This collection highlights a key metaphor in contemporary discourse about economy and society. The contributors explore how references to reality and the real economy are linked both to the utopias of collective well-being, supported by real monies a...
ISBN: PB: 9780226629490,
ISBN: HB: 9780226629353,
University of Chicago Press,
May 2019
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...
ISBN: PB: 9780226252544,
ISBN: HB: 9780226252407,
University of Chicago Press,
September 2018
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...
ISBN: PB: 9780997367553,
University of Chicago Press,
HAU,
September 2017
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...
ISBN: PB: 9780226464756,
ISBN: HB: 9780226464619,
University of Chicago Press,
August 2017
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...
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...
ISBN: PB: 9780226320885,
ISBN: HB: 9780226320748,
University of Chicago Press,
December 2015
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...
ISBN: PB: 9780226292557,
ISBN: HB: 9780226292410,
University of Chicago Press,
November 2015
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...
ISBN: PB: 9780226072722,
ISBN: HB: 9780226072555,
University of Chicago Press,
October 2013
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...
One of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, Claude Levi-Strauss casts a long shadow over many areas of inquiry, from ethnology and cultural anthropology to literary studies, Marxist theory, and religious studies. In recent years, i...