University Of California Press: 1479 books
Yakuza
Japan's Criminal Underworld
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Known for their striking full-body tattoos and severed fingertips, Japan's gangsters comprise a criminal class eighty thousand strong--more than four times the size of the American mafia. Despite their criminal nature, the yakuza are accepted by fellow Japanese to a degree guaranteed to shock most...
On Becoming a Teen Mom
Life before Pregnancy
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
In 2013, New York City launched a public education campaign with posters of frowning or crying children saying such things as "I’m twice as likely not to graduate high school because you had me as a teen" and "Honestly, Mom, chances are he won’t stay with you." Campaigns like...
The Global Edge
Miami in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Over the last quarter century, no other city like Miami has rapidly transformed into a global city. The Global Edge charts the social tensions and unexpected consequences of this remarkable process of change. Acting as a follow-up to the highly successful City on the Edge, The Global Edge examines...
Classifying Christians
Ethnography, Heresiology, and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Classifying Christians investigates late antique Christian heresiologies as ethnographies that catalogued and detailed the origins, rituals, doctrines, and customs of the heretics in explicitly polemical and theological terms. Oscillating between ancient ethnographic evidence and contemporary ethnographic...
The State of China Atlas
Mapping the World's Fastest-Growing Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
This magnificently produced atlas provides a unique visual survey of the profound economic, political, and social changes taking place in China, as well as their implications for the world at large.
China has the world's fastest-growing economy and is the second-largest trading nation. With...
by Richard O. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
The poems in Writing the Silences represent more than 60 years of Richard O. Moore’s work as a poet. Selected from seven full-length manuscripts written between 1946 and 2008, these poems reflect not only Moore’s place in literary history—he is the last of his generation of the legendary group...
Our Most Troubling Madness
Case Studies in Schizophrenia across Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Schizophrenia has long puzzled researchers in the fields of psychiatric medicine and anthropology. Why is it that the rates of developing schizophrenia—long the poster child for the biomedical model of psychiatric illness—are low in some countries and higher in others? And why do migrants to...
Miracle Cures
Saints, Pilgrimage, and the Healing Powers of Belief
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Iconic images of medieval pilgrims, such as Chaucer’s making their laborious way to Canterbury, conjure a distant time when faith was the only refuge of the ill and infirm, and thousands traveled great distances to pray for healing. Why, then, in an age of advanced biotechnology and medicine, do...
Beyond the Borderlands
Migration and Belonging in the United States and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
Over the last three decades, migration from Mexico to the United States has moved beyond the borderlands to diverse communities across the country, with the most striking transformations in American suburbs and small towns. This study explores the challenges encountered by Mexican families as they...
Enduring Violence
Ladina Women's Lives in Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Drawing on revealing, in-depth interviews, Cecilia Menjívar investigates the role that violence plays in the lives of Ladina women in eastern Guatemala, a little-visited and little-studied region. While much has been written on the subject of political violence in Guatemala, Menjívar turns to a...
Social Collateral
Women and Microfinance in Paraguay’s Smuggling Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Microcredit is part of a global trend of financial inclusion that brings banking services, especially small loans, to the world’s poor. In this book, Caroline Schuster explores Paraguayan solidarity lending as a window into the tensions between social development and global finance.
Social...
Remix
Changing Conversations in Museums of the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Celebrating the diversity of institutions in the United States, Latin America, and Canada, Remix aims to change the discourse about museums from the inside out, proposing a new, “panarchic”—nonhierarchical and adaptive—vision for museum practice. Selma Holo and Mari-Tere Álvarez offer an...
Making Roots
A Nation Captivated
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
When Alex Haley’s book Roots was published by Doubleday in 1976 it became an immediate bestseller. The television series, broadcast by ABC in 1977, became the most popular miniseries of all time, captivating over a hundred million Americans. For the first time, Americans saw slavery as an integral...
Boats, Borders, and Bases
Race, the Cold War, and the Rise of Migration Detention in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Discussions about U.S. migration policing have traditionally focused on enforcement along the highly charged U.S.-Mexico boundary. Enforcement practices such as detention policies designed to restrict access to asylum also transpire in the Caribbean. Boats, Borders, and Bases tells a missing, racialized...