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Wild Thought
A New Translation of "La Pensee sauvage"
ISBN: PB: 9780226413082,
ISBN: HB: 9780226208015,
University of Chicago Press,
November 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 19 line drawings
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 19 line drawings
Perhaps the most influential anthropologist of his generation, Claude Levi-Strauss left a profound mark on the development of twentieth-century thought, equal to that of phenomenology and existentialism. Through a fertile mixture of insights gleaned...
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£16,00
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£60,00
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Witch's Hand
Curing, Killing, Kinship, and Colonialism among the Lujere of New Guinea's River Basin
From 1971 to 1972, William E. Mitchell undertook fieldwork on suffering and healing among the Lujere of Papua New Guinea's Upper Sepik River Basin. At a time when it was not yet common to make colonial agencies a subject of anthropological study, Mit...
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£32,00
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With the Wind and the Waves
A Guide to Mental Health Practices in Alaska Native Communities
ISBN: PB: 9781602234161,
University of Chicago Press,
University of Alaska Press,
October 2020
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In With the Wind and the Waves, psychologist Ray M. Droby tells a story of treatment and learning, drawing on experiences ranging from an ocean journey he took on the Bering Sea while serving in a Alaska Native community to his clinical work as a psy...
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£16,00
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Why We Believe
Evolution and the Human Way of Being
ISBN: HB: 9780300243994,
Yale University Press,
January 2020
280 pp., 21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.
280 pp., 21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.
Why are so many humans religious? Why do we daydream, imagine, and hope? Philosophers, theologians, social scientists, and historians have offered explanations for centuries, but their accounts often ignore or even avoid human evolution. Evolutionary...
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£20,00
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Wandering Spirits
Loneliness and Longing in Greenland
ISBN: PB: 9780226610566,
ISBN: HB: 9780226610429,
University of Chicago Press,
March 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings
It is common to think of the Arctic as remote, perched at the farthest reaches of the world – a simple and harmonious, isolated utopia. But the reality, as Janne Flora shows us, is anything but. In "Wandering Spirits", Flora reveals how deeply connec...
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£21,00
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£62,00
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Water Mask
ISBN: PB: 9781602233720,
University of Chicago Press,
University of Alaska Press,
March 2019
175 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
175 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Water Mask" is an adventurous memoir from Monica Devine, an itinerant therapist who travels to villages throughout Alaska and builds a life in this vast, captivating landscape. She traverses mountains, navigates sea ice with whalers, and whirls two...
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£13,00
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Where Are We Heading?
The Evolution of Humans and Things
ISBN: HB: 9780300204094,
Yale University Press,
October 2018
200 pp., 21x14 cm, 20 black&white illus.
200 pp., 21x14 cm, 20 black&white illus.
In this engaging exploration, archaeologist Ian Hodder departs from the two prevailing modes of thought about human evolution: the older idea of constant advancement toward a civilized ideal and the newer one of a directionless process of natural sel...
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£20,00
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Witch
A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
ISBN: PB: 9780300238679,
Yale University Press,
September 2018
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
<p>The witch came to prominence – and often a painful death – in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep. In this landmark book, Ronald Hutton traces witchcraft from the ancient worl...
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£11,99
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Waka and Things, Waka as Things
ISBN: HB: 9780300223712,
Yale University Press,
February 2018
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 11 colour illus., 29 black&white illus.
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 11 colour illus., 29 black&white illus.
This generously illustrated volume offers a fresh perspective on classical Japanese poetry (waka), including many poems treated here for the first time in a Western-language publication. Edward Kamens examines these poems both as they relate to mater...
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£60,00
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Worldviews of the Greenlanders
An Inuit Arctic Perspective
ISBN: HB: 9781602233386,
University of Chicago Press,
University of Alaska Press,
February 2018
1150 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 29 halftones, 1 map
1150 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 29 halftones, 1 map
Ninety years ago, Knud Rasmussen's popular account of his scientific expeditions through Greenland and North America introduced readers to the culture and history of arctic Natives. In the intervening century, a robust field of ethnographic research...
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£49,00
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