http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/ucpress/rss Recent eScholarship items from University of California Press Fri, 15 May 2026 05:42:51 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8w68m3k0 The Yuki language, including Huchnom and Coast Yuki, was spoken in Mendocino County until relatively recently (the last speaker died in 1983). This grammar is based primarily on spoken narratives recorded by Alfred Kroeber between 1901-1911. While Yuki was extensively documented over the course of the twentieth century, there is relatively little in the way of actual published works on the language. Balodis discusses the language within the historical and cultural context of the people who spoke it.&nbsp; https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8w68m3k0 Mon, 24 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Balodis, Uldis https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2mz6t67j <p>In one of the most thorough studies ever prepared of a California language, Hill’s grammar reviews the phonology, morphology, syntax and discourse features of Cupeño, a Uto-Aztecan (takic) language of California. Cupeño exhibits many unusual typological features, including split ergativity, that require linguists to revise our understanding of the development of the Uto-Aztecan family of languages in historical and areal perspective.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2mz6t67j Fri, 13 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Hill, Jane H. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0dv86220 <p>Wappo is an indigenous language, generally regarded as a language isolate, which was once spoken in the Russian River Valley, just north of San Francisco, California. This reference grammar is based on the speech of Laura Fish Somersal, its last fluent speaker, who died in 1990, and represents the most extensive data and grammatical research ever done on this language. The grammar focuses on morphosyntax, particularly nominal, verbal, and clausal structures and clause combining patterns, from a functional/typological perspective.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0dv86220 Fri, 13 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Thompson, Sandra A. Park, Joseph Sung-Yul Li, Charles N. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9x54g6x8 <p>The catalog provides information on the type material of 75 valid species of the genus Aphytis Howard (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) in the collection of the Entomology Research Museum, University of California, Riverside. 7,390 specimens were remounted from Hoyer's medium into Canada balsam, including 309 primary types, 2,473 secondary types, and 4,608 non-type specimens. Lecotypes are designated for 11 species</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9x54g6x8 Thu, 12 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Triapitsyn, Serguei Vladimirovich Kim, Jung-Wook https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9g62053v <p>Oliver P. Pearson's studies on mammalian biology remain standard reading for ecologists, physiologists, taxonomists, and biogeographers. Reflecting this, the papers gathered here continue to expand our understanding of the ecology and evolution of subterranean mammals, and of the ecology, taxonomy, and biogeography of Neotropical mammals, a group that was central to the latter half of Pearson's career.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9g62053v Thu, 12 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Kelt, Douglas A Lessa, Enrique P. Salazar-Bravo, Jorge Patton, James L. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8cn8159h <p>The modified mouthparts group is perhaps the largest of the four major Hawaiian Drosophila clades, yet has received relatively little taxonomic attention during the past 40 years. This study reviews unplaced species and the ceratostoma, freycinetiae, semifuscata, and setiger subgroups, with descriptions of 22 new species. We hope this work encourages greater study of the biology of this important group.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8cn8159h Thu, 12 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Magnacca, Karl N. O'Grady, Patrick M https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8309x2k0 <p>The Chimariko language, now extinct, was spoken in Trinity County, California. This reference grammar, based on data collected by Harrington in the 1920s, represents the most comprehensive description of the language. Written from a functional-typological perspective this work also examines language contact in Northern California showing that grammatical traits are often shared among genetically unrelated languages in geographically contiguous areas.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8309x2k0 Thu, 12 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Jany, Carmen https://escholarship.org/uc/item/68j422zk <p>We detail the evolutionary history of the desert woodrat complex (lepida group, genus Neotoma) of western North America. Our analyses include standard multivariate morphometrics of museum specimens coupled with mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences and microsatellite loci. We trace the spatial and temporal diversification of this group of desert dwelling rodents, revising species boundaries and delineate subspecies we consider valid.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/68j422zk Thu, 12 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Patton, James L. Huckaby, David G. Álvarez-Castañeda, Sergio Ticul https://escholarship.org/uc/item/54d6g72b <p>The primarily Neotropical dolichoderine ant genus Linepithema is revised at the species level for the first time. Morphological and biogeographic data support the recognition of 19 species. The following taxonomic scheme is proposed: L. angulatum (Emery) stat. nov. [= pordescens (Wheeler) syn. nov.], L. dispertitum (Forel), L. flavescens (Wheeler &amp; Mann) stat. nov., L. fuscum Mayr, L. gallardoi (Brèthes) [=breviscapa (Santschi) syn. nov. = impotens (Santschi) syn. nov.], L. humile (Mayr) [=arrogans (Chopard) = riograndense (Borgmeier)], L. iniquum (Mayr) [= bicolor (Forel) syn. nov. = dominicense (Wheeler) syn. nov. = fuscescens (Wheeler) syn. nov. = melleum (Wheeler) syn. nov. = nigellum (Emery) syn. nov. = succineum (Forel) syn. nov.], L. keiteli (Forel) [= subfaciatum (Wheeler &amp; Mann) syn. nov.], L. leucomelas (Emery) [= aspidocoptum (Kempf) syn. nov.], L. micans (Forel) stat. nov. [= platense (Forel) syn. nov. = scotti (Santschi) syn. nov.], L. oblongum (Santschi),... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/54d6g72b Thu, 12 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Wild, Alexander L. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3tr1g60k Records of parasitism in crocodilians date back to the early 1800s, distributed among various types of published and unpublished materials. Analyzing parasite-host specificity, geographic distribution, and taxonomy can provide otherwise cryptic details about crocodilian ecology and evolution, as well as their local food web dynamics. This information is critical for improved conservation tactics for both crocodilians and their habitat.As climate change, anthropogenic conflict, and environmental pollution endanger crocodilian ecosystems, there is a need for organized information on crocodile, alligator, caiman, and gharial infectious diseases. This volume meets this need by delivering the first checklist of crocodilians and their parasites for researchers and scholars in biology, herpetology, and ecology in order to further the knowledge and study of crocodilian-parasite dynamics and improve our understanding of human impacts on ecosystems. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3tr1g60k Thu, 12 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Tellez, Marisa https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3j6466jw <p>Species and genera of the wasp family Chrysididae in California are reviewed and their California and overall distributions mapped. In addition, keys to California genera and species, and discussions of these species are given. Three new synonymies are given, Chrysis eurekana Linsenmaier 1994 and Chrysis angustianalis Linsenmaier 1994 under Chrysis nitidula Fabricius, and Chrysis antiochicola Linsenmaier 1994 under Chrysis schusteri Bohart 1982.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3j6466jw Thu, 12 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Kimsey, Lynn S. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3c40r8jv <p>This pioneering book is the prototype of the etymological thesaurus that has been the goal of the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus project (STEDT) since 1987. It presents nearly 170 Proto-Tibeto-Burman etymologies in the semantic area of the reproductive system, along with discussions of possible Chinese cognates. Special attention is paid to patterns of semantic associations between the reproductive system and other areas of the lexicon.