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Anthropology

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Mana of Mass Society

Mazzarella William

ISBN: PB: 9780226436258, ISBN: HB: 9780226436111, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

We often invoke the "magic" of mass media to describe seductive advertising or charismatic politicians. In "The Mana of Mass Society", William Mazzarella asks what happens to social theory if we take that idea seriously. How would it change our under...

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Public Health

Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic

McKay Richard A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226063959, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 8 line drawings, 2 tables

The search for a "patient zero" – popularly understood to be the first person infected in an epidemic – has been key to media coverage of major infectious disease outbreaks for more than three decades. Yet the term itself did not exist before the eme...

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Film Studies

Hidden Hitchcock

Miller D. A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226514345, ISBN: HB: 9780226374673, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
208 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 54 halftones

No filmmaker has more successfully courted mass-audience understanding than Alfred Hitchcock, and none has been studied more intensively by scholars. In "Hidden Hitchcock", D. A. Miller does what seems impossible: he discovers what has remained unse...

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Cultural Studies

Business & Economics

Building Nature's Market The Business and Politics of Natural Foods

Miller Laura J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226501376, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

For the first 150 years of their existence, "natural foods" were consumed primarily by body builders, hippies, religious sects, and believers in nature cure. And those consumers were dismissed by the medical establishment and food producers as kooks,...

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Anthropology

Ways of Baloma Rethinking Magic and Kinship From the Trobriands

Mosko Mark S.

ISBN: PB: 9780997367560, University of Chicago Press, HAU, November 2017
390 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 4 line drawings

Bronislaw Malinowski's path-breaking research in the Trobriand Islands shaped much of modern anthropology's disciplinary paradigm. Yet many conundrums remain. For example, Malinowski asserted that baloma spirits of the dead were responsible for procr...

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Philosophy

World

Thinking About History

Maza Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9780226109336, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza's "Thinking About History", a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent t...

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World

Business & Economics

Bourgeois Equality How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World

McCloskey Deirdre N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226527932, ISBN: HB: 9780226333991, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
768 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 6 tables

There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in the concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie. The...

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Gender Studies

Ethno-erotic Economies Sexuality, Money, and Belonging in Kenya

Meiu George Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226491172, ISBN: HB: 9780226491035, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

"Ethno-erotic Economies" explores a fascinating case of tourism focused on sex and culture in coastal Kenya, where young men deploy stereotypes of African warriors to help them establish transactional sexual relationships with European women. In bars...

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Anthropology

Africa

Bottleneck Moving, Building, and Belonging in an African City

Melly Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9780226488905, ISBN: HB: 9780226488875, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

In "Bottleneck", anthropologist Caroline Melly uses the problem of traffic bottlenecks to launch a wide-ranging study of mobility in contemporary urban Senegal – a concept that she argues is central to both citizens' and the state's visions of a succ...

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Business & Economics

Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 31

Moffitt Robert A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226539270, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2017
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The papers in "Tax Policy and the Economy Volume 31" are all directly related to important and often long-standing issues, often including how transfer programs affect tax rates and behavior. In the first paper, Alan Auerbach, Laurence Kotlikoff, Dar...

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