University Of California Press: 1479 books
An American Language
The History of Spanish in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
"This is the most comprehensive book I’ve ever read about the use of Spanish in the U.S. Incredible research. Read it to understand our country. Spanish is, indeed, an American language."—Jorge Ramos
An American Language is a tour de force that revolutionizes our understanding...
Making the Mexican Diabetic
Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
This innovative ethnographic study animates the racial politics that underlie genomic research into type 2 diabetes, one of the most widespread chronic diseases and one that affects ethnic groups disproportionately. Michael J. Montoya follows blood donations from "Mexican-American" donors...
The Atlas of Food
With a New Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
What we eat, where we eat, and how we eat: these questions are explored in this remarkable book, now with a new introduction contextualizing the atlas for 2013 and beyond.
By providing an up-to-date and visually appealing understanding of important issues around global food and agriculture,...
Three Kingdoms
A Historical Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2014
Updated with a new foreword by Moss Roberts for this fifteenth anniversary edition, Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 220), when the Chinese empire was divided into three warring kingdoms. Writing some twelve hundred years later, the Ming...
Weighing In
Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2011
Weighing In takes on the "obesity epidemic," challenging many widely held assumptions about its causes and consequences. Julie Guthman examines fatness and its relationship to health outcomes to ask if our efforts to prevent "obesity" are sensible, efficacious, or ethical. She...
Environmental Flows
Saving Rivers in the Third Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Environmental Flows describes the timing, quality, and quantity of water flows required to sustain freshwater and estuarine ecosystems and the human well-being and livelihoods that depend upon them. It answers crucial questions about the flow of water within and between different kinds of ecosystems....
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
This book explores food from a philosophical perspective, bringing together sixteen leading philosophers to consider the most basic questions about food: What is it exactly? What should we eat? How do we know it is safe? How should food be distributed? What is good food? David M. Kaplan’s erudite...
Free for All
Fixing School Food in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
How did our children end up eating nachos, pizza, and Tater Tots for lunch? Taking us on an eye-opening journey into the nation's school kitchens, this superbly researched book is the first to provide a comprehensive assessment of school food in the United States. Janet Poppendieck explores the deep...
Replenished Ethnicity
Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2009
Unlike the wave of immigration that came through Ellis Island and then subsided, immigration to the United States from Mexico has been virtually uninterrupted for one hundred years. In this vividly detailed book, Tomás R. Jiménez takes us into the lives of later-generation descendents of Mexican...
Making Los Angeles Home
The Integration of Mexican Immigrants in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Making Los Angeles Home examines the different integration strategies implemented by Mexican immigrants in the Los Angeles region. Relying on statistical data and ethnographic information, the authors analyze four different dimensions of the immigrant integration process (economic, social, cultural,...
Women's Place in the Andes
Engaging Decolonial Feminist Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
In Women’s Place in the Andes Florence E. Babb draws on four decades of anthropological research to reexamine the complex interworkings of gender, race, and indigeneity in Peru and beyond. She deftly interweaves five new analytical chapters with six of her previously published works that exemplify...
Balancing on a Planet
The Future of Food and Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
This book is an interdisciplinary primer on critical thinking and effective action for the future of our global agrifood system, based on an understanding of the system’s biological and sociocultural roots. Key components of the book are a thorough analysis of the assumptions underlying different...
International Water Scarcity and Variability
Managing Resource Use Across Political Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
International Water Scarcity and Variability considers international water management challenges created by water scarcity and environmental change. Although media coverage and some scholars tend to cast natural resource shortages as leading inexorably toward armed conflict and war, Shlomi Dinar and...
Enacting the Corporation
An American Mining Firm in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
What are corporations, and to whom are they responsible? Anthropologist Marina Welker draws on two years of research at Newmont Mining Corporation’s Denver headquarters and its Batu Hijau copper and gold mine in Sumbawa, Indonesia, to address these questions. Against the backdrop of an emerging...