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Challenges the idea that American urban politics is the expression of social-group community experience, maintaining, instead, that identities of race, class, ethnicity and gender were politically constructed in the public sphere in the process of political mobilization and journalistic discourse.

Many indigenous American languages face imminent extinction, and the dictionary, often the only written documentation of these languages stands as a powerful tool in preserving them. These essays provide a comprehensive picture of the theory and practice of Native American lexicography.

An exploration of the life and music of Don Albert, a jazz musician born in New Orleans in 1908. In addition to providing an account of the daily life of working musicians on the road, this book examines how the issue of race influenced Albert's life, as well as the music of the era.

Accompanied by a DVD, this collection of essays brings a view of the literary, social, and performative aspects of American Sign Language to a wide audience. It presents the work of a renowned and diverse group of deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing scholars who examine original ASL poetry, narrative, and drama.

Charles Montgomery's narrative traces the hisotry of the upper Rio Grande's modern Spanish heritage, showing how Anglos and Hispanos sought to redefine the region's social character by glorifying its Spanish colonial past.

Surveying the widening conceptions and applications of cultural landscape writing in the United States, this text offers a clear view of the state of cultural landscape studies in 2003.

German and Austrian music of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries stands at the heart of the Western musical canon. This book studies various cultural practices (such as music journalism and scholarship, singing instruction, and concerts). It examines how music became an important part of middle-class identity.

Draws attention to issues that question the unspoken traditional practices underlying coupling in America. This title includes essays that delve into such subjects as the historical roots of modern marriage, the phenomenon of lesbian and gay commitment ceremonies, the home as a workplace and a place of refuge.

The New Thought Movement was a popular late 19th century spiritual movement for women. This work uncovers the cultural implications of New Thought, embedding it in the intellectual traditions of 19th-century America, and illuminating its connections with modern self-help and New Age enthusiasms.

Traces the development of the African American community in Richmond, California, a city on the San Francisco Bay. This book examines the process and effect of migration, the rise of a black urban industrial workforce, and the dynamics of community development.

Elucidates the broad cluster of cultural, historical, and ideological tenets which came to comprise Israel's contemporary political system. This book demonstrates that such tenets were not arbitrary but in fact developed logically from Jewish political habits and the circumstances of time.

A biography that follows Edward L Doheny's story from his days as an itinerant prospector in the dangerous jungles of Mexico, where he built the $100-million oil empire that ushered in the new era of petroleum. But it was a tale that ended in tragedy, when Doheny was embroiled in the notorious Teapot Dome scandal.

Explores Jewish identity - or, more accurately, Jewish identities - from the mutually illuminating perspectives of anthropology, art history, comparative literature, cultural studies, German history, philosophy, political theory, and sociology.

Given that matters relevant to race remain confused and divisive in many corridors of American society, it is not surprising that rumors and legends that reflect racial misunderstanding and mistrust frequently circulate. This work focuses on a wide array of tales told in black and white communities across America.

Illuminates the various ways in which sex and gender are elaborated, obsessed over, and internalized, shaping subjective experiences common to entire cultural regions, and beyond. Through comparison of the life ways of Melanesia and Amazonia, this work expands the study of gender and the comparative method in anthropology.

This collection of essays draws on a variety of theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and empirical data to explore the effects of West Indian migration and to develop analytic frameworks to examine it.

This study of colonial memory asks the question, how do once-colonized people remember the colonial period? Drawing on an ethnography of the social practices of remembering and forgetting in one community in Madagascar, the book develops a practice-based approach to social memory.

This study analyzes the consequences of California's experiment with the blanket primary, including the incidence and persistence of crossover voting; the behaviour of candidates and donors; the effects on candidate positions; and the consequences for minorities and minor-party candidates.

A study traces the tendentiousness of Greek representations by introducing comparative Egyptian material, thus interrogating the Greek texts and authors from a cross-cultural perspective.

A study and movement analysis of the sacred dances and the 'backstage' work involved in the festival that take the author deep into the life of the community, as dancer, participant-observer, and self-interrogating woman merge in a vividly narrated experience of 'communal sacred time.'

Focused exclusively on native and naturalized vascular plants of California's southeastern deserts, the "Desert Manual" provides illustrations for more than 200 desert taxa, keys to identification, distributional information and 128 colour photographs.

This work examines how the exercise of power and the strategies of social movements transformed with the transition from a military to an elected-civilian regime in Chile.

Approximately thirteen million people around the world define themselves as Jews, with the majority residing in the United States and Israel. This collection portrays the diversity of Jewish experience as it is practiced and lived in contemporary societies.

This volume enlists celebrated contemporary poets to illuminate, from the inside out, a number of the greatest lyric poets writing in English during the 16th and 17th centuries. Amongst the questions asked is: how does the poetry of the past continue to inform that of the present?

A collection of essays that explore the history and ideological ramifications of the modern concept of addiction.

Moving the view of cultural citizenship to the perspective of hinterland groups in Indonesia, the Philippines and Sarawak, East Malaysia, this text shows that notions of nationhood and citizenship are not given, but created in dialogue between the state and local communities.

Explores the beginnings of urban tourism, and sets the phenomenon within a larger cultural transformation that encompassed fundamental changes in urban life and national identity. Focusing on New York and San Francisco, this work describes what it was like to ride on Pullman cars, stay in the grand hotels, and take in the sights of the cities.

Between 1890 and 1920 over one-third of the peasants of Mount Lebanon left their villages and traveled to the Americas. This book traces the journeys of these villagers from the ranks of the peasantry into a middle class of their own making.

An autobiography and family story of Neil Henry, a black professor of journalism and former award-winning correspondent for the "Washington Post". It sets out to piece together the murky details of his family's past. It gives an account of his black family's rise to success over the twentieth century.