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Anthropology

Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice

Lave Jean

ISBN: PB: 9780226470726, ISBN: HB: 9780226470719, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
216 pp., 24.1x15.9 cm, 2 maps, 3 line drawings, 4 tables, 5 halftones

In this extended meditation, Jean Lave interweaves analysis of the process of apprenticeship among the Vai and Gola tailors of Liberia with reflections on the evolution of her research on those tailors in the late 1970s. In so doing, she provides bot...

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Sinister Yogis

White David Gordon

ISBN: PB: 9780226895147, ISBN: HB: 9780226895130, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
376 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 24 halftones

Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old-aged. But our modern conception of yoga derives much from nineteenth-century European spirituality, and the true story o...

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Music

Sailing on the Sea of Love The Music of the Bauls of Bengal

Capwell Charles

ISBN: PB + CD: 9780857420046, Seagull Books, March 2011
242 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm, 43 halftones

Based on fieldwork carried out in West Bengal, "Sailing on the Sea of Love" is a pioneering study of the songs of the Baul – a Bengali religious sect, widely beloved for its enchanting music. Charles Capwell describes the role Baul song plays in the...

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Culture Studies

Anthropology

Flaming Feet and Other Essays The Dalit Movement in India

Nagaraj D. R.

ISBN: HB: 9781906497804, Seagull Books, March 2011
282 pp., 22.1x15.2 cm

In this volume of sixteen essays, D. R. Nagaraj, the foremost non-Brahmin intellectual to emerge from India's non-English-speaking world, presents his vision of the Indian caste system in relation to Dalit politics – the Dalit being a self-designatio...

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Culture Studies

Imagining the Urban Sanskrit and the City in Early India

Kaul Shonaleeka

ISBN: HB: 9781906497811, Seagull Books, March 2011
278 pp., 22.4x15 cm

In Imagining the Urban, Shonaleeka Kaul turns to Sanskrit literature to discover the characteristics – both physical and social – of ancient Indian cities. Kaul examines nearly a thousand years of Sanskrit kavyas to see what India's early historic ci...

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Sorcery in the Black Atlantic

Pares Luis Nicolau, Sansi Roger

ISBN: PB: 9780226645780, ISBN: HB: 9780226645773, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
312 pp., 23x15 cm

Most scholarship on sorcery and witchcraft has narrowly focused on specific times and places, particularly early modern Europe and twentieth-century Africa. And much of that research interprets sorcery as merely a remnant of premodern traditions. Bol...

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Banana Tree at the Gate A History of Marginal Peoples and Global Markets in Borneo

Dove Michael R

ISBN: HB: 9780300153217, Yale University Press, January 2011
320 pp., 23.6x15.7 cm, 29 black&white illus.

"The Hikayat Banjar", a seventeenth-century native court chronicle from Southeast Borneo, characterizes the irresistibility of natural resource wealth to outsiders as "the banana tree at the gate". Michael Dove employs this phrase as a root metaphor...

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From Land to Mouth The Agricultural "Economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea Highlands

Sillitoe Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300142266, Yale University Press, December 2010
512 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 172 black&white illus.

Offers a comparison of the apparently incomparable: our capitalist economy to the subsistence-cum-exchange order of the Wola people in the Was Valley.

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Women Studies

Anthropology

Sex and Salvation Imagining the Future in Madagascar

Cole Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9780226113319, ISBN: HB: 9780226113302, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
236 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 14 halftones

"Sex and Salvation" chronicles the coming of age of a generation of women in Tamatave in the years that followed Madagascar's economic liberalization. Eager to forge a viable future amid poverty and rising consumerism, many young women have entered t...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Anthropology

1912 Yale Peruvian Scientific Expedition Collections from Machu Picchu Human and Animal Remains

Burger Richard L., Salazar Lucy C.

ISBN: PB: 9780913516218, Yale University Press, November 2010
198 pp., 24.5x17.2 cm, 12 charts, 60 black&white illus.

This second book in the Yale University Publications in Anthropology series dedicated to the Machu Picchu collections recovered early in the twentieth century from Machu Picchu by Hiram Bingham and the Yale Peruvian Scientific Expeditions analyzes th...

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