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Spiritual Economy Gift Exchange in the Letters of Paul of Tarsus
ISBN: HB: 9780300220407, Yale University Press, March 2017
240 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Thomas Blanton sheds light on the philosophy surrounding gift giving in Paul's letters and on modern theories of gift exchange through the lens of religion. The exchange of gifts is a fundamental part of society and a foundational element in Greco-Ro...
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£65,00
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Synthetic How Life Got Made
ISBN: PB: 9780226440460, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 halftones
In the final years of the twentieth century, emigres from engineering and computer science devoted themselves to biology and resolved that if the aim of biology is to understand life, then making life would yield better theories than experimentation....
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£26,50
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Sex Thieves The Anthropology of a Rumor
ISBN: PB: 9780986132582, University of Chicago Press, HAU, November 2016
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
While working in Africa, anthropologist Julien Bonhomme encountered an astonishing phenomenon: people being accused of stealing or shrinking the genitals of strangers on the simple occasion of a handshake on the street. As he soon discovered, these a...
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Sleep in Early Modern England
ISBN: HB: 9780300220391, Yale University Press, August 2016
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.
A riveting look at how the early modern world revolutionized sleep and its relation to body, mind, soul, and society Drawing on diverse archival sources and material artifacts, Handley reveals that the way we sleep is as dependent on culture as it is...
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£25,00
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Subject to Death Life and Loss in a Buddhist World
ISBN: PB: 9780226355870, ISBN: HB: 9780226355733, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones, 1 table
If any anthropologist living today can illuminate our dim understanding of death's enigma, it is Robert Desjarlais. With "Subject to Death", Desjarlais provides an intimate, philosophical account of death and mourning practices among Hyolmo Buddhists...
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£24,00
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£63,00
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Siege of the Spirits Community and Polity in Bangkok
ISBN: PB: 9780226331614, ISBN: HB: 9780226331584, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 map
What happens when three hundred alleged squatters go head-to-head with an enormous city government looking to develop the place where they live? As anthropologist Michael Herzfeld shows in this book, the answer can be surprising. He tells the story o...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Stigma and Culture Last-Place Anxiety in Black America
ISBN: PB: 9780226297736, ISBN: HB: 9780226297569, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
560 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 1 line drawing
In "Stigma and Culture", J. Lorand Matory provocatively shows how ethnic identification in the United States – and around the globe – is a competitive and hierarchical process in which populations, especially of historically stigmatized races, seek s...
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£22,50
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£72,00
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Spirits and the Law Vodou and Power in Haiti
ISBN: PB: 9780226703800, ISBN: HB: 9780226703794, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
448 pp., 23.1x16.3 cm, 2 maps, 18 halftones
Vodou has often served as a scapegoat for Haiti's problems, from political upheavals to natural disasters. This tradition of scapegoating stretches back to the nation's founding and forms part of a contest over the legitimacy of the religion, both be...
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£22,50
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£43,50
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Shanghai Nightscapes A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City
ISBN: PB: 9780226262888, ISBN: HB: 9780226262741, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones
The pulsing beat of its nightlife has long drawn travelers to the streets of Shanghai, where the night scene is a crucial component of the city's image as a global metropolis. In "Shanghai Nightscapes", sociologist James Farrer and historian Andrew D...
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£22,00
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£64,00
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Spirit of the Laws in Mozambique
ISBN: PB: 9780226153865, ISBN: HB: 9780226153728, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Mozambique has been hailed as a success story by the international community, which has watched it evolve through a series of violent political upheavals: from colonialism, through socialism, to its current democracy. As Juan Obarrio shows, however,...
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£72,00
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