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    Gay Fatherhood : Narratives of Family and Citizenship in America (2009)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226476599
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (248 pages)
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    DDC: 306.874/2086640973
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    Digging up the dead : a history of notable American reburials (2009)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226423326 , 0226423298 , 9780226423296
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 160 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Digging Up the Dead : A History of Notable American Reburials
    DDC: 393/.10973
    Keywords: Funeral rites and ceremonies History ; Burial History ; Exhumation Political aspects ; Exhumation History ; Burial ; United States ; History ; Exhumation ; Political aspects ; United States ; Exhumation ; United States ; History ; Funeral rites and ceremonies ; United States ; History ; Electronic books
    Abstract: With Digging Up the Dead, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Michael Kammen reveals a treasure trove of fascinating, surprising, and occasionally gruesome stories of exhumation and reburial throughout American history. Taking us to the contested grave sites of such figures as Sitting Bull, John Paul Jones, Frank Lloyd Wright, Daniel Boone, Jefferson Davis, and even Abraham Lincoln, Kammen explores how complicated interactions of regional pride, shifting reputations, and evolving burial practices led to public and often emotional battles over the final resting places of famous figures. Grave-robb
    Description / Table of Contents: A short history of reburial: patterns of change over time -- Heroes of the Revolution: the siting and reciting of patriotism -- Honor, dishonor, and issues of reputation: from sectionalism to nationalism -- Problematic graves, tourism, and the wishes of survivors -- Disinterred by devotion: religion, race, and spiritual repose -- Repossessing the dead elsewhere in our time.
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    Ethnicity, Inc (2009)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226114712
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (250 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Chicago studies in practices of meaning
    Parallel Title: Print version Ethnicity, Inc
    DDC: 305.8
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    Abstract: In Ethnicity, Inc. anthropologists John L. and Jean Comaroff analyze a new moment in the history of human identity: its rampant commodification. Through a wide-ranging exploration of the changing relationship between culture and the market, they address a pressing question: Wherein lies the future of ethnicity?Their account begins in South Africa, with the incorporation of an ethno-business in venture capital by a group of traditional African chiefs. But their horizons are global: Native American casinos; Scotland's efforts to brand itself; a Zulu ethno-theme park named Shakaland; a world reli
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; 1 Prologue; 2 Three or Four Things about Ethno-futures; 3 Questions of Theory; 4 Commodifying Descent, American-style; Plates to follow p. 74; 5 A Tale of Two Ethnicities; 6 Nationality, Inc., Divinity, Inc., and Other Futures; 7 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
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    Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality : Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century (2009)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226067117
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (460 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality : Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
    DDC: 261.835
    Keywords: Christianity History ; Homosexuality History ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Truly groundbreaking work. Boswell reveals unexplored phenomena with an unfailing erudition."-Michel FoucaultJohn Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay members-among them priests, bishops, and even saints-when it was first published twenty-five years ago. The historical breadth of Boswell's research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consulted make this one of the most extensive treatmen
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Abbreviations; Preface; I Points of Departure; II The Christian Tradition; III Shifting Fortunes; IV The Rise of Intolerance; Appendix I. Lexicography and Saint Paul; Appendix 2. Texts and Translations; Frequently Cited Works; Index of Greek Terms; General Index;
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    Prostitution in Medieval Society : The History of an Urban Institution in Languedoc (2009)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226640334
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (259 p)
    Series Statement: Women in Culture and Society
    Parallel Title: Print version Prostitution in Medieval Society : The History of an Urban Institution in Languedoc
    DDC: 306.7/4/094
    Keywords: Prostitution ; Europe ; History ; Prostitution ; France ; Languedoc ; History ; Social history ; Medieval, 500-1500 ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: ""Prostitution in Medieval Society, a monograph about Languedoc between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, is also much more than that: it is a compelling narrative about the social construction of sexuality.""- Catharine R. Stimpson
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Abbreviations; Approximate Money Equivalences; Introduction; Part One: Prostitution and Public Authority: An Evolution; Prologue to Part One: Toward a Chronology of Medieval Prostitution; I. The Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Prostitution Accepted; 2. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries: Prostitution Institutionalized; Epilogue to Part One: The Sixteenth Century: The Institution Dismantled; Part Two: Structures and Dynamics of Institutionalized Prostitution; Prologue to Part Two: The Language of Prostitution
    Description / Table of Contents: 3. Public Houses: Physical Plant, Ownership, and Exploitation4. Public Women: Geographical Origins; Economic, Legal, and Social Status; and the Problem of Repentance/Retirement; 5. Controlling the System: ""Police"" of Prostitution and ""Government"" of Houses; 6. Eliminating Competition: The Prosecution of Procurers, Illicit Prostitutes, and Keepers of Illegal Houses; Epilogue to Part Two: Institutionalized Prostitution: Demography, Public Utility, and Sexual Morality; Conclusions and Perspectives; Appendix A: Published Documents; Appendix B: Lists of Prostitutes
    Description / Table of Contents: Appendix C: Brothel Farms and FarmersAppendix D: Graphs of Brothel Farm Prices; Appendix E: Easter Week Expenses, AM Toulouse; Map I: The Word Postribulum in Archival Documents in Languedoc; Map 2: Privately and Publicly Owned Brothels in Languedoc; Illustration; Notes; Essay on Bibliography and Sources; Manuscript Sources; Bibliography; Index
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    Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 2 : The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier (2009)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226114439
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (614 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 2 : The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier
    DDC: 303.48/241/00899639775
    Keywords: Great Britain ; Colonies ; Africa ; London Missionary Society ; Missions ; South Africa ; South Africa ; History ; Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society ; Missions ; South Africa ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In the second of a proposed three-volume study, John and Jean Comaroff continue their exploration of colonial evangelism and modernity in South Africa. Moving beyond the opening moments of the encounter between the British Nonconformist missions and the Southern Tswana peoples, Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume II, explores the complex transactions-both epic and ordinary-among the various dramatis personae along this colonial frontier.The Comaroffs trace many of the major themes of twentieth-century South African history back to these formative encounters. The relationship between the Briti
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Chronology; 1 Introduction; 2 Preachers and Prophets: The Domestication of the Sacred Word; 3 Cultivation, Colonialism, and Christianity: Toward a New African Genesis; 4 Currencies of Conversion: Of Markets, Money, and Value; 5 Fashioning the Colonial Subject: The Empire's Old Clothes; 6 Mansions of the Lord: Architecture, Interiority, Domesticity; 7 The Medicine of God's Word: Saving the Sould by Tending the Flesh; 8 New Persons, Old Subjects: Rights, Identities, Moral Communities; 9 Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
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    Physiologus : A Medieval Book of Nature Lore (2009)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226128702
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (142 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Physiologus : A Medieval Book of Nature Lore
    DDC: 398.245
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    Abstract: One of the most popular and widely read books of the Middle Ages, Physiologus contains allegories of beasts, stones, and trees both real and imaginary, infused by their anonymous author with the spirit of Christian moral and mystical teaching. Accompanied by an introduction that explains the origins, history, and literary value of this curious text, this volume also reproduces twenty woodcuts from the 1587 version. Originally composed in the fourth century in Greek, and translated into dozens of versions through the centuries, Physiologus will delight readers with its ancient tales of ant-lio
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Introduction; Note to the Paperback Edition; I. We begin first of all by speaking of the Lion; II. On the Antelope; III. On Piroboli Rocks; IV. On the Swordfish; V. On the Charadrius; VI. On the Pelican; VII. On the Owl; VIII. On the Eagle; IX. On the Phoenix; X. On the Hoopoe; XI. On the Wild Ass; XII. On the Viper; XIII. On the Serpent; XIV. On the Ant; XV. On the Siren and Ass-Centaur; XVI. On the Hedgehog; XVII. On the Ibis; XVIII. On the Fox; XIX. On the Peridexion Tree and the Doves; XX. On the Elephant; XXI. On Amos the Prophet; XXII. On the Roe; XXIII. On the Agate-stone
    Description / Table of Contents: XXIV. On the Oyster-stone and the PearlXXV. On the Adamant-stone; XXVI. On the Other Nature of the Wild Ass and the Monkey; XXVII. On the Indian-stone; XXVIII. On the Heron, that is, the Coot; XXIX. On the Fig Tree; XXX. On the Panther; XXXI. On the Whale, that is, the Aspidocealeon; XXXII. On the Partridge; XXXIII. On the Vulture; XXXIV. On the Ant-lion; XXXV. On the Weasel; XXXVI. On the Unicorn; XXXVII. On the Beaver; XXXVIII. On the Hyena or the Brute; XXXIX. On the Niluus; XL. On the Echinemon; XLI. On the Little Crow; XLII. On the Ostrich; XLIII. On the Turtle-dove; XLIV. On the Swallow
    Description / Table of Contents: XLV. On the StagXLVI. On the Frog; XLVII. On the Lizard, that is, the Salamander; XLVIII. On the Magnet; XLIX. On the Adamant-stone; L. On Doves; LI. On the Sun-lizard, that is, the Sun-eel; Notes;
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    Slumming : sexual and racial encounters in American nightlife, 1885-1940 (2009)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 0226322432 , 9780226322438 , 9780226322445
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 420 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Historical studies of urban America
    Parallel Title: Print version Slumming : Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940
    DDC: 305.8009773/11
    Keywords: Slums Social aspects ; History ; City and town life History ; Slums Social aspects ; History ; City and town life History ; Sex customs History ; Sex customs History ; New York (N.Y.) Race relations ; Chicago (Ill.) Race relations ; New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs ; Chicago (Ill.) Social life and customs ; Electronic books
    Abstract: During Prohibition, "Harlem was the 'in' place to go for music and booze," recalled the African American chanteuse Bricktop. "Every night the limousines pulled up to the corner," and out spilled affluent whites, looking for a good time, great jazz, and the unmatchable thrill of doing something disreputable. That is the indelible public image of slumming, but as Chad Heap reveals in this fascinating history, the reality is that slumming was far more widespread-and important-than such nostalgia-tinged recollections would lead us to believe. From its appearance as a "fashionable dissipation" cent
    Description / Table of Contents: The spatial dynamics of slumming and the emergence of commercial leisureInto the slums: the spatial organization, cultural geography, and regulation of a new urban pastime -- Beyond the slums: commercial leisure and the reorganization and policing of urban space -- The changing conceptualization of sexuality and race in the slumming vogues of Chicago and New York -- Adventures in the slums and red-light districts -- The search for Bohemian thrillage -- The Negro vogue: excursions into a "mysterious dark world" -- The pansy and lesbian craze in white and black.
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE The Spatial Dynamics of Slumming and the Emergence of Commercial Leisure; 1 Into the Slums: The Spatial Organization, Cultural Geography, and Regulation of a New Urban Pastime; 2 Beyond the Slums: Commercial Leisure and the Reorganization and Policing of Urban Space; PART TWO The Changing Conceptualization of Sexuality and Race in the Slumming Vogues of Chicago and New York; 3 Adventures in the Slums and Red-Light Districts; 4 The Search for Bohemian Thrillage; 5 The Negro Vogue: Excursions into a "Mysterious Dark World"
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 The Pansy and Lesbian Craze in White and BlackEpilogue; Notes; List of Abbreviations in Notes; Index
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    Crafting Selves : Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace (2009)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226098159 , 022609815X
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (362 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kondo, Dorinne K Crafting Selves : Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace
    DDC: 305.42
    Keywords: Women Employment ; Japan ; Women Social conditions ; Japan ; Women Economic conditions ; Japan ; Group identity Japan ; Self-perception in women Japan ; Women Identity ; Japan ; Women Employment ; Women Social conditions ; Women Economic conditions ; Group identity ; Self-perception in women ; Women Identity ; Group identity -- Japan ; Self-perception in women -- Japan ; Women -- Employment -- Japan ; Women -- Japan -- Economic conditions ; Women -- Japan -- Identity ; Women -- Japan -- Social conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Group identity ; Self-perception in women ; Women ; Economic conditions ; Women ; Employment ; Women ; Identity ; Women ; Social conditions ; Business & Economics ; Labor & Workers' Economics ; Japan ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: ""The ethnography of Japan is currently being reshaped by a new generation of Japanologists, and the present work certainly deserves a place in this body of literature. . . . The combination of utility with beauty makes Kondo's book required reading, for those with an interest not only in Japan but also in reflexive anthropology, women's studies, field methods, the anthropology of work, social psychology, Asian Americans, and even modern literature.""-Paul H. Noguchi, American Anthropologist""Kondo's work is significant because she goes beyond disharmony, insisting on compl
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    The Scientific Life : A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation (2009)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226750170
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (488 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Shapin, Steven, 1943 - The scientific life
    DDC: 174.95
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    Keywords: Scientists -- Moral and ethical aspects ; Science -- Economic aspects ; Science ; Economic aspects ; Scientists ; Moral and ethical aspects ; Electronic books ; Wissenschaftler ; Moralisches Handeln ; Geschichte ; Wissenschaft ; Moralische Verantwortung
    Abstract: Who are scientists? What kind of people are they? What capacities and virtues are thought to stand behind their considerable authority? They are experts-indeed, highly respected experts-authorized to describe and interpret the natural world and widely trusted to help transform knowledge into power and profit. But are they morally different from other people? The Scientific Life is historian Steven Shapin's story about who scientists are, who we think they are, and why our sensibilities about such things matter. Conventional wisdom has long held that scientists are neither better nor worse than anyone else, that personal virtue does not necessarily accompany technical expertise, and that scientific practice is profoundly impersonal. Shapin, however, here shows how the uncertainties attending scientific research make the virtues of individual researchers intrinsic to scientific work. From the early twentieth-century origins of corporate research laboratories to the high-flying scientific entrepreneurship of the present, Shapin argues that the radical uncertainties of much contemporary science have made personal virtues more central to its practice than ever before, and he also reveals how radically novel aspects of late modern science have unexpectedly deep historical roots. His elegantly conceived history of the scientific career and character ultimately encourages us to reconsider the very nature of the technical and moral worlds in which we now live. Building on the insights of Shapin's last three influential books, featuring an utterly fascinating cast of characters, and brimming with bold and original claims, The Scientific Life is essential reading for anyone wanting to reflect on late modern American culture and how it has been shaped.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 . Knowledge and Virtue: The Way We Live Now -- 2 . From Calling to Job: Nature, Truth, Method, and Vocation from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Centuries -- 3 . The Moral Equivalence of the Scientist: A History of the Very Idea -- 4 . Who Is the Industrial Scientist? The View from the Tower -- 5 . Who Is the Industrial Scientist? The View from the Managers -- 6 . The Scientist and the Civic Virtues: The Moral Life of Organized Science -- 7 . The Scientific Entrepreneur: Money, Motives, and the Place of Virtue -- 8 . Visions of the Future: Uncertainty and Virtue in the World of High-Tech and Venture Capital -- The Way We Live Now: Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    Nightwork : Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (2009)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226014852
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (228 p)
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    Abstract: In Nightwork, Anne Allison opens a window onto Japanese corporate culture and gender identities. Allison performed the ritualized tasks of a hostess in one of Tokyo's many ""hostess clubs"": pouring drinks, lighting cigarettes, and making flattering or titillating conversation with the businessmen who came there on company expense accounts. Her book critically examines how such establishments create bonds among white-collar men and forge a masculine identity that suits the needs of their corporations.Allison describes in detail a typical company outing to such a club-what the men do, how they
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Acknowledgments; Prelude; Introduction; Part One. Ethnography of a Hostess Club; Chapter One. A Type of Place; Chapter Two. A Type of Routine; Chapter Three. A Type of Woman; Part Two. Mapping the Nightlife within Cultural Categories; Introduction; Chapter Four. Social Place and Identity; Chapter Five. The Meaning and Place of Work: The Sarariiman; Chapter Six. Family and Home; Chapter Seven. Structure of Japanese Play; Chapter Eight. Male Play with Money, Women, and Sex; Part Three. Male Rituals and Masculinity; Introduction; Chapter Nine. Male Bonding
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter Ten. The Mizu Shōbai Woman: Constructing Dirtiness and SexChapter Eleven. Impotence as a Sign and Symbol of the Sarariiman; References; Index
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    Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1 : Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226114415
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (438 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1 : Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa
    DDC: 303.48/241/00899639775
    Keywords: London Missionary Society ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Defining their enterprise as more in the direction of poetics than of prosaics, the Comaroffs free themselves to analyze a vivid series of images and events as objects of analysis. These they mine for clues to the 19th-century contents of the British imagination and of Tswana minds. They are themselves imagining the imagination of others, and they do the job with characteristic aplomb....The first volume creates an appetite for the second."-Sally Falk Moore, American Anthropologist
    Description / Table of Contents: OF REVELATION AND REVOLUTION; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Preface; Chronology; ONE INTRODUCTION; TWO BRITISH BEGINNINGS: Spirits of an Age, Signs of the Times; THREE AFRICA OBSERVED: Discourses of the Imperial Imagination; FOUR AFRICAN WORLDS: Economy, Culture, and Society, circa 1800-1830; FIVE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: HeroicJourneys, First Encounters; SIX CONVERSION AND CONVERSATION: Narrative, Form, and Consciousness; SEVEN SECULAR POWER, SACRED AUTHORITY: The Politics of the Mission; EIGHT CONCLUSION; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
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    Elsie Clews Parsons : Inventing Modern Life (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226139074
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (541 p.)
