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Measuring the New World Enlightenment Science and South America
ISBN: PB: 9780226733623, ISBN: HB: 9780226733555, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
428 pp., 23x15 cm, 59 halftones, 20 colour illus.
Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the earth at the Equator. Equ...
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Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological Imagination
ISBN: PB: 9780226734057, ISBN: HB: 9780226734040, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 63 halftones
Over the past few centuries, northern Europe's bogs have yielded mummified men, women, and children who were deposited there as sacrifices in the early Iron Age and kept startlingly intact by the chemical properties of peat. In this remarkable accoun...
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From Land to Mouth The Agricultural "Economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea Highlands
ISBN: HB: 9780300142266, Yale University Press, December 2010
512 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 172 black&white illus.
Offers a comparison of the apparently incomparable: our capitalist economy to the subsistence-cum-exchange order of the Wola people in the Was Valley.
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£75,00
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Erotic Triangles Sundanese Dance and Masculinity in West Java
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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£84,00
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