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Anguyiim Nalliini / Time of Warring The History of Bow-and-Arrow Warfare in Southwest Alaska

Fienup-Riordan Ann

ISBN: PB: 9781602232914, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2016
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 16 colour plates, 8 maps

This book draws on little-known oral histories from the Yup'ik people of southwest Alaska to detail a period of bow-and-arrow warfare that took place in the region between 1300 and 1800. The result of more than thirty years of research, discussion, a...

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Anthropology

Legacies, Logics, Logistics Essays in the Anthropology of the Platform Economy

Guyer Jane I.

ISBN: PB: 9780226326870, ISBN: HB: 9780226326733, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 1 line drawing

"Legacies, Logics, Logistics" brings together a set of essays, written both before and after the financial crisis of 2007-2008, by eminent Africanist and economic anthropologist Jane I. Guyer. Each was written initially for a conference on a defined...

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Music

Anthropology

Lost Paradise Andalusi Music in Urban North Africa

Glasser Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780226327235, ISBN: HB: 9780226327068, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing

For more than a century, urban North Africans have sought to protect and revive Andalusi music, a prestigious Arabic-language performance tradition said to originate in the "lost paradise" of medieval Islamic Spain. Yet despite the Andalusi repertoir...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Anthropology

What Is Paleolithic Art? Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity

Clottes Jean

ISBN: PB: 9780226266633, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 2 line drawings

Was it a trick of the light that drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the heads of lions, likenesses of bison, horses, and aurochs in the reliefs of the walls, as they flickered by firelight? Or was...

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Christianity

More Than God Demands Politics and Influence of Christian Missions in Northwest Alaska, 1897-1918

Urvina Anthony, Urvina Sally

ISBN: PB: 9781602232938, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2016
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 1 map

Near the turn of the twentieth century, the territorial government of Alaska put its support behind a project led by Christian missionaries to convert Alaska Native peoples – and, along the way, bring them into "civilized" American citizenship. Estab...

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Anthropology

Relative Native Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds

de Castro Eduardo Viveiros

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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Siege of the Spirits Community and Polity in Bangkok

Herzfeld Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226331614, ISBN: HB: 9780226331584, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 map

What happens when three hundred alleged squatters go head-to-head with an enormous city government looking to develop the place where they live? As anthropologist Michael Herzfeld shows in this book, the answer can be surprising. He tells the story o...

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World

Anthropology

Civilisation of Perpetual Movement Nomadism in World Politics

McDonell Nick

ISBN: HB: 9781849043984, Hurst Publishers, January 2016
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! From the Chinese Emperors to the Romans and the Byzantines, from British Foreign Office agents in the Great Game to today's hippies, backpackers and aid workers, a long line of 'civilised', sedentary, peoples have again and aga...

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History

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Race and Photography Racial Photography as Scientific Evidence, 1876-1980

Morris-Reich Amos

ISBN: PB: 9780226320885, ISBN: HB: 9780226320748, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 72 halftones

"Race and Photography" studies the changing function of photography from the 1870s to the 1940s within the field of the "science of race", what many today consider the paradigm of pseudo-science. Amos Morris-Reich looks at the ways photography enable...

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Culture Studies

Anthropology

Two Arabs, a Berber, and a Jew Entangled Lives in Morocco

Rosen Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9780226317489, ISBN: HB: 9780226317342, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 62 halftones, 1 table

In this remarkable work by seasoned scholar Lawrence Rosen, we follow the fascinating intellectual developments of four ordinary Moroccans over the span of forty years. Walking and talking with Haj Hamed Britel, Yaghnik Driss, Hussein Qadir, and Shim...

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