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Rites of Passage
Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226629490,
ISBN: HB: 9780226629353,
University of Chicago Press,
May 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Arnold van Gennep's masterwork, "The Rites of Passage", has been a staple of anthropological education for more than a century. First published in French in 1909, and translated into English by the University of Chicago Press in 1960, this landmark b...
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£19,00
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£57,00
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Reluctant Landscapes
Historical Anthropologies of Political Experience in Siin, Senegal
ISBN: PB: 9780226252544,
ISBN: HB: 9780226252407,
University of Chicago Press,
September 2018
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones, 11 tables
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones, 11 tables
West African history is inseparable from the history of the Atlantic slave trade and colonialism. According to historical archaeologist Francois Richard, however, the dominance of this narrative not only colors the range of political discourse about...
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£30,00
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£90,00
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Revenge
A Short Enquiry into Retribution
ISBN: HB: 9781780238401,
Reaktion Books,
October 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Revenge is a primal force at the heart of conflict and justice, as ancient as humanity itself. It persists in all societies and we are fascinated by it, as countless novels, dramas, films and computer games attest. "Getting even" can restore the bala...
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£14,99
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Reciprocity and Redistribution in Andean Civilizations
The 1969 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
ISBN: PB: 9780997367553,
University of Chicago Press,
HAU,
September 2017
170 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 14 colour plates, 3 maps
170 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 14 colour plates, 3 maps
John V. Murra's Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, originally given in 1969, are the only major study of the Andean "avenue towards civilization". Collected and published for the first time here, they offer a powerful and insistent perspective on the Andea...
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£30,00
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Returns of Fetishism
Charles de Brosses and the Afterlives of an Idea
ISBN: PB: 9780226464756,
ISBN: HB: 9780226464619,
University of Chicago Press,
August 2017
480 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
480 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
For more than 250 years, Charles de Brosses's term "fetishism" has exerted great influence over our most ambitious thinkers. Used as an alternative to "magic" but nonetheless expressing the material force of magical thought, de Brosses's term has pro...
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£26,50
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£79,00
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Relative Native
Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds
ISBN: PB: 9780990505037,
University of Chicago Press,
HAU,
March 2016
412 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 figures
412 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 figures
This volume is the first to collect the most influential essays and lectures of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Published in a wide variety of venues, and often difficult to find, the pieces are brought together here for the first time in a one major vol...
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£26,50
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Race and Photography
Racial Photography as Scientific Evidence, 1876-1980
ISBN: PB: 9780226320885,
ISBN: HB: 9780226320748,
University of Chicago Press,
December 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 72 halftones
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 72 halftones
"Race and Photography" studies the changing function of photography from the 1870s to the 1940s within the field of the "science of race", what many today consider the paradigm of pseudo-science. Amos Morris-Reich looks at the ways photography enable...
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£24,50
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£73,00
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Return to Casablanca
Jews, Muslims, and an Israeli Anthropologist
ISBN: PB: 9780226292557,
ISBN: HB: 9780226292410,
University of Chicago Press,
November 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing
In this book, Israeli anthropologist Andre Levy returns to his birthplace in Casablanca to provide a deeply nuanced and compelling study of the relationships between Moroccan Jews and Muslims there. Ranging over a century of history – from the Jewish...
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£20,50
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£64,00
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Returns
Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: HB: 9780674724921,
Harvard University Press,
November 2013
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 1 line illus.
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 1 line illus.
"Returns" explores homecomings – the ways people recover and renew their roots. Engaging with indigenous histories of survival and transformation, James Clifford opens fundamental questions about where we are going, separately and together, in a glob...
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£32,95
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Religious Bodies Politic
Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism
ISBN: PB: 9780226072722,
ISBN: HB: 9780226072555,
University of Chicago Press,
October 2013
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 6 tables
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 6 tables
"Religious Bodies Politic" examines the complex relationship between transnational religion and politics through the lens of one cosmopolitan community in Siberia: Buryats, who live in a semiautonomous republic within Russia with a large Buddhist pop...
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£22,50
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£68,50
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