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Wage, trade, and exchange in Melanesia: a Manus society in the modern state

Author: Carrier, James G

Publisher: University of California Press, 1989

Abstract: Ponam Island, a small community in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea, is the subject of this innova…

A share of the harvest: kinship, property, and social history among the Malays of Rembau

Author: Peletz, Michael G

Publisher: University of California Press, 1988

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The magistrate's tael: rationalizing fiscal reform in eighteenth-century Chʿing China

Author: Zelin, Madeleine

Publisher: University of California Press, 1984

Abstract: Madeleine Zelin shatters the image of China as a backward empire wracked by corruption and economi…

Before the nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company

Author: Musser, Charles

Publisher: University of California Press, 1991

Abstract: Musser takes us into the long-forgotten world of early cinema - unexpectedly sophisticated and yet…

Painters and politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979

Author: Andrews, Julia Frances

Publisher: University of California Press, 1995

Abstract: Julia Andrews's extraordinary study of art, artists, and artistic policy during the first three de…

When abortion was a crime: women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973

Author: Reagan, Leslie J

Publisher: University of California Press, 1997

Abstract: As we approach the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade , it's crucial to look back to the time when ab…

Roberto Rossellini

Author: Brunette, Peter

Publisher: University of California Press, 1996

Abstract: This is the first full-length study in any language of the most significant film director of Itali…

New York, the politics of urban regional development

Author: Danielson, Michael N

Publisher: University of California Press, 1982

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The life of a text: performing the Rāmcaritmānas of Tulsidas

Author: Lutgendorf, Philip

Publisher: University of California Press, 1991

Abstract: The Life of a Text offers a vivid portrait of one community's interaction with its favorite text -…

Historical destiny and national socialism in Heidegger's "Being and time"

Author: Fritsche, Johannes

Publisher: University of California Press, 1999

Abstract: There has been much debate over the relationship of Heidegger's philosophy - in particular his boo…