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3c40r8jv Thu, 12 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Matisoff, James A. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/73c5c0cg Modern Peoplehood: On Race, Racism, Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Identity https://escholarship.org/uc/item/73c5c0cg Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Lie, John https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6gs6r186 No Alternative? examines education in South Korea beyond daytime K-16 schooling—an escalating phenomenon in an increasingly neoliberal and globalizing society. Ethnographic portraits of private after-schooling, alternative schooling, home schooling, and adult distance education reveal that education producers and consumers often reject mainstream education while simultaneously seeking or embracing its symbolic value. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6gs6r186 Wed, 18 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Abelmann, Nancy https://escholarship.org/uc/item/325303qz In eighteenth-century Britain, the appearance of “savages” from the New World provoked intense fascination. Though such people had been arriving periodically for decades, it was only then that the “savage visit” became a sensation. Using a wealth of sources, Kate Fullagar shows why the phenomenon grew and how it related to bitter debates over the morality of imperial expansion. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/325303qz Wed, 18 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Fullagar, Kate https://escholarship.org/uc/item/05g4n84c In just three decades, Great Britain’s place in world politics was transformed. In 1945, it was the world’s preeminent imperial power with global interests. By 1975, Britain languished in political stasis and economic recession, clinging to its alliance with the United States and membership in the European Community. Amid this turmoil, British intellectuals struggled to make sense of their country’s decline and the transformed world in which they found themselves. This book assesses their responses to this predicament and explores the different ways British thinkers came to understand the new international relations of the postwar period. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/05g4n84c Wed, 18 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Hall, Ian https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0026695h When the U.S.-Korea military alliance began to deteriorate in the 2000s, many commentators blamed "anti-Americanism" and nationalism, especially among younger South Koreans. Challenging these assumptions, this book argues that Korean activism around U.S. relations owes more to transformations in domestic politics, including the decentralization of government, the diversification and politics of civil society organizations, and the transnationalization of social movements. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0026695h Wed, 18 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Moon, Katharine H. S. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8mq6q2c0 Gossip and anecdote may be “idle talk,” but they also serve to knit together individuals in society and to provide the materials through which literary culture and historical memory are constructed. This groundbreaking book provides a cultural history of gossip and anecdote in traditional China, beginning with the Han dynasty and ending with the Qing. The ten essays, along with the introduction and postface, address the verification, transmission, and interpretation of gossip and anecdote across literary and historical genres.Contributors: Sarah M. Allen, Beverly J. Bossler, Jack W. Chen, Ronald Egan, Dore J. Levy, Stephen Owen, Graham Sanders, David Schaberg, Anna M. Shields, Richard E. Strassberg, Xiaofei Tian https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8mq6q2c0 Thu, 5 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Chen, Jack W https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6043g6g9 This book explores the important connections between medicine and political culture that often have been overlooked. In response to the French revolution and British radicalism, political propagandists adopted a scientific vocabulary and medical images for their own purposes. New ideas about anatomy and pathology, sexuality and reproduction, cleanliness and contamination, and diet and drink migrated into politics in often startling ways, and to significant effect. These ideas were used to identify individuals as normal or pathological, and as “naturally” suitable or unsuitable for public life. This migration has had profound consequences for how we measure the bodies, practices and abilities of public figures and ourselves. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6043g6g9 Thu, 5 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Wagner, Corinna https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4h74v49p In 221 BCE the state of Qin vanquished its rivals and established the first empire on Chinese soil, starting a millennium-long imperial age in Chinese history. Hailed by some and maligned by many, Qin has long been an enigma. In this pathbreaking study, the authors integrate textual sources with newly available archeological and paleographic materials, providing a boldly novel picture of Qin’s cultural and political trajectory, its evolving institutions and its religion, its place in China’s history, and the reasons for its success and for its ultimate collapse. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4h74v49p Thu, 5 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Pines, Yuri https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3xr9f9dk This book examines the role of translation—the rendering of texts and ideas from one language to another, as both act and trope—in shaping attitudes toward nationalism and colonialism in Korean and Japanese intellectual discourse between the time of Japan’s annexation of Korea in 1910 and the passing of the colonial generation in the mid-1960s. Drawing on Korean and Japanese texts ranging from critical essays to short stories produced in the colonial and postcolonial periods, it analyzes the ways in which Japanese colonial and Korean nationalist discourse pivoted on such concepts as language, literature, and culture. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3xr9f9dk Thu, 5 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Suh, Serk-Bae https://escholarship.org/uc/item/30c576h7 This volume examines the significant role population science played in British colonial policy in the twentieth century as the imperial state attempted to control colonial populations using new agricultural and public health policies, private family planning initiatives, and by imposing limits over migration and settlement.A Problem of Great Importance traces British imperial efforts to engage metropolitan activists who could improve its knowledge of colonial demography and design programs to influence colonial population trends. While imperial population control failed to achieve its goals, British institutions and experts would be central to the development of postcolonial population programs. Researchers, scholars, and historians of British history will gain greater perspective into the effects of demography on imperial governance and colonial and postcolonial British views of their place in the world. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/30c576h7 Thu, 5 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Ittman, Karl https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2qs2w3rb This book explores philosophical, sociological, and democratic approaches to organization. Bevir offers a humanist and historicist perspective, arguing that people creatively make and remake organizations in particular contexts. By highlighting the meaningful and contingent nature of action, he reexamines the concepts of state, nation, network, and market, and he calls for democratic innovations. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2qs2w3rb Thu, 5 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Bevir, Mark https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4zp9f66p <p>“Presents a compelling and novel argument: that collective efforts to combat climate change have actually contributed to less sustainable modes of industrial growth. Much work has looked at the details of national and international climate change policy, but no one has addressed whether any of this effort is likely to make a real difference, and what the broader factors are that account for policy changes. . . . Will be attractive both for scholars of climate change and for policy makers.” Peter Haas, University of Massachusetts, Amherst</p><p>Climate change is a global phenomenon that requires a global response, and yet climate change governance depends on the ability of individual states to respond to a long-term, uncertain threat. Although states are routinely criticized for their inability to respond to such threats, the problems that arise from their attempts to respond are frequently overlooked. Focusing on the experiences of India, Spain, and Australia, Hayley Stevenson... