Millennials have been incited to regard their parents' generation as entitled and selfish, and to blame the baby boomers of the Sixties for the cultural and economic problems of today. But is it true that young people have been victimized by their el...
ISBN: PB: 9780226635668,
ISBN: HB: 9780226635521,
University of Chicago Press,
July 2019
272 pp.,
22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones
"Grieve well and you grow stronger". Anthropologist Rebecca Louise Carter heard this wisdom over and over while living in post-Katrina New Orleans, where everyday violence disproportionately affects Black communities. What does it mean to grieve well...
ISBN: PB: 9780226633732,
ISBN: HB: 9780226633565,
University of Chicago Press,
July 2019
232 pp.,
22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 2 maps, 2 line drawings
Since 2006, Venezuela has had the highest homicide rate in South America and one of the highest levels of gun violence in the world. Former president Hugo Chavez, who died in 2013, downplayed the extent of violent crime and emphasized rehabilitation....
ISBN: PB: 9780226627564,
ISBN: HB: 9780226627427,
University of Chicago Press,
June 2019
224 pp.,
22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones
Computerized processes are everywhere in our society. They are the automated phone messaging systems that businesses use to screen calls; the link between student standardized test scores and public schools' access to resources; the algorithms that r...
ISBN: PB: 9780226631776,
ISBN: HB: 9780226631639,
University of Chicago Press,
June 2019
256 pp.,
22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 7 line drawings
In the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, the complex interplay between anticolonial resistance and accommodation resounds in its music. Guadeloupean gwoka music – a secular, drum-based tradition – captures the entangled histories of French colonization...
ISBN: HB: 9781787381469,
Hurst Publishers,
June 2019
272 pp.,
21.6x13.8 cm
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Many people today have never heard of the Comoros, but these islands were once part of a prosperous economic system that stretched halfway around the world. A key node in the trading networks of the Indian Ocean, the Comoros th...
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: 9780226624341,
ISBN: HB: 9780226624204,
University of Chicago Press,
May 2019
264 pp.,
22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones
Landlocked and with an economy reliant on subsistence agriculture, Niger often comes into the public eye only as an example of deprivation and insecurity. Urban centers have become concentrated areas of unemployment filled with young men bored and id...
This is a multidisciplinary study of the early contact period of Alaskan Native history that follows a major hunting and fishing Inupiaq group at a time of momentous change in their lifeways. The Amilgaqtau yaagmiut were the most powerful group in th...
Join Julia Tinker – avid explorer, angler, and artist – in her travels as she recounts her multi-year journey captaining her boat through the beautiful waters surrounding Ketchikan and Prince of Wales. Her mission is to delve into the diverse ecosyst...