    Series Statement: Women in Culture and Society
    Parallel Title: Print version Elsie Clews Parsons : Inventing Modern Life
    DDC: 301/.092
    Keywords: Feminism ; United States ; History ; Feminists ; United States ; Biography ; Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews ; 1874-1941 ; Sex role ; United States ; History ; United States ; Intellectual life ; 20th century ; Women anthropologists ; United States ; Biography ; Women social scientists ; United States ; Biography ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Elsie Clews Parsons was a pioneering feminist, an eminent anthropologist, and an ardent social critic. In Elsie Clews Parsons, Desley Deacon reconstructs Parsons's efforts to overcome gender biases in both academia and society. "Wonderfully illuminating. . . . Parsons's work resonates strikingly to current trends in anthropology."-George W. Stocking, Jr., Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute"This is the biography of a woman so interesting and effective-a cross between Margaret Mead and Georgia O'Keeffe. . . . A nuanced portrait of this vivid woman."-Tanya Luhrmann, New York Times Boo
    Description / Table of Contents: Elsie Clews Parsons INVENTING MODERN LIFE; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations and Maps; Preface; Prologue: Strength to Forget the Past; Part One: Looking Forward; 1 The Young Adventuress; 2 Travels of the Mind; 3 The Experimental Life; Part Two: We Secessionists …; Part Three: Trans-National America; 4 The Voyage Out; 5 New Science; 6 New Woman; 7 New Marriage; 8 Dear Propagandist; 9 The End of the Conversation; 10 Saving Herself; 11 The Other Continents among Us; 12 Disciplinary Politics; 13 Jessica at Fifty; 14 Other Americas; Part Four: All Serene; 15 Elsie's Lifework-Con Amore
    Description / Table of Contents: 16 A Modernist DeathEpilogue; Notes; Abbreviations; Archival and Oral History Sources; Bibliography of Elsie Clews Parsons, 1896-1962; Index;
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    The Story I Tell Myself : A Venture in Existentialist Autobiography (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226037325
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (374 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version The Story I Tell Myself : A Venture in Existentialist Autobiography
    DDC: 305.42/092
    Keywords: Existentialism ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Best known as the writer who introduced French existentialism to English-speaking readers through her translation of Sartre's Being and Nothingness, Hazel E. Barnes has written an autobiography that is both the success story of a professional woman as well as a profoundly moving reflection on growing older. Transcending the personal details of her life, Barnes' memoir stands as an important contribution to the intellectual history of our century."An intimate record of our times and of the ongoing issues that challenge us to define ourselves over and over again."-Kirkus Reviews"An engaging auto
    Description / Table of Contents: The Story I Tell Myself; CONTENTS; Recognitions and Acknowledgments; Living with the Century Apologia for an Autobiography; ONE Being a Child; TWO Being Educated; THREE Conversions and Epiphanies; Photographs follow pages 108 and 260.; FOUR Interlude; FIVE Engagement with Existentialism; SIX Existential Feminism; SEVEN Teaching for a Living; EIGHT Living in the Rockies; NINE Making an Ending; Index;
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    Desiring Arabs (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226509600
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (469 p.))
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    Series Statement: EBL-Schweitzer
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Desiring Arabs
    Parallel Title: Print version Desiring Arabs
    DDC: 306.709174927
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    Keywords: Arabs ; Civilization, Arab ; Arabs ; Sexual behavior ; Arab countries ; Foreign public opinion, Western ; Electronic books ; Araber Sexualität ; Arabische Staaten ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Araber ; Einstellung ; Sexualität ; Westliche Welt ; Öffentliche Meinung ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Anxiety in Civilization; 2 Remembrances of Desires Past; 3 Re-Orienting Desire: The Gay International and the Arab World; 4 Sin, Crimes, and Disease: Taxonomies of Desires Present; 5 Deviant Fictions; 6 The Truth of Fictional Desires; Conclusion; Works Cited; Name Index; Subject Index
    Abstract: Sexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization. In the past, Westerners viewed the Arab world as licentious, and Western intolerance of sex led them to brand Arabs as decadent; but as Western society became more sexually open, the supposedly prudish Arabs soon became viewed as backward. Rather than focusing exclusively on how these views developed in the West, in Desiring Arabs Joseph A. Massad reveals the history of how Arabs represented their own sexual desires. To this aim, he assembles a massive and diverse compendium of Arabic writing from the nineteenth century to the present in order to chart the changes in Arab sexual attitudes and their links to Arab notions of cultural heritage and civilization. A work of impressive scope and erudition, Massad's chronicle of both the history and modern permutations of the debate over representations of sexual desires and practices in the Arab world is a crucial addition to our understanding of a frequently oversimplified and vilified culture. "A pioneering work on a very timely yet frustratingly neglected topic. . . . I know of no other study that can even begin to compare with the detail and scope of [this] work."-Khaled El-Rouayheb, Middle East Report "In Desiring Arabs, [Edward] Said's disciple Joseph A. Massad corroborates his mentor's thesis that orientalist writing was racist and dehumanizing. . . . [Massad] brilliantly goes on to trace the legacy of this racist, internalized, orientalist discourse up to the present."-Financial Times
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    Redeeming Culture : American Religion in an Age of Science (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226293202
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (420 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version Redeeming Culture : American Religion in an Age of Science
    DDC: 306.4/5/09730904
    Keywords: Religion and culture ; United States ; History ; 20th century ; Religion and science ; United States ; History ; 20th century ; United States ; Intellectual life ; 20th century ; United States ; Religion ; 20th century ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In this intriguing history, James Gilbert examines the confrontation between modern science and religion as these disparate, sometimes hostile modes of thought clashed in the arena of American culture. Beginning in 1925 with the infamous Scopes trial, Gilbert traces nearly forty years of competing attitudes toward science and religion."Anyone seriously interested in the history of current controversies involving religion and science will find Gilbert's book invaluable."-Peter J. Causton, Boston Book Review"Redeeming Culture provides some fascinating background for understanding the interaction
    Description / Table of Contents: Redeeming Culture; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 The Promise of Genesis; 2 William Jennings Bryan, Scientist; 3 The Republic of Science; 4 A World without John Dewey; 5 "A Magnificent Laboratory, a Magnificent Control Room"; 6 Churching American Soldiers; 7 Rendezvous at Rancho La Brea; 8 Two Men of Science; 9 "Almost a Message from God Himself"; 10 Transgressing the Heavens; 11 The Religious Possibilities of Social Science; 12 The Religion of Science; 13 Space Gothic in Seattle; 14 Conclusion; Notes; Index;
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    The Chicago Guide to Collaborative Ethnography (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226467016
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (217 pages)
    Series Statement: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.8/001
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    Criminal Intimacy : Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226824789
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (396 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.7086/9270973
    Keywords: Prisoners -- Sexual behavior -- United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "An Architecture Adapted to Morals" -- 2. "Every Prison Has Its Perverts" -- 3. The Problem of Prison Sex in Mid-Twentieth-Century America -- 4. "The Deviants Are the Heterosexuals" -- 5. Rape, Race, and the Violent Prison -- 6. "Lessons in Being Gay" -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    Home and Work : negotiating boundaries through everyday life (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226581477
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (345 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Edition: 1996
    Series Statement: EBL-Schweitzer
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Nippert-Eng, Christena E. Home and work
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Nippert-Eng, Christena E. Home and work
    DDC: 155.9
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    Keywords: Corporate culture ; Organizational sociology ; Social psychology ; Work and family ; Electronic books ; Familie ; Arbeit
    Abstract: Contents; Prologue; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Negotiating Home and Work: From Integration to Segmentation; 1. Territories of the Self: Recognizing the Home-Work Boundary; 2. Cognitive Engineering: Bridging Time, Space, and Self; 3. Structural Constraints and Personal Discretion: Work Stakes Its Claim; 4. Be It Ever So Humble, There Arer Also Surveyors at Home; 5. Jimmy, Eleanor, and the Logic of Boundary Work; Conclusion. Beyond Home and Work: Boundary Theory; Appendix. Interview Questionnaire for Home and Work; References; Index
    Abstract: Do you put family photos on your desk at work? Are your home and work keys on the same chain? Do you keep one all-purpose calendar for listing home and work events? Do you have separate telephone books for colleagues and friends? In Home and Work, Christena Nippert-Eng examines the intricacies and implications of how we draw the line between home and work.Arguing that relationships between the two realms range from those that are highly ""integrating"" to those that are highly ""segmenting,"" Nippert-Eng examines the ways people sculpt the boundaries between home and work. With remarkable sens
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    Black Camelot : African-American Culture Heroes in Their Times, 1960-1980 (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226847160
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (314 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version Black Camelot : African-American Culture Heroes in Their Times, 1960-1980
    DDC: 305.896073
    Keywords: Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In the wake of the Kennedy era, a new kind of ethnic hero emerged within African-American popular culture. Uniquely suited to the times, burgeoning pop icons projected the values and beliefs of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, and reflected both the possibility and the actuality of a rapidly changing American landscape. In Black Camelot, William Van Deburg examines the dynamic rise of these new black champions, the social and historical contexts in which they flourished, and their powerful impact on the African-American community."Van Deburg manages the enviable feat of writing with
    Description / Table of Contents: BLACK CAMELOT; CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION Of Kings, Kennedys, and Culture Heroes; CHAPTER ONE The Black Hero's History and Humanity; CHAPTER TWO Championing the 1960s Cultural Revolution; CHAPTER THREE Sports Superstars; CHAPTER FOUR Heroic Hustlers and Daring Detectives; CHAPTER FIVE Black Musical Mediators and Culture Heroes; CONCLUSION Black Camelot Found and Lost; NOTES; INDEX;
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    Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle : The Rules of Scandal in Japan and the United States (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226894089
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (416 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle : The Rules of Scandal in Japan and the United States
    DDC: 302.2/4
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    Keywords: Japan ; Social life and customs ; Law ; Japan ; Law ; United States ; Scandals ; Japan ; Scandals ; United States ; United States ; Social life and customs ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: A leader of a global superpower is betrayed by his mistress, who makes public the sordid details of their secret affair. His wife stands by as he denies the charges. Debates over definitions of moral leadership ensue. Sound familiar? If you guessed Clinton and Lewinsky, try again. This incident involved former Japanese prime minister Sosuke Uno and a geisha. In Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle, Mark D. West organizes the seemingly random worlds of Japanese and American scandal-from corporate fraud to baseball cheaters, political corruption to celebrity sexcapades-to explore well-ingrained similarit
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Author's Note; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. PLAYERS; 3. PRIVACY AND HONOR; 4. GROUPS; 5. INDIVIDUALS; 6. SEX; 7. APOLOGY; 8. AFTERWORD;
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    Global environmental history (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 0226758109 , 9780748621583 , 9780226758107
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvi, 271 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Global Environmental History : 10,000 BC to AD 2000
    DDC: 304.209
    Keywords: Nature Effect of human beings on ; History ; Human ecology History ; Human ecology ; History ; Nature ; Effect of human beings on ; History ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Courses which deal with environmental history have long lacked a comprehensive overview. I. G. Simmons has made a significant contribution with a book that looks at the long-term history of environment and humanity from 10,000 BC to AD 2000. This far-reaching text considers the global picture and recognises the contributions of many disciplines including the natural sciences, the social sciences, and increasingly, the humanities. As a starting point, this book takes the major phases of human technological evolution of the last 12,000 years and considers how these have affected the natural worl
    Description / Table of Contents: COVER; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Tables; Figures; Preface; Prologue: Mustering the marks; 1. Resonances; 2. The gatherer-hunters and their world; 3. Pre-industrial agriculture; 4. An industrious world; 5. A post-industrial era?; 6. Emerging themes; Further reading; Glossary; Acronyms; Index
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    Natural Born Celebrities : serial killers in American culture (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226738703
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (336 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: EBL-Schweitzer
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Schmid, David Natural born celebrities
    DDC: 306.7662094210904
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    Keywords: Crime in popular culture ; Gay men ; Homosexuality ; Serial murderers ; Sex customs ; Fame ; Serial murders in mass media ; Serial murderers ; United States ; Public opinion ; Crime in popular culture ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; USA ; Serienmörder ; Öffentlichkeit ; Berühmte Persönlichkeit
    Abstract: Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Idols of Destruction: Celebrity, Consumerism, andthe Serial Killer; Part One: A History of Serial Murder; One: The Victorian Killer as Media Star: Jack theRipper and H. H. Holmes; Two: Defining the Enemy Within: The FBI and SerialMurder; Part Two: Serial Murders in American Popular Culture; Three: Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers and theHollywood Star System; Four: Out of This World: Aliens, Devils, and SerialKillers in Television Crime Drama; Five: Next Door Monsters: The Dialectic of Normalityand Monstrosity in True-Crime Narratives
    Abstract: Six: The Unbearable Straightness of Violence:Queering Serial Murder in True CrimeEpilogue: Serial Killing in America after 9/11; Notes; Works Cited; Index
    Abstract: Jeffrey Dahmer. Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Over the past thirty years, serial killers have become iconic figures in America, the subject of made-for-TV movies and mass-market paperbacks alike. But why do we find such luridly transgressive and horrific individuals so fascinating? What compels us to look more closely at these figures when we really want to look away? Natural Born Celebrities considers how serial killers have become lionized in American culture and explores the consequences of their fame.David Schmid provides a historical account of how serial killers became famous and how that
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    Jokes : Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226112305
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (115 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version Jokes : Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters
    DDC: 306.481
    Keywords: Wit and humor ; History and criticism ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Abe and his friend Sol are out for a walk together in a part of town they haven't been in before. Passing a Christian church, they notice a curious sign in front that says "1,000 to anyone who will convert." "I wonder what that's about," says Abe. "I think I'll go in and have a look. I'll be back in a minute; just wait for me."Sol sits on the sidewalk bench and waits patiently for nearly half an hour. Finally, Abe reappears."Well," asks Sol, "what are they up to? Who are they trying to convert? Why do they care? Did you get the 1,000?"Indignantly Abe replies, "Money. That's all you people care
    Description / Table of Contents: JOKES: PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHTS ON JOKING MATTERS; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Jokes Are Conditional; 3 When Jokes Are Asymmetrical; 4 Problems and Occasions for Joke-Making; 5 Jewish Jokes and the Acceptance of Absurdity; 6 Taste, Morality, and the Propriety of Joking; Appendix; Index of ]okes;
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    The Smoking Book (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226773308
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (252 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version The Smoking Book
    DDC: 306.4
    Keywords: Social life and customs ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The Smoking Book is a dreamlike structure built on the solid foundation of two questions: how does it feel to smoke, and what does smoking mean? Lesley Stern, in an innovative, hybrid form of writing, muses on these questions through intersecting stories and essays that connect, expand, and contract like smoke rings floating through the air. Stern writes of addictions and passionate attachments, of the body and bodily pleasure, of autobiography and cultural history. Smoking is Stern's seductive pretext, her way of entering unknown and mysterious regions. The Smoking Book begins with intimate a
    Description / Table of Contents: THE SMOKING BOOK;
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    An Invitation to Laughter : A Lebanese Anthropologist in the Arab World (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226434766
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (223 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version An Invitation to Laughter : A Lebanese Anthropologist in the Arab World
    DDC: 301.092
    Keywords: Arab countries ; Social life and customs ; Ethnologists ; Lebanon ; Biography ; Ethnology ; Fieldwork ; Arab countries ; Khūrī, Fuʾād Isḥāq ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: For the late Fuad I. Khuri, a distinguished career as an anthropologist began not because of typical concerns like accessibility, money, or status, but because the very idea of an occupation that baffled his countrymen made them-and him-laugh. "When I tell them that 'anthropology' is my profession . . . they think I am either speaking a strange language or referring to a new medicine." This profound appreciation for humor, especially in the contradictions inherent in the study of cultures, is a distinctive theme of An Invitation to Laughter, Khuri's astute memoir of life as an anthropologist i
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Foreword; Prologue: The man himself; Note on Arabic words; Introduction: Why " laughter"?; 1. Exploring origins; 2. Studying anthropology in Oregon; 3. Being Lebanese; 4. Religious syncretism; 5. Lebanese traders inWest Africa; 6. Change as faith; 7. Teaching in Beirut; 8. Establishing an Arab association for the social sciences; 9. The exotic in the suburbs of Beirut; 10. Alumni and ulama in Bahrain; 11. Open secrets; 12. Table manners in Yemen; 13. The official policy toward emigration in Lebanon; 14. The Arab rich; 15. Who wants to be a zaim?; 16. Living in Great Britain
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Research ProjectsList of Publications; Index;
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    Black New Orleans, 1860-1880 (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226057088
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (321 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Black New Orleans, 1860-1880
    DDC: 301.45/19/6073076335
    Keywords: African Americans ; Louisiana ; New Orleans ; New Orleans (La.) ; History ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Reissued for the first time in over thirty years, Black New Orleans explores the twenty-year period in which the city's black population more than doubled. Meticulously researched and replete with archival illustrations from newspapers and rare periodicals, John W. Blassingame's groundbreaking history offers a unique look at the economic and social life of black people in New Orleans during Reconstruction. Not a conventional political treatment, Blassingame's history instead emphasizes the educational, religious, cultural, and economic activities of African Americans during the lat
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Illustrations; Abbreviations; Preface; 1. The Negro in Antebellum New Orleans: Background for Reconstruction; 2. Fighting for Freedom; 3. Land, Lahor, and Capital; 4. Family Life; 5. Schools, Colleges, and Intellectual Life; 6. Social Life and Problems; 7. Race Relations; Conclusions; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    Bewitching development : witchcraft and the reinvention of development in neoliberal Kenya (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226764597 , 0226764591
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xv, 269 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Chicago studies in practices of meaning
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Smith, James Howard Bewitching development
    DDC: 305.896395
    Keywords: Taita (African people) Social life and customs ; Taita (African people) Rites and ceremonies ; Witchcraft Kenya ; Taita Hills ; Economic development Kenya ; Taita Hills ; Taita (African people) Social life and customs ; Taita (African people) Rites and ceremonies ; Witchcraft ; Economic development ; Economic development ; Economic history ; Witchcraft ; Entwicklung ; Entwicklung ; Hexerei ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Black Studies (Global) ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; African American Studies ; Taita Hills (Kenya) Economic conditions ; Taita Hills ; Taita ; Taita Hills (Kenya) Economic conditions ; Kenya ; Taita Hills ; Taita Hills ; Taita ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "These days, development inspires scant trust in the West. For critics who condemn centralized efforts to plan African societies as latter day imperialism, such plans too closely reflect their roots in colonial rule and neoliberal economics. But proponents of this pessimistic view often ignore how significant this concept has become for Africans themselves. In Bewitching Development, James Howard Smith presents a close ethnographic account of how people in the Taita Hills of Kenya have appropriated and made sense of development thought and practice, focusing on the complex ways that development connects with changing understandings of witchcraft. Similar to magic, development's promise of a better world elicits both hope and suspicion from Wataita. Smith shows that the unforeseen changes wrought by development - greater wealth for some, dashed hopes for many more - foster moral debates that Taita people express in occult terms. By carefully chronicling the beliefs and actions of this diverse community - from frustrated youths to nostalgic seniors, duplicitous preachers to thought-provoking witch doctors - Bewitching Development vividly depicts the social life of formerly foreign ideas and practices in postcolonial Africa." Publisher's Description
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    Victorian Science in Context. (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226481104
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (499 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Victorian science in context
    DDC: 306.450941
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    Keywords: Science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century ; Great Britain ; Social conditions ; 19th century ; Science ; Great Britain ; History ; 19th century ; Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift 1995 ; Großbritannien ; Naturwissenschaften ; Kultur ; Geschichte 1837-1901
    Abstract: Victorians were fascinated by the flood of strange new worlds that science was opening to them. Exotic plants and animals poured into London from all corners of the Empire, while revolutionary theories such as the radical idea that humans might be descended from apes drew crowds to heated debates. Men and women of all social classes avidly collected scientific specimens for display in their homes and devoured literature about science and its practitioners. Victorian Science in Context captures the essence of this fascination, charting the many ways in which science influenced and was influenced by the larger Victorian culture. Contributions from leading scholars in history, literature, and the history of science explore questions such as: What did science mean to the Victorians? For whom was Victorian science written? What ideological messages did it convey? The contributors show how practical concerns interacted with contextual issues to mold Victorian science-which in turn shaped much of the relationship between modern science and culture.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Defining Knowledge -- 1. Defining Knowledge: An Introduction -- 2. The Construction of Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies in the Early Victorian Life Sciences -- 3. The Probable and the Possible in Early Victorian England -- 4. Victorian Economics and the Science of Mind -- 5. Biology and Politics: Defining the Boundaries -- 6. Redrawing the Boundaries: Darwinian Science and Victorian Women Intellectuals -- 7. Satire and Science in Victorian Culture -- Part Two: Ordering Nature -- 8. Ordering Nature: Revisioning Victorian Science Culture -- 9. "The Voices of Nature": Popularizing Victorian Science -- 10. Science and the Secularization of Victorian Images of Race -- 11. Elegant Recreations? Configuring Science Writing for Women -- 12. Strange New Worlds of Space and Time: Late Victorian Science and Science Fiction -- Part Three: Practicing Science -- 13. Practicing Science: An Introduction -- 14. Wallace's Malthusian Moment: The Common Context Revisited -- 15. Doing Science in a Global Empire: Cable Telegraphy and Electrical Physics in Victorian -- 16. Zoological Nomenclature and the Empire of Victorian Science -- 17. Remains of the Day: Early Victorians in the Field -- 18. Photography as Witness, Detective, and Impostor: Visual Representation in Victorian Science -- 19. Instrumentation and Interpretation: Managing and Representing the Working Environments of Victorian Experimental Science -- 20. Metrology, Metrication, and Victorian Values -- Contributors -- Index.
