California Press: 1495 books
Rationalizing Korea
The Rise of the Modern State, 1894–1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
The first book to explore the institutional, ideological, and conceptual development of the modern state on the peninsula, Rationalizing Korea analyzes the state’s relationship to five social sectors, each through a distinctive interpretive theme: economy (developmentalism), religion (secularization),...
Sustaining Conflict
Apathy and Domination in Israel-Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Sustaining Conflict develops a groundbreaking theory of political apathy, using a combination of ethnographic material, narrative, and political, cultural, and feminist theory. It examines how the status quo is maintained in Israel-Palestine, even by the activities of Jewish Israelis who are working...
by Henrietta Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
The Missionary’s Curse tells the story of a Chinese village that has been Catholic since the seventeenth century, drawing direct connections between its history, the globalizing church, and the nation. Harrison recounts the popular folk tales of merchants and peasants who once adopted Catholic rituals...
by Jon R. Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
"Larvatus prodeo," announced René Descartes at the beginning of the seventeenth century: "I come forward, masked." Deliberately disguising or silencing their most intimate thoughts and emotions, many early modern Europeans besides Descartes-princes, courtiers, aristocrats and...
The School of Rome
Latin Studies and the Origins of Liberal Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
This fascinating cultural and intellectual history focuses on education as practiced by the imperial age Romans, looking at what they considered the value of education and its effect on children. W. Martin Bloomer details the processes, exercises, claims, and contexts of liberal education from the...
That Religion in Which All Men Agree
Freemasonry in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
This powerful study weaves the story of Freemasonry into the narrative of American religious history. Freighted with the mythical legacies of stonemasons’ guilds and the Newtonian revolution, English Freemasonry arrived in colonial America with a vast array of cultural baggage, which was drawn on,...
Fabricating Consumers
The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Since its early days of mass production in the 1850s, the sewing machine has been intricately connected with the global development of capitalism. Andrew Gordon traces the machine’s remarkable journey into and throughout Japan, where it not only transformed manners of dress, but also helped change...
From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean
The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Drawing on a rich trove of documents, including correspondence not seen for 300 years, this study explores the emergence and growth of a remarkable global trade network operated by Armenian silk merchants from a small outpost in the Persian Empire. Based in New Julfa, Isfahan, in what is now Iran,...
Dreams and Nightmares
Immigration Policy, Youth, and Families
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Dreams and Nightmares takes a critical look at the challenges and dilemmas of immigration policy and practice in the absence of comprehensive immigration reform. The experiences of children and youth provide a prism through which the interwoven dynamics and consequences of immigration policy become...
Ephemeral Histories
Public Art, Politics, and the Struggle for the Streets in Chile
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Politics under Salvador Allende was a battle fought in the streets. Everyday attempts to “ganar la calle” allowed a wide range of urban residents to voice potent political opinions. *Santiaguinos *marched through the streets chanting slogans, seized public squares, and plastered city walls with...
The Anthropology of Sport
Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Few activities bring together physicality, emotions, politics, money, and morality as dramatically as sport. In Brazil’s stadiums or China’s parks, on Cuba’s baseball diamonds or Fiji’s rugby fields, human beings test their physical limits, invest emotional energy, bet money, perform witchcraft,...
Hindu Goddesses
Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 1988
Goddess worship has long been a significant aspect of Hinduism. In this book David Kinsley, author of The Sword and the Flute—Kali & Krsna: Dark Visions of the Terrible and the Sublime in Hindu Mythology, sorts out the rich yet often chaotic history of Hindu goddess worship.
Tantra
Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2003
A complex body of religious practices that spread throughout the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions; a form of spirituality that seemingly combines sexuality, sensual pleasure, and the full range of physical experience with the religious life—Tantra has held a central yet conflicted role within...
Miracles of Book and Body
Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Miracles of Book and Body is the first book to explore the intersection of two key genres of sacred literature in medieval Japan: sutras, or sacred Buddhist texts, and setsuwa, or "explanatory tales," used in sermons and collected in written compilations. For most of East Asia, Buddhist...