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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520393332
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (325 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Berkeley Series in British Studies v.23
    DDC: 306.760941
    Keywords: Geschichte 1801-2000 ; Crossdressing ; Drag Queen ; Großbritannien ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "A must-read for anyone interested in the history of drag performance."--​Publishers Weekly A rich and provocative history of drag's importance in modern British culture.   Drag: A British History is a groundbreaking study of the sustained popularity and changing forms of male drag performance in modern Britain. With this book, Jacob Bloomfield provides fresh perspectives on drag and recovers previously neglected episodes in the history of the art form.   Despite its transgressive associations, drag has persisted as an intrinsic, and common, part of British popular culture--drag artists have consistently asserted themselves as some of the most renowned and significant entertainers of their day. As Bloomfield demonstrates, drag was also at the center of public discussions around gender and sexuality in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from Victorian sex scandals to the "permissive society" of the 1960s. This compelling new history demythologizes drag, stressing its ordinariness while affirming its important place in British cultural heritage.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520393004
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: California Studies in Food and Culture Series v.81
    DDC: 394.1/209
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: What we learn when an anthropologist and a historian talk about food.   From the origins of agriculture to contemporary debates over culinary authenticity, Ways of Eating introduces readers to world food history and food anthropology. Through engaging stories and historical deep dives, Benjamin A. Wurgaft and Merry I. White offer new ways to understand food in relation to its natural and cultural histories and the social rules that shape our meals.   Wurgaft and White use vivid storytelling to bring food practices to life, weaving stories of Panamanian coffee growers, medieval women beer makers, and Japanese knife forgers. From the Venetian spice trade to the Columbian Exchange, from Roman garum to Vietnamese nớc chấm, Ways of Eating provides an absorbing account of world food history and anthropology. Migration, politics, and the dynamics of group identity all shape what we eat, and we can learn to trace these social forces from the plate to the kitchen, the factory, and the field.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520388581
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (345 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 327.72
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: The rise of Trumpism and the Covid-19 pandemic have galvanized debates about globalization. Eric D. Larson presents a timely look at the last time the concept spurred unruly agitation: the late twentieth century. Offering a transnational history of the emergence of the global justice movement in the United States and Mexico, he considers how popular organizations laid the foundations for this "movement of movements." Farmers, urban workers, and Indigenous peoples grounded their efforts to confront free-market reforms in frontline struggles for economic and racial justice. As they strove to change the direction of the world economy, they often navigated undercurrents of racism, nationalism, and neoliberal multiculturalism, both within and beyond their networks. Larson traces the histories of three popular organizations, examining the Mexican roots of the idea of food sovereignty; racism and whiteness at the momentous Battle of Seattle protests outside the 1999 World Trade Organization meetings; and the rise of dramatic street demonstrations around the globe. Juxtaposing these stories, he reinterprets some of the crucial moments, messages, and movements of the era.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520393622
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (244 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 304.2082
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    Abstract: Fighting for the River portrays women's intimate, embodied relationships with river waters and explores how those relationships embolden local communities' resistance to private run-of-the-river hydroelectric power plants in Turkey. Building on extensive ethnographic research, Özge Yaka develops a body-centered, phenomenological approach to women's environmental activism and combines it with a relational ontological perspective. In this way, the book pushes beyond the "natural resources" frame to demonstrate how our corporeal connection to nonhuman entities is constitutive of our more-than-human lifeworld. Fighting for the River takes the human body as a starting point to explore the connection between lived experience and nonhuman environments, treating bodily senses and affects as the media of more-than-human connectivity and political agency. Analyzing local environmental struggles as struggles for coexistence, Yaka frames human-nonhuman relationality as a matter of socio-ecological justice.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520395749
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (296 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century Series v.10
    DDC: 303.4825405492
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: A Thousand Tiny Cuts chronicles the slow transformation of a connected region into national borderlands. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in northern Bangladesh and eastern India, Sahana Ghosh shows the foundational place of gender and sexuality in the making and management of threat in relation to mobility. Rather than focusing solely on border fences and border crossings, she demonstrates that bordering reorders relations of value. The cost of militarization across this ostensibly "friendly" border is devaluation--of agrarian land and crops, of borderland youth undesirable as brides and grooms in their respective national hinterlands, of regional infrastructures now disconnected, and of social and physical geographies disordered by surveillance. Through a textured ethnography of the gendered political economy of mobility across postcolonial borderlands in South Asia, this ambitious book challenges anthropological understandings of the violence of bordering, migration and citizenship, and transnational inequalities that are based on Euro-American borders and security regimes.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520393875
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (244 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 302.2301
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: In this bold rewriting of visual culture, Brooke Belisle uses dimensionality to rethink the history and theory of media aesthetics. With Depth Effects, she traces A.I.-enabled techniques of computational imaging back to spatial strategies of early photography, analyzing everyday smartphone apps by way of almost-forgotten media forms. Drawing on the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Belisle explores depth both as a problem of visual representation (how can flat images depict a voluminous world?) and as a philosophical paradox (how do things cohere beyond the limits of our view?). She explains how today's depth effects continue colonialist ambitions toward totalizing ways of seeing. But she also shows how artists stage dimensionality to articulate what remains invisible and irreducible.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520383821
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 226 Seiten)
    DDC: 305.896/073
    Keywords: Electronic books
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520393936
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (211 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 304.250985
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Andean Meltdown examines how climate change and its consequences for Peru's glaciers are affecting the country's water supply and impacting Andean society and culture in unprecedented ways. Drawing on forty years of extensive research, relationship building, and community engagement in Peru, Karsten Paerregaard provides an ethnographic exploration of Andean ritual practices and performances in the context of an altered climate. By documenting Andean peoples' responses to rapid glacier retreat and urgent water shortages, Paerregaard considers the myriad ways climate change intersects with environmental, social, and political change. A pathbreaking contribution to cultural anthropology and environmental humanities, Andean Meltdown challenges prevailing theoretical thinking about the culture-nature nexus and offers a new perspective on Andean peoples' understanding of their role as agents in the shifting relationship between humans and nonhumans.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520388901
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (328 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 302.34083
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Reveals how friendships and social media can help girls survive even the most tragic consequences of American poverty.   My Girls explores the overlooked yet transformative power of female friendship in a low-income Boston-area neighborhood. In this innovative and compassionate book, researcher Jasmin Sandelson joins teenage girls in their homes, at their hangouts and parties, and online to show how they use their connections to secure the care and support that adults in their lives can't give.   Friendships among young people in poor, urban communities--often framed as "risky" sources of peer pressure and conflict--offer crucial support and self-esteem. In a new, positive take that reveals the primacy of phones and social media in contemporary friendships, Sandelson demonstrates how girls look to one another to battle boredom, find stability, embrace adulthood, and process trauma and grief. This illuminating study--one of the first to combine digital and in-person fieldwork--blends firsthand narratives with tweets, Snaps, and Instagram and Facebook posts. My Girls places young women of color at the center of their own stories to illuminate the worlds of love and care they create.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520380783
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (223 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Gender and Justice Series v.11
    DDC: 305.3109748110905
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: On Shifting Ground examines how it is to become a man in a place and time defined by economic contraction and carceral expansion. Jamie J. Fader draws on in-depth interviews with a racially diverse sample of Philadelphia's millennial men to analyze the key tensions that organize their lives: isolation versus connectedness, stability versus "drama," hope versus fear, and stigma and shame versus positive, masculine affirmation. In the unfamiliar cultural landscape of contemporary adult masculinity, these men strive to define themselves in terms of what they can accomplish despite negative labels, as well as seeking to avoid "becoming a statistic" in the face of endemic risk.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520395886
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (281 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 304.2097265
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    Abstract: In Rooting in a Useless Land, Chelsea Fisher examines the deep histories of environmental-justice conflicts in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. She draws on her innovative archaeological research in Yaxunah, an Indigenous Maya farming community dealing with land dispossession, but with a surprising twist: Yaxunah happens to be entangled with prestigious sustainable-development projects initiated by some of the most famous chefs in the world. Fisher contends that these sustainable-development initiatives inadvertently bolster the useless-land narrative--a colonial belief that Maya forests are empty wastelands--which has been driving Indigenous land dispossession and environmental injustice for centuries. Rooting in a Useless Land explores how archaeology, practiced within communities, can restore history and strengthen relationships built on contested ground.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520386259
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (401 pages)
    DDC: 306.362097
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    Keywords: Sklavenhandel ; Menschenhandel ; USA ; Electronic books
    Abstract: A comprehensive study of how slavery and enslaved people shaped the modern world.   A World Transformed explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing that slavery can be fully understood only by stepping back from traditional national histories, this book collects the scattered accounts of the latest modern scholarship into a comprehensive history of slavery and its shaping of the world we know. Celebrated historian James Walvin tells a global story that covers everything from the capitalist economy, labor, and the environment, to social culture and ideas of family, beauty, and taste.   This book underscores just how thoroughly slavery is responsible for the making of the modern world. The enforced transportation and labor of millions of Africans became a massive social and economic force, catalyzing the rapid development of multiple new and enormous trading systems with profound global consequences. The labor and products of enslaved people changed the consumption habits of millions--in India and Asia, Europe and Africa, in colonized and Indigenous American societies. Across time, slavery shaped many of the dominant features of Western taste: items and habits or rare and costly luxuries, some of which might seem, at first glance, utterly removed from the horrific reality of slavery. A World Transformed traces the global impacts of slavery over centuries, far beyond legal or historical endpoints, confirming that the world created by slave labor lives on today.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520390065
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (270 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: South Asia Across the Disciplines Series
    DDC: 305.5/122095409033
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Winner of the 2022 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences Merchants of Virtue explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya Cherian presents a fine-grained study of everyday life and local politics in the kingdom of Marwar in eighteenth-century western India to uncover how merchants enforced their caste ideals of vegetarianism and bodily austerity as universal markers of Hindu identity. Using legal strategies and alliances with elites, these merchants successfully remade the category of "Hindu," setting it in contrast to "Untouchable" in a process that reconfigured Hinduism in caste terms. In a history pertinent to understanding India today, Cherian establishes the centrality of caste to the early-modern Hindu self and to its imagination of inadmissible others.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520389373
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (386 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: New Directions in Palestinian Studies v.6
    DDC: 305.892740956946
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more atwww.luminosoa.org. Beginning in 1948, Israeli paramilitary forces began violently displacing Palestinian Arabs from Palestine. Nakba and Survival tells the stories of Palestinians in Haifa and the Galilee during, and in the decade after, mass dispossession. Manna uses oral histories and Palestinian and Israeli archives, diaries, and memories to meticulously reconstruct the social history of the Palestinians who remained and returned to become Israeli citizens. This book focuses in particular on the Galilee, using the story of Manna's own family and their village Majd al-Krum after the establishment of Israel to shed light on the cruelties faced by survivors of the military regime. While scholars of the Palestinian national movement have often studied Palestinian resistance to Israel as related to the armed struggle and the cultural struggle against the Jewish state, Manna shows that remaining in Israel under the brutality of occupation and fighting to return to Palestinian communities after displacement are acts of heroism in their own right.  The Institute for Palestine Studies extends our sincere appreciation to Samir Abdulhadi for his generous support of the translation and publication of this book. Translation by Jenab Tutunji.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520384408
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (186 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.74097223
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    Abstract: A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. The relationships between female sex workers and their noncommercial male partners are often assumed to be coercive and anchored in risk, dismissed as "pimp-prostitute" arrangements by researchers and the general public alike. Yet, these stereotypes unjustly erase the complexity of lives we imagine to be consumed by social suffering. Dangerous Love centers a framework of love to rethink sex workers' intimate relationships as commitments to collective solidarity and survival in contexts of oppression. Combining epidemiological research and ethnographic fieldwork in Tijuana, Mexico, Jennifer Leigh Syvertsen examines how individuals try to find love and meaning in lives marked by structural violence, social marginalization, drug addiction, and HIV/AIDS. Linking the political economy of inequalities along the border with emotional lived experience, this book explores how intimate relationships become dangerous safe havens that fundamentally shape both partners' well-being. Through these stories, we are urged to reimagine the socially transformative power of love to carve new pathways to health equity.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520974654
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (340 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ritchie, Robert C., 1938 - The lure of the beach
    DDC: 306.481909146
    Keywords: Beaches Social aspects ; History ; Beaches-Social aspects-History ; Electronic books ; Küste ; Freizeit ; Kultur ; Geschichte
    Abstract: A human and global take on a beloved vacation spot. The crash of surf, smell of salted air, wet whorls of sand underfoot. These are the sensations of the beach, that environment that has drawn humans to its life-sustaining shores for millennia. And while the gull's cry and the cove's splendor have remained constant throughout time, our relationship with the beach has been as fluid as the runnels left behind by the tide's turning. The Lure of the Beach is a chronicle of humanity's history with the coast, taking us from the seaside pleasure palaces of Roman elites and the aquatic rituals of medieval pilgrims, to the venues of modern resort towns and beyond. Robert C. Ritchie traces the contours of the material and social economies of the beach throughout time, covering changes in the social status of beach goers, the technology of transport, and the development of fashion (from nudity to Victorianism and back again), as well as the geographic spread of modern beach-going from England to France, across the Mediterranean, and from nineteenth-century America to the world. And as climate change and rising sea levels erode the familiar faces of our coasts, we are poised for a contemporary reckoning with our relationship--and responsibilities--to our beaches and their ecosystems. The Lure of the Beach demonstrates that whether as a commodified pastoral destination, a site of ecological resplendency, or a flashpoint between private ownership and public access, the history of the beach is a human one that deserves to be told now more than ever before.
    Abstract: Cover -- The Lure of the Beach -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Lure of the Sea -- 2. The Rise of the Resorts -- 3. Leisure Comes to America -- 4. The Industrial Revolution Finds the Beach -- 5. Can a Proper Victorian be Nude? -- 6. Entertainment Comes Front and Center -- 7. The Modern World Intrudes -- 8. Beach Resorts Become a Cultural Phenomenon -- 9. Who Owns the Beach? -- 10. The Relentless Sea -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520381995
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (187 pages)
    DDC: 393.9309510905
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    Abstract: A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more atwww.luminosoa.org. In rural China funerals are conducted locally, on village land by village elders. But in urban areas, people have neither land for burials nor elder relatives to conduct funerals. Chinese urbanization, which has increased drastically in recent decades, involves the creation of cemeteries, state-run funeral homes, and small private funerary businesses. The Funeral of Mr. Wang examines social change in urbanizing China through the lens of funerals, the funerary industry, and practices of memorialization. It analyzes changes in family life, patterns of urban sociality, transformations in economic relations, the politics of memorialization, and the echoes of these changes in beliefs about the dead and ghosts.
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    ISBN: 9780520968929
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    Pages: 1 online resource (204 pages)
    Series Statement: Sociology in the Twenty-First Century Ser. v.6
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Pearce, Lisa D., 1971 - Religion in America
    DDC: 306.6
    Keywords: Religion and sociology ; Religion and sociology ; United States ; Electronic books ; USA ; Religion ; Religiöses Leben ; Religiöses Verhalten
    Abstract: Written in an engaging and accessible tone, Religion in America probes the dynamics of recent American religious beliefs and behaviors. Charting trends over time using demographic data, this book examines how patterns of religious affiliation, service attendance, and prayer vary by race and ethnicity, social class, and gender. The authors identify demographic processes such as birth, death, and migration, as well as changes in education, employment, and families, as central to why some individuals and congregations experience change in religious practices and beliefs while others hold steady. Religion in America challenges students to examine the demographic data alongside everyday accounts of how religion is experienced differently across social groups to better understand the role that religion plays in the lives of Americans today and how that is changing..
    Abstract: Cover -- Religion in America -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables, and Text Boxes -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Racial and Ethnic Variation in Religion and Its Trends -- 2. Complex Religion in America -- 3. A Demographic Perspective on Religious Change -- 4. Change in America's Congregations -- 5. The Long Arm of Religion in America -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9780520970724
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Lamont, Ellen The Mating Game : How Gender Still Shapes How We Date
    DDC: 306.730979461
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    Keywords: Dating (Social customs) Case studies ; Dating (Social customs) ; California ; San Francisco ; Case studies ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- The Mating Game -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Puzzling Persistence of Gendered Dating -- 2. The Quest for Egalitarian Love -- 3. New Goals, Old Scripts: Heterosexual Women Caught between Tradition and Equality -- 4. A Few Good (Heterosexual) Men: Inequality Disguised as Romance -- 5. Queering Courtship: LGBQ People Reimagine Relationships -- 6. The More Things Change . . . -- 7. Dated Dating and the Stalled Gender Revolution -- Appendix 1: Summary of Interview Respondents -- Appendix 2: Interview Guide -- Notes -- References -- Index.
