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Creolized Aurality
Guadeloupean Gwoka and Postcolonial Politics
ISBN: PB: 9780226631776,
ISBN: HB: 9780226631639,
University of Chicago Press,
June 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 7 line drawings
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 7 line drawings
In the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, the complex interplay between anticolonial resistance and accommodation resounds in its music. Guadeloupean gwoka music – a secular, drum-based tradition – captures the entangled histories of French colonization...
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£23,00
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£68,00
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Creativity on Demand
The Dilemmas of Innovation in an Accelerated Age
ISBN: PB: 9780226606972,
ISBN: HB: 9780226606835,
University of Chicago Press,
February 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones
Business consultants everywhere preach the benefits of innovation – and promise to help businesses reap them. A trendy industry, this type of consulting generates courses, workshops, books, and conferences that all claim to hold the secrets of succes...
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£21,00
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£62,00
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Congo Masks
Masterpieces from Central Africa
ISBN: PB: 9780300238754,
Yale University Press,
November 2018
408 pp., 29.5x22.9 cm, 800 colour illus., 130 black&white illus.
408 pp., 29.5x22.9 cm, 800 colour illus., 130 black&white illus.
This splendid illustrated exploration of masks and masking ceremonies from the Democratic Republic of the Congo presents more than 130 outstanding wooden masks dating from the 18th to the 20th century. Visually stunning and spiritually charged, these...
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£35,00
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Critical Terms for Animal Studies
ISBN: PB: 9780226355429,
ISBN: HB: 9780226355399,
University of Chicago Press,
November 2018
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 figure, 1 table
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 figure, 1 table
Animal Studies is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field devoted to examining, understanding, and critically evaluating the complex relationships between humans and other animals. Scholarship in Animal Studies draws on a variety of methodologies t...
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£25,00
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£73,00
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Capturing Imagination
A Proposal for an Anthropology of Thought
ISBN: PB: 9780999157008,
University of Chicago Press,
HAU,
November 2018
260 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 95 colour plates
260 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 95 colour plates
We have all found ourselves involuntarily addressing inanimate objects as though they were human. For a fleeting instant, we act as though our cars and computers can hear us. In situations like ritual or play, objects acquire a range of human charact...
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£27,00
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Classic Concepts in Anthropology
The late anthropologist Valerio Valeri (1944-1998) was best known for his substantial writings on societies of Polynesia and eastern Indonesia. This volume, however, presents a lesser-known side of Valeri's genius through a dazzlingly erudite set of...
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£22,50
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Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions, Volume 10, Part 1: Cotzumalhuapa
ISBN: PB: 9780873658683,
Harvard University Press,
February 2018
64 pp., 38.1x30.5 cm, 27 halftones, 22 line illus., 2 maps, 1 site plan
64 pp., 38.1x30.5 cm, 27 halftones, 22 line illus., 2 maps, 1 site plan
Since 1975, the Peabody Museum has been publishing "The Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions", a unique series of folio volumes with the goal to document all known Maya inscriptions and their associated figurative art.
This is the first of four...
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£54,95
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Critical Norths
Space, Nature, Theory
ISBN: PB: 9781602233195,
University of Chicago Press,
University of Alaska Press,
May 2017
300 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 5 tables
300 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 5 tables
For millennia, "the North" has held a powerful sway in Western culture. Long seen through contradictions – empty of life yet full of promise, populated by indigenous communities yet ripe for conquest, pristine yet marked by a long human history – it...
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£34,00
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Crying for Our Elders
African Orphanhood in the Age of HIV and AIDS
ISBN: PB: 9780226437545,
ISBN: HB: 9780226437408,
University of Chicago Press,
March 2017
248 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 halftones
248 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 halftones
The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa has defined the childhoods of an entire generation. Over the past twenty years, international NGOs and charities have devoted immense attention to the millions of African children orphaned by the disease. But in "Cryin...
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£26,50
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£79,00
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Creative Alaska
A Ten-Year Retrospective of Support for Alaska Artists, 2004-2013
ISBN: HB: 9781602232853,
University of Chicago Press,
University of Alaska Press,
February 2017
340 pp., 27.3x27.3 cm, 232 colour plates
340 pp., 27.3x27.3 cm, 232 colour plates
Alaska has long been a nurturing home for artists, with its stunning natural beauty, rich cultural life, and unique communities. In recent years, artists in Alaska have had an additional source of support: the awarding of annual grants to craftsmen,...
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£37,50
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