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Anthropology
Music
Everyday Creativity Singing Goddesses in the Himalayan Foothills
Narayan Kirin
ISBN: PB: 9780226407562, ISBN: HB: 9780226407425, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
Kirin Narayan's imagination was captured the very first time that, as a girl visiting the Himalayas, she heard Kangra women join their voices together in song. Returning as an anthropologist, she became fascinated by how they spoke of singing as a fo...
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Anthropology
Ethical Condition Essays on Action, Person, and Value
Lambek Michael
ISBN: PB: 9780226292243, ISBN: HB: 9780226292106, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Written over a thirty-year span, Michael Lambek's essays in this collection point with definitive force toward a single central truth: ethics is intrinsic to social life. As he shows through rich ethnographic accounts and multiple theoretical traditi...
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Anthropology
Ecology
Ecology of Others Anthropology and the Question of Nature
Descola Philippe
ISBN: PB: 9780984201020, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, March 2013
90 pp., 17.8x11 cm
Since the end of the nineteenth century, the division between nature and culture has been fundamental to Western thought. In this groundbreaking work, renowned anthropologist Philippe Descola seeks to break down this divide, arguing for a departure f...
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Anthropology
Erotic Triangles Sundanese Dance and Masculinity in West Java
Spiller Henry
ISBN: PB: 9780226769592, ISBN: HB: 9780226769585, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 musical examples, 14 line drawings, 13 tables, 8 halftones
In West Java, Indonesia, all it takes is a woman's voice and a drum beat to make a man get up and dance. Every day, men there – be they students, pedicab drivers, civil servants, or businessmen – breach ordinary standards of decorum and succumb to th...
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