    Abstract: Despite enormous changes in patterns of dating and courtship in twenty-first-century America, contemporary understandings of romance and intimacy remain firmly rooted in age-old assumptions of gender difference. These tenacious beliefs now vie with cultural messages of gender equality that stress independence, self-development, and egalitarian practices in public and private life. Through interviews with heterosexual and LGBTQ individuals, Ellen Lamont's The Mating Game explores how people with diverse sexualities and gender identities date, form romantic relationships, and make decisions about future commitments as they negotiate uncertain terrain fraught with competing messages about gender, sexuality, and intimacy
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    ISBN: 9780520974272
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    Series Statement: American Crossroads Ser v.57
    Series Statement: American crossroads
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire : Puerto Rican Workers on U. S. Farms
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    DDC: 305.8687295073
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    Keywords: Ausländischer Arbeitnehmer ; Migration ; Puerto Rico ; USA ; Puerto Ricans ; United States ; Migrations ; Electronic books ; Ausländischer Arbeitnehmer ; Puerto Rico ; Migration ; USA
    Abstract: Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One The Formation of Agrarian Labor Regimes -- 1 The Making of Colonial Migrant Farmworkers -- 2 Establishing the Farm Labor Program -- 3 Implementing Contract Migration -- Part Two Managing Hope, Despair, and Dissent -- 4 Pa'lla Afuera and the Life Experiences of Migrants -- 5 Labor Camps as Prisons in the Fields -- 6 Puerto Ricans in the Rural United States -- 7 Labor Organizing and the End of an Era -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index
    Abstract: Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire is the first in-depth look at the experiences of Puerto Rican migrant workers in continental U.S. agriculture in the twentieth century. The Farm Labor Program, established by the government of Puerto Rico in 1947, placed hundreds of thousands of migrant workers on U.S. farms and fostered the emergence of many stateside Puerto Rican communities. Ismael García-Colón investigates the origins and development of this program and uncovers the unique challenges faced by its participants. A labor history and an ethnography, Colonial Migrants evokes the violence, fieldwork, food, lodging, surveillance, and coercion that these workers experienced on farms and conveys their hopes and struggles to overcome poverty. Island farmworkers encountered a unique form of prejudice and racism arising from their dual status as both U.S. citizens and as "foreign others," and their experiences were further shaped by evolving immigration policies. Despite these challenges, many Puerto Rican farmworkers ultimately chose to settle in rural U.S. communities, contributing to the production of food and the Latinization of the U.S. farm labor force
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520972827
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (246 pages)
    DDC: 305.55095109045
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    Abstract: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)--a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries--and the generous support of the University of California, Davis. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org. Creating the Intellectual redefines how we understand relations between intellectuals and the Chinese socialist revolution of the last century. Under the Chinese Communist Party, "the intellectual" was first and foremost a widening classification of individuals based on Marxist thought. The party turned revolutionaries and otherwise ordinary people into subjects identified as usable but untrustworthy intellectuals, an identification that profoundly affected patterns of domination, interaction, and rupture within the revolutionary enterprise. Drawing on a wide range of data, Eddy U takes the reader on a journey that examines political discourses, revolutionary strategies, rural activities, urban registrations, workplace arrangements, organized protests, and theater productions. He lays out in colorful detail the formation of new identities, forms of organization, and associations in Chinese society. The outcome is a compelling picture of the mutual constitution of the intellectual and the Chinese socialist revolution, the legacy of which still affects ways of seeing, thinking, acting, and feeling in what is now a globalized China.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520972483
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (278 pages)
    DDC: 306.3
    Keywords: Sozialstaat ; Soziale Frage ; Sozialpolitik ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Kapitalismus ; Gleichstellung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books
    Abstract: A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness: first recognized together in mid-nineteenth-century Europe, these are the focus of the Social Question. In 1942 William Beveridge called them the "giant evils" while diagnosing the crises produced by the emergence of industrial society. More recently, during the final quarter of the twentieth century, the global spread of neoliberal policies enlarged these crises so much that the Social Question has made a comeback.   The Social Question in the Twenty-First Century maps out the linked crises across regions and countries and identifies the renewed and intensified Social Question as a labor issue above all. The volume includes discussions from every corner of the globe, focusing on American exceptionalism, Chinese repression, Indian exclusion, South African colonialism, democratic transitions in Eastern Europe, and other phenomena. The effects of capitalism dominating the world, the impact of the scarcity of waged work, and the degree to which the dispossessed poor bear the brunt of the crisis are all evaluated in this carefully curated volume. Both thorough and thoughtful, the book serves as collective effort to revive and reposition the Social Question, reconstructing its meaning and its politics in the world today.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520968219
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (297 pages)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Chapman, Dale The Jazz Bubble : Neoclassical Jazz in Neoliberal Culture
    DDC: 306.4/84250973
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    Keywords: Gordon, Dexter ; Verve Records (Firm) History ; Verve Music Group History ; Jazz Economic aspects ; Jazz History and criticism ; Jazz Social aspects ; Sound recording industry Economic aspects ; Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) History ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Hailed by corporate, philanthropic, and governmental organizations as a metaphor for democratic interaction and business dynamics, contemporary jazz culture has a story to tell about the relationship between political economy and social practice in the era of neoliberal capitalism. The Jazz Bubble approaches the emergence of the neoclassical jazz aesthetic since the 1980s as a powerful, if unexpected, point of departure for a wide-ranging investigation of important social trends during this period, extending from the effects of financialization in the music industry to the structural upheaval created by urban redevelopment in major American cities. Dale Chapman draws from political and critical theory, oral history, and the public and trade press, making this a persuasive and compelling work for scholars across music, industry, and cultural studies
    Abstract: Cover -- The Jazz Bubble -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Banks, Bonds, and Blues -- 1. âControlled Freedomâ: Jazz, Risk, and Political Economy -- 2. âHomecomingâ: Dexter Gordon and the 1970s Fiscal Crisis in New York City -- 3. Selling the Songbook: The Political Economy of Verve Records (1956â1990) -- 4. Bronfmanâs Bauble: The Corporate History of the Verve Music Group (1990â2005) -- 5. Jazz and the Right to the City: Jazz Venues and the Legacy of Urban Redevelopment in California -- 6. The âYoshiâs Effectâ: Jazz, Speculative Urbanism, and Urban Redevelopment in Contemporary San Francisco -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520970656
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (281 pages)
    Series Statement: Western Histories Ser v.11
    Parallel Title: Print version Graham, Wade Braided Waters : Environment and Society in Molokai, Hawaii
    DDC: 304.2096924
    Keywords: Human ecology-Hawaii-Molokai ; Political ecology-Hawaii-Molokai ; Nature-Effect of human beings on-Hawaii-Molokai-History ; Water-supply-Political aspects-Hawaii-Molokai ; Molokai (Hawaii)-History ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Braided Waters sheds new light on the relationship between environment and society by charting the history of Hawaii's Molokai island over a thousand-year period of repeated settlement. From the arrival of the first Polynesians to contact with eighteenth-century European explorers and traders to our present era, this study shows how the control of resources--especially water--in a fragile, highly variable environment has had profound effects on the history of Hawaii. Wade Graham examines the ways environmental variation repeatedly shapes human social and economic structures and how, in turn, man-made environmental degradation influences and reshapes societies. A key finding of this study is how deep structures of place interact with distinct cultural patterns across different societies to produce similar social and environmental outcomes, in both the Polynesian and modern eras--a case of historical isomorphism with profound implications for global environmental history
    Abstract: Cover -- Braided Waters -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps and Tables -- Foreword -- Introduction: Outer Island, In Between -- 1. Wet and Dry: The Polynesian Period, 1000-1778 -- 2. Traffick and Taboo: Trade, Biological Exchange, and Law in the Making of a New Pacific World, 1778-1848 -- 3. A Good Land: Molokai after the Mahele, 1845-1869 -- 4. The Bonanza Horizon: Molokai in the Sugar Era, 1870-1893 -- 5. A Bigger, Better Hawai'i: Making an American Molokai, 1893-1957 -- 6. From Lonely Isle to Friendly Isle: Economic Struggles in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries and the Future of "the Most Hawaiian Island" -- Conclusion: Two Experiences of Settlement -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520962514
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (412 pages)
    Series Statement: Global Square Ser v.2
    Parallel Title: Print version Hodgson, Dorothy Global Africa : Into the Twenty-First Century
    DDC: 303.48/26
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    Keywords: Globalization--Africa--21st century ; Globalization ; Africa ; 21st century ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Global Africais a striking, original volume that disrupts the dominant narratives that continue to frame our discussion of Africa, complicating conventional views of the region as a place of violence, despair, and victimhood. The volume documents the significant global connections, circulations, and contributions that African people, ideas, and goods have made throughout the world--from the United States and South Asia to Latin America, Europe, and elsewhere. Through succinct and engaging pieces by scholars, policy makers, activists, and journalists, the volume provides a wholly original view of a continent at the center of global historical processes rather than on the periphery. Global Africa offers fresh, complex, and insightful visions of a continent in flux
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    ISBN: 9780520963818
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (336 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Besnier, Niko The anthropology of sport
    Parallel Title: Print version Brownell, Susan The Anthropology of Sport : Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics
    DDC: 306.483
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    Abstract: Few activities bring together physicality, emotions, politics, money, and morality as dramatically as sport. In Brazil's stadiums or China's parks, on Cuba's baseball diamonds or Fiji's rugby fields, human beings test their physical limits, invest emotional energy, bet money, perform witchcraft, and ingest substances. Sport is a microcosm of what life is about. The Anthropology of Sport explores how sport both shapes and is shaped by the social, cultural, political, and historical contexts in which we live. Core themes discussed in this book include the body, modernity, nationalism, the state, citizenship, transnationalism, globalization, and gender and sexuality.
    Abstract: "Cover" -- "Contents" -- "List of Illustrations" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Introduction" -- "1 Sport, Anthropology, and History" -- "2 Sport, Colonialism, and Imperialism" -- "3 Sport, Health, and the Environment" -- "4 Sport, Social Class, Race, and Ethnicity" -- "5 Sport and Sex, Gender, and Sexuality" -- "6 Sport, Cultural Performance, and Mega-events" -- "7 Sport, Nation, and Nationalism" -- "8 Sport in the World System" -- "Epilogue: Sport for Anthropology" -- "Notes" -- "Selected Bibliography" -- "Index" -- "A" -- "B" -- "C" -- "D" -- "E" -- "F" -- "G" -- "H" -- "I" -- "J" -- "K" -- "L" -- "M" -- "N" -- "O" -- "P" -- "Q" -- "R" -- "S" -- "T" -- "U" -- "V" -- "W" -- "X" -- "Y
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520968837
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (291 pages)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Singh, Nikhil Pal Race and America's Long War
    DDC: 305.800973
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    Keywords: Political culture History ; National characteristics, American History ; Racism History ; Racism--United States--History ; Racism ; United States ; History ; Electronic books ; United States Politics and government ; United States Social conditions
    Abstract: Donald Trump's election to the U.S. presidency in 2016, which placed control of the government in the hands of the most racially homogenous, far-right political party in the Western world, produced shock and disbelief for liberals, progressives, and leftists globally. Yet most of the immediate analysis neglects longer-term accounting of how the United States arrived here. Race and America's Long War examines the relationship between war, politics, police power, and the changing contours of race and racism in the contemporary United States. Nikhil Pal Singh argues that the United States' pursuit of war since the September 11 terrorist attacks has reanimated a longer history of imperial statecraft that segregated and eliminated enemies both within and overseas. America's territorial expansion and Indian removals, settler in-migration and nativist restriction, and African slavery and its afterlives were formative social and political processes that drove the rise of the United States as a capitalist world power long before the onset of globalization. Spanning the course of U.S. history, these crucial essays show how the return of racism and war as seemingly permanent features of American public and political life is at the heart of our present crisis and collective disorientation
    Abstract: Cover -- Race and America's Long War -- Title -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Long War -- 1. Race, War, Police -- 2. From War Capitalism to Race War -- 3. The Afterlife of Fascism -- 4. Racial Formation and Permanent War -- 5. The Present Crisis -- Epilogue: The Two Americas -- Notes -- Index
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520965188
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (310 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Print version Davis, Shannon N Gender in the Twenty-First Century : The Stalled Revolution and the Road to Equality
    DDC: 305.30973
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    Keywords: Work and family 21st century ; Sex role 21st century ; Equality before the law 21st century ; Sex role in the work environment 21st century ; Sex discrimination in employment 21st century ; Sex discrimination in employment - United States - 21st century ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: How far have we really progressed toward gender equality in the United States? The answer is, "not far enough." This engaging and accessible work, aimed at students studying gender and social inequality, provides new insight into the uneven and stalled nature of the gender revolution in the twenty-first century. Honing in on key institutions--the family, higher education, the workplace, religion, the military, and sports--key scholars in the field look at why gender inequality persists. All contributions are rooted in new and original research and introductory and concluding essays provide a broad overview for students and others new to the field. The volume also explores how to address current inequities through political action, research initiatives, social mobilization, and policy changes. Conceived of as a book for gender and society classes with a mix of exciting, accessible, pointed pieces, Gender in the Twenty-First Century is an ideal book for students and scholars alike
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction "Gender as an Institution" -- PART I: CHANGING AND UNCHANGING INSTITUTIONS -- 2. The Family "There's No Such Thing as Having It All: Gender, Work, and Care in an Age of Insecurity" -- 3. Higher Education "Community Colleges as a Pathway for Low-Income Women to Enter the Engineering Technology Workforce" -- 4. The Workplace " 'Separating the Women from the Girls': Black Professional Men's Perceptions of Women Colleagues" -- 5. Religion "True Love Had Better Wait, or Else! Anxious Masculinity and the Gendered Politics of the Evangelical Purity Movement" -- 6. The Military "Gender, Residential Segregation, and Military Enlistment Patterns" -- 7. Sport "Conference Realignment and Its Impact on Women Student-Athletes" -- Review Questions for Part I: Changing and Unchanging Institutions -- PART II: GENDER POLITICS AND POLICIES -- 8. Corporate Boards and International Policies "Gender Parity on Corporate Boards: A Path to Women's Equality?" -- 9. Corporate Boards and US Policies "Hispanic Inclusion at the Highest Level of Corporate America: Progress or Not?" -- 10. Work-Family Integration "Work-Life Balance and the Relationship between Women in State Legislatures and Workers' Schedule Control" -- 11. Health "Black, Women, or Black Women: An Intersectionality Approach to Health Inequalities" -- 12. Immigration "Interactions between Gender and Immigration in Wage Inequality among STEM Workers, 1980-2010" -- 13. Sexuality "Queer Eye on the Gay Rodeo" -- Review Questions for Part II: Gender Politics and Policies -- PART III: CONCLUSION -- 14. Policies for Progress "Unstalling the Revolution: Policies toward Gender Equality" -- Review Questions for Part III: Conclusion -- References -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J
    Abstract: K -- l -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520283411
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (915 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version On Becoming a Teen Mom : Life before Pregnancy
    DDC: 306.874
    Keywords: Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: In 2013, New York City launched a public education campaign with posters of frowning or crying children saying such things as ""I'm twice as likely not to graduate high school because you had me as a teen"" and ""Honestly, Mom, chances are he won't stay with you."" Campaigns like this support a public narrative that portrays teen mothers as threatening the moral order, bankrupting state coffers, and causing high rates of poverty, incarceration, and school dropout. These efforts demonize teen mothers but tell us nothing about their lives before they became pregnant.In this myth-shattering book
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Backstory to the Baby; 1. The Distraction; 2. Young Young Mothers; 3. Child Sexual Abuse; 4. Violence against Women; 5. Education; 6. Contraception and Abortion; Conclusion: Getting beyond the Distraction; Appendix A: Listening to Life Stories; Appendix B: Tables; Notes; References; Index
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520277748
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (743 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: California Series in Public Anthropology v.31
    Parallel Title: Print version Driving after Class : Anxious Times in an American Suburb
    DDC: 305.5
    Keywords: Electronic books ; Electronic book ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: A paradoxical situation emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century: the dramatic upscaling of the suburban American dream even as the possibilities for achieving and maintaining it diminished. Having fled to the suburbs in search of affordable homes, open space, and better schools, city-raised parents found their modest homes eclipsed by McMansions, local schools and roads overburdened and underfunded, and their ability to keep up with the pressures of extravagant consumerism increasingly tenuous. How do class anxieties play out amid such disconcerting cultural, political, and economic ch
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Common Sense in Anxious Times; 2. Being Post-Brooklyn; 3. Gate Expectations; 4. Driving after Class; 5. Vehicles for Rugged Entitlement; 6. From White Flight to Community Might; 7. A Conclusion, or Rather, a Commencement; Notes; References; Index
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520287037
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (493 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China : Survival Strategies and Judicial Interventions
    DDC: 384.20938745
    Keywords: Married women ; China ; Social conditions ; Case studies ; Polyandry ; China ; Case studies ; Rural poor ; China ; Case studies ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: This book is a study of polyandry, wife-selling, and a variety of related practices in China during the Qing dynasty (1644-1912). By analyzing over 1200 legal cases from local and central court archives, Matthew Sommer explores the functions played by marriage, sex, and reproduction in the survival strategies of the rural poor under conditions of overpopulation, worsening sex ratios, and shrinking farm sizes. Polyandry and wife-selling represented opposite ends of a spectrum of strategies. At one end, polyandry was a means to keep the family together by expanding it. A woman would bring in a s
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Conventions in the Text; Map: Provinces of China Proper within the Qing Empire, circa 1800; Introduction; PART ONE: POLYANDRY; 1. "Getting a Husband to Support a Husband"; 2. Attitudes of Families, Communities, and Women toward Polyandry; 3. The Intermediate Range of Practice; PART TWO: WIFE-SELLING; 4. Anatomy of a Wife Sale; 5. Analysis of Prices in Wife Sales; 6. Negotiations between Men in Wife Sales; 7. Wives, Natal Families, and Children; 8. Four Variations on a Theme; PART THREE: POLYANDRY AND WIFE-SELLING IN QING LAW
    Description / Table of Contents: 9. Formal Law and Central Court Interpretation from Ming through High Qing10. Absolutism versus Pragmatism in Central Court Treatment of Wife Sales; 11. Flexible Adjudication of Routine Cases in the Local Courts; Conclusion; Appendices A-E; APPENDIX A: QING DYNASTY REIGN PERIODS (1644-1912); APPENDIX B: PROFILES OF THE PROTAGONISTS IN WIFE SALES; APPENDIX C: PRICES IN WIFE SALES; APPENDIX D: THE QING PENAL SYSTEM; APPENDIX E: JUDICIAL REVIEW (AS SEEN IN XINGKE TIBEN); Character List; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
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    ISBN: 9780520276352
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (323 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version The Scholar Denied : W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
    DDC: 301.092
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    Keywords: Du Bois, W. E. B. -- (William Edward Burghardt), -- 1868-1963 ; Sociologists -- United States ; Sociologists ; Sociology -- United States -- History ; Du Bois, W. E. B ; (William Edward Burghardt) ; 1868-1963 ; Sociologists ; United States ; Sociologists ; Sociology ; United States ; History ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: In this groundbreaking book, Aldon D. Morris's ambition is truly monumental: to help rewrite the history of sociology and to acknowledge the primacy of W. E. B. Du Bois's work in the founding of the discipline. Calling into question the prevailing narrative of how sociology developed, Morris, a major scholar of social movements, probes the way in which the history of the discipline has traditionally given credit to Robert E. Park at the University of Chicago, who worked with the conservative black leader Booker T. Washington to render Du Bois invisible. Morris uncovers the seminal theoretical
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; The Scholar Denied; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Race and the Birth of American Sociology; 1. The Rise of Scientific Sociology in America; 2. Du Bois, Scientific Sociology, and Race; 3. The Du Bois-Atlanta School of Sociology; 4. The Conservative Alliance of Washington and Park; 5. The Sociology of Black America: Park versus Du Bois; 6. Max Weber Meets Du Bois; 7. Intellectual Schools and the Atlanta School; 8. Legacies and Conclusions; Notes; References; Illustration Credits; Index
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520957190 , 0520957199 , 9781299981720 , 1299981720
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource , illustrations.
