University Of California Press: 1479 books
by Helene P. Foley
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This book explores the emergence of Greek tragedy on the American stage from the nineteenth century to the present. Despite the gap separating the world of classical Greece from our own, Greek tragedy has provided a fertile source for some of the most innovative American theater. Helene P. Foley shows...
Breaking Bread
Recipes and Stories from Immigrant Kitchens
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Through stories of hand-rolled pasta and homemade chutney, local markets and backyard gardens, and wild mushrooms and foraged grape leaves—this book recounts in loving detail the memories, recipes, and culinary traditions of people who have come to the United States from around the world. Chef and...
Beyond Hummus and Falafel
Social and Political Aspects of Palestinian Food in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Beyond Hummus and Falafel is the story of how food has come to play a central role in how Palestinian citizens of Israel negotiate life and a shared cultural identity within a tense political context. At the household level, Palestinian women govern food culture in the home, replicating tradition...
A War on People
Drug User Politics and a New Ethics of Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
If we see that our contemporary condition is one of war and widely diffused complexity, how do we understand our most basic ethical motivations? What might be the aims of our political activity? A War on People takes up these questions and offers a glimpse of a possible alternative future in this...
HIV is God's Blessing
Rehabilitating Morality in Neoliberal Russia
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
This provocative study examines the role of today’s Russian Orthodox Church in the treatment of HIV/AIDS. Russia has one of the fastest-growing rates of HIV infection in the world—80 percent from intravenous drug use—and the Church remains its only resource for fighting these diseases. Jarrett...
Mabel McKay
Weaving the Dream
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
A world-renowned Pomo basket weaver and medicine woman, Mabel McKay expressed her genius through her celebrated baskets, her Dreams, her cures, and the stories with which she kept her culture alive. She spent her life teaching others how the spirit speaks through the Dream, how the spirit heals, and...
On the Borders of Love and Power
Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Embracing the crossroads that made the region distinctive this book reveals how American families have always been characterized by greater diversity than idealizations of the traditional family have allowed. The essays show how family life figured prominently in relations to larger struggles for conquest and control.
Lavender and Red
Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
LGBT activism is often imagined as a self-contained struggle, inspired by but set apart from other social movements. *Lavender and Red *recounts a far different story: a history of queer radicals who understood their sexual liberation as intertwined with solidarity against imperialism, war, and...
Charros
How Mexican Cowboys Are Remapping Race and American Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
In the American imagination, no figure is more central to national identity and the nation’s origin story than the cowboy. Yet the Americans and Europeans who settled the U.S. West learned virtually everything they knew about ranching from the indigenous and Mexican horsemen who already inhabited...
Tasting French Terroir
The History of an Idea
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
This book explores the origins and significance of the French concept of terroir, demonstrating that the way the French eat their food and drink their wine today derives from a cultural mythology that developed between the Renaissance and the Revolution. Through close readings and an examination of...
Jailcare
Finding the Safety Net for Women behind Bars
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Thousands of pregnant women pass through our nation’s jails every year. What happens to them as they carry their pregnancies in a space of punishment? In this time when the public safety net is frayed, incarceration has become a central and racialized strategy for managing the poor. Using her ethnographic...
Emergence and Collapse of Early Villages
Models of Central Mesa Verde Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Ancestral Pueblo farmers encountered the deep, well watered, and productive soils of the central Mesa Verde region of Southwest Colorado around A.D. 600, and within two centuries built some of the largest villages known up to that time in the U.S. Southwest. But one hundred years later, those villages...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
The vast and influential American military has been aided and abetted by cinema since the earliest days of the medium. The army, navy, and air force put films to work in myriad ways, enlisting them to entertain, train, and heal soldiers as well as to propagandize, strategize, spy, map, and develop...
Green Wars
Conservation and Decolonization in the Maya Forest
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Global conservation efforts are celebrated for saving Guatemala’s Maya Forest. This book reveals that the process of protecting lands has been one of racialized dispossession for the Indigenous peoples who live there. Through careful ethnography and archival research, Megan Ybarra shows how conservation...