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Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China

Author: Harrell, Stevan

Publisher: University of California Press, 2001

Abstract: Nearly seven million Yi people live in Southwest China, but most educated people outside China hav…

The nuclear seduction: why the arms race doesn't matter and what does

Author: Schwartz, William A

Publisher: University of California Press, 1989

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Bureaucratic authoritarianism: Argentina, 1966-1973, in comparative perspective

Author: O'Donnell, Guillermo A

Publisher: University of California Press, 1988

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Women and the war story

Author: Cooke, Miriam

Publisher: University of California Press, 1997

Abstract: In a book that radically and fundamentally revises the way we think about war, Miriam Cooke charts…

A democratic South Africa?: constitutional engineering in a divided society

Author: Horowitz, Donald L

Publisher: University of California Press, 1991

Abstract: Can a society as deeply divided as South Africa become democratic? In a most timely work, Donald L…

History and tradition in Melanesian anthropology

Author: Carrier, James G

Publisher: University of California Press, 1992

Abstract: Melanesian societies, like village societies in many parts of the world, are frequently portrayed …

Showing signs of violence: the cultural politics of a twentieth-century headhunting ritual

Author: George, Kenneth M 1950-

Publisher: University of California Press, 1996

Abstract: Showing Signs of Violence deals with the ceremonies of pangngae, a mock headhunt that lingers stub…

Seducing the French: the dilemma of Americanization

Author: Kuisel, Richard F

Publisher: University of California Press, 1993

Abstract: When Coca-Cola was introduced in France in the late 1940s, the country's most prestigious newspape…

Thinking fragments: psychoanalysis, feminism, and postmodernism in the contemporary West

Author: Flax, Jane

Publisher: University of California Press, 1990

Abstract: Thinking Fragments provides a brilliant critique of psychoanalytic, feminist, and postmodern theor…

The culture of sectarianism: community, history, and violence in nineteenth-century Ottoman Lebanon

Author: Makdisi, Ussama Samir 1968-

Publisher: University of California Press, 2000

Abstract: Focusing on Ottoman Lebanon, Ussama Makdisi shows how sectarianism was a manifestation of modernit…