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Lost Paradise Andalusi Music in Urban North Africa
ISBN: PB: 9780226327235, ISBN: HB: 9780226327068, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing
For more than a century, urban North Africans have sought to protect and revive Andalusi music, a prestigious Arabic-language performance tradition said to originate in the "lost paradise" of medieval Islamic Spain. Yet despite the Andalusi repertoir...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Lifeworlds Essays in Existential Anthropology
ISBN: PB: 9780226923659, ISBN: HB: 9780226923642, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
360 pp., 23x15 cm
Michael Jackson's "Lifeworlds" is a masterful collection of essays, the culmination of a career aimed at understanding the relationship between anthropology and philosophy. Seeking the truths that are found in the interstices between examiner and exa...
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£25,50
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£84,00
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Laughing at Leviathan Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua
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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£84,00
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