Fit to Be Citizens? : Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 |
Autore | Molina Natalia |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2006] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (295 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.1/0979494 |
Collana | American Crossroads |
Soggetto topico |
Immigrants - Health and hygiene - California - Los Angeles - History
Asian Americans - Health and hygiene - California - Los Angeles - History Mexican Americans - Health and hygiene - California - Los Angeles - History Public health - California - Los Angeles - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
african americans
america american citizens asian americans chinese immigrants cultural history early 20th century ethnic studies ethnographers ethnography health officials japanese immigrants labor exploitation legal exclusion living conditions los angeles mexican americans mexican immigrants nonfiction public health race and law race issues racial groups racial politics racialization racism scientific developments united states |
ISBN |
1-282-77201-5
9786612772016 0-520-93920-4 1-4337-0842-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Interlopers In The Land Of Sunshine: Chinese Disease Carriers, Launderers, And Vegetable Peddlers -- 2. Caught Between Discourses Of Disease, Health, And Nation: Public Health Attitudes Toward Japanese And Mexican Laborers In Progressive-Era Los Angeles -- 3. Institutionalizing Public Health In Ethnic Los Angeles In The 1920's -- 4. "We Can No Longer Ignore The Problem Of The Mexican": Depression-Era Public Health Policies In Los Angeles -- 5. The Fight For "Health, Morality, And Decent Living Standards": Mexican Americans And The Struggle For Public Housing In 1930's Los Angeles -- Epilogue: Genealogies Of Racial Discourses And Practices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784411403321 |
Molina Natalia
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Fit to Be Citizens? : Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 |
Autore | Molina Natalia |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2006] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (295 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.1/0979494 |
Collana | American Crossroads |
Soggetto topico |
Immigrants - Health and hygiene - California - Los Angeles - History
Asian Americans - Health and hygiene - California - Los Angeles - History Mexican Americans - Health and hygiene - California - Los Angeles - History Public health - California - Los Angeles - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
african americans
america american citizens asian americans chinese immigrants cultural history early 20th century ethnic studies ethnographers ethnography health officials japanese immigrants labor exploitation legal exclusion living conditions los angeles mexican americans mexican immigrants nonfiction public health race and law race issues racial groups racial politics racialization racism scientific developments united states |
ISBN |
1-282-77201-5
9786612772016 0-520-93920-4 1-4337-0842-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Interlopers In The Land Of Sunshine: Chinese Disease Carriers, Launderers, And Vegetable Peddlers -- 2. Caught Between Discourses Of Disease, Health, And Nation: Public Health Attitudes Toward Japanese And Mexican Laborers In Progressive-Era Los Angeles -- 3. Institutionalizing Public Health In Ethnic Los Angeles In The 1920's -- 4. "We Can No Longer Ignore The Problem Of The Mexican": Depression-Era Public Health Policies In Los Angeles -- 5. The Fight For "Health, Morality, And Decent Living Standards": Mexican Americans And The Struggle For Public Housing In 1930's Los Angeles -- Epilogue: Genealogies Of Racial Discourses And Practices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827297703321 |
Molina Natalia
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Flesh wounds : the culture of cosmetic surgery / / Virginia L. Blum |
Autore | Blum Virginia L. <1956-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 356 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 617.9/5 |
Soggetto topico |
Surgery, Plastic - Social aspects
Surgery, Plastic - Psychological aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
american culture
american identity anthropology beauty icons beauty ideals celebrity contemporary culture cosmetic surgery cultural analysis cultural criticism cultural practices elective surgery ethnographers ethnography feminism gender studies interviews modern society nonfiction account patients and doctors philosophical plastic surgeons plastic surgery psychology social conditions sociology youthful ideals |
ISBN |
0-520-24473-7
1-4175-1057-9 0-520-93873-9 1-59734-616-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The patient's body -- Untouchable bodies -- The plastic surgeon and the patient: a slow dance -- Frankenstein gets a facelift -- As if beauty -- The monster and the movie star -- Being and having: celebrity culture and the wages of love -- Addicted to surgery. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780449403321 |
Blum Virginia L. <1956->
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Flesh wounds : the culture of cosmetic surgery / / Virginia L. Blum |
Autore | Blum Virginia L. <1956-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 356 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 617.9/5 |
Soggetto topico |
Surgery, Plastic - Social aspects
Surgery, Plastic - Psychological aspects |
Soggetto non controllato |
american culture