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4zp9f66p Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Stevenson, Hayley https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2tp0d3gp <p>“Quietly dazzling. . . . In this gripping account of welfare’s postcolonial history, Jordanna Bailkin throws the archives wide open and invites us to walk through them with new eyes—and with renewed appreciation for the intimate connections between empire and metropole in the making of contemporary Britain. The Afterlife of Empire challenges us to reimagine how we think and teach the twentieth century in Britain and beyond.” Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign</p><p>“A brilliant contribution to the history of twentieth-century Britain. It does what no other book has done: narrating the end of empire and the rise of the postwar welfare state together, while placing the stories of ordinary people—children, adolescents, parents, husbands, and wives—at the heart of this account. With this book, Bailkin transforms our understanding of how some of the most critical issues of twentieth-century British history were not just perceived, but lived.” stephen j.... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2tp0d3gp Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Bailkin, Jordanna https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0w56p2zj <p>“This ambitious, very important project defines no less than a new field of inquiry, one that scarcely could have been attempted in the past. The essays in this volume add enormously to the documentation of what late-period Chinese art learned from Japan, and begin to formulate conclusions that will enrich future accounts of both Japanese and Chinese art.” James Cahill, University of California, Berkeley</p><p>The modern histories of China and Japan are inexorably intertwined. Their relationship is perhaps most obvious in the fields of political, economic, and military history, but it is no less true in cultural and art history. Yet the traffic in artistic practices and practitioners between China and Japan remains an understudied field. In this volume, an international group of scholars investigates Japan’s impact on Chinese art from the mid-nineteenth century through the 1930s. Individual essays address a range of perspectives, including the work of individual Chinese and... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0w56p2zj Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Fogel, Joshua A. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2fd5v9cc <p>“In this highly original work, Ruth Barraclough makes it absolutely clear that marginalized and degraded forms of literary expression, like those in which the factory girl figures, are fundamental to the definition and self-understanding of working women’s subjectivity. Written in a lively and highly accessible style, her book will be of great value to scholars of Korea but also a broad array of literary critics, social and labor historians, and women’s studies scholars.” Paula Rabinowitz, author of <em>Labor and Desire: Women’s Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America</em> </p><p>“Bringing together labor history and literary criticism in the most innovative ways, <em>Factory Girl Literature</em> admirably explores cultural and literary representations to illuminate a complex subject that would be inaccessible via more conventional sources. Barraclough astutely illustrates how the crucial matrix of sexuality and the experience of various kinds of violence was an integral... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2fd5v9cc Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Barraclough, Ruth https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8ns796rq The ant fauna of the Fijian archipelago is a diverse assemblage of endemic radiations, pan-Pacific species, and exotics introduced from around the world. Here we provide a taxonomic synopsis of the entire Fijian ant fauna by incorporating previously published information with the results of a recently completed, archipelago-wide biodiversity inventory. This synopsis updates the first and only other treatment of the fauna, W. M. Mann’s 1921 monograph, <em>The Ants of the Fiji Islands</em>. A total of 187 ant species representing 43 genera are recognized here. Of these species, 88% are native to the Pacific region, 70% are endemic to Fiji, and 12% are introduced into the Pacific region. Approximately 45 ant species in Fiji are undescribed, and are identified here by assigned code names. An illustrated key to genera, synopses of each species, keys to species of all genera, and a species list is provided. The work is further illustrated with specimen images, distribution maps, and... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8ns796rq Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Sarnat, Eli M. Economo, Evan P. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5626s1fw <p>“Set against one of the most horrible atrocities of the early twentieth century, the ethnic cleansing of Western Anatolia and the burning of the city of Izmir, <em>Smyrna’s Ashes</em> is an important contribution to our understanding of how humanitarian thinking shaped British foreign and military policy in the Late Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean. Based on rigorous archival research and scholarship, well written, and compelling, it is a welcome addition to the growing literature on humanitarianism and the history of human rights.” Keith David Watenpaugh, University of California, Davis</p><p>“Tusan shows vividly and compassionately how Britain’s attempt to build a ‘Near East’ in its own image upon the ruins of the Ottoman Empire served as prelude to today’s Middle East of nation-states.” Peter Mandler, University of Cambridge</p><p>“Traces an important but neglected strand in the history of British humanitarianism, showing how its efforts to aid Ottoman Christians were inextricably... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5626s1fw Sun, 7 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Tusan, Michelle https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6354g2xv <p>“This volume is unique in its comprehensive investigation of the changing face of public health in East and Southeast Asia. The region’s countries have experienced major challenges resulting from colonialism, conflicts, economic and technological development, varying levels of government stability, widening disparities between social classes, uneven distribution of wealth, emerging epidemics, chronic diseases, occupational hazards, and changing health services. All of these issues are ably addressed by the authors, firsthand experts in their respective countries and fields. With its useful summaries and wealth of international sources, it will be an excellent resource for scholars and practitioners seeking an introduction to the region’s complex context and development.” Chitr Sitthi-amorn, former president, International Epidemiological Association</p><p><em>Public Health in East and Southeast Asia</em> presents an overview of the state of public health across this vast region... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6354g2xv Fri, 5 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Detels, Roger Sullivan, Sheena G. Tan, Chorh Chuan https://escholarship.org/uc/item/13w4k8d4 <p>In <em>Daoism in the Twentieth Century,</em> an interdisciplinary group of scholars explores the social history and anthropology of Daoism from the late nineteenth century to the present, focusing on the evolution of traditional forms of practice and community, as well as modern reforms and reinventions both within China and on the global stage. Essays investigate ritual specialists, body cultivation and meditation traditions, monasticism, new religious movements, state-sponsored institutionalization, and transnational networks.</p><p>“This pioneering work not only explores the ways in which Daoism was able to adapt and reinvent itself during China’s modern era, but sheds new light on how Daoism helped structure the development of Chinese religious culture. The authors also demonstrate Daoism’s role as a world religion, particularly in terms of emigration and identity. The book’s sophisticated approach transcends previous debates over how to define the term ‘Daoism,’ and should... