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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2017)
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Repentant Monk: Illusion and Disillusion in the Art of Chen Hongshou is the first U.S. exhibition focusing solely on Chen Hongshou (1599-1652), a major figure in Chinese painting. Chen has long been regarded as one ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2017)
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Ism, Ism, Ism / Ismo, Ismo, Ismo is the first comprehensive, United States-based film program and catalogue to treat the full breadth of Latin America's vibrant experimental film production. The exhibition features key historical and ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2017)
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The question of development is a major topic in courses across the social sciences and history, particularly those focused on Latin America. Many scholars and instructors have tried to pinpoint, explain, and define the problem ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2017)
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The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth's surface and encompasses many thousands of islands that are home to numerous human societies and cultures. Among these indigenous Oceanic cultures are the intrepid Polynesian double-hulled canoe ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2017)
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Following the U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848), lands that had for centuries belonged to New Spain, and later to Mexico, were transformed into the thirty-first state in the United States. This process was facilitated by visual artists, ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2017)
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Founded in the first century BCE near a set of natural springs in an otherwise dry northeastern corner of the Valley of Mexico, the ancient metropolis of Teotihuacan was on a symbolic level a city ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2017)
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Enclosure marshals bold new arguments about the nature of the conflict in Israel/Palestine. Gary Fields examines the dispossession of Palestinians from their land'and Israel's rationale for seizing control of Palestinian land'in the contexts of a ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2017)
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A New History of Modern Latin America provides an engaging and readable narrative history of the nations of Latin America from the Wars of Independence in the nineteenth century to the democratic turn in the ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2017)
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Between 1944 and 1996, Guatemala experienced a revolution, counterrevolution, and civil war. Playing a pivotal role within these national shifts were students from Guatemala's only public university, the University of San Carlos (USAC). USAC students ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2017)
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For decades, political observers and pundits have characterized the Islamic Republic of Iran as an ideologically rigid state on the verge of collapse, exclusively connected to a narrow social base. In A Social Revolution, Kevan ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2017)
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A History of Infamy explores the broken nexus between crime, justice, and truth in mid-twentieth-century Mexico. Faced with the violence and impunity that defined politics, policing, and the judicial system in post-revolutionary times, Mexicans sought ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2017)
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Forgotten Peace examines Colombian society's attempt to move beyond the Western Hemisphere's worst mid-century conflict and shows how that effort molded notions of belonging and understandings of the past. Robert A. Karl reconstructs encounters between ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2016)
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Praying and Preying offers one of the rare anthropological monographs on the Christian experience of contemporary Amazonian indigenous peoples, based on an ethnographic study of the relationship between the Wari', inhabitants of Brazilian Amazonia, and ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2016)
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Puja and Piety celebrates the complexity of South Asian representation and iconography by examining the relationship between aesthetic expression and the devotional practice, or puja, in the three native religions of the Indian subcontinent. This ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2016)
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Even during the artist's lifetime, contemporary art lovers considered Rembrandt van Rijn to be an exceptional artist. In this revelatory sequel to the acclaimed Rembrandt: The Painter at Work, renowned Rembrandt authority Ernst van de ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2016)
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This book contains an edition'with an extensive introduction, translation and commentary'of The Light of the World, a text on theoretical astronomy by Joseph Ibn Nahmias, composed in Judeo-Arabic around 1400 C.E. in the Iberian Peninsula. ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2016)
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For thousands of years, the people of the Jewish Diaspora have carried their culinary traditions and kosher laws throughout the world. In the United States, this has resulted primarily in an Ashkenazi table of matzo ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2016)
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This book charts a comparative history of Latin America's national cinemas through ten chapters that cover every major cinematic period in the region: silent cinema, studio cinema, neorealism and art cinema, the New Latin American ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2016)
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Theories of the Nonobject investigates the crisis of the sculptural and painterly object in the concrete, neoconcrete, and constructivist practices of artists in Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela. Mónica Amor, a native of Venezuela, presents case ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2016)
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Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America brings together a broad community of scholars to explore the history of illicit and alternative sexualities in Latin America's colonial and early national periods. Together the essays ...