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Lifeworlds
Essays in Existential Anthropology
ISBN: PB: 9780226923659,
ISBN: HB: 9780226923642,
University of Chicago Press,
December 2012
360 pp., 23x15 cm
360 pp., 23x15 cm
Michael Jackson's "Lifeworlds" is a masterful collection of essays, the culmination of a career aimed at understanding the relationship between anthropology and philosophy. Seeking the truths that are found in the interstices between examiner and exa...
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£25,50
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£78,00
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Alutiit/Sugpiat
A Catalog of the Collections of the Kunstkamera
ISBN: HB: 9781602231771,
University of Chicago Press,
University of Alaska Press,
October 2012
440 pp., 29x24 cm, 654 colour illus.
440 pp., 29x24 cm, 654 colour illus.
This beautifully photographed book catalogs the collection of nearly five hundred Alutiiq cultural items held by the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, or the Kunstkamera, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Gathered between 1780 and 1867...
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£37,50
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Stepping-Stones
A Journey Through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne
ISBN: PB: 9780300188028,
Yale University Press,
October 2012
272 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 38 black&white illus., 8 colour illus.
272 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 38 black&white illus., 8 colour illus.
The cave art of France's Dordogne region is world-famous for the mythology and beauty of its remarkable drawings and paintings. These ancient images of lively bison, horses, and mammoths, as well as symbols of all kinds, are fascinating touchstones i...
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£22,50
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Frontier Romance
Environment, Culture, and Alaska Identity
ISBN: PB: 9781602231894,
University of Chicago Press,
University of Alaska Press,
August 2012
90 pp., 23x15 cm
90 pp., 23x15 cm
Anyone curious about what drew people like Christopher McCandless (the subject of "Into the Wild") and John Muir to Alaska will find nuanced answers in "Frontier Romance", Judith Kleinfeld's thoughtful study of the iconic American love of the frontie...
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£13,50
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Designing Human Practices
An Experiment with Synthetic Biology
ISBN: PB: 9780226703145,
ISBN: HB: 9780226703138,
University of Chicago Press,
July 2012
200 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 tables
200 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 tables
In 2006 anthropologists Paul Rabinow and Gaymon Bennett set out to rethink the role that human sciences play in biological research, creating the Human Practices division of the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center – a facility established t...
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£27,00
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£69,00
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Hawking Incorporated
Stephen Hawking and the Anthropology of the Knowing Subject
ISBN: PB: 9780226522289,
ISBN: HB: 9780226522265,
University of Chicago Press,
July 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 halftones
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 halftones
These days, the idea of the cyborg is less the stuff of science fiction and more a reality, as we are all, in one way or another, constantly connected, extended, wired, and dispersed in and through technology. One wonders where the individual, the pe...
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£26,50
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£78,00
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Measuring the New World
Enlightenment Science and South America
ISBN: PB: 9780226733623,
ISBN: HB: 9780226733555,
University of Chicago Press,
June 2012
428 pp., 23x15 cm, 59 halftones, 20 colour illus.
428 pp., 23x15 cm, 59 halftones, 20 colour illus.
Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the earth at the Equator. Equ...
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£26,00
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£52,00
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Modernity Bluff
Crime, Consumption, and Citizenship in Cote d'Ivoire
ISBN: PB: 9780226575209,
ISBN: HB: 9780226575193,
University of Chicago Press,
June 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 halftones
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 halftones
In Cote d'Ivoire, appearing modern is so important for success that many young men deplete their already meager resources to project an illusion of wealth in a fantastic display of Western imitation, spending far more than they can afford on brand na...
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£25,50
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£78,00
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Truth in Motion
The Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination
ISBN: PB: 9780226349213,
ISBN: HB: 9780226349206,
University of Chicago Press,
June 2012
328 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 3 halftones, 6 line illus.
328 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 3 halftones, 6 line illus.
Embarking on an ethnographic journey to the inner barriosof Havana among practitioners of Ifa, a prestigious Afro-Cuban tradition of divination, "Truth in Motion" reevaluates Western ideas about truth in light of the practices and ideas of a wildly d...
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£26,00
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£73,50
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Reproductive Technologies as Global Form
Ethnographies of Knowledge, Practices, and Transnational Encounters
In the thirty years since the first "test-tube baby", in-vitro fertilization and other methods of reproductive assistance have become a common aspect of family life and medicine in developed nations – and, increasingly, throughout the world. This col...
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£44,00
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