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Anthropology

General

Cultural Evolution How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences

Mesoudi Alex

ISBN: PB: 9780226520445, ISBN: HB: 9780226520438, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 11 line illus.

Charles Darwin changed the course of scientific thinking by showing how evolution accounts for the stunning diversity and biological complexity of life on earth. Recently, there has also been increased interest in the social sciences in how Darwinian...

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Anthropology

Travel

Ahtna Travel Narratives A Demonstration of Shared Geographic Knowledge among Alaska Athabascans

Kari James

ISBN: PB + CD: 9781555001056, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2011
143 pp., 27x22 cm, 22 maps, 23 halftones

Among the world's foremost pedestrian foragers, the Ahtna tribe possesses a profound system of geographic knowledge that has facilitated travel and spatial cognition in Ahtna and other Athabascan languages. Shedding light on a number of precise lands...

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Anthropology

Education

Tales of the Field On Writing Ethnography, Second Edition

Maanen John

ISBN: PB: 9780226849645, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
232 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

For more than twenty years, John Van Maanen's "Tales of the Field" has been a definitive reference and guide for students, scholars, and practitioners of ethnography and beyond. Originally published in 1988, it was the one of the first works to detai...

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Photography

Anthropology

Yupiit Yuraryarait Yup'ik Ways of Dancing

Barker James H., Fienup-Riordan Ann, Arevgaq John Theresa

ISBN: PB: 9781602231306, ISBN: HB + DVD: 9781602230828, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2011
237 pp., 25.5x25.5 cm, 100 halftones

Far more than just a dance, the dynamic choreography of the Yup'ik provides an illuminating window into the morality, social organization, and colonial history of this indigenous people. In "Yupiit Yurayarait", anthropologist Ann Fienup-Riordan begin...

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Anthropology

Africa

Harkis The Wound That Never Heals

Crapanzano Vincent

ISBN: HB: 9780226118765, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
248 pp., 23x15 cm

In this haunting chronicle of betrayal and abandonment, ostracism and exile, racism and humiliation, Vincent Crapanzano examines the story of the Harkis, the quarter of a million Algerian auxiliary troops who fought for the French in Algeria's war of...

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Anthropology

Made to Be Seen Perspectives on the History of Visual Anthropology

Ruby Jay, Banks Marcus

ISBN: PB: 9780226036625, ISBN: HB: 9780226036618, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
432 pp., 25x15 cm, 27 halftones

"Made to be Seen" brings together leading scholars of visual anthropology to examine the historical development of this multifaceted and growing field. Expanding the definition of visual anthropology beyond more limited notions, the contributors to "...

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Anthropology

Hunting the Ethical State The Benkadi Movement of Cote d'Ivoire

Hellweg Joseph

ISBN: PB: 9780226326542, ISBN: HB: 9780226326535, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
312 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 3 maps, 1 line illus., 2 figures, 2 tables, 15 halftones

In the 1990s a nationwide crime wave overtook Cote d'Ivoire. The Ivoirian police failed to control the situation, so a group of poor, politically marginalized, and mostly Muslim men took on the role of the people's protectors as part of a movement th...

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Ancient World

Anthropology

Courtesans and Fishcakes The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens

Davidson James N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226137438, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
400 pp., 22.8x15 cm, 2 maps, 8 halftones

As any reader of the "Symposium" knows, the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates conversed over lavish banquets, kept watch on who was eating too much fish, and imbibed liberally without ever getting drunk. In other words, James Davidson writes, he ref...

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Anthropology

Islam

Varieties of Muslim Experience Encounters with Arab Political and Cultural Life

Rosen Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9780226726175, ISBN: HB: 9780226726168, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
278 pp., 22.2x14.6 cm

In "Varieties of Muslim Experience", anthropologist Lawrence Rosen explores aspects of Arab Muslim life that are, at first glance, perplexing to Westerners. He ranges over such diverse topics as why Arabs eschew portraiture, why a Muslim scientist mi...

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Culture Studies

On the Make The Hustle of Urban Nightlife

Grazian David

ISBN: PB: 9780226306728, ISBN: HB: 9780226305677, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
296 pp., 21.3x14.2 cm

David Grazian's riveting tour of downtown Philadelphia and its newly bustling nightlife scene reveals the city as an urban playground where everyone dabbles in games of chance and perpetrates elaborate cons. Entertainment in the city has evolved into...

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