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/13w4k8d4 Fri, 3 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Palmer, David A. Liu, Xun https://escholarship.org/uc/item/07s1h1rf <p>Addressing the problem of the ‘Han’ ethnos from a variety of relevant perspectives—historical, geographical, racial, political, literary, anthropological, and linguistic—<em>Critical Han Studies</em> offers a responsible, informative deconstruction of this monumental yet murky category. It is certain to have an enormous impact on the entire field of China studies.” Victor H. Mair, University of Pennsylvania</p><p>“This deeply historical, multidisciplinary volume consistently and fruitfully employs insights from critical race and whiteness studies in a new arena. In doing so it illuminates brightly how and when ideas about race and ethnicity change in the service of shifting configurations of power.” David Roediger, author of <em>How Race Survived U.S. History</em> </p><p>“A great book. By examining the social construction of hierarchy in China,Critical Han Studiessheds light on broad issues of cultural dominance and in-group favoritism.” Richard Delgado, author of <em>Critical... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/07s1h1rf Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Mullaney, Thomas S. Leibold, James Gros, Stéphane Vanden Bussche, Eric https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6wb842zj Crossing Aspectual Frontiers: Emergence, Evolution, and Interwoven Semantic Domains in South Conchucos Quechua Discourse https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6wb842zj Fri, 9 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Hintz, Daniel J https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8tj1700w Talking Peace: A Population-Based Survey on Attitudes about Security, Dispute Resolution, and Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Liberia https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8tj1700w Wed, 9 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Vinck, Patrick Pham, Phuong N. Kreutzer, Tino https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0n22238c After the First Trial: A Population-Based Survey on Knowledge and Perception of Justice and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0n22238c Wed, 9 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Pham, Phuong N. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6wj6r222 <p>In this wide-ranging volume, leading scholars across several disciplines—history, literature, sociology, and cultural studies—investigate the nature of liberalism and modernity in imperial Britain since the eighteenth century. They show how Britain’s liberal version of modernity (of capitalism, democracy, and imperialism) was the product of a peculiar set of historical circumstances that continues to haunt our neoliberal present.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6wj6r222 Fri, 4 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Gunn, Simon Vernon, James https://escholarship.org/uc/item/90k138bf Revision of Ufens Girault, 1911 (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/90k138bf Tue, 1 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Owen, Albert K. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/846308w2 This publication presents the first documentation of Nzadi, a Bantu language spoken by fishermen along the Kasai River in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It is the product of extensive study by the authors and participants in field methods and group study courses at the University of California, Berkeley, and consists of ten chapters covering the segmental phonology, tone system, morphology, and sentence structure, followed by appendices on the Nzadi people and history and on Proto-Bantu to Nzadi sound changes. Also included are three texts and a lexicon of over 1100 entries, including a number of fish species. Prior to this work, Nzadi had not even been mentioned in the literature, and at this time still has no entry as a language or dialect in the&nbsp;Ethnologue. Of particular interest in the study of Nzadi is its considerable grammatical simplification, resulting in structures quite different from those of canonical Bantu languages. Although Nzadi has lost most of... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/846308w2 Tue, 1 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Crane, Thera Marie Hyman, Larry M. Tukumu, Simon Nsielanga, SJ https://escholarship.org/uc/item/55z8q83k <p>“Clear, coherent, richly documented, and highly persuasive. I know of no other source devoted exclusively to the topic of Chinese women’s biographies, and I am confident that this book will have a ready audience in the China field and beyond.” Paul Ropp, Clark University</p><p>“In addition to Liu Xiang’s <em>Lienü zhuan,</em> the <em>Urtext</em> of Chinese women’s biography, this rich trove of essays explores previously unexamined biographical genres and mines literary texts for their biographical potential. It will be of great value to scholars interested in women’s history, life-writing, and biography, both in the China field and in comparative contexts.” Grace S. Fong, McGill University</p><p>This volume develops new strategies for reading, contextualizing, and interpreting the long Chinese tradition of women’s biography. Drawing upon a vast array of sources—from formal biography to poetry, letters, and oral interviews—the authors examine how women’s biography served particular... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/55z8q83k Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Judge, Joan Hu, Ying https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0n74x461 <p>Foreword by Bruce Cumings. Translated by Kim Myung-hwan, Sol June-Kyu,Song Seung-cheol, and Ryu Young-joo, with the collaboration of the author.</p><p>Paik Nak-chung is one of Korea’s most incisive contemporary public intellectuals. By training a literary scholar, he is perhaps best known as an eloquent cultural and political critic. This volume represents the first book-length collection of his writings in English.</p><p>Paik’s distinctive theme is the notion of a “division system” on the Korean peninsula, the peculiar geopolitical and cultural logic by which one nation continues to be divided into two states, South and North. Identifying a single structure encompassing both Koreas and placing it within the framework of the contemporary world-system, Paik shows how this reality has insinuated itself into virtually every corner of modern Korean life.</p><p>“A remarkable combination of scholar, author, critic, and activist, Paik Nak-chung carries forward in our time the ancient... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0n74x461 Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Nak-chung, Paik https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3nn7z6w5 <p>Comprehensive reference grammar of Ingush, a language of the Nakh branch of the Nakh-Daghestanian or East Caucasian language family of the central Caucasus (southern Russia). Ingush is notable for its complex phonology, prosody including minimal tone system, complex morphology of both nouns and verbs, clause chaining, long-distance reflexivization, and extreme degree of syntactic ergativity.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3nn7z6w5 Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Nichols, Johanna https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2qs7r1mw Consonant Harmony: Long-Distance Interaction in Phonology https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2qs7r1mw Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Hansson, Gunnar Ólafur https://escholarship.org/uc/item/24b027x0 <p>The description of Africa as a continent in perpetual crisis, ubiquitous in the popular media and in policy and development circles, is at once obvious and obfuscating. This collection by leading ethnographers moves beyond the rhetoric of African crisis to theorize people's everyday practices under volatile conditions not of their own making. From Ghanaian hiplife music to the U.S. "diversity lottery" in Togo, from politicos in Côte d'Ivoire to squatters in South Africa, the essays in Hard Work, Hard Times uncover the imaginative ways in which African subjects make and remake themselves and their worlds, and thus make do, get by, get over, and sometimes thrive.