University Of California Press: 1479 books
Gender in the Twenty-First Century
The Stalled Revolution and the Road to Equality
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
How far have we really progressed toward gender equality in the United States? The answer is, “not far enough.” This engaging and accessible work, aimed at students studying gender and social inequality, provides new insight into the uneven and stalled nature of the gender revolution...
by Kimberly A. Goyette
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Education in America provides an essential, comprehensive introduction to education in the U.S., from its origins to its contemporary manifestations. Focusing on social inequality, Kimberly A. Goyette calls into question Horace Mann’s famous proclamation that education is the “great equalizer”...
Illegality, Inc.
Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
In this groundbreaking ethnography, Ruben Andersson, a gifted anthropologist and journalist, travels along the clandestine migration trail from Senegal and Mali to the Spanish North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. Through the voices of his informants, Andersson explores, viscerally and emphatically,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Declining bird populations, especially those that breed in North American grasslands, have stimulated extensive research on factors that affect nest failure and reduced reproductive success. Until now, this research has been hampered by the difficulties inherent in observing nest activities. Video...
The Turtles of Mexico
Land and Freshwater Forms
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
The Turtles of Mexico is the first comprehensive guide to the biology, ecology, evolution, and distribution of more than fifty freshwater and terrestrial turtle taxa found in Mexico. Legler and Vogt draw on more than fifty years of fieldwork to elucidate the natural history of these species. The volume...
The Managed Hand
Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Two women, virtual strangers, sit hand-in-hand across a narrow table, both intent on the same thing-achieving the perfect manicure. Encounters like this occur thousands of times across the United States in nail salons increasingly owned and operated by Asian immigrants. This study looks closely for...
Studying Global Pentecostalism
Theories and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
With its remarkable ability to adapt to many different cultures, Pentecostalism has become the world’s fastest growing religious movement. More than five hundred million adherents worldwide have reshaped Christianity itself. Yet some fundamental questions in the study of global Pentecostalism, and...
Moving by the Spirit
Pentecostal Social Life on the Zambian Copperbelt
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Drawing on two years of ethnographic research, Naomi Haynes explores Pentecostal Christianity in the kind of community where it often flourishes: a densely populated neighborhood in the heart of an extraction economy. On the Zambian Copperbelt, Pentecostal adherence embeds believers in relationships...
Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes
How Myth and Religion Shape Fantasy Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes looks at fantasy film, television, and participative culture as evidence of our ongoing need for a mythic vision—for stories larger than ourselves into which we write ourselves and through which we can become the heroes of our own story. Why do we tell and...
Prophets and Patriots
Faith in Democracy across the Political Divide
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Prophets and Patriots takes readers inside two of the most active populist movements of the Obama era and highlights cultural convergences and contradictions at the heart of American political life. In the wake of the Great Recession and amid rising discontent with government responsiveness to ordinary...
Pedagogy for Religion
Missionary Education and the Fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2011
Offering a new approach to the study of religion and empire, this innovative book challenges a widespread myth of modernity—that Western rule has had a secularizing effect on the non-West—by looking closely at missionary schools in Bengal. Parna Sengupta examines the period from 1850 to the 1930s...
by Edward J. Watts
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
The Final Pagan Generation recounts the fascinating story of the lives and fortunes of the last Romans born before the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity. Edward J. Watts traces their experiences of living through the fourth century’s dramatic religious and political changes, when heated...
Stranger Intimacy
Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
In exploring an array of intimacies between global migrants Nayan Shah illuminates a stunning, transient world of heterogeneous social relations—dignified, collaborative, and illicit. At the same time he demonstrates how the United States and Canada, in collusion with each other, actively sought...
Playing to Win
Raising Children in a Competitive Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
Playing to Win: Raising Children in a Competitive Culture follows the path of elementary school-age children involved in competitive dance, youth travel soccer, and scholastic chess.
Why do American children participate in so many adult-run activities outside of the home, especially when family...