    Series Statement: American crossroads 38
    DDC: 305.86872073
    Keywords: Mexican Americans Social conditions ; 20th century ; Mexican Americans Civil rights ; History ; 20th century ; Immigrants History ; 20th century ; United States ; Citizenship History ; 20th century ; United States ; Race discrimination History ; 20th century ; United States ; Deportation History ; 20th century ; United States ; United States Emigration and immigration ; History ; 20th century ; United States Emigration and immigration ; Government policy ; History ; 20th century ; United States Race relations ; History ; 20th century ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "How Race Is Made in America examines Mexican Americans--from 1924, when American law drastically reduced immigration into the United States, to 1965, when many quotas were abolished--to understand how broad themes of race and citizenship are constructed. These years shaped the emergence of what Natalia Molina describes as an immigration regime, which defined the racial categories that continue to influence perceptions in the United States about Mexican Americans, race, and ethnicity. Molina demonstrates that despite the multiplicity of influences that help shape our concept of race, common themes prevail. Examining legal, political, social, and cultural sources related to immigration, she advances the theory that our understanding of race is socially constructed in relational ways--that is, in correspondence to other groups. Molina introduces and explains her central theory, racial scripts, which highlights the ways in which the lives of racialized groups are linked across time and space and thereby affect one another. How Race Is Made in America also shows that these racial scripts are easily adopted and adapted to apply to different racial groups"--Provided by publisher
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520958454 , 9780520958456
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (pges cm)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.800973
    Keywords: Equality United States ; Equality ; Equality United States ; United States Race relations ; United States Social conditions ; 21st century ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Equality ; Race relations ; Social conditions ; Familie ; Gesellschaft ; Krise ; Soziale Sicherheit ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; United States Social conditions ; 21st century ; United States Race relations ; United States ; United States Social conditions 21st century ; United States Race relations ; USA ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Cut Adrift makes an important and original contribution to the national conversation about inequality and risk in American society. Set against the backdrop of rising economic insecurity and rolled up safety nets, Marianne Cooper explores what keeps Americans up at night. Through poignant case studies, she reveals what families are concerned about, how they manage their anxiety, whose job it is to worry, and how social class shapes all of these dynamics, including what is even worth worrying about in the first place. This powerful study is packed with intriguing discoveries ranging from the surprising anxieties of the rich, to the critical role of women in keeping struggling families afloat. Through tales of stalwart stoicism, heart-wrenching worry, marital angst, and religious conviction, Cut Adrift deepens our understanding about how families are coping in a go-it-alone age - and how the different strategies affluent, middle-class, and poor families rely upon not only reflect inequality, but also fuel it"--
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520958179 , 1306329760 , 9780520958173 , 9781306329767
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 154 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Dudley, Robert, 1961- Drunken monkey
    DDC: 394.1/3
    Keywords: Drinking of alcoholic beverages ; Alcohol Physiological effect ; Alcoholism ; Human evolution ; Primates Evolution ; Human physiology ; Monkeys Physiology ; PSYCHOLOGY ; Psychopathology ; Addiction ; SCIENCE ; Life Sciences ; Evolution ; Alcohol ; Physiological effect ; Alcoholism ; Drinking of alcoholic beverages ; Human evolution ; Human physiology ; Monkeys ; Physiology ; Primates ; Evolution ; Electronic books ; Electronic book ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: Alcoholism, as opposed to the safe consumption of alcohol, remains a major public health issue. In this accessible book, Robert Dudley presents an intriguing evolutionary interpretation to explain the persistence of alcohol-related problems. Providing a deep-time, interdisciplinary perspective on today's patterns of alcohol consumption and abuse, Dudley traces the link between the fruit-eating behavior of arboreal primates and the evolution of the sensory skills required to identify ripe and fermented fruits that contain sugar and low levels of alcohol. In addition to introducing this new theo
    Abstract: Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Fruits of Fermentation -- 3. On the Inebriation of Elephants -- 4. Aping About in the Forest -- 5. A First-Rate Molecule -- 6. Alcoholics Aren't Anonymous -- 7. Winos in the Mist -- Postscript -- Sources and Recommended Reading -- Index.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520958029 , 0520958020 , 9781306291392 , 1306291399
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiv, 316 pages) , illustrations, maps
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Herbert, Daniel, 1974- Videoland
    DDC: 302.23430973
    Keywords: Video rental services Social aspects ; United States ; Video recordings industry Social aspects ; United States ; Motion pictures Social aspects ; United States ; Stores, Retail Social aspects ; United States ; Stores, Retail Social aspects ; Video recordings industry Social aspects ; Video rental services Social aspects ; Motion pictures Social aspects ; Motion pictures Social aspects ; United States ; Stores, Retail Social aspects ; United States ; Video recordings industry Social aspects ; United States ; Video rental services Social aspects ; United States ; Civilization ; Motion pictures ; Social aspects ; Stores, Retail ; Social aspects ; Video ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Sozialer Wandel ; Videothek ; PSYCHOLOGY ; Social Psychology ; PERFORMING ARTS ; Film & Video ; General ; United States Civilization ; 1970- ; United States Civilization 1970- ; USA ; United States ; Electronic book ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Videoland offers a comprehensive view of the ""tangible phase"" of consumer video, when Americans largely accessed movies as material commodities at video rental stores. Video stores served as a vital locus of movie culture from the early 1980s until the early 2000s, changing the way Americans socialized around movies and collectively made movies meaningful. When films became tangible as magnetic tapes and plastic discs, movie culture flowed out from the theater and the living room, entered the public retail space, and became conflated with shopping and salesmanship. In this process, video sto
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520270688
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (323 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: South Asia across the disciplines
    Series Statement: South Asia Across the Disciplines Ser
    Parallel Title: Print version Voicing Subjects : Public Intimacy and Mediation in Kathmandu
    DDC: 302.2095496
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    Keywords: Communication ; Political aspects ; Nepal ; Kathmandu ; Mass media ; Nepal ; Kathmandu ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: Voicing Subjects traces the relation between public speech and notions of personal interiority in Kathmandu.  It explores two seemingly distinct formations of voice that have emerged in the midst of the country's recent political and economic upheavals: a political voice associated with civic empowerment and collective agency, and an intimate voice associated with emotional proximity and authentic feeling.  Both are produced and circulated through the media, especially through interactive technologies. The author argues that these two formations of voice are mutually constitutive and aligned w
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Author's Note on Transliteration and Pseudonyms; Introduction: Public Intimacy and Voicing Subjects in Kathmandu; 1. Intimate Callings and Voices of Reform: Law, Property, and Familial Love; 2. Seeing Face and Hearing Voice: Tactile Vision and Signs of Presence; 3. Making Waves: The Social and Political Context of FM Radio; 4. Mero Kathā, Mero Gīt: Affective Publics, Public Intimacy, and Voiced Writing; 5. Diasporic Voices: Sounds of the Diaspora in Kathmandu
    Description / Table of Contents: Epilogue: Royal Victims, Voicing SubjectsNotes; References; Index
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520279018
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (384 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Another Politics : Talking across Today's Transformative Movements
    DDC: 303.48
    Keywords: Radicalism ; Social movements -- Political aspects ; Social change -- Political aspects ; Anti-racism ; Feminism ; Criminal justice, Administration of ; Anarchism ; Anarchism ; Anti-racism ; Criminal justice, Administration of ; Feminism ; Radicalism ; Social change ; Political aspects ; Social movements ; Political aspects ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: Amidst war, economic meltdown, and ecological crisis, a ""new spirit of radicalism is blooming"" from New York to Cairo, according to Chris Dixon. In Another Politics, he examines the trajectory of efforts that contributed to the radicalism of Occupy Wall Street and other recent movement upsurges. Drawing on voices of leading organizers across the United States and Canada, he delivers an engaging presentation of the histories and principles that shape many contemporary struggles.Dixon outlines the work of activists aligned with anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist, and anti-oppression politics
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1. Politics; 1. ""Fighting against amnesia""; 2. ""Defining ourselves in opposition""; 3. ""Organizing now the way you want to see the world later""; Part 2. Strategy; 4. ""Do you want to have a chance at winning something?""; 5. ""In the world but not of it""; Part 3. Organizing; 6. ""Bringing people together to build their power""; 7. ""Leadership from below""; 8. ""Vehicles for movement-building""; Conclusion: "Imagining ourselves outsideof what we know"; Resources for Movement-Building
    Description / Table of Contents: Organizations and Projects MentionedBiographies of Interviewees; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520277700
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (265 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Body Counts : The Vietnam War and Militarized Refugees
    DDC: 303.6072
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    Keywords: Collective memory - United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es) examines how the Vietnam War has continued to serve as a stage for the shoring up of American imperialist adventure and for the (re)production of American and Vietnamese American identities. Focusing on the politics of war memory and commemoration, this book retheorizes the connections among history, memory, and power and refashions the fields of American studies, Asian American studies, and refugee studies not around the narratives of American exceptionalism, immigration, and transnationalism but around the crucial issues of war, race, a
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Body Counts; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Critical Refuge(e) Studies; 2. Militarized Refuge(es); 3. Refugee Camps and the Politics of Living; 4. The "Good Warriors" and the "Good Refugee"; 5. Refugee Remembering-and Remembrance; 6. Refugee Postmemories: The "Generation After"; 7. "The Endings That Are Not Over"; Notes; References; Index
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520959167 , 9780520959163
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (300 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.]
