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Civilisation of Perpetual Movement Nomadism in World Politics
ISBN: HB: 9781849043984, Hurst Publishers, January 2016
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! From the Chinese Emperors to the Romans and the Byzantines, from British Foreign Office agents in the Great Game to today's hippies, backpackers and aid workers, a long line of 'civilised', sedentary, peoples have again and aga...
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£20,00
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Race and Photography Racial Photography as Scientific Evidence, 1876-1980
ISBN: PB: 9780226320885, ISBN: HB: 9780226320748, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 72 halftones
"Race and Photography" studies the changing function of photography from the 1870s to the 1940s within the field of the "science of race", what many today consider the paradigm of pseudo-science. Amos Morris-Reich looks at the ways photography enable...
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£24,50
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£78,00
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Stigma and Culture Last-Place Anxiety in Black America
ISBN: PB: 9780226297736, ISBN: HB: 9780226297569, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
560 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 1 line drawing
In "Stigma and Culture", J. Lorand Matory provocatively shows how ethnic identification in the United States – and around the globe – is a competitive and hierarchical process in which populations, especially of historically stigmatized races, seek s...
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£22,50
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£72,00
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Fierce Climate, Sacred Ground An Ethnography of Climate Change in Shishmaref, Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602232662, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2015
175 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 maps, 4 photos, 10 figures
With three roads and a population of just over 500 people, Shishmaref, Alaska seems like an unlikely center of the climate change debate. But the island, home to Inupiaq Eskimos who still live off subsistence harvesting, is falling into the sea, and...
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£19,00
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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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£22,00
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£68,00
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Dangerous Idea The Alaska Native Brotherhood and the Struggle for Indigenous Rights
ISBN: PB: 9781602232396, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2014
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones
Decades before the marches and victories of the 1960s, a group of Alaska Natives were making civil rights history. Throughout the early twentieth century, the Alaska Native Brotherhood fought for citizenship, voting rights, and education for all Alas...
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£19,00
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Spirits in Politics Uncertainties of Power and Healing in African Societies
ISBN: PB: 9783593399157, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2014
265 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
"Spirits in Politics" explores the interface between religion and politics in African societies by examining recent and ongoing research in a variety of regional settings. Case studies from across the African continent exemplify how – and at which so...
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£40,00
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Illicit Worlds of Indian Dance Cultures of Exclusion
ISBN: PB: 9781849042796, ISBN: HB: 9781849042789, Hurst Publishers, November 2013
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Until the 1930s no woman could perform in public and retain respectability in India. Professional female performers were courtesans and dancing girls who lived beyond the confines of marriage, but were often powerful figures in...
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£25,00
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Return from the Natives How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War
ISBN: HB: 9780300187854, Yale University Press, March 2013
352 pp., 25x15 cm, 8 black&white illus.
Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and '30s, was determined as the Second World War approached to show that anthropology could help sum up the national character of the most...
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£30,00
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Unmasking the State Making Guinea Modern
ISBN: PB: 9780226925103, ISBN: HB: 9780226925097, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 maps, 8 tables, 12 halftones
When the Republic of Guinea gained independence in 1958, one of the first policies of the new state was a village-to-village eradication of masks and other ritual objects it deemed "fetishes". The Demystification Program, as it was called, was so urg...
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£27,00
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£81,00
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