California Press: 1495 books
by Norman A. Kutcher
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Eunuch and Emperor in the Great Age of Qing Rule offers a new interpretation of eunuchs and their connection to imperial rule in the first century and a half of the Qing dynasty (1644–1800). This period encompassed the reigns of three of China’s most important emperors, men who were deeply affected...
Eating Mud Crabs in Kandahar
Stories of Food during Wartime by the World's Leading Correspondents
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
These sometimes harrowing, frequently funny, and always riveting stories about food and eating under extreme conditions feature the diverse voices of journalists who have reported from dangerous conflict zones around the world during the past twenty years. A profile of the former chef to Kim Jong...
Under the Medical Gaze
Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2001
This compelling account of the author's experience with a chronic pain disorder and subsequent interaction with the American health care system goes to the heart of the workings of power and culture in the biomedical domain. It is a medical whodunit full of mysterious misdiagnosis, subtle power plays,...
How Forests Think
Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be human—and thus distinct from all other life forms. Based on four years of fieldwork among the Runa of...
Praying and Preying
Christianity in Indigenous Amazonia
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Praying and Preying offers one of the rare anthropological monographs on the Christian experience of contemporary Amazonian indigenous peoples, based on an ethnographic study of the relationship between the Wari’, inhabitants of Brazilian Amazonia, and the Evangelical missionaries of the New Tribes...
Mock Classicism
Latin American Film Comedy, 1930–1960
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
In Mock Classicism Nilo Couret presents an alternate history of Latin American cinema that traces the popularity and cultural significance of film comedies as responses to modernization and the forerunners to a more explicitly political New Latin American Cinema of the 1960s. By examining the linguistic...
by Michael Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Michael Jackson extends his path-breaking work in existential anthropology by focusing on the interplay between two modes of human existence: that of participating in other peoples’ lives and that of turning inward to one’s self. Grounding his discussion in the subtle shifts between being acted...
Race and the Brazilian Body
Blackness, Whiteness, and Everyday Language in Rio de Janeiro
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Based on spontaneous conversations of shantytown youth hanging out on the streets of their neighborhoods and interviews from the comfortable living rooms of the middle class, Jennifer Roth-Gordon shows how racial ideas permeate the daily lives of Rio de Janeiro’s residents across race and class...
From Cuba with Love
Sex and Money in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
From Cuba with Love deals with love, sexuality, and politics in contemporary Cuba. In this beautiful narrative, Megan Daigle explores the role of women in Cuban political culture by examining the rise of economies of sex, romance, and money since the early 1990s. Daigle draws attention to the violence...
by Shelley Stamp
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2015
Among early Hollywood’s most renowned filmmakers, Lois Weber was considered one of the era’s "three great minds" alongside D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille. Despite her accomplishments, Weber has been marginalized in relation to her contemporaries, who have long been recognized as...
by Nadine Hubbs
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
In her provocative new book Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music, Nadine Hubbs looks at how class and gender identity play out in one of America’s most culturally and politically charged forms of popular music. Skillfully weaving historical inquiry with an examination of classed cultural repertoires...
Blue Jeans
The Art of the Ordinary
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
This fresh and accessible ethnography offers a new vision of how society might cohere, in the face of on-going global displacement, dislocation, and migration. Drawing from intensive fieldwork in a highly diverse North London neighborhood, Daniel Miller and Sophie Woodward focus on an everyday item—blue...
The Myth of Continents
A Critique of Metageography
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 1997
In this thoughtful and engaging critique, geographer Martin W. Lewis and historian Kären Wigen reexamine the basic geographical divisions we take for granted, and challenge the unconscious spatial frameworks that govern the way we perceive the world. Arguing that notions of East vs. West, First World...
The New World History
A Field Guide for Teachers and Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
The New World History is a comprehensive volume of essays selected to enrich world history teaching and scholarship in this rapidly expanding field. The forty-four articles in this book take stock of the history, evolving literature, and current trajectories of new world history. These essays, together...