    Parallel Title: Print version Working Skin : Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan
    DDC: 305.5
    Keywords: Labor ; Working class ; Multiculturalism ; Buraku people Social conditions ; Buraku people Government policy ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: Since the 1980s, arguments for a multicultural Japan have gained considerable currency against an entrenched myth of national homogeneity. Working Skin enters this conversation with an ethnography of Japan's ""Buraku"" people. Touted as Japan's largest minority, the Buraku are stigmatized because of associations with labor considered unclean, such as leather and meat production. That labor, however, is vanishing from Japan: Liberalized markets have sent these jobs overseas, and changes in family and residential record-keeping have made it harder to track connections to these industries
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 Demanding a Standard: Buraku Politics on a Global Stage6 Wounded Futures: Prospects of Transnational Solidarity; Conclusion: The Disciplines of Multiculturalism; Epilogue: Texas to Japan, and Back; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface: Hailing from Texas; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Labor of Multiculturalism; Part One: Recognizing Buraku Difference; 1 Of Skins and Workers: Producing the Buraku; 2 ""Ushimatsu Left for Texas"": Passing the Buraku; Part Two: Choice and Obligation in Contemporary Buraku Politics; 3 Locating the Buraku: A Political Ecology of Pollution; 4 A Sleeping Public: Buraku Politics and the Cultivation of Human Rights; Part Three: International Standards and the Possibilities of Solidarity
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520276925
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (425 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Origins of Human Behavior and Culture v.7
    Parallel Title: Print version Technology as Human Social Tradition : Cultural Transmission among Hunter-Gatherers
    DDC: 303.48/3
    Keywords: Prehistoric peoples - Material culture ; Prehistoric peoples - Material culture ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: Technology as Human Social Tradition outlines a novel approach to studying variability and cumulative change in human technology-prominent research themes in both archaeology and anthropology. Peter Jordan argues that human material culture is best understood as an expression of social tradition. In this approach, each artifact stands as an output of a distinctive operational sequence with specific choices made at each stage in its production. Jordan also explores different material culture traditions that are propagated through social learning, factors that promote coherent lineages of tradit
    Abstract: Technology as Human Social Tradition outlines a novel approach to studying variability and cumulative change in human technology-prominent research themes in both archaeology and anthropology. Peter Jordan argues that human material culture is best understood as an expression of social tradition. In this approach, each artifact stands as an output of a distinctive operational sequence with specific choices made at each stage in its production. Jordan also explores different material culture traditions that are propagated through social learning, factors that promote coherent lineages of tradit
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Note on Data Sets; 1. Introduction; 2. Methodology; 3. Northwest Siberia; 4. Pacific Northwest Coast; 5. Northern California; 6. Conclusions; Appendix: Mantel Matrix Correlations; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520959729 , 0520959728
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (297 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version Motherload
    DDC: 306.8743
    Keywords: Motherhood ; Mother and child ; Security (Psychology) in children ; Security (Psychology) ; Security (Psychology) ; Security (Psychology) in children ; Motherhood ; Mother and child ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gender Studies ; Mother and child ; Motherhood ; Security (Psychology) ; Security (Psychology) in children ; Sociology & Social History ; Social Sciences ; Family & Marriage ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: In a time of economic anxiety, fear of terrorism, and marital uncertainty, insecurity has become a big part of life for many American mothers. With bases of security far from guaranteed, mothers are often seeking something they can count on. In this beautifully written and accessible book, Ana Villalobos shows how mothers frequently rely on the one thing that seems sure to them: the mother-child relationship. Based on over one hundred interviews with and observations of mothers-single or married, but all experiencing varying forms of insecurity in their lives-Villalobos finds that mothers over
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Motherload; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; PART I CONNECTION; 2. Shielding and Antidote Strategies: Mothering that Saves the Child; 3. Compensatory Connection Strategy: Mothering that Saves the Mother; 4. Light-Motherload Connection: Love without Saving; PART II INDEPENDENCE; 5. Inoculation Strategy: Punching Back at Fear; 6. Friendship Strategy: Punching Back at Responsibility; 7. Light-Motherload Independence: Mothering without the Ordeal; 8. Conclusion; Appendix A: Research Participants; Appendix B: Research Methods; Notes
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520957268 , 0520957261 , 1306053773 , 9781306053778
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (viii, 214 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Cooke, miriam Tribal Modern : Branding New Nations in the Arab Gulf
    DDC: 306.09536
    Keywords: Ethnology Persian Gulf States ; Tribes Persian Gulf States ; Ethnology ; Tribes ; Ethnology Persian Gulf States ; Persian Gulf States Social life and customs ; Tribes Persian Gulf States ; HISTORY ; Middle East ; General ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Ethnology ; Manners and customs ; Tribes ; Etnologi ; Stamsamhällen ; Persian Gulf States Social life and customs ; Persian Gulf States Social life and customs ; Gulfstaterna Middle East ; Persian Gulf States ; Middle East ; Persian Gulf States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: "In the 1970s, one of the most torrid and forbidding regions in the world burst on to the international stage. The discovery and subsequent exploitation of oil allowed tribal rulers of the U.A.E, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait to dream big. How could fishermen, pearl divers and pastoral nomads catch up with the rest of the modernized world? Even today, society is skeptical about the clash between the modern and the archaic in the Gulf. But could tribal and modern be intertwined rather than mutually exclusive? Exploring everything from fantasy architecture to neo-tribal sports and from Emirati dress codes to neo-Bedouin poetry contests, Tribal Modern explodes the idea that the tribal is primitive and argues instead that it is an elite, exclusive, racist, and modern instrument for branding new nations and shaping Gulf citizenship and identity-an image used for projecting prestige at home and power abroad"--
    Abstract: "Tribal Modern analyzes what is most distinctive about Arab Gulf culture over the past 15 years and how this culture shapes distinctive national identities. It highlights the tribal as the decisive element in modern Arab Gulf culture and identity. The question incredulous outsiders ask is: how could fishermen, pearl divers and pastoral nomads catch up with the rest of the modernized world? Observers remain skeptical about the apparent clash between the modern and the backward tribal. But in these newly rich desert societies different meanings attach to the tribal generally coded non-modern. Tribes here are not primitive; they are the instruments and symbols of identity for hypermodern Gulf societies. Nationals make claims based on a newly imagined tribal identity that entitles them alone to the rights and privileges of modern citizenship. Tribal Modern explores the interweaving of the tribal and the modern into a national brand. Structural, performative and cognitive, the brand is being built into heritage and fantasy architecture; it is performed in neo-tribal sports, dress codes and language, especially neo-Bedouin poetry contests. The tribal signals a new aristocratic identity in the anonymity of 21st century globalization. The tribal in the Arab Gulf states is a fundamental and constitutive part of the modern. The tribal modern shapes a national brand to project political power abroad and prestige at home. Most studies of these new, mega-rich countries come from the social sciences. Tribal Modern looks at cultural indices of local self-assertion. It provides a cultural analysis of Gulf Arab social formation that examines the intersection of race, class and gender"--
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 1306463335 , 9781306463331 , 9780520957770 , 0520957776
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xvii, 259 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.874
    Keywords: Women immigrants Social conditions ; China ; Hong Kong ; Women foreign workers Social conditions ; China ; Hong Kong ; Emigration and immigration Social aspects ; Women immigrants Social conditions ; Women foreign workers Social conditions ; Emigration and immigration Social aspects ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Emigration & Immigration ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Emigration and immigration ; Emigration and immigration ; Social aspects ; Women foreign workers ; Social conditions ; Women immigrants ; Social conditions ; Hong Kong (China) Emigration and immigration ; China ; Hong Kong ; Hong Kong (China) Emigration and immigration ; China ; Hong Kong ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: Hong Kong is a meeting place for migrant domestic workers, traders, refugees, asylum seekers, tourists, businessmen, and local residents. In Born Out of Place, Nicole Constable looks at the experiences of Indonesian and Filipina women in this Asian world city. Giving voice to the stories of these migrant mothers, their South Asian, African, Chinese, and Western expatriate partners, and their Hong Kong-born babies, Constable raises a serious question: Do we regard migrants as people, or just as temporary workers? This accessible ethnography provides insight into global problems of mobility, family, and citizenship and points to the consequences, creative responses, melodramas, and tragedies of labor and migration policies
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520280014
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (295 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Women without Class : Girls, Race, and Identity
    DDC: 305.235
    Keywords: Children, White -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Social conditions -- 20th century ; Teenage girls, White -- Race identity -- California ; Teenage girls, White -- California -- Social conditions ; Mexican American teenage girls -- Race identity -- California ; Mexican American teenage girls -- California -- Social conditions ; Children, White ; California ; San Francisco Bay Area ; Social conditions ; 20th century ; Mexican American teenage girls ; California ; Social conditions ; Mexican American teenage girls ; Race identity ; California ; Teenage girls, White ; California ; Social conditions ; Teenage girls, White ; Race identity ; California ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: In this examination of white and Mexican-American girls coming of age in California''s Central Valley-now with a new introduction-Julie Bettie turns class theory on its head, offering new tools for understanding the ways in which identity is constructed in relationship to race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.Documenting the categories of subculture and style that high school students use to understand their differences, Bettie depicts the complex identity performances of contemporary girls. The title, Women Without Class, refers at once to young working-class women who have little cultural c
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction to the 2014 Edition; 1. Portraying Waretown High; 2. Women without Class; 3. How Working-Class Chicas Get Working-Class Lives; 4. Hard-Living Habitus, Settled-Living Resentment; 5. Border Work between Classes; 6. Sameness, Difference, and Alliance; 7. Conclusion; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520957435 , 0520957431
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xxvi, 148 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Aaron Wildavsky forum for public policy 4
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Frank, Robert H. Falling behind
    DDC: 305.5/50973
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy ; Consumption (Economics) ; Equality / Economic aspects ; Income distribution ; Middle class / Economic conditions ; Middle class Economic conditions ; Income distribution Economic aspects ; Consumption (Economics) ; Equality ; Einkommensverteilung ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Mittelstand ; Verbraucherverhalten ; Einkommensdisparität ; USA ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; USA ; Einkommensdisparität ; Mittelstand ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Verbraucherverhalten ; USA ; Einkommensverteilung ; Mittelstand
    Description / Table of Contents: With a timely new foreword by Robert Frank, this groundbreaking book explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today. Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for them, they spend more than they earn and carry record levels of debt. Robert Frank explains how increased concentrations of income and wealth at the top of the economic pyramid have set off ""expenditure cascades"" that raise the cost of achieving many basic goals for the middle class. Writing in lively pr
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520956506 , 0520956508 , 129947652X , 9781299476523
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Edition: Updated ed. with a new pref. and afterword
    Parallel Title: Print version Someplace Like America
    DDC: 305.5620973
    Keywords: Working class Case studies ; United States ; Working poor Case studies ; United States ; Unemployed Case studies ; United States ; Poverty Case studies ; United States ; Poverty Case studies ; Working poor Case studies ; Unemployed Case studies ; Working class Case studies ; Poverty Case studies ; Unemployed Case studies ; Working class Case studies ; Working poor Case studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Social Classes ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; Economic history ; Poverty ; Social conditions ; Unemployed ; Working class ; Working poor ; Case studies ; United States Economic conditions ; 21st century ; United States Social conditions ; 21st century ; United States ; United States Social conditions 21st century ; United States Economic conditions 21st century ; United States Social conditions 21st century ; United States Economic conditions 21st century ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books Case studies ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: In Someplace Like America, writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S. Williamson take us to the working-class heart of America, bringing to life-through shoe leather reporting, memoir, vivid stories, stunning photographs, and thoughtful analysis-the deepening crises of poverty and homelessness. The story begins in 1980, when the authors joined forces to cover the America being ignored by the mainstream media-people living on the margins and losing their jobs as a result of deindustrialization. Since then, Maharidge and Williamson have traveled more than half a million miles to in
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520956520 , 0520956524
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (321 Seiten)
    Edition: Second edition
    Series Statement: Comparative studies in religion and society 15
    Series Statement: Comparative studies in religion and society
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Barkun, Michael Culture of conspiracy
    DDC: 306.1
    Keywords: Conspiracies / United States ; Human-alien encounters / United States ; Millennialism / United States ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture ; Conspiracies ; Human-alien encounters ; Millennialism ; Millennialism ; Conspiracies ; Human-alien encounters ; Subkultur ; Verschwörungstheorie ; USA ; USA ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; USA ; Verschwörungstheorie ; Subkultur
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Preface to the First Edition; 1 The Nature of Conspiracy Belief; 2 Millennialism, Conspiracy, and Stigmatized Knowledge; 3 New World Order Conspiracies I: The New World Order and the Illuminati; 4 New World Order Conspiracies II: A World of Black Helicopters; 5 UFO Conspiracy Theories, 1975-1990; 6 UFOs Meet the New World Order: Jim Keith and David Icke; 7 Armageddon Below; 8 UFOs and the Search for Scapegoats I: Anti-Catholicism and Anti-Masonry; 9 UFOs and the Search for Scapegoats II: Anti-Semitism among the Aliens
    Description / Table of Contents: 10 September II Conspiracies: The First Phase11 September II Conspiracies: The Second Phase; 12 Conspiracy Theories about Barack Obama; 13 Conspiracists and Violence; 14 Apocalyptic Expectations about the Year 2012; 15 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
    Description / Table of Contents: American society has changed dramatically since A Culture of Conspiracy was first published in 2001. In this revised and expanded edition, Michael Barkun delves deeper into America's conspiracy sub-culture, exploring the rise of 9/11 conspiracy theories, the ""birther"" controversy surrounding Barack Obama's American citizenship, and how the conspiracy landscape has changed with the rise of the Internet and other new media. What do UFO believers, Christian millennialists, and right-wing conspiracy theorists have in common? According to Michael Barkun in this fascinating yet d
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520958012
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (540 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.48
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    Keywords: Globalization -- Textbooks ; Globalization ; Textbooks ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Einführung ; Online-Publikation ; Einführung
    Abstract: In this accessible text, Mark Juergensmeyer, a pioneer in global studies, provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging field of global studies from regional, topical, and theoretical perspectives. Each of the twenty compact chapters in Thinking Globally features Juergensmeyer's own lucid introduction to the key topics and offers brief excerpts from major writers in those areas. The chapters explore the history of globalization in each region of the world, from Africa and the Middle East to Asia, Europe, and the Americas, and cover key issues in today's global era, such as: * Challenges of the global economy * Fading of the nation-state * Emerging nationalisms and transnational ideologies * Hidden economies of sex trafficking and the illegal drug trade * New communications media * Environmental crises * Human rights abuses Thinking Globally is the perfect introduction to global studies for students, and an exceptional resource for anyone interested in learning more about this new area of study.
    Abstract: Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface: A Friendly Introduction to Global Studies -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. Thinking Globally -- Manfred Steger, "Globalization: A Contested Concept" -- Thomas Friedman, "The World Is Ten Years Old" -- Paul James, "Approaches to Globalization" -- Steven Weber, "How Globalization Went Bad" -- Further Reading -- 2. Globalization over Time -- William McNeill, "Globalization: Long Term Process or New Era in Human Affairs?" -- Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, "Imperial Trajectories" -- Immanuel Wallerstein, "On the Study of Social Change" -- Dominic Sachsenmaier, "Movements and Patterns: Environments of Global History" -- Further Reading -- Part II: The March of Globalization, By Region -- 3. Africa: The Rise of Ethnic Politics in a Global World -- Nayan Chanda, "The Hidden Story of a Journey" -- Dilip Hiro, "Slavery" -- Jeffrey Haynes, "African Diaspora Religions" -- Jacob K. Olupona, "Thinking Globally about African Religion" -- Okwudiba Nnoli, "The Cycle of 'State-Ethnicity-State' in African Politics" -- Further Reading -- 4. The Middle East: Religious Politics and Antiglobalization -- Mohammed Bamyeh, "The Ideology of the Horizons" -- Said Amir Arjomand, "Thinking Globally about Islam" -- Jonathan Fox, "Are Middle East Conflicts More Religious?" -- Barah Mikaïl, "Religion and Politics in Arab Transitions" -- Further Reading -- 5. South and Central Asia: Global Labor and Asian Culture -- Richard Foltz, "Religions of the Silk Road" -- Morris Rossabi, "The Early Mongols" -- Vasudha Narayanan, "Hinduism" -- Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf, "Revolt, the Modern State, and Colonized Subjects, 1848-1885" -- Carol Upadhya and A.R. Vasavi, "Outposts of the Global Information Economy" -- Further Reading -- 6. East Asia: Global Economic Empires -- Kenneth Pomeranz, "The Great Divergence".
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 1299713297 , 9781299713291 , 9780520956919 , 0520956915
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xv, 297 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Levine, Judith Ain't No Trust
    DDC: 306.87432086942
    Keywords: Low-income single mothers Social conditions ; United States ; Low-income single mothers Employment ; United States ; Low-income single mothers Services for ; United States ; Low-income single mothers Social conditions ; Low-income single mothers Employment ; Low-income single mothers Services for ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Sociology & Social History ; Social Sciences ; Family & Marriage ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: Ain't No Trust explores issues of trust and distrust among low-income women in the U.S.-at work, around childcare, in their relationships, and with caseworkers-and presents richly detailed evidence from in-depth interviews about our welfare system and why it's failing the very people it is designed to help. By comparing low-income mothers' experiences before and after welfare reform, Judith A. Levine probes women's struggles to gain or keep jobs while they simultaneously care for their children, often as single mothers. By offering a new way to understand how structural factors impact t
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520956667 , 0520956664 , 1299708846 , 9781299708846
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (pages cm)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Enloe, Cynthia H., 1938- Seriously!
