing process? This title reveals how, in Hawai'i, indigenous Hawaiian law was displaced by a transplanted Anglo-American law as global movements of capitalism, Christianity, and imperialism swept across the islands.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2002 Williard Hurst Prize in Legal HistoryTable of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi A NOTE ON LANGUAGE AND TERMINOLOGY xiii ONE Introduction 3 PART ONE: ENCOUNTERS IN A CONTACT ZONE: NEW ENGLAND MISSIONARIES, LAWYERS, AND THE APPROPRIATION OF ANGLO-AMERICAN LAW, 1820-1852 TWO The Process of Legal Transformation 35 THREE The First Transition: Religious Law 63 FOUR The Second Transition: Secular Law 86 PART TWO: LOCAL PRACTICES OF POLICING AND JUDGING IN HILO, HAWAI'I FIVE The Social History of a Plantation Town 117 Six Judges and Caseloads in Hilo 145 SEVEN Protest and the Law on the Hilo Sugar Plantations 207 EIGHT Sexuality, Marriage, and the Management of the Body 221 NINE Conclusions 258 APPENDIXES A CASES FROM HILO DISTRICT COURT 269 B ACCOMPANYING TABLES 325 NOTES 331 REFERENCES 349 INDEX 365
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Princeton University Press Intersecting Voices Dilemmas of Gender Political Philosophy and Policy
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Princeton University Press Verging on ExtraVagance Anthropology History
Book SynopsisExploring links between ritual and reading, focusing on commentaries about the seclusion of menstruating women in Native American culture, trance dances in Bali, and circumcision (or lack of it) in contrasting religions, this work considers the ironies of "first-person ethnography" by telling stories from the author's own fieldwork.Trade Review"James Boon is one of this country's most exciting theorists and practitioners of cultural comparativism. The book is an exemplary work on, and of, cultural translation and the hazards thereof. It is marvelously conceived, brilliantly executed, and almost astonishing in the range of its erudition."—Marc Manganaro, Rutgers University"At a moment when much of 'cultural studies' proceeds without a broadly comparativist framework and in opposition to anthropological relativism, Boon embraces both. This is important and gutsy-and it is done with a genuine sense of pleasure and even beauty. There is really nothing else quite like this work."—Daniel A. Segal, Pitzer CollegeTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPreface: AnThoreaupology: An InvitationRehearsals3An Endlessly Extra-Vagant Scholar: Kenneth Burke3A Similar Genre: Opera9Plus Melville, Cavell, Commodity-Life; Showbiz14Pt. 1Rituals, Rereading, Rhetorical Turns21Ch. 1Re Menses: Rereading Ruth Benedict, Ultraobjectively23Ch. 2Of Foreskins: (Un)Circumcision, Religious Histories, Difficult Description (Montaigne/Remondino)43Ch. 3About a Footnote: Between-the-Wars Bali: Its Relics Regained73Interlude: Essay-etudes and Tristimania97Pt. 2Multimediations: Coincidence, Memory, Magics101Ch. 4Cosmopolitan Moments: As-if Confessions of an Ethnographer-Tourist (Echoey "Cosmomes")103Ch. 5Why Museums Make Me Sad (Eccentric Musings)124Ch. 6Litterytoor 'n' Anthropolygee: An Experimental Wedding of Incongruous Styles from Mark Twain and Marcel Mauss143Pt. 3Cross-over Studies, Seriocomic Critique167A Little Polemic, Quizzically169Ch. 7Against Coping Across Cultures: Self-help Semiotics Rebuffed176Ch. 8Errant Anthropology, with Apologies to Chaucer191Ch. 9Margins and Hierarchies and Rhetorics That Subjugate198Ch. 10Evermore Derrida, Always the Same (What Gives?)211Ch. 11Taking Torgovnick as She Takes Others221Ch. 12Rerun (1980s): Mary Douglas's Grid/Group Grilled230Ch. 13Update (1990s): Coca-Cola Consumes Baudrillard, and a Balinese (Putu) Consumes Coca-Cola249Encores and Envoi: Burke, Cavell, etc., Unforgotten263Acknowledgments and Credits279Notes283References315Index357
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Princeton University Press Honor and Slavery Lies Duels Noses Masks
