University Of California Press: 1479 books
The School of Rome
Latin Studies and the Origins of Liberal Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
This fascinating cultural and intellectual history focuses on education as practiced by the imperial age Romans, looking at what they considered the value of education and its effect on children. W. Martin Bloomer details the processes, exercises, claims, and contexts of liberal education from the...
That Religion in Which All Men Agree
Freemasonry in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
This powerful study weaves the story of Freemasonry into the narrative of American religious history. Freighted with the mythical legacies of stonemasons’ guilds and the Newtonian revolution, English Freemasonry arrived in colonial America with a vast array of cultural baggage, which was drawn on,...
Fabricating Consumers
The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Since its early days of mass production in the 1850s, the sewing machine has been intricately connected with the global development of capitalism. Andrew Gordon traces the machine’s remarkable journey into and throughout Japan, where it not only transformed manners of dress, but also helped change...
From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean
The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Drawing on a rich trove of documents, including correspondence not seen for 300 years, this study explores the emergence and growth of a remarkable global trade network operated by Armenian silk merchants from a small outpost in the Persian Empire. Based in New Julfa, Isfahan, in what is now Iran,...
Tantra
Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2003
A complex body of religious practices that spread throughout the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions; a form of spirituality that seemingly combines sexuality, sensual pleasure, and the full range of physical experience with the religious life—Tantra has held a central yet conflicted role within...
Miracles of Book and Body
Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Miracles of Book and Body is the first book to explore the intersection of two key genres of sacred literature in medieval Japan: sutras, or sacred Buddhist texts, and setsuwa, or "explanatory tales," used in sermons and collected in written compilations. For most of East Asia, Buddhist...
by Norman A. Kutcher
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Eunuch and Emperor in the Great Age of Qing Rule offers a new interpretation of eunuchs and their connection to imperial rule in the first century and a half of the Qing dynasty (1644–1800). This period encompassed the reigns of three of China’s most important emperors, men who were deeply affected...
Eating Mud Crabs in Kandahar
Stories of Food during Wartime by the World's Leading Correspondents
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
These sometimes harrowing, frequently funny, and always riveting stories about food and eating under extreme conditions feature the diverse voices of journalists who have reported from dangerous conflict zones around the world during the past twenty years. A profile of the former chef to Kim Jong...
Under the Medical Gaze
Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2001
This compelling account of the author's experience with a chronic pain disorder and subsequent interaction with the American health care system goes to the heart of the workings of power and culture in the biomedical domain. It is a medical whodunit full of mysterious misdiagnosis, subtle power plays,...
How Forests Think
Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be human—and thus distinct from all other life forms. Based on four years of fieldwork among the Runa of...
Praying and Preying
Christianity in Indigenous Amazonia
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Praying and Preying offers one of the rare anthropological monographs on the Christian experience of contemporary Amazonian indigenous peoples, based on an ethnographic study of the relationship between the Wari’, inhabitants of Brazilian Amazonia, and the Evangelical missionaries of the New Tribes...
Mock Classicism
Latin American Film Comedy, 1930–1960
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
In Mock Classicism Nilo Couret presents an alternate history of Latin American cinema that traces the popularity and cultural significance of film comedies as responses to modernization and the forerunners to a more explicitly political New Latin American Cinema of the 1960s. By examining the linguistic...
Race and the Brazilian Body
Blackness, Whiteness, and Everyday Language in Rio de Janeiro
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Based on spontaneous conversations of shantytown youth hanging out on the streets of their neighborhoods and interviews from the comfortable living rooms of the middle class, Jennifer Roth-Gordon shows how racial ideas permeate the daily lives of Rio de Janeiro’s residents across race and class...
by Shelley Stamp
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2015
Among early Hollywood’s most renowned filmmakers, Lois Weber was considered one of the era’s "three great minds" alongside D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille. Despite her accomplishments, Weber has been marginalized in relation to her contemporaries, who have long been recognized as...