University Of California Press: 1479 books
Bitter and Sweet
Food, Meaning, and Modernity in Rural China
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Less than a half century ago, China experienced a cataclysmic famine, which was particularly devastating in the countryside. As a result, older people in rural areas have experienced in their lifetimes both extreme deprivation and relative abundance of food. Young people, on the other hand, have a...
Following the Leader
Ruling China, from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
With unique access to Chinese leaders at all levels of the party and government, best-selling author David M. Lampton tells the story of China’s political elites from their own perspectives. Based on over five hundred interviews, Following the Leader offers a rare glimpse into how the attitudes...
Return to Sender
The Moral Economy of Peru’s Migrant Remittances
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Return to Sender is an anthropological account of how Peruvian emigrants raise and remit money and what that activity means for themselves and for their home communities. The book draws on first-hand ethnographic data from North and South America, Europe, and Japan to describe how Peruvians remit...
Balancing Acts
Youth Culture in the Global City
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
In this timely examination of children of immigrants in New York and London, Natasha Kumar Warikoo asks, Is there a link between rap/hip-hop-influenced youth culture and motivation to succeed in school? Warikoo challenges teachers, administrators, and parents to look beneath the outward manifestations...
Asylum Denied
A Refugee’s Struggle for Safety in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Asylum Denied is the gripping story of political refugee David Ngaruri Kenney's harrowing odyssey through the world of immigration processing in the United States. Kenney, while living in his native Kenya, led a boycott to protest his government's treatment of his fellow farmers. He was subsequently...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Reintroduction of Fish and Wildlife Populations provides a practical step-by-step guide to successfully planning, implementing, and evaluating the reestablishment of animal populations in former habitats or their introduction in new environments. In each chapter, experts in reintroduction biology...
Blood for Thought
The Reinvention of Sacrifice in Early Rabbinic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Blood for Thought delves into a relatively unexplored area of rabbinic literature: the vast corpus of laws, regulations, and instructions pertaining to sacrificial rituals. Mira Balberg traces and analyzes the ways in which the early rabbis interpreted and conceived of biblical sacrifices, reinventing...
by Marcia Yonemoto
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Early modern Japan was a military-bureaucratic state governed by patriarchal and patrilineal principles and laws. During this time, however, women had considerable power to directly affect social structure, political practice, and economic production. This apparent contradiction between official norms...
Punishing Disease
HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
From the very beginning of the epidemic, AIDS was linked to punishment. Calls to punish people living with HIV—mostly stigmatized minorities—began before doctors had even settled on a name for the disease. Punishing Disease looks at how HIV was transformed from sickness to badness under the criminal...
Engaged Anthropology
Politics beyond the Text
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Does anthropology have more to offer than just its texts? In this timely and remarkable book, Stuart Kirsch shows how anthropology can—and why it should—become more engaged with the problems of the world. Engaged Anthropology draws on the author’s experiences working with indigenous peoples...
Hollowed Out
Why the Economy Doesn't Work without a Strong Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
For the past several decades, politicians and economists thought that high levels of inequality were good for the economy. But because America’s middle class is now so weak, the US economy suffers from the kinds of problems that plague less-developed countries. As Hollowed Out explains, to have...
Race, Place, and Suburban Policing
Too Close for Comfort
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
While considerable attention has been given to encounters between black citizens and police in urban communities, there have been limited analyses of such encounters in suburban settings. Race, Place, and Suburban Policing tells the full story of social injustice, racialized policing, nationally profiled...
Places That Matter
Knowing Your Neighborhood through Data
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Places that Matter asks the reader to identify a place that matters in their life—their home, a place of worship, a park, or some other site that acts as an emotional and physical anchor and connects them to a neighborhood. Then readers are asked: In what ways do I currently support—or fail to...
Whose Child Am I?
Unaccompanied, Undocumented Children in U.S. Immigration Custody
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
In 2014, the arrest and detention of thousands of desperate young migrants at the southwest border of the United States exposed the U.S. government's shadowy juvenile detention system, which had escaped public scrutiny for years. This book tells the story of six Central American and Mexican children...