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  • Berkeley : University of California Press
  • Geschichte  (9)
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  • 1
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520941298
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (89 Seiten)
    Edition: 1st edition
    DDC: 304.8
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Diaspora ; Minderheit
    Abstract: Coined in the third century B.C., the term diaspora has evolved into a buzzword used to describe the migrations of groups as diverse as ethnic populations, religious communities, and even engineers working abroad. This concise book provides a critical introduction to the concept of diaspora, bringing a fresh, synthetic perspective to virtually all aspects of this topic. Stéphane Dufoix incorporates a wealth of case studies-about the Jewish, Armenian, African, Chinese, Greek, and Indian experiences- to illustrate key concepts, give a clear overview on current thinking, and reassess the value of the term for us today.
    Note: Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources , Literaturverzeichnis Seite 83-88
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  • 2
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520941292 , 9780520941298
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 136 p.)
    Uniform Title: Diasporas
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    DDC: 304.8
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration ; Emigration and immigration ; Geschichte ; Migration ; Emigration and immigration History ; Diaspora ; Minderheit ; Diaspora ; Geschichte ; Minderheit ; Geschichte
    Note: "Originally published in French as Les diasporas, c2003, Presses Universitaires de France"--T.p. verso , Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-136) , What is a diaspora? -- The spaces of dispersion -- Maintaining connections : holding on and letting go -- Managing distance , A critical introduction to the concept of 'diaspora' this book incorporates a wealth of case studies & provides a clear overview of current thinking
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  • 3
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | New York, NY : JSTOR
    ISBN: 9780520933026 , 0520933028
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: Updated with a new preface
    Series Statement: Comparative studies of health systems and medical care 33
    DDC: 306.4/61
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    Keywords: Aids ; HIV-Infektion ; Armut ; Haiti ; USA
    Abstract: In this dissertation, ethnographic, historical and epidemiologic data are brought to bear on the subject of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in Haiti. The forces that have helped to determine rates and pattern of spread of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) are examined, as are social responses to AIDS in rural and urban Haiti, and in parts of North America. History and its calculus of economic and symbolic power also help to explain why residents of a small village in rural Haiti came to understand AIDS in the manner that they did. Drawing on several years of fieldwork, the evolution of a cultural model of AIDS is traced. In a small village in rural Haiti, it was possible to document first the lack of such a model, and then the elaboration over time of a widely shared representation of AIDS. The experience of three villagers who died of complications of AIDS is examined in detail, and the importance of their suffering to the evolution of a cultural model is demonstrated. Epidemiologic and ethnographic studies are prefaced by a geographically broad historical analysis, which suggests the outlines of relations between a powerful center (the United States) and a peripheral client state (Haiti). These relations constitute an important part of a political-economic network termed the "West Atlantic system." The epidemiology of HIV and AIDS in Haiti and elsewhere in the Caribbean is reviewed, and the relation between the degree of involvement in the West Atlantic system and the prevalence of HIV is suggested. It is further suggested that the history of HIV in the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Bahamas is similar to that documented here for Haiti.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-331) and index
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  • 4
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520933026
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (277 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    DDC: 306.4/61
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    Keywords: Aids ; HIV-Infektion ; Armut ; Haiti ; USA
    Abstract: Does the scientific "theory" that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United States rather than from hard evidence? Award-winning author and anthropologist-physician Paul Farmer answers with this, the first full-length ethnographic study of AIDS in a poor society. First published in 1992 this new edition has been updated and a new preface added.
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  • 5
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520937277
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (317 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 330.979474
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    Keywords: Mexikaner ; Chicanos ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Armut ; USA
    Abstract: Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in two impoverished California communities-one made up of recent immigrants from Mexico, the other of U.S.-born Chicano citizens-this book provides an invaluable comparative perspective on Latino poverty in contemporary America. In northern California's high-tech Silicon Valley, author Daniel Dohan shows how recent immigrants get by on low-wage babysitting and dish-cleaning jobs. In the housing projects of Los Angeles, he documents how families and communities of U.S.-born Mexican Americans manage the social and economic dislocations of persistent poverty. Taking readers into worlds where public assistance, street crime, competition for low-wage jobs, and family, pride, and cross-cultural experiences intermingle, The Price of Poverty offers vivid portraits of everyday life in these Mexican American communities while addressing urgent policy questions such as: What accounts for joblessness? How can we make sense of crime in poor communities? Does welfare hurt or help?.
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  • 6
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520927544
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (286 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 304.8/7307295/09043
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Puerto Ricaner ; Globalisierung ; Auswanderung ; Einwanderung ; USA ; Europa
    Abstract: Colonial Subjects is the first book to use a combination of world-system and postcolonial approaches to compare Puerto Rican migration with Caribbean migration to both the United States and Western Europe. Ramon Grosfoguel provides an alternative reading of the world-system approach to Puerto Rico's history, political economy, and urbanization processes.
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  • 7
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520936645
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (248 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.4096762
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Geschlechterrolle ; Beschneidung ; Soziale Situation ; Frau ; Kenia
    Abstract: In more than a metaphorical sense, the womb has proven to be an important site of political struggle in and about Africa. By examining the political significance-and complex ramifications-of reproductive controversies in twentieth-century Kenya, this book explores why and how control of female initiation, abortion, childbirth, and premarital pregnancy have been crucial to the exercise of colonial and postcolonial power. This innovative book enriches the study of gender, reproduction, sexuality, and African history by revealing how reproductive controversies challenged long-standing social hierarchies and contributed to the construction of new ones that continue to influence the fraught politics of abortion, birth control, female genital cutting, and HIV/AIDS in Africa.