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/24b027x0 Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Makhulu, Anne-Maria Buggenhagen, Beth A. Jackson, Stephen https://escholarship.org/uc/item/65r158r4 Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem, Volume I https://escholarship.org/uc/item/65r158r4 Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Galloway, Brent Douglas https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8tw1k4t4 <p>Government's ever-increasing participation in communication processes, Mark Yudof argues, threatens key democratic values that the First Amendment was designed to protect. Government control over the exchange of ideas and information would be inconsistent with citizen autonomy, informed consent, and a balanced and mutually responsive relationship between citizens and their government. Yet the danger of government dominance must be weighed against the necessary role of government in furthering democratic values by proposing and promotion policies and by disseminating information and educating citizens. Restraints on government's ability to control communications processes are desirable, but excessive or inappropriate restrictions threaten democracy. Professor Yudof identifies a number of formal and informal checks on government as disseminator, withholder, and controller of ideas and information. Where more controls are needed, the strengthening of pluralism and legislative... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8tw1k4t4 Wed, 12 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Yudof, Mark G. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/89t5v399 <p>While debate about immigration rages within the United States, people worldwide are moving across national borders with unprecedented intensity. In this timely volume, leading scholars in sociology, anthropology, history, and law examine how the actions of the United States as a global leader are increasing pressures on people to migrate, while simultaneously degrading migrant rights from East Asia to Mexico. Uniting such diverse issues as market reform, drug policy, and terrorism under a common framework of human rights, the book constitutes a call for a new vision on immigration more comprehensive than anything yet imagined in the U.S. immigration debate. The volume includes essays by Susan M. Akram, Alexia Bloch, Leo R. Chavez, Christopher Dole, Tricia Gabany-Guerrero, Scott Harding. Julia Meredith Hess, Josiah McC. Heyman, Kevin R. Johnson, Kathryn Libal, Samuel Martínez, Douglas S. Massey, Carole Nagengast, Nancy A. Naples, María Teresa Restrepo-Ruiz, and J. C. Salyer.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/89t5v399 Mon, 3 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Martínez, Samuel https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4vv5373d <p>This book provides an in-depth look at the production of clicks using a variety of different techniques. Static palatography, linguography, electropalatography, and aerodynamic data, including the intra-oral pressure of the click cavity, never previously before measured, all combine to create a comprehensive picture of click consonants. This important work provides conclusive evidence that click consonants co-articulate, or adjust their articulation, with adjacent consonants in interesting ways.</p><p>Although clicks are widely considered to be among the most interesting classes of segments, many aspects of their phonetics are little known. This book examines how the three different click types of IsiZulu differ from each other in their production in both spatial and temporal dimensions, and considers the question of how these complex segments are integrated into the stream of speech. Strong claims have been made in the literature that clicks do not coarticulate, but there... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4vv5373d Mon, 3 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Thomas-Vilakati, Kimberly D https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1tf697pk <p>The attempt by the George W. Bush administration to reshape world order, especially but not exclusively after September 11, 2001, increasingly appears to have resulted in a catastrophic “misshaping” of geopolitics in the wake of bungled campaigns in the Middle East and their many reverberations worldwide. Journalists and scholars are now trying to understand what happened, and this volume explores the role of culture and rhetoric in this process of geopolitical transformation. What difference do cultural concepts and values make to the cognitive and emotional weather of which, at various levels, international politics is both consequence and perceived corrective? The distinguished scholars in this multidisciplinary volume bring the tools of cultural analysis to the profound ongoing debate about how geopolitics is mapped and what determines its governance. The volume includes essays by Eileen Boris, Richard Falk, Giles Gunn, Mark Juergensmeyer, Lisa Lowe, Simon Ortiz, David... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1tf697pk Mon, 3 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Gunn, Giles Gutiérrez-Jones, Carl https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0q65z7q9 <p>This book vividly traces the genealogy of modern womanhood in the encounters between Koreans and American Protestant missionaries in the early twentieth century, during Korea's colonization by Japan. Hyaeweol Choi's shows that what it meant to be a "modern" Korean woman was deeply bound up in such diverse themes as Korean nationalism, Confucian gender practices, images of the West and Christianity, and growing desires for selfhood. Her historically specific, textured analysis sheds new light on the interplay between local and global politics of gender and modernity.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0q65z7q9 Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Choi, Hyaeweol https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0n17g0n0 <p>After decades of civil war and instability, the African country of Angola is experiencing a spectacular economic boom thanks to its most valuable natural resource: oil. But oil extraction--both on- and offshore--is a toxic remedy for the country's economic ills, with devastating effects on both the environment and traditional livelihoods. Focusing on the everyday realities of people living in the extraction zones, Kristin Reed explores the exclusion, degradation, and violence that are the fruits of petrocapitalism in Angola.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0n17g0n0 Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Reed, Kristin https://escholarship.org/uc/item/12h450zf <p>This indispensable guide for students of both Chinese and women's history synthesizes recent research on women in twentieth-century China. Written by a leading historian of China, it surveys more than 650 scholarly works, discussing Chinese women in the context of marriage, family, sexuality, labor, and national modernity. In the process, Hershatter offers keen analytic insights and judgments about the works themselves and the evolution of related academic fields. The result is both a practical bibliographic tool and a thoughtful reflection on how we approach the past.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/12h450zf Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Hershatter, Gail https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3jn4j8cf <p>The long twentieth century in China and Taiwan has seen both a dramatic process of state-driven secularization and modernization and a vigorous revival of contemporary religious life. Chinese Religiosities explores the often vexed relationship between the modern Chinese state and religious practice. The essays in this comprehensive, multidisciplinary collection cover a wide range of traditions, including Buddhism, Daoism, Islam, Confucianism, Protestantism, Falungong, popular religion, and redemptive societies.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3jn4j8cf Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Yang, Mayfair Mei-hui https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9bq66424 <p>More than one-half million people of Korean descent reside in Japan today—the largest ethnic minority in a country often assumed to be homogeneous. This timely, interdisciplinary volume blends original empirical research with the vibrant field of diaspora studies to understand the complicated history, identity, and status of the Korean minority in Japan. An international group of scholars explores commonalities and contradictions in the Korean diasporic experience, touching on such issues as citizenship and belonging, the personal and the political, and homeland and hostland.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9bq66424 Wed, 1 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Ryang, Sonia Lie, John https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7qr1c5x7 <p>This book traces the origins and transformations of a people—the Zainichi, migrants from the Korean peninsula to Japan and their descendants. Using a wide range of arguments and evidence—historical and comparative, political and social, literary and pop-cultural—John Lie reveals the social and historical conditions that gave rise to Zainichi identity, while simultaneously demonstrating its complex, fractured, even ephemeral nature.