Book SynopsisThe 'honorable men' who ruled the Old South had a language that comprised apparently outlandish features, yet revealed much about the lives of masters and the nature of slavery. This book demonstrates the language of honor that embraced a system of phrases, gestures, and behaviors centered on values, asserting authority and maintaining respect.Trade Review"A surprisingly sprightly little volume that serves as a window into a world long gone... Greenberg ... is our tour guide in this forbidding, forgotten territory. He's knowledgeable and good-natured. He has an eye for detail, and just as important, an ear for nuance."--David M. Shribman, The Boston Globe "[Greenberg] writes with agreeable clarity, and in five short chapters, his easy, freewheeling style carries us a remarkably long way."--Ian McIntyre, The [London] Times "Many of Greenberg's observations offer revealing contextualizations. Particularly interesting are chapters on death and on the duel."--Publishers Weekly "A piercing--and decidedly offbeat--look into the mind of the Old South... Charged with ideas, this is a cheerfully speculative and valuable addition to the library of the Civil War."--Kirkus Reviews "This is a valuable book... Vivid and persuasive... Given the engaging quality of Greenberg's writing, coupled with his notable ability to tell a story, the book should receive a wide audience among historians and an appreciative one among students of the nineteenth-century American South."--Dickson D. Bruce, Jr., American Historical Review "This collection of intriguing essays is a worthy addition to the literature... [Greenberg] offers telling reflections on these subjects that sharpen the reader's appreciation for how different the world of slavery and honor was from our own... We should acknowledge the vitality and versatility of the author's exemplary handling of a topic too long dwelling in the historical shadows."--Bertram Wyatt-Brown, American Journal of Sociology "Greenberg's thesis and accompanying analysis are tightly interwoven. His discussion is both entertaining and thought provoking, and his conclusions fit well with other discussions of the role of honor in Southern history... Highly readable and interesting."--Robert P. Steed, The Review of Politics "This volume works with great imagination and complexity to show how elite men understood themselves as slave owners and as men."--Ted Ownby, Journal of Southern History "Greenberg's study is easy to praise. It is readable and insightful... More important, it is a fine introduction to the new linguistic approaches to history, wherein dull and seemingly trivial customs can be made fun and important."--John Mayfield, Georgia Historical Quarterly "This is a valuable book... [V]ivid and persuasive... [G]iven the engaging quality of Greenberg's writing, coupled with his notable ability to tell a story, the book should receive a wide audience among historians and an appreciative one among students of the nineteenth-century American South."--Dickson D. Bruce, Jr., American Historical Review "A piercing--and decidedly offbeat--look into the mind of the Old South... Greenberg handles his arguments deftly, full as they are of odd digressions, to show [a culture] with a unique code of custom and communication... Charged with ideas, this is a cheerfully speculative and valuable addition to the library of the Civil War."--Kirkus Reviews "Many of Greenberg's observations offer revealing contextualizations. Particularly interesting are chapters on death and on the duel and its rather less drastic variation, the tweaking of the nose, a symbol of masculine honor."--Publishers Weekly "This is an unusual book, and one that isn't easily categorized. For a historical work it's short and uncharacteristically wry, but Greenberg writes with a lexicographic and historical earnestness of purpose that doesn't allow him to slip into irony at the expense of his subject matter...there's an awful lot of significance to be gleaned from the marginal and the superficial."--Toby Lester, The Boston Book Review "... should be required reading for anyone interested in its [Southern] life and culture before the Civil War."--Library Journal "Greenberg provides an in-depth study of the language of honor in the Old South. He skillfully demonstrates how this language embraced a complex system of phrases, gestures, and behaviors that asserted authority or maintained respect... His work gives a clear view of what it meant to live as a courageous free man in the Old South and should be required reading for anyone interested in its life and culture before the Civil War."--Library JournalTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgments1The Nose, the Lie, and the Duel32Masks and Slavery243Gifts, Strangers, Duels, and Humanitarianism514Death875Baseball, Hunting, and Gambling115Notes147Index171
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