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The calligraphic state: textual domination and history in a Muslim society

Author: Messick, Brinkley Morris

Publisher: University of California Press, 1992

Abstract: In this innovative combination of anthropology, history, and postmodern theory, Brinkley Messick e…

Oedipus lex: psychoanalysis, history, law

Author: Goodrich, Peter 1954-

Publisher: University of California Press, 1995

Abstract: Oedipus Lex offers an original and evocative reading of legal history and institutional practice i…

Loyola's acts: the rhetoric of the self

Author: Boyle, Marjorie O'Rourke 1943-

Publisher: University of California Press, 1997

Abstract: This revisionist view of Ignatius Loyola argues that his "autobiography" - until now taken to be a…

Rome before Avignon: a social history of thirteenth-century Rome

Author: Brentano, Robert 1926-

Publisher: University of California Press, 1991

Abstract: Robert Brentano evokes papal Rome in all its paradox and complicated brilliance. From a detailed r…

Bottled poetry: Napa winemaking from Prohibition to the modern era

Author: Lapsley, James T

Publisher: University of California Press, 1997

Abstract: California's Napa Valley is one of the world's premier wine regions today, but this has not always…

Nobody's story: the vanishing acts of women writers in the marketplace, 1670-1820

Author: Gallagher, Catherine

Publisher: University of California Press, 1994

Abstract: Exploring the careers of five influential women writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century,…

Songs to make the dust dance: the Ryōjin hishō of twelfth-century Japan

Author: Kwon, Yung-Hee K

Publisher: University of California Press, 1994

Abstract: Breaking through the long-established image of Heian Japan (794-1185) as a culture dominated by ri…

Culture and power in Banaras: community, performance, and environment, 1800-1980

Author: Freitag, Sandria B

Publisher: University of California Press, 1989

Abstract: This collection of ten essays on Banaras, one of the largest urban centers in India's eastern Gang…

Language, charisma, and creativity: the ritual life of a religious movement

Author: Csordas, Thomas J

Publisher: University of California Press, 1997

Abstract: Thomas Csordas's eloquent analysis of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, part of the contemporary c…

Inside the drama-house: Rama stories and shadow puppets in South India

Author: Blackburn, Stuart H

Publisher: University of California Press, 1996

Abstract: Stuart Blackburn takes the reader inside a little-known form of shadow puppetry in this captivatin…