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    Anxious Pleasures : The Sexual Lives of an Amazonian People (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226307435
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (236 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Anxious Pleasures : The Sexual Lives of an Amazonian People
    DDC: 306.708998
    Keywords: Indians of South America ; Sexual behavior ; Brazil ; Mehinacu Indians ; Sexual behavior ; Sex role ; Brazil ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: ""Good fish get dull but sex is always fun."" So say the Mehinaku people of Brazil. But Thomas Gregor shows that sex brings a supreme ambiguity to the villagers' lives. In their elaborate rituals-especially those practiced by the men in their secret societies-the Mehinaku give expression to a system of symbols reminiscent of psychosexual neuroses identified by Freud: castration anxiety, Oedipal conflict, fantasies of loss of strength through sex, and a host of others. ""If we look carefully,"" writes Gregor, ""we will see reflections of our own sexual nature in the life ways of an Amazoni
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Mehinaku and the Sexual Data; 2 Mehinaku Men and Women: A Sociology of Marriage, Sex, and Affection; 3 Facts of Life and Symbols of Gender; 4 Sexual Relations; 5 Food for Thought: The Symbolism of Sexual Relations and Eating; 6 Men's House; 7 Anxious Pleasures; 8 Anxious Dreams; 9 Tapir Woman: Socialization and Personality Theory; 10 Ears, Eclipses, and Menstruating Men:The Feminine Self in Masculine Culture; 11 The Universal Male; References; Index
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    Durkheim and the Jews of France (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226777238
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (228 p.)
    Series Statement: CSHJ
    Series Statement: Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism v.1997
    Parallel Title: Print version Durkheim and the Jews of France
    DDC: 305.892/4044
    Keywords: Durkheim, Émile ; 1858-1917 ; France ; Ethnic relations ; France ; Intellectual life ; 19th century ; France ; Intellectual life ; 20th century ; Jews ; France ; Intellectual life ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Ivan Strenski debunks the common notion that there is anything "essentially" Jewish in Durkheim's work. Seeking the Durkheim inside the real world of Jews in France rather than the imagined Jewishness inside Durkheim himself, Strenski adopts a Durkheimian approach to understanding Durkheim's thought. In so doing he shows for the first time that Durkheim's sociology (especially his sociology of religion) took form in relation to the Jewish intellectual life of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century France. Strenski begins each chapter by weighing particular claims (some anti-Semitic, some
    Description / Table of Contents: DURKHEIM AND THE JEWS OF FRANCE; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 ESSENTIAL JEWISHNESS OR REAL JEWS?; 2 WHY SOCIETY? FRENCH NATIONALISM AND THE BODY OF JUDAISM; 3 REINACH'S MODERNISM, DURKHEIM'S SYMBOLISM, AND THE BIRTH OF THE SACRIÉ; 4 HOW DURKHEIM READ THE TALMUD; 5 SYLVAIN LÉVI: MAUSS'S "SECOND UNCLE"; 6 WHERE DO WE STAND?; NOTES; INDEX;
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    The Limits of Rationality (2008)
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    ISBN: 9780226742397
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (437 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version The Limits of Rationality
    DDC: 303.4
    Keywords: Decision making ; Reasoning ; Social change ; Social choice ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Prevailing economic theory presumes that agents act rationally when they make decisions, striving to maximize the efficient use of their resources. Psychology has repeatedly challenged the rational choice paradigm with persuasive evidence that people do not always make the optimal choice. Yet the paradigm has proven so successful a predictor that its use continues to flourish, fueled by debate across the social sciences over why it works so well. Intended to introduce novices to rational choice theory, this accessible, interdisciplinary book collects writings by leading res
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Limits of Rationality; PART I THE THEORY OF RATIONAL CHOICE; 1 When Rationality Fails; 2 Rational Choice and the Framing of Decisions; 3 Choice Under Uncertainty: Problems Solved and Unsolved; 4 Rational Choice in Experimental Markets; PART II PREFERENCE FORMATION AND THE ROLE OF NORMS; 5 De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum; 6 Cooperation and Rationality: Notes on the Collective Action Problem and Its Solutions; 7 Norm-Generating Structures; PART III INSTITUTIONS; 8 Reason and Rationality; 9 Managerial Dilemmas: Political Leadership in Hierarchies
    Description / Table of Contents: 10 The Social Evolution of Cooperation11 Institutions and Their Consequences for Economic Performance; 12 A Logic of Institutional Change; List of Contributors; Index
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    The Trials of Masculinity : Policing Sexual Boundaries, 1870-1930 (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226500676
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (330 p.)
    Series Statement: Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, an
    Series Statement: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society v.1997
    Parallel Title: Print version The Trials of Masculinity : Policing Sexual Boundaries, 1870-1930
    DDC: 305.31/09
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    Keywords: Masculinity ; History ; Sources ; Men ; History ; Sources ; Sex role ; History ; Sources ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In this path-breaking history of manhood and masculinity, Angus McLaren examines how nineteenth- and twentieth-century western society created what we now take to be the traditional model of the heterosexual male."Inherently interesting. . . . Exhibitionism, pornography, and deception all have their place here."-Library Journal"An appealing wealth of evidence of what trials can reveal about the boundaries of men's roles around the turn of the century."-Kirkus Reviews"It is difficult to imagine a better guide to the most notorious scandals of our great-grandparents' day."-Graham Rosenstock, Lam
    Description / Table of Contents: THE TRIALS OF MASCULINITY: Policing Sexual Boundaries; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Masculinities; One Deviants; Part Two: Legal Discourses: Men, Melodrama, and Criminality; Two Fools; Three Cads; Four Gentlemen; Five Murderers; Illustrations follow page; Part Three: Medical Discourses: Weak Men and Perverts; Six Weaklings; Seven Sadists; Eight Exhibitionists; Nine Transvestites; Conclusion; Notes; Index;
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    Routes of remembrance : refashioning the slave trade in Ghana (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226349770 , 0226349772
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiii, 280 p.) , ill., map.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Routes of remembrance
    DDC: 306.36209667
    Keywords: Slave trade History ; Ghana ; Ghana ; Slave trade History ; Slave trade History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Slavery ; Slave trade ; History ; Electronic books ; Ghana ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: Over the past fifteen years, visitors from the African diaspora have flocked to Cape Coast and Elmina, two towns in Ghana whose chief tourist attractions are the castles and dungeons where slaves were imprisoned before embarking for the New World. This desire to commemorate the Middle Passage contrasts sharply with the silence that normally cloaks the subject within Ghana. Why do Ghanaians suppress the history of enslavement? And why is this history expressed so differently on the other side of the Atlantic?. Routes of Remembrance tackles these questions by analyzing the slave trade?s absence
    Abstract: Sequestering the slave trade -- Of origins: making family, region, nation -- Conundrums of kinship: sequestering slavery, recalling kin -- Displacing the past: imagined geographies of enslavement -- In place of slavery: fashioning coastal identity -- E-race-ing history: schooling and national identity -- Centering the slave trade -- Slavery and the making of Black Atlantic history -- Navigating new histories.
    Description / Table of Contents: Sequestering the slave tradeOf origins: making family, region, nation -- Conundrums of kinship: sequestering slavery, recalling kin -- Displacing the past: imagined geographies of enslavement -- In place of slavery: fashioning coastal identity -- E-race-ing history: schooling and national identity -- Centering the slave trade -- Slavery and the making of Black Atlantic history -- Navigating new histories.
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    The Masculine Self in Late Medieval England. (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226569598
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (318 pages)
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Pugh, Tison [Rezension von: Neal, Derek G., The Masculine Self in Late Medieval England] 2010
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Print version The Masculine Self in Late Medieval England
    DDC: 305.38/82100902
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    Keywords: Masculinity History To 1500 ; Men Social life and customs ; England ; Social conditions ; 1066-1485 ; England ; Social life and customs ; 1066-1485 ; Masculinity ; England ; History ; To 1500 ; Men ; England ; Social life and customs ; Electronic books ; England Social conditions 1066-1485 ; England Social life and customs 1066-1485
    Abstract: What did it mean to be a man in medieval England? Most would answer this question by alluding to the power and status men enjoyed in a patriarchal society, or they might refer to iconic images of chivalrous knights. While these popular ideas do have their roots in the history of the aristocracy, the experience of ordinary men was far more complicated. Marshalling a wide array of colorful evidence-including legal records, letters, medical sources, and the literature of the period-Derek G. Neal here plumbs the social and cultural significance of masculinity during the generations born between the Black Death and the Protestant Reformation. He discovers that social relations between men, founded on the ideals of honesty and self-restraint, were at least as important as their domination and control of women in defining their identities. By carefully exploring the social, physical, and psychological aspects of masculinity, The Masculine Self in Late Medieval England offers a uniquely comprehensive account of the exterior and interior lives of medieval men.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Primary Sources -- Introduction -- 1 False Thieves and True Men -- Masculine Identity Formation in a Society of Stresses -- The Unknown Majority -- Manhood in the Towns -- Livelihood, Reputation, and Conflict -- False Thieves -- The Language of the Common Voice (and Fame) -- True Men -- Ideal and Reality -- The Legal Rhetoric of Masculinity -- 2 Husbands and Priests -- Husbandry (I): Pollers, Extorcioners, and Adulterers -- Substance -- Pollers and Extorcioners -- Polling, Cutting, and Loss of Substance -- Adulterers -- Husbandry (II): The Household from Inside -- Adulteresses -- Wives and Servants -- Priests versus Husbands, Priests as Husbands -- Clergy in English Society -- Conflict -- The Social Meaning of Celibacy -- The Rector and the Bailiff -- Clergymen and the Household -- Blaming the Friars -- Celibacy and Gender Identity: What Was the Real Problem? -- 3 Sex and Gender: the Meanings of the Male Body -- From Physiology to Personality -- Medieval Maleness: Form and Meaning -- Manliness and Attractiveness -- From Phallus to Penis (or Vice Versa?) -- Husbandly Sexuality -- An Incomplete Husband -- The Male Body in Action -- The Uses of Misrule -- Dress -- The Dangers of the Tongue -- 4 Toward the Private Self: Desire, Masculinity, and Middle English Romance -- History, Fiction, and Literature -- The Literary Subject -- The Romance of Masculinity -- All Her Fault -- The Dangers of Desire -- Narcissistic Masculinity and the Rape of Melior -- Mothers -- Lovers Invisible and Unspeakable -- Fathers Unknown and Forbidden -- The Father Unknown: Bevis of Hampton -- Better the Nightmare You Know: Lybeaus Desconus -- Father Forbidden, Father Created: Of Arthour and of Merlin -- Emplotted Desire: Sir Perceval of Galles -- Desire and Dread: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
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    The Victorian eye : a political history of light and vision in Britain, 1800-1910 (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226640785 , 0226640787
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 382 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Otter, Chris Victorian eye
    DDC: 303.483
    Keywords: Lighting History ; 19th century ; Great Britain ; Lighting History ; 20th century ; Great Britain ; Lighting Social aspects ; History ; Great Britain ; Lighting Political aspects ; History ; Great Britain ; Optical engineering History ; 19th century ; Great Britain ; Visual perception ; Lighting Social aspects ; History ; Lighting Political aspects ; History ; Optical engineering History 19th century ; Lighting History 20th century ; Lighting History 19th century ; Lighting ; Optical engineering ; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING ; Social Aspects ; Lighting ; Social aspects ; Manners and customs ; SCIENCE ; Philosophy & Social Aspects ; Visual perception ; History ; Great Britain Social life and customs ; 19th century ; Great Britain Social life and customs 19th century ; Great Britain ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Computer network resources
    Abstract: During the 19th century, Britain became the first gaslit society. At the same time, the government significantly expanded its power to observe and monitor its subjects. This study examines the way people saw and were seen in this gaslit age and how this affected Victorian culture
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    Navigators of the contemporary : why ethnography matters (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226887531 , 0226887537
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 152 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Westbrook, David A Navigators of the contemporary
    DDC: 305.8001
    Keywords: Ethnology Philosophy ; Ethnology United States ; Applied anthropology Philosophy ; Ethnology ; Applied anthropology Philosophy ; Ethnology Philosophy ; Applied anthropology ; Ethnology United States ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Applied anthropology ; Philosophy ; Ethnology ; Ethnology ; Philosophy ; Culturele antropologie ; Relevantie ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: As the image of anthropologists exploring exotic locales and filling in blanks on the map has faded, the idea that cultural anthropology has much to say about the contemporary world has likewise diminished. In an increasingly smaller world, how can anthropology help us to tackle the concerns of a global society? David A. Westbrook argues that the traditional tool of the cultural anthropologist--ethnography--can still function as an intellectually exciting way to understand our interconnected, yet mysterious worlds. Navigators of the Contemporary describes the changing nature of ethnography as an
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    Culture in Chaos : An Anthropology of the Social Condition in War (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226496436
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (414 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.6/6
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    Keywords: Forced migration ; Political violence ; Social conflict ; War ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Fought in the wake of a decade of armed struggle against colonialism, the Mozambican civil war lasted from 1977 to 1992, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives while displacing millions more. As conflicts across the globe span decades and generations, Stephen C. Lubkemann suggests that we need a fresh perspective on war when it becomes the context for normal life rather than an exceptional event that disrupts it. Culture in Chaos calls for a new point of departure in the ethnography of war that investigates how the inhabitants of war zones live under trying new conditions and how culture and social relations are transformed as a result. Lubkemann focuses on how Ndau social networks were fragmented by wartime displacement and the profound effect this had on gender relations. Demonstrating how wartime migration and post-conflict return were shaped by social struggles and interests that had little to do with the larger political reasons for the war, Lubkemann contests the assumption that wartime migration is always involuntary. His critical reexamination of displacement and his engagement with broader theories of agency and social change will be of interest to anthropologists, political scientists, historians, and demographers, and to anyone who works in a war zone or with refugees and migrants.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Text -- Introduction. The "Ordering of Violent Things": War and Displacement -- I. Migration and Social Transformation before the War -- Chapter 1. Contending with Colonialism: Migration and Resistance -- Chapter 2. Other Struggles: Migration and the Transformation of Social Relations -- II. The Social Conditioning of War -- Chapter 3. Imposing the New Mozambique: Sowing the Seeds of Postcolonial Disillusion -- Chapter 4. Society and the State: Mutual Misrecognition at the Gathering of War -- Chapter 5. Prosecuting Life by Other Means: The Social Logic of Violence in a Fragmented War -- III. The Social Condition in War -- Chapter 6. Terrains of Displacement: War-time Mobility and Immobility -- Chapter 7. Tambem Aqui Fazemos Amor: Living in War -- IV. War as a Socially Transformative Condition -- Chapter 8. Postconflict Displacements: The Social Problematics of Refugee Return -- Chapter 9. Transnational Contentions: The Moral Economy of Postconflict Migration -- Chapter 10. Where to Be an Ancestor? The Struggle for the Postconflict Social Imagination -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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    The Pan-African Nation : Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226023564 , 9780226023540
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (345 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Apter, Andrew H. The Pan-African nation
    DDC: 305.896
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    Keywords: World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture -- (2nd : -- 1977 : -- Lagos, Nigeria) ; Petroleum industry and trade -- Nigeria.. ; Revenue -- Nigeria.. ; Nigeria -- Cultural policy.. ; Africa -- Civilization ; Erdöl ; Erdölpolitik ; Öffentliche Einnahmen ; Boom ; Kultur ; Kulturpolitik ; Feier ; Africa ; Civilization ; Nigeria ; Cultural policy ; Petroleum industry and trade ; Nigeria ; Revenue ; Nigeria ; World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture ; (2nd ; 1977 ; Lagos, Nigeria) ; Electronic books ; Nigeria ; Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: When Nigeria hosted the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC) in 1977, it celebrated a global vision of black nationhood and citizenship animated by the exuberance of its recent oil boom. Andrew Apter's The Pan-African Nation tells the full story of this cultural extravaganza, from Nigeria's spectacular rebirth as a rapidly developing petro-state to its dramatic demise when the boom went bust. According to Apter, FESTAC expanded the horizons of blackness in Nigeria to mirror the global circuits of its economy. By showcasing masks, dances, images, and souvenirs from its many diverse ethnic groups, Nigeria forged a new national culture. In the grandeur of this oil-fed confidence, the nation subsumed all black and African cultures within its empire of cultural signs and erased its colonial legacies from collective memory. As the oil economy collapsed, however, cultural signs became unstable, contributing to rampant violence and dissimulation. The Pan-African Nation unpacks FESTAC as a historically situated mirror of production in Nigeria. More broadly, it points towards a critique of the political economy of the sign in postcolonial Africa.
