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Anthropology

Ammassalik Eskimo A Rejoinder

Thalbitzer William

ISBN: PB: 9788763522700, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, October 2017
52 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This is a facsimile edition of the fifth part of Volume 53 of Monographs on Greenland, originally published in 1917. Penned by William Thalbitzer, it is a rejoinder in self-defense to Thomas Thomsens acerbic "notes and corrections" (available as the...

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Ammassalik Eskimo Contributions to the Ethnology of the East Greenland Natives. Second Part. First Half-Volume

Thalbitzer William

ISBN: PB: 9788763521741, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, October 2017
566 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This is the facsimile edition of the first half-volume of the second part of William Thalbitzer's seminal and pioneering ethnographic study of the native tribes living in and around the Ammassalik area on the east coast of Greenland around the turn o...

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Angmagsalik Eskimo Notes and Corrections to Vol. 39 of Monographs on Greenland

Thomsen Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9788763522694, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, October 2017
64 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This is a facsimile edition of the original 1917 volume, which contains a critical and acerbic reply by Thomas Thomsen of the Ethnographical Department at the National Museum of Denmark to Vol. 39 of Monographs on Greenland, titled Ammassalik Eskimo...

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Fragmente des Sog".Sothisrituals" von Oxyrhynchos aus Tebtynis

Topfer Susanne

ISBN: HB: 9788763543644, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, October 2017
211 pp., 31.8x21.6 cm

The book contains the edition of a hieratic written text from the Tebtunis temple library, dating to the 1st – 2nd century AD. The ritual text is a compilation of fumigation and libation spells for the main deities of the designed ritual place, the P...

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Ammassalik Eskimo Contributions to the Ethnology of the East Greenland Natives. Second Part. Second Half-Volume

Thalbitzer William

ISBN: PB: 9788763521765, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, September 2017
182 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This is the facsimile edition of the second half-volume of the second part of William Thalbitzer's seminal and pioneering ethnographic study of the native tribes living in and around the Ammassalik area on the east coast of Greenland around the turn...

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Quantum Anthropology Man, Cultures, and Groups in a Quantum Perspective

Trnka Radek, Lorencova Radmila

ISBN: PB: 9788024634708, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2017
191 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 8 halftones, 7 line drawings

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Quantum Anthropology" offers a fresh look at humans, cultures, and societies that builds on advances in the fields of quantum mechanics, quantum philosophy, and quantum consciousness. Rad...

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Culture Studies

Corn Wolf

Taussig Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226310855, ISBN: HB: 9780226310718, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 halftones, 16 line drawings

Collecting a decade of work from iconic anthropologist and writer Michael Taussig, "The Corn Wolf" pinpoints a moment of intellectual development for the master stylist, exemplifying the "nervous system" approach to writing and truth that has charact...

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Islanders The Pacific in the Age of Empire

Thomas Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9780300180565, Yale University Press, January 2012
356 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.

This compelling book explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized by Europeans following the great voyages of Captain Cook. Unlike conventional accounts that emphasize confrontation and the des...

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Literary Criticism

I Swear I Saw This Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own

Taussig Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226789835, ISBN: HB: 9780226789828, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
176 pp., 22x14 cm, 30 halftones

"I Swear I Saw This" records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. Taking as a starting point a drawing he made in Medellin in 2006 – as well as its capti...

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Aleutian Ethnography

Turner Lucien

ISBN: PB: 9781602230392, ISBN: HB: 9781602230286, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 50 halftones

Lucien Turner was a pioneering nineteenth-century ethnographer whose study of Aleut communities surpassed the work of all of his contemporaries, and now his rare writings are collected here for the first time. Turner's admittedly fragmentary ethnogra...

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