University Of California Press: 1479 books
Understanding Relativity
A Simplified Approach to Einstein's Theories
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 1996
Nonspecialists with no prior knowledge of physics and only reasonable proficiency with algebra can now understand Einstein's special theory of relativity. Effectively diagrammed and with an emphasis on logical structure, Leo Sartori's rigorous but simple presentation will guide interested readers...
Different Drummers
Rhythm and Race in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book's dazzling, wide-ranging examination of diverse black cultures across the New World. Martin Munro’s groundbreaking work traces the central—and contested—role of music in shaping identities, politics, social history,...
American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary
The Cambridge Turn
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary is a critical history of American filmmakers crucial to the development of ethnographic film and personal documentary. The Boston and Cambridge area is notable for nurturing these approaches to documentary film via institutions such as the MIT Film...
Media Worlds
Anthropology on New Terrain
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2002
This groundbreaking volume showcases the exciting work emerging from the ethnography of media, a burgeoning new area in anthropology that expands both social theory and ethnographic fieldwork to examine the way media—film, television, video—are used in societies around the globe, often in places...
Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures
A Critical Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures is the first book to collect manifestoes from the global history of cinema, providing the first historical and theoretical account of the role played by film manifestos in filmmaking and film culture. Focussing equally on political and aesthetic manifestoes,...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...