    Abstract: Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- La mise en scene -- 1 Rebirth of a Nation -- 2 Nigeria at Large -- The Spectacle of Culture -- 3 Producing the People -- 4 War Canoes and Their Magic -- 5 A Genealogy of the Durbar -- 6 The Mirror of Cultural Production -- La mise en abime -- 7 The Politics of Illusion -- 8 Death and the King's Henchmen -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; La mise en scene; The Spectacle of Culture; La mise en abime; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index;
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    Aging in the United States and Japan : Economic Trends (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780226590219
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (216 pages)
    Series Statement: National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
    DDC: 305.26/0952
    Keywords: Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Japanese and American economists assess the present economic status of the elderly in the United States and Japan, and consider the impact of an aging population on the economies of the two countries. With essays on labor force participation and retirement, housing equity and the economic status of the elderly, budget implications of an aging population, and financing social security and health care in the 1990s, this volume covers a broad spectrum of issues related to the economics of aging. Among the book's findings are that workers are retiring at an increasingly earlier age in both countries and that, as the populations age, baby boomers in the United States will face diminishing financial resources as the ratio of retirees to workers sharply increases. The result of a joint venture between the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Japan Center for Economic Research, this book complements Housing Markets in the United States and Japan (1994) by integrating research on housing markets with economic issues of the aged in the United States and Japan.
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    Faeries, bears, and leathermen : men in community queering the masculine (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226327297 , 0226327299
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 243 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hennen, Peter Faeries, bears, and leathermen
    DDC: 306.7662
    Keywords: Gay men Psychology ; Male homosexuality ; Gay men Psychology ; Gay men ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gay Studies ; Gay men ; Psychology ; Male homosexuality ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Over time, male homosexuality and effeminacy have become indelibly associated, sometimes even synonymous. In Faeries, Bears, and Leathermen, Peter Hennen contends that this stigma of effeminacy exerts a powerful influence on gay subcultures. Through a comparative ethnographic analysis of three communities, Hennen explores the surprising ways that conventional masculinity is being collectively challenged, subverted, or perpetuated in contemporary gay male culture. Hennen's colorful study focuses on a trio of groups: the Radical Faeries, who parody effeminacy by playfully embracing it, donning p
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    Issues in the Economics of Aging (2008)
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    ISBN: 9780226903262
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (408 pages)
    Series Statement: National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report
    DDC: 305.26
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    Keywords: Alter ; Lebensbedingungen ; USA ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This companion volume to The Economics of Aging (1989) examines the economic consequences of an increasingly older population, focusing on the housing and living arrangements of the elderly, as well as their labor force participation and retirement.
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    Topics in the Economics of Aging (2008)
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    ISBN: 9780226903347
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (328 pages)
    Series Statement: National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report
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    Keywords: Alter ; Lebensbedingungen ; USA ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The original essays and commentary in this volume-the third in a series reporting the results of the NBER Economics of Aging Program-address issues that are of particular importance to the well-being of individuals as they age and to a society at large that is composed increasingly of older persons. The contributors examine social security reform, including an analysis of the Japanese system; present the startling finding that the vast majority of people choose the wrong accumulation strategies for their pension plans; explore the continuing consequences of the decline in support of parents by children in the postwar period; investigate the relation between nursing home stays and the source of payment for the care; and offer initial findings on the implications of differences between developed and developing countries for understanding aging issues and determining appropriate directions for research.
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    Republic of drivers : a cultural history of automobility in America (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226745657 , 0226745651
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 230 p.) , ill.
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Seiler, Cotten Republic of drivers
    DDC: 303.48320973
    Keywords: Automobiles Social aspects ; History ; 20th century ; United States ; Social values History ; 20th century ; United States ; National characteristics, American ; Social values History 20th century ; Automobiles Social aspects 20th century ; History ; Automobiles ; Social values ; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING ; Social Aspects ; Automobiles ; Social aspects ; Civilization ; National characteristics, American ; Social conditions ; SCIENCE ; Philosophy & Social Aspects ; History ; Electronic books ; United States Social conditions ; 20th century ; United States Civilization ; 20th century ; United States ; United States Social conditions 20th century ; United States Civilization 20th century ; United States ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: Rising gas prices, sprawl and congestion, global warming, even obesity--driving is a factor in many of the most contentious issues of our time. So how did we get here? How did automobile use become so vital to the identity of Americans? Republic of Drivers looks back at the period between 1895 and 1961--from the founding of the first automobile factory in America to the creation of the Interstate Highway System--to find out how driving evolved into a crucial symbol of freedom and agency. Cotten Seiler combs through a vast number of historical, social scientific, philosophical, and literary source
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    The Antigay Agenda : Orthodox Vision and the Christian Right (2007)
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    ISBN: 9780226327648
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (256 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version The Antigay Agenda : Orthodox Vision and the Christian Right
    DDC: 261.8/35766/0973
    Keywords: Conservatism ; Religious aspects ; Christianity ; Fundamentalism ; History ; 20th century ; Homosexuality ; Religious aspects ; Christianity ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In The Antigay Agenda, Didi Herman probes the values, beliefs, and rhetoric of the organizations of the Christian Right. Tracing the emergence of their antigay agenda, Herman explores how and why these groups made antigay activity a top priority, and how it relates to their political history."A penetrating analysis of the Christian Right's antigay agenda and of how that agenda is derived from the Christian Right's peculiar vision of American history and the Christian faith."-Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Boston Book Review"Public intellectualism at its best. . . . A comprehensive summary of the conserv
    Description / Table of Contents: The Antigay Agenda; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Devil Discourse and the Shifting Construction of Homosexuality in Christianity Today; 3. Representing Homosexuality and Its Agenda; 4. No Lesbians, Gay Lesbians, Feminist Lesbians; 5. (II)legitimate Minorities: The Construction of Rights-(Un)deserving Subjects; 6. The Christian Right versus Gay Rights in Colorado, 1992-1996; 7. Regulation, Restoration, Reconstruction: Conservative Christianity and the State; Afterword: Thoughts on Backlash and Utopia; Notes; References; Index;
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    Misery and Company : Sympathy in Everyday Life (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (332 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version Misery and Company : Sympathy in Everyday Life
    DDC: 177/.7
    Keywords: Emotions ; Sympathy ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In a kind of social tour of sympathy, Candace Clark reveals that the emotional experience we call sympathy has a history, logic, and life of its own. Although sympathy may seem to be a natural, reflexive reaction, people are not born knowing when, for whom, and in what circumstances sympathy is appropriate. Rather, they learn elaborate, highly specific rules-different rules for men than for women-that guide when to feel or display sympathy, when to claim it, and how to accept it. Using extensive interviews, cultural artifacts, and "intensive eavesdropping" in public places, such as hospitals a
    Description / Table of Contents: Misery and Company: Sympathy in Everyday Life; CONTENTS; Preface; 1 The Social Character of Sympathy; 2 Sympathy Giving: Forms and Process; 3 Framing Events as Bad Luck: Sympathy Entrepreneurs and the Grounds for Sympathy; 4 The Socioemotional Economy, Social Value, and Sympathy Margin; 5 Sympathy Biography and the Rules of Sympathy Etiquette; 6 Interpreting Deviance: The Sympathetic Response; 7 Sympathy, Microhierarchy, and Micropolitics; 8 Epilogue; Appendix: Research Strategies; References; Name Index; Subject Index;
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    Mema's House, Mexico City : On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226682563
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (312 p.)
    Series Statement: Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on
    Series Statement: Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture
    Parallel Title: Print version Mema's House, Mexico City : On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos
    DDC: 306.77
    Keywords: Transgender people ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Transvestites ; Mexico ; Mexico City ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Mema's house is in the poor barrio Nezahualcoyotl, a crowded urban space on the outskirts of Mexico City where people survive with the help of family, neighbors, and friends. This house is a sanctuary for a group of young, homosexual men who meet to do what they can't do openly at home. They chat, flirt, listen to music, and smoke marijuana. Among the group are sex workers and transvestites with high heels, short skirts, heavy make-up, and voluminous hairstyles; and their partners, young, bisexual men, wearing T-shirts and worn jeans, short hair, and maybe a mustache. Mema, an AIDS educator an
    Description / Table of Contents: Mema's House, Mexico City; CONTENTS; Preface; Introduction: The First Night; 1 The Setting and the Approach; 2 Everyday Life of a Jota; 3 Little Boys in Mother's Wardrobe: On the Origins of Homosexuality and Effeminacy; 4 Stealing Femininity: On Bodily and Symbolic Constructions; 5 Machos and Mayates: Masculinity and Bisexuality; 6 On Love, Domination, and Penetration; Concluding Notes; Author's Update; Bibliography; Index;
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    The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (230 p.)
    Series Statement: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, The
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    Parallel Title: Print version The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men
    DDC: 305.3094509031
    Keywords: Women ; Early works to 1800 ; Women ; History ; Renaissance, 1450-1600 ; Women ; Italy ; History ; Renaissance, 1450-1600 ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: A gifted poet, a women's rights activist, and an expert on moral and natural philosophy, Lucrezia Marinella (1571-1653) was known throughout Italy as the leading female intellectual of her age. Born into a family of Venetian physicians, she was encouraged to study, and, fortunately, she did not share the fate of many of her female contemporaries, who were forced to join convents or were pressured to marry early. Marinella enjoyed a long literary career, writing mainly religious, epic, and pastoral poetry, and biographies of famous women in both verse and prose. Marinella's masterpiece, The Nob
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Introduction to the Series; Acknowledgments; Introduction to the Translation; The Nobility and Excellence of Women, and the Defects and Vices of Men; Part I: The Nobility and Excellence of Women; Chapter I: On the Nobility of the Names Given to the Female Sex; Chapter II: The Causes That Produce Women; Chapter III: Of the Nature and Essence of the Female Sex; Chapter IV: The Reasons for Men's Noble Treatment of Women and the Things They Say about Women; Chapter V: Of Women's Noble Actions and Virtues, Which Greatly Surpass Men's, as Will Be Proved by Reasoning and Example
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter VI: A Reply to the Flippant and Vain Reasoning Adopted by Men in Their Own FavorPart II: The Defects and Vices of Men; Chapter IV: Of Wrathful, Eccentric, and Brutal Men; Chapter XII: Of Obstinate and Pertinacious Men; Chapter XIII: Of Ungrateful and Discourteous Men; Chapter XIV: Of Fickle, Inconstant Men; Chapter XV: Of Evil Men Who Hate Others Easily; Chapter XXII: Of Men Who Are Ornate, Polished, Painted, and Bleached; Chapter XXX: Of Men Who Kill Their Mothers, Fathers, Brothers, Sisters, and Grandchildren; Bibliography; Index;
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    Autobiography of an Aspiring Saint (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (135 p.)
    Series Statement: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, The
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    Parallel Title: Print version Autobiography of an Aspiring Saint
    DDC: 282.092
    Keywords: Catholics ; Italy ; Venice ; Biography ; Ferrazzi, Cecilia ; 1609-1684 ; Inquisition ; Italy ; Venice ; History ; 17th century ; Sources ; Venice (Italy) ; Biography ; Women ; Italy ; Venice ; Biography ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Charged by the Venetian Inquisition with the conscious and cynical feigning of holiness, Cecelia Ferrazzi (1609-1684) requested and obtained the unprecedented opportunity to defend herself through a presentation of her life story. Ferrazzi's unique inquisitorial autobiography and the transcripts of her preceding testimony, expertly transcribed and eloquently translated into English, allow us to enter an unfamiliar sector of the past and hear 'another voice'-that of a humble Venetian woman who had extraordinary experiences and exhibited exceptional courage.Born in 1609 into an artisan family, C
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Introduction to the Series; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Note on the Translation; Testimony of Ferrazzi Preceding Her Autobiography; Autobiography of Cecilia Ferrazzi; Appendix 1: Persons Mentioned in the Text; Appendix 2: Places Mentioned in the Text; Glossary; Bibliography; Index;
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    An invitation to laughter : a Lebanese anthropologist in the Arab world (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226434759 , 0226434753
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xxv, 196 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Invitation to laughter
    DDC: 305.80092
    Keywords: Khūrī, Fuʾād Isḥāq ; Khūrī, Fuʼād Isḥāq ; Khūrī, Fuʼād Isḥāq ; Ethnologists Biography ; Lebanon ; Ethnology Fieldwork ; Arab countries ; Ethnologists Biography ; Ethnology Fieldwork ; Ethnologists Biography ; Ethnology Fieldwork ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Social Scientists & Psychologists ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Ethnologists ; Ethnology ; Fieldwork ; Manners and customs ; Biographies ; Arab countries Social life and customs ; Arab countries Social life and customs ; Arab countries Social life and customs ; Arab countries ; Lebanon ; Electronic books
    Abstract: For the late Fuad I. Khuri, a distinguished career as an anthropologist began not because of typical concerns like accessibility, money, or status, but because the very idea of an occupation that baffled his countrymen made them?and him?laugh. ?When I tell them that ?anthropology? is my profession . . . they think I am either speaking a strange language or referring to a new medicine.? This profound appreciation for humor, especially in the contradictions inherent in the study of cultures, is a distinctive theme of An Invitation to Laughter, Khuri?s astute memoir of life as an anthropologist i
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Research ProjectsList of Publications; Index;
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    On the Future of History : The Postmodernist Challenge and Its Aftermath (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226072791
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (253 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version On the Future of History : The Postmodernist Challenge and Its Aftermath
    DDC: 306
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    Abstract: What does postmodernism mean for the future of history? Can one still write history in postmodernity? To answer questions such as these, Ernst Breisach provides the first comprehensive overview of postmodernism and its complex relationship to history and historiography. Placing postmodern theories in their intellectual and historical contexts, he shows how they are part of broad developments in Western culture. Breisach sees postmodernism as neither just a fad nor a universal remedy. In clear and concise language, he presents and critically evaluates the major views on history held by influent
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; A Prefatory and Introductory Note; PART 1 A Preliminary Exploration of the Postmodernist Challenge; 1 A Look at Terms and Issues; 2 An Adversarial Image of Modernity; 3 The Postmodern Moment; 4 At the Core of the Postmodernist Challenge to History; 5 Two Versions of the Postmodernist Future; 6 The Project of a Postmodernist Theory of History; PART 2 Postmodernity as the Triumph of Continuity: Structural Postmodernism; 7 Postmodernism's Emergence in an Unlikely Setting; 8 An Early Redefinition of Progress's Destination; 9 Views with Postmodernist Affinities
    Description / Table of Contents: 10 The First Twentieth-Century Postmodernist: Alexandre Kojève11 The Flourishing of Structural Postmodernism (1945-65); 12 The Fading of Structural Postmodernism and a Triumphal Exception: Francis Fukuyama; 13 Insights and Problems; PART 3 Postmodernity as the Age of Dominant Change: Poststructuralist Postmodernism; 14 A Prelude to Poststructuralist Postmodernism; 15 Narrativist History in the Poststructuralist Mode; 16 In the Eye of the Storm: The Poststructuralist Postmodernist Concept of Truth; 17 The Metanarrative Controversy
    Description / Table of Contents: 18 Poststructuralist Postmodernists on the Individual and the Utility of HistoryPART 4 Poststructuralist Postmodernism and the Reshaping of Society; 19 What Kind of Marxism in Postmodernity?; 20 Postmodernism and Feminist History; PART 5 Concluding Observations; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index;
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    Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226010588
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (143 p.)
    Series Statement: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, The v.1996
    Series Statement: The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe
    Parallel Title: Print version Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex
    DDC: 305.4
    Keywords: Feminism ; Early works to 1800 ; Women ; Early works to 1800 ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Originally published in 1529, the Declamation on the Preeminence and Nobility of the Female Sex argues that women are more than equal to men in all things that really matter, including the public spheres from which they had long been excluded. Rather than directly refuting prevailing wisdom, Agrippa uses women's superiority as a rhetorical device and overturns the misogynistic interpretations of the female body in Greek medicine, in the Bible, in Roman and canon law, in theology and moral philosophy, and in politics. He raised the question of why women were excluded and provided answers based
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Editors' Introduction to the Series; Foreword; Note on the Text; Agrippa and the Feminist Tradition; Suggestions for Further Reading; Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex; Index of Biblical References; General Index;
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    A Rule for Children and Other Writings (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226648316
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (205 p.)
    Series Statement: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, The
    Series Statement: The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe
    Parallel Title: Print version A Rule for Children and Other Writings
    DDC: 282/.092
    Keywords: Jansenists ; France ; History ; Sources ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Jacqueline Pascal (1625-1661) was the sister of Blaise Pascal and a nun at the Jansenist Port-Royal convent in France. She was also a prolific writer who argued for the spiritual rights of women and the right of conscientious objection to royal, ecclesiastic, and family authority.This book presents selections from the whole of Pascal's career as a writer, including her witty adolescent poetry and her pioneering treatise on the education of women, A Rule for Children, which drew on her experiences as schoolmistress at Port-Royal. Readers will also find Pascal's devotional treatise, which matche
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Acknowledgments; Series Editors' Introduction; Volume Editor's Introduction; Bibliography on Jacqueline Pascal; Poetry (1638-43); On the Mystery of the Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ (1651); Report of Soeur Jacqueline de Sainte Euphémie to the Mother Prioress of Port-Royal des Champs (1653); A Rule for Children (1657); Interrogation of Soeur Jacqueline de Sainte Euphémie (Pascal), Subprioress and Novice Mistress (1661); A Memoir of Mère Marie Angélique by Soeur Jacqueline de Sainte Euphémie Pascal (1661); Letters of Jacqueline Pascal (1647-61); Series Editors' Bibliography; Index
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Acknowledgments; Series Editors' Introduction; Volume Editor's Introduction; Bibliography on Jacqueline Pascal; Poetry (1638-43); On the Mystery of the Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ (1651); Report of Soeur Jacqueline de Sainte Euphémie to the Mother Prioress of Port-Royal des Champs (1653); A Rule for Children (1657); Interrogation of Soeur Jacqueline de Sainte Euphémie (Pascal), Subprioress and Novice Mistress (1661); A Memoir of Mère Marie Angélique by Soeur Jacqueline de Sainte Euphémie Pascal (1661); Letters of Jacqueline Pascal (1647-61); Series Editors' Bibliography; Index;
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    Whether a Christian Woman Should Be Educated and Other Writings from Her Intellectual Circle (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226849980
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (176 p.)
