University Of Washington Press: 541 books
The Emergence of Genetic Rationality
Space, Time, and Information in American Biological Science, 1870-1920
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The emergence of genetic science has profoundly shaped how we think about biology. Indeed, it is difficult now to consider nearly any facet of human experience without first considering the gene. But this mode of understanding life is not, of course, transhistorical. Phillip Thurtle takes us back...
Beyond Death
The Politics of Suicide and Martyrdom in Korea
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Suicide and martyrdom are closely intertwined with Korean social and political processes. In this first book-length study of the evolving ideals of honorable death and martyrdom from the Chosŏn Dynasty (1392–1910) to contemporary South Korea, interdisciplinary essays explore the changing ways in...
by Erik Mobrand, Clark W. Sorensen
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Although South Korea is widely heralded as a successful new democracy—buttressed by a politically engaged public—elections have done less than expected to force political parties to reorganize their elitist structures. In Top-Down Democracy in South Korea, Erik Mobrand demonstrates that political...
by Allison J. Truitt
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2013
The expanding use of money in contemporary Vietnam has been propelled by the rise of new markets, digital telecommunications, and an ideological emphasis on money's autonomy from the state. People in Vietnam use the metaphor of "open doors" to describe their everyday experiences of market...
The Found Generation
Chinese Communists in Europe during the Twenties
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In contrast to the Lost Generation of youth in the West, who were disoriented and disillusioned by the First World War and its aftermath, the Chinese youth born between 1895 and 1905 not only believed they had a duty to �save� their nation but pursued their goal through social and political experimentation....
by James D. Keyser
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
From the river valleys of interior British Columbia south to the hills of northern Oregon and east to the continental divide in western Montana, hundreds of cliffs and boulders display carved and painted designs created by ancient artists who inhabited this area, the Columbia Plateau, as long as seven...
Buddhas and Ancestors
Religion and Wealth in Fourteenth-Century Korea
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
Two issues central to the transition from the Kory to the Chos n dynasty in fourteenth-century Korea were social differences in ruling elites and the decline of Buddhism, which had been the state religion. In this revisionist history, Juhn Ahn challenges the long-accepted Confucian critique that Buddhism...
Ingmar Bergman's The Silence
Pictures in the Typewriter, Writings on the Screen
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Ingmar Bergman's 1963 film The Silence was made at a point in his career when his stature as one of the great art-film directors allowed him to push beyond the boundaries of what was acceptable to censorship boards in Sweden and the United States. The film's depiction of sexuality was, as Judith Crist...
Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves
The Rhetoric of Reproduction in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves examines the textured interrelations between medical writing about generation and childbirth - what we now call reproduction - and emerging notions of selfhood in early modern England. At a time when medical texts first appeared in English in large numbers and...
Gold Rush Manliness
Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
The mid-nineteenth-century gold rushes bring to mind raucous mining camps and slapped-together cities populated by carousing miners, gamblers, and prostitutes. Yet many of the white men who went to the gold fields were products of the Victorian era: educated men who valued morality and order. Examining...
Judaism and Hellenism in Antiquity
Conflict or Confluence?
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Generations of scholars have debated the influence of Greco-Roman culture on Jewish society and the degree of its impact on Jewish material culture and religious practice in Palestine and the Diaspora of antiquity. Judaism and Hellenism in Antiquity examines this phenomenon from the aftermath of Alexander�s...
We Are Dancing for You
Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women’s Coming-of-Age Ceremonies
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
�I am here. You will never be alone. We are dancing for you.� So begins Cutcha Risling Baldy�s deeply personal account of the revitalization of the women�s coming-of-age ceremony for the Hoopa Valley Tribe. At the end of the twentieth century, the tribe�s Flower Dance had not been fully...
A Family History of Illness
Memory as Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
While in the ICU with a near-fatal case of pneumonia, Brett Walker was asked, �Do you have a family history of illness?��a standard and deceptively simple question that for Walker, a professional historian, took on additional meaning and spurred him to investigate his family�s medical past....
To Sing with Pigs Is Human
The Concept of Person in Papua New Guinea
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Melanesia has been the research focus of some of anthropology�s legendary names. In the best tradition of Melanesian scholarship, Jane Goodale writes here of the Kaulong who live in the deep forests of New Britain, an island in the vast territory of Papua New Guinea. Even in the last half of the...