California Press: 1495 books
Taiko Boom
Japanese Drumming in Place and Motion
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
With its thunderous sounds and dazzling choreography, Japanese taiko drumming has captivated audiences in Japan and across the world, making it one of the most successful performing arts to emerge from Japan in the past century. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among taiko groups in Japan,...
A History of Infamy
Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
A History of Infamy explores the broken nexus between crime, justice, and truth in mid-twentieth-century Mexico. Faced with the violence and impunity that defined politics, policing, and the judicial system in post-revolutionary times, Mexicans sought truth and justice outside state institutions....
The Country of Football
Soccer and the Making of Modern Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Soccer is the world’s most popular sport, and the Brazilian national team is beloved around the planet for its beautiful playing style, the jogo bonito. With the most successful national soccer team in the history of the World Cup, Brazil is the only country to have played in every competition and...
Reclaiming Late-Romantic Music
Singing Devils and Distant Sounds
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Why are some of the most beloved and frequently performed works of the late-romantic period—Mahler, Delius, Debussy, Sibelius, Puccini—regarded by many critics as perhaps not quite of the first rank? Why has modernist discourse continued to brand these works as overly sentimental and emotionally...
Restless Dead
Encounters between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
During the archaic and classical periods, Greek ideas about the dead evolved in response to changing social and cultural conditions—most notably changes associated with the development of the polis, such as funerary legislation, and changes due to increased contacts with cultures of the ancient...
Laughter Out of Place
Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Donna M. Goldstein presents a hard-hitting critique of urban poverty and violence and challenges much of what we think we know about the "culture of poverty" in this compelling read. Drawing on more than a decade of experience in Brazil, Goldstein provides an intimate portrait of everyday...
The Meanings of Macho
Being a Man in Mexico City
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2006
In this compelling study of machismo in Mexico City, Matthew Gutmann overturns many stereotypes of male culture in Mexico and offers a sensitive and often surprising look at how Mexican men see themselves, parent their children, relate to women, and talk about sex. This tenth anniversary edition features a new preface that updates the stories of the book's key protagonists.
From the Soil
The Foundations of Chinese Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 1992
This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about the distinctive characteristics of Chinese society. Written in Chinese from a Chinese point of view for a Chinese audience, From the Soil describes the contrasting...
Primitive Selves
Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910–1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2010
This remarkable book examines the complex history of Japanese colonial and postcolonial interactions with Korea, particularly in matters of cultural policy. E. Taylor Atkins focuses on past and present Japanese fascination with Korean culture as he reassesses colonial anthropology, heritage curation,...
Mabiki
Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1660-1950
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
This book tells the story of a society reversing deeply held worldviews and revolutionizing its demography. In parts of eighteenth-century Japan, couples raised only two or three children. As villages shrank and domain headcounts dwindled, posters of child-murdering she-devils began to appear, and...
Tropics of Savagery
The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
Tropics of Savagery is an incisive and provocative study of the figures and tropes of "savagery" in Japanese colonial culture. Through a rigorous analysis of literary works, ethnographic studies, and a variety of other discourses, Robert Thomas Tierney demonstrates how imperial Japan constructed...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
The essays in this groundbreaking book explore the meanings of manhood in Japan from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. Recreating Japanese Men examines a broad range of attitudes regarding properly masculine pursuits and modes of behavior. It charts breakdowns in traditional and conventional...
Hiroshima Traces
Time, Space, and the Dialectics of Memory
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 1999
Remembering Hiroshima, the city obliterated by the world's first nuclear attack, has been a complicated and intensely politicized process, as we learn from Lisa Yoneyama's sensitive investigation of the "dialectics of memory." She explores unconventional texts and dimensions of culture involved...
by Robert Creeley
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Robert Creeley is one of the most celebrated and influential American poets. A stylist of the highest order, Creeley imbued his correspondence with the literary artistry he brought to his poetry. Through his engagements with mentors such as William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound, peers such as Charles...