    Series Statement: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, The
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    Parallel Title: Print version Whether a Christian Woman Should Be Educated and Other Writings from Her Intellectual Circle
    DDC: 305.42
    Keywords: Christian women ; Education ; Reformed Church ; Doctrines ; History ; 17th century ; Sources ; Reformed Church ; Doctrines ; Women ; Religious aspects ; Christianity ; History of doctrines ; 17th century ; Sources ; Women ; Religious aspects ; Christianity ; Women in Christianity ; Women in the Reformed Church ; Europe ; History ; 17th century ; Sources ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Advocate and exemplar of women's education, female of aristocratic birth and modest demeanor, Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678) was one of Reformation Europe's most renowned writers defending women's intelligence. From her early teens, Schurman garnered recognition and admiration for her accomplishments in languages, philosophy, poetry, and painting. As an adult she actively engaged in written correspondence and debate with Europe's leading intellectuals. Nevertheless, Schurman refused to regard herself as an anomaly among women. A supporter of the female sex, she argues that the same rigoro
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Introduction to the Series; Introduction: Anna Maria van Schurman and Her Intellectual Circle; Selections from the Writings of Anna Maria van Schurman; A Practical Problem: Whether the Study of Letters Is Fitting for a Christian Woman; Correspondence with Andre Rivet on this Question; Correspondence with Other Women; Eukleria, Chapters 1 and 2; Concerning Women, by Gisbertus Voetius; Chapter I: The Natural Status and Condition of Women; Chapter II: The Secular and Political Status of Women; Chapter III: The Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Status of Women; Bibliography; Index;
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    Aging Issues in the United States and Japan (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226620817
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (420 p.)
    Series Statement: NBER-Conference Report v.2000
    Series Statement: National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
    Parallel Title: Print version Aging Issues in the United States and Japan
    DDC: 305.26/0952
    Keywords: Age distribution (Demography) ; Economic aspects ; Japan ; Congresses ; Age distribution (Demography) ; Economic aspects ; United States ; Congresses ; Older people ; Japan ; Economic conditions ; Congresses ; Older people ; United States ; Economic conditions ; Congresses ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The population base in both the United States and Japan is growing older and, as those populations age, they provoke heretofore unexamined economic consequences. This cutting-edge, comparative volume, the third in the joint series offered by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Japan Center for Economic Research, explores those consequences, drawing specific attention to four key areas: incentives for early retirement; savings, wealth, and asset allocation over the life cycle; health care and health care reform; and population projections.Given the undeniable global importance of t
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Choice, Chance, and Wealth Dispersion at Retirement; 2. Household Portfolio Allocation over the Life Cycle; 3. The Social Security System and the Demand for Personal Annuity and Life Insurance: An Analysis of Japanese Microdata, 1990 and 1994; 4. An Empirical Investigation of Intergenerational Consumption Distribution: A Comparison among Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom; 5. The Third Wave in Health Care Reform; 6. Concentration and Persistence of Health Care Costs for the Aged
    Description / Table of Contents: 7. The Effects of Demographic Change on Health and Medical Expenditures: A Simulation Analysis8. Choice among Employer-Provided Insurance Plans; 9. Employees' Pension Benefits and the Labor Supply of Older Japanese Workers, 1980s-1990s; 10. The Motivations for Business Retirement Policies; 11. Promotion, Incentives, and Wages; 12. What Went Wrong with the 1991-92 Official Population Projection of Japan?; Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index;
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    Sacred Narratives (2007)
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    ISBN: 9780226808529
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (312 p.)
    Series Statement: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, The
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    Parallel Title: Print version Sacred Narratives
    DDC: 305.4094
    Keywords: Religious poetry, Italian ; Translations into English ; Tornabuoni, Lucrezia ; 1425-1482 ; Translations into English ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The most prominent woman in Renaissance Florence, Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici (1425-1482) lived during her city's golden age. Wife of Piero de' Medici and mother of Lorenzo the Magnificent, Tornabuoni exerted considerable influence on Florence's political and social affairs. She was also, as this volume illustrates, a gifted and prolific poet.This is the first major collection in any language of her extensive body of religious poems. Ranging from gentle lyrics on the Nativity to moving dialogues between a crucified Christ and the weeping sinner who kneels before him, the nine laudi (poems o
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction to the Series; Introduction: Gender and Religion in Fifteenth-Century Florence; The Story of Devout Susanna; The Life of Tobias; The Story of Judith, Hebrew Widow; The Story of Queen Eshter; The Life of Saint John the Baptist; Poems of Praise; Bibliography; Index;
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    Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist (2007)
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    ISBN: 9780226100111
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (248 p.)
    Series Statement: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, The
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    Parallel Title: Print version Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist
    DDC: 001.3/092
    Keywords: Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern) ; Italy ; Correspondence ; Cereta, Laura ; 1469-1499 ; Correspondence ; Feminists ; Italy ; Correspondence ; Humanists ; Italy ; Correspondence ; Italy ; Intellectual life ; 1268-1559 ; Sources ; Women ; Italy ; History ; Renaissance, 1450-1600 ; Sources ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Renaissance writer Laura Cereta (1469-1499) presents feminist issues in a predominantly male venue-the humanist autobiography in the form of personal letters. Cereta's works circulated widely in Italy during the early modern era, but her complete letters have never before been published in English. In her public lectures and essays, Cereta explores the history of women's contributions to the intellectual and political life of Europe. She argues against the slavery of women in marriage and for the rights of women to higher education, the same issues that have occupied feminist thinkers of later
    Description / Table of Contents: Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist; CONTENTS; Introduction to the Series; Acknowledgments; Translator's Introduction; ONE Autobiography; TWO Women and Society; THREE Marriage and Mourning; FOUR Woman to Woman; FIVE The Public Lectures; SIX Dialogue on the Death of an Ass; Bibliography; Index;
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    Paternal Tyranny (2007)
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    ISBN: 9780226789651
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (214 p.)
    Series Statement: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, The
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    Parallel Title: Print version Paternal Tyranny
    DDC: 305.42
    Keywords: Monastic and religious life of women ; Italy ; Venice ; Patriarchy ; Religious aspects ; Catholic Church ; Women ; Italy ; Venice ; Social conditions ; Women ; Religious aspects ; Catholic Church ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Sharp-witted and sharp-tongued, Arcangela Tarabotti (1604-52) yearned to be formally educated and enjoy an independent life in Venetian literary circles. But instead, at sixteen, her father forced her into a Benedictine convent. To protest her confinement, Tarabotti composed polemical works exposing the many injustices perpetrated against women of her day.Paternal Tyranny, the first of these works, is a fiery but carefully argued manifesto against the oppression of women by the Venetian patriarchy. Denouncing key misogynist texts of the era, Tarabotti shows how despicable it was for Venice, a
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Acknowledgments; Series Editors'Introduction; Volume Editor's Introduction; Volume Editor's Bibliography; Paternal Tyranny; Dedication; Book One; Book Two; Book Three; Appendix One: Arcangela Tarabotti; Appendix Two: Ferrante Pallavicino; Series Editors'Bibliography; Index;
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    The Education of a Christian Woman : A Sixteenth-Century Manual (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226858142
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (375 p.)
    Series Statement: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, The
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    Parallel Title: Print version The Education of a Christian Woman : A Sixteenth-Century Manual
    DDC: 305.4
    Keywords: Christian women ; Conduct of life ; Early works to 1800 ; Christian women ; Education ; Early works to 1800 ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "From meetings and conversation with men, love affairs arise. In the midst of pleasures, banquets, dances, laughter, and self-indulgence, Venus and her son Cupid reign supreme. . . . Poor young girl, if you emerge from these encounters a captive prey! How much better it would have been to remain at home or to have broken a leg of the body rather than of the mind!" So wrote the sixteenth-century Spanish humanist Juan Luis Vives in a famous work dedicated to Henry VIII's daughter, Princess Mary, but intended for a wider audience interested in the education of women.Praised by Erasmus and Thomas
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Introduction to the Series; Acknowledgments; Key to Abbreviations; Introduction: Prelude to the Other Voice in Vives; A Note on the Text; Preface to the Books on the Education of a Christian Woman; Book I: Which Treats of Unmarried Young Women; Book II: Which Treats of Married Women; Book III: On Widows; Appendix; Biblical References Index; General Index;
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    Three Cartesian Feminist Treatises (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226676531
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (369 p.)
    Series Statement: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, The
    Series Statement: The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe
    Parallel Title: Print version Three Cartesian Feminist Treatises
    DDC: 305.4
    Keywords: Women's rights ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: One of the most radical feminist theorists in Europe before the nineteenth century, François Poullain de la Barre (1647-1723) was a man way ahead of his time. Applying Cartesian principles to "the Woman Question," Poullain demonstrated by rational deduction that the supposedly "self-evident" inequality of the sexes was nothing more than unfounded prejudice.Poullain published three books (anonymously) on this topic in the 1670s, all of which are included in English translation in this volume. In On the Equality of the Two Sexes he argued that the supposedly "natural" inferiority of women
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Introduction to the Series; Introduction: Poullain de la Barre's Cartesian Feminism; Note on the Texts; On the Equality of the Two Sexes; On the Education of Ladies; On the Excellence of Men: Preface and Remarks; Select Bibliography; Index;
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    The Worth of Women : Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226256818
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (322 p.)
    Series Statement: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, The
    Series Statement: The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe
    Parallel Title: Print version The Worth of Women : Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men
    DDC: 305.4
    Keywords: Women ; Early works to 1800 ; Women ; History ; Renaissance, 1450-1600 ; Women ; Social conditions ; Early works to 1800 ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Gender equality and the responsibility of husbands and fathers: issues that loom large today had currency in Renaissance Venice as well, as evidenced by the publication in 1600 of The Worth of Women by Moderata Fonte. Moderata Fonte was the pseudonym of Modesta Pozzo (1555-92), a Venetian woman who was something of an anomaly. Neither cloistered in a convent nor as liberated from prevailing codes of decorum as a courtesan might be, Pozzo was a respectable, married mother who produced literature in genres that were commonly considered "masculine"-the chivalric romance and the literary dialogue
    Description / Table of Contents: The Worth of Women; CONTENTS; Introduction to the Series; Acknowledgments; Moderata Fonte and "The Worth of Women"; Key to Abbreviations; Note on the Text; A Note on Fonte's Sources; The Worth of Women; Appendix The Theme of Women's Equality with Men in Moderata Fonte's "Floridoro"; Works Cited; Index;
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    The Perfect Servant : Eunuchs and the Social Construction of Gender in Byzantium (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226720159
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (309 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version The Perfect Servant : Eunuchs and the Social Construction of Gender in Byzantium
    DDC: 305.3/09495
    Keywords: Byzantine Empire ; Civilization ; Eunuchs ; Byzantine Empire ; Sex role ; Byzantine Empire ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The Perfect Servant reevaluates the place of eunuchs in Byzantium. Kathryn Ringrose uses the modern concept of gender as a social construct to identify eunuchs as a distinct gender and to illustrate how gender was defined in the Byzantine world. At the same time she explores the changing role of the eunuch in Byzantium from 600 to 1100.Accepted for generations as a legitimate and functional part of Byzantine civilization, eunuchs were prominent in both the imperial court and the church. They were distinctive in physical appearance, dress, and manner and were considered uniquely suited for impo
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; List of Illustrations; Spelling Conventions for Greek Names; Acknowledgments; Introduction - Eunuchs of Byzantium: Context and Definition; PART I GENDER AS SOCIAL CONSTRUCT; 1 The Language of Gender; 2 Byzantine Medical Lore and the Gendering of Eunuchs; 3 Gender Construction as Acculturation; 4 Making Sense of Tradition: Regendering Legendary Narratives; PART II BECOMING PROTAGONISTS; 5 Passing the Test of Sanctity: Eunuchs and the Ecclesiastical World of Byzantium; 6 Transgressing Gender Boundaries: Eunuchs in Authority; 7 Transcending the Material World: Eunuchs and Angels
    Description / Table of Contents: 8 Eunuchs at the Palace: Gendered Space and Confirmation of the Imperial Numen9 Social Reproduction and Integration; Conclusion - Present and Past Perceptions of Gender; Appendix - Spelling Equivalents, Traditional and Reformed; Frequently Used Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
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    My family and other saints (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226568157 , 0226568156
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (vii, 236 pages) , illustrations.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Narayan, Kirin My family and other saints
    DDC: 306.850954792092
    Keywords: Narayan, Kirin ; Narayan, Kirin ; Women anthropologists Biography ; India ; Mumbai ; Anthropology of religion India ; Mumbai ; Families India ; Mumbai ; Hinduism and culture India ; Mumbai ; Women anthropologists Biography ; Anthropology of religion ; Families ; Hinduism and culture ; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Social Scientists & Psychologists ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Anthropology of religion ; Families ; Hinduism and culture ; Manners and customs ; Women anthropologists ; Hindoeïsme ; Heiligenlevens ; Familienleben ; Religiöses Leben ; Hinduismus ; Biographies ; Mumbai (India) Religious life and customs ; Mumbai (India) Social life and customs ; Mumbai (India) Social life and customs ; Mumbai (India) Religious life and customs ; India ; Mumbai ; Mumbai ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Biografie
    Abstract: "In 1969 Kirin Narayan's older brother Rahoul announced that he was dropping out of school and leaving home to seek enlightenment with a guru. Young Kirin adored her high-spirited, charismatic brother and looked on bewildered at the events that his dramatic departure set in motion." "A funny, poignant, and always affectionate memoir, My Family and Other Saints follows the ways that Rahoul's spiritual journey reverberates through the entire, family. As the family's beachside Bombay home becomes a crossroads for Westerners seeking Eastern enlightenment, Kirin's sari-wearing American mother Didi enthusiastically embraces ashrams and gurus, adopting her son's spiritual quest as her own. Her urbane Indian father Narayan, however, coins the term "urug" guru spelled backward to mock these seekers. Meeting radiant holy men, sensing her parents drilling apart, and observing waves of young Westerners turning to meditation. Kirin is left to find her own answers. She listens closely to family stories and ponders Goddess mythology, all the while trying to hide the eccentric goings-on at her home from her classmates." "Deftly re-creating the turbulent emotional world of her bicultural childhood, but overlaying it with the hard won understanding of adulthood. Narayan presents a rambunctious cast of quirky characters, from Rahoul's friend Young Swamiji, who lives with his Mother Goddess in the jungle, to her grandmother Ba, who enjoys visits from Hindu deities, to such live in urugs as Bhagavan Das and the Cupboard Swami. Throughout, she brings to life not only a family but also a colorful era when just about everyone, it seemed, was consumed by some sort of spiritual quest."--Jacket
    Abstract: The hook -- Gods' eyes -- Crazy saints -- The seven-horned mountain -- Blind blue heavens, pure blue light -- Fused doubles -- Doorways -- Gurus and urugs -- Mrs. Contractor's eldest unmarried daughter -- Conjunctions -- The Moon pearl -- At the border -- Twin goddess -- The clasp.
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    Mexican immigration to the United States (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 0226066320 , 9780226066325
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 338 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
    Series Statement: National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
    Series Statement: A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
    Parallel Title: Print version Mexican Immigration to the United States
    DDC: 304.8/73072
    Keywords: Mexican Americans Congresses Employment ; Mexican Americans Congresses Economic conditions ; Mexican Americans Congresses Social conditions ; Mexican Americans Congresses Cultural assimilation ; Alien labor, Mexican Congresses ; Immigrants Congresses Social conditions ; Immigrants Congresses Economic conditions ; Foreign workers, Mexican ; United States ; Congresses ; Immigrants ; United States ; Economic conditions ; Congresses ; Immigrants ; United States ; Social conditions ; Congresses ; Mexican Americans ; Cultural assimilation ; Congresses ; Mexican Americans ; Economic conditions ; Congresses ; Mexican Americans ; Employment ; Congresses ; Mexican Americans ; Social conditions ; Congresses ; Electronic books ; United States ; Emigration and immigration ; Congresses ; Mexico ; Emigration and immigration ; Congresses ; Mexico Congresses Emigration and immigration ; United States Congresses Emigration and immigration ; Konferenzschrift ; USA ; Einwanderung ; Mexiko ; Soziale Situation ; Arbeitsmarkt ; Soziale Integration ; Mexiko ; Auswanderung ; USA ; Soziale Situation ; Arbeitsmarkt ; Soziale Integration
    Abstract: From debates on Capitol Hill to the popular media, Mexican immigrants are the subject of widespread controversy. By 2003, their growing numbers accounted for 28.3 percent of all foreign-born inhabitants of the United States. Mexican Immigration to the United States analyzes the astonishing economic impact of this historically unprecedented exodus. Why do Mexican immigrants gain citizenship and employment at a slower rate than non-Mexicans? Does their migration to the U.S. adversely affect the working conditions of lower-skilled workers already residing there? And how rapid is the intergenerat
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Acknowledgment; Introduction; 1. The Evolution of the Mexican-Born Workforcein the United States; 2. Gender and Assimilation among Mexican Americans; 3. Mexican Assimilation in the United States; 4. Mexican Entrepreneurship: A Comparison of Self-Employment in Mexico and the United States; 5. Mexican Immigration and Self-Selection:New Evidence from the 2000 Mexican Census; 6. The Diffusion of Mexican Immigrants duringthe 1990s: Explanations and Impacts; 7. Ethnic Identification, Intermarriage, andUnmeasured Progress by Mexican Americans
    Description / Table of Contents: 8. Impacts of Policy Reforms on Labor Migration fromRural Mexico to the United States9. Emigration, Labor Supply, and Earnings in Mexico; Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index
    Note: "Consists of papers presented at a conference held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in February 2005"--P. ix. -- "Contains the studies presented at the fourth NBER conference"--P. 2 , Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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    Desiring Arabs (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226509600 , 0226509605
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiv, 453 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Desiring Arabs
    DDC: 306.709174927
    Keywords: Arabs Sexual behavior ; Civilization, Arab ; Arabs Sexual behavior ; Arabs Sexual behavior ; Civilization, Arab ; Sexual Behavior history ; Homosexuality history ; PSYCHOLOGY ; Human Sexuality ; SELF-HELP ; Sexual Instruction ; Civilization, Arab ; Public opinion, Western ; Seksuele ethiek ; Arabieren ; Araber ; Einstellung ; Sexualität ; Öffentliche Meinung ; Arab countries Foreign public opinion, Western ; Arab countries Foreign public opinion, Western ; Arab countries Foreign public opinion, Western ; Arab countries ; Westliche Welt ; Araber ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Sexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization. In the past, Westerners viewed the Arab world as licentious, and Western intolerance of sex led them to brand Arabs as decadent; but as Western society became more sexually open, the supposedly prudish Arabs soon became viewed as backward. Rather than focusing exclusively on how these views developed in the West, in Desiring Arabs Joseph A. Massad reveals the history of how Arabs represented their own sexual desires. To this aim, he assembles a massive and diverse compendium of Arabic writing fr
    Description / Table of Contents: IntroductionAnxiety in civilization -- Remembrances of desires past -- Re-orienting desire: the gay international and the Arab world -- Sin, crimes, and disease: taxonomies of desires present -- Deviant fictions -- The truth of fictional desires -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Name index -- Subject index.
