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Normality
A Critical Genealogy
ISBN: PB: 9780226484051,
University of Chicago Press,
December 2017
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
The concept of normal is so familiar that it can be hard to imagine contemporary life without it. Yet the term entered everyday speech only in the mid-twentieth century. Before that, it was solely a scientific term used primarily in medicine to refer...
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£26,00
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How Lifeworlds Work
Emotionality, Sociality, and the Ambiguity of Being
ISBN: PB: 9780226491967,
ISBN: HB: 9780226491820,
University of Chicago Press,
November 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 9 halftones
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 9 halftones
Michael Jackson has spent much of his career elaborating his rich conception of lifeworlds, mining his ethnographic and personal experience for insights into how our subjective and social lives are mutually constituted.
In "How Lifeworlds Work", Ja...
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£19,00
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£56,00
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Ways of Baloma
Rethinking Magic and Kinship From the Trobriands
ISBN: PB: 9780997367560,
HAU,
November 2017
390 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 4 line drawings
390 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 4 line drawings
Bronislaw Malinowski's path-breaking research in the Trobriand Islands shaped much of modern anthropology's disciplinary paradigm. Yet many conundrums remain. For example, Malinowski asserted that baloma spirits of the dead were responsible for procr...
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£30,00
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Revolting Remedies from the Middle Ages
ISBN: HB: 9781851244768,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
November 2017
112 pp., 17x11 cm
112 pp., 17x11 cm
"For a zitty face.
Take urine eight days old and heat it over the fire; wash your face with it morning and night".
In late medieval England, ordinary people, apothecaries and physicians gathered up practical medical tips for everyday use. While some...
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£9,00
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Dark Matter of the Mind
The Culturally Articulated Unconscious
ISBN: PB: 9780226526782,
ISBN: HB: 9780226070766,
University of Chicago Press,
November 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 18 line drawings, 2 tables
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 18 line drawings, 2 tables
Is it in our nature to be altruistic, or evil, to make art, use tools, or create language? Is it in our nature to think in any particular way? For Daniel L. Everett, the answer is a resounding no: it isn't in our nature to do any of these things beca...
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£24,00
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£30,00
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Mana of Mass Society
ISBN: PB: 9780226436258,
ISBN: HB: 9780226436111,
University of Chicago Press,
November 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
We often invoke the "magic" of mass media to describe seductive advertising or charismatic politicians. In "The Mana of Mass Society", William Mazzarella asks what happens to social theory if we take that idea seriously. How would it change our under...
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£19,00
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£56,00
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Universalism without Uniformity
Explorations in Mind and Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780226501680,
ISBN: HB: 9780226501543,
University of Chicago Press,
November 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 9 tables
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 9 tables
One of the major issues in cultural psychology is how to take diversity seriously while also acknowledging our shared humanity. This collection brings together leading figures in the field of cultural psychology to consider that question, addressing...
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£26,00
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£79,00
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Qanemcit Amllertut / Many Stories to Tell
Tales of Humans and Animals from Southwest Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602233362,
University of Alaska Press,
November 2017
392 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 12 colour plates
392 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 12 colour plates
This bilingual collection shares new translations of old stories recorded over the last four decades though interviews with Yup'ik elders from throughout southwest Alaska. Some are true qulirat (traditional tales), while others are recent. Some are w...
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£30,00
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Big and Small
A Cultural History of Extraordinary Bodies
ISBN: HB: 9780300228861,
Yale University Press,
November 2017
360 pp., 21x14 cm, 17 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.
360 pp., 21x14 cm, 17 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.
Author, scholar, and editor Lynne Vallone has an international reputation in the field of child studies. In this analytical tour-de-force, she explores bodily size difference – particularly unusual bodies, big and small – as an overlooked yet crucial...
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Oduduwa's Chain
Locations of Culture in the Yoruba-Atlantic
ISBN: PB: 9780226506418,
ISBN: HB: 9780226506388,
University of Chicago Press,
November 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones, 1 map
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones, 1 map
Yoruba culture has been a part of the Americas for centuries, brought from Africa during the transatlantic slave trade and maintained in various forms ever since. In "Oduduwa's Chain", Andrew Apter explores a wide range of fascinating historical and...
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£22,00
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£67,00
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