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  • 8
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520938748
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (290 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 305.9
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Homosexualität ; Homosexueller ; Kalifornien
    Abstract: Wide-Open Town traces the history of gay men and lesbians in San Francisco from the turn of the century, when queer bars emerged in San Francisco's tourist districts, to 1965, when a raid on a drag ball changed the course of queer history. Bringing to life the striking personalities and vibrant milieu that fueled this era, Nan Alamilla Boyd examines the culture that developed around the bar scene and homophile activism. She argues that the communities forged inside bars and taverns functioned politically and, ultimately, offered practical and ideological responses to the policing of San Francisco's queer and transgender communities. Using police and court records, oral histories, tourist literature, and manuscript collections from local and state archives, Nan Alamilla Boyd explains the phenomenal growth of San Francisco as a "wide-open town"-a town where anything goes. She also relates the early history of the gay and lesbian civil rights movement that took place in San Francisco prior to 1965. Wide-Open Town argues that police persecution forged debates about rights and justice that transformed San Francisco's queer communities into the identity-based groups we see today. In its vivid re-creation of bar and drag life, its absorbing portrait of central figures in the communities, and its provocative chronicling of this period in the country's most transgressive city, Wide-Open Town offers a fascinating and lively new chapter of American queer history.
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  • 9
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780520927292
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (398 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 301.096
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Visualisierung ; Soziologie ; Anthropologie ; Afrika
    Abstract: Figurative images have long played a critical, if largely unexamined, role in Africa--mediating relationships between the colonizer and the colonized, the state and the individual, and the global and the local. This pivotal volume considers the meaning and power of images in African history and culture.
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  • 10
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520929748 , 0585391173 , 1282357042 , 9780520929746 , 9780585391175 , 9781282357044
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 266 pages)
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    DDC: 393/.2
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    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying ; RELIGION / Comparative Religion ; Cremation ; Cremation / Public opinion ; Funeral rites and ceremonies ; Manners and customs ; Public opinion ; Geschichte ; Cremation History ; Cremation Public opinion ; Funeral rites and ceremonies History ; Public opinion ; Krematorium ; Geschichte ; USA ; USA ; Electronic books ; Electronic books History ; USA ; Krematorium ; Geschichte
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-261) and index , 'Purified by Fire' tells the story of cremation's rise from notoriety to legitimacy and takes a provocative new look at important transformations in the American cultural landscape over the last 150 years , Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: BIRTH, 18741896 -- 1. The Cremation of Baron De Palm -- 2. Sanitary Reform -- 3. Resurrection and the Resurrectionists -- PART TWO: BRICKS AND MORTAR, 18961963 -- 4. The Business of Cremation -- 5. The Memorial Idea -- PART THREE: BOOM, 1963PRESENT -- 6. Consumers Last Rites -- 7. Contemporary Ways of Cremation -- Timeline -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.
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  • 11
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520219236 , 052092441X , 1597344826 , 9780520924413 , 9781597344821
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 435 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies on China 23
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    DDC: 951.05
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    Keywords: 1900 - 1999 ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; HISTORY. ; Cities and towns ; Civilization ; National characteristics, Chinese ; Geschichte ; Stadt ; Cities and towns History 20th century ; National characteristics, Chinese ; Zivilisation ; Stadtentwicklung ; Modernisierung ; China ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; China ; Stadtentwicklung ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; China ; Modernisierung ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; China ; Zivilisation ; Geschichte 1900-2000
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Introduction: interpreting Chinese modernity, 1900-1950 / Wen-hsin Yeh -- The cultural construction of modernity in urban Shanghai: some preliminary explorations / Leo Ou-fan Lee -- Marketing medicine and advertising dreams in China, 1900-1950 / Sherman Cochran -- "A high place is no better than a low place": the city in the making of modern China / David Strand -- Engineering China: birth of the developmental state, 1928-1937 / William C. Kirby -- Hierarchical modernization: Tianjin's Gong Shang College as a model for Catholic community in North China / Richard Madsen -- The grounding of cosmopolitans: merchants and local cultures in Guangdong / Helen F. Siu -- Zhang Taiyan's concept of the individual and modern Chinese identity / Wang Hui -- Crime or punishment? On the forensic discourse of modern Chinese literature / David Der-wei Wang -- Hanjian (Traitor)! Collaboration and retribution in wartime Shanghai / Frederic Wakeman Jr. -- Of authenticity and woman: personal narratives of middle-class women in modern China / Prasenjit Duara -- Victory as defeat: postwar visualizations of China's War of Resistance / Paul G. Pickowicz , This volume evaluates the dual roles of war and modernity in the transformation of 20th-century Chinese identity. The contributors argue that war, no less than revolution, deserves attention as a major force in the making of 20th-century Chinese history
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  • 12
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    Berkeley : University of California Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
    ISBN: 9780520915473 , 052091547X , 0585041180 , 9780585041186
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 299 pages) , Illustrations
    Series Statement: California series on social choice and political economy 21
    DDC: 331.4/0952
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    Keywords: Tod ; Kindersterblichkeit ; Armut ; Hunger ; Alltag ; Gewalt ; Brasilien
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-293) and index
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  • 13
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 0520079337
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 424 Seiten , Illustrationen , 23 cm
    DDC: 302.23/5/0973
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    Keywords: Comunicacao de massa ; Sociale aspecten ; Telefonia ; Telefonie ; Teléfono - Aspectos sociales - Estados Univods - Historia ; Téléphone - Aspect social - États-Unis - Histoire ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Telephone Social aspects ; History ; Sozialgeschichte ; Telefon ; USA ; USA ; USA ; Telefon ; Sozialgeschichte
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