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Sex Thieves The Anthropology of a Rumor
ISBN: PB: 9780986132582, University of Chicago Press, HAU, November 2016
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
While working in Africa, anthropologist Julien Bonhomme encountered an astonishing phenomenon: people being accused of stealing or shrinking the genitals of strangers on the simple occasion of a handshake on the street. As he soon discovered, these a...
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Why We Play An Anthropological Study
ISBN: PB: 9780986132568, University of Chicago Press, HAU, August 2016
370 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map
Whether it's childhood make-believe, the theater, sports, or even market speculation, play is one of humanity's seemingly purest activities: a form of entertainment and leisure and a chance to explore the world and its possibilities in an imagined en...
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Comparing Impossibilities Selected Essays of Sally Falk Moore
ISBN: PB: 9780986132551, University of Chicago Press, HAU, June 2016
325 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Few scholars have had a more varied career than Sally Falk Moore. Once a lawyer for an elite New York law firm, her career has led her to the Nuremberg trials where she prepared cases against major industrialists, to Harvard, to the Spanish archives...
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Gift Expanded Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780990505006, University of Chicago Press, HAU, May 2016
237 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Scan down a list of essential works in any introduction to anthropology course and you are likely to see Marcel Mauss' masterpiece, The Gift. With this new translation, Mauss' classic essay is returned to its original context, published alongside the...
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Before and After Gender Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life
ISBN: PB: 9780986132537, University of Chicago Press, HAU, April 2016
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Written in the early 1970s amidst widespread debate over the causes of gender inequality, Marilyn Strathern's "Before and After Gender" was intended as a widely accessible analysis of gender as a powerful cultural code and sex as a defining mythology...
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Relative Native Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds
ISBN: PB: 9780990505037, University of Chicago Press, HAU, March 2016
412 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 figures
This volume is the first to collect the most influential essays and lectures of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Published in a wide variety of venues, and often difficult to find, the pieces are brought together here for the first time in a one major vol...
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