Category Archives: Anthropology

The Business of Being Born

While going over the marketing plan for, Birth Models that Work, I came across a website recommended by one of the authors. The website was the official homepage for the documentary, The Business of Being Born, which was produced by… Continue reading

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Thomas Eakins and the Cultures of Modernity

Thomas Eakins and the Cultures of ModernityBy: Alan C. BraddockI am an Assistant Professor of Art History at Temple University in Philadelphia (on leave, academic year 2008-09). I teach a variety of courses in American art history from the colonial… Continue reading

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In God’s Image: The Metaculture of Fijian Christianity

Matt Tomlinson is Lecturer in Anthropology at Monash University in Australia and co-editor of The Limits of Meaning: Case Studies in the Anthropology of Christianity. Tomlinson’s latest book, In God’s Image: The Metaculture of Fijian Christianity was published by UC… Continue reading

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Backlash 9/11: Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans Respond

Anny Bakalian is Associate Director and Mehdi Bozorgmehr is Co-Director of the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Bozorgmehr is also Associate Professor of Sociology at the City College and… Continue reading

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Digging Up the Gold Rush City

James P. Delgado is the President of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology. His previous books include Lost Warships: An Archaeological Tour of War at Sea, Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage, and the British… Continue reading

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Gold Rush Port

James P. Delgado is the President of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology. His previous books include Lost Warships: An Archaeological Tour of War at Sea, Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage, and the British… Continue reading

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Episode 8 of the UC Press Podcast Series is Now Available

We are pleased to announce that Episode 8 of the UC Press podcast series is now available. In November’s episode, Chris Gondek of Heron and Crane Productions interviews a film historian/producer and an art director, on a very influential silent… Continue reading

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Nightshift NYC

The husband and wife team of Russell Leigh Sharman and Cheryl Harris Sharman chronicle and examine the people who work the night shifts, as well as the locations in which they do so in New York City, in their new… Continue reading

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Nightshift NYC

The husband and wife team of Russell Leigh Sharman and Cheryl Harris Sharman chronicle and examine the people who work the night shifts, as well as the locations in which they do so in New York City, in their new… Continue reading

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Nightshift NYC

The husband and wife team of Russell Leigh Sharman and Cheryl Harris Sharman chronicle and examine the people who work the night shifts, as well as the locations in which they do so in New York City, in their new… Continue reading

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