american identity anthropology beauty icons beauty ideals celebrity contemporary culture cosmetic surgery cultural analysis cultural criticism cultural practices elective surgery ethnographers ethnography feminism gender studies interviews modern society nonfiction account patients and doctors philosophical plastic surgeons plastic surgery psychology social conditions sociology youthful ideals |
ISBN |
0-520-24473-7
1-4175-1057-9 0-520-93873-9 1-59734-616-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The patient's body -- Untouchable bodies -- The plastic surgeon and the patient: a slow dance -- Frankenstein gets a facelift -- As if beauty -- The monster and the movie star -- Being and having: celebrity culture and the wages of love -- Addicted to surgery. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808844103321 |
Blum Virginia L. <1956->
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Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2003 | ||
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The Hadza [[electronic resource] ] : hunter-gatherers of Tanzania / / Frank W. Marlowe |
Autore | Marlowe Frank <1954-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (337 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.896/1 |
Collana | Origins of human behavior and culture |
Soggetto topico |
Hatsa (African people) - Hunting
Hatsa (African people) - Food Hatsa (African people) - Social life and customs Hunting and gathering societies - Tanzania Social ecology - Tanzania Social evolution - Tanzania |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropologists
anthropology archaeologists behavioral ecology contemporary anthropology early humans east africa easy to read ethnographers evolutionary perspective firsthand research foraging lifestyle hadza human behavior human evolutionary theory human origins hunter gatherers material culture nonfiction olduvai gorge origins of culture quantitative ethnography religion serengeti social structure society subsistence tanzania traditional culture |
ISBN |
1-282-77271-6
9786612772719 0-520-94544-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The Hadza and evolutionary theory : an introduction -- Habitat and history -- Social organization, beliefs, and practices -- Material culture -- Foraging -- Life history -- Mating -- Parenting -- Cooperation and food-sharing -- The median foragers : humans in cross-species perspective -- Afterward : the Hadza present and future. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784955903321 |
Marlowe Frank <1954->
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 | ||
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The Hadza [[electronic resource] ] : hunter-gatherers of Tanzania / / Frank W. Marlowe |
Autore | Marlowe Frank <1954-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (337 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.896/1 |
Collana | Origins of human behavior and culture |
Soggetto topico |
Hatsa (African people) - Hunting
Hatsa (African people) - Food Hatsa (African people) - Social life and customs Hunting and gathering societies - Tanzania Social ecology - Tanzania Social evolution - Tanzania |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropologists
anthropology archaeologists behavioral ecology contemporary anthropology early humans east africa easy to read ethnographers evolutionary perspective firsthand research foraging lifestyle hadza human behavior human evolutionary theory human origins hunter gatherers material culture nonfiction olduvai gorge origins of culture quantitative ethnography religion serengeti social structure society subsistence tanzania traditional culture |
ISBN |
1-282-77271-6
9786612772719 0-520-94544-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The Hadza and evolutionary theory : an introduction -- Habitat and history -- Social organization, beliefs, and practices -- Material culture -- Foraging -- Life history -- Mating -- Parenting -- Cooperation and food-sharing -- The median foragers : humans in cross-species perspective -- Afterward : the Hadza present and future. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821324603321 |
Marlowe Frank <1954->
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 | ||
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Hidden heritage [[electronic resource] ] : the legacy of the Crypto-Jews / / Janet Liebman Jacobs |
Autore | Jacobs Janet Liebman |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley ; ; Los Angeles, : University of California Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (210 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.892/4073 |
Collana | S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies |
Soggetto topico |
Crypto-Jews - United States - History
Jews - United States - History Crypto-Jews - Religious life Crypto-Jews - Social life and customs Jews - Identity |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropology
christian converts christianity clandestine contemporary jews converted jews crypto jews ethnic identity ethnographers european history european jews faith and religion god and religion historians historical account jewish ancestry jewish descendants jewish heritage jewish history jewish life judaism reclaimed past religious history religious identity retrospective scientific theory social sciences spanish inquisition textbooks |
ISBN |
9786612762741
