Collection: University of California Press
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The drugging of the americas
The Drugging of the Americas examines the stark differences in how multinational pharmaceutical companies present their products to physicians in the United States versus Latin America. The study highlights how drug companies provide detailed, rigorous, and well-regulated information to U.S. phys...
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Factory daughters
Taking the reader inside the households where Javanese women live and the factories where they work, Diane Wolf reveals the contradictions, constraints, and changes in their lives. She debunks conventional wisdom about the patriarchal family, while at the same time clearly identifying the complex...
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Tibetan diary
In this rich and deeply personal account of life in the highlands of Nepal, Geoff Childs chronicles the daily existence of a range of people, from venerated lamas to humble householders. Offering insights into the complex dynamics of the ethnically Tibetan enclave of Nubri, Childs provides a vivi...
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Migration, mujercitas, and medicine men
Valentina Napolitano explores issues of migration, medicine, religion, and gender in this incisive analysis of everyday practices of urban living in Guadalajara, Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork over a ten-year period, Napolitano paints a rich and vibrant picture of daily life in a low-income neighbo...
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Raptors of california
Raptors—the charismatic group of birds that includes hawks, eagles, and falcons—evoke power, swiftness, and grace. Raptors, or birds of prey, gaze calmly about while at rest, exuding confidence and nobility, and, while soaring aloft, they are absolute icons of the California landscape. Featuring ...
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Downcast eyes
Long considered "the noblest of the senses," vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture. These critics of vision, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have challenged its allegedly superior capacity t...
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Threshold logic
Threshold Logic by Sze-Tsen Hu offers the first comprehensive treatment of logical elements based on the threshold principle, devices that had attracted growing attention in the wake of McCulloch and Pitts’s 1943 neuron models and von Neumann’s investigations into reliability. Threshold devices—i...
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Introduction to california birdlife
In almost every location and every season, California is a birdwatchers' paradise. One can search Sierra meadows for a Great Gray Owl, the autumn estuary for a Black-bellied Plover, or spring willow thickets for the effervescent song of the Yellow Warbler. Closer to home, backyards, neighborhood ...
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A translucent mirror
In this landmark exploration of the origins of nationalism and cultural identity in China, Pamela Kyle Crossley traces the ways in which a large, early modern empire of Eurasia, the Qing (1636-1912), incorporated neighboring, but disparate, political traditions into a new style of emperorship. Dr...
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Why america's top pundits are wrong
In this fresh, literate, and biting critique of current thinking on some of today's most important and controversial topics, leading anthropologists take on some of America's top pundits. This absorbing collection of essays subjects such popular commentators as Thomas Friedman, Samuel Huntington,...
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The power of collective purse strings
The Power of Collective Purse Strings offers a sharp analysis of how banks, acting not as isolated firms but as a unified financial community, wield enormous power over corporations and states. Davita Silfen Glasberg demonstrates how “collective purse strings” allow banks to define what counts as...
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Doctor mom chung of the fair-haired bastards
During World War II, Mom Chung's was the place to be in San Francisco. Soldiers, movie stars, and politicians gathered at her home to socialize, to show their dedication to the Allied cause, and to express their affection for Dr. Margaret Chung (1889-1959). The first known American-born Chinese f...
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Repeating ourselves
Where did musical minimalism come from—and what does it mean? In this significant revisionist account of minimalist music, Robert Fink connects repetitive music to the postwar evolution of an American mass consumer society. Abandoning the ingrained formalism of minimalist aesthetics, Repeating Ou...
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Life in crisis
Life in Crisis tells the story of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders or MSF) and its effort to “save lives” on a global scale. Begun in 1971 as a French alternative to the Red Cross, the MSF has grown into an international institution with a reputation for outspoken protest as wel...
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Peasants and monks in british india
In this compelling social history, William R. Pinch tackles one of the most important but most neglected fields of the colonial history of India: the relation between monasticism and caste. The highly original inquiry yields rich insights into the central structure and dynamics of Hindu society—i...
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Pan-africanism reconsidered
Pan-Africanism Reconsidered captures a transformative moment in African and global history, offering profound insights into the evolution and implications of Pan-Africanism during a critical juncture—the decolonization era of the 20th century. Set against the backdrop of the 1960 Third Annual Con...
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