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    Pillars of the nation : child citizens and Ugandan national development (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226102498 , 0226102491
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 299 p.) , ill., maps.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Pillars of the nation
    DDC: 305.23096761090511
    Keywords: Children's rights Uganda ; Children Social conditions ; Uganda ; Children and war Uganda ; Uganda ; Uganda ; Children's rights ; Children Social conditions ; Children and war ; Children and war ; Children's rights ; Children Social conditions ; Children and war ; Children ; Social conditions ; Children's rights ; Kinderen ; Sociale situatie ; Economische ontwikkeling ; Burgeroorlogen ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Children's Studies ; Uganda ; Uganda ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: How can children simultaneously be the most important and least powerful people in a nation? In her innovative ethnography of Ugandan children?the pillars of tomorrow?s Uganda, according to the national youth anthem?Kristen E. Cheney answers this question by exploring the daily contradictions children face as they try to find their places amid the country?s rapidly changing social conditions. Drawing on the detailed life histories of several children, Cheney shows that children and childhood are being redefined by the desires of a young country struggling to position itself in the internationa
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: the role of Ugandan child citizens in the struggle for national developmentGlobal rights discourses, national developments, and local childhoods -- Crucial components of child citizenship -- "Education for all": the dilemma of children's educational attainment, national development, and class mobility -- "Speaking the English of a Ugandan person": the intersections of children's identity formation -- Children's political socialization: engagement and disempowerment -- Actualizations -- "Village life is better than town life": identity, migration, and development in the lives of Ugandan child citizens -- "Our children have only known war": the predicament of children and childhood in northern Uganda -- "Did the constitution produce my children!?" Cultural production and contestation in Uganda's national primary school music festivals -- Epilogue.
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    Marriage and cohabitation (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226798684 , 0226798682
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (ix, 443 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Population and development
    Parallel Title: Print version Marriage and cohabitation
    DDC: 306.81097309045
    Keywords: Marriage United States ; Unmarried couples United States ; Young adults Attitudes ; United States ; Mariage États-Unis ; Couples non mariés États-Unis ; Jeunes adultes Attitudes ; États-Unis ; Unmarried couples ; Young adults Attitudes ; Marriage ; Marriage ; Unmarried couples ; Young adults Attitudes ; Young adults ; Attitudes ; Ehe ; Eheähnliche Gemeinschaft ; Soziale Situation ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Marriage ; Marriage ; Social conditions ; Unmarried couples ; United States Social conditions ; 1945- ; États-Unis Conditions sociales ; 1945- ; United States ; United States Social conditions 1945- ; United States Social conditions 1945- ; USA ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In an era when half of marriages end in divorce, cohabitation has become more commonplace, and those who do get married are doing so at an older age. So why do people marry when they do? And why do some couples choose to cohabit? A team of expert family sociologists examines these timely questions in Marriage and Cohabitation, the result of their research over the last decade on the issue of union formation. Situating their argument in the context of the Western world's 500-year history of marriage, the authors reveal what factors encourage marriage and cohabitation in a contemporary society where the end of adolescence is no longer signaled by entry into the marital home. While some people still choose to marry young, others elect to cohabit with varying degrees of commitment or intentions of eventual marriage. The authors' controversial findings suggest that family history, religious affiliation, values, projected education, lifetime earnings, and career aspirations all tip the scales in favor of either cohabitation or marriage
    Description / Table of Contents: IntroductionHistorical perspectives on marriage -- Comparing marriage, cohabitation, and being single -- Entering marital and cohabiting unions -- Influence of parental youth factors before birth of study child -- Influence of parental factors during childhood and adolescence of the children -- The courtship process and union formation -- Religious affiliation and commitment -- The influence of attitudes, values, and beliefs -- Educational influences -- Work, earnings potential, and career aspiration -- Conclusions.
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    Caribbean pleasure industry : tourism, sexuality, and AIDS in the Dominican Republic (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226644370 , 0226644375
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xvii, 294 p.) , ill., map.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Worlds of desire
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Padilla, Mark, 1969- Caribbean pleasure industry
    DDC: 306.7662097293
    Keywords: Sex tourism Dominican Republic ; AIDS (Disease) Dominican Republic ; Gender identity Dominican Republic ; AIDS (Disease) ; Gender identity ; Sex tourism ; Sex tourism Dominicaanse Republiek ; Dominican Republic ; AIDS (Disease) ; Gender identity ; Sex tourism ; Seksualiteit ; Toerisme ; AIDS ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gay Studies ; Dominican Republic ; Dominicaanse Republiek ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In recent years, the economy of the Caribbean has become almost completely dependent on international tourism. And today one of the chief ways that foreign visitors there seek pleasure is through prostitution. While much has been written on the female sex workers who service these tourists, Caribbean Pleasure Industry shifts the focus onto the men. Drawing on his groundbreaking ethnographic research in the Dominican Republic, Mark Padilla discovers a complex world where the global political and economic impact of tourism has led to shifting sexual identities andgrowing economic pressures
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    Worries of the heart : widows, family, and community in Kenya (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226554228 , 0226554228
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiii, 256 p.) , ill., maps.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Worries of the heart
    DDC: 306.8830967628
    Keywords: Widows Social conditions ; Kenya ; Maragoli ; Women Social conditions ; Kenya ; Maragoli ; Families Kenya ; Maragoli ; Widows Social conditions ; Women Social conditions ; Families ; Families ; Widows Social conditions ; Women Social conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; Marriage & Family ; Colonial influence ; Families ; Widows ; Social conditions ; Women ; Social conditions ; Kenya Colonial influence ; Kenya ; Kenya ; Maragoli ; Kenya Colonial influence ; Kenya Colonial influence ; Kenya ; Maragoli ; Kenya ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Growing up in the Maragoli community in Kenya, Kenda Mutongi encountered a perplexing contradiction. While the young teachers at her village school railed against colonialism, many of her elders, including her widowed mother, praised their former British masters. In this moving book, Mutongi explores how both the challenges and contradictions of colonial rule and the frustrations and failures of independence shaped the lives of Maragoli widows and their complex relations with each other, their families, and the larger community. Throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, rates
    Description / Table of Contents: Everyday lifeWestern Kenya, 1880-1902 -- Feeble little lads looking for food -- "What harm can an old dry bone do?" -- Lessons in practical Christianity -- Living "in line" -- The impact of gold mining -- Land conflicts in the 1930s -- Family life -- Educating "progressive" sons -- The burden of "progressive" sons -- Cash, cows, and bridewealth -- Domestic education at the girls boarding school -- Moral panic -- Wife beating -- Postcolonial promises -- Citizenship and land rights in postcolonial Kenya -- Rural widows, city widows, and the fight for inheritance.
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    Beautiful democracy : aesthetics and anarchy in a global era (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226096308 , 0226096300
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiii, 287 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Castronovo, Russ, 1965- Beautiful democracy
    DDC: 306.470973
    Keywords: Arts United States ; Democracy United States ; Aesthetics, American ; Arts ; Democracy ; Arts ; Democracy ; Civilization ; Ästhetik ; Demokratie ; ART ; Popular Culture ; Aesthetics, American ; United States Civilization ; United States ; United States Civilization ; USA ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 'Beautiful Democracy' explores the intersection of beauty and violence by examining university lectures and course materials on aesthetics from a century ago, along with riots, acts of domestic terrorism, magic lantern exhibitions and other public spectacles
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    Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226180267
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (592 p.)
    Series Statement: NBER-Universities-National Bureau Confer v.30
    Series Statement: Conference report (Universities--National Bureau Committee for Economic Research) no. 30
    Series Statement: National Bureau of Economic Research Universities-National Bureau Conference Series v.30
    Parallel Title: Print version Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries
    DDC: 301.32
    Keywords: Developing countries -- Population -- Congresses ; Population -- Economic aspects -- Congresses.. ; Developing countries ; Population ; Congresses ; Population ; Economic aspects ; Congresses ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "An extremely important book which contains a number of uniformly excellent papers on a variety of topics relating, to various degrees, to the nexus of demographic-economic interrelationships for presently developing countries."-William J. Serow, Southern Economic Journal "An important landmark in the growing field of economic demography."-Dudley Kirk, Journal of Developing Areas
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Prefatory Note; Introduction; 1. Child Costs and Economic Development; 2. Toward a More General Economic Model of Fertility Determination: Endogenous Preferences and Natural Fertility; 3. Child Mortality and Fertility: Issues in the DemographicTransition of a Migrant Population; 4. An Economic Interpretation of the Decline inFertility in a Rapidly Developing Country: Consequences of Development and Family Planning; 5. Causes and Consequences of Mortality Declines in Less Developed Countries during the Twentieth Century; 6. Internal Migration in Developing Countries: A Survey
    Description / Table of Contents: 7. Interactions of Economic and DemographicHousehold Behavior8. Recent Population Trends in Less DevelopedCountries and Implications for InternalIncome Inequality; 9. A Historical Perspective on Economic Aspectsof the Population Explosion: The Case ofPreindustrial England; List of Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index;
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    Holding On to Reality : The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226066226 , 9780226066233
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (286 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.2
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    Keywords: Communication -- Philosophy ; Information theory ; Reality ; Electronic books ; local ; Communication ; Philosophy ; Information theory ; Reality ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Holding On to Reality is a brilliant history of information, from its inception in the natural world to its role in the transformation of culture to the current Internet mania and is attendant assets and liabilities. Drawing on the history of ideas, the details of information technology, and the boundaries of the human condition, Borgmann illuminates the relationship between things and signs, between reality and information. "[Borgmann] has offered a stunningly clear definition of information in Holding On to Reality. . . . He leaves room for little argument, unless one wants to pose the now vogue objection: I guess it depends on what you mean by nothing."-Paul Bennett, Wired "A superb anecdotal analysis of information for a hype-addled age."-New Scientist "This insightful and poetic reflection on the changing nature of information is a wonderful antidote to much of the current hype about the 'information revolution.' Borgmann reminds us that whatever the reality of our time, we need 'a balance of signs and things' in our lives."-Margaret Wertheim, LA Weekly.
    Abstract: Intro -- Holding On to Reality -- Contents -- Introduction: Information vs. Reality -- Part One Natural Information: Information about Reality -- 1. The Decline of Meaning and the Rise of Information -- 2. The Nature of Information -- 3. Ancestral Information -- 4. From Landmarks to Letters -- 5. The Rise of Literacy -- Part Two Cultural Information: Information for Reality -- 6. Producing Information: Writing and Structure -- 7. Producing Information: Measures and Grids -- 8. Realizing Information: Reading -- 9. Realizing Information: Playing -- 10. Realizing Information: Building -- Part Three Technological Information: Information as Reality -- 11. Elementary Measures -- 12. Basic Structures -- 13. Transparency and Control -- 14. Virtuality and Ambiguity -- 15. Fragility and Noise -- Conclusion: Information and Reality -- Notes -- Index.
    Description / Table of Contents: Holding On to Reality; Contents; Introduction: Information vs. Reality; Part One Natural Information: Information about Reality; 1. The Decline of Meaning and the Rise of Information; 2. The Nature of Information; 3. Ancestral Information; 4. From Landmarks to Letters; 5. The Rise of Literacy; Part Two Cultural Information: Information for Reality; 6. Producing Information: Writing and Structure; 7. Producing Information: Measures and Grids; 8. Realizing Information: Reading; 9. Realizing Information: Playing; 10. Realizing Information: Building
    Description / Table of Contents: Part Three Technological Information: Information as Reality11. Elementary Measures; 12. Basic Structures; 13. Transparency and Control; 14. Virtuality and Ambiguity; 15. Fragility and Noise; Conclusion: Information and Reality; Notes; Index;
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    The intestines of the state : youth, violence, and belated histories in the Cameroon grassfields (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226026138 , 0226026132
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xviii, 362 p.) , ill., maps
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Intestines of the state
    DDC: 305.89636
    Keywords: Oku (African people) History ; Oku (African people) Politics and government ; Oku (African people) Social life and customs ; Slavery History ; Cameroon ; North-West Province ; Marginality, Social History ; Cameroon ; North-West Province ; Young men Attitudes ; Cameroon ; North-West Province ; Young men Psychology ; Cameroon ; North-West Province ; Oku (African people) History ; Oku (African people) Politics and government ; Oku (African people) Social life and customs ; Slavery History ; Marginality, Social History ; Young men Attitudes ; Young men Psychology ; Slavery History ; Marginality, Social History ; Young men Attitudes ; Young men Psychology ; Oku (African people) Social life and customs ; Oku (African people) History ; Oku (African people) Politics and government ; Marginality, Social ; Oku (African people) ; Slavery ; Social conditions ; Young men ; Attitudes ; Young men ; Psychology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; African American Studies ; History ; North-West Province (Cameroon) History ; North-West Province (Cameroon) Social conditions ; North-West Province (Cameroon) Social conditions ; North-West Province (Cameroon) History ; North-West Province (Cameroon) Social conditions ; North-West Province (Cameroon) History ; Cameroon ; North-West Province ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The young people of the Cameroon Grassfields have been subject to a long history of violence and political marginalization. For centuries the main victims of the slave trade, they became prime targets for forced labor campaigns under a series of colonial rulers. Today?s youth remain at the bottom of the fiercely hierarchical and polarized societies of the Grassfields, and it is their response to centuries of exploitation that Nicolas Argenti takes up in this absorbing and original book. Beginning his study with a political analysis of youth in the Grassfields from the eighteenth century to the
    Description / Table of Contents: Centuries of youth : remembering, incorporation, and the reclamation of historyKings, slaves, and floating populations : discourses of centrality and marginality in the precolonial era -- Masks of terror and the subjection of cadets -- Aurora colonialis : German imperialism and the modernity of slavery -- Embodied histories : royal investiture, masking, and remembering -- From slaves to free boys : cadets' resistance to gerontocratic, colonial, and postcolonial authority -- The death of tears : mortuary rites and the indeterminacy of dance -- Dancing death : memorial celebrations, the politics of ritual laughter, and the embodied memories of youth -- Histories of the present, histories of the future.
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    Studies in the Economics of Aging (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780226903316
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (472 pages)
    Series Statement: National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report
    DDC: 305.26
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    QX 400
    Keywords: Bevölkerungsökonomie ; Alter ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Studies in the Economics of Aging is the fourth book in a series from the National Bureau of Economic Research that addresses economic issues in aging and retirement. Building on the research in The Economics of Aging (1989), Issues in the Economics of Aging (1990), and Topics in the Economics of Aging (1992), this volume examines elderly population growth and government spending, life expectancy and health, saving for retirement and housing values, aging in Germany and Taiwan, and the utilization of nursing home and other long-term care.
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    Themes in the Economics of Aging (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780226903330
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (412 pages)
    Series Statement: National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
    DDC: 305.26
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: In the past few years, the economic ramifications of aging have garnered close attention from a group of NBER researchers led by David A. Wise. In this volume, Wise and his collaborators continue to analyze a nexus of age-related issues. This volume begins by looking at the implications of private and public personal retirement plans, focusing in particular on the impact of 401(k) programs on retirement strategies in light of potential social security reform and factors such as annuitization and on asset accumulation. Next, the often-observed relationship between health and wealth is dissected from two different perspectives and correlated with striking increases in health-care spending over the past two decades, despite the improved health of older populations. The volume concludes with an investigation of the retirement effects of various social security provisions in both U.S. and German systems. This carefully developed collection expands the current investigative focus and broadens the dialogue on a rapidly growing area of social and economic concern.
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    The Politics of Small Things : The Power of the Powerless in Dark Times (2006)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226301112
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (175 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Print version The Politics of Small Things : The Power of the Powerless in Dark Times
    DDC: 306.2
    Keywords: Political sociology ; Politics and culture ; Social interaction ; Political aspects ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Political change doesn't always begin with a bang; it often starts with just a whisper. From the discussions around kitchen tables that led to the dismantling of the Soviet bloc to the more recent emergence of Internet initiatives like MoveOn.org and Redeem the Vote that are revolutionizing the American political landscape, consequential political life develops in small spaces where dialogue generates political power. In The Politics of Small Things, Jeffrey Goldfarb provides an innovative way for understanding politics, a way of appreciating the significance of politics at the micro level by comparatively analyzing key turning points and institutions in recent history. He presents a sociology of human interactions that lead from small to large: dissent around the old Soviet bloc; life on the streets in Warsaw, Prague, and Bucharest in 1989; the network of terror that spawned 9/11; and the religious and Internet mobilizations that transformed the 2004 presidential election, to name a few. In such pivotal moments, he masterfully shows, political autonomy can be generated, presenting alternatives to the big politics of the global stage and the dominant narratives of terrorism, antiterrorism, and globalization.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: In the Shadow of Big Things -- Theorizing the Kitchen Table and Other Small Things -- 1968: Theater of Truth -- 1989: New Definitions of the Situation -- 2001: Narratives in Conflict -- 2004: Small Things + the Internet = Alternatives -- 2004: The Church, the Right, and the Politics of Small Things -- Institutions: Democracy in the Details -- The Presentation of Self in the Age of Electronic Communications -- Conclusion: The Politics of the Politics of Small Things -- Notes -- Index.
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    Walter Benjamin's grave (2006)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226790008 , 0226790002
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 245 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Walter Benjamin's grave
    DDC: 301.0723
    Keywords: Anthropology Fieldwork ; Anthropologie Recherche sur le terrain ; Electronic books ; Anthropology Fieldwork ; Anthropology Fieldwork ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Regional Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General ; Anthropology ; Fieldwork ; Anthropologie ; Feldforschung ; Society
    Abstract: Pursuing an adventure that is part ethnography, part autobiography, and part cultural criticism refracted through the object that is Walter Benjamin's grave, Taussig, with this collection, provides his own literary memorial to the 20th century's greatest cultural critic
    Description / Table of Contents: Walter Benjamin's graveConstructing America -- The sun gives without receiving -- The beach (a fantasy) -- Viscerality, faith, and skepticism : another theory of magic -- Transgression -- NYPD blues -- The language of flowers.
