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Culture as Judicial Evidence
Expert Testimony in Latin America
ISBN: PB: 9781947602632,
University of Chicago Press,
University of Cincinnati Press,
January 2020
325 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
325 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In Latin America, as early as 1975 testimony given under oath by anthropologists has been applied in the civil law systems in a number of Latin American countries. Called peritajes antropologicos culturales, this testimony can come in the form of wr...
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£30,00
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Cultural Histories of the Material World
ISBN: PB: 9781941792186,
University of Chicago Press,
Bard Graduate Center,
November 2019
295 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
295 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Bringing together the work of over twenty international scholars from various disciplines, "Cultural Histories of the Material World" provides a substantial collection of works that explore materiality and material culture from a historical perspecti...
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£19,00
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Contesting Leviathan
Activists, Hunters, and State Power in the Makah Whaling Conflict
ISBN: PB: 9780226657400,
ISBN: HB: 9780226657370,
University of Chicago Press,
October 2019
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones
In 1999, off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, the first gray whale in seven decades was killed by Makah whalers. The hunt marked the return of a centuries-old tradition and, predictably, set off a fierce political and environmental debate. Whalers...
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£24,00
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£68,00
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Colombia: Bajo Caguan-Caqueta
ISBN: HB: 9780982841983,
University of Chicago Press,
Field Museum of Natural History,
September 2019
452 pp., 27.3x20.9 cm, 13 colour plates, 14 halftones
452 pp., 27.3x20.9 cm, 13 colour plates, 14 halftones
In April 2018, a large multidisciplinary team of geologists, biologists, social scientists, and local residents explored the rivers, forests, and human communities around the junction of the Caguan and Caqueta Rivers in the lowland Amazonian departme...
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£23,00
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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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£74,00
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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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