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Upside Down Arctic Realities
ISBN: HB: 9780300169386, Yale University Press, April 2011
224 pp., 26.6x24.8 cm, 62 black&white illus., 132 colour illus.
Based on groundbreaking new scholarship, "Upside Down: Arctic Realities" brings together ancient and modern works from the Arctic region, including major sites in Russia and Alaska. The featured pieces dramatically illustrate the continuing influence...
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£35,00
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Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice
ISBN: PB: 9780226470726, ISBN: HB: 9780226470719, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
216 pp., 24.1x15.9 cm, 2 maps, 3 line drawings, 4 tables, 5 halftones
In this extended meditation, Jean Lave interweaves analysis of the process of apprenticeship among the Vai and Gola tailors of Liberia with reflections on the evolution of her research on those tailors in the late 1970s. In so doing, she provides bot...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Sinister Yogis
ISBN: PB: 9780226895147, ISBN: HB: 9780226895130, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
376 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old-aged. But our modern conception of yoga derives much from nineteenth-century European spirituality, and the true story o...
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£25,00
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£39,00
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Sailing on the Sea of Love The Music of the Bauls of Bengal
ISBN: PB + CD: 9780857420046, Seagull Books, March 2011
242 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm, 43 halftones
Based on fieldwork carried out in West Bengal, "Sailing on the Sea of Love" is a pioneering study of the songs of the Baul – a Bengali religious sect, widely beloved for its enchanting music. Charles Capwell describes the role Baul song plays in the...
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£19,00
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Flaming Feet and Other Essays The Dalit Movement in India
ISBN: HB: 9781906497804, Seagull Books, March 2011
282 pp., 22.1x15.2 cm
In this volume of sixteen essays, D. R. Nagaraj, the foremost non-Brahmin intellectual to emerge from India's non-English-speaking world, presents his vision of the Indian caste system in relation to Dalit politics – the Dalit being a self-designatio...
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£26,50
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Imagining the Urban Sanskrit and the City in Early India
ISBN: HB: 9781906497811, Seagull Books, March 2011
278 pp., 22.4x15 cm
In Imagining the Urban, Shonaleeka Kaul turns to Sanskrit literature to discover the characteristics – both physical and social – of ancient Indian cities. Kaul examines nearly a thousand years of Sanskrit kavyas to see what India's early historic ci...
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£26,50
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Sorcery in the Black Atlantic
ISBN: PB: 9780226645780, ISBN: HB: 9780226645773, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
312 pp., 23x15 cm
Most scholarship on sorcery and witchcraft has narrowly focused on specific times and places, particularly early modern Europe and twentieth-century Africa. And much of that research interprets sorcery as merely a remnant of premodern traditions. Bol...
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£25,00
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£76,00
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Banana Tree at the Gate A History of Marginal Peoples and Global Markets in Borneo
ISBN: HB: 9780300153217, Yale University Press, January 2011
320 pp., 23.6x15.7 cm, 29 black&white illus.
"The Hikayat Banjar", a seventeenth-century native court chronicle from Southeast Borneo, characterizes the irresistibility of natural resource wealth to outsiders as "the banana tree at the gate". Michael Dove employs this phrase as a root metaphor...
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£65,00
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