University Of California Press: 1479 books
The Great Han
Race, Nationalism, and Tradition in China Today
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
The Great Han is an ethnographic study of the Han Clothing Movement*,* a neotraditionalist and racial nationalist movement that has emerged in China since 2001. Participants come together both online and in person in cities across China to revitalize their utopian vision of the authentic “Great...
The Insecure American
How We Got Here and What We Should Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Americans are feeling insecure. They are retreating to gated communities in record numbers, fearing for their jobs and their 401(k)s, nervous about their health insurance and their debt levels, worrying about terrorist attacks and immigrants. In this innovative volume, editors Hugh Gusterson and Catherine...
Thing Knowledge
A Philosophy of Scientific Instruments
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2004
Western philosophers have traditionally concentrated on theory as the means for expressing knowledge about a variety of phenomena. This absorbing book challenges this fundamental notion by showing how objects themselves, specifically scientific instruments, can express knowledge. As he considers numerous...
The Paper Road
Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
This exhilarating book interweaves the stories of two early twentieth-century botanists to explore the collaborative relationships each formed with Yunnan villagers in gathering botanical specimens from the borderlands between China, Tibet, and Burma. Erik Mueggler introduces Scottish botanist George...
Flesh and Fish Blood
Postcolonialism, Translation, and the Vernacular
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
In Flesh and Fish Blood Subramanian Shankar breaks new ground in postcolonial studies by exploring the rich potential of vernacular literary expressions. Shankar pushes beyond the postcolonial Anglophone canon and works with Indian literature and film in English, Tamil, and Hindi to present one of...
Playing the Farmer
Representations of Rural Life in Vergil’s Georgics
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Playing the Farmer reinvigorates our understanding of Vergil’s Georgics, a vibrant work written by Rome’s premier epic poet shortly before he began the Aeneid. Setting the Georgics in the social context of its day, Philip Thibodeau for the first time connects the poem’s idyllic, and idealized,...
Divine Deliverance
Pain and Painlessness in Early Christian Martyr Texts
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Does martyrdom hurt? The obvious answer to this question is “yes.” L. Stephanie Cobb, asserts, however, that early Christian martyr texts respond to this question with an emphatic “no!” Divine Deliverance examines the original martyr texts of the second through fifth centuries, concluding...
The World's Beaches
A Global Guide to the Science of the Shoreline
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Take this book to the beach; it will open up a whole new world. Illustrated throughout with color photographs, maps, and graphics, it explores one of the planet’s most dynamic environments—from tourist beaches to Arctic beaches strewn with ice chunks to steaming hot tropical shores. The World’s...
Learning Love from a Tiger
Religious Experiences with Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Learning Love from a Tiger explores the vibrancy and variety of humans’ sacred encounters with the natural world, gathering a range of stories culled from Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Mayan, Himalayan, Buddhist, and Chinese shamanic traditions. Readers will delight in tales of house cats who teach...
Stick Together and Come Back Home
Racial Sorting and the Spillover of Carceral Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
In Stick Together and Come Back Home, Patrick Lopez-Aguado examines how what happens inside a prison affects what happens outside of it. Following the experiences of seventy youth and adults as they navigate juvenile justice and penal facilities before finally going back home, he outlines how institutional...
Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco
Thirtieth Anniversary Edition, with a New Preface by the Author
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
In this landmark study, now celebrating thirty years in print, Paul Rabinow takes as his focus the fieldwork that anthropologists do. How valid is the process? To what extent do the cultural data become artifacts of the interaction between anthropologist and informants? Having first published a more...
Being Christian in Vandal Africa
The Politics of Orthodoxy in the Post-Imperial West
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Being Christian in Vandal Africa investigates conflicts over Christian orthodoxy in the Vandal kingdom, the successor to Roman rule in North Africa, ca. 439 to 533 c.e. Exploiting neglected texts, author Robin Whelan exposes a sophisticated culture of disputation between Nicene (“Catholic”) and...
Theodoret's People
Social Networks and Religious Conflict in Late Roman Syria
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Theodoret’s People sheds new light on religious clashes of the mid-fifth century regarding the nature (or natures) of Christ. Adam M. Schor focuses on Theodoret, bishop of Cyrrhus, his Syrian allies, and his opponents, led by Alexandrian bishops Cyril and Dioscorus. Although both sets of clerics...
by Michel de Certeau
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
In this incisive book, Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics, and culture....