    DDC: 305.42
    Keywords: Feminism ; Feminist theory ; Women ; Male domination (Social structure) ; Financial crises ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Feminism & Feminist Theory ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gender Studies ; Feminism ; Feminist theory ; Financial crises ; Male domination (Social structure) ; Women ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: In Seriously!, Cynthia Enloe, author of the groundbreaking analysis of globalization, Bananas, Beaches, and Bases, addresses two deeply gendered and contested questions: Who is taken seriously? And who gets to bestow the label ""serious"" on others? With a strategy of taking both women and gender dynamics seriously, Cynthia Enloe investigates the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair and the banking crash of 2008, the subsequent recession, as well as UN peacekeeping and the ongoing Egyptian revolution. Each case study highlights the gritty experiences of women in diverse circumstances-in banks, on the
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520956698 , 0520956699
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xvi, 288 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version Playing to win
    DDC: 306.874
    Keywords: Competition (Psychology) in children ; Student activities ; After-school programs ; Sports for children ; Parenting ; Child development ; Sports for children ; Parenting ; Child development ; After-school programs ; Competition (Psychology) in children ; Student activities ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; General ; After-school programs ; Child development ; Competition (Psychology) in children ; Parenting ; Sports for children ; Student activities ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: "Many parents work more hours outside of the home and their lives are crowded with more obligations than ever before; many children spend their evenings and weekends trying out for all-star teams, traveling to regional and national tournaments, and eating dinner in the car while being shuttled between activities. In this vivid ethnography, based on almost 200 interviews with parents, children, coaches and teachers, Hilary Levey probes the increase in children's participation in activities outside of the home, structured and monitored by their parents, when family time is so scarce. As the parental "second shift" continues to grow, alongside it a second shift for children has emerged--especially among the middle- and upper-middle classes--which is suffused with competition rather than mere participation. What motivates these particular parents to get their children involved in competitive activities? Parents' primary concern is their children's access to high quality educational credentials--the biggest bottleneck standing in the way of, or facilitating entry into, membership in the upper-middle class. Competitive activities, like sports and the arts, are seen as the essential proving ground that will clear their children's paths to the Ivy League or other similar institutions by helping them to develop a competitive habitus. This belief, motivated both by reality and by perception, and shaped by gender and class, affects how parents envision their children's futures; it also shapes the structure of children's daily lives, what the children themselves think about their lives, and the competitive landscapes of the activities themselves"--
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520956995 , 0520956990
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Shaw, Randy, 1956- Activist's Handbook
    DDC: 303.480973
    Keywords: Social action United States ; Community organization United States ; Political activists United States ; Political participation United States ; Social reformers United States ; Social reformers ; Political participation ; Social action ; Political activists ; Community organization ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; General ; Community organization ; Political activists ; Political participation ; Social action ; Social reformers ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In this thoroughly revised and updated edition of The Activist's Handbook, Randy Shaw's hard-hitting guide to winning social change, the author brings the strategic and tactical guidance of the prior edition into the age of Obama. Shaw details how activists can best use the Internet and social media, and analyzes the strategic strengths and weaknesses of rising 21st century movements for immigrant rights, marriage equality, and against climate change. Shaw also highlights increased student activism towards fostering greater social justice in the 21st century. The Activist's Handboo
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520955323 , 9780520955325
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.484240976335
    Keywords: Popular music Social aspects ; Louisiana ; New Orleans ; Hurricane Katrina, 2005 Social aspects ; Louisiana ; New Orleans ; Popular music Social aspects ; Hurricane Katrina, 2005 Social aspects ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; MUSIC ; General ; Popular music ; Social aspects ; Social aspects ; Louisiana ; New Orleans ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "With New Orleans Suite, Eric Porter and Lewis Watts join the post-Katrina conversation about New Orleans and its changing cultural scene. Using both visual evidence and the written word, Watts and Porter pay homage to the city, its region, and its residents, by mapping recent and often contradictory social and cultural transformations, and seeking to counter inadequate and often pejorative accounts of the people and place that give New Orleans its soul. Focusing for the most part on the city's African American community, New Orleans Suite is a story about people: how bad things have happened to them in the long and short run, how they have persevered by drawing upon and transforming their cultural practices, and what they can teach us about citizenship, politics, and society."--
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520954793 , 0520954793
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xxiv, 234 pages) , illustrations, map.
    Series Statement: California series in public anthropology 27
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Holmes, Seth M., 1975 - Fresh fruit, broken bodies
    DDC: 331.5
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    Keywords: University of South Alabama ; Arbeitsmigranten ; Mexikaner ; Saisonarbeitskräfte ; Agrarberufe ; Arbeitsbedingungen ; Gesundheitsversorgung ; Ethnologie ; USA ; Migrant agricultural laborers Social conditions ; United States ; United States ; Migrant agricultural laborers Social conditions ; Health Services Accessibility ; Farmers ; Anthropology, Cultural ; Mexican Americans ; Undocumented Immigrants ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Labor ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Labor & Industrial Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; Migrant agricultural laborers ; Social conditions ; United States ; Migrant agricultural laborers ; Social conditions ; Wirtschaftsethnologie ; Anthropologische Medizin ; Internationale Migration ; Landwirtschaft ; Mexikanischer Einwanderer ; Landarbeiter ; Saisonarbeiter ; Rassismus ; Arbeitsbedingungen ; Gesundheitsgefährdung ; Trike ; Mixteken ; Invandrare ; Lantarbetare ; Sociala förhållanden ; United States ; United States ; Mexiko ; Oaxaca ; Electronic books ; Electronic book ; Electronic books ; USA ; Landwirtschaftlicher Betrieb ; Arbeitsbedingungen ; Mexikaner ; Einwanderer
    Abstract: "This book is an ethnographic witness to the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants. Based on 5 years of research in the field (including berry-picking and traveling with migrants back and forth from Oaxaca up the West Coast), Holmes, an anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, uncovers how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and health care. Holmes' material is visceral and powerful-for instance, he trekked with his informants illegally through the desert border into Arizona, where they were apprehended and jailed by the Border Patrol. After he was released from jail (and his companions were deported back to Mexico), Holmes interviewed Border Patrol agents, local residents, and armed vigilantes in the borderlands. He lived with indigenous Mexican families in the mountains of Oaxaca and in farm labor camps in the United States, planted and harvested corn, picked strawberries, accompanied sick workers to clinics and hospitals, participated in healing rituals, and mourned at funerals for friends. The result is a "thick description" that conveys the full measure of struggle, suffering, and resilience of these farmworkers. Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies weds the theoretical analysis of the anthropologist with the intimacy of the journalist to provide a compelling examination of structural and symbolic violence, medicalization, and the clinical gaze as they affect the experiences and perceptions of a vertical slice of indigenous Mexican migrant farmworkers, farm owners, doctors, and nurses. This reflexive, embodied anthropology deepens our theoretical understanding of the ways in which socially structured suffering comes to be perceived as normal and natural in society and in health care, especially through imputations of ethnic body difference. In the vehement debates on immigration reform and health reform, this book provides the necessary stories of real people and insights into our food system and health care system for us to move forward to fair policies and solutions."--Publisher information
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520956780 , 0520956788
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 251 p.)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hochschild, Arlie Russell So How's the Family? : And Other Essays
    DDC: 306.850973
    Keywords: Families United States ; Women Social conditions ; Women Social conditions ; Families ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gender Studies ; Families ; Social conditions ; Women ; Social conditions ; Familie ; Frau ; Privatheit ; Öffentlichkeit ; Soziale Situation ; Familie ; Vrouwen ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; United States Social conditions ; 1980- ; United States ; United States Social conditions 1980- ; United States ; Verenigde Staten ; USA ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: Cover; About the Author; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Feel of Things; 1. Going on Attachment Alert; 2. Can Emotional Labor be Fun?; 3. Empathy Maps; Families, Class Gaps, and Time; 4. So how's the Family?; 5. Time Strategies; 6. The Diplomat's Wife; Boundaries and Blurs, Market and Home; 7. The Personalized Market and the Marketized Self; 8. At Home in the Office; 9. Rent-a-Mom; Women on the Global Backstage; 10. Two-Way Global Traffic in Care; 11. Children Left behind; 12. The Surrogate's Womb; Notes; Bibliography; Credits.
    Abstract: In this new collection of thirteen essays, Arlie Russell Hochschild-author of the groundbreaking exploration of emotional labor, The Managed Heart and The Outsourced Self-focuses squarely on the impact of social forces on the emotional side of intimate life. From the ""work"" it takes to keep personal life personal, put feeling into work, and empathize with others; to the cultural ""blur"" between market and home; the effect of a social class gap on family wellbeing; and the movement of care workers around the globe, Hochschild raises deep questions about the modern age. In an epony
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520955099 , 9780520955097
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Fast-forward family
    DDC: 306.850973
    Keywords: Middle class families United States ; Work and family United States ; United States ; Work and family ; Middle class families ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Alternative Family ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Reference ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; Middle class families ; Work and family ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Online-Publikation ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: "Called "the most unusually voyeuristic anthropology study ever conducted" by the New York Times, this groundbreaking book provides an unprecedented glimpse into modern-day American families. In a study by the UCLA Sloan Center on Everyday Lives and Families, researchers tracked the daily lives of 32 dualworker middle class Los Angeles families between 2001 and 2004. The results are startling, and enlightening. Fast-Forward Family shines light on a variety of issues that face American families: the differing stress levels among parents; the problem of excessive clutter in the American home; the importance (and decline) of the family meal; the vanishing boundaries that once separated work and home life; and the challenges for parents as they try to reconcile ideals regarding what it means to be a good parent, a good worker, and a good spouse. Though there are also moments of connection, affection, and care, it's evident that life for 21st century working parents is frenetic, with extended work hours, children's activities, chores, meals to prepare, errands to run, and bills to pay."--
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520955315 , 9780520955318 , 1299533116 , 9781299533110
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiv, 271 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 201.44
    Keywords: Shamans Russia (Federation) ; Siberia ; Shamanism Russia (Federation) ; Siberia ; Shamans ; Shamanism ; Shamanism ; Shamans ; Schamanismus ; Anthropology ; Social Sciences ; Social & Cultural Anthropology ; Civilization ; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT ; Spirituality ; Shamanism ; Colonization ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General ; Siberia (Russia) Religious life and customs ; Siberia (Russia) Civilization ; Siberia (Russia) Colonization ; Siberia (Russia) Religious life and customs ; Siberia (Russia) Civilization ; Siberia (Russia) Colonization ; Sibirien ; Russia (Federation) ; Siberia ; Electronic books ; Electronic books Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "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 trajectory of European knowledge about the continent's eastern frontier. The ethnographic record left by German natural historians engaged in the Russian colonial expansion project in the 18th century includes a range of shamanic practitioners, varied by gender and age. Later accounts by exiled Russian revolutionaries noted transgendered shamans. This variation vanished, however, in the translation of shamanism into archaeology theory, where a male sorcerer emerged as the key agent of prehistoric art. More recent efforts to provide a universal shamanic explanation for rock art via South Africa and neurobiology likewise gloss over historical evidence of diversity. By contrast this book argues for recognizing indeterminacy in the categories we use, and reopening them by recalling their complex history."--
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520954021 , 0520954025 , 9780520270176
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (322 pages)
    Series Statement: California studies in food and culture 41
    Parallel Title: Print version The Life of Cheese : Crafting Food and Value in America
    DDC: 306.4
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    Abstract: Cheese is alive, and alive with meaning. Heather Paxson's beautifully written anthropological study of American artisanal cheesemaking tells the story of how craftwork has become a new source of cultural and economic value for producers as well as consumers. Dairy farmers and artisans inhabit a world in which their colleagues and collaborators are a wild cast of characters, including plants, animals, microorganisms, family members, employees, and customers. As "unfinished" commodities, living products whose qualities are not fully settled, handmade cheeses embody a mix of new and old ideas about taste and value. By exploring the life of cheese, Paxson helps rethink the politics of food, land, and labor today
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; The Life of Cheese; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; ILLUSTRATIONS; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. A merican Artisanal; FIGURES; 1. Years in which artisan creameries became licensed for commercial business, 1980 - 2007; 2. Dairy farm size rises as farm numbers decline; 2. Ecologies of Production; 3. The Patch Farm barn; 4. Milking sheep on Patch Farm; 5. The eight basic steps of cheesemaking; 6. Wheels of Vermont Shepherd cheese aging on drain boards; 7. Woodcock Farm sign; 3. Economies of Sentiment; TABLES
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Goals motivating people to go into commercial artisan cheesemaking8. Marjorie Susman and Marian Pollack of Orb Weaver Farm; 9. Marcia Barinaga with her sheep on Barinaga Ranch; 10. Neighborly Farms in Randolph, Vermont; 4. T raditions of Invention; 11. Historic Cheesemaking Center in Monroe, Wisconsin; 12. Exhibit of nineteenth-century cheese vat; 13. John Putnam dips curd for Tarentaise; 14. Kraft-Phenix cheese factory, ca. 1933; 15. Widmer's Cheese Factory in Theresa, Wisconsin; 16. Masonry bricks pressing Widmer's Brick cheese; 5. The Art and Science of Craft
    Description / Table of Contents: 17. Two means of pressing curd, low- and high-tech18. Mechanical device for stirring curd; 2. Differentiating types of curd; 19. Checking to feel whether the curd has set; 20. Peter Dixon testing acidity; 6. Microbiopolitics; 3. Classificatory grid based on 2005 FDA warnings for pregnant women to avoid encountering Listeria; 4. My own classificatory guide to avoid encountering Listeria; 5. Another unofficial classificatory guide to avoiding Listeria; 7. Place, Taste, and the Promise of Terroir; 21. The Cellars at Jasper Hill; 22. The washed-rind vault in the Cellars at Jasper Hill
    Description / Table of Contents: 23. Anne Topham at the Dane County farmers' market8. Bellwether; Appendix; 6. Start-up capital initially required to "build, equip, and license" an artisanal creamery; 7. Sources from which creamery start-up capital was acquired; 8. Household income and income from cheese; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520954212 , 0520954211 , 9780520273597 , 0520273591 , 9780520273603 , 0520273605
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Ethnographic studies in subjectivity vol. 9
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Walker, Harry Under a Watchful Eye : Self, Power, and Intimacy in Amazonia
    DDC: 305.898
    Keywords: Urarina Indians Psychology ; Urarina Indians Social networks ; Urarina Indians Social life and customs ; Urarina Indians Psychology ; Urarina Indians Social networks ; Urarina Indians Social life and customs ; Urarina Indians Psychology ; Urarina Indians Social life and customs ; Urarina Indians Social networks ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; General ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: What does it mean to be accompanied? How can autonomy and a sense of self emerge through one's involvement with others? This book examines the formation of self among the Urarina, an Amazonian people of lowland Peru. Based on detailed ethnography, the analysis highlights the role of intimate but asymmetrical attachments and dependencies which begin in the womb, but can extend beyond human society to include a variety of animals, plants, spirits and material objects. It thereby raises fundamental questions about what it means to be alive, to be an experiencing subject, and to be human. From the
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520954274 , 0520954270
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (306 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Wyke, Maria Caesar in the USA
    DDC: 306.20973
    Keywords: Caesar, Julius Influence ; Caesar, Julius Influence ; Caesar, Julius ; Political culture History ; United States ; Political culture History ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; HISTORY ; Ancient ; General ; Civilization ; Classical influences ; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) ; Political culture ; History ; United States Civilization ; Classical influences ; United States Civilization ; Classical influences ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation ; Online-Publikation ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "The figure of Julius Caesar has loomed large in the United States since its very beginning, admired and evoked as a gateway to knowledge of politics, war, and even national life. In this lively and perceptive book, the first to examine Caesar's place in modern American culture, Maria Wyke investigates how his use has intensified in periods of political crisis, when the occurrence of assassination, war, dictatorship, totalitarianism or empire appears to give him fresh relevance. Her fascinating discussion shows how--from the Latin classroom to the Shakespearean stage, from cinema, television and the comic book to the internet--Caesar is mobilized in the U.S. as a resource for acculturation into the American present, as a prediction of America's future, or as a mode of commercial profit and great entertainment"--Provided by publisher
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    ISBN: 9780520953390 , 0520953398
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (257 p.)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Boggs, Grace Lee Next American Revolution : Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century, Updated and Expanded Edition, New Afterword with Immanuel Wallerstein
    DDC: 303.484097309051
    Keywords: Social action History ; 21st century ; United States ; Social movements History ; 21st century ; United States ; Sustainable development History ; 21st century ; United States ; Sustainable development History 21st century ; Social action History 21st century ; Social movements History 21st century ; Social action -- United States -- History -- 21st century ; Social movements -- United States -- History -- 21st century ; Sustainable development -- United States --History -- 21st century ; Social movements ; Sustainable development ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Social action ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; General ; History ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: A world dominated by America and driven by cheap oil, easy credit, and conspicuous consumption is unraveling before our eyes. In this powerful, deeply humanistic book, Grace Lee Boggs, a legendary figure in the struggle for justice in America, shrewdly assesses the current crisis--political, economical, and environmental--and shows how to create the radical social change we need to confront new realities. A vibrant, inspirational force, Boggs has participated in all of the twentieth century's major social movements--for civil rights, women's rights, workers' rights, and more. She draws from seven
