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Anthropology

We Were Adivasis Aspiration in an Indian Scheduled Tribe

Moodie Megan

ISBN: PB: 9780226253046, ISBN: HB: 9780226252995, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

In "We Were Adivasis", anthropologist Megan Moodie examines the Indian state's relationship to "Scheduled Tribes", or adivasis – historically oppressed groups that are now entitled to affirmative action quotas in educational and political institution...

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Anthropology

Anthropology of Expeditions Travel, Visualities, Afterlives

Hasinoff Erin L., Bell Joshua A.

ISBN: HB: 9781941792001, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, July 2015
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

In the West at the turn of the twentieth century, public understanding of science and the world was shaped in part by expeditions to Asia, North America, and the Pacific".The Anthropology of Expeditions" draws together contributions from anthropologi...

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Anthropology

General

Modes of Uncertainty Anthropological Cases

Samimian-Darash Limor, Rabinow Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226257105, ISBN: HB: 9780226257075, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 line drawings, 5 halftones

"Modes of Uncertainty" offers groundbreaking ways of thinking about danger, risk, and uncertainty from an analytical and anthropological perspective. Our world, the contributors show, is increasingly populated by forms, practices, and events whose un...

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Anthropology

Data Now Bigger and Better!

Bell Genevieve, Boellstorff Tom, Gregg Melissa, Maurer Bill, Seaver Nick

ISBN: PB: 9780984201068, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, March 2015
104 pp., 17.7x11.4 cm

Data is too big to be left to the data analysts".Data: Now Bigger and Better!" brings together researchers whose work is deeply informed by the conceptual frameworks of anthropology – frameworks that are comparative as well as field-based. From kinsh...

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Anthropology

Magic A Theory from the South

de Martino Ernesto

ISBN: PB: 9780990505099, University of Chicago Press, HAU, March 2015
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

Though his work was little known outside Italian intellectual circles for most of the twentieth century, anthropologist and historian of religions Ernesto de Martino is now recognized as one of the most original thinkers in the field. This book is te...

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Anthropology

Anti-Witch

Favret-Saada Jeanne

ISBN: PB: 9780990505044, University of Chicago Press, HAU, March 2015
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 colour plates

Jeanne Favret-Saada is arguably one of France's most brilliant anthropologists, and "The Anti-Witch" is nothing less than a masterpiece. A synthesis of ethnographic theory and psychoanalytic revelation, where the line between researcher and subject i...

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Anthropology

Gifts and Commodities

Gregory C. A.

ISBN: PB: 9780990505013, University of Chicago Press, HAU, March 2015
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 68 line drawings, 3 maps, 58 tables

Christopher A. Gregory's "Gifts and Commodities" is one of the undisputed classics of economic anthropology. On its publication in 1982, it spurred intense, ongoing debates about gifts and gifting, value, exchange, and the place of political economy...

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Criminology

Cruel Attachments The Ritual Rehab of Child Molesters in Germany

Borneman John

ISBN: PB: 9780226233918, ISBN: HB: 9780226233888, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

There is no more seemingly incorrigible criminal type than the child sex offender. Said to suffer from a deeply rooted paraphilia, he is often considered as outside the moral limits of the human, profoundly resistant to change. Despite these assessme...

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Anthropology

Chimera Principle An Anthropology of Memory and Imagination

Severi Carlo

ISBN: PB: 9780990505051, University of Chicago Press, HAU, February 2015
375 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 96 halftones

Available in English for the first time, anthropologist Carlo Severi's "The Chimera Principle" breaks new theoretical ground for the study of ritual, iconographic technologies, and oral traditions among non-literate peoples. Setting himself against a...

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America

Dangerous Idea The Alaska Native Brotherhood and the Struggle for Indigenous Rights

Metcalfe Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781602232396, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2014
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones

Decades before the marches and victories of the 1960s, a group of Alaska Natives were making civil rights history. Throughout the early twentieth century, the Alaska Native Brotherhood fought for citizenship, voting rights, and education for all Alas...

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