</p><p>Key to understanding Zainichi ideology are, for Lie, the nationalist yearnings it expressed from a condition of diaspora and discrimination. Lie’s nuanced treatment acknowledges both the tragic and triumphant qualities embedded in this formulation, while resisting the essentialism it implies. Rather, he embraces the vicissitudes of the lived experience of Koreans in Japan, shedding light on the vexing topics of diaspora, migration, identity, and group formation.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7qr1c5x7 Sat, 1 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000 Lie, John https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6d0851rn <p>The subfamily Rileyinae (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae) is redefined to contain 6 genera and 69 species for which keys are provided. Two morphological data sets, analyzed via maximum parsimony with PAUP*, yield hypotheses on the placement of Rileyinae within Eurytomidae and internal relationships of Rileyinae. Tables detailing host utilization for Eurytomidae (genera), Rileyinae (species), and confirmed/suspected plant associations for Rileyinae are included.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6d0851rn Mon, 4 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000 Gates, Michael William https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2cd0m6cp <p>The purpose of this volume is to encourage and facilitate focused research and provide a forum for scholarly exchange about the status of Mayfly and Stonefly science. Professor John Brittain, whose research is focused on freshwater entomology, especially egg development and life cycle strategies of Ephemeroptera and Plecoptera, presents a chapter reflecting on the quality of mayflies as good indicators of global warming and the quality of streams and lakes. Professor Emeritus Andrew Sheldon, whose interests have encompassed community and population ecology of aquatic animals over a span of more than 40 years, especially insects and fishes, explores topics of Scale and Hierarchy and the Ecology of Plecoptera, discussing how studies emphasizing scale and perspective reveal importance of stoneflies to ecosystems. Other topics cover a broad base of disciplines including morphology, physiology, phylogeny, taxonomy, ecology and conservation. The chapters have been compiled into... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2cd0m6cp Mon, 4 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000 Hauer, Frederick Richard Stanford, Jack Arthur Newell, Robert Lee https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7z63n6xr <p>Scholars in many fields increasingly find themselves caught between the academy, with its demands for rigor and objectivity, and direct engagement in social activism. Some advocate on behalf of the communities they study; others incorporate the knowledge and leadership of their informants directly into the process of knowledge production. What ethical, political, and practical tensions arise in the course of such work? In this wide-ranging and multidisciplinary volume, leading scholar-activists map the terrain on which political engagement and academic rigor meet.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7z63n6xr Thu, 1 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 Hale, Charles R. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/87j6v1qc <p>Contrary to popular myth, Britain does have a constitution, one that is uncodified and commanded little political interest for most of the twentieth century. In the late 1990s, Tony Blair's New Labour Government launched a program of reform that was striking in its ambition. Reinventing Britain tells the story of Britain's constitutional reform and weighs its long-term significance, with essays both by officials who worked on the reforms and by other leading commentators and academics from Britain and North America.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/87j6v1qc Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000 McDonald, Andrew https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8z59t0x6 <p>Human rights is all too often the first casualty of national insecurity. How can democracies cope with the threat of terror while protecting human rights? This timely volume compares the lessons of the United States and Israel with the "best-case scenarios" of the United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, and Germany. It demonstrates that threatened democracies have important options, and democratic governance, the rule of law, and international cooperation are crucial foundations for counterterror policy.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8z59t0x6 Mon, 1 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000 Brysk, Alison Shafir, Gershon https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6034c01b <p>Throughout Spain's tumultuous twentieth century, women writers produced a dazzling variety of novels, popular theater, and poetry. Their work both reflected and helped to transform women's gender, family, and public roles, carving out new space in the literary canon. This multilingual collection of essays by both scholars and creative artists explores the diversity of Spanish women's writing, both celebrated and forgotten.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6034c01b Sat, 1 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000 Bergmann, Emilie L. Herr, Richard https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1j45z5t1 <p>Communal approaches to natural resource management have developed since the 1980s from a relatively untested set of conceptual stances to achieve the status of conventional wisdom in much development discourse. However, communal approaches have also come under attack, both from donor agencies impatient with the lack of evidence of immediate and positive results, and from scholarship in the narrative-counternarrative mode. The topic also has broader significance for the evolution of governance in Africa. What is happening in communal approaches to natural resource management provides in large measure a surrogate picture of elements of this evolution.</p><p>This article offers a brief and selective survey of the origins, objectives, and limitations of communal approaches to natural resource management, and it offers five characteristics deemed essential for the future development of this body of work. It also functions as a commentary on other essays in the UCIAS Digital Collection... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1j45z5t1 Wed, 9 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Murphree, Marshall https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0fq311pw <p>This paper analyzes the opportunities and tensions generated by efforts to use conservation-based tourism as a catalyst for economic development. By exploring how historical legacies position actors and influence relationships between them, characterizing the nature tourism sector and its logic, and examining how liberalizing states are likely to engage with community-based tourism. I situate community-based nature tourism ventures in a broader political economic context. The paper draws from research on the Makuleke Region of Kruger National Park, South Africa to illustrate how these factors influence prospects for community benefit from protected area tourism. Like many other protected areas in Africa, contemporary dynamics in the Makuleke Region are a product of dispossession, forced removal, and conservation. The Makuleke, who consider the land their ancestral home, were forcibly removed in the late 1960s so that the land could be incorporated into Kruger National Park.... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0fq311pw Fri, 9 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Turner, Robin https://escholarship.org/uc/item/28r16147 <p>Although terrestrial parks and reserves have existed in Tanzania since colonial times, marine protected areas are a much newer endeavor in natural resource conservation. As the importance of marine conservation came to the international forefront in the 1990s, Tanzania experienced a rapid establishment and expansion of marine parks and protected areas. These efforts were crucial to protecting the country’s marine resource base, but they also had significant implications for the lives and fishing patterns of local artisanal fishermen. Terrestrial protected areas in Tanzania have historically been riddled with conflict and local contestation, bringing about numerous debates on the best ways to involve rural residents in conservation planning efforts to establish new “community-based conservation” initiatives. Because marine protected areas do not have the same conflict-ridden history as terrestrial conservation in Tanzania, marine conservation programs present a new opportunity... