University Of California Press imprint: 1479 books
On the Road of the Winds
An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact, Revised and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth’s surface and encompasses many thousands of islands that are home to numerous human societies and cultures. Among these indigenous Oceanic cultures are the intrepid Polynesian double-hulled canoe navigators, the atoll dwellers of Micronesia, the statue...
Traumatic Imprints
Cinema, Military Psychiatry, and the Aftermath of War
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Forced to contend with unprecedented levels of psychological trauma during World War II, the United States military began sponsoring a series of nontheatrical films designed to educate and even rehabilitate soldiers and civilians alike. *Traumatic Imprints *traces the development of psychiatric...
Hotel Mexico
Dwelling on the '68 Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
In 1968, Mexico prepared to host the Olympic games amid growing civil unrest. The spectacular sports facilities and urban redevelopment projects built by the government in Mexico City mirrored the country’s rapid but uneven modernization. In the same year, a street-savvy democratization movement...
Songs of Seoul
An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2013
Songs of Seoul is an ethnographic study of voice in South Korea, where the performance of Western opera, art songs, and choral music is an overwhelmingly Evangelical Christian enterprise. Drawing on fieldwork in churches, concert halls, and schools of music, Harkness argues that the European-style...
Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 1
Selected Writings and Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2015
Gathered here for the first time are Alfred Hitchcock's reflections on his own life and work. In this ample selection of largely unknown and formerly inaccessible interviews and essays, Hitchcock provides an enlivening commentary on a career that spanned decades and transformed the history of the...
Wayward Shamans
The Prehistory of an Idea
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Wayward Shamans tells the story of an idea that humanity’s first expression of art, religion and creativity found form in the figure of a proto-priest known as a shaman. Tracing this classic category of the history of anthropology back to the emergence of the term in Siberia, the work follows the...
Historians across Borders
Writing American History in a Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
In this stimulating and highly original study of the writing of American history, twenty-four scholars from eleven European countries explore the impact of writing history from abroad. Six distinguished scholars from around the world add their commentaries.
Arguing that historical writing is...
Off the Page
Screenwriting in the Era of Media Convergence
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Off the Page examines the business and craft of screenwriting in the era of media convergence. Daniel Bernardi and Julian Hoxter use the recent history of screenwriting labor coupled with close analysis of scripts in the context of the screenwriting paraindustry—from “how to write a winning script”...
Road Out
A Teacher's Odyssey in Poor America
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Can one teacher truly make a difference in her students’ lives when everything is working against them? Can a love for literature and learning save the most vulnerable of youth from a life of poverty? The Road Out is a gripping account of one teacher’s journey of hope and discovery with her students—girls...
House on Fire
The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
A story of courage and risk-taking, House on Fire tells how smallpox, a disease that killed, blinded, and scarred millions over centuries of human history, was completely eradicated in a spectacular triumph of medicine and public health. Part autobiography, part mystery, the story is told by a man...
by Robert A. Norman
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Written by a leading dermatologist, The Blue Man and Other Stories of the Skin provides a compelling and accessible introduction to the life of our largest organ, while also recounting the author’s experiences with memorable patients he has treated who suffer from mysterious skin conditions. Robert...
Spanish Legacies
The Coming of Age of the Second Generation
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Much like the United States, the countries of Western Europe have experienced massive immigration in the last three decades. Spain, in particular, has been transformed from an immigrant-exporting country to one receiving hundreds of thousands of new immigrants. Today, almost 13 percent of the country’s...
Christian Moderns
Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2007
Across much of the postcolonial world, Christianity has often become inseparable from ideas and practices linking the concept of modernity to that of human emancipation. To explore these links, Webb Keane undertakes a rich ethnographic study of the century-long encounter, from the colonial Dutch East...
Spirits of Protestantism
Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
Spirits of Protestantism reveals how liberal Protestants went from being early-twentieth-century medical missionaries seeking to convert others through science and scripture, to becoming vocal critics of missionary arrogance who experimented with non-western healing modes such as Yoga and Reiki. Drawing...