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    ISBN: 9780520953512 , 0520953517
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (218 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Best, Joel Damned Lies and Statistics : Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists
    DDC: 303.38
    Keywords: Sociology Statistical methods ; Social problems Statistical methods ; Social indicators ; Social problems Statistical methods ; Sociology Statistical methods ; Social indicators ; Social problems Statistical methods ; Sociology Statistical methods ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Here, by popular demand, is the updated edition to Joel Best's classic guide to understanding how numbers can confuse us. In his new afterword, Best uses examples from recent policy debates to reflect on the challenges to improving statistical literacy. Since its publication ten years ago, Damned Lies and Statistics has emerged as the go-to handbook for spotting bad statistics and learning to think critically about these influential numbers
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    ISBN: 9780520951341 , 0520951344
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (764 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Adams, David Wallace On the Borders of Love and Power : Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American Southwest
    DDC: 305.800978
    Keywords: Indians of North America Kinship ; West (U.S.) ; Indians of North America Cultural assimilation ; West (U.S.) ; Hispanic Americans Kinship ; West (U.S.) ; Hispanic Americans Cultural assimilation ; West (U.S.) ; Frontier and pioneer life History ; West (U.S.) ; Families West (U.S.) ; Kinship History ; West (U.S.) ; Frontier and pioneer life History ; Families ; Kinship History ; Hispanic Americans Cultural assimilation ; West (U.S.) ; Hispanic Americans Kinship ; Indians of North America Cultural assimilation ; Indians of North America Kinship ; Family History ; West (U.S.) ; Hispanic Americans Cultural assimilation ; West (U.S.) ; West (U.S.) Ethnic relations ; West (U.S.) History ; Social Science ; History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; General ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Ethnic relations ; Families ; Frontier and pioneer life ; Hispanic Americans ; Cultural assimilation ; Indians of North America ; Cultural assimilation ; Indians of North America ; Kinship ; Kinship ; Gender & Ethnic Studies ; Social Sciences ; Ethnic & Race Studies ; West (U.S.) Ethnic relations ; West (U.S.) History ; West (U.S.) Ethnic relations ; West (U.S.) History ; West United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: Embracing the crossroads that made the region distinctive this book reveals how American families have always been characterized by greater diversity than idealizations of the traditional family have allowed. The essays show how family life figured prominently in relations to larger struggles for conquest and control
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520951778 , 0520951778
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Harcourt, A.H. (Alexander H.) Human biogeography
    DDC: 304.2
    Keywords: Human geography ; Physical anthropology ; Biogeography ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Human Geography ; SCIENCE ; Earth Sciences ; Geography ; Biogeography ; Human geography ; Physical anthropology ; Anthropology ; Social Sciences ; Anthropogeography & Human Ecology ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation ; Online-Publikation ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: In this innovative, wide-ranging synthesis of anthropology and biogeography, Alexander Harcourt tells how and why our species came to be distributed around the world. He explains our current understanding of human origins, tells how climate determined our spread, and describes the barriers that delayed and directed migrating peoples. He explores the rich and complex ways in which our anatomy, physiology, cultural diversity, and population density vary from region to region in the areas we inhabit. The book closes with chapters on how human cultures have affected each other's geographic distributions, how non-human species have influenced human distribution, and how humans have reduced the ranges of many other species while increasing the ranges of others. Throughout, Harcourt compares what we understand of human biogeography to non-human primate biogeography
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520953765 , 0520953762
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (ix, 380 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Racial formation in the twenty-first century
    DDC: 305.800973
    Keywords: Omi, Michael ; Omi, Michael ; Racism United States ; Race ; Racism ; Sexism ; Racism ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; General ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Race ; Race relations ; Racism ; Sexism ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; United States Race relations ; United States Race relations ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: "Michael Omi and Howard Winant's Racial Formation in the United States remains one of the most influential books and widely read books about race. Racial Formation in the 21st Century, arriving twenty-five years after the publication of Omi and Winant's influential work, brings together fourteen essays by leading scholars in law, history, sociology, ethnic studies, literature, anthropology and gender studies to consider the past, present and future of racial formation. The contributors explore far-reaching concerns: slavery and land ownership; labor and social movements; torture and war; sexuality and gender formation; indigineity and colonialism; genetics and the body. From the ecclesiastical courts of seventeenth century Lima to the cell blocks of Abu Grahib, the essays draw from Omi and Winant's influential theory of racial formation and adapt it to the various criticisms, challenges, and changes of life in the twenty-first century."--
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520954068 , 9780520954069
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiv, 206 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.4098
    Keywords: Social institutions Latin America ; Economic development Social aspects ; Latin America ; Public administration Latin America ; Institutional economics Latin America ; Economic development Social aspects ; Public administration ; Institutional economics ; Social institutions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; General ; Social institutions ; Public administration ; Institutional economics ; Economic development ; Social aspects ; Sociology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Latin America ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: Institutions and development: a conceptual reanalysis / Alejandro Portes -- The comparative study of institutions: the "institutional turn" in development studies / Alejandro Portes and Lori D. Smith -- Institutional change and development in Argentina / Alejandro Grimson, Ana Castellani, and Alexander Roig -- Institutional change and development in Chilean market society / Guillermo Wormald and Daniel Brieba -- The Colombian paradox: a thick institutionalist analysis / César Rodríguez-Garavito -- Development opportunities: politics, the state, and institutions in the Dominican Republic in the twenty-first century / Wilfredo Lozano -- The uneven and paradoxical development of Mexico's institutions / José Luis Velasco -- Conclusion: The comparative analysis of the role of institutions in national development / Alejandro Portes and Lori D. Smith.
    Abstract: What leads to national progress? The growing consensus in the social sciences is that neither capital flows, nor the savings rate, nor diffuse values are the key, but that it lies in the quality of a nation's institutions. This book is the first comparative study of how real institutions affect national development. It seeks to examine and deepen this insight through a systematic study of institutions in five Latin American countries and how they differ within and across nations. Postal systems, stock exchanges, public health services and others were included in the sample, all studied with th
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520951792 , 0520951794
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (viii, 293 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hayes-Bautista, David E., 1945- Cinco de Mayo
    DDC: 394.262
    Keywords: Hispanic Americans History ; 19th century ; California ; Hispanic Americans Ethnic identity ; California ; Cinco de Mayo (Mexican holiday) Social aspects ; United States ; Puebla, Battle of, Puebla de Zaragoza, Mexico, 1862 Social aspects ; United States ; Puebla, Battle of, Puebla de Zaragoza, Mexico, 1862 Press coverage ; United States ; Puebla, Battle of, Puebla de Zaragoza, Mexico, 1862 ; Puebla, Battle of, Puebla de Zaragoza, Mexico, 1862 Social aspects ; Puebla, Battle of, Puebla de Zaragoza, Mexico, 1862 Press coverage ; Hispanic Americans History 19th century ; Hispanic Americans Ethnic identity ; Cinco de Mayo (Mexican holiday) Social aspects ; History ; Social aspects ; Hispanic Americans ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Holidays (non-religious) ; Hispanic Americans ; Ethnic identity ; Press coverage ; HISTORY ; United States ; State & Local ; West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) ; United States History ; Social aspects ; Civil War, 1861-1865 ; United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 ; Social aspects ; California ; Mexico ; Puebla de Zaragoza ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Why is Cinco de Mayo--a holiday commemorating a Mexican victory over the French at Puebla in 1862--so widely celebrated in California and across the United States, when it is scarcely observed in Mexico? As David E. Hayes-Bautista explains, the holiday is not Mexican at all, but rather an American one, created by Latinos in California during the mid-nineteenth century. Hayes-Bautista shows how the meaning of Cinco de Mayo has shifted over time--it embodied immigrant nostalgia in the 1930s, U.S. patriotism during World War II, Chicano Power in the 1960s and 1970s, and commercial intentions in the 1980s and 1990s. Today, it continues to reflect the aspirations of a community that is engaged, empowered, and expanding"--Provided by publisher
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520952249 , 0520952243
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (316 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: California studies in food and culture 34
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Curried cultures
    DDC: 394.120954
    Keywords: Food Social aspects ; South Asia ; Food habits South Asia ; Cosmopolitanism South Asia ; Nationalism South Asia ; Globalization Social aspects ; Food Social aspects ; Globalization Social aspects ; Food habits ; Nationalism ; Cosmopolitanism ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Customs & Traditions ; HISTORY ; Social History ; Cosmopolitanism ; Food habits ; Food ; Social aspects ; Globalization ; Social aspects ; Nationalism ; Anthropology ; Social Sciences ; Manners & Customs ; South Asia ; Electronic books ; Electronic books Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Online-Publikation ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Although South Asian cookery and gastronomy has transformed contemporary urban foodscape all over the world, social scientists have paid scant attention to this phenomenon
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    ISBN: 0520952081 , 9780520272187 , 9780520272194 , 9780520952089
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (vii, 169 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Miller, Daniel, 1954- Blue jeans
    DDC: 306.4
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    Keywords: Social Science ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture ; Gesellschaft ; Denim Social aspects ; Jeans (Clothing) Social aspects ; Material culture ; Clothing and dress ; Integration ; Feldforschung ; Jeans ; London ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation ; London Nord ; Jeans ; Integration ; Feldforschung
    Description / Table of Contents: Life -- Relationships -- Fashion -- Comfortable -- Ordinary -- The Struggle for Ordinary -- Anthropology: From Normative to Ordinary -- Sociology: The Ordinary and the Routine
    Description / Table of Contents: This fresh and accessible ethnography offers a new vision of how society might cohere, in the face of on-going global displacement, dislocation, and migration. Drawing from intensive field work in a highly diverse North London neighborhood, Daniel Miller and Sophie Woodward focus on an everyday item--blue jeans--to learn what one simple article of clothing can tell us about our individual and social lives and challenging, by extension, the foundational anthropological presumption of "the normative." Miller and Woodward argue that blue jeans do not always represent social and cultural difference
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520949904 , 0520949900
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiv, 461 pages) , illustrations
    Edition: Second edition, with an update a decade later
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Lareau, Annette Unequal childhoods
    DDC: 305.2308996073
    Keywords: Children Social conditions ; Families United States ; Social conflict United States ; Class consciousness United States ; Equality United States ; United States ; Children Social conditions ; Families ; Social conflict ; Class consciousness ; Equality ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Children's Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; Children ; Social conditions ; Class consciousness ; Equality ; Families ; Social conflict ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Kind ; Familienbeziehung ; USA ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth observations of black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families, Unequal Childhoods explores this fact, offering a picture of childhood today. Here are the frenetic families managing their children's hectic schedules of "leisure" activities; and here are families with plenty of time but little economic security. Lareau shows how middle-class parents, whether black or white, engage in a process of "concerted cultivation" designed to draw out children's talents and skills, while working-class and poor families rely on "the accomplishment of natural growth," in which a child's development unfolds spontaneously--as long as basic comfort, food, and shelter are provided. Each of these approaches to childrearing brings its own benefits and its own drawbacks. In identifying and analyzing differences between the two, Lareau demonstrates the power, and limits, of social class in shaping the lives of America's children. The first edition of Unequal Childhoods was an instant classic, portraying in riveting detail the unexpected ways in which social class influences parenting in white and African American families. A decade later, Annette Lareau has revisited the same families and interviewed the original subjects to examine the impact of social class in the transition to adulthood."--Publisher
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520271463
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (320 p.)
    Edition: 3rd ed
    Parallel Title: Print version Promises I Can Keep : Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage, With a New Preface
    DDC: 306.8560974811
    Keywords: Unmarried mothers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia ; Low-income single mothers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia ; Low-income single mothers ; Pennsylvania ; Philadelphia ; Unmarried mothers ; Pennsylvania ; Philadelphia ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: Millie Acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care for her newborn. Now 27, she is the unmarried mother of three and is raising her kids in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods. Would she and her children be better off if she had waited to have them and had married their father first? Why do so many poor American youth like Millie continue to have children before they can afford to take care of them? Over a span of five years, sociologists Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas talked in-depth with 162 low-income single moms like Millie to learn how
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Contents; Preface to the 2011 Edition; Introduction; I. "Before We Had a Baby..."; 2. "When I Got Pregnant..."; 3. How Does the Dream Die?; 4. What Marriage Means; 5. Labor of Love; 6. How Motherhood Changed My Life; Conclusion: Making Sense of Single Motherhood; Acknowledgments; APPENDIX A: City, Neighborhood, and Family Characteristics and Research Methods; APPENDIX B: Interview Guide; Notes; References; Index;
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520950405 , 0520950402
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiv, 347 p.) , ill., maps.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: American crossroads 31
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Shah, Nayan, 1966- Stranger intimacy
    DDC: 304.87305409041
    Keywords: Foreign workers North America ; Migrant labor North America ; Sex and law North America ; Citizenship Social aspects ; North America ; Foreign workers ; Migrant labor ; Sex and law ; Citizenship Social aspects ; Social Science North America ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Emigration & Immigration ; HISTORY ; United States ; General ; Citizenship ; Social aspects ; Foreign workers ; Migrant labor ; Sex and law ; North America ; Electronic books ; Electronic book ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: "In exploring an array of intimacies between global migrants Shah illuminates a stunning, transient world of heterogeneous social relations--dignified, collaborative, and illicit. At the same time he demonstrates how the United States and Canada, in collusion with each other, actively sought to exclude and dispossess nonwhite races. Stranger Intimacy reveals the intersections between capitalism, the state's treatment of immigrants, sexual citizenship, and racism in the first half of the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520947634 , 0520947630
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xxiv, 232 p.) , ill., maps.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Asia : local studies/global themes 18
    Series Statement: Asia 18
    Series Statement: local studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Mullaney, Thomas S. (Thomas Shawn) Coming to terms with the nation
    DDC: 305.800951
    Keywords: Ethnology History ; 20th century ; China ; Ethnicity China ; Minorities Government policy ; China ; Minorities China ; Ethnology History 20th century ; Minorities ; Minorities Government policy ; Ethnicity ; 20th century ; Government policy ; Social Science ; China ; Ethnicity ; Ethnology ; History ; Minorities ; Population ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; HISTORY ; Asia ; General ; Minorities ; Government policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Electronic books ; China Population ; China ; China Population ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: China is a vast nation comprised of hundreds of distinct ethnic communities, each with its own language, history, and culture. Today the government of China recognizes just 56 ethnic nationalities, or minzu, as groups entitled to representation. This controversial new book recounts the history of the most sweeping attempt to sort and categorize the nation's enormous population: the 1954 Ethnic Classification project (minzu shibie)
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520948556 , 0520948556
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (291 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Eller, Cynthia Gentlemen and Amazons : The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory, 1861-1900
    DDC: 306.859
    Keywords: Amazone ; Women, Prehistoric ; Religion, Prehistoric ; Matriarchy ; Matrilineal kinship ; Patriarchy ; Feminist theory ; History ; Social Science ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Alternative Family ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Reference ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Folklore & Mythology ; Feminist theory ; Matriarchy ; Matrilineal kinship ; Patriarchy ; Religion, Prehistoric ; Women, Prehistoric ; Matriarchat ; Mythos ; Urgesellschaft ; Anthropology ; Social Sciences ; Prehistoric Anthropology ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Gentlemen and Amazons traces the nineteenth-century genesis and development of an important contemporary myth about human origins: that of an original prehistoric matriarchy. Cynthia Eller explores the intellectual history of the myth, which arose from male scholars who mostly wanted to vindicate the patriarchal family model as a higher stage of human development. Eller tells the stories these men told, analyzes the gendered assumptions they made, and provides the necessary context for understanding how feminists of the 1970s and 1980s embraced as historical "fact" a discredited nineteenth-century idea
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520950320 , 0520950321
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (ix, 347 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Asia 20
    Series Statement: local studies/global themes
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Recreating Japanese men
    DDC: 305.38895600903
    Keywords: Men Japan ; Masculinity Japan ; Men Identity ; Japan ; Sex role Japan ; Japan ; Men ; Masculinity ; Men Identity ; Sex role ; Men ; Men ; Identity ; Sex role ; Geschlechterrolle ; Mann ; Männerbild ; Männlichkeit ; Gender & Ethnic Studies ; Social Sciences ; Gender Studies & Sexuality ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; Masculinity ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gender Studies ; Japan ; Japan ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: The essays in this book explore the meanings of manhood in Japan from the 17th to the 21st centuries. The text examines a range of attitudes regarding properly masculine pursuits and modes of behaviour
