University of California Press: New Books

The Tactile Eye: Touch and the Cinematic Experience

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Tactile Eye: Touch and the Cinematic Experience

Jennifer M. Barker

"The Tactile Eye makes an important contribution to the recent discourses of embodiment in cinema and cultural studies. Grounded in existential phenomenology, the book abounds with productive suggestions, and precise analytical tools, with which one might carry out a deeply tactile ("textural") analysis of cinema."--Laura U. Marks, author of Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media

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208 pages, 6 x 9", 15 b/w photographs
Film
cloth 978-0-520-25840-2 $60.00
paper 978-0-520-25842-6 $24.95

Why I Am Not a Scientist: Anthropology and Modern Knowledge

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Why I Am Not a Scientist: Anthropology and Modern Knowledge

Jonathan Marks

"Jonathan Marks has produced a personal and compelling story of how science works. His involvement in scientific endeavor in human biology and evolution over the past three decades and his keen sense of the workings of science make this book a must read for both scientists and lay readers. In this sense, the lay reader will learn how scientists should and shouldn't think and some scientists who read this book will come away thinking they are truly not scientists nor would they want to be."--Rob DeSalle, American Museum of Natural History

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344 pages, 6 x 9",
Anthropology/Organismal Biology
World
cloth 978-0-520-25959-1 $55.00
paper 978-0-520-25960-7 $22.95

Listen to an audio interview with Jonathan Marks.

The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office

David Blumenthal and James A. Morone

"David Blumenthal and James Morone break new ground in our understanding of health policymaking in the White House, notably the tie between presidential policy actions and the personal medical problems that have faced each of our Presidents since Franklin D. Roosevelt. Once again, the nation faces the urgent need for health reform, and Heart of Power is essential reading for anyone who cares about improving our health care system to meet the challenges of the 21st century."--Senator Edward M. Kennedy

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494 pages, 6 x 9", 27 b/w photographs
Medicine/Politics/History
cloth 978-0-520-26030-6 $26.95

Click here to listen to an audio interview with David Blumenthal.

Station Identification: A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio in the United States

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Station Identification: A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio in the United States

Ari Y. Kelman

"Ari Y. Kelman unearths the hitherto forgotten 'acoustic community' of Yiddish radio and demonstrates with impressive archival research that the story of Yiddish radio in the U.S. is inextricably woven together with the origins of American broadcasting. Uncanny and haimish, local and national, bilingual and ambivalent, Yiddish radio, like much early broadcasting, is the story of an audience tuning in to hear voices like their own."--Jason Loviglio, author of Radio's Intimate Public: Network Broadcasting and Mass-Mediated Democracy

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304 pages, 6 x 9", 20 b/w photographs
Media Studies/Jewish Studies
cloth 978-0-520-25573-9 $39.95

Introduction to Energy in California

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Introduction to Energy in California

Peter Asmus

While much public debate has focused on fossil fuels, this clearly written guide provides essential information on a broader range of issues--where our energy comes from, where future supplies will be found, and what new advances are being made in the area of renewable energy sources. Making the complex world of energy science and policy accessible to a wide audience, Peter Asmus examines the rich human history of California's earliest oil and hydroelectricity developments, explains the natural history underpinning the state's cornucopia of energy sources, covers such controversial sources as nuclear reactors and liquified natural gas, and more.

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California Natural History Guides, 97

444 pages, 4-1/2 x 7-1/4", 91 color illustrations, 42 line illustrations, 18 maps, 8 tables
Natural History/California & the West/Conservation
cloth 978-0-520-25752-8 $50.00
paper 978-0-520-25751-1 $18.95

Russian and Soviet Views of Modern Western Art, 1890s to Mid-1930s

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Russian and Soviet Views of Modern Western Art, 1890s to Mid-1930s

Edited by Ilia Dorontchenkov

Translated by Charles Rougle. Consulting Editor, Nina Gurianova

From the first Modernist exhibitions in the late 1890s to the Soviet rupture with the West in the mid-1930s, Russian artists and writers came into wide contact with modern European art and ideas. Introducing a wealth of little-known material set in an illuminating interpretive context, this sourcebook presents Russian and Soviet views of Western art during this critical period of cultural transformation. The writings document complex responses to these works and ideas before the Russians lost contact with them almost entirely.