1-59734-653-5 0-520-93661-2 1-282-76274-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Secrecy, antisemitism, and the dangers of Jewishness -- Women and the persistence of culture : ritual, custom, and the recovery of Sephardic ancestry -- The self-in-relation and the transformation of religious consciousness -- Syncretism and faith blending in modern Crypto-Judaism -- Conversion and the rekindling of the Jewish soul -- Jewish ancestry and the social construction of ethnic identity -- Conclusion. Ethnic loss and the future of Crypto-Jewish culture |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782963303321 |
Jacobs Janet Liebman
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Hidden heritage [[electronic resource] ] : the legacy of the Crypto-Jews / / Janet Liebman Jacobs |
Autore | Jacobs Janet Liebman |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley ; ; Los Angeles, : University of California Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (210 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.892/4073 |
Collana | S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies |
Soggetto topico |
Crypto-Jews - United States - History
Jews - United States - History Crypto-Jews - Religious life Crypto-Jews - Social life and customs Jews - Identity |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropology
christian converts christianity clandestine contemporary jews converted jews crypto jews ethnic identity ethnographers european history european jews faith and religion god and religion historians historical account jewish ancestry jewish descendants jewish heritage jewish history jewish life judaism reclaimed past religious history religious identity retrospective scientific theory social sciences spanish inquisition textbooks |
ISBN |
9786612762741
1-59734-653-5 0-520-93661-2 1-282-76274-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Secrecy, antisemitism, and the dangers of Jewishness -- Women and the persistence of culture : ritual, custom, and the recovery of Sephardic ancestry -- The self-in-relation and the transformation of religious consciousness -- Syncretism and faith blending in modern Crypto-Judaism -- Conversion and the rekindling of the Jewish soul -- Jewish ancestry and the social construction of ethnic identity -- Conclusion. Ethnic loss and the future of Crypto-Jewish culture |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825549103321 |
Jacobs Janet Liebman
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Berkeley ; ; Los Angeles, : University of California Press, c2002 | ||
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Holy Hustlers, Schism, and Prophecy : Apostolic Reformation in Botswana / / Richard Werbner |
Autore | Werbner Richard |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (284 p.) |
Disciplina | 276.883 083 |
Collana | The Anthropology of Christianity |
Soggetto topico | Pentecostal churches - Church history - Botswana - Gaborone |
Soggetto non controllato |
aids
anthropology apostolic reformation botswana christian reformation comparative religion discussion books empathy ethnographers ethnography exorcisms faith healers faith healing god mimesis moral issues personhood power of the word prayer and meditation prophecy prophets religious rituals religious scholars religious studies ritual performance schism social science theatrical theoretical perspective world religions |
ISBN |
1-283-27812-X
9786613278128 0-520-94946-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Holy Hustling -- 2. Between the Prophetic and the Pastoral -- 3. The Lives of Prophets and Bishops -- 4. Escalating Crisis: Faith and Trust "under Destruction" -- 5. Schism, Innovation, and Continuity -- 6. Personal Nearness and Sincerity in Prayer -- 7. Diagnosis, Reconnaissance, and Fabrication -- 8. Prescribing Christian Cosmetics: Moving Bodies and Intercorporeality -- 9. Old and New in Christian Reformation -- Conclusion: From Film to Book- Dianoia and Noesis -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785577703321 |
Werbner Richard
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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011] | ||
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Holy Hustlers, Schism, and Prophecy : Apostolic Reformation in Botswana / / Richard Werbner |
Autore | Werbner Richard |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (284 p.) |
Disciplina | 276.883 083 |
Collana | The Anthropology of Christianity |
Soggetto topico | Pentecostal churches - Church history - Botswana - Gaborone |
Soggetto non controllato |
aids
anthropology apostolic reformation botswana christian reformation comparative religion discussion books empathy ethnographers ethnography exorcisms faith healers faith healing god mimesis moral issues personhood power of the word prayer and meditation prophecy prophets religious rituals religious scholars religious studies ritual performance schism social science theatrical theoretical perspective world religions |
ISBN |
1-283-27812-X
9786613278128 0-520-94946-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Holy Hustling -- 2. Between the Prophetic and the Pastoral -- 3. The Lives of Prophets and Bishops -- 4. Escalating Crisis: Faith and Trust "under Destruction" -- 5. Schism, Innovation, and Continuity -- 6. Personal Nearness and Sincerity in Prayer -- 7. Diagnosis, Reconnaissance, and Fabrication -- 8. Prescribing Christian Cosmetics: Moving Bodies and Intercorporeality -- 9. Old and New in Christian Reformation -- Conclusion: From Film to Book- Dianoia and Noesis -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819254003321 |
Werbner Richard
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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011] | ||
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