Lifeways in Southwest Alaska today remains inextricably bound to the seasonal cycles of sea and land. Community members continue to hunt, fish, and make products from the life found in the rivers and sea. Based on a wealth of oral histories collected...
ISBN: PB: 9780857426345,
Seagull Books,
March 2019
80 pp.,
25x15 cm
In recent years, social workers have raised a new concern about the appearance of a new category among the working poor. Even employed, there are people so overburdened by the cost of living and so under compensated that they cannot afford a place to...
ISBN: PB: 9780226494906,
ISBN: HB: 9780226494876,
University of Chicago Press,
December 2018
336 pp.,
22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
There are many holy cities in India, but Mumbai is not usually named as one of them. More popular images of the city capture the world's collective imagination – as a Bollywood fantasia or a slumland dystopia. Yet for many, if not most people who liv...
ISBN: HB: 9780300233254,
Yale University Press,
Mercatorfonds,
April 2018
432 pp.,
33x25.4 cm, 320 colour illus., 260 black&white illus.
Taking an approach that is equal parts anthropological and art historical, this lavishly illustrated volume offers a rare look at the art, artifacts, and culture of the Naga people, an ethnic group spanning several tribes native to northeastern India...
The concept of normal is so familiar that it can be hard to imagine contemporary life without it. Yet the term entered everyday speech only in the mid-twentieth century. Before that, it was solely a scientific term used primarily in medicine to refer...
ISBN: PB: 9780226283814,
ISBN: HB: 9780226283784,
University of Chicago Press,
October 2015
232 pp.,
22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 1 table
As an overseas department of France, Guadeloupe is one of a handful of non-independent societies in the Caribbean that seem like political exceptions – or even paradoxes – in our current postcolonial era. In "Non-Sovereign Futures", Yarimar Bonilla w...
ISBN: PB: 9780226669656,
ISBN: HB: 9780226669649,
University of Chicago Press,
July 2010
216 pp.,
23x15 cm, 16 halftones
Since the end of the cold war, Africa has seen a dramatic rise in new political and religious phenomena, including an eviscerated privatized state, neoliberal NGOs, Pentecostalism, a resurgence in accusations of witchcraft, a culture of scamming and...
American spirituality – with its focus on individual meaning, experience, and exploration – is usually thought to be a product of the postmodern era. But, as "The New Metaphysicals" makes clear, contemporary American spirituality has historic roots i...
ISBN: PB: 9780226100616,
ISBN: HB: 9780226100593,
University of Chicago Press,
July 2010
304 pp.,
23x15 cm, 3 maps, 1 figure, 3 tables, 24 halftones
In "Neoliberal Frontiers", Brenda Chalfin presents an ethnographic examination of the day-to-day practices of the officials of Ghana's Customs Service, exploring the impact of neoliberal restructuring and integration into the global economy on Ghanai...
Table of Symbols
Prologue
Part One: Family Secrets
1. The Hidden Child
2. Foolish Women and Wise Virgins
Part Two: Echo Effects
Part Three: Scenes from Private Life
1. The Lewd Grandmother
2. In Death as in Life
3".... These Twin Mirrors"
Part Fo...