Stanford University: 1318 books
The Demands of Recognition
State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Since the British colonial period anthropology has been central to policy in India. But today, while the Indian state continues to use ethnography to govern, those who were the "objects" of study are harnessing disciplinary knowledge to redefine their communities, achieve greater prosperity,...
A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica
The Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
This book presents for the first time the complete text of the earliest known Ladino-language memoir, transliterated from the original script, translated into English, and introduced and explicated by the editors. The memoirist, Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi (1820–1903), wrote about Ottoman Jews' daily...
by F. David Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2002
In 1830, the dominant social outlook of the early Victorians was a paternalism that looked to property, the Church, and local Justices of the Peace to govern society and deal with its ills. By 1860, however, the dominant social outlook had become a vision of a laissez faire society that relied on...
Lucrecia the Dreamer
Prophecy, Cognitive Science, and the Spanish Inquisition
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Set in late sixteenth-century Spain, this book tells the gripping story of Lucrecia de León, a young woman of modest background who gained a dangerously popular reputation as a prophetic dreamer predicting apocalyptic ruin for her country. When Lucrecia was still a teenager, several Catholic priests...
Twilight Nationalism
Politics of Existence at Life's End
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The city of Jaffa presents a paradox: intimate neighbors who are political foes. The official Jewish national tale proceeds from exile to redemption and nation-building, while the Palestinians' is one of a golden age cut short, followed by dispossession and resistance. The experiences of Jaffa's Jewish...
The Power of Representation
Publics, Peasants, and Islam in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2008
The Power of Representation traces the emergence of modern Egyptian national identity from the mid-1870s through the 1910s. During this period, a new class of Egyptian urban intellectuals—teachers, lawyers, engineers, clerks, accountants, and journalists—came into prominence. Adapting modern ideas...
Faces of Aging
The Lived Experiences of the Elderly in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
The indisputable fact of Japan's rapidly aging population has been known for some time. But beyond statistics and implications for the future, we do not know much about the actual aging process. Senior citizens and their varied experiences have, for the most part, been obscured by stereotypes. This...
Fiction Agonistes
In Defense of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
In this path-breaking new work, Gregory Jusdanis asks why literature matters. Why are we afraid to admit our pleasures of reading, to defend the arts to the school board, to discuss the importance of literature in life? Drawing on a wealth of references from Aristophanes to Eudora Welty, from Fernando...
Out of Character
Modernism, Vitalism, Psychic Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
"Characters" are those fictive beings in novels whose coherent patterns of behavior make them credible as people. "Character" is also used to refer to the capacity—or incapacity—of individuals to sustain core principles. When characters are inconsistent, they risk coming across...
The Skin of the System
On Germany's Socialist Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
The Skin of the System objects to the idea that there is only one modernity—that of liberal capitalism. Starting from the simple conviction that whatever else East German socialism was, it was real, this book focuses on what made historical socialism different from social systems in the West. In...
The Good Life
Aspiration, Dignity, and the Anthropology of Wellbeing
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
What could middle-class German supermarket shoppers buying eggs and impoverished coffee farmers in Guatemala possibly have in common? Both groups use the market in pursuit of the "good life." But what exactly is the good life? How do we define wellbeing beyond material standards of living?...
Staying Afloat
Risk and Uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic World Trade, 1760-1820
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Early modern, long-distance trade was fraught with risk and uncertainty, driving merchants to seek means (that is, institutions) to reduce them. In the traditional historiography on Spanish colonial trade, the role of risk is largely ignored. Instead, the guild merchants are depicted as anti-competitive...
Cultures of Servitude
Modernity, Domesticity, and Class in India
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
Domestic servitude blurs the divide between family and work, affection and duty, the home and the world. In Cultures of Servitude, Raka Ray and Seemin Qayum offer an ethnographic account of domestic life and servitude in contemporary Kolkata, India, with a concluding comparison with New York City....
Woman Lawyer
The Trials of Clara Foltz
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
Woman Lawyer tells the story of Clara Foltz, the first woman admitted to the California Bar. Famous in her time as a public intellectual, leader of the women's movement, and legal reformer, Foltz faced terrific prejudice and well-organized opposition to women lawyers as she tried cases in front of...