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Documents of Twentieth-Century Art

368 pages, 7 x 10", 42 b/w photos scattered
Art History
cloth 978-0-520-22103-1 $65.00
paper 978-0-520-25372-8 $29.95

Ardipithecus kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Ardipithecus kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia

Edited by Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Giday WoldeGabriel

"The late F. Clark Howell had a vision of paleoanthropology as a fully integrated set of many scientific disciplines. This meticulously documented work is the first in a series that fulfills his vision. It is a magisterial synthesis of important early hominid fossils and their contemporaneous mammals placed in regionally dated stratigraphic sequences and reconstructed paleoenvironments. It is enhanced by images of sites and moments of discovery that are usually left to popular articles and that will give the reader a glimpse of the rigors of field work in a remote region of Africa."--Alan Walker, Pennsylvania State University

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The Middle Awash Series

664 pages, 8 x 10", 173 b/w photographs, 64 line illustrations, 95 tables
Paleontology/Physical Anthropology/Geology
cloth 978-0-520-25440-4 $80.00

Uncertain Suffering: Racial Health Care Disparities and Sickle Cell Disease

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Uncertain Suffering: Racial Health Care Disparities and Sickle Cell Disease

Carolyn Moxley Rouse

"Uncertain Suffering will have a unique place in medical anthropology, public health scholarship, and the social sciences of health. It involves a layered and deeply philosophical approach to the limits of the role/responsibility of modern American medicine to address the suffering of African American patients."--Rayna Rapp, New York University

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A George Gund Foundation Book in African American Studies

328 pages, 6 x 9", 1 table
Health Care/Anthropology/African American Studies
cloth 978-0-520-25911-9 $55.00
paper 978-0-520-25912-6 $21.95

Early Life History of Marine Fishes

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Early Life History of Marine Fishes

Bruce S. Miller and Arthur W. Kendall, Jr.

"Early Life History of Marine Fishes brings together in one book a useful summary of fish reproduction and the development, ecology, and dynamics of early life history stages. With additional chapters on identification, systematic field sampling, and culturing techniques, this book covers a lot of territory."--Lee A. Fuiman, Director, Marine Science Institute, University of Texas at Austin

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376 pages, 6 x 9", 7 b/w photographs, 98 line illustrations, 14 tables
Organismal Biology/Zoology/Ichthyology/Conservation
cloth 978-0-520-24972-1 $60.00

Darwin's Universe: Evolution from A to Z

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Darwin's Universe: Evolution from A to Z

Richard Milner

With a Foreword by Ian Tattersall and a Preface by Stephen Jay Gould

"Darwin's Universe is the single best volume ever published that covers all matters Darwinian from A to Z. I have never so enjoyed a scientific book, plucking out gems of elegant narrative richly supported by photographs and paintings from the history of evolutionary thought. A magnificent product of scholarship that is also a work of art."--Michael Shermer, author of In Darwin's Shadow and Why Darwin Matters

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496 pages, 8-1/2 x 11", 378 b/w photographs
Natural History/Evolution/Biology
cloth 978-0-520-24376-7 $39.95

Laws, Theories, and Patterns in Ecology

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Laws, Theories, and Patterns in Ecology

Walter K. Dodds

"Laws, Theories, and Patterns in Ecology is an insightful exploration of long-standing controversies over whether ecology has any laws and how much ecological theories have helped us to understand and predict the workings of nature. Dodds tackles the latest 'global theories of everything' (e.g., neutral theory, metabolic theory) as well as a host of other widely bruited ecological propositions, and he challenges any ecologist's goals and criteria for advancing the field."--Daniel Simberloff, University of Tennessee

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256 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4", 15 line illustrations, 1 table
Ecology, Evolution, and Environment/Natural History/Organismal Biology
cloth 978-0-520-26040-5 $50.00
paper 978-0-520-26041-2 $19.95

Composing the Citizen: Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Composing the Citizen: Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France