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/28r16147 Tue, 23 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Levine, Arielle https://escholarship.org/uc/item/72n9j1f6 <p>Lahu is an important minority language of Southeast Asia, belonging to the Lolo-Burmese subgroup of the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is spoken by over 500,000 people in China. Burma, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam.</p><p>This <em>English-Lahu Lexicon</em> (ELL) is a computer-aided but manually edited "reversal" of the author's monumental Lahu-English dictionary (<em>The Dictionary of Lahu</em>, UCPL #111, 1988, xxv + 1436 pp.).</p><p><em>ELL</em> contains nearly 5400 head-entries and well over 10,000 carefully arranged subentries. Every Lahu expression is provided with a form-class designation to indicate its grammatical function. Eight useful Appendices (e.g. Plant and Animal Names) round out the volume's 450 pages.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/72n9j1f6 Mon, 17 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Matisoff, James A. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5tg9h018 <p>This paper describes subsistence farmers’ agricultural and natural resource management techniques and perceptions in the upper catchment of the River Njoro, Kenya and explores their implications for further research and action by watershed managers and policy makers. In East Africa and elsewhere in developing countries, small-scale poor farming households often form a critical group in the link between upland natural resource conditions and watershed services. A small-scale pilot study of a sample of 15 hillside farmers located within 200 meters (m) of first order streams or springs in the upper catchment of the River Njoro (UCRN) was designed to explore in-depth farmers’ behavior, knowledge, and perceptions in the larger context of emerging watershed management issues. Blending qualitative social science approaches and quantitative biophysical and economic assessment, the research sought to answer the following questions: How do farmers in the UCRN view and manage soil... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5tg9h018 Fri, 3 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Krupnik, Timothy J. Jenkins, Marion W. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8dq1f3jj <p>This volume represents a reconstruction of Proto-Wintun, the parent language of a group of California Indian languages. It includes a grammatical sketch of Proto-Wintun, cognate sets with reconstructions and an index to the reconstructions. The book fulfills a need for in-depth reconstructions of proto-languages for California Indian language families, both for theoretical purposes and deeper comparison with other proto- or pre-languages.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8dq1f3jj Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000 Shepherd, Alice https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9k55x7f2 <p>This article is part of a forthcoming volume The Origins and Evolution of American and French Industrial Societies, by Monique J. Borrel. The other chapters will be posted on this site as they are completed.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9k55x7f2 Tue, 8 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0000 Borrel, Monique J https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7dd7p4w1 <p>Transboundary natural resources pose particular problems for the international community, and the community of African States presents no exception. The peaceful management and utilization of these resources is a universal aspiration, but the principles and norms governing international cooperation over natural resources are often just as contested as the ownership of the resource itself. In Part One, the emergent practices, norms and principles applicable to transboundary freshwater and petroleum are reviewed, along with the possibility of further development of these norms through the current mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on Shared Natural Resources, Ambassador Chusei Yamada. The history of the UN Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses is reviewed, with an emphasis upon the foundational principles which it contains. The emergence of the petroleum Joint Development Agreement is also analyzed, again emphasizing the fundamental norms... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7dd7p4w1 Wed, 28 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0000 Haile, Zewdineh B. Wadley, Ian L. G. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/31r875b5 <p>James L. Patton served as Curator of Mammals in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) and as Professor of Integrative Biology (formerly Zoology) at the University of California, Berkeley, from January, 1969 until June, 2001. During his 32 years as a curator and a member of the Berkeley faculty, Jim made an indelible mark on vertebrate evolutionary biology through his tireless pursuit of excellence in research and teaching. In addition to significantly advancing studies of mammalian evolutionary genetics, systematics, and phylogeography, Jim was instrumental in shaping the careers of vertebrate biologists throughout the Americas. Given the magnitude of his impact on studies of mammals, it seemed only appropriate to celebrate Jim’s retirement from the Berkeley faculty by compiling a volume that reflects the breadth of his contributions to vertebrate biology. At the same time, everyone involved in the project agreed that the volume should capture something of Jim, the person.... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/31r875b5 Fri, 26 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0000 Lacey, Eileen A. Myers, Philip https://escholarship.org/uc/item/19d79619 <p>This 800-page volume is a clear and readable presentation of the current state of research on the history of the Tibeto-Burman (TB) language family, a typologically diverse group of over 250 languages spoken in Southern China, the Himalayas, NE India, and peninsular Southeast Asia. The TB languages are the only proven relatives of Chinese, with which they form the great Sino-Tibetan family.</p><p>The exposition is systematic, treating the reconstruction of all the elements of the TB proto-syllable in turn, including initial consonants (Ch. III), prefixes (Ch. IV), monophthongal and diphthongal rhymes (Ch. V), final nasals (Ch. VII), final stops (Ch. VIII), final liquids (Ch. IX), root-final *-s (Ch. X), suffixes (Ch. XI). Particular attention is paid to variational phenomena at all historical levels (e.g. Ch. XII "Allofamic variation in rhymes").</p><p>This Handbook builds on the best previous scholarship, and adds up-to-date material that has accumulated over the past 30 years.... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/19d79619 Wed, 27 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0000 Matisoff, James A. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8679h5mj <p>Heliodinidae traditionally have been characterized on the basis of forewing venation, color and scaling, and perch behavior, but none of these attributes defines monophyly. We identify four uniquely derived autapomorphies for the family: (1) M vein of forewing two-branched, presumably with M3 lost; (2)tegumen greatly expanded posteriorly, forming a sclerotized, hollow tube; (3)ventral branches of apophyses anteriores originating from a fused transverse bridge; and (4) pupa with long, stiff dorsal and lateral setae. Phylogenetic relationships among genera and species groups of world Heliodinidae are constructed using parsimony and character compatibility as optimality criteria, with representatives of six other families of Yponomeutoidea as outgroups. Results of the analyses show Heliodines Stainton, as formerly recognized (i.e., all the species with conspicuous red markings on the forewings), to be a polyphyletic assemblage. To accommodate the New World fauna, two old names,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8679h5mj Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0000 Hsu, Yu-Feng Powell, Jerry A. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7f01m0zn Impersonal Markets and Personal Communities? Wildlife, Conservation, and Development in Botswana https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7f01m0zn Mon, 8 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0000 Hoon, Parakh N. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5nq0p78c <p>This article is part of a forthcoming volume The Origins and Evolution of American and French Industrial Societies, by Monique J. Borrel. The other chapters will be posted on this site as they are completed.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5nq0p78c Tue, 12 Oct 2004 00:00:00 +0000 Borrel, Monique J https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7p71m14j <p>This article is part of a forthcoming volume: "The Evolution of American and French Industrial Societies Since the 1850s" edited by Monique J. Borrel. The other chapters will be posted on this site as they are completed.