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Banking on Words The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance
ISBN: PB: 9780226318776, ISBN: HB: 9780226318639, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this provocative look at one of the most important events of our time, renowned scholar Arjun Appadurai argues that the economic collapse of 2008 – while indeed spurred on by greed, ignorance, weak regulation, and irresponsible risk-taking – was,...
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Behold the Black Caiman A Chronicle of Ayoreo Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226175577, ISBN: HB: 9780226140896, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones
In 2004, one of the world's last bands of voluntarily isolated nomads left behind their ancestral life in the dwindling thorn forests of northern Paraguay, fleeing ranchers' bulldozers.  "Behold the Black Caiman" is Lucas Bessire's intimate chronicle...
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£22,00
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£68,00
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Beyond Nature and Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780226212364, ISBN: HB: 9780226144450, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
488 pp., 23x15 cm, 9 tables, 3 line illus.
Successor to Claude Levi-Strauss at the College de France, Philippe Descola has become one of the most important anthropologists working today, and "Beyond Nature and Culture" has been a major influence in European intellectual life since its French...
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£26,50
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£56,00
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Braided Worlds
ISBN: PB: 9780226305288, ISBN: HB: 9780226305271, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
184 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps
In a compelling mix of literary narrative and ethnography, anthropologist Alma Gottlieb and writer Philip Graham continue the long journey of cultural engagement with the Beng people of Cote d'Ivoire that they first recounted in their award-winning m...
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Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological Imagination
ISBN: PB: 9780226734057, ISBN: HB: 9780226734040, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 63 halftones
Over the past few centuries, northern Europe's bogs have yielded mummified men, women, and children who were deposited there as sacrifices in the early Iron Age and kept startlingly intact by the chemical properties of peat. In this remarkable accoun...
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£22,50
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£37,00
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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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Bells of Change Kathak Dance, Women and Modernity In India
ISBN: PB: 9781905422487, Seagull Books, September 2008
240 pp., 23.4x15.4 cm, 13 halftones
This is the first critical study of Kathak dance. "Bells of Change" traces two centuries of Kathak, from the colonial nautch dance to classical Kathak under nationalism and post-colonialism to transnationalism and globalization. Reorienting dance to...
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£22,50
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Bards, Ballads and Boundaries An Ethnographic Atlas of Music Traditions in West Rajasthan
ISBN: HB: 9781905422074, Seagull Books, March 2007
540 pp., 29.6x20.6 cm, 70 coluor maps, 34 tables, 124 colour illus.
"Bards, Ballads and Boundaries" presents an atlas of one of the world's richest historical musical traditions. The Atlas is a cartography and catalogue of musicians and music-making in the Western districts of Rajasthan State in contemporary India. B...
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£281,50
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Burning Women A Global History of Widow-Sacrifice from Ancient Times to the Present
ISBN: HB: 9781905422029, Seagull Books, November 2005
621 pp., 21.2x14 cm, 30 halftones
"Following into death" is an ancient and widespread custom which entails one or more people – voluntarily or involuntarily – following a dead man or woman into death. The event is ritualized as a public act. The decisive feature is not the manner of...
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