University Of California Press imprint: 1479 books
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies
Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies provides an intimate examination of the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants in our contemporary food system. An anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, Holmes shows how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine...
Life Histories of the Dobe !Kung
Food, Fatness, and Well-being over the Life-span
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Life Histories of the Dobe !Kung re-examines an important anthropological data set for the Dobe !Kung, the well-known "Bushmen" of the Kalahari Desert, collected by Nancy Howell and colleagues. Using life history analysis, Howell reinterprets this rich material to address the question of...
Rough and Tumble
Aggression, Hunting, and Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Travis Rayne Pickering argues that the advent of ambush hunting approximately two million years ago marked a milestone in human evolution, one that established the social dynamic that allowed our ancestors to expand their range and diet. He challenges the traditional link between aggression and human...
Hizmet Means Service
Perspectives on an Alternative Path within Islam
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Hizmet Means Service examines Hizmet, a Turkey-based but global movement dedicated to human service. Inspired by Fethullah Gülen, a Sufi Muslim mystic, scholar, and preacher, it is an international endeavor focused on education, business, interfaith dialogue, science, and efforts to promote tolerance...
Islam and Christianity
Theological Themes in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
In light of the widespread public perception of incompatibility between Islam and Christianity, this book provides a much-needed straightforward comparison of these two great faith traditions from a broad theological perspective. Award-winning scholar John Renard illuminates the similarities as well...
Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner
Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
In his day, Jack Johnson—born in Texas, the son of former slaves—was the most famous black man on the planet. As the first African American World Heavyweight Champion (1908–1915), he publicly challenged white supremacy at home and abroad, enjoying the same audacious lifestyle of conspicuous...
by Rebecca J. DeRoo
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Agnès Varda is a prolific film director, photographer, and artist whose cinematic career spans more than six decades. Today she is best known as the innovative “mother” of the French New Wave film movement of the 1950s and '60s and for her multimedia art exhibitions. Varying her use of different...
Jazz Diasporas
Race, Music, and Migration in Post-World War II Paris
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
At the close of the Second World War, waves of African American musicians migrated to Paris, eager to thrive in its reinvigorated jazz scene. Jazz Diasporas challenges the notion that Paris was a color-blind paradise for African Americans. On the contrary, musicians adopted a variety of strategies...
by Merry White
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
This fascinating book—part ethnography, part memoir—traces Japan’s vibrant café society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan’s coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day, as uniquely...
Capturing Sound
How Technology Has Changed Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
There is more to sound recording than just recording sound. Far from being simply a tool for the preservation of music, the technology is a catalyst. In this award-winning text, Mark Katz provides a wide-ranging, deeply informative, consistently entertaining history of recording's profound impact...
On Holiday
A History of Vacationing
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1999
Löfgren takes us on a tour of the Western holiday world and shows how two centuries of "learning to be a tourist" have shaped our own ways of vacationing. We see how fashions in destinations have changed through the years, with popular images (written, drawn, painted, and later photographed)...
Moral Fire
Musical Portraits from America's Fin de Siècle
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Joseph Horowitz writes in Moral Fire: "If the Met’s screaming Wagnerites standing on chairs (in the 1890s) are unthinkable today, it is partly because we mistrust high feeling. Our children avidly specialize in vicarious forms of electronic interpersonal diversion. Our laptops and televisions...
The Final Leap: Suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge
Suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most beautiful and most photographed structures in the world. It’s also the most deadly. Since it opened in 1937, more than 1,500 people have died jumping off the bridge, making it the top suicide site on earth. It’s also the only international landmark without...
Masters of Light
Conversations with Contemporary Cinematographers
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Through conversations held with fifteen of the most accomplished contemporary cinematographers, the authors explore the working world of the person who controls the visual look and style of a film. This reissue includes a new foreword by cinematographer John Bailey and a new preface by the authors,...