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7p71m14j Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:00:00 +0000 Borrel, Monique J https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1143s1wk <p>A taxonomic revision of the genus Gnamptogenys Roger in Southeast Asia and Australasia, based on the workers, recognizes forty nine species, twenty five of which are new, as follows: G. albiclava (Mann), G. aterrima (Mann), G. atrata sp. n., G. bicolor (Emery), G. biloba sp. n., G. binghamii (Forel), G. biroi (Emery), G. bulbopila sp. n., G. chapmani Brown, G. costata (Emery), G. coxalis (Roger), G. crassicornis (Forel), G. crenaticeps (Mann), G. cribrata (Emery), G. delta sp. n., G. epinotalis (Emery), G. fistulosa sp. n., G. gabata sp. n., G. gastrodeia sp. n., G. grammodes Brown, G. helisa sp. n., G. hyalina sp. n., G. lacunosa sp. n., G. laevior (Forel), G. leiolabia sp. n., G. lucida (Mann), G. luzonensis (Wheeler), G. macretes Brown, G. major (Emery), G. malaensis (Mann), G. meghalaya sp. n., G. menadensis (Mayr), G. niuguinense sp. n., G. ortostoma sp. n.,G. palamala sp. n.,G. panda (Brown), G. paso sp. n., G. pertusa sp. n., G. polytreta sp. n., G. posteropsis (Gregg),... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1143s1wk Wed, 15 Sep 2004 00:00:00 +0000 Lattke, John E. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9hc6x8hp Revitalizing Bulgarian Dialectology https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9hc6x8hp Wed, 28 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000 Alexander, Ronelle Zhobov, Vladimir https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9z42c7t1 <p>The subfamily Sthenurinae (Macropodoidea, Diprotodontia) is an extinct group of robust kangaroos. The earliest sthenurine appears in the late Miocene of central Australia, but the group is most common in the Pleistocene faunas of southern and eastern Australia. Since the Sthenurinae was last reviewed over three decades ago, species diversity has more than doubled. Many species are now also represented by series of well-preserved specimens, including complete crania and skeletons. New insights generated by these discoveries provided the major impetus for this review of sthenurine systematics, functional morphology, paleoecology, biochronology and zoogeography.</p><p>Sthenurinae is diagnosed on the basis of nine craniodental synapomorphies, making it the best-defined kangaroo subfamily. Two new genera and four new species are recognized here, bringing the total to six genera and 26 species. A new tribe (Simosthenurini) is raised to include... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9z42c7t1 Wed, 19 May 2004 00:00:00 +0000 Prideaux, Gavin https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5kp5b25q <p>The Atlantic tree rats, genus Phyllomys, are arboreal echimyids found in eastern Brazil. Species of Phyllomys are of conservation interest because they are poorly known, have restricted geographic ranges, and are endemic to the Atlantic forest, one of the most threatened ecosystems in the world. Here I examine the diversity of the genus Phyllomys using genetic and morphological data. The goals are to elucidate the taxonomy of the group, infer phylogenetic relationships among species, and understand the processes that led to the present diversity and distribution. The Atlantic tree rats have been referred to as Nelomys or grouped with the Amazonian genus Echimys. Given that Nelomys is a junior synonym of Echimys, the name Phyllomys should be used. Phyllomys is monophyletic and readily diagnosable by unique dental characters, and there is no reason to include it with Echimys. There are currently ten described and three ndescribed species of Phyllomys, two of which I describe... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5kp5b25q Wed, 19 May 2004 00:00:00 +0000 Leite, Yuri L. R. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1jw588mm <p>An overview of the herpetological program of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ), University of California, Berkeley, is presented. The history of herpetological activities in the MVZ and more generally at Berkeley is summarized. Although the MVZ has existed since 1908, until 1945 there was no formal curator for the collection of amphibians and nonavian reptiles. Since that time Robert C. Stebbins, David B. Wake, Harry W. Greene, Javier A. Rodríguez-Robles (in an interim capacity), and Craig Moritz have served in that position. All type specimens of recent amphibians and nonavian reptiles in the collection are listed. The 1,765 type specimens in the MVZ comprise 120 holotypes, three neotypes, three syntypes, and 1,639 paratopotypes and paratypes; 83 of the holotypes were originally described as full species. Of the 196 amphibian and nonavian reptilian taxa represented by type material, most were collected in México (63) and California (USA, 54). Information is also provided... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1jw588mm Wed, 19 May 2004 00:00:00 +0000 Rodríguez-Robles, Javier A. Good, David A. 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Most of the literature on this phenomenon overlooks women altogether, or reduces their import to the question of modesty and Islamic dress. The gendering of the "political" sphere continues, while the scholars of women and gender in the region debate other issues and develop new research agendae in their own intellectual ghetto.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6q8147tq Mon, 31 Mar 2003 00:00:00 +0000 Zuhur, Sherifa https://escholarship.org/uc/item/53p1j36j Multicultural Iberia: Language, Literature, and Music https://escholarship.org/uc/item/53p1j36j Tue, 6 Aug 2002 00:00:00 +0000 Dougherty, Dru Azevedo, Milton M. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/36q6n0wc Conquering Women: Women and War in the German Cultural Imagination https://escholarship.org/uc/item/36q6n0wc Tue, 6 Aug 2002 00:00:00 +0000 Sy-Quia, Hilary Collier Baackmann, Susanne https://escholarship.org/uc/item/27p076zk Workers and Intelligentsia in Late Imperial Russia: Realities, Representations, Reflections https://escholarship.org/uc/item/27p076zk Mon, 5 Aug 2002 00:00:00 +0000 Zelnik, Reginald E. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1wg9h2w2 The Tunnel at the End of the Light: Privatization, Business Networks, and Economic Transformation in Russia https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1wg9h2w2 Thu, 1 Aug 2002 00:00:00 +0000 Cohen, Stephen S. Schwartz, Andrew Zysman, John https://escholarship.org/uc/item/13s757cx Enlarging Europe: The Industrial Foundations of a New Political Reality https://escholarship.org/uc/item/13s757cx Thu, 1 Aug 2002 00:00:00 +0000 Zysman, John Schwartz, Andrew https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7hc733q3 The Myth of "Ethnic Conflict": Politics, Economics, and "Cultural" Violence https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7hc733q3 Tue, 30 Jul 2002 00:00:00 +0000 Crawford, Beverly Lipschutz, Ronnie D. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/785560v1 Minorities, Mullahs and Modernity: Reshaping Community in the Former Soviet Union https://escholarship.org/uc/item/785560v1 Tue, 30 Jul 2002 00:00:00 +0000 Saroyan, Mark Walker, Edward W. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/58k2v56g Liberalization and Leninist Legacies: Comparative Perspectives on Democratic Transitions https://escholarship.org/uc/item/58k2v56g Tue, 30 Jul 2002 00:00:00 +0000 Crawford, Beverly Lijphart, Arend https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8mp05335 State-Society Synergy: Government and Social Capital in Development https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8mp05335 Mon, 29 Jul 2002 00:00:00 +0000 Evans, Peter https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8847z9w6 Globalization and Hazardous Waste Management: From Brown to Green? https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8847z9w6 Mon, 29 Jul 2002 00:00:00 +0000 O'Neill, Kate https://escholarship.org/uc/item/48m825nw Globalization of Environmental Management Standards: Barriers and Incentives in Europe and the United States https://escholarship.org/uc/item/48m825nw Fri, 26 Jul 2002 00:00:00 +0000 Delmas, Magali A. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8c21m142 Ivo Andric Revisited: The Bridge Still Stands https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8c21m142 Thu, 25 Jul 2002 00:00:00 +0000 Vucinich, Wayne S. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/22g1z9nw Identities in Transition: Eastern Europe and Russia After the Collapse of Communism https://escholarship.org/uc/item/22g1z9nw Thu, 25 Jul 2002 00:00:00 +0000 Bonnell, Victoria