Jann Pasler

"Concentrating on France of the Third Republic, from the 1870s through the early 1900s, she demonstrates convincingly how music--whether new, old, popular, or �lite, whether performed at institutions of state (such as the Op�ra), the Folies Berg�re, concert halls, or the zoo--helped to redefine what it meant to be French under evolving political circumstances...Pasler establishes music's cultural significance and implicitly illuminates the role it can still play in countries like the United States."--Philip Gossett, The University of Chicago and University of Rome, La Sapienza

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817 pages, 6 x 9", 104 b/w photographs, 19 tables, 34 music examples
Music/History
cloth 978-0-520-25740-5 $60.00

India

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

India

FOURTH EDITION

Stanley Wolpert

Praise for previous editions:

"If one were to read a single book about India in a lifetime, this should be it."--Library Journal

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264 pages, 6 x 9", 29 b/w photographs, 1 map
History/Asian Studies/South Asia
paper 978-0-520-26032-0 $21.95

The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India

Sheldon Pollock

Now Available in Paperback

"Sheldon Pollock's magisterial essay on the history and fate of Sanskrit is the kind of scholarly synthesis and insightful interpretation that comes along, at most, once in a generation or two. It is a bold work, panoramic in scope, forthright in conception and argument, and extraordinarily rich in philological-historical detail."--Journal of Asian Stds (jas) / SE Asia & Western Pacific

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Coomaraswamy Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies

32nd Lionel Trilling Award, Columbia College and Flora Levy Foundation of Lafayette, La.

2006 Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division Awards for Excellence in Literature, Language, & Linguistics, The Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) of the Association of American Publishers (AAP)

706 pages, 6 x 9", 1 b/w photograph, 4 maps
Religion/Asian Studies/History/Literature
paper 978-0-520-26003-0 $34.95

The Ancient Commentators on Plato and Aristotle

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Ancient Commentators on Plato and Aristotle

Miira Tuominen

"The ancient commentators have attracted increasing attention in the last three decades, but it is only now with the publication of Miira Tuominen's book that we have the first systematic introduction to their philosophy. The book makes accessible five centuries of philosophical thinking, identifies with crystal clarity the philosophical problems that concerned the commentators, and discusses them with historical accuracy and philosophical sophistication. It shows the significance of this period of philosophy and highlights the philosophical calibre of the commentators."--George Karamanolis, University of Crete

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Ancient Philosophies, 6

Copub: Acumen Publishing Limited

336 pages, 6 x 9",
Philosophy/Classical Studies
cloth 978-0-520-25981-2 $65.00
paper 978-0-520-26027-6 $24.95

Not by Design: Retiring Darwin's Watchmaker

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Not by Design: Retiring Darwin's Watchmaker

John O. Reiss

"Charles Darwin described natural selection in two ways: devoid of purpose or direction and as a teleological agent sorting through heritable variation. Evolutionary biologists today repeat Darwin's divergent rhetoric. In this fine book, John Reiss helps us to rid all teleology from evolutionary biology."--William Provine, Cornell University

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440 pages, 6 x 9", 16 line illustrations, 10 tables
Ecology/Evolution/History of Science
cloth 978-0-520-25893-8 $49.95

Embattled Avant-Gardes: Modernism's Resistance to Commodity Culture in Europe

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Embattled Avant-Gardes: Modernism's Resistance to Commodity Culture in Europe

Walter L. Adamson

Now Available in Paperback

"No serious student of the European avant-garde in the early twentieth century will be able to overlook this subtle and impassioned attempt to rethink its history: its far-reaching ambitions and its strategies for achieving them, its successes and its failures. Because of Adamson's distinctive perspective and the breadth of his research, I persistently found myself being forced to rethink the history of the European avant-garde and question some of my own assumptions and conclusions."--Robert Wohl, author of The Spectacle of Flight: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1920-1950

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An Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book

448 pages, 6 x 9",
History/Art History/Literature
paper 978-0-520-26153-2 $29.95

Moths of Western North America

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Moths of Western North America

