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Hawking Incorporated Stephen Hawking and the Anthropology of the Knowing Subject

Mialet Helene

ISBN: PB: 9780226522289, ISBN: HB: 9780226522265, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 halftones

These days, the idea of the cyborg is less the stuff of science fiction and more a reality, as we are all, in one way or another, constantly connected, extended, wired, and dispersed in and through technology. One wonders where the individual, the pe...

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Anthropology

America

Measuring the New World Enlightenment Science and South America

Safier Neil

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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General

Modernity Bluff Crime, Consumption, and Citizenship in Cote d'Ivoire

Newell Sasha

ISBN: PB: 9780226575209, ISBN: HB: 9780226575193, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 halftones

In Cote d'Ivoire, appearing modern is so important for success that many young men deplete their already meager resources to project an illusion of wealth in a fantastic display of Western imitation, spending far more than they can afford on brand na...

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Truth in Motion The Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination

Holbraad Martin

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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Reproductive Technologies as Global Form Ethnographies of Knowledge, Practices, and Transnational Encounters

Knecht Michi, Klotz Maren, Beck Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9783593391007, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, May 2012
320 pp., 22x14 cm

In the thirty years since the first "test-tube baby", in-vitro fertilization and other methods of reproductive assistance have become a common aspect of family life and medicine in developed nations – and, increasingly, throughout the world. This col...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Anthropology

Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological Imagination

Sanders Karin

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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America

Mission of Change in Southwest Alaska Conversations with Father Rene Astruc and Paul Dixon on Their Work with Yup'ik People

Fienup-Riordan Ann

ISBN: PB: 9781602231610, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2012
346 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps, 25 halftones

"Mission of Change" is an oral history describing various types of change – political, social, cultural, and religious – as seen through the eyes of Father Astruc and Paul Dixon, non-Natives who dedicated their lives to working with the Yup'ik people...

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Laughing at Leviathan Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua

Rutherford Danilyn

ISBN: PB: 9780226731988, ISBN: HB: 9780226731971, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 18 halftones

For West Papua and its people, the promise of sovereignty has never been realized, despite a long and fraught struggle for independence from Indonesia. In "Laughing at Leviathan", Danilyn Rutherford examines this struggle through a series of interloc...

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Restless Anthropologist New Fieldsites, New Visions

Gottlieb Alma

ISBN: PB: 9780226304908, ISBN: HB: 9780226304892, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
208 pp., 23x15 cm

What does a move from a village in the West African rain forest to a West African community in a European city entail? What about a shift from a Greek sheep-herding community to working with evictees and housing activists in Rome and Bangkok? In "The...

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General

Street Therapists Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark

Ramos-Zayas Ana Y.

ISBN: PB: 9780226703626, ISBN: HB: 9780226703619, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
464 pp., 23x15 cm

Drawing from almost a decade of ethnographic research in largely Brazilian and Puerto Rican neighborhoods in Newark, New Jersey, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas, in "Street Therapists", examines how affect, emotion, and sentiment serve as waypoints for the naviga...

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