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Old Thiess, a Livonian Werewolf
A Classic Case in Comparative Perspective
ISBN: PB: 9780226674414,
ISBN: HB: 9780226674384,
University of Chicago Press,
March 2020
272 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 12 halftones, 3 tables
272 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 12 halftones, 3 tables
In 1691, a Livonian peasant known as Old Thiess boldly announced before a district court that he was a werewolf. Yet far from being a diabolical monster, he insisted, he was one of the "hounds of God", fierce guardians who battled sorcerers, witches,...
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£20,00
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£60,00
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Signs of the Americas
A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu
ISBN: PB: 9780226659022,
ISBN: HB: 9780226658971,
University of Chicago Press,
January 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 31 halftones
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 31 halftones
Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an inaccessible past. That is far from the truth, however, as Edgar Garcia makes clear in "Signs of the Americas". Rather than be...
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£24,00
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£68,00
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Ethics of Space
Homelessness and Squatting in Urban England
Across the Western world, full membership of society is established through entitlements to space and formalized in the institutions of property and citizenship. Those without such entitlements are deemed less than fully human as they struggle to fin...
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£27,00
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Critical Terms for Animal Studies
ISBN: PB: 9780226355429,
ISBN: HB: 9780226355399,
University of Chicago Press,
November 2018
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 figure, 1 table
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 figure, 1 table
Animal Studies is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field devoted to examining, understanding, and critically evaluating the complex relationships between humans and other animals. Scholarship in Animal Studies draws on a variety of methodologies t...
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£25,00
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£74,00
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Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe
Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War
ISBN: PB: 9780226556598,
ISBN: HB: 9780226556451,
University of Chicago Press,
August 2018
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones
The injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal. How could the human body suffer and often absorb such disparate traumas? Why might the same wound lead one soldier to die but allow another to recover?
In "The Human B...
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£26,50
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£79,00
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Being and Hearing
Making Intelligible Worlds in Deaf Kathmandu
ISBN: PB: 9780999157039,
University of Chicago Press,
HAU,
August 2018
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones
How do deaf people in different societies perceive and conceive the world around them? Drawing on three years of anthropological fieldwork in Nepali deaf communities, "Being and Hearing" shows how questions of cultural difference are profoundly shape...
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£26,50
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Truth-Spots
How Places Make People Believe
ISBN: HB: 9780226561950,
University of Chicago Press,
May 2018
208 pp., 21.6x14 cm
208 pp., 21.6x14 cm
We may not realize it, but truth and place are inextricably linked. For ancient Greeks, temples and statues clustered on the side of Mount Parnassus affirmed their belief that predictions from the oracle at Delphi were accurate. The trust we have in...
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Animal Intimacies
Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas
ISBN: PB: 9780226559988,
ISBN: HB: 9780226559841,
University of Chicago Press,
May 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones
What does it mean to live and die in relation to other animals? "Animal Intimacies" posits this central question alongside the intimate – and intense – moments of care, kinship, violence, politics, indifference, and desire that occur between human...
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£20,50
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£64,00
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Everyday Mysticism
A Contemplative Community at Work in the Desert
ISBN: HB: 9780300212099,
Yale University Press,
March 2018
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
In this thoughtful and enlightening work, world renowned religion scholar Ariel Glucklich recounts his experiences at Neot Smadar, an ecological and spiritual oasis that has been thriving in the arid Southern Israeli desert for a quarter century. An...
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£40,00
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African Futures
Essays on Crisis, Emergence, and Possibility
ISBN: PB: 9780226402383,
ISBN: HB: 9780226402246,
University of Chicago Press,
March 2017
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table
Civil wars, corporate exploitation, AIDS, and Ebola – but also democracy, burgeoning cities, and unprecedented communication and mobility: the future of Africa has never been more uncertain. Indeed, that future is one of the most complex issues in co...
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£22,50
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£72,00
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