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Anthropology

Tragic Spirits Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia

Buyandelger Manduhai

ISBN: PB: 9780226086569, ISBN: HB: 9780226086552, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 3 maps, 2 line drawings

The collapse of socialism at the end of the twentieth century brought devastating changes to Mongolia. Economic shock therapy – an immediate liberalization of trade and privatization of publicly owned assets – quickly led to impoverishment, especiall...

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Where the North Sea Touches Alabama

Shelton Allen C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226073224, ISBN: HB: 9780226063645, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

On a warm summer's night in Athens, Georgia, Patrik Keim stuck a pistol into his mouth and pulled the trigger. Keim was an artist, and the room in which he died was an assemblage of the tools of his particular trade: the floor and table were covered...

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Anthropology

People at the Well Kinds, Usages and Meanings of Water in a Global Perspective

Hahn Hans Peter, Cless Karlheinz, Soentgen Jens

ISBN: PB: 9783593396101, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2013
316 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 6 tables, 7 halftones, 73 colour illus.

"People at the Well" investigates habits, practices, and meanings of water through case studies from around the world. With its wide range and impressive diversity, this volume points to water practices in different cultures and shows that water is m...

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Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust Africa in Comparison

Geschiere Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226047614, ISBN: HB: 9780226047584, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In Dante's "Inferno", the lowest circle of Hell is reserved for traitors, those who betrayed their closest companions. In a wide range of literatures and mythologies such intimate aggression is a source of ultimate terror, and in "Witchcraft, Intimac...

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Place That Matters Yet John Gubbins's MuseumAfrica in the Postcolonial World

Byala Sara

ISBN: PB: 9780226030302, ISBN: HB: 9780226030272, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones

"A Place That Matters Yet" unearths the little-known story of Johannesburg's MuseumAfrica, a South African history museum that embodies one of the most dynamic and fraught stories of colonialism and postcolonialism, its life spanning the eras before,...

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Philosophy

Demands of the Day On the Logic of Anthropological Inquiry

Rabinow Paul, Stavrianakis Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9780226036915, ISBN: HB: 9780226036885, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
144 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables

"Demands of the Day" asks about the logical standards and forms that should guide ethical and experimental anthropology in the twenty-first century. Anthropologists Paul Rabinow and Anthony Stavrianakis do so by taking up Max Weber's notion of the "d...

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Buddhism

Monastery in Time The Making of Mongolian Buddhism

Humphrey Caroline, Ujeed Hurelbaatar

ISBN: PB: 9780226031903, ISBN: HB: 9780226031873, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
440 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 6 halftones

"A Monastery in Time" is the first book to describe the life of a Mongolian Buddhist monastery – the Mergen Monastery in Inner Mongolia – from inside its walls. From the Qing occupation of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the Cultural...

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Cooking of History How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion

Palmie Stephan

ISBN: PB: 9780226019567, ISBN: HB: 9780226019420, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
368 pp., 23x15 cm

Over a lifetime of studying Cuban Santeria and other religions related to Orisha worship – a practice also found among the Yoruba in West Africa – Stephan Palmie has grown progressively uneasy with the assumptions inherent in the very term Afro-Cuban...

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Scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost Paradise" of Euclides da Cunha

Hecht Susanna B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226322810, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
632 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 maps, 2 tables, 53 halftones

The fortunes of the late nineteenth century's imperial and industrial powers depended on a single raw material – rubber – with only one source: the Amazon basin. And so began the scramble for the Amazon, a decades-long conflict that found Britain, Fr...

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Anthropology A Continental Perspective

Wulf Christoph

ISBN: PB: 9780226925073, ISBN: HB: 9780226925066, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
424 pp., 23x15 cm, 22 halftones

Originally published in German, Christoph Wulf's "Anthropology" sets its sights on a topic as ambitious as its title suggests: anthropology itself. Arguing for an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to anthropology that incorporates science,...

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