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Religious Bodies Politic Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism

Bernstein Anya

ISBN: PB: 9780226072722, ISBN: HB: 9780226072555, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 6 tables

"Religious Bodies Politic" examines the complex relationship between transnational religion and politics through the lens of one cosmopolitan community in Siberia: Buryats, who live in a semiautonomous republic within Russia with a large Buddhist pop...

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Rethinking Claude Levi-Strauss: 1908-2009 Yale French Studies, Number 123

Doran Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300190205, Yale University Press, August 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

One of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, Claude Levi-Strauss casts a long shadow over many areas of inquiry, from ethnology and cultural anthropology to literary studies, Marxist theory, and religious studies. In recent years, i...

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Return from the Natives How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War

Mandler Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300187854, Yale University Press, March 2013
352 pp., 25x15 cm, 8 black&white illus.

Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and '30s, was determined as the Second World War approached to show that anthropology could help sum up the national character of the most...

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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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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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Music

Remembered Rhythms Issues of Music and Diaspora in India

Chaudhuri Shubha, Seeger Anthony

ISBN: PB + CD: 9781905422500, Seagull Books, May 2011
282 pp., 24.4x17.2 cm, 1 map, 5 tables, 94 halftones

"Remembered Rhythms" explores the role of music and cultural memory in shaping and creating diasporic identities. With contributions from leading scholars in the fields of ethnomusicology, cultural studies, sociology, and anthropology, the essays ran...

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Roman and European Mythologies

ISBN: PB: 9780226064550, University of Chicago Press, November 1992
342 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, halftones throughout

This volume begins with Roman myths and traces their influence in early Christian and later European literature. Ninety-five entries by leading scholars cover subjects such as sacrificial cults and rites in pre-Roman Italy, Roman religion and its ori...

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Raw and the Cooked Mythologiques, Volume 1

Levi-Strauss Claude

ISBN: PB: 9780226474878, University of Chicago Press, March 1983
402 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 illus.

Illustrations Table of Symbols Overture Part One: Theme and Variations 1. Bororo Song a. The Bird-Nester's Aria b. Recitative c. First Variation d. Interlude in a Discrete Mode e. Continuation of the First Variation f. Second Variation g. Coda 2. G...

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