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520950368 , 0520950364
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xxi, 488 pages) , illustrations, maps.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Asia Pacific modern 7
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Fujitani, T Race for Empire : Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II
    DDC: 305.800973
    Keywords: World War, 1939-1945 Participation, Japanese American ; World War, 1939-1945 Participation, Korean ; World War, 1939-1945 Social aspects ; United States ; World War, 1939-1945 Social aspects ; Japan ; Nationalism History ; 20th century ; United States ; Nationalism History ; 20th century ; Japan ; Racism History ; 20th century ; United States ; Racism History ; 20th century ; Japan ; Imperialism History ; 20th century ; World War, 1939-1945 Participation, Korean ; World War, 1939-1945 Social aspects ; World War, 1939-1945 Social aspects ; Nationalism History 20th century ; Nationalism History 20th century ; Racism History 20th century ; Racism History 20th century ; Imperialism History 20th century ; World War, 1939-1945 Participation, Japanese American ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; General ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; HISTORY ; Asia ; General ; HISTORY ; Military ; World War II ; Imperialism ; Nationalism ; Racism ; Social aspects ; History ; Japan ; Korea ; United States ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: "Race for Empire offers a profound and challenging reinterpretation of nationalism, racism, and wartime mobilization during the Asia-Pacific war. In parallel case studies--of Japanese Americans mobilized to serve in the United States Army and of Koreans recruited or drafted into the Japanese military--T. Fujitani examines the U.S. and Japanese empires as they struggled to manage racialized populations while waging total war. Fujitani probes governmental policies and analyzes representations of these soldiers--on film, in literature, and in archival documents--to reveal how characteristics of racism, nationalism, capitalism, gender politics, and the family changed on both sides. He demonstrates that the United States and Japan became increasingly alike over the course of the war, perhaps most tellingly in their common attempts to disavow racism even as they reproduced it in new ways and forms"--
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    ISBN: 9780520947542 , 0520947541 , 9780520260641 , 0520260643 , 9780520260658 , 0520260651
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 288 pages)
    Parallel Title: Ersccheint auch als
    DDC: 305.892/704409034
    Keywords: 1800 - 1899 ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1798-1831 ; 19th century ; Africa, North ; Arab countries ; Asianists ; Foreign relations ; France ; History ; Social Science ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies ; RELIGION / Islam / General ; Asianists ; Diplomatic relations ; Islam and politics ; Außenpolitik ; Diplomatische Beziehungen ; Geschichte ; Asianists History 19th century ; Islam and politics ; Orientalismus ; Islam ; Frankreich ; Arabische Staaten ; Frankreich ; Electronic books ; Electronic books History ; Frankreich ; Arabische Staaten ; Orientalismus ; Islam ; Geschichte 1798-1831
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. A Rough Crossing; 2. Ports of Call; 3. The Making of Arab Paris; 4. Policing Orientalism; 5. Massacre and Restoration; 6. Cosmopolitanism and Confusion; 7. Remaking Arab France; 8. The Cathedral and the Mosque; Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z. , Many think of Muslims in Europe as a twentieth century phenomenon, but this book brings to life a lost community of Arabs who lived through war, revolution, and empire in early nineteenth century France. Ian Coller uncovers the surprising story of the several hundred men, women, and children--Egyptians, Syrians, Greeks, and others--who followed the French army back home after Napoleon's occupation of Egypt
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520947795 , 0520947797
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xviii, 224 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Warikoo, Natasha Kumar, 1973- Balancing acts
    DDC: 305.23508691209421
    Keywords: Youth Cross-cultural studies ; Social life and customs ; Children of immigrants Cross-cultural studies ; High school students Cross-cultural studies ; Social life and customs ; Academic achievement Cross-cultural studies ; Group identity Cross-cultural studies ; Assimilation (Sociology) ; Group identity Cross-cultural studies ; Academic achievement Cross-cultural studies ; Children of immigrants Cross-cultural studies ; High school students Cross-cultural studies Social life and customs ; Youth Cross-cultural studies Social life and customs ; Social Science ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Life Stages ; Adolescence ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Life Stages ; Teenagers ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; Academic achievement ; Assimilation (Sociology) ; Children of immigrants ; Group identity ; High school students ; Social life and customs ; Youth ; Social life and customs ; Jeugdcultuur ; Studieresultaten ; Immigranten ; Identificatie (psychologie) ; Cross-cultural studies ; Electronic books Cross-cultural studies ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In this timely examination of children of immigrants in New York and London, Natasha Kumar Warikoo asks, Is there a link between rap/hip-hop-influenced youth culture and motivation to succeed in school? Warikoo challenges teachers, administrators, and parents to look beneath the outward manifestations of youth culture -- the clothing, music, and tough talk -- to better understand the internal struggle faced by many minority students as they try to fit in with peers while working to lay the groundwork for successful lives. Using ethnographic, survey, and interview data in two racially diverse, low-achieving high schools, Warikoo analyzes seemingly oppositional styles, tastes in music, and school behaviors and finds that most teens try to find a balance between success with peers and success in school
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520948246 , 9780520948242
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 288 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Lofton, Kathryn Oprah
    DDC: 306.60973/090511
    Keywords: Winfrey, Oprah Influence ; Winfrey, Oprah ; Oprah Winfrey show (Television program) ; Oprah Winfrey show (Television program) ; Religion and culture ; Popular culture Religious aspects ; Celebrities ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology of Religion ; RELIGION ; Christianity ; General ; Celebrities ; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) ; Popular culture ; Religious aspects ; Religion ; Religion and culture ; Religion ; Philosophy & Religion ; North & South American Religions ; United States Religion ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Today on Oprah," intones the TV announcer, and all over America viewers tune in to learn, empathize, and celebrate. In this book, Kathryn Lofton investigates the Oprah phenomenon and finds in Winfrey's empire--Harpo Productions, O Magazine, and her new television network--an uncanny reflection of religion in modern society. Lofton shows that when Oprah likes, needs, or believes something, she offers her audience nothing less than spiritual revolution, reinforced by practices that fuse consumer behavior, celebrity ambition, and religious idiom. In short, Oprah Winfrey is a media messiah for a se
    Abstract: Introduction -- Practicing purchase : the prosperity gospel of a spiritual capitalism -- Celebrity spirit : the incorporation of your best life -- Diverting conversions : the makeover as social rite -- Preacher queen : the race and gender of America's confessor -- Reading religiously : the reformations of Oprah's Book Club -- Missionary gift : the globalization of inspiration -- Conclusion -- Epilogue : political spirituality, or the Oprahfication of Obama.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520950207 , 0520950208
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xxvi, 264 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M Writing Immigration : Scholars and Journalists in Dialogue
    DDC: 304.873
    Keywords: Emigration and immigration ; Social sciences ; Political science ; Emigration and immigration Press coverage ; United States ; Political science ; Social sciences ; Political Science ; Law, Politics & Government ; Immigration & Emigration ; Immigration i pressen ; Förenta staterna ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Emigration & Immigration ; Emigration and immigration ; Press coverage ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; Emigration and immigration ; Electronic resource ; United States Emigration and immigration ; United States Emigration and immigration ; Press coverage ; United States ; Electronic resource ; United States Emigration and immigration ; Press coverage ; United States Emigration and immigration ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: "Bringing nuance, complexity, and clarity to a subject often seen in black and white, Writing Immigration presents a unique interplay of leading scholars and journalists working on the contentious topic of immigration. In a series of powerful essays, the contributors reflect on how they struggle to write about one of the defining issues of our time -- one that is at once local and global, familiar and uncanny, concrete and abstract. Highlighting and framing central questions surrounding immigration, their essays explore topics including illegal immigration, state and federal mechanisms for immigration regulation, enduring myths and fallacies regarding immigration, immigration and the economy, immigration and education, the adaptations of the second generation, and more."--Publisher's site
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520950344 , 0520950348
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xii, 455 p.) , maps.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Asia Pacific modern 8
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hershatter, Gail Gender of memory
    DDC: 305.4889510514309045
    Keywords: Rural women Social conditions ; China ; Shaanxi Sheng ; Rural women Economic conditions ; China ; Shaanxi Sheng ; Socialism China ; Shaanxi Sheng ; Rural women Social conditions ; Rural women Economic conditions ; Socialism ; Rural Population ; Socialism ; Women ; Social Science China ; Shaanxi Sheng ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies ; HISTORY ; Asia ; General ; Rural women ; Economic conditions ; Rural women ; Social conditions ; Socialism ; History ; China ; China ; Shaanxi Sheng ; Electronic books History ; Electronic books ; Erlebnisbericht ; Erlebnisbericht
    Abstract: What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group-rural women-at the center of the inquiry? In this book, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Interweaving these women's life histories with insightful analysis, Hershatter shows how Party-state policy became local and personal, and how it affected women's agricultural work, domestic routines, activism, marriage, childbirth, and parenting-even their notions of virtue and respectability. The women narrate their pasts from the vantage point of the present and highlight their enduring virtues, important achievements, and most deeply harbored grievances. In showing what memories can tell us about gender as an axis of power, difference, and collectivity in 1950s rural China and the present, Hershatter powerfully examines the nature of socialism and how gender figured in its creation
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520950146 , 0520950143
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiii, 310 p.) , ill., maps.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Morning, Ann Juanita, 1968- Nature of race
    DDC: 305.8
    Keywords: Race ; Racism in anthropology ; Racism in education ; Racism in textbooks ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Race ; Racism in anthropology ; Racism in education ; Racism in textbooks ; Anthropology ; Social Sciences ; Physical Anthropology ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Introduction: what is race? -- What do we know about scientific and popular concepts of race? -- Textbook race: lessons on human difference -- Teaching race: scientists on human difference -- Learning race: students on human difference -- Race concepts beyond the classroom -- Conclusion: the redemption of essentialism
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520948488 , 0520948483
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (ix, 199 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Best, Joel Everyone's a winner
    DDC: 305
    Keywords: Social status United States ; Equality United States ; Motivation (Psychology) United States ; Social status ; Equality ; Motivation (Psychology) ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Equality ; Manners and customs ; Motivation (Psychology) ; Social conditions ; Social status ; United States Social life and customs ; United States Social conditions ; United States ; United States Social conditions ; United States Social life and customs ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: Every kindergarten soccer player gets a trophy. Many high schools name dozens of seniors as valedictorians--of the same class. Cars sport bumper stickers that read "USA--Number 1." Prizes proliferate in every corner of American society, and excellence is trumpeted with ratings that range from "Academy Award winner!" to "Best Neighborhood Pizza!" In Everyone's a Winner, Joel Best-- acclaimed author of Damned Lies and Statistics and many other books--shines a bright light on the increasing abundance of status in our society and considers what it all means. With humor and insight, Best argues that st
    Note: "Simpson imprint in humanities. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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    ISBN: 9780520950238 , 0520950232
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 299 p.) , ill., maps.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Shutika, Debra Lattanzi, 1964- Beyond the borderlands
    DDC: 305.896872074813
    Keywords: Mexican Americans Cultural assimilation ; Pennsylvania ; Kennett Square ; Mexican Americans Ethnic identity ; Pennsylvania ; Kennett Square ; Mexican Americans Cultural assimilation ; Mexican Americans Ethnic identity ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; Emigration and immigration ; Social aspects ; Ethnic relations ; Mexican Americans ; Cultural assimilation ; Mexican Americans ; Ethnic identity ; Regions & Countries - Americas ; History & Archaeology ; United States Local History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Black Studies (Global) ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; African American Studies ; Kennett Square (Pa.) Ethnic relations ; Guanajuato (Mexico : State) Emigration and immigration ; Social aspects ; Mexico ; Guanajuato (State) ; Pennsylvania ; Kennett Square ; Guanajuato (Mexico : State) Emigration and immigration ; Social aspects ; Kennett Square (Pa.) Ethnic relations ; Pennsylvania ; Kennett Square ; Mexico ; Guanajuato (State) ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; One: Introduction, New Borders and Destinations; Two: "I Give Thanks to God, After That, the United States", Everyday Life In Textitlán; Three: La Casa Vacía, Meanings and Memories in Abandoned Immigrant Houses; Four: In the Shadows and Out, Mexican Kennett Square; Five: Bridging the Community, Nativism, Activism, and the Politics of Belonging; Six: There and Back Again, The Pilgrimage of Return Migration; Seven: The Ambivalent Welcome, Cinco De Mayo and the Performance of Local Identity and Ethnic Relations; Epilogue; Notes; References; Index.
    Abstract: Over the last three decades, migration from Mexico to the United States has moved beyond the borderlands to diverse communities across the country, with the most striking transformations in American suburbs and small towns. This study explores the challenges encountered by Mexican families as they endeavor to find their place in the U.S. by focusing on Kennett Square, a small farming village in Pennsylvania known as the "Mushroom Capital of the World." In a highly readable account based on extensive fieldwork among Mexican migrants and their American neighbors, Debra Lattanzi Shutika explores
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    ISBN: 9780520948518 , 0520948513
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (686 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Media Archaeology : Approaches, Applications, and Implications
    DDC: 302.23
    Keywords: Communication ; Information technology ; Mass media ; Mass media ; Communication ; Information technology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Media Studies ; Communication ; Information technology ; Mass media ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book introduces an archaeological approach to the study of media - one that sifts through the evidence to learn how media were written about, used, designed, preserved, and sometimes discarded. Edited by Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka, with contributions from internationally prominent scholars from Europe, North America, and Japan, the essays help us understand how the media that predate today's interactive, digital forms were in their time contested, adopted and embedded in the everyday. Providing a broad overview of the many historical and theoretical facets of Media Archaeology as an
    Description / Table of Contents: 15. Afterword: Media Archaeology and Re-presencing the PastSelected Bibliography; Contributors; Index.
    Description / Table of Contents: 8. The Game Player's Duty: The User as the Gestalt of the Ports9. The Enduring Ephemeral, or The Future Is a Memory; Part Iii: Between Analogue and Digital; 10. Erased Dots and Rotten Dashes, or How to Wire Your Head for a Preservation; 11. Media Archaeography: Method and Machine versus History and Narrative of Media; 12. Mapping Noise: Techniques and Tactics of Irregularities, Interception, and Disturbance; 13. Objects of Our Affection: How Object Orientation Made Computers a Medium; 14. Digital Media Archaeology: Interpreting Computational Processes.
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: An Archaeology of Media Archaeology; Part I. Engines of/in the Imaginary; 2. Dismantling the Fairy Engine: Media Archaeology as Topos Study; 3. On the Archaeology of Imaginary Media; 4. On the Origins of the Origins of the Influencing Machine; 5. Freud and the Technical Media: The Enduring Magic of the Wunderblock; Part Ii. (Inter)Facing Media; 6. The "Baby Talkie," Domestic Media, and the Japanese Modern; 7. The Observer's Dilemma: To Touch or Not to Touch.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520948419 , 0520948416
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (304 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Menjívar, Cecilia Enduring Violence : Ladina Women's Lives in Guatemala
    DDC: 305.48969420972814
    Keywords: Women Social conditions ; Guatemala ; Women Violence against ; Guatemala ; Ladino (Latin American people) Violence against ; Guatemala ; Violence Guatemala ; Women Social conditions ; Women Violence against ; Ladino (Latin American people) Violence against ; Violence ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gender Studies ; Violence ; Women ; Social conditions ; Women ; Violence against ; Guatemala ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Drawing on revealing, in-depth interviews, Cecilia Menjívar investigates the role that violence plays in the lives of Ladina women in eastern Guatemala, a little-visited and little-studied region. While much has been written on the subject of political violence in Guatemala, Menjívar turns to a different form of suffering--the violence embedded in institutions and in everyday life so familiar and routine that it is often not recognized as such. Rather than painting Guatemala (or even Latin America) as having a cultural propensity for normalizing and accepting violence, Menjívar aims to develop an approach to examining structures of violence--profound inequality, exploitation and poverty, and gender ideologies that position women in vulnerable situations-- grounded in women's experiences. In this way, her study provides a glimpse into the root causes of the increasing wave of feminicide in Guatemala, as well as in other Latin American countries, and offers observations relevant for understanding violence against women around the world today
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520949959 , 0520949951 , 9780520270626 , 0520270622
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (257 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: ACLS Humanities E-book
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Boag, Peter G Re-dressing America's frontier past
    DDC: 306.778097809034
    Keywords: Transvestites History ; 19th century ; West (U.S.) ; Gender identity History ; 19th century ; West (U.S.) ; Homosexuality History ; 19th century ; West (U.S.) ; Gender identity History 19th century ; Homosexuality History 19th century ; Cross-dressers History 19th century ; Social Science United States, West ; PSYCHOLOGY ; Human Sexuality ; SELF-HELP ; Sexual Instruction ; HISTORY ; United States ; General ; Gender identity ; Homosexuality ; Cross-dressers ; History ; West United States ; Electronic books History ; Electronic book ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: Americans have long cherished romantic images of the frontier and its colorful cast of characters, where the cowboys are always rugged and the ladies always fragile. But in this book, Peter Boag opens an extraordinary window onto the real Old West. Delving into countless primary sources and surveying sexological and literary sources, Boag paints a vivid picture of a West where cross-dressing--for both men and women--was pervasive, and where easterners as well as Mexicans and even Indians could redefine their gender and sexual identities. Boag asks, why has this history been forgotten and erased?
