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World in Guangzhou Africans and Other Foreigners in South China's Global Marketplace
ISBN: PB: 9780226506104, ISBN: HB: 9780226506074, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones
Only decades ago, the population of Guangzhou was almost wholly Chinese. Today, it is a truly global city, a place where people from around the world go to make new lives, find themselves, or further their careers. A large number of these migrants ar...
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£20,50
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Ways of Baloma Rethinking Magic and Kinship From the Trobriands
ISBN: PB: 9780997367560, University of Chicago Press, HAU, November 2017
390 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 4 line drawings
Bronislaw Malinowski's path-breaking research in the Trobriand Islands shaped much of modern anthropology's disciplinary paradigm. Yet many conundrums remain. For example, Malinowski asserted that baloma spirits of the dead were responsible for procr...
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£30,00
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Writing the World of Policing The Difference Ethnography Makes
ISBN: PB: 9780226497648, ISBN: HB: 9780226497501, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
As policing has recently become a major topic of public debate, it was also a growing area of ethnographic research".Writing the World of Policing" brings together an international roster of scholars who have conducted fieldwork studies of law enforc...
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£22,50
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£67,50
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What Is an Event?
ISBN: PB: 9780226439785, ISBN: HB: 9780226439648, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 14 colour plates, 1 halftone
We live in a world of breaking news, where at almost any moment our everyday routine can be interrupted by a faraway event. Events are central to the way that individuals and societies experience life. Even life's inevitable moments – birth, death, l...
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£22,50
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World An Anthropological Examination
ISBN: PB: 9780997367508, University of Chicago Press, HAU, February 2017
134 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones
What do we mean when we refer to the world? How does the world relate to the human person? Are the two interdependent and, if so, in what way? What does the world mean for the ethnographer and the anthropologist? Much has been said of worlds and worl...
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£26,50
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Why We Play An Anthropological Study
ISBN: PB: 9780986132568, University of Chicago Press, HAU, August 2016
370 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map
Whether it's childhood make-believe, the theater, sports, or even market speculation, play is one of humanity's seemingly purest activities: a form of entertainment and leisure and a chance to explore the world and its possibilities in an imagined en...
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What Is Paleolithic Art? Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity
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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£13,50
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We Were Adivasis Aspiration in an Indian Scheduled Tribe
ISBN: PB: 9780226253046, ISBN: HB: 9780226252995, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
In "We Were Adivasis", anthropologist Megan Moodie examines the Indian state's relationship to "Scheduled Tribes", or adivasis – historically oppressed groups that are now entitled to affirmative action quotas in educational and political institution...
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£68,00
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Wax and Gold Tradition and Innovation in Ethiopian Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780226215440, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
350 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In Abyssinian poetry, the "wax"‌ is the obvious meaning, the "gold"‌ is the hidden meaning. In "Wax and Gold", Donald N. Levine explores mid-to-late-twentieth-century Ethiopian society on the same two levels, using modern sociology and psychology to...
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What Kinship Is-And Is Not
ISBN: PB: 9780226214290, ISBN: HB: 9780226925127, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
120 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
In this pithy two-part essay, Marshall Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best scholarship in the field to produce an original outlook on the deepest bond humans can have. Covering thinkers from Ari...
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