Pennsylvania Press (pennsylvania + press)

Distribution by Scientific Domains


Selected Abstracts


Shelter Blues: Homelessness and Sanity in a Boston Shelter

JOURNAL OF LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 2 2000
James M. Wilce Jr.
Shelter Blues: Homelessness and Sanity in. Boston Shelter. Robert R. Desjarlais. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. 320 pp. [source]


Crossing, Creolization, and the African Roots of American Culture

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 3 2006
HARRIET JOSEPH OTTENHEIMER
Group Harmony: The Black Urban Roots of Rhythm and Blues. Stuart L. Goosman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 291 pp. Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race. Maureen Mahon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. 317 pp. Crossovers: Essays on Race, Music, and American Culture. John Szwed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 283 pp. [source]


Blood and Nation: The European Aesthetics of Race; German Bodies: Race and Representation after Hitler

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 3 2001
John R. Eidson
Blood and Nation: The European Aesthetics of Race. Uli Linke. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. 332 pp. German Bodies: Race and Representation after Hitler. Uli Linke. New York: Routledge, 1999. 274 pp. [source]


New Perspectives on Female Circumcision

ANTHROPOLOGY & HUMANISM, Issue 2 2002
Barry P. Michrina
Ellen Gruenbaum. The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. 242 pp. [source]