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Anthropology

Archaeology & Paleontology

Moss Madonna L., Cannon Aubrey

ISBN: PB: 9781602231467, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2012
312 pp., 25.5x18 cm

For thousands of years, fisheries were crucial to the sustenance of the First Peoples of the Pacific Coast. Yet human impact has left us with a woefully incomplete understanding of their histories prior to the industrial era. Covering Alaska, British...

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Anthropology

Accompaniment Assembling the Contemporary

Rabinow Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226701707, ISBN: HB: 9780226701691, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
248 pp., 22x14 cm

In this culmination of his search for anthropological concepts and practices appropriate to the twenty-first century, Paul Rabinow contends that to make sense of the contemporary anthropologists must invent new forms of inquiry. He begins with an ext...

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Anthropology

Travel

Ahtna Travel Narratives A Demonstration of Shared Geographic Knowledge among Alaska Athabascans

Kari James

ISBN: PB + CD: 9781555001056, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2011
143 pp., 27x22 cm, 22 maps, 23 halftones

Among the world's foremost pedestrian foragers, the Ahtna tribe possesses a profound system of geographic knowledge that has facilitated travel and spatial cognition in Ahtna and other Athabascan languages. Shedding light on a number of precise lands...

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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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Anthropology

World

Anthropology at War World War I and the Science of Race in Germany

Evans Andrew D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226222684, ISBN: HB: 9780226222677, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

Between 1914 and 1918, German anthropologists conducted their work in the midst of full-scale war. The discipline was relatively new in German academia when World War I broke out, and, as Andrew D. Evans reveals in this illuminating book, its develop...

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Anthropology

General

Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency

Kelly John D., Jauregui Beatrice, Mitchell Sean T., Walton Jeremy

ISBN: PB: 9780226429946, ISBN: HB: 9780226429939, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
408 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables, 5 halftones

Global events of the early twenty-first century have placed new stress on the relationship among anthropology, governance, and war. Facing prolonged insurgency, segments of the U. S. military have taken a new interest in anthropology, prompting inten...

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Anthropology

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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Anthropology

Culture Studies

Anthropology in the East Founders of Indian Sociology and Anthropology

Uberoi Patricia, Sundar Nandini, Deshpande Satish

ISBN: PB: 9781905422784, ISBN: HB: 9781905422777, Seagull Books, September 2008
568 pp., 22.4x14.6 cm

Anthropology and sociology have long histories in India. Yet, with the exception of fieldwork experience, there is little research available on the institutional and material contexts of these disciplines or on the practices of pioneering anthropolog...

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Performing Arts

Culture Studies

Actors, Pilgrims, Kings and Gods The Ramlila of Ramnagar

Kapur Anuradha

ISBN: PB: 9781905422203, ISBN: HB: 9781905422197, Seagull Books, June 2006
258 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm, 62 halftones

The Ramlila at Ramnagar, Varanasi is a unique theatrical and religious event, an annual, month-long enactment of the Ramayana story. The performance covers a whole town and involves an entire community. Men, women and children follow the course of th...

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Anthropology

Aboriginal Myths, Legends and Fables

Reed A. W.

ISBN: PB: 9781876334291, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, February 1999
440 pp., 19.6x12.8 cm

"Aboriginal Myths, Legends & Fables" presents a wealth of poetic and imaginative tales from Aboriginal cultural heritage. While retelling the stories simply, this book captures the mystical bonds that exist between Aboriginal people, their environmen...

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