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Focusing on the works of Chikamatsu Shuko, Shiga Naoya, and Kasai Zenzo, Edward Fowler explores the complex and paradoxical nature of "shishosetsu", and discusses its linguistic, literary and cultural contexts.

The cultural and even physical extinction of the world's remaining tribal people is a disturbing phenomenon of our time. This study explores the adaptive limits of small human populations facing the ecological changes, social stresses, and cultural disruptions attending incorporation into broader socioeconomic systems.

Presents a synthesis that explains how Africa has come to be a land torn by incessant conflict among its impoverished people and countries, a continent living through the gravest social revolution of its history, experiencing the world's fastest demographic growth.

If the conservative view of the American race problem is frightening, the traditional liberal view seems impotent. Analyzing the race problem from neither right nor left, this book sheds light on America's longest running social and moral dilemma. It examines the intractable racial problems confronting Americans at the end of the 20th century.

Rituals are valued by students of culture as lenses for bringing facets of social life and meaning into focus. The author's study offers insight into the rich shamanic ritual tradition of the Wana, an upland population of Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Recounts the frenzied transformations that made late nineteenth-century Paris the fashion capital of the world. This novel includes a capitalist hero, Octave Mouret, who creates a giant department store that devours the dusty, outmoded boutiques surrounding it.

A memoir that situates the ghetto and the resistance in the social and political context that preceded them, when prewar Zionist and Socialist youth movements were gradually forged into what became the first significant armed resistance against the Nazis in all of occupied Europe.

Explores the representation of Jews in novels and poetry written by non-Jews from the beginning of the Risorgimento in the early 1800s to the enactment of the Fascist racial laws in 1938. This title shows how the literature of that period contradicts the belief that anti-Semitism simply did not exist in Italy until late in the Fascist period.

This study of the conversion of tribal peoples to Christianity combines case studies with the contributors' theories, challenging anthropologists and sociologists to reassess the varieties of religious experience and the convergent processes involved in religious change.

This is a detailed study of the changing nature and limits of academic freedom in pre-war Japan from the Meiji Restoration to the eve of World War II. The analysis is complemented by an extensive use of biographical and archival material.

In the past two decades young people, environmentalists, church activists, leftists, and others have mobilized against nuclear energy. This book compares the rise and fall of these protest movements in Germany and the United States, illuminating the relationship between national political structures and collective action.

Blaise Cendrars, one of twentieth-century France's most gifted men of letters, came to Hollywood in 1936 for the newspaper "Paris-Soir". This book records Cendrars' experiences on Hollywood's streets and at its studios and hottest clubs.

Applying anthropological techniques to the study of national culture, the author of this work links ethnographic and historical research to two aspects of Mexican national ideology: the history of charisma in Mexican politics and the relationship between national community and racial ideology.

This volume brings together one of the most provocative debates among historians in recent years. The centre of controversy is the emergence of the anti-slavery movement in the United States and Britain and the relation of capitalism to the development.

Presents essays which describe how AIDS has come to be regarded as a chronic disease. Representing diverse fields and professions, the 23 contributors use historical methods to analyze politics and public policy, human rights issues, and the changing populations with HIV infection.

Challenges traditional approaches to the study of Japanese narratives and Japanese culture in general. This title employs Western literary-critical theory to reveal the social and political contest inherent in modern Japanese literature and confronts breakthroughs in literary studies coming out of Japan.

From the proselytizing lantern slides of early Christian missionaries to contemporary films that look at Africa through an African lens, this book explores the development of black African cinema. It examines the impact of culture and history, and of technology and co-production, on filmmaking throughout Africa.

When James Joyce's "Ulysses" was first published in America, it quickly became a dynamic symbol of both modern art and the modern age. This study demonstrates how various political, ideological and religious allegiances influenced the critical reception and eventual canonization of this novel.

Until the middle of this century, the Western world knew little about the peoples of the Central Highlands of what is now Papua New Guinea, and vice versa. This title shows how the anthropological climate of the times shaped or influenced analyses; how the Highlands experience may have changed the author's theoretical orientation.

Exploring how Renaissance Venice, a city renowned for its political freedom, also became a centre of religious dissent, this study offers a recreation of the social and cultural worlds of the Venetian heretics, and explores the connection between religious belief and social experience.

What actions should be punished? Should plea-bargaining be allowed? How should sentencing be determined? This study explores why society punishes wrongdoing and how it implements punishment. It contends that the theory and practice of punishment are inherently linked.

In this collection of essays, poet and literary critic Wai-Lim Yip calls Western scholarship to account for its misrepresentation of non-Western literature. Using various examples, he exposes the types of distortions that have occurred in the process of translating from one language to another.

Revealing the importance of Jewish preachers in the ghettos of 16th-century Italy, this title demonstrates how these men served as a bridge between the ghetto and the Christian world outside, between old and new conventions, and between elite and popular modes of thought.

Offering new insight into 3000 years of Mesoamerican history, from roughly 1500 BC to the Spanish conquest, this study examines the methods, purposes and values of warfare as practiced by the major pre-Columbian societies and shows how warfare affected the rise of the state.

Published to commemorate its centenary, this study chronicles the early history of the Press, from its beginnings as a printer of monographs to its emergence in the early 1950s as a university press in the Oxbridge tradition. The text offers a perspective on the history of US publishing.

Few events in American politics have generated more attention than the increasing number of voters calling themselves Independent. By the early 1970s Independents outnumbered Republicans, according to many eminent experts on voting behavior. This book helps in understanding the party system, voting behavior, and the public opinion.

Provides biographical and historical context for Bourne's work. Bourne's critique of militarism and advocacy of cultural pluralism are enduring contributions to social and political thought. Bourne's essays include "The War and the Intellectual" and "The Fragment of the State".

This study analyzes policy-making in a non-democratic authoritarian country, explaining the history of Chinese market reforms from 1979 to the present. Drawing on interviews with high-level Chinese officials, it pieces together detailed histories of economic reform policy decisions.

Despite the emergence of fragile democracies in Latin America in the 1980s, a legacy of fear and repression haunts this region. This title chronicles the effect of systematic state terror on the social fabric in Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay from the 1960s to the mid-1980s.

With original ideas and insights, this title is suitable for students of the Jewish past. It will also attract readers with the widest possible range of interests.