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    From counterculture to cyberculture : Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the rise of digital utopianism (2006)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226817439
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 327 Seiten) , Illustrationen , 24 cm
    Edition: Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Turner, Fred, 1961 - From counterculture to cyberculture
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Turner, Fred, 1961 - From counterculture to cyberculture
    DDC: 303.48/33
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    Keywords: Brand, Stewart ; Brand, Stewart ; Brand Stewart ; Whole earth catalog (New York, N.Y.) ; Whole earth catalog ; Technology Social aspects ; Subculture History 20th century ; Computer networks Social aspects ; Information technology History 20th century ; Computers and civilization ; Counterculture History 20th century ; Computer networks Social aspects ; Computers and civilization ; Counterculture United States ; History ; 20th century ; Information technology History ; 20th century ; Subculture California ; San Francisco ; History ; 20th century ; Technology Social aspects ; California, Northern ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Informationstechnik ; Geschichte ; Gegenkultur ; Informationsgesellschaft ; Brand, Stewart 1938- ; Informationstechnik ; Geschichte ; Subkultur ; Gegenkultur ; Informationsgesellschaft ; Neue Medien ; USA ; Informationsgesellschaft ; Geschichte 1900- ; Brand, Stewart 1938-
    Abstract: In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial complex possible. But by the 1990s-and the dawn of the Internet-computers started to represent a very different kind of world: a collaborative and digital utopia modeled on the communal ideals of the hippies who so vehemently rebelled against the cold war establishment in the first place. From Counterculture to Cyberculture is the first book to explore this extraordinary and ironic transformation. F
    Description / Table of Contents: AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1.The shifting politics of the computational metaphor2.Stewart Brand meets the cybernetic counterculture3.The Whole Earth Catalog as information technology4.Taking the whole earth digital5.Virtuality and community on the WELL6.Networking the new economy7.Wired8.The triumph of the network modeNotesBibliographyIndex.
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Shifting Politics of the Computational Metaphor; Stewart Brand Meets the Cybernetic Counterculture; The Whole Earth Catalog as Information Technology; Taking the Whole Earth Digital; Virtuality and Community on the WELL; Networking the New Economy; Wired; The Triumph of the Network Mode; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    Secrets, sex, and spectacle : the rules of scandal in Japan and the United States (2006)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226894119 , 0226894118
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (ix, 404 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Secrets, sex, and spectacle
    DDC: 302.24
    Keywords: Scandals Japan ; Law Japan ; Scandals United States ; Law United States ; Scandals ; Law ; Scandals ; Law ; Law ; Scandals ; Scandals ; Law ; Law ; Manners and customs ; Scandals ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Communication Studies ; Japan Social life and customs ; United States Social life and customs ; Japan ; United States ; Japan Social life and customs ; United States Social life and customs ; Japan Social life and customs ; United States Social life and customs ; United States ; Japan ; Electronic books
    Abstract: A leader of a global superpower is betrayed by his mistress, who makes public the sordid details of their secret affair. His wife stands by as he denies the charges. Debates over definitions of moral leadership ensue. Sound familiar? If you guessed Clinton and Lewinsky, try again. This incident involved former Japanese prime minister Sosuke Uno and a geisha. In Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle, Mark D. West organizes the seemingly random worlds of Japanese and American scandal?from corporate fraud to baseball cheaters, political corruption to celebrity sexcapades?to explore well-ingrained similarit
    Description / Table of Contents: PlayersPrivacy and honor -- Groups -- Individuals -- Sex -- Apology.
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    Never saw it coming : cultural challenges to envisioning the worst (2006)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 0226100294 , 9780226100296 , 9780226100326 , 9780226100333
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 333 p.)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302/.12
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    Keywords: PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology ; Catastrophical, The ; Cognition and culture ; Knowledge, Sociology of ; Social psychology ; Catastrophical, The ; Cognition and culture ; Social psychology ; Knowledge, Sociology of ; Kognition ; Katastrophe ; Sozialpsychologie ; Electronic books ; Katastrophe ; Kognition ; Sozialpsychologie
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-314) and index , What's the worst that could happen? -- The breadth and scope of positive asymmetry -- Practicing positive asymmetry -- Positive asymmetry and the subjective side of scientific measurement -- Being labeled the worst : real in its consequences? -- Exceptions to the rule -- Emancipating structures and cognitive styles -- Can symmetrical vision be achieved? , People?especially Americans?are by and large optimists. They're much better at imagining best-case scenarios (I could win the lottery!) than worst-case scenarios (A hurricane could destroy my neighborhood!). This is true not just of their approach to imagining the future, but of their memories as well: people are better able to describe the best moments of their lives than they are the worst. Though there are psychological reasons for this phenomenon, Karen A.Cerulo, in Never Saw It Coming, considers instead the role of society in fostering this attitude. What kinds of communities develop this
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    Never saw it coming : cultural challenges to envisioning the worst (2006)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226100296 , 0226100294
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (ix, 333 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Cerulo, Karen A Never saw it coming
    DDC: 302.12
    Keywords: Catastrophical, The ; Cognition and culture ; Social psychology ; Knowledge, Sociology of ; PSYCHOLOGY ; Social Psychology ; Catastrophical, The ; Cognition and culture ; Knowledge, Sociology of ; Social psychology ; Electronic books
    Abstract: People?especially Americans?are by and large optimists. They're much better at imagining best-case scenarios (I could win the lottery!) than worst-case scenarios (A hurricane could destroy my neighborhood!). This is true not just of their approach to imagining the future, but of their memories as well: people are better able to describe the best moments of their lives than they are the worst. Though there are psychological reasons for this phenomenon, Karen A.Cerulo, in Never Saw It Coming, considers instead the role of society in fostering this attitude. What kinds of communities develop this
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    Getting your way : strategic dilemmas in the real world (2006)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226394749 , 0226394743
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 234 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.3/42
    Keywords: Interaction sociale ; Stratégie (Philosophie) ; Motivation (Psychologie) ; Résolution de problème ; Persuasion (Psychologie) ; Choix (Psychologie) ; Habiletés de base ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Leadership ; Choice (Psychology) ; Life skills ; Motivation (Psychology) ; Persuasion (Psychology) ; Problem solving ; Social interaction ; Strategy (Philosophy) ; Probleemoplossing ; Social choice ; Sociale interactie ; Führung ; Social interaction ; Strategy (Philosophy) ; Motivation (Psychology) ; Problem solving ; Persuasion (Psychology) ; Choice (Psychology) ; Life skills ; Interaktion ; Electronic books ; Interaktion
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Starting points -- Threats -- Goals -- Capacities -- Players as audiences -- Arenas , Getting other people to do what we want is a useful skill for anyone. Whether you're seeking a job, negotiating a deal, or angling for that big promotion, you're engaged in strategic thought and action. In such moments, you imagine what might be going on in another person's head and how they'll react to what you do or say. At the same time, you also try to pick the best way to realize your goals, both with and without the other person's cooperation. Getting Your Way teaches us how to win that game by offering a fuller understanding of how strategy works in the real world. As we all know, rules
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    On the frontier of adulthood : theory, research, and public policy (2005)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226748924 , 0226748928
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (591 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation series on mental health and development. Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood and Public Policy
    Parallel Title: Print version On the frontier of adulthood
    DDC: 305.242
    Keywords: Young adults United States ; Youth United States ; Jeunes adultes ; Jeunes adultes États-Unis ; Jeunesse ; Jeunesse États-Unis ; Adultes Verenigde Staten ; États-Unis ; United States ; Adolescence ; Adolescence ; Young adults ; Youth ; Adulthood ; Young adults ; Youth ; Adolescence ; Youth ; Adulthood ; Youth ; Young adults ; Young adults ; Youth ; Jongvolwassenen ; Jeune adulte ; Transition ; Adolescence ; Adulte ; Adolescence ; Adulthood ; Young adults ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Life Stages ; General ; Verenigde Staten ; États-Unis ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: On the Frontier of Adulthood reveals a startling new fact: adulthood no longer begins when adolescence ends. A lengthy period before adulthood, often spanning the twenties and even extending into the thirties, is now devoted to further education, job exploration, experimentation in romantic relationships, and personal development. Especially dramatic shifts have occurred in the conventional markers of adulthood?leaving home, finishing school, getting a job, getting married, and having children?and in how these experiences are configured as a set. This volume considers the nature and consequenc
    Description / Table of Contents: On the frontier of adulthood : emerging themes and new directions / Frank F. Furstenberg Jr., Rubén G. Rumbaut, and Richard A. Settersten Jr.The transition to adulthood during the twentieth century : race, nativity, and gender / Elizabeth Fussell and Frank F. Furstenberg Jr. -- American women's transition to adulthood in comparative perspective / Elizabeth Fussell and Anne H. Gauthier -- Historical roots of family diversity : marital and childbearing trajectories of American women / Lawrence L. Wu and Jui-Chung Allen Li -- Historical trends in patterns of time use among young adults in developed countries / Anne H. Gauthier and Frank F. Furstenberg Jr. -- Generation gaps in attitudes and values from the 1970s to the 1990s / Tom W. Smith -- Subjective age identity and the transition to adulthood : when do adolescents become adults? / Michael J. Shanahan ... [et al.] -- Sequences of early adult transitions : a look at variability and consequences / Ted Mouw -- Off to a good start? Postsecondary education and early adult life / Gary D. Sandefur, Jennifer Eggerling-Boeck, and Hyunjoon Park -- Six paths to adulthood : fast starters, parents without careers, educated partners, educated singles, working singles, and slow starters / D. Wayne Osgood ... [et al.] -- Is it getting harder to get ahead? Economic attainment in early adulthood for two cohorts / Mary Corcoran and Jordan Matsudaira -- Material assistance from families during the transition to adulthood / Robert F. Schoeni and Karen E. Ross -- Early adult transitions and their relation to well-being and substance use / John Schulenberg ... [et al.] -- The ever-winding path : ethnic and racial diversity in the transition to adulthood / John Mollenkopf ... [et al.] -- The transition to adulthood for youth leaving public systems : challenges to policies and research / E. Michael Foster and Elizabeth J. Gifford -- Social policy and the transition to adulthood : toward stronger institutions and individual capacities / Richard A. Settersten Jr.
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    Holistic Darwinism : synergy, cybernetics, and the bioeconomics of evolution (2005)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226116334 , 0226116336
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (viii, 546 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Corning, Peter A., 1935- Holistic Darwinism
    DDC: 303.4
    Keywords: Évolution sociale ; Évolution économique, Théorie de l' ; Sociobiologie Electronic books ; Social evolution ; Evolutionary economics ; Sociobiology ; Science: Biology Natural History ; Science ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Evolutionary economics ; Social evolution ; Sociobiology ; Soziale Evolution ; Soziobiologie ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In recent years, evolutionary theorists have come to recognize that the reductionist, individualist, gene-centered approach to evolution cannot sufficiently account for the emergence of complex biological systems over time. Peter A. Corning has been at the forefront of a new generation of complexity theorists who have been working to reshape the foundations of evolutionary theory. Well known for his Synergism Hypothesis--a theory of complexity in evolution that assigns a key causal role to various forms of functional synergy--Corning puts this theory into a much broader framework in Holistic Dar
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    Analyses in the economics of aging (2005)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226903217 , 0226903214
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (ix, 424 p.) , ill., map.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: NBER conference report
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Analyses in the economics of aging
    DDC: 305.26
    Keywords: Aging Congresses ; Economic aspects ; Older people Congresses ; Economic conditions ; Older people Congresses ; Economic conditions ; United States ; Retirement income Congresses ; Older people Congresses ; Medical care ; Costs ; Medicare Congresses ; Vieillissement Congrès ; Aspect économique ; Personnes âgées Congrès ; Conditions économiques ; Personnes âgées Congrès ; Conditions économiques ; États-Unis ; Revenu de retraite Congrès ; Personnes âgées Congrès ; Soins médicaux ; Coût ; Medicare Congrès ; Aging Congresses Economic aspects ; Older people Congresses Economic conditions ; Older people Congresses Economic conditions ; Retirement income Congresses ; Older people Congresses Medical care ; Costs ; Medicare Congresses ; Aged ; Congresses ; Aged ; Statistics ; Economics ; Congresses ; Economics ; Statistics ; Cross-Cultural Comparison ; Congresses ; Cross-Cultural Comparison ; Statistics ; Health Status ; Congresses ; Health Status ; Statistics ; Retirement ; Congresses ; economics ; Retirement ; Statistics ; economics ; Socioeconomic Factors ; Congresses ; Socioeconomic Factors ; Statistics ; Statistics ; Electronic books ; Aged ; Economics ; Retirement ; Economics ; Cross-Cultural Comparison ; Health Status ; Retirement economics ; Socioeconomic Factors ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gerontology ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Aging ; Aging ; Economic aspects ; Medicare ; Older people ; Economic conditions ; Older people ; Medical care ; Costs ; Retirement income ; Conference papers and proceedings ; Conference papers and proceedings ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic book ; Statistics ; Congress ; Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift ; Electronic books ; Statistics
    Abstract: Analyses in the Economics of Aging summarizes a massive amount of new research on several popular and less-examined topics pertaining to the relationship between economics and aging. Among the many themes explored in this volume, considerable attention is given to new research on retirement savings, the cost and efficiency of medical resources, and the predictors of health events. The volume begins with a discussion of the risks and merits of 401(k) plans. Subsequent chapters present recent analysis of the growth of Medicare costs; the different aspects of disability; and the evolution of heal
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    Money, Morals, and Manners : The Culture of the French and the American Upper-Middle Class (1994)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226468150
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (352 p)
    Series Statement: Morality and Society Series
    Parallel Title: Print version Money, Morals, and Manners : The Culture of the French and the American Upper-Middle Class
    DDC: 305.550944
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Contents ""; ""Tables and Maps""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Note to the Reader""; ""Prologue. Sketching the Landscape: Some Illustrative Vignettes ""; ""Chapter One. The Questions and the Stage ""; ""Chapter Two. The Importance of Being Honest: Keys to Moral Boundaries ""; ""Chapter Three. The World of Success, Money, and Power: Keys to Socioeconomic Boundaries ""; ""Chapter Four. Most of My Friends are Refined: Keys to Cultural Boundaries ""; ""Chapter Five. Explaining National Differences ""; ""Chapter Six. The Nature of Internal Class Boundaries ""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Chapter Seven. Implications, Contributions, and Unanswered Questions """"Appendix I. Surveying the French and American Upper-Middle Classes ""; ""Appendix II. The Research Sites ""; ""Appendix III. Research Procedures ""; ""Appendix IV. Rankings of Respondents on the Cultural, Moral, and Socioeconomic Dimensions ""; ""Notes ""; ""Bibliography ""; ""Index ""
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    Lives on the Edge : Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America (1994)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226671833
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (233 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Lives on the Edge : Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America
    DDC: 306.856
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    Abstract: One out of five children, and one out of two single mothers, lives in destitution in America today. The feminization and ""infantilization"" of poverty have made the United States one of the most dangerous democracies for poor mothers and their children to inhabit. Why then, Valerie Polakow asks, is poverty seen as a private issue, and how can public policy fail to take responsibility for the consequences of our politics of distribution? Written by a committed child advocate, Lives on the Edge draws on social, historical, feminist, and public policy perspectives to develop an informed, wide-ra
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One; Prologue; 1. Childhood Revisited; 2. Motherhood and the Ideology of Care; Part Two; Prologue; 3. The Other Motherhood: The Landscape of Single Mothers in Poverty; 4. Young Mothers' Stories: Being Teenage, Black, and Single; 5. Mothers' Stories: Contingency Continued; Part Three; Prologue; 6. Inside Public Preschools: A View from Below; 7. The Classroom Worlds of At-Risk Children: Five Portraits; 8. Poor Children's Pedagogy: The Construction of At-Risk Students; 9. Lives on the Edge; Afterword: Some Reflections on the Future
    Description / Table of Contents: Appendix: Some Notes on MethodNotes; Index
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    Civilization without sexes : reconstructing gender in postwar France, 1917-1927 (1994)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226721279 , 0226721272 , 9780226721217 , 0226721213
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiv, 337 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Women in culture and society
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Roberts, Mary Louise Civilization without sexes
    DDC: 305.30944
    Keywords: Sex role History ; 20th century ; France ; Women Social conditions ; France ; World War, 1914-1918 Social aspects ; France ; World War, 1914-1918 Women ; France ; World War, 1914-1918 Social aspects ; World War, 1914-1918 Women ; Sex role History 20th century ; Women Social conditions ; World War, 1914-1918 France ; Sex role ; Women ; Social aspects ; Women ; Social conditions ; Vrouwen ; Sekserol ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gender Studies ; History ; France ; Electronic books History ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: In the raucous decade following World War I, newly blurred boundaries between male and female created fears among the French that theirs was becoming a civilization without sexes. This new gender confusion became a central metaphor for the War's impact on French culture and led to a marked increase in public debate concerning female identity and woman's proper role. Mary Louise Roberts examines how in these debates French society came to grips with the catastrophic horrors of the Great War. In sources as diverse as parliamentary records, newspaper articles, novels, medical texts, writings on se
    Note: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Brown University), 1990. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-330) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    Aging in the United States and Japan : economic trends (1994)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226590219 , 0226590216
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (viii, 203 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Aging in the United States and Japan
    DDC: 305.260952
    Keywords: Older people Congresses ; Economic conditions ; United States ; Older people Congresses ; Economic conditions ; Japan ; Older people Congresses ; Social conditions ; United States ; Older people Congresses ; Social conditions ; Japan ; Older people Congresses ; Housing ; United States ; Older people Congresses ; Housing ; Japan ; Older people Congresses Social conditions ; Older people Congresses Social conditions ; Older people Congresses Housing ; Older people Congresses Housing ; Older people Congresses Economic conditions ; Older people Congresses Economic conditions ; Ancianos Condiciones económicas ; Congresos ; Japón ; Ancianos Condiciones sociales ; Congresos ; EE. UU ; Ancianos Condiciones sociales ; Congresos ; Japón ; Ancianos Vivienda ; EE. UU ; Congresos ; Ancianos Vivienda ; Japón ; Congresos ; Japan ; United States ; Veroudering (demografie) ; Huisvesting ; Pensioen ; Older people ; Housing ; Older people ; Social conditions ; Conference papers and proceedings ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gerontology ; Electronic books ; Conference papers and proceedings ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Aging ; Older people ; Economic conditions ; United States ; Japan ; Electronic books ; Electronic books Conference proceedings ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: Japanese and American economists assess the present economic status of the elderly in the United States and Japan, and consider the impact of an aging population on the economies of the two countries. With essays on labor force participation and retirement, housing equity and the economic status of the elderly, budget implications of an aging population, and financing social security and health care in the 1990s, this volume covers a broad spectrum of issues related to the economics of aging. Among the book's findings are that workers are retiring at an increasingly earlier age in both countri
    Note: Papers presented at a conference in Tokyo sponsored jointly by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Japan Center for Economic Research. - Includes bibliographical references and indexes. - Description based on print version record
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    Studies in the economics of aging (1994)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 0226903311 , 9780226903316
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 456 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: A National Bureau of Economic Research project report
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Studies in the economics of aging
    DDC: 305.26
    Keywords: Aging Congresses ; Economic aspects ; Old age Congresses ; Economic aspects ; Retirement Congresses ; Economic aspects ; Retirement Congresses Economic aspects ; Aging Congresses Economic aspects ; Old age Congresses Economic aspects ; Aging Economic aspects ; Old age Economic aspects ; Retirement Economic aspects ; Ouderen ; Economische aspecten ; Conference papers and proceedings ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gerontology ; Electronic books ; Conference papers and proceedings ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Aging ; Pensionering ; Electronic books ; Electronic books Conference proceedings ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: Introduction / David Wise -- The impact of the demographic transition on government spending / Shoven, Topper, Wise ; Comment / Hurd -- Methods for projecting the future size and health status of the U.S. elderly population / Manton, Stallard, Singer -- Longer life expectancy? Evidence from Sweden of reductions in mortality rates at advanced ages / Vaupel, Lundstrom ; Comment (ch. 2 and 3) / Diamond, Hurd -- 401(k) plans and tax-deferred saving / Poterba, Venti, Wise ; Comment / Skinner -- Some thoughts on savings / Edward P. Lazear ; Comment / Skinner ; Comment (ch. 4 and 5) / Bernheim -- Pension plan provisions and retirement: Men and women, Medicare, and models / Lumsdaine, Stock, Wise ; Comment / Rust, Smith -- Demographics, the housing market, and the welfare of the elderly / McFadden ; Comment / N. Gregory Mankiw -- Aging in Germany and the United States: International comparisons / Axel Borsch-Supan ; Comment / N. Gregory Mankiw -- Saving, Growth and Aging in Taiwan / Deaton, Paxson ; Comment / Jonathan Skinner -- forecasting nursing home utilization of elderly Americans / Dick, Garber, MaCurdy -- Policy options for long-term care / Cutler, Sheiner ; Comment (ch. 10 and 11) / Jonathan Feinstein.