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    ISBN: 9780520949683 , 0520949684
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (214 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: California studies in food and culture [31]
    Parallel Title: Print version Eating mud crabs in Kandahar
    DDC: 394.12
    Keywords: Survival and emergency rations Anecdotes ; Food habits Anecdotes ; War correspondents Anecdotes ; Foreign correspondents Anecdotes ; War and society Anecdotes ; Survival and emergency rations Anecdotes ; Food habits Anecdotes ; War correspondents Anecdotes ; Foreign correspondents Anecdotes ; War and society Anecdotes ; War and society Anecdotes ; War correspondents Anecdotes ; Foreign correspondents Anecdotes ; Food habits Anecdotes ; Survival and emergency rations Anecdotes ; COOKING ; Essays ; HISTORY ; Social History ; Food habits ; Foreign correspondents ; Survival and emergency rations ; War and society ; War correspondents ; Anecdotes ; Electronic books ; Electronic books Anecdotes
    Abstract: Introduction : the name of the third chicken : Kosovo / Matt McAllester -- Survival rations. Night light : El Salvador and Haiti / Lee Hockstader -- A diet for dictators : North Korea / Barbara Demick -- Siege food : Bosnia / Janine di Giovanni -- Miraculous harvests : China / Isabel Hilton -- Insistent hosts. How Harry lost his ear : Northern Ireland / Scott Anderson -- Weighed down by a good meal : Gaza and Israel / Joshua Hammer -- The price of oranges : Pakistan / Jason Burke -- Jeweled rice : Iran / Farnaz Fassihi -- The oversize helmsman of an undersize country : Israel / Matt Rees -- Food under fire. Same-day cow : Afghanistan / Tim Hetherington -- Eau de cadavre : Somalia and Rwanda / Sam Kiley -- Eating mud crabs in Kandahar : Afghanistan / Christina Lamb -- Munther cannot cook your turkey : Iraq / Rajiv Chandrasekaran -- Breaking bread. The best man I ever knew : Georgia / Wendell Steavenson -- Dinner with a jester : Afghanistan / Jon Lee Anderson -- Sugarland : Haiti / Amy Wilentz -- My life in pagans : Ossetia / James Meek -- The house of bread : Bethlehem / Charles M. Sennott.
    Abstract: 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 Il of North Korea describes Kim's exacting standards for gourmet fare, which he gorges himself on while his country starves. A journalist becomes part of the inner circle of an IRA cell thanks to his drinking buddies. And a young, inexperienced female journalist shares mud crab in a foxhole with an eq
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : the name of the third chicken : Kosovo / Matt McAllesterSurvival rations. Night light : El Salvador and Haiti / Lee Hockstader -- A diet for dictators : North Korea / Barbara Demick -- Siege food : Bosnia / Janine di Giovanni -- Miraculous harvests : China / Isabel Hilton -- Insistent hosts. How Harry lost his ear : Northern Ireland / Scott Anderson -- Weighed down by a good meal : Gaza and Israel / Joshua Hammer -- The price of oranges : Pakistan / Jason Burke -- Jeweled rice : Iran / Farnaz Fassihi -- The oversize helmsman of an undersize country : Israel / Matt Rees -- Food under fire. Same-day cow : Afghanistan / Tim Hetherington -- Eau de cadavre : Somalia and Rwanda / Sam Kiley -- Eating mud crabs in Kandahar : Afghanistan / Christina Lamb -- Munther cannot cook your turkey : Iraq / Rajiv Chandrasekaran -- Breaking bread. The best man I ever knew : Georgia / Wendell Steavenson -- Dinner with a jester : Afghanistan / Jon Lee Anderson -- Sugarland : Haiti / Amy Wilentz -- My life in pagans : Ossetia / James Meek -- The house of bread : Bethlehem / Charles M. Sennott.
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520950178 , 9780520950177
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 244 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates) , illustrations
    Series Statement: The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hamer, Jennifer Abandoned in the heartland
    DDC: 305.5/620977389
    Keywords: African Americans ; Working class ; African Americans ; Economic history ; Social conditions ; Working class ; Sociology & Social History ; Social Sciences ; Social Conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; East Saint Louis (Ill.) Economic conditions 21st century ; East Saint Louis (Ill.) Social conditions 21st century ; Illinois ; East Saint Louis ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In America's heartland -- East St. Louisans and their wheels -- Work and meaning in a jobless city suburb -- Hustling, clean and dirty -- "Around here, women never get done workin" -- "Gotta protect my own" -- The cost of abandonment.
    Abstract: Once a thriving manufacturing and transportation centre, East St Louis, Illinois is now known for its unemployment, crime and collapsing infrastructure. This book takes us into the lives of the residents of East St Louis to find out what has happened since industry abandoned the city
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520949836 , 0520949838
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 339 p.) , ill., maps.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: The Stephen Bechtel Fund imprint in ecology and the environment
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sale, Peter F Our dying planet
    DDC: 304.28
    Keywords: Nature Effect of human beings on ; Environmental responsibility ; Ecology ; Nature Effect of human beings on ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Human Geography ; NATURE ; Environmental Conservation & Protection ; Ecology ; Environmental responsibility ; Nature ; Effect of human beings on ; Electronic book ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Coral reefs are on track to become the first ecosystem actually eliminated from the planet. So says leading ecologist Peter F. Sale in this crash course on the state of the planet. Sale draws from his own extensive work on coral reefs, and from recent research by other ecologists, to explore the many ways we are changing the earth and to explain why it matters. Weaving into the narrative his own firsthand field experiences around the world, Sale brings ecology alive while giving a solid understanding of the science at work behind today's pressing environmental issues. He delves into topics inc
    Abstract: Information : what we are doing to our world: Overfishing ; Removing forests ; Disrupting the ocean-atmosphere engine ; The perilous future for coral reefs -- Understanding : why we don't comprehend the scale of our problem: The problem of shifting baselines ; Our unrealistic belief in the balance of nature -- Moving forward : why it matters and what we need to do: What loss of ecological complexity means for the world ; Reducing our use of fossil fuels ; Slowing growth of the hum.
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    ISBN: 9780520950184 , 0520950186
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 242 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Coming of age in America
    DDC: 305.235097309051
    Keywords: Adolescence History ; 21st century ; United States ; Parent and teenager United States ; Ethnology United States ; Social classes United States ; United States ; Parent and teenager ; Ethnology ; Social classes ; Adolescence History 21st century ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Life Stages ; Adolescence ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Life Stages ; Teenagers ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; Adolescence ; Ethnology ; Parent and teenager ; Social classes ; Jugend ; Social Welfare & Social Work ; Social Sciences ; Child & Youth Development ; History ; United States ; USA ; USA ; Electronic books ; Electronic books History ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: What is it like to become an adult in 21st-century America? This book takes us to four very different places - New York, San Diego, rural Iowa, and Saint Paul, Minnesota - explore the dramatic shifts in coming-of-age experiences across the country
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520945401 , 0520945409
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiii, 548 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Edward Said
    DDC: 306.092
    Keywords: Said, Edward W ; Said, Edward W. ; Orientalism ; Imperialism ; Arab-Israeli conflict ; Postcolonialism ; History ; Social Science ; Said, Edward W ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; HISTORY ; General ; Arab-Israeli conflict ; Imperialism ; Orientalism ; Postcolonialism ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Edward W. Said (1935-2003) ranks as one of the most preeminent public intellectuals of our time. Through his literary criticism, his advocacy for the Palestinian cause, and his groundbreaking book Orientalism, Said elegantly enriched public discourse by unsettling the status quo. This indispensable volume, the most comprehensive and wide-ranging resource on Edward Said's life and work, spans his broad legacy both within and beyond the academy. The book brings together contributions from thirty-one luminaries--leading scholars, critics, writers, and activists--to engage Said's provocative ideas
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    ISBN: 9780520947771 , 0520947770
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xvii, 352 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Kehoe, Dennis Peasant and empire in Christian north Africa. By Leslie Dossey. (The Transformation of the Classical Heritage, 47.) Pp. xix+352 incl. 13 figs and 13 tables. Berkeley–Los Angeles–London: University of California Press, 2010. £41.75. 978 0 520 25439 8 2012
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Leone, Anna Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa. By Leslie Dossey 2012
    Series Statement: The transformation of the classical heritage 47
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Dossey, Leslie, 1968- Peasant and empire in Christian North Africa
    DDC: 305.56330939709015
    Keywords: Augustine ; Augustine ; Consumption (Economics) Social aspects ; Preaching History ; Early church, ca. 30-600 ; Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 ; Roman provinces Administration ; Donatists ; Consumption (Economics) Social aspects ; Preaching History Early church, ca. 30-600 ; Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 ; Roman provinces Administration ; Africa, North ; Peasants ; Peasants History ; Africa, North ; Rome ; Rome History ; Business ; Social Science ; Agriculture ; History ; Consumption (Economics) ; Social aspects ; Donatists ; Economic history ; Preaching ; Early church ; Roman provinces ; Administration ; Social conditions ; christianisme ; paysan ; Afrique (province romaine) ; paléochrétien ; paysan ; Afrique (province romaine) ; époque des conquêtes romaines ; 6e s ; milieu rural ; paysan ; société (milieu humain) ; Afrique (province romaine) ; époque des conquêtes romaines ; 6e s ; Church history ; Primitive and early church ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; HISTORY ; Ancient ; General ; Africa, North History ; To 647 ; Rome Economic conditions ; 30 B.C.-476 A.D ; Rome History ; Empire, 284-476 ; Byzantine Empire Social conditions ; Rome Economic conditions 30 B.C.-476 A.D ; Rome History Empire, 284-476 ; Byzantine Empire Social conditions ; Africa, North History To 647 ; Rome (Empire) ; North Africa ; Byzantine Empire ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This remarkable history foregrounds the most marginal sector of the Roman population, the provincial peasantry, to paint a fascinating new picture of peasant society. Making use of detailed archaeological and textual evidence, Leslie Dossey examines the peasantry in relation to the upper classes in Christian North Africa, tracing that region's social and cultural history from the Punic times to the eve of the Islamic conquest. She demonstrates that during the period when Christianity was spreading to both city and countryside in North Africa, a convergence of economic interests narrowed the ga
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    ISBN: 9780520945654
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 309 p.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    DDC: 391.6
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Beauty culture Social aspects ; Korean American women Employment ; Women foreign workers ; Asian Americans Social conditions ; Ausländische Arbeitnehmerin ; Kosmetik ; Auswanderin ; USA ; USA ; Korea ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; USA ; Ausländische Arbeitnehmerin ; Kosmetik ; Korea ; Auswanderin
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: manicuring work -- "There's no business like the nail business" -- "What other work is there?": manicurists -- Hooked on nails: customers -- "I just put Koreans and nails together": nail spas and the model minority -- Black people "have not been the ones who get pampered": nail art salons and black-Korean relations -- "You could get a fungus": Asian discount nail salons as the new yellow peril -- Conclusion: what is a manicure worth?
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    ISBN: 9780520947207 , 0520947207
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xxvi, 265 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Almond, Barbara Monster within
    DDC: 306.8743
    Keywords: Motherhood Psychological aspects ; Mother and child Psychological aspects ; Love, Maternal Psychological aspects ; Motherhood Psychological aspects ; Mother and child Psychological aspects ; Love, Maternal Psychological aspects ; Love, Maternal ; Mother and child ; Motherhood ; Psychological aspects ; Social Science ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Parenting ; Motherhood ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gender Studies ; Love, Maternal ; Psychological aspects ; Mother and child ; Psychological aspects ; Motherhood ; Psychological aspects ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Whether it is uncertainty over having a child, fears of pregnancy and childbirth, or negative thoughts about one's own children, mixed feelings about motherhood are not just hard to discuss, they are a powerful social taboo. In this beautifully written book, Barbara Almond draws on her extensive clinical experience to bring this highly troubling issue to light. In a compelling portrait of the hidden side of contemporary motherhood, she finds that ambivalence of varying degrees is a ubiquitous phenomenon, yet one that too often causes anxiety, guilt, and depression. Weaving together case histor
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520945708
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online Ressource (vii, 269 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ehn, Billy, 1946 - The secret world of doing nothing
    DDC: 790.1
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    Keywords: Leisure - Philosophy ; Electronic books ; Zeit ; Muße ; Alltagssoziologie ; Freizeit ; Leisure ; Philosophy ; Leisure ; Psychological aspects ; Alltag ; Ritual ; Freizeit ; Wettbewerbsverhalten ; Ethnologie
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520945708 , 0520945700
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (279 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Lfgren, Orvar Secret World of Doing Nothing
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: Leisure Philosophy ; Leisure Psychological aspects ; Leisure Philosophy ; Leisure Psychological aspects ; Social Science ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Regional Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; General ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; Leisure ; Philosophy ; Leisure ; Psychological aspects ; Fritid ; teori, filosofi ; Fritid ; psykologiska aspekter ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "This is one of those rare books that causes you to rethink all your previous understandings of both time and space, to pay attention to what you have hitherto ignored or belittled. Full of fascinating detail, Ehn and Lofgren's work opens up a whole new field of inquiry."John Gillis, author of Islands of the Mind: How the Human Imagination Created the Atlantic World "This is a beautifully written and elegant book, deeply thoughtful but accessible to anyone. The Secret World of Doing Nothing is an essential field guide for understanding daily life; a delightful way to find out w
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520947818 , 0520947819
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiv, 272 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Macdonald, Cameron Lynne Shadow mothers
    DDC: 306.8743
    Keywords: Child care ; Au pairs ; Nannies ; Child care services ; Motherhood ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Parenting ; Motherhood ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Labor & Industrial Relations ; Au pairs ; Child care ; Child care services ; Motherhood ; Nannies ; Social Welfare & Social Work ; Social Sciences ; Child & Youth Development ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Shadow Mothers shines new light on an aspect of contemporary motherhood often hidden from view: the need for paid childcare by women returning to the workforce, and the complex bonds mothers forge with the "shadow mothers" they hire. Cameron Lynne Macdonald illuminates both sides of an unequal and complicated relationship
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    ISBN: 9780520945463 , 0520945468
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 279 pages) , map.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: The California world history library 13
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Khuri-Makdisi, Ilham Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914
    DDC: 303.484095609034
    Keywords: Radicalism History ; Egypt ; Cairo ; Radicalism History ; Egypt ; Alexandria ; Radicalism History ; Lebanon ; Beirut ; Radicalism History ; Radicalism History ; Radicalism History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; HISTORY ; World ; Radicalism ; History ; Electronic books ; Cairo (Egypt) History ; Alexandria (Egypt) History ; Beirut (Lebanon) History ; Egypt ; Alexandria ; Egypt ; Cairo ; Lebanon ; Beirut ; Cairo (Egypt) History ; Alexandria (Egypt) History ; Beirut (Lebanon) History ; Egypt ; Alexandria ; Egypt ; Cairo ; Lebanon ; Beirut ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: In this work, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi establishes the existence of a special radical trajectory spanning four continents and linking Beirut, Cairo, and Alexandria between 1860 and 1914
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