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Treadwell Gold An Alaska Saga of Riches and Ruin
ISBN: PB: 9781602231184, ISBN: HB: 9781602230750, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2013
271 pp., 25.1x17.8 cm, 80 halftones
A century ago, Treadwell, Alaska, was a featured stop on steamship cruises, a rich, up-to-date town that was the most prominent and proud in all Alaska. Its wealth, however, was founded on the remarkably productive gold mines on Douglas Island, and w...
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Truth in Motion The Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination
ISBN: PB: 9780226349213, ISBN: HB: 9780226349206, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
328 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 3 halftones, 6 line illus.
Embarking on an ethnographic journey to the inner barriosof Havana among practitioners of Ifa, a prestigious Afro-Cuban tradition of divination, "Truth in Motion" reevaluates Western ideas about truth in light of the practices and ideas of a wildly d...
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Tales of the Field On Writing Ethnography, Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226849645, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
232 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
For more than twenty years, John Van Maanen's "Tales of the Field" has been a definitive reference and guide for students, scholars, and practitioners of ethnography and beyond. Originally published in 1988, it was the one of the first works to detai...
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Theory of African Music, Volume II
ISBN: PB + CD: 9780226456942, ISBN: HB + CD: 9780226456935, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
408 pp., 20.9x13.4 cm, 32 line drawings, 35 figures, 60 halftones
Taken together, these comprehensive volumes offer an authoritative account of the music of Africa. One of the most prominent experts on the subject, Gerhard Kubik draws on his extensive travels and three decades of study in many parts of the continen...
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Theory of African Music, Volume I
ISBN: PB + CD: 9780226456911, ISBN: HB + CD: 9780226456904, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
464 pp., 20.9x13.4 cm, 113 musical examples, 9 maps, 32 line drawings, 14 figures, 13 tables, 64 halftones
Taken together, these comprehensive volumes offer an authoritative account of the music of Africa. One of the most prominent experts on the subject, Gerhard Kubik draws on his extensive travels and three decades of study in many parts of the continen...
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Theatre of Roots Redirecting the Modern Indian Stage
ISBN: PB: 9781905422760, ISBN: HB: 9781905422753, Seagull Books, November 2008
432 pp., 23x15.6 cm, 24 halftones
After Independence, in 1947, in their efforts to create an "Indian" theatre that was different from the Westernized, colonial theatre, Indian theatre practitioners began returning to their "roots" in classical dance, religious ritual, martial arts, p...
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£71,00
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