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Numbers and the Making of Us
Counting and the Course of Human Cultures
ISBN: PB: 9780674237810,
ISBN: HB: 9780674504431,
Harvard University Press,
May 2019
312 pp., 21x14 cm, 7 photos, 1 illus.
312 pp., 21x14 cm, 7 photos, 1 illus.
Carved into our past, woven into our present, numbers shape our perceptions of the world and of ourselves much more than we commonly think. "Numbers and the Making of Us" is a sweeping account of how numbers radically enhanced our species' cognitive...
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£13,95
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£22,95
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No Fixed Abode
Ethnofiction
ISBN: PB: 9780857426345,
ISBN: HB: 9780857420961,
Seagull Books,
March 2019
80 pp., 25x15 cm
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...
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£11,99
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£12,50
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Neighborhood of Gods
The Sacred and the Visible at the Margins of Mumbai
ISBN: PB: 9780226494906,
ISBN: HB: 9780226494876,
University of Chicago Press,
December 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
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...
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£27,00
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£68,00
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NAGA
Awe-Inspiring Beauty
ISBN: HB: 9780300233254,
Yale University Press,
Mercatorfonds,
April 2018
432 pp., 33x25.4 cm, 320 colour illus., 260 black&white illus.
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...
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£75,00
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Normality
A Critical Genealogy
ISBN: PB: 9780226484051,
University of Chicago Press,
December 2017
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
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...
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£26,50
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Non-Sovereign Futures
French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment
ISBN: PB: 9780226283814,
ISBN: HB: 9780226283784,
University of Chicago Press,
October 2015
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 1 table
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...
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£20,50
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£64,00
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Nostalgia for the Future
West Africa after the Cold War
ISBN: PB: 9780226669656,
ISBN: HB: 9780226669649,
University of Chicago Press,
July 2010
216 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 halftones
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...
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£21,00
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£56,50
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New Metaphysicals
Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination
ISBN: PB: 9780226042800,
ISBN: HB: 9780226042794,
University of Chicago Press,
July 2010
272 pp., 23x15 cm
272 pp., 23x15 cm
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...
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£25,00
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£70,50
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Neoliberal Frontiers
An Ethnography of Sovereignty in West Africa
ISBN: PB: 9780226100616,
ISBN: HB: 9780226100593,
University of Chicago Press,
July 2010
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps, 1 figure, 3 tables, 24 halftones
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...
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£22,50
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£65,50
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New Perspectives on Moche Political Organization
ISBN: HB: 9780884023623,
Harvard University Press,
May 2010
416 pp., 25.7x17.8 cm, 192 halftones
416 pp., 25.7x17.8 cm, 192 halftones
This volume brings together essays on the nature of political organization of the Moche, a complex pre-Inca society that existed on the north coast of Peru from c. 100 to 800 CE. Since the discovery of the royal tombs of Sipan in 1987, the Moche have...
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£36,95
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