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Sacred Matter
Animacy and Authority in the Americas
ISBN: HB: 9780884024668,
Harvard University Press,
May 2020
320 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm
320 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm
"Sacred Matter: Animacy and Authority in the Americas" examines animism in Pre-Columbian America, focusing on the central roles objects and places played in practices that expressed and sanctified political authority in the Andes, Amazon, and Mesoame...
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£60,95
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Participant
A Century of Participation in Four Stories
ISBN: PB: 9780226666761,
ISBN: HB: 9780226666624,
University of Chicago Press,
January 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 73 halftones, 11 line drawings
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 73 halftones, 11 line drawings
Participation is everywhere today. It has been formalized, measured, standardized, scaled up, network-enabled, and sent around the world. Platforms, algorithms, and software offer to make participation easier, but new technologies have had the opposi...
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£28,00
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£79,00
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Sami Peoples of the North
A Social and Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781787380318,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2018
344 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
344 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only!
The first comprehensive history of the Sami people of the Nordic countries and northwestern Russia. There is no single volume which encompasses an integrated social and cultural history of the Sami people from the Nordic countr...
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£18,99
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Australianama
The South Asian Odyssey in Australia
ISBN: PB: 9781849049696,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2018
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only!
Australian deserts remain dotted with the ruins of old mosques. Beginning with a Bengali poetry collection discovered in a nineteenth-century mosque in the town of Broken Hill, Samia Khatun weaves together the stories of variou...
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£25,00
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Tight Knit
Global Families and the Social Life of Fast Fashion
ISBN: PB: 9780226558073,
ISBN: HB: 9780226557915,
University of Chicago Press,
August 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 2 maps
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 2 maps
The coveted "Made in Italy" label calls to mind visions of nimble-fingered Italian tailors lovingly sewing elegant, high-end clothing. The phrase evokes a sense of authenticity, heritage, and rustic charm. Yet, as Elizabeth L. Krause uncovers in "Tig...
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£20,50
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£64,00
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Waka and Things, Waka as Things
ISBN: HB: 9780300223712,
Yale University Press,
March 2018
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 11 colour illus., 29 black&white illus.
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 11 colour illus., 29 black&white illus.
This generously illustrated volume offers a fresh perspective on classical Japanese poetry (waka), including many poems treated here for the first time in a Western-language publication. Edward Kamens examines these poems both as they relate to mater...
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£60,00
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Shem Pete's Alaska
The Territory of the Upper Cook Inlet Dena'ina
ISBN: PB: 9781602233065,
University of Chicago Press,
University of Alaska Press,
July 2017
432 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 27 colour plates, 324 halftones, 66 maps
432 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 27 colour plates, 324 halftones, 66 maps
Shem Pete (1896-1989), a colorful and brilliant raconteur from Susitna Station, Alaska, left a rich legacy of knowledge about the Upper Cook Inlet Dena'ina world. Shem was one of the most versatile storytellers and historians in twentieth century Ala...
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£30,00
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Evolving God
A Provocative View on the Origins of Religion (Expanded Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226360898,
University of Chicago Press,
April 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
Religion has been a central part of human experience since at least the dawn of recorded history. The gods change, as do the rituals, but the underlying desire remains – a desire to belong to something larger, greater, most lasting than our mortal, f...
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£13,00
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Values of Happiness
Toward an Anthropology of Purpose in Life
ISBN: PB: 9780986132575,
University of Chicago Press,
HAU,
March 2017
233 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones
233 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones
How people conceive of happiness reveals much about who they are and the values they hold dear. Drawing on ethnographic insights from diverse field sites around the world, this book offers a unique window onto the ways in which people grapple with fu...
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£19,00
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Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries
ISBN: HB: 9780226436739,
University of Chicago Press,
March 2017
232 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 28 colour plates, 28 halftones
232 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 28 colour plates, 28 halftones
Just like we do today, people in medieval times struggled with the concept of human exceptionalism and the significance of other creatures. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the medieval bestiary. Sarah Kay's exploration of French and Latin besti...
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£37,00
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