    Note: Papers presented at a National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on the Economics of Aging in May 1992, held at St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. - Includes bibliographical references and indexes. - Description based on print version record
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    The electronic word : democracy, technology, and the arts (1993)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226469126 , 0226469123 , 0226468836 , 9780226468839 , 0226468844 , 9780226468846 , 0226468852 , 9780226468853
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xv, 285 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Lanham, Richard A Electronic word
    DDC: 303.4834
    Keywords: Ordinateurs et civilisation ; Computers and civilization ; Social Science ; COMPUTERS ; Social Aspects ; General ; Computers and civilization ; Computers ; Maatschappij ; Elektronische informatie ; Datenverarbeitung ; Schriftliche Kommunikation ; Demokratisierung ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The personal computer has revolutionized communication, and digitized text has introduced a radically new medium of expression. Interactive, volatile, mixing word and image, the electronic word challenges our assumptions about the shape of culture itself. This highly acclaimed collection of Richard Lanham's witty, provocative, and engaging essays surveys the effects of electronic text on the arts and letters. Lanham explores how electronic text fulfills the expressive agenda of twentieth-century visual art and music, revolutionizes the curriculum, democratizes the instruments of art, and poses
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    Women, the Family, and Peasant Revolution in China. (1992)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226401942
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (294 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Print version Women, the Family, and Peasant Revolution in China
    DDC: 305.4/0951
    Keywords: China ; Rural conditions ; Confucianism ; China ; History ; Families ; China ; History ; Socialism ; China ; History ; Women peasants ; China ; History ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Kay Ann Johnson provides much-needed information about women and gender equality under Communist leadership. She contends that, although the Chinese Communist Party has always ostensibly favored women's rights and family reform, it has rarely pushed for such reforms. In reality, its policies often have reinforced the traditional role of women to further the Party's predominant economic and military aims. Johnson's primary focus is on reforms of marriage and family because traditional marriage, family, and kinship practices have had the greatest influence in defining and shaping women's place in Chinese society. Conversant with current theory in political science, anthropology, and Marxist and feminist analysis, Johnson writes with clarity and discernment free of dogma. Her discussions of family reform ultimately provide insights into the Chinese government's concern with decreasing the national birth rate, which has become a top priority. Johnson's predictions of a coming crisis in population control are borne out by the recent increase in female infanticide and the government abortion campaign.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Prerevolutionary Setting -- 1. Women and the Traditional Chinese Family -- 2. The Twentieth-Century Family Crisis -- 2 Women and the Family in the Chinese Revolution, 1921-49 -- 3. Women and the Party: The Early Years, 1921-27 -- 4. The Kiangsi Soviet Period, 1929-34 -- 5. The Yenan Experience and the Final Civil War, 1936-49 -- 6. Legacies of the Revolutionary Era -- 3 Family Reform in the People's Republic, 1950-53 -- 7. The Politics of Family Reform -- 8. Land Reform and Women's Rights -- 9. The 1950 Marriage Law: Popular Resistance and Organizational Neglect -- 10. The 1953 Marriage Law Campaign -- 4 Women, the Family and the Chinese Road to Socialism, 1955-80 -- 11. Collectivization and the Mobilization of Female Labor -- 12. The Cultural Revolution -- 13. The Anti-Confucian Campaign -- 14. Current Rural Practice -- 15. Conclusion: Family Reform-the Uncompleted Task -- Appendix: The 1950 Marriage Law -- Notes -- Index.
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    Topics in the economics of aging (1992)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 0226903346 , 9780226903347
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (ix, 315 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: National Bureau of Economic Research project report
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Topics in the economics of aging
    DDC: 305.260973
    Keywords: Older people Congresses ; Economic conditions ; United States ; Older people Congresses ; Economic conditions ; Old age Congresses ; Economic aspects ; United States ; Old age Congresses ; Economic aspects ; Retirement Congresses ; Economic aspects ; United States ; Retirement Congresses ; Economic aspects ; United States ; Older people Congresses Economic conditions ; Older people Congresses Economic conditions ; Old age Congresses Economic aspects ; Old age Congresses Economic aspects ; Retirement Congresses Economic aspects ; Retirement Congresses Economic aspects ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Aging ; Old age ; Economic aspects ; Older people ; Economic conditions ; Retirement ; Economic aspects ; Pensioen ; Ouderdom ; Economische aspecten ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gerontology ; Conference papers and proceedings ; Electronic books ; Conference papers and proceedings ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books Conference proceedings ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: The original essays and commentary in this volume?the third in a series reporting the results of the NBER Economics of Aging Program?address issues that are of particular importance to the well-being of individuals as they age and to a society at large that is composed increasingly of older persons. The contributors examine social security reform, including an analysis of the Japanese system; present the startling finding that the vast majority of people choose the wrong accumulation strategies for their pension plans; explore the continuing consequences of the decline in support of parents by
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    Science as practice and culture (1992)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226668208 , 0226668207
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 474 pages) , Diagramme
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    DDC: 303.48/3
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    Keywords: Wittgenstein, Ludwig ; Wittgenstein, Ludwig ; Conocimiento, Teoría del ; Sciences / Aspect social ; Connaissance, Théorie de la ; SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects ; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects ; Knowledge, Theory of ; Science / Social aspects ; Wetenschapssociologie ; Kennissociologie ; Sciences / Étude et enseignement ; Sciences / Aspect social ; Théorie de la connaissance ; Sociologie des sciences ; Kultur ; Technologietransfer ; Wissenschaftssoziologie ; Gesellschaft ; Naturwissenschaft ; Science Social aspects ; Knowledge, Theory of ; Wissenssoziologie ; Technologietransfer ; Wissenschaftssoziologie ; Naturwissenschaften ; Kultur ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Electronic books Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Naturwissenschaften ; Wissenssoziologie ; Wissenschaftssoziologie ; Kultur ; Technologietransfer ; Wittgenstein, Ludwig 1889-1951
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , From science as knowledge to science as practice / Andrew Pickering -- The self-vindication of the laboratory sciences / Ian Hacking -- Putting agency back into experiment / David Gooding -- The couch, the cathedral, and the laboratory : on the relationship between experiment and laboratory in science / Karin Knorr Cetina -- Constructing quaternions : on the analysis of conceptual practice / Andrew Pickering and Adam Stephanides -- Crafting science : standardized packages, boundary objects, and "translation" / Joan H. Fujimura -- Extending Wittgenstein : the pivotal move from epistemology to the sociology of science / Michael Lynch -- Left and right Wittgensteinians / David Bloor -- From the "will to theory" to the discursive collage : a reply to Bloor's "Left and right Wittgensteinians" / Michael Lynch -- Epistemological chicken / H.M. Collins and Steven Yearley , Some remarks about positionism : a reply to Collins and Yearley / Steve Woolgar -- Don't throw the baby out with the bath school! : a reply to Collins and Yearley / Michel Callon and Bruno Latour -- Journey into space / H.M. Collins and Steven Yearley -- Social epistemology and the research agenda of science studies / Steve Fuller -- Border crossings : narrative strategies in science studies and among physicists in Tsukuba Science City, Japan / Sharon Traweek , Science as Practice and Culture explores one of the newest and most controversial developments within the rapidly changing field of science studies: the move toward studying scientific practice--the work of doing science--and the associated move toward studying scientific culture, understood as the field of resources that practice operates in and on. Andrew Pickering has invited leading historians, philosophers, sociologists, and anthropologists of science to prepare original essays for this volume. The essays range over the physical and biological sciences and mathematics, and are divided into
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    Medieval misogyny and the invention of Western romantic love (1991)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226059907 , 0226059901
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (ix, 298 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Evans, Robert C. [Rezension von: Bloch, R. Howard, Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love] 1993
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bloch, R. Howard Medieval misogyny and the invention of Western romantic love
    DDC: 305.40902
    Keywords: Women History ; Middle Ages, 500-1500 ; Social history Medieval, 500-1500 ; Misogyny History ; Europe ; Patriarchy History ; Europe ; Love History ; Femmes Histoire ; 500-1500 (Moyen Âge) ; Misogynie Histoire ; Europe ; Patriarcat (Sociologie) Histoire ; Europe ; Amour Histoire ; Social history Medieval, 500-1500 ; Misogyny History ; Patriarchy History ; Love History ; Women History Middle Ages, 500-1500 ; Social history ; Women ; Love ; Misogyny ; Patriarchy ; Social history ; Medieval ; Women ; Middle Ages ; Vrouwenhaat ; Liefde ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies ; History ; Europe ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from--or antidote to--ten centuries of misogyny. In this major contribution to gender studies, R. Howard Bloch demonstrates how similar the ubiquitous antifeminism of medieval times and the romantic idealization of woman actually are. Through analyses of a broad range of patristic and medieval texts, Bloch explores the Christian construction of gender in which the flesh is feminized, the feminine is aestheticized, and aesthetics are condemned in theological terms. Tracing the underlying theme of virginity from the Church
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    The construction of homosexuality (1990)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226219813
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Wilcox, Donald J. The Construction of Homosexuality. David F. Greenberg 1990
    Parallel Title: Print version Construction of Homosexuality
    DDC: 306.76/6
    Keywords: Male homosexuality History ; Homosexuality History ; Homosexuality -- History -- Cross-cultural studies.. ; Male homosexuality -- History -- Cross-cultural studies ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Contensts -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Theorizing the Prohibition against Homosexuality -- Part I. Before Homosexuality -- 2 Homosexual Relations in Kinship-Structured Societies -- 3 Inequality and the State: Homosexual Innovations in Archaic Civilizations -- 4 Early Civilizations: Variations on Homosexual Themes -- 5 Sexual Asceticism in the Ancient World -- 6 Feudalism -- Part II. The Construction of Modern Homosexuality -- 7 Repression and the Emergence of Subcultures -- 8 The Rise of Market Economies -- 9 The Medicalization of Homosexuality -- 10 Bureaucracy and Homosexuality -- 11 Gay Liberation -- Epilogue: Under the Sign of Sociology -- References -- Index.
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Contensts""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1 Theorizing the Prohibition against Homosexuality""; ""Part I. Before Homosexuality""; ""2 Homosexual Relations in Kinship-Structured Societies""; ""3 Inequality and the State: Homosexual Innovations in Archaic Civilizations""; ""4 Early Civilizations: Variations on Homosexual Themes""; ""5 Sexual Asceticism in the Ancient World""; ""6 Feudalism""; ""Part II. The Construction of Modern Homosexuality""; ""7 Repression and the Emergence of Subcultures""; ""8 The Rise of Market Economies""; ""9 The Medicalization of Homosexuality""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""10 Bureaucracy and Homosexuality""""11 Gay Liberation""; ""Epilogue: Under the Sign of Sociology""; ""References""; ""Index""
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    Bloodtaking and peacemaking : feud, law, and society in Saga Iceland (1990)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 0226526798 , 9780226526799 , 0226526801 , 9780226526805 , 9780226526829 , 0226526828
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (407 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Miller, William Ian, 1946- Bloodtaking and peacemaking
    DDC: 306.2509491209021
    Keywords: Customary law Iceland ; Kinship (Law) Iceland ; Sagas ; Customary law ; Kinship (Law) ; Jurisprudence ; Kinship (Law) Iceland ; Customary law ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Kinship (Law) ; Sagas ; Sagas ; Sagas ; Iceland ; Iceland ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Dubbed by the New York Times as "one of the most sought-after legal academics in the county," William Ian Miller presents the arcane worlds of the Old Norse studies in a way sure to attract the interest of a wide range of readers. Bloodtaking and Peacemaking delves beneath the chaos and brutality of the Norse world to discover a complex interplay of ordering and disordering impulses. Miller's unique and engaging readings of ancient Iceland's sagas and extensive legal code reconstruct and illuminate the society that produced them. People in the saga world negotiated a maze of violent
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    Issues in the economics of aging (1990)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 0226903265 , 9780226903262
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (viii, 394 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: National Bureau of Economic Research project report
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Issues in the economics of aging
    DDC: 305.26
    Keywords: Old age Congresses ; Economic aspects ; United States ; Retirement Congresses ; Economic aspects ; United States ; Older people Congresses ; Housing ; United States ; Vieillesse Aspect économique ; Congrès ; États-Unis ; Retraite Aspect économique ; Congrès ; États-Unis ; Personnes âgées Logement ; Congrès ; États-Unis ; United States ; Old age Congresses Economic aspects ; Retirement Congresses Economic aspects ; Older people Congresses Housing ; Old age ; Economic aspects ; Older people ; Housing ; Retirement ; Economic aspects ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Aging ; Conference papers and proceedings ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gerontology ; Electronic books ; Conference papers and proceedings ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books Conference proceedings ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: This companion volume to The Economics of Aging (1989) examines the economic consequences of an increasingly older population, focusing on the housing and living arrangements of the elderly, as well as their labor force participation and retirement
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    The comforts of home : prostitution in colonial Nairobi (1990)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226895000 , 0226895009 , 9780226895062 , 0226895068
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiii, 285 p.) , maps.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als White, Luise Comforts of home
    DDC: 306.7420967625
    Keywords: Prostitution History ; Kenya ; Nairobi ; Women Social conditions ; Kenya ; Working class women Social conditions ; Kenya ; Women Social conditions ; Working class women Social conditions ; Prostitution History ; Women ; Working class women ; Prostitution ; Colonial influence ; Social conditions ; Women ; Social conditions ; Working class women ; Social conditions ; PSYCHOLOGY ; Human Sexuality ; SELF-HELP ; Sexual Instruction ; History ; Kenya Colonial influence ; Kenya Social conditions ; Kenya Social conditions ; Kenya Colonial influence ; Kenya ; Kenya ; Nairobi ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: & Quot;This history is ... the first fully-fleshed story of African Nairobi in all of its complexity which foregrounds African experiences. Given the overwhelming white dominance in the written sources, it is a remarkable achievement."--Claire Robertson, International Journal of African Historical Studies "White's book ... takes a unique approach to a largely unexplored aspect of African History. It enhances our understanding of African social history, political economy, and gender studies. It is a book that deserves to be widely read."--Elizabeth Schmidt, American Historical R
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-278) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    Crafting Selves : Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace (1990)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226098159 , 9780226450438
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (362 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.42
    Keywords: Group identity -- Japan ; Group identity ; Japan ; Self-perception in women ; Japan ; Women ; Employment ; Japan ; Women ; Japan ; Economic conditions ; Women ; Japan ; Identity ; Women ; Japan ; Social conditions ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "The ethnography of Japan is currently being reshaped by a new generation of Japanologists, and the present work certainly deserves a place in this body of literature. . . . The combination of utility with beauty makes Kondo's book required reading, for those with an interest not only in Japan but also in reflexive anthropology, women's studies, field methods, the anthropology of work, social psychology, Asian Americans, and even modern literature."-Paul H. Noguchi, American Anthropologist "Kondo's work is significant because she goes beyond disharmony, insisting on complexity. Kondo shows that inequalities are not simply oppressive-they are meaningful ways to establish identities."-Nancy Rosenberger, Journal of Asian Studies.
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Romanization -- PART ONE: SETTINGS -- The Eye/I -- Industries, Communities, Identities -- Disciplined Selves -- PART TWO: FAMILY AS COMPANY, COMPANY AS FAMILY -- Circles of Attachment -- Adding the Family Flavor -- Company as Family? -- PART THREE: GENDER AND WORK IDENTITIES -- The Aesthetics and Politics of Artisanal Identities -- Uchi, Gender, and Part-Time Work -- The Stakes -- Notes -- References -- Index.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments; Note on Romanization; PART ONE: SETTINGS; The Eye/I; Industries, Communities, Identities; Disciplined Selves; PART TWO: FAMILY AS COMPANY, COMPANY AS FAMILY; Circles of Attachment; Adding the Family Flavor; Company as Family?; PART THREE: GENDER AND WORK IDENTITIES; The Aesthetics and Politics of Artisanal Identities; Uchi, Gender, and Part-Time Work; The Stakes; Notes; References; Index
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