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Futbol in the Park Immigrants, Soccer, and the Creation of Social Ties

Trouille David

ISBN: PB: 9780226748887, ISBN: HB: 9780226748740, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

You know the scene: amateur soccer players battling over the ball, spectators cheering from the sidelines, vendors selling their wares from carts. Over the past half century, immigration from Latin America has transformed the public landscape in the...

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Anthropology

Mafiacraft An Ethnography of Deadly Silence

Puccio-Den Deborah

ISBN: PB: 9781912808250, University of Chicago Press, HAU, January 2021
230 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

"The Mafia? What is the Mafia? Something you eat? Something you drink? I don't know the Mafia. I have never seen it". So said Mommo Piromalli, a Ndrangheta crime boss, to a journalist in the seventies. In "Mafiacraft", Deborah Puccio-Den explores the...

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Fiction

Many That I Am Writings from Nagaland

Longkumer Anungla Zoe

ISBN: HB: 9789385932793, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2021
160 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

A grandmother's tattoos, the advent of Christianity, stories woven into fabrics, a tradition of orality, the imposition of a "new" language, and a history of war and conflict – all of this and much more informs the writers and artists in this book. F...

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Music

Anthropology

Mbira's Restless Dance An Archive of Improvisation

Berliner Paul F., Magaya Cosmas

ISBN: spiral: 9780226626277, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
912 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 597 musical examples

Growing out of the collaborative research of an American ethnomusicologist and Zimbabwean musician, Paul F. Berliner and Cosmas Magaya's "Mbira's Restless Dance" documents the repertory for a keyboard instrument known generally as mbira. At the heart...

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America

Go Play Outside! Tips, Tricks, and Tales from the Trails

Fresco Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9781602234390, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2021
210 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Having children doesn't mean that you can't enjoy every season in the great outdoors – even if you happen to live in the middle of Alaska. Whether you're biking eighty miles into the heart of Denali National Park, cross-country skiing to a remote cab...

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Biography & Memoires

Jean-Pierre Vernant From the Maquis to the Polis

Vernant Jean-Pierre

ISBN: PB: 9780984201075, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, January 2021
82 pp., 17.7x11.4 cm

Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914-2007) was one of most important intellectual figures of modern France, well-known for his structuralist approach to Greek myth and tragedy. Taking the form of an interview with the notoriously private French classicist and a...

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Philosophy

Secrecy Silence, Power, and Religion

Urban Hugh B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226746647, ISBN: HB: 9780226746500, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

The powers of political secrecy and social spectacle have been taken to surreal extremes recently. Witness the twin terrors of a president who refuses to disclose dealings with foreign powers while the private data of ordinary citizens is stolen and...

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Women Studies

Women and Partition A Reader

Butalia Urvashi

ISBN: PB: 9788189013363, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2021
400 pp., 19.5x12.7 cm

Urvashi Butalia's work on the subject of Partition, the 1947 division of the Indian subcontinent, is internationally known. Her book "The Other Side of Silence" has been translated into more than ten languages and won several awards. In this new coll...

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Media Studies

Mind Abuse Media Violence and Its Threat to Democracy

Dyson Rose A.

ISBN: PB: 9781551647326, ISBN: HB: 9781551647333, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, January 2021
180 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Although rogue elements on the internet have spawned concerns about foreign interference in elections, invasion of privacy, and the impact of hate speech, most people are still in denial about the harmful effects of media violence as entertainment. T...

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General

Hinge Civil Society, Group Cultures, and the Power of Local Commitments

Fine Gary Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226745664, ISBN: HB: 9780226745527, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Most of the time, we believe our daily lives to be governed by structures determined from above: laws that dictate our behavior, companies that pay our wages, even climate patterns that determine what we eat or where we live. In contrast, social orga...

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