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Africa

Matatu A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi

Mutongi Kenda

ISBN: PB: 9780226471396, ISBN: HB: 9780226130866, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 31 halftones

Drive the streets of Nairobi and you are sure to see many matatus – colorful minibuses that transport huge numbers of people around the city. Once ramshackle affairs held together with duct tape and wire, matatus today are name-brand vehicles maxed o...

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Military

Anthropology

Military Anthropology Soldiers, Scholars and Subjects at the Margins of Empire

McFate Montgomery

ISBN: HB: 9781849048125, Hurst Publishers, August 2017
352 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In almost every military intervention in its history, the US has made cultural mistakes that hindered attainment of its policy goals. From the strategic bombing of Vietnam to the accidental burning of the Koran in Afghanistan,...

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Anthropology

Mobile Secrets Youth, Intimacy, and the Politics of Pretense in Mozambique

Soleil Archambault Julie

ISBN: PB: 9780226447575, ISBN: HB: 9780226447438, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

Now part and parcel of everyday life almost everywhere, mobile phones have radically transformed how we acquire and exchange information. Many anticipated that in Africa, where most have gone from no phone to mobile phone, improved access to telecomm...

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Anthropology

Mediterranean Incarnate Region Formation between Sicily and Tunisia since World War II

Ben-Yehoyada Naor

ISBN: PB: 9780226451022, ISBN: HB: 9780226450971, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

In "The Mediterranean Incarnate", anthropologist Naor Ben-Yehoyada takes us aboard the "Naumachos" for a thirty-seven-day voyage in the fishing grounds between Sicily and Tunisia. He also takes us on a historical exploration of the past eighty years...

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Mothers on the Move Reproducing Belonging between Africa and Europe

Feldman-Savelsberg Pamela

ISBN: PB: 9780226389882, ISBN: HB: 9780226389745, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 1 table

The massive scale and complexity of international migration today tends to obscure the nuanced ways migrant families seek a sense of belonging. In this book, Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg takes readers back and forth between Cameroon and Germany to explo...

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Anthropology

Sea Life

Made of Salmon Alaska Stories from the Salmon Project

Lord Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9781602232839, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates

All over the world, salmon populations are in trouble, as overfishing and habitat loss have combined to put the once-great Atlantic and Pacific Northwest runs at serious risk. Alaska, however, stands out as a rare success story: its salmon population...

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Anthropology

Christianity

More Than God Demands Politics and Influence of Christian Missions in Northwest Alaska, 1897-1918

Urvina Anthony, Urvina Sally

ISBN: PB: 9781602232938, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2016
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 1 map

Near the turn of the twentieth century, the territorial government of Alaska put its support behind a project led by Christian missionaries to convert Alaska Native peoples – and, along the way, bring them into "civilized" American citizenship. Estab...

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Anthropology

Culture Studies

Mother Figured Marian Apparitions and the Making of a Filipino Universal

de la Cruz Deirdre

ISBN: PB: 9780226314914, ISBN: HB: 9780226314884, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

There is no female religious figure so widely known and revered as the Virgin Mary. Throughout history, Mary has inspired in a multitude of cultures around the world a deep affection, a desire to emulate her virtue, and a strong belief in the power o...

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Anthropology

General

Modes of Uncertainty Anthropological Cases

Samimian-Darash Limor, Rabinow Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226257105, ISBN: HB: 9780226257075, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 line drawings, 5 halftones

"Modes of Uncertainty" offers groundbreaking ways of thinking about danger, risk, and uncertainty from an analytical and anthropological perspective. Our world, the contributors show, is increasingly populated by forms, practices, and events whose un...

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Anthropology

Magic A Theory from the South

de Martino Ernesto

ISBN: PB: 9780990505099, University of Chicago Press, HAU, March 2015
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

Though his work was little known outside Italian intellectual circles for most of the twentieth century, anthropologist and historian of religions Ernesto de Martino is now recognized as one of the most original thinkers in the field. This book is te...

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