Jerry A. Powell and Paul A. Opler

"Two of North America's most prolific and respected specialists on moths--particularly those of the West--have combined over a century of experience and scholarship to introduce western moths of all families authoritatively to both the amateur and the experienced professional entomologist. This biologically oriented and beautifully illustrated treatment of a quarter of all known western moth species fills a long-needed void, and does it superbly."--Charles V. Covell Jr., author of A Field Guide to Moths of Eastern North America

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383 pages, 8-1/2 x 11", 64 plates, 252 line illustrations
Biology/Natural History/Entomology
cloth 978-0-520-25197-7 $95.00

Africa

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Africa

Ivan Bargna

Africa tells its story through hundreds of breathtaking full-color, full-page images of people, landscapes, artworks, and artifacts accompanied by extended explanatory captions, relevant quotations, and concise overviews of topics such as art, religion, colonialism, slavery, and popular culture. Attentive to the ways in which we have constructed and deconstructed meanings of Africa, the crisp text encompasses recent understandings of history. The book explores the contemporary dimension as well, illuminating throughout the dynamic, multicultural, and complex nature of African societies.

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Dictionaries of Civilization, 6

Copub: Mondadori Electa

388 pages, 5.31 x 7.87", 321 color illustrations
Africa/History
paper 978-0-520-25974-4 $26.95

China

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

China

Alexandra Wetzel

The lavishly illustrated volume presents in dazzling visual detail a highly engaging introduction to almost 2000 years of Chinese history-from the founding of the Chinese Empire in 221 BC to the Ming dynasty, the last dynasty to rule before the country opened to the outside world in the middle of the seventeenth century. China tells this dynamic story through hundreds of breathtaking full-page images of people, landscapes, artworks, artifacts, and more. The inviting, beautifully designed pages feature crisply written, up-to-date text, quotations from ancient sources that establish context for the personalities and episodes for each historic period, extended captions that explore the visual details of the images, information on where to see the images in museums, and more.

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Dictionaries of Civilization, 5

Copub: Mondadori Electa

384 pages, 5-3/8x7-5/8", 250 color illustrations
China/History/Asian Studies
paper 978-0-520-25907-2 $26.95

Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora

Margarita A. Mooney

"Margarita Mooney's path-breaking book, Faith Makes us Live, is the first-ever comparative study of how religious faith and practice affect immigrant adaptation and assimilation. Her imaginative analysis of Haitian immigrants in Miami, Montreal, and Paris shows how religious faith serves to mediate culturally between immigrants and their host societies, but also reveals that by itself faith is not enough to achieve successful integration. Host societies must also be receptive to the religious institutions that serve immigrants if integration is to be achieved."--Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University

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302 pages, 6 x 9", 2 tables
Sociology/Religion/Anthropology
cloth 978-0-520-26034-4 $55.00
paper 978-0-520-26036-8 $21.95

Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians

Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons

Now Available in Paperback

"Gay L.A. is the long-awaited chronicle of Los Angeles' important role in the struggle for gay and lesbian rights. This documentation of Angelenos' considerable challenges and achievements during the 20th century is destined to become a classic."--Jim Van Buskirk, co-author of Gay by the Bay and Program Manager, James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center, San Francisco Public Library

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448 pages, 6 x 9", 64 b/w photographs
History/California & the West/Gender Studies
paper 978-0-520-26061-0 $19.95

The Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism

Alan Tansman

"The range of Alan Tansman's coverage is truly prodigious and diverse--from the most obscurantist cultural analysis through mawkish sentimentality and orchestrated nostalgia for the medium past. His scholarship is impeccable: he knows the relevant secondary literature and has absorbed an impressively wide-ranging metacritical literature, which he has used with great originality and authority to untangle the knotted relationship between aesthetic modernism and fascism. He reads difficult texts brilliantly, with seeming and enviable effortlessness and his translations are a joy to read."--Harry Harootunian, University of Chicago

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Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (temp)

368 pages, 6 x 9",
History/Asian Studies/Literature
cloth 978-0-520-24505-1 $49.95

More Than Darwin: The People and Place of the Evolution-Creationism Controversy

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

More Than Darwin: The People and Place of the Evolution-Creationism Controversy

Randy Moore and Mark D. Decker

Heated debates over evolution versus creationism have occurred almost nonstop--in courts, schools, churches, and elsewhere--from the 1859 publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species through the 2005 Kitzmiller v. Dover trial and beyond. This concise reference illuminates the human side of this long, often colorful controversy by giving synopses of every major person, organization, and place involved in it. In more than 500 entries, many of them illustrated, it describes well-known scientists, religious leaders, lawyers, and others, including Charles Darwin, Andrew Carnegie, H.L. Mencken, and Bruce Babbitt.

