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Seeks to explore the interrelationships between, and mutual influence of, varieties of sexual stereotypes and religious views of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition.

What is it like to be an anthropologist or, more specifically, a woman anthropologist? This book features trained and qualified women anthropologists who examine their own efforts to live and work in alien cultures in many parts of the world.

Suitable for the classical scholars, this title explores an aspect of Greek military practice.

Some 2000 years ago Buddhism experienced a major reformation through a movement called the Mahayana, or "Great Vehicle," which dominated religious through in much of Asia for many centuries and still exerts considerable influence. This title deals with this reformation movement.

Contains an introduction, notes, the French original, and a translation of Cesaire's poetry - the complex and challenging later works as well as the famous Notebook.

Based on fieldwork conducted in Japan during 1973 and 1974, this study deals with the philosophical foundations and historical development of East Asian medicine, Japanese attitudes regarding health, illness, and the human body, and description of kanpo clinics, herbal pharmacies, acupuncture and moxibustion clinics, shiatsu and anma clinics.

The Universal Negro Improvement Association, with its "Africa for the Africans" program of racial nationalism, gained in strength in the aftermath of Garvey's successful meeting in Carnegie Hall in August 1919, and culminated in its First International Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World in 1920. This title deals with the mass movement.

Deals with Latin America's past. This title also emphasizes that the victory of the European oriented ruling elites over the Latin American folk with their community values resulted only after a long and violent struggle, which characterized most of the nineteenth century.

Brings an insider's insight to the tumultuous years of the sixties and seventies, when the consumer protection bells rang from Washington throughout the land. This is an engrossing story of corporate versus consumer battles over health, safety, and the economic rights of Americans.

The legend tells us of Sacagawea ("Bird Woman") as the guide showing Lewis and Clark the way over the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean, and fictionalized accounts have embroidered on her life as it might have been. In fact, however, her life as it might have been. This historical account separates the verifiable facts about Sacagawea from the legend.

A study of the aged deaf which describes a vital subculture of disabled persons. It takes us into a community distinguished by a disability that, from an outsider's view is full of liabilities. Instead, we find assets and strengths enabling people who were born deaf or who lost their hearing in early childhood to cope with their advancing age.

Focuses on Kennedy's quest for a comprehensive test ban and on why, despite some near misses, this glittering prize, which carried with it the opportunity to arrest the viciously spiralling arms race, eluded our grasp. This book also provides insights into Kennedy and his Administration while giving us the substance of the nuclear test ban debate.

A study of the various aspects of the institution of pilgrimage which shows that instead of being a simple practice it has been a gigantic phenomenon affecting all aspects of Indian life... integrating diverse forces, various cults, and numerous traditions over the ages.

Tracing the acquisition, trading, subdividing, leasing, and renting of pieces of property that also happened in most cases to carry with them the cure of souls, the author demonstrates that the sixteenth-century Italian Church, to alter slightly the epithet used by Ginzburg's Menocchio, was increasingly "a prelates' business."

A collection of writings that offers a thematic approach to understanding the various theories of art that illumined the direction of nineteenth-century artists as diverse as Tommaso Minardi and Georges Seurat.

Offering a treatment of schools as 'moral communities,' the author calls for new, culturally sensitive definitions of moral and creative goals in children's education. He uses education as the entering wedge for a good understanding of Japanese society in general.

An essay that provides an introduction to the treatment of human existence and individuality in Marxist thought. It is primarily concerned with two related topics: the evaluation by Marxists of individual emancipation and their assessment of subjective factors in social theory.

A retired Brazilian diplomat (Ayres) recounts the love affair of a young widow who would rather be faithful to her dead Romeo. In this book, how she rejoins the world of the living, rekindling Ayres' spirit as well, is told with muted allusions to Brazil's plantation life and its emancipation of the slaves.

Sayyid Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani (1838-1897), was a religious reformer and political activist, led a busy and complex life full of obscure and clandestine ventures. Although he was concerned with the wide ranging need for Islamic reform, he devoted most of his life to the more urgent political problems confronting Muslims. This book tells his story.

Using quantitative data together with traditional secondary and primary historical sources, the author traces the major socio-economic, political, and racial factors that evolved during the post-Mexican War decades and that created a subordinate status for Mexican Americans in a burgeoning American city.

A title that originates from a considered grasp of the imaginative possibilities of the analogy between architecture and literature. It presents the author's bold hypotheses about these works, her striking juxtapositions and her sense of the architectural connotations of words and the implications of spatial metaphors offering creative insights.

The Western interest in Buddhism and other Eastern religions is - among other reasons - both the result of and the stimulation for an entire library of books purporting to bring the Wisdom of the East to an audience for whom the wisdom of the West has failed. This book interprets Buddhism in the light of some theories about religion.

Reporting on a project sponsored by the Association of American Universities, the author examines the core functions of the research universities and explores how they might best relate to their powerful patrons: the national government, foundations, business, and industry.

The two Shelleys, Byron, Mary's stepsister Claire Clairmont, and John William Polidori (Byron's physician) spent a "wet, ungenial summer in the Swiss Alps." Byron suggested that "each write a ghost story." If one is to trust Mary Shelley's account, only she and "poor Polidori" took the contest seriously.

Describes patterns of healing among the BaKongo of Lower Zaire in Africa, who, like many people elsewhere, utilize cosmopolitan medicine alongside traditional healing practices. This book asks What criteria determine the choice of the alternative therapies? And what is their institutional interrelationship?

Scholars have long accepted China's own view of its traditional foreign relations: that China devised its own world order and maintained it from the second century BC to the nineteenth century.

On subjects from Superman to rock 'n' roll, from Donald Duck to the TV news, from soap operas and romance novels to the use of double speak in advertising, this title brings together selections from nearly forty of the most prominent Marxist, feminist, and other leftist critics of American mass culture.