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440 pages, 7 x 10", 82 b/w photographs
Evolution/Reference/History of Science
paper 978-0-520-26029-0 $29.95

The Taste of Place: A Cultural Journey into Terroir

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Taste of Place: A Cultural Journey into Terroir

Amy B. Trubek

Now Available in Paperback

"The Taste of Place provides a delightful and informed read, through the stories and analysis of people and places across the country, of terroir as dynamic; possessing a European-like food ethos but adapting to the American landscape."--Michael W. Hamm, C.S. Mott Professor of Sustainable Agriculture, Michigan State University

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California Studies in Food and Culture, 20

318 pages, 6 x 8", 10 b/w photographs, 4 line illustrations
Food/Global Studies/Anthropology
paper 978-0-520-26172-3 $18.95

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Intimate Encounters: Filipina Women and the Remaking of Rural Japan

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Intimate Encounters: Filipina Women and the Remaking of Rural Japan

Lieba Faier

"Intimate Encounters is the first 'thick description' of the on-going changes wrought by the recent entry of a non-Japanese population, i.e., Filipina women, into rural Japanese life. It broadens and deepens our understanding of what it might mean to write transnational, diasporic histories."--Vicente L. Rafael, author of The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines

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304 pages, 6 x 9", 7 b/w photographs, 1 map, 2 tables
Anthropology/Asian Studies/Women's Studies
cloth 978-0-520-25214-1 $55.00
paper 978-0-520-25215-8 $21.95

Inventing Autopia: Dreams and Visions of the Modern Metropolis in Jazz Age Los Angeles

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Inventing Autopia: Dreams and Visions of the Modern Metropolis in Jazz Age Los Angeles

Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod

"Inventing Autopia thoughtfully weaves together planning and policy history with cultural history to great effect. It is sure to change our understanding of the ways in which Los Angeles not only grew and developed but envisioned itself in the era."--William Deverell, author of Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past

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416 pages, 6 x 9", 55 b/w photographs, 2 tables
History/Urban Studies/California & the West
cloth 978-0-520-25284-4 $65.00
paper 978-0-520-25285-1 $24.95

Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction
2ND EDITION

Eugenie C. Scott

More than eighty years after the Scopes trial, the debate over teaching evolution continues in spite of the emptiness of the creationist positions. This accessible resource, now completely revised and updated, provides an essential introduction to the ongoing dispute's many facets--the scientific evidence for evolution, the legal and educational basis for its teaching, and the various religious points of view--as well as a concise history of the evolution-creationism controversy. This second edition also contains a discussion of the legal history, updated to include the seminal case of Kitzmiller v. Dover as well as a new chapter on public opinion and media coverage.

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384 pages, 7 x 10", 26 line illustrations, 7 tables
Science/Religion/Education
paper 978-0-520-26187-7 $22.95

Society of Others: Kinship and Mourning in a West Papuan Place

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Society of Others: Kinship and Mourning in a West Papuan Place

Rupert Stasch

"In this timely commentary on the ideas of difference, strangeness, and Western contact, Stasch weaves ethnographic materials together with theoretical framing in an exceptionally clear and compelling way. A highly original, important and, in fact, astonishing piece of scholarship."--Bambi Schieffelin, author of The Give and Take of Everyday Life

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336 pages, 6 x 9", 15 b/w photographs, 5 line illustrations, 2 maps
Anthropology/Asian Studies
cloth 978-0-520-25685-9